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  1. Re:Sure about the Louvre? on Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks · · Score: 1

    Why take pictures of paintings

    I generally agree, though a selfie (dread word) provides a different perspective association with a painting that memory can't - i.e. seeing yourself standing next to the painting as opposed to seeing it as it is.

    With respect to buildings (or other, esp. outdoor images also available online) one might be looking for a unique composition involving lighting, perspective, &c. There's also the same perspective element as well.

  2. Re:Wasn't Bennett Haselton banned from Slashdot? on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 0

    It might be a parody because I've actually found this post close to readable!

  3. Re:serious question on Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Their Groups website has been useful for long tail applications where users can get help and exchange information. One advantage is the single website with the same UI. It's convenient to leave open/scroll through the latest updates from a few groups on the same page.

    Alas some of the vendors/developers are setting up their own forums, so you now you've got to go to each website, login and deal with each UI. More effort so it's easier to skip. Too bad Yahoo's not put more effort into it.

  4. You've got the color channel information on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 1

    Why the controversy regarding some bizarre conjunction of lighting and camera response? Match the color channel information with color test images and you're done.

  5. Re:AKA... "don't reinvent the wheel" on Invented-Here Syndrome · · Score: 2

    Re:AKA... "don't reinvent the wheel"

    ...unless you have to redesign your car to make it fit.

    I think the point of the article was that that's sometimes the case.

  6. Re:Thank you for reminding us. on Mummified Monk Found Inside 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue · · Score: 1

    Budda also abandoned his wife and children to find "enlightenment".

    And brought it back so to speak. His wife, Yasodhara, and son Rahula became Arhats.

  7. Re:Technology can NOT eliminate work. on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 1
    The early technology "revolutions" shifted employment from manufacturing (incl. food) to services. We're now seeing technology not only making additional inroads into manufacturing but also into services and not just in the menial end. Can we keep coming up with services that technology can't replace that also keep pace with the increase in population? It's hard not to be pessimistic.

    The question is, are there still things we need to do, but have not been able to afford? The answer to that is YES...but we simply don't have the manpower to do [them].

    Is this an argument to raise the H-1B cap?

  8. Title misleading on The Mathematical Case For Buying a Powerball Ticket · · Score: 2

    Mathematical case implies a relation to the probability of winning which is definitely not the case here. What's really meant is that there's a utilitarian case that, w/the usual hand waving, you can apply some dollar value to.

  9. Re:i knew it was Bennett on Your High School Wants You To Install Snapchat · · Score: 2

    But you never made an actual argument as to why the long-form posts are bad

    One issue is that it's only your long-form posts that seem to merit as a Slashdot story, and the process of determining your post's merit seems contrary to Slashdot's user moderation philosophy. Care to explain? Oh wait...

    I'd also add that long form posts are also contrary to Slashdot's general format of summary with link(s) followed by concise comments. Yes you've got the occasional book review but they're few and far between. They're also by different submitters so there's some variety in topic and, critically in your case, style.

  10. Re:Problem domain, not language on Which Programming Language Pays the Best? Probably Python · · Score: 4, Informative

    solve tricky large-scale mathematical problems using computers

    With Python many problems have either already been solved or there are several, typically free resources that make solutions easier. I also use Matlab which, far from free, is also supported widely.

  11. Re:Think of the (poor) children on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1
    Didn't think I needed to bother with links. Here's one :

    it's clear that the major players in the K-12 market today are Apple, an ascendant Google, and Microsoft, which has only shown hints of its strategy for the market segment.

    Here's another :

    Apple is still the main and dominant player in the [education] market

    The software side was Pearson. LAUSD is now allowing Chromebook purchases.

  12. Think of the (poor) children on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    Was Deasy's ego justification. He actually started well when he pushed teacher accountability, then it went downhill fast. The iPad decision was bad enough; forget the botched roll out and the you-never-get-fired for buying $INDUSTRY_LEADER procurement. Then there was teachers serving breakfast to kids in class and finally the MiSiS debacle that finally forced him out. One of the few times one could agree w/the teacher's union.

  13. Anything else in common? on Interviews: Ask Rachel Sussman About Photography and the Oldest Living Things · · Score: 1

    Aside from being able to reach a very old age do these species have anything else in common? For example, are their population pyramids correlated?

  14. Re:If I were president... on Journalists Route Around White House Press Office · · Score: 1

    The problem is..the news agencies have been so complacent in all this all along too.

    Unfortunately complacency is thought to be the price paid for access. I'd think you'd want a full spectrum of coverage. Even in compliant interviews and pieces you can often glean interesting information reading between the lines.

  15. Re:Let me get this right on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 1

    99.9% of the work is determining what is your income

    From where else: "A true flat rate tax is a system of taxation where one tax rate is applied to all income with no deductions." Calculating deductions is generally assumed to be most of the work behind determining income.

  16. Re:WWII not WWI on How English Beat German As the Language of Science · · Score: 2

    If you wanted to be near the top of your profession, you still needed to study in Germany

    Or at least know German. When I was in HS in the mid 70's you were expected to take three years of German if you wanted to major in a science. I was lazy and went with Spanish. Sure enough when it was time for my senior project in college an important relatively current journal article was in German. I asked a professor to translate it for me. When my results didn't come out as expected I had a go at the relevant section of article myself. Parsing the math and scientific terms I was able figure out what the issue was. For a short while afterwards there was a shift towards Russian if you wanted a relevant language. Didn't last that long.

  17. Re:is anyone really surprised here on The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes · · Score: 1

    Nobody should be surprised at government incompetence, in this case leading to regulatory capture. The proof came out long ago in the pudding of the financial crisis. The interview is not that interesting. Ms. Segarra's experience should be familiar to anyone who's had differences with management.

    My only take from the interview was what wasn't said (at least for the first 40 minutes), viz. that the Fed's played along hoping to get easier access to information. Yes, the banks had to give them what they asked for, but it should be obvious that it's not always clear what that should be. The Feds don't have the staff to effectively mount a strong adversarial campaign. You piss off these chefs and they'll most certainly spit in your food.

    That being said the Feds clearly failed by becoming too complacent. Unfortunately you're never going to find out till after the fact. You can keep changing and adding rules but the banks will adapt. It could just as easily happen again.

  18. Re:Look at the job postings on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    I think the CEOs would prefer a liberal arts major who has demonstrated they can self teach the IT bit. It's really the ability to self teach rather than which field your degree is in. When hiring someone w/a CS degree you can't be sure they're able to go beyond what's spoon fed to them in class. When hiring someone w/a liberal arts degree w/self taught skills, they've demonstrated they're able to learn new things on their own, even outside their field of study.

    That being said it's possible the industry's matured enough that there's less self teaching involved as fads replace durable technology improvements.

  19. Can it be a *useful* standard on Can ISO 29119 Software Testing "Standard" Really Be a Standard? · · Score: 2

    The Bolton-Christie argument, to me, boils down to: you can have too much of a good thing, e.g. documentation. This can impose unnecessary costs and defeat the purpose if, following the above example, onerous documentation doesn't get read. Too much of a standard means unnecessary cost goes out to the standards industry (rent seeking).

  20. Re:What happened to just drinking water? on Coffee Naps Better For Alertness Than Coffee Or Naps Alone · · Score: 1

    This is a good point but I think it's not just diet. There's genetics to some extent, lifestyle and the type of work being done. I would hypothesize that an individual, starting at the same 'alert level', would tire at different rates depending on the task. When a person's energy level starts to flag, for whatever reason, little tricks like this may help them to be more productive.

  21. Other reasons than fraud on Why Chinese Hackers Would Want US Hospital Patient Data · · Score: 1

    I don't think the data is private primarily to prevent fraud. My first guess was medical tourism. Overseas drug prescriptions, &c. &c.

  22. Re:Influence vs. similarity on Machine Vision Reveals Previously Unknown Influences Between Great Artists · · Score: 1

    I would agree w/some of the other posts that the algorithm seems a bit primitive. Perhaps on refinement it may point out correlations that may either be influence or perhaps represent certain stylistic archetypes hitherto unknown. I think asking and knowing make a "difference" but the question is somewhat subjective.

  23. The real error on An Accidental Wikipedia Hoax · · Score: 1

    Is that Ms. Dickson didn't correct her attempt(s) at humor after she sobered up. That no one else ever bothered could be taken as an indication of the significance of the subject. While the books may be popular, the author's life clearly isn't (yet).

    The contexts in which her entry was cited ("Jews and Jesus" - really?) probably also indicate a lack of significance.

  24. Re:Doesn't give warm fuzzies on Hospitals Begin Data-Mining Patients · · Score: 1

    Your basic point is correct but a tad misanthropic. I'd suggest most doctors care, but that care is so diluted that it's not in your best interest to put any reliance on it. We recently discovered our medical group, which we've been in for many years, could not be bothered to transfer the kids immunization records from the pediatricians office to their primary doctor (all in the same group) when the kids became adults.

    As other posts have noted, the only care you can rely on will come from the insurance company.

  25. The real crime is... on Kids With Operators Manual Alert Bank Officials: "We Hacked Your ATM" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Their first random guess at the six-digit password worked. They used a common default password.

    When does incompetence become criminal neglect?