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  1. Re:Movie? on Color Movie Made of Pluto-Charon System · · Score: 1

    If they start to resemble PacMan, time to worry

  2. Re:Different types of terms on MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project · · Score: 1

    I recognize those folder names, Damn, you raided my porn!

  3. Re:Those good hands are dirty. on Allstate Patents Physiological Data Collection · · Score: 1

    New slogan:

    "Good hands are up your [bleep] with Allstate."

  4. Re:Causes of hording. on 1 In 3 Data Center Servers Is a Zombie · · Score: 1

    For security reasons, the org in question wants mostly internal servers. But if they ran it kind of like a vendor, it may work in that that each section has to pay for any server instance it's using, through the budgeting process. But, the org in question would probably bungle that too.

  5. STEM Hype, Arrrgg [Re:Equality] on Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes? · · Score: 1

    Only fields where there's lots of money and\or social status

    For the short-term. I've been at the bad of tech bubbles and outsourcing, and I cannot recommend STEM above other career options because of that.

    State- or county-specific law is a safer career choice than STEM in my opinion because somebody in an outsourcing sweatshop in Timbuktu is less likely to bet their education on a single US state. If it falls thru, they have no local option in Timbuktu etc. What other country is going to need a Rhode Island lawyer in Timbuktu?

    Thus, promote law careers for women instead of STEM if you really care about their longer-term future.

  6. Causes of hording. on 1 In 3 Data Center Servers Is a Zombie · · Score: 1

    From personal experience, the bureaucracy of our org makes it that procurement of servers is so difficult that section managers tend to horde them when they get them.

    I'm hoping virtualization will improve this situation, but something tells me it will only create different problems. The bureaucratic culture usually invents new ways to foul up new tools.

  7. "-Kardashian" just to be on the safe side.

  8. entrepreneurial itch? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Search Engines Left That Don't Try To Think For Me? · · Score: 1

    There's a niche biz for ya: GeekSearch

  9. Tell them the missing rocks are right next to Kraft's Superbowl ring.

  10. Coincides with Trump announcement on Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program · · Score: 1

    Putin should merge with Trump. Very similar personalities.

  11. Re:Competitive Drive Unleashed on Baseball Team Hacks Another Team's Networks, FBI Investigates · · Score: 1

    That would imply we've only seen a small portion of total cheating, since the known cases provide only slight advantages.

  12. Competitive Drive Unleashed on Baseball Team Hacks Another Team's Networks, FBI Investigates · · Score: 1, Interesting

    St. Louis Cardinals have been one of the better baseball teams over the past several years. The Houston Astros have been one of the worst. Nevertheless, there is evidence that officials for the Cardinals broke into a network maintained by the Astros...

    It seems the most competitive teams are often the most likely to cheat. The NFL Patriots also got caught cheating twice.

    It seems a competitive drive is a two-edge sword: if you are driven to push the boundaries in sports, it seems you are also driven to push the boundary in other areas.

  13. K.I.S.S. - Ugly Lasts on Report: Aging Java Components To Blame For Massively Buggy Open-Source Software · · Score: 2

    If you want software to last more than one season, then rely on old-school "plain jane" HTML for most of your UI with a little JavaScript only where absolutely needed.

    Plane-jain HTML is not glamorous or fancy, but it has been supported and will be supported for a good while. If your org wants fancy, it has to pay the Fancy Tax.

    If you have to repaint the entire screen for an activity, so be it. If it's a relatively small-user-base app, the overall bandwidth overhead is not really bigger than downloading fat JS libraries. If you code your HTML to mostly rely on CSS, then HTML redraws will be small packets.

  14. Re:goat on The Words That Indicate Malicious Domain URLs · · Score: 1

    The sounds sinister. That's enough.

  15. Re:Helium [Drab planets] on 'Warm Neptune' Exoplanets May Have Lots of Helium · · Score: 1

    TFA: If so, the planet would look oddly colorless to our eyes, very unlike the planets in our solar system. [Emph. added]

    Venus is pretty drab to the human eye. It's bland light-grey with a slight tinge of yellow or tan, perhaps with faint wisps of lighter streaks on occasion. It's one of the reasons why the early probe, Mariner II, didn't have cameras.

    Around the mid 60's it was discovered that in ultraviolet light, diagonal bands can be seen fairly clearly, and later probes had ultraviolet cameras.

    Uranus is also drab most of the time, other than its blue-green tint. Neptune seems to have more detail in its cloud cover than Uranus, although we may not have enough images over time to know whether this is periodic.

    Saturn is also fairly bland to the human eye, although it has rings to show off instead.

    Most probe images are processed to bring out detail that would otherwise be faint.

    In fact, all the thick-atmosphere planets in our system are more or less bland except for Earth and Jupiter.

  16. Crystal Balls on Ask Slashdot: A Development Environment Still Usable In 25 Years Time? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I could accurately predict 25 years out I'd currently be playing poker with Warren Buffett in a mansion instead of trolling Slashdot.

  17. Re:Why PHP Won on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 1

    I've been kicking a draft language that avoids the annoyances of PHP and JavaScript, and has optional type-enforcement abilities. But I run it by others, and they all want different features. It gets personal.

  18. remember fuckedcompany.com on Ask Slashdot: How to Avoid The Worst of a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When fuckedcompany.com switches back on, you know it's over.

  19. Re:Here we go... on Ask Slashdot: How to Avoid The Worst of a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Your choices boil down to 'undertaker' or 'COBOL maintenance'

    Maybe there is a relationship between these two.

  20. The ultimate bomb on Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    Alien version of M.A.D. Just hope suicidal terrorists don't get a hold of it.

  21. Re:Sorry what is their area of expertise on Kaspersky Explains Why They Won't Say Who Hacked Them · · Score: 5, Informative

    A: Not ticking off Putin.

  22. Re:Welcome to Fascist America! on Trade Bill Fails In the House · · Score: 1

    How is that Utopia working out for all of you people that keep thinking more Government will solve all our problems?

    Trade agreements with other countries require government intervention. They are agreements between two governments. Without such, the other country may refuse to trade with us on good terms.

    Anyhow, I view the private sector and the public sector as tools for our civilization. Both tools are needed, and you have to keep eye on both these tools and keep them well-oiled and clean, and use the right tool for the right purpose. Otherwise, you cut yourself or break stuff.

    Tools do good in the right hands and do evil in the wrong hands.

  23. semi-updated on Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools · · Score: 1

    A replacement has been budgeted by the school system, estimated cost: Between $1.5 and 2 million

    I can replace it for half that if you let me use a NeXT computer.

  24. Re:Commodore Amiga or Commodore PC? on Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools · · Score: 1

    The term is overloaded. Live with it. It can mean a general "personal computer" (microcomputer, typically), or an IBM-PC clone.

  25. Re:Why PHP Won on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 1

    Separation of concerns is key to maintainability

    No, it's the coordination of concerns. Separation alone can make for a lot of busy work as the same info ends up mirrored in gazillion different spots. Concerns often have to overlap and intertwine for domain reasons. The real world is not strictly hierarchical. For example, adding a new database column requiring changing 30 files is ridiculous. Some "separationists" just seem to want job security by mirroring the mirrors and being paid to update 30 files for simple things.