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  1. Thanks Obama on Environmental Report Raises Pressure On Obama To Approve Keystone Pipeline · · Score: 0

    N/T

  2. Re:I've got one on the way on Dell's New X18: 5 Pounds, 18 Inches · · Score: 1

    My wife loves her's. It's way better for watching movies than any laptop we've owned.

  3. Re:This looks horrible on Dell's New X18: 5 Pounds, 18 Inches · · Score: 1

    Totally disagree... My wife recently got one and absolutely loves it. It's absolutely great to watch movies on in bed. It's fast enough for email, internet, etc. The screen is gorgeous. The dock is awesome. And to the guy who says it doesn't have wireless... it has N...

  4. leap year on Adobe and Apple Didn't Unit Test For "Forward Date" Bugs. Do You? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    2012 cost us a decent chunk of change because for the third product line in a row, we screwed up seconds since epoch calculations... Every single customer was out of commission until we released a patch!

  5. better solution on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 1

    If you really care about accuracy in your data center, use a GPS or CDMA source for time sync. If you're paranoid, get an atomic clock as well for comparison.

  6. According to my Mom who was on the platform committee, this plank was added at the last minute without a lot of debate by one person with an agenda. Also, at one point instead of saying "we are opposed to human cloning" it said "we are opposed to humans"... I honestly wish that one made it as it would have made for better lulz...

  7. Re:Movies on 'Nuclear Free' Maryland City Grants Waiver For HP · · Score: 2

    equal rights amendment was not ratified by the states so no it's not in our constitution.

  8. .TX on ICANN Reveals New TLD Application List · · Score: 1

    I demand a gTLD for my home state...

  9. python? on Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language · · Score: 1

    he's already got several videos up with python... why the switch I wonder...

  10. Re:move IT / MIS to tech school / apprenticeship. on China To Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay · · Score: 1

    the theory is what you get at school. the hands on is what you get starting at your first job. you have to have both...

  11. Re:If you're an end user on Solaris 11 Released · · Score: 1

    solaris is terrible for distributed compiling

  12. Re:Nothing to see here on Solaris 11 Released · · Score: 2

    Linux won't even boot on sun4u machines :(

    Hasn't been updated in awhile, but https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/SPARC I've also had gentoo and ubuntu running on ultra 5 workstations...

  13. Re:descent 3 on Doom 3 Source Code To Be Released This Year · · Score: 1

    that would be awesome... there hasn't been a good space shooter in years!

  14. descent 3 on Doom 3 Source Code To Be Released This Year · · Score: 1

    source code anyone?

  15. Re:However, on For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution · · Score: 1

    We in Texas know better then to spell "existence of" as "existeance"

  16. Re:Tomato on Ask Slashdot: How To Monitor Your Own Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    I had no problem getting the my Fios account hooked up to a separate router... of course, I don't use the TV service...

  17. Re:It's a bit more complex than this article... on Pocket Wars and Cores · · Score: 1

    I was reading that the ARM chips support Big and Little endian. Is this selected by the OS or by the firmware? Also does this make a difference for compiled software, such as a binary for a Linux application?

    It depends on which ARM... Older armv4, you could load a BE or LE kernel (your userland would have to match the kernel)... For newer versions, you're mostly stuck with LE.

  18. Re:whats the news here? on Pocket Wars and Cores · · Score: 1

    Intel sold the cheap end of the IXP and IOP line to Marvell... The fancier stuff went to a company called Netronome.

  19. git clone time on Sony Sends DMCA Takedown Notice To GitHub · · Score: 1

    time for anyone with clones of the repo to start posting to dropsites...

  20. 4 and 5? on The Matrix Re-Reloaded · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Is this like Star Wars where they're starting with episode 4? Because it's a shame they haven't made more than 1 Matrix movie yet...

  21. homeschooling on Using the Web To Turn Kids Into Autodidacts · · Score: 2

    More or less, this is how homeschooling works for thousands of students nationwide. Parents aren't really teachers, they're facilitators.

  22. Re:What? on Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To me it just doesn't make logical sense to have a $50/hour doctor doing appendectomies when a $25/hour tech could do the job just as well.

    what are you smoking? there's a damn good reason you don't have people with a bachelor's degree doing surgery! (nurses make $25-$30/hour) there are so many things that can go wrong, so many complications, so many drug interactions and allergies...

    your example only holds if the technician is working on a live circuit where people DIE if he messes up!

  23. Re:RIP OUT THE CAT5e CABLE BOYZ !! on IEEE Releases 802.3ba Standard · · Score: 1

    over short distances...

  24. Re:HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool on Low-Level Format For a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 1

    While I love me some /dev/zero, zeroing out most flash chips just forces an erase next time you want to write a block. Most flash starts out at 1 and write operations only write the zero. Smart chips don't erase unless they have to. There's also wear leveling to account for. What you really need is a utility to tell the flash to erase itself.

  25. Re:Biased statistics on Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students · · Score: 1

    I'm not a privacy lawyer, but how is running tcpdump while connected to a WiFi hotspot a crime? Is there case law to back this up?

    I can tell you right now that the telcos monitor your wireless traffic all day long without batting an eye.