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  1. Re:Rules for aircraft are much stricter on A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity (I'm not a pilot), what do the rules look like for personal aircraft? What level of damage is permissible/when do you need to break out the x-rays?

  2. Re:Systemd on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    I have a Thinkpad T61 running Debian Jessie/MATE and I have the same problem as the GP. The dedicated mute button is one way, and I have to go into alsamixer to unmute it. My empire of dirt for a mute button that works both ways!

  3. Re:Systemd on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    You ought to meet his siblings, Bibbidy and Boo.

  4. Crash Test? on A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bet you'll not see this in the US any time soon. I wonder what its crash test ratings would look like.

  5. Re:So what you're telling me on Details of iOS and Android Device Encryption · · Score: 2

    Where in the summary did you get that?

    Disingenuous. Try reading TFA. Oh, wait, that's not allowed around here. I'll be off mucking through 20 lines of legacy Perl code as punishment.

  6. Re:The beginning of... on Google's Security Guards Are Now Officially Google Employees · · Score: 1

    I, for one, would like to be the first to welcome our new GOverlords+.

  7. Re:Why? on Google's Security Guards Are Now Officially Google Employees · · Score: 1

    Talk about making massive assumptions, stereotyping, ad hominem attacks. Sheesh, you nailed them all. Do you happen to have data or just anecdotes? My anecdotal experience has been the opposite of yours. The cleaning crews at the places I've worked have been friendly, honest, and harder working than many of the in-house employees so far as I could tell.

  8. So what you're telling me on Details of iOS and Android Device Encryption · · Score: 2

    Is that the NSA still has their backdoor.

  9. Re:Excellent Predictor on Is It Time To Throw Out the College Application System? · · Score: 1

    These are Slashdot editors we're talking about. You can draw a parallel to the police practice of disallowing candidates who score highly on IQ tests. If you can edit well, you're unfit for the job because you might get bored and do something else.

  10. Re:If yes then what ? on Is It Time To Throw Out the College Application System? · · Score: 1

    2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.

    You're welcome. ;)

  11. Re:Battery life on Dubai Police To Use Google Glass For Facial Recognition · · Score: 5, Funny

    A dousing rod is a hose full of water. A dowsing rod is a stick used to find water.

  12. Re:Enforce on Dubai Police To Use Google Glass For Facial Recognition · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's absolutely no potential to abuse this. Everyone knows that only rich people live in Dubai and rich people can't be criminals. Just look at the arrest rates.

  13. All You Zombies on First Birth From Human Womb Transplant · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the story by Heinlein, All You Zombies.

  14. Knuth on Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

  15. Re:Update to Godwin's law? on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    Wish I'd saved some of those mod points for you. +1 good on ya.

  16. Re:Why is this legal in the U.S.? on Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As an American, I also find it really fucked up.

  17. So we need gambling parlors instead of smoking lounges. ;) Clearly, that will stimulate scientific achievement!

  18. Re:Undercover cop issue a non argument. on Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In January last year, David hired himself and his top trainers out as a roving private interdiction unit for the district attorney’s office in rural Caddo County, Okla. Working with local police, Desert Snow contract employees took in more than $1 million over six months from drivers on the state’s highways, including Interstate 40 west of Oklahoma City. Under its contract, the firm was allowed to keep 25 percent of the cash.

  19. Re:Oh well ... on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    s/ignoring log corruption/fixing log corruption/

  20. Re:Oh well ... on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not much chance of successful management when his idea of ignoring log corruption is to IGNORE it. Yes, literally, ignore it. Feature, not bug. In Poettering's own words,

    Yupp, journal corruptions result in rotation, and when reading we try to make the best of it. they are nothing we really need to fix hence.

    This guy shouldn't be allowed anywhere NEAR system software!

  21. Re:Obligatory on Scientists Find Traces of Sea Plankton On ISS Surface · · Score: 1

    For once, they really are over us.

  22. Solve this puzzle for him. on Research Unveils Improved Method To Let Computers Know You Are Human · · Score: 3, Funny

    When he comes back, I'll hit him with a paradox.

  23. Re:Jaw dropping on Gas Cooled Reactors Shut Down In UK · · Score: 2

    From Telegraph:

    EDF expects to miss its own deadline for deciding whether to build Britain’s first new nuclear plant in a generation, the Telegraph can disclose.

    The French energy giant announced in October that it planned to take a final investment decision on the £16bn Hinkley Point C plant by July, after striking a landmark subsidy deal with government.

    But it now believes that an ongoing European Commission investigation into whether the subsidies are illegal state aid will not be fully resolved until autumn, forcing its decision on the Somerset plant back until then.

    The delay could threaten EDF’s plans to deliver first power from the plant in 2023 – a timescale it had said was “subject to a final investment decision by July 2014”.

    EDF has been at pains to insist it can deliver Hinkley “on time and on budget”, despite its Flamanville reactor in France being dogged by cost blowouts and years of delays.

    From EDF:

    6 May 14
    Phase II preparatory works begin on site

    At this phase of the project these works help to prepare the site ahead of the main construction following a final investment decision. These initial works include the construction of roundabouts, temporary construction roads and drainage works, all of which are reversible. Visit our community hub to see the planned works.

    They appear to be building housing and beefing up the roads, but a final investment decision appears to have been postponed.

  24. Re:You have n programming languages... on New NSA-Funded Code Rolls All Programming Languages Into One · · Score: 2

    Apologies to you, AC, for hijacking your highly upvoted comment.

    We appear to have something rather serious at work here. A registered user (jelIomizer, the second 'L' is actually an 'i' character or some Unicode variant) posted over 28 posts (all MyCleanPC spam) in under 6 minutes on this article--something neither you or I can do. This smacks of a slashcode bug or admin collusion.

    For reference...

    Oh yeah, hello to all the friendly NSA propaganda operatives out there. Go fuck yourself.

  25. Re: How to get rid of the robot spam ? on New NSA-Funded Code Rolls All Programming Languages Into One · · Score: 1

    That's fine and wonderful, but some of us browse at -1 because some people make great points as an AC. This sort of spamming blatantly denies those people a voice.