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  1. Real scientists use R and S and C on Linux on 20% of Scientific Papers On Genes Contain Conversion Errors Caused By Excel, Says Report (winbeta.org) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, we have Terabytes of data storage, even in collapsed form, So we use shell scripts written by code in Perl and CGI to run against massive data files spit out by large databases.

    Just do the Math.

    Now, if you want to say small labs doing biological research have occasional false hits, due to open access searches against common repositories, I might believe you. To be frank, though, you should have read all the notes yourself.

    I'm far more worried about a tired research assistant or grad student doing stuff like this and it not being caught before publication.

  2. Re:How dare they hack NY Times reporters! on FBI Investigating Russian Hack Of New York Times Reporters, Others (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    But if the NSA did it's job, who would employ all the people of Utah?

  3. Re:NO. FBI MOLES ARE LYING ABOUT IT THOUGH. on FBI Investigating Russian Hack Of New York Times Reporters, Others (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They could tell it was Russian agents hacking them because they all dressed in 1970s The Americans clothes.

  4. Related - new PS consoles coming this Fall on PlayStation 3 Games Are Coming To PC (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    At Gamescon Sony announced they have two successors to the PS4 coming this fall.

    So licensing Windows versions of their older PS3 games right before they make the PS4 the "old" version of the console makes a lot of sense.

    It's a new console setup, so most of the PS3 games would take massive reworking to function on the successor consoles.

  5. Re:Breaking news!! on Pokemon Go Daily Active Users, Downloads, Engagement Are Dropping (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    School year starts. Neckbeards rejoice as the minority of bearded fellows can finally leave their pokemon at a gym undisturbed.

    Um, most of the fellow Pokemon GO players I've met in person are actually women.

    Not sure what universe you live in.

  6. Re:How dare they hack NY Times reporters! on FBI Investigating Russian Hack Of New York Times Reporters, Others (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    All must live in Fear.

    Take your Soma, citizen!

    Questions mean strife.

  7. How dare they hack NY Times reporters! on FBI Investigating Russian Hack Of New York Times Reporters, Others (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the NSA's job!

  8. Re:Take note pointy hair bosses on Pokemon Go Daily Active Users, Downloads, Engagement Are Dropping (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you get some from leveling. I had 5 lures when I reached level 20. Decided to start using them up. When at a pokestop you click on the white button at the top under the name and you can add a lure.

  9. They can byte my shiny metal posterior on US Customs and Border Protection Wants To Know Who You Are On Twitter (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    Which part of Data Treaty don't you get?

    You signed a Treaty, not a suggestion.

    You signed it with Canada and the EU.

    Those countries are exempt from data collection.

    Period.

  10. Re:Take note pointy hair bosses on Pokemon Go Daily Active Users, Downloads, Engagement Are Dropping (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Niantic has no one to blame but themselves on this one. First, instead of assuring there was server stability for North America they kept rolling out to new areas resulting in server crashes. During this time anyone that was using lures or eggs or other items were quite livid over the loss of an item they paid for due to the server(s) being down.

    You pay for your lures and eggs? I've never paid for any of them.

    And then to top it all off was the cheating. I can't take a gym if the Gym-Leader is a bunch of 35 level bots with great pokemon.

    So that's why I couldn't beat any gyms until recently. Glad they killed the hack! My cute neighbor had the same problem too.

  11. Re:You wouldn't know it was declining here.... on Pokemon Go Daily Active Users, Downloads, Engagement Are Dropping (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't find electric pokemon for the life of me. Or fire.

  12. Also, they just banned a huge number of bot accounts. That's gotta hurt the active user numbers.

    Bots have feelings too!

  13. Sheesh, just met her at a Poke Gym last night on Pokemon Go Daily Active Users, Downloads, Engagement Are Dropping (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop pressuring me to get engaged, she's on the Blue team and I'm on the Yellow team, at least wait until the third date!

    (oh, not that type of engagement ... never mind)

  14. Re:Not happy with Comcast either on Comcast Says There's 6 Million Unhappy DSL Users Left To Target (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    So long as they eat the bits in bytes, they'll be well fed.

    But Gbps is Gigabits per second, not GBps which is Gigabytes per second. Eight times the size, 80 times as expensive.

  15. Re: More professional than ever on Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically NTFS was a hard disk file system.

  16. Re:VMS man, not *NIX... apk on Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Good catch. I used to program VMS at a medical research company. Forgot about that.

    Still pretty similar. The MacOS programming I had to do there for the analog experiments was a lot harder.

  17. Not happy with Comcast either on Comcast Says There's 6 Million Unhappy DSL Users Left To Target (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Give me that $20 to $40 a month 40 Gbps internet speed any day of the week that the rest of the Free World gets under their "socialism".

    1000 times faster. 10 times cheaper.

    There's the sweet spot.

  18. Re:More professional than ever on Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Still the same old cobbled together DOS wannabe

    And DOS is still the same old cobbled together CP/M wannabe.

    Even WinNT was a redo of Unix.

    The surprising thing to me is how many people use code I wrote back in the 70s and 80s, and have no idea that's where it came from.

  19. What's a desktop, grandpa?

    Most people I know have rack servers and laptops or tablets. Desktops are so gaming.

  20. Our entire lab runs on Linux on Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    With the exception of a few Windows machines so we can submit grants and stuff, it's all Linux based, including all the computational rack servers that crunch all the numbers and all the web servers.

    It's not due to OS cost, it's due to stability. And the fact we can use both modern machines and old machines seamlessly.

  21. My ID used to be 4 digits, but the provider went out of business and nobody used Compu$erve any more.

    So I use this one.

  22. Re:The sheer technical depth of this article ... on Mozilla Is Changing Its Look -- and Asking the Internet For Feedback (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Next up: Is beige the right paint colour for walls?

    If it used to be good enough for millions of computers world-wide, it's good enough for your walls.

    This is why I choose brushed aluminium steel for my walls.

    That plus the Faraday Cage aspects of it.

  23. The only solution is the Mozilla Mczilla choice on Mozilla Is Changing Its Look -- and Asking the Internet For Feedback (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Go with your strengths, not these abysmal ones.

    Revel in your geekiness and stick it to the man!

    Mozilla Mczilla or another choice. But not these awful market-driven ones.

  24. All your future is belong to Rich Plutocrats on 'We're Just Rentals': Uber Drivers Ask Where They Fit In a Self-Driving Future (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    None of these zenbatsu care about you. You're just masterless samurai Ronin to them.

  25. Most 21st century roofs can handle on SolarCity Plans To Release New 'Solar Roof' Product Next Year (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost all modern cities have zoning codes, mostly for quakes and other reasons, which mean all roofs and circuitry can handle the addition of solar panels.

    So if you have a house built since 1999, you can probably do this.

    On a related issue, it appears the founders of Solar City have decided to forego their salaries this year.