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  1. Re: Well, she was an interim. on Ellen Pao Leaves Reddit; Site Founder Steve Huffman Makes a Triumphant Return · · Score: 2

    Oh boy, this must be Slashdot, here they go with the bee analogy again!

  2. Re: umm.... it is called homebrew on Watch an Original NES Run Netflix · · Score: 1

    Network, pfft. It would be a legit Netflix offering if they could manage to stuff it in one of those floppy envelopes and mail it.

  3. Re: Oh, and since nobody has said it on NSA Director Argues For "Red Button" Autonomy Against Unattributed Cyber-Attacks · · Score: 2

    Dept. Of 127.0.0.1land Security

  4. Re:Freon? You gotta be kidding: on Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS · · Score: 2

    If it's as effective as those, then it's synonymous with "the good stuff". Next one might be "High-Flow Toilet", or "Nuclear Thermal Rocket".

  5. Re:B.S. Alert on First Fully Digital Radio Transmitter Built Purely From Microprocessor Tech · · Score: 2

    What you say is plenty familiar to some of us, but RTFA and you'll see that it gives no technical clue as to what their innovative contribution is. It just sounds like it was written to attract uninformed investors.

  6. B.S. Alert on First Fully Digital Radio Transmitter Built Purely From Microprocessor Tech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No actual info in article, just hype and buzzwords.

  7. Re: WTF on Ultra-Low Power Radio Transceiver Enables Truly Wireless Earbuds · · Score: 1

    I "try" a new bread by ingesting a loaf of it. It doesn't get any more intimate than that!

  8. Re:WTF on Ultra-Low Power Radio Transceiver Enables Truly Wireless Earbuds · · Score: 1

    How about every female bus rider who doesn't want to be spoken to and doesn't want to mess up their hair...

  9. Re: Many are leaving ham radio too on Developers Disclose Schematics For 50-1000 MHz Software-Defined Transceiver · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines of something in the UHF or microwave bands which would allow me to run relatively long distance encrypted data links, for internet link or remote control, but yeah, I guess these days you can just get a bunch of high-powered Chinese WiFi equipment and do it anyway.
    It might be interesting, however, to "incentivize" use of some portion of certain underused VHF or HF bands by loosening up restrictions. At least the "idiots" might be useful beacons! Or are all the bands full down in CA and back East?

  10. Re: Many are leaving ham radio too on Developers Disclose Schematics For 50-1000 MHz Software-Defined Transceiver · · Score: 1

    Yep, that's the problem - Encryption and / or allowing "useful" content would quickly lead to the kind of "spectral" issues you are concerned with. Though a nice compromise might be to allow such things in certain bands only.

  11. Re: Will it all have been for nothing? on 18 Months On, Grand Theft Auto V's Mount Chiliad Mystery Remains Unsolved · · Score: 1

    Oh Bruce, you wouldn't understand! You actually do real things!

  12. Re: This is a 1980's solution on MIT Randomizes Tasks To Speed Massive Multicore Processors · · Score: 1

    I love to type in portrait but my thumbs are too fat!

  13. Re: This is a 1980's solution on MIT Randomizes Tasks To Speed Massive Multicore Processors · · Score: 1

    Yep, I had a feeling if deja vu from computer science textbooks fine past when I saw this. First we're applauding the invention of the swamp cooker, and now this great breakthrough!

  14. Re: Incredible! on Computer Chess Created In 487 Bytes, Breaks 32-Year-Old Record · · Score: 1

    Rolling on my lawn laughing...

  15. Eff No! on Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch? · · Score: 2

    Man up, and get thee to a text editor!

  16. Re: Pullin' a Gates? on How We'll Program 1000 Cores - and Get Linus Ranting, Again · · Score: 1

    But I want to read the last paragraph of the last page first!

    Actually though, tab loading seems more dependent on external factors anyway...

  17. Need new hat tech on How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us To Greater Harm · · Score: 1

    Tin foil just won't do it anymore.

  18. Re:Like little children on North Korean Internet Is Down · · Score: 1

    Oh please, don't you know there are people getting spattered by the blood dripping out of your nose from way up there? Not that I don't wish that this was an alternate reality where nice guys finish first, but since it isn't, why must you incite even more squabbling with such sanctimonious statements...

  19. Re: Old Tech on "Infrared Curtain" Brings Touchscreen Technology To Cheap Cars · · Score: 1

    Double yup. I had boat-anchor HP terminal with one of those (and a built-in thermal printer).

  20. Re: I guess it shows that Valve as a company .... on Valve Rolls Out Game Broadcasting Service For Steam · · Score: 1

    Steam is to games what the DVR is to television. It is this level of convenience, in the purchase and use of games, that defines Steam. Other platforms had this, but failed to develop it the way Steam has, and they will never catch up. Valve doesn't need Episode 3.

  21. Re:I'm sure it will suck on HBO Developing Asimov's Foundation Series As TV Show · · Score: 1

    Cloud Atlas managed this pretty well with a common set of actors.

  22. Re:For the rest of us on It's Time To Revive Hypercard · · Score: 1

    More like VB 5, but with updated functionality and examples in the integrated help which actually work. From what I remember, VB 6 was a step backwards in ease of use.

  23. Re: "skewers a bunch of sacred cows" on Machine Learning Expert Michael Jordan On the Delusions of Big Data · · Score: 1

    More like, WTFBBQ.

  24. duh on Mixing Agile With Waterfall For Code Quality · · Score: 2

    You just need to use the right mix for the type of project you have, with the main factors being the amount of unknowns and the level of complexity. Iteration is necessary to understand the unknowns, and high-level design/planning is necessary to tame complexity. Just be open-minded, like the fathers of agile intended, and avoid methodology "religions" like Scrum and its multitude of counterparts on the waterfall side.

  25. Ten years on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 1

    This is great news...for those who will survive the Ebola epidemic.