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  1. he was only following orders... on Confessions Of an Ex-TSA Agent: Secrets Of the I.O. Room · · Score: 1

    don't want our gov officials of citizens to be on the bad side of that statement. TSA sucks.

  2. india asks for honks! on When Cars Go Driverless, What Happens To the Honking? · · Score: 1

    wtf, every truck in india has a huge sign that says please honk. it's considered rude NOT to honk in india. not being sarcastic. honking is viewed positively there.

  3. I don't always code, on The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but when i do...i prefer to do it with passion.
    stay passionate my friends.

  4. Re:What are the questions? on Half of US Nuclear Missile Wing Implicated In Cheating · · Score: 2

    iran, north korea, russia

  5. acquisition by apple? on Nintendo Could Base Comeback On Improving Peoples' Health · · Score: 1

    i for one think nintendo is doing fine and once it's first party titles are out will turn around their wii u sales.
    all this talk of making games for mobile would really hurt nintendo in the long run.

    nonetheless, nintendo would be an interesting value acquisition by apple.
    they could release nintendo exclusives into iOS.
    shit, apple could even just sign an exclusivity contract with nintendo and hand them $5B to only release their games on iOS (in addition to their own hardware) for the next 5 yrs.

  6. Re:If they charge $15,000 for a ten week course... on California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps · · Score: 1

    sounds like the difference is in the spreading of false hopes and unreasonable expectations to justify the price point. There ought to be some consumer protections in place. Not everyone is capable of spotting a scam.

    do the networking classes say, "a week in our class, and you'll be working for, or against the NSA"?

  7. military origins... on 20% of Neanderthal Genome Survives In Humans · · Score: 2

    actually i think it was designed to predict how well someone would do in the military, as the army were the originators of these tests and they used them when recruiting and tasking soldiers.

  8. Re:"fertility skin pigment"? on 20% of Neanderthal Genome Survives In Humans · · Score: 1

    Primitive in the genetic sense means that it contains lots of DNA that's been around for a very long time, rather than DNA which has come into existence more recently.

    Selection pressure is not uniform across all life forms, therefore, there can be more or less evolving going on at different times, locations, species, etc.

  9. have the money... on Microsoft Relaxing Xbox One Kinect Requirements, Giving GPU Power a Boost? · · Score: 1

    I have the money to buy an xbox one without giving it second thought.
    But I just don't see a reason yet. No killer games on the xbox one. Little improvement in gameplay/graphics.
    The only console I see right now with killer games (Mario 3D) is the wii u.

  10. Re:Apples vs Apples on Microsoft Relaxing Xbox One Kinect Requirements, Giving GPU Power a Boost? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget controller, OS, antivirus, etc..

  11. condescending ass on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    It's 1980s to use a computer provided for you? Man do you guys have some learning to do when you get out in the real world.

    You make too many assumptions. I've been working in the real world for a long time.

    Nearly all dev software is free these days, and for anything that isn't free, I'd rather pay the cost to have it on my local machine than be stuck in a lab all day.

  12. Re:see also, increasing the # of H1Bs awarded on How Silicon Valley CEOs Conspired To Suppress Engineers' Wages · · Score: 1

    Paying your employees really well helps a lot to get the most from your employee.

  13. prizes were an integral part of American history on Facebook's Biggest Bounty Yet To Hacker Who Found "Keys To the Kingdom" · · Score: 1

    No, you're wrong, bounties and prizes were an integral part of American history.

    https://challenge.gov/p/about

    http://www.slideshare.net/crai...

  14. when i read the headline... on Facebook's Biggest Bounty Yet To Hacker Who Found "Keys To the Kingdom" · · Score: 1

    I expected something like $100K. Would be trivial for them. The could build a whole ecosystem of people trying to report bugs to them.

  15. Re:Smart Choice. on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    So did I, but at my college we had computer labs and libraries where we could go and use this stuff without ever having to install any of it on our personal machines.

    Ugh, wouldn't want to do that. That's so 1980's.

    Is it actually expected of you these days that if you go to university that you will have a laptop with you capable of running software that the uni wants you to?

    Yes. Some universities require it.

    Does Visual Studio run on Mac or Linux?

    Yes. Windows VM. Almost necessary when using a Mac/Linux for real work.

  16. Re:Smart Choice. on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I studied Psych & Anthro.

    I used Matlab, Photoshop, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, SPSS, WordPerfect, MS Access, MS Visual Studio, and a half dozen other oddball apps that my classes required.

    Also wrote papers in Latex using Latex editors and processors.

    Why buy Chrome if u can buy a similar laptop with Windows/Linux for the same price?

  17. Re:It will never go away on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    and we will call that laptop "chromebook"...imagine.

  18. Re:Smart Choice. on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Chromebook as a primary machine in college will be tough. It will be fine for email and papers, but there will be lots of required apps and sites that won't be compatible. As a secondary machine, or as a media consumption device it could be nice.

  19. Re:Will they also bill me? on Amazon: We Can Ship Items Before Customers Order · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's pretty different from a standard caching operation.

    It's more like a massively parallel distributed caching operation where the act of caching something removes it from the original data source until it is uncached, and where latency is at least a day or two and cost is very high.

    The real innovation is knowing what to cache with enough confidence to act on it...with a granularity of a single customer.

  20. Re:Death Knell For Microsoft's Monopoly? on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Make sense, but I think Mac is still about 20% of their revenue.

    They care because it's part of the ecosystem. They want to control it.

  21. and it's not dead just because u stop using it on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    I replace my devices every 24 months but I sell my old ones on ebay or to friends...so someone will take my two yr old iPhone/iPad and view it as new and use it for another 2 yrs before possibly passing it on to someone else. Sure, some break and some get stuck in drawers and forgotten about, but not all.

  22. Re:come again? on How To Make 96,000lbs of WWII Machinery Into High-Tech Research Platform · · Score: 1

    can't see how it's different? because the F-16 is not used for simulating movement at sea. obviously.

  23. Re:More garbage on Programmer Privilege · · Score: 1

    I would think being at MIT CS means +3SD minimum. Any CS department is likely to be mostly +1SD to +2SD students.

    While I agree with your premise, you are foolish in dissing the sentences you quote.

    We are not all scientists. Furthermore, we are not all hard science scientists. And there is meaning there. Why you gotta hate?

  24. power on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: 1

    Only that XBMC will burn 100+ watts; whereas my Synology media server uses 10 watts and is dead silent; the upgrade pays for itself over time.

  25. just hand them out on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs · · Score: 1

    The easy MO is to to just hand out the USB devices at mil trade shows in China or Iran and other places where enemy officials will be. if 1% get inserted into a gov computer or sensitive target, that would be a great return on investment. It's not like this has to be targeted in any way.