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  1. Re: "steal" on Scaling To a Million Cores and Beyond · · Score: 3, Funny

    No no - you had the golden chance and missed it!

    You *license* the baby!

  2. Re: Not known to self contradict on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Obligatory: I want the Knuth - but I can't handle the Knuth!

    But how funny IS Knuth? Would he pull a stunt like an announcement about ... Earthquakes?

  3. Re:Outlets on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    I'll try for a more "modern" answer than gene diversity. It's not about the sheets. It's about safety, finances, and power trips.

    The cheater likes the Dopamine surge from the thrill of the hunt and being a wildcat. The Forsaken feels threatened that valuable household resources will be squandered, up to even health.

  4. Re: Secret Kdawson Code on Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code · · Score: 1

    (Riffing off an earlier post)

    I have analyzed the entire collected works of Kdawson editorials, looking for patterns. Then, as a control sample I analyzed the editorial summaries of the other editors. I find that the errors in Kdawson suddenly become very very round.

  5. Re: Lectures + Web on Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's a question in educational design.

    Lectures are just "Auditory Articles". The start of any educational module is a "TFA". Let's just presume the minimum = 1 sentence. If it's really hard (like an equation) the instructor should stop and either explain, or "wait for next week after it gels". (In really scary cases it "never gels" and then you just say "I'm not good at that". In "rolling thunder" topics like History, no one sentence is earth shattering, but reading something like Thorstein Veblen in the original might get you 3/4 of the way through until you say "Wait, What?"

    In a really good .edu , the lectures would be recorded and posted so you don't have to scribble furiously. Then you just go investigating your own personal hyperlinks, and either ask them in lecture if they're right "centrally on topic" or office hours if they're baroque. The Prof knows he can't just stand there in silence for 45 minutes. It's like radio dead air. The savviest prof I had "repeated the book" - but she picked the parts she *knew* were "loaded bear traps" and then hyperkinetically amped up the mood until people stopped protecting their egos and really dug into it.

    I agree the modern web is just a powerhouse - I daresay the 5 years I've spent on Slashdot is damn near equivalent to a course's worth of CS for NonMajors 101.

  6. Re:Hilarious on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 1

    Great!

    So which parts of
    http://www.thesixthaxis.com/
    http://screwattack.com/
    http://www.hardwareheaven.com/

    are wholly yours so I can borrow them BY-NC for Beer-Free?

  7. Re: Root! on Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws · · Score: 1

    It looks like someone wants to update your cemetary record. Cancel or Allow?

  8. Hypocrites on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 1

    Hypocrites!

    "Do as I say, not as I do, seems to be the golden rule.
    I should practice what I preach, but I'm a hypocritical sonofabitch.
    I'm a Hypocrite!
    Don't always know what I'm talking about;
    I can't eat my words cuz I got my foot in my mouth-
    I'm a Hypocrite! I'm a Hypocrite!

  9. Re:While I agree that anonymity is a good thing... on SCOTUS Rules Petiton Signatures Are Public Record · · Score: 1

    This legislation is wrong, and is part of a dangerous trend in inverting the ethics of responsibility. They are saying, "I'm the law, and you can't beat the law!
    ".

  10. Re: inevitably lead on Google Remotely Nukes Apps From Android Phones · · Score: 1

    That's why slopes are slippery. Go up a containing level.

    There is little all about ________ remotely nuking _________ because ______ says it violates ______. There's some scary scope in those MadLib blanks. It also is a clear threat - they're demonstrating an extremely dangerous policy capability.

  11. Re:Draconian? on Google Remotely Nukes Apps From Android Phones · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah, I chose to reply - someone else can Mod Parent Up.

    This sounds like an Apple move - "the App wasn't malicious but we didn't like it so we nuked it for you."

    Total Slippery Slope - what else can they nuke when the Mafiaa decide "you have a copy of Oh Mickey In Spanish that violates copyright law so we'll nuke it for you."

  12. It's all relevant on ICANN Likely Finally To Approve .xxx For Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    I'll wager against you.

    You may not have considered the logic-bending that's been going on.

    1. Of course the Thinky crowd wants this. They just paid big money to *hide* to make this give a False-Innocence.
    2. The Censors will *eventually* pass a law that forces the Porn outfits to move, with an "Apply to Opt Out" clause. Say, 8 months in.
    3. XXX will be phenomenally used, and the porn on .Com addresses will be depicted as "rogue" with huge marketing money your taxes will pay for.

  13. Re:ALL copyright is a restriction on free speech. on Court Takes Away Some of the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    ~ ~
    So let me get this straight:

    File sharers "Make Stuff Available" to 1000 people they get Super-Million dollar fines,
    but
    Corporations can pay a few thousand to take something away from Super-Million people?

  14. Re:The RIAA are not people on Court Takes Away Some of the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Is this Disney's successor trick to the stunt they pulled for the Mouse Act? "Pretty good trick" he says cynically, before they take away the Tom Swift rights.

    I want to toss an Unidentified Legal Object to the IAAL crowd. Can full Public Domain be considered a "contract with the people" such that removing something from it then becomes a breach of contract? All the following stuff sounds like it makes sense - "reasonably relied upon", etc.

  15. Re:Escalating on Verizon Makes Offering Service Blocks a Fireable Offense · · Score: 1

    Because User-Hostile saves money in duopoly environments.

    It's a pyramid thing. Just suppose there's 100 level 1's, 10 level 2's and 1 level3 in a group. If they can keep the call in that first tier, they win. They only start to wake up when you high-speed drill out 7 answers per question they ask followed by asking for a manager at every interchange.

  16. Re:Spring on Better Development Through Competition? · · Score: 1

    Not always. The ones who Were There are the ones I respect. But there really is a serious problem first nationally trumpted by Dilbert, that "managers" DO "spring forth from nowhere" because they're good at the old high school Let's Make a Clique games. Getting rid of those guys is a pain because they outrank you, and usually too savvy to do anything truly stupid. Rather, they specialize in doing Vague Nothings.

  17. Re:Warning Sign on DHS Wants To Monitor the Web For Terrorists · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll go you one better.

    TOM CLANCY warned the hell out of us, and we Luved it! (At least the bestseller book list sez so.) It's Executive Orders from ... 1995!!

  18. Re:Rife on Verizon Makes Offering Service Blocks a Fireable Offense · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yea, I made seventeen phone calls in to the four departments to get a DSL dry loop line. You have to get really aggressive to get anything done. There ARE some service saints in there somewhere, so when you get one, get their ID number or sometimes first and last name and then ask for them.

    Re your last line, I AM willingly a (disgusted) customer because I think Comcast is worse! Last I recalled on the Evil front, Verizon was SLIGHTLY less evil.

  19. Re: DoubleClick on TACO Extension for Firefox Forked After Proprietary Update · · Score: 1

    Except it doesn't! And I find it hysterical that ... Slashdot uses doubleclick!

    Here is a list of their opt-outs. To me it's like a grab so that they smash 100 competitors in one shot.

    Oh look. The lameness filter can't tell between an informative list and an awful string of letters!

    So I'll do it the non-TealDeer way. Go ahead & install it. Then not only look at the list without doubleclick in it, but put Ghostery on and then open Slashdot. "Nary a privacy problem to be had!!"

  20. Re:Miners! on Afghan Tech Minerals — Cure, Curse, Or Hype? · · Score: 1

    Oh, PLEASE, won't someone think of the Miners!

  21. Re: Pony on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 2, Funny
  22. New Feature!! on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 1

    No no no...

    You should have an Enemies list!!

    Also, I want someone to make a Muhammad Facebook page.

  23. Re:let ACTA pass on FSF Starts Anti-ACTA Campaign · · Score: 1

    Hi.

    Please post links to your materials from Bangamovie!

    We need nice fresh meat for da InterBeast to play with!

    http://bangamovie.com/

    (Pun intended!)

  24. Re:Suddenly... on Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm · · Score: 1

    "Of course it won't work so well if they drop their pants right in the middle of a session with a real human" ... DickRolled???!

  25. Mirror of MVTA on Washington's IT Guy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Make you a deal sir.

    You have the info but maybe not the distribution, which given your post is a tiny tragedy right? I've meanwhile spent 6 months building a mirror system (not yet coral-cached, still manual).

    Slashdotters, here's a fast & dirty mirror of Garcia's data - except I WANT you to download it! If nothing else, "fight the man". But also it's a very early bandwidth test at the "25% readers are finished" comment level, which I guage as some 10 times below full RTA effect.

    http://taophoenix.babblehost.com/MVTA%20Rider%20Data.html

    Everyone get a copy! Makes great Father's day gifts! Hehe.