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  1. Iterative Compiling. Is anyone else disturbed?? on Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Iterative compiling sounds like a bad idea - and FTFA -

    The main barrier to its wider use is the currently excessive compilation and execution time needed in order to optimize each program

    I suppose allowing AI to control some of the compiler options isn't really a bad idea, but implementing it by iteratively compiling a program seems silly to me. From the article i get the impression that it will basically adapt the compiler to one set of hardware (wherever it is run on) but that it will not adaptively compile new programs in novel ways, it simply remembers the set of compiler options that works best for your hardware. Interesting, but I don't see specific hardware differences and compiler options as the real bottleneck in compile time.

  2. Re:Next greatest blogging product! on Geomicroblogging, Buzzword or Reality? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    simply get aLife

    But will I have to leave my mom's basement?

  3. Re:Seriously on Geomicroblogging, Buzzword or Reality? · · Score: 1

    When will the madness stop?

    with geomacroblogging? or something at least equally disturbing.

  4. I twittered to tell everyone I was in the john on Geomicroblogging, Buzzword or Reality? · · Score: 4, Funny
  5. Re:mmmkay on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    You seem to assume that US voters care whether or not they are being lied to. I don't know if that is a valid assumption.

  6. Re:Not just support for SVG, but mixed SVG/XHTML on What Do You Want On Future Browsers? · · Score: 1

    Not just that, but there needs to be inherent support for inline SVG's into some of the W3 specs.

  7. Re:Ooh! Oooh! I know! on Gates' Last Day At Microsoft · · Score: 3, Funny

    And a big bottle of scotch to drink - something nice, maybe a highland single malt number, that should ease the pain.

  8. Re:Why no rising sea level on North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ever notice how when you have ice in a cup of water, the level doesn't rise when the ice melts? Only the ice sheets in Antarctica (which is on the south side) which sit on top of land will cause sea levels to rise. And unfortunately they are melting at an alarming rate

  9. Re:Natural? on North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are probably right, man made global warming is just a vast conspiracy engineered to reduce pollution, achieve energy independence, secure our natural resources, and rile up oil executives.

  10. Re:Bullshit on Harvard Study Questions "Long Tail" Theory · · Score: 1

    What they studied: Rhapsody and Quickflix(Australian netflix). Both monthly fee based services.

  11. Re:These are bases not amino acids on Scientists Create Synthesized DNA Bases · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ahh, come on - this is exactly like the transition from the stone age to the bronze age. If bronze had no additional useful function other than to help keep track of who made a stone.
    I'm pretty sure the only use for this is going to be marking genes, probably just to keep track of who owns the patents.
    The first genetic DRM?

  12. May I be the first to say--- on IBM To Help Sequence the Chocolate Genome · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sweet.
    sorry, I couldn't help myself. thats it i'm going home for the day.

  13. Re:Time to look into other means of security on Crooks Nab Citibank ATM Codes, Steal Millions · · Score: 1

    I don't recall implying that you needed to have surgery. All you need is the data. What I was trying to get at, is biometrics isn't a solution to a server vulnerability. That is because the server is still prone to getting hacked and if they can't secure 4 digits, I'm not entirely sure its a good idea to give them your fingerprints and so on.

  14. Re:Time to look into other means of security on Crooks Nab Citibank ATM Codes, Steal Millions · · Score: 1

    a dedicated patsy. I gotta get me one of those.
  15. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... on Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China · · Score: 1

    Oh my, chills just went up my spine imagining a central government in charge of code - with no option to fork.

  16. Re:*Sigh* on Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China · · Score: 1

    Of no mention is whether slashdot is also down, and since it is reporting on the issue, it would seem that folks over there in the PRC would find it easy to find out WHY notepad ++ is no longer available. (when I was last in the PRC slashdot was available).
    Additionally on the olympics note, i think it is great that they got the olympics specifically because it raises the issue of their human rights abuses to the world wide stage. It's going to be hard to ignore when everyone is looking, however, when they are just making our sneakers and computers and cheap walmart crap its pretty easy to ignore.

  17. Re:Time to look into other means of security on Crooks Nab Citibank ATM Codes, Steal Millions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That sounds all well and good until russian hackers break into the fingerprint, retinal scan, and colon map database the bank keeps. The real solution here is security at the server.

  18. Re:Time to look into other means of security on Crooks Nab Citibank ATM Codes, Steal Millions · · Score: 5, Funny

    My personal solution: being broke as hell.

  19. Re:initialisms on Crooks Nab Citibank ATM Codes, Steal Millions · · Score: 3, Funny

    I assume the boxes and bags all had big dollar signs on the side of them. Not mentioned in the article is the neighbor who turned them in noting to the police, there's something funny about the two guys living there: they are always wearing black and white horizontal stripped jumpsuits and running around with masks and bags marked $.
  20. Re:What a moot issue on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    I don't believe the intent was ever to keep guns out of the wrong hands. Guns seem to find a way no matter the law. The intent of the DC law is to give the police/DA's a little more to hold people on. I.E. Someone gets arrested for something less serious like drug possession, but also had a handgun on them - increased penalty over just the possession charge.

  21. Re:WoW on Children Concerned By Parents' Web Habits · · Score: 1

    I had a therapist once who told me (either that or I read it) that she treated a patient with such severe social anxiety that the only way she could talk to her son was in World of Warcraft. Eh, thats nothing, the only way I will talk to my parents is through slashdot trolls
  22. Re:Any of Stephen Jay Gould's essay collections... on Entertainment Weekly Bemoans Lack of Great Science Books · · Score: 1

    2nd (its as good as Gould!). Additionally, Lives of a Cell is great.

  23. Re:Wait a sec on White House Refused To Open Unwelcome EPA E-Mail · · Score: 3, Informative

    It wasn't actually even about rules, it was an assessment. It stated that the country would save between 500 Billion and 2.5 Trillion dollars over the next 50 or so years by implementing some environmental protections through the clean air act. The White House didn't like the sound of that - so they refused to open/read the assessment until the EPA backed down.

  24. Re:The WH's boss is still we the people you know on White House Refused To Open Unwelcome EPA E-Mail · · Score: 2, Informative

    A thought occurs:
    Bill Clinton: I thought everybody liked hummers.
    George W. Bush: I thought everybody wanted a Hummer.
    Kucinich (D-OH) has introduced articles of impeachment - and plans to keep introducing new articles (I heard 60 was the goal for the next round) until the Judiciary committee that tabled the articles puts them on the floor.

  25. The WH's boss is still we the people you know on White House Refused To Open Unwelcome EPA E-Mail · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Frankly I'm pretty sure my boss would give me the sack for that sort of BS.