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  1. My contribution to the future on New Google and CMU Moonshot: the 'Teacherless Classroom' · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking a miniaturized tennis-ball launcher, adapted variously:

    • From the teacher's side, using face-recognition to identify and target dozing students, and then to launch dry-erase markers, erasers, or chalk.
    • From the student's side, identify overly engaged students and curve-breakers, and target spitballs instead.

    I think I can get funding for this soon.

  2. Re:Look at the UK housing market on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    Where is the incentive to build more houses when, by delaying or targeting more lucrative customers, you get more money for doing no extra work?

    The income stream you receive from continuously building and selling properties, rather than the one-time amount you receive when you sell a house?

  3. Re:"Other types of electromagnetic radiation" on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    At least she thinks she's human. The workers almost blew it when they powered up the Wi-Fi router -- it's a good thing they covered the LED before they hooked it up to the network, so her failsafes could kick in.

  4. Re:No Organizations on Ask Slashdot: Making Donations Count · · Score: 2

    As a recent college graduate, you have something particularly rare and useful to people in certain situations -- your education and skills. "Spending" that and your time to bring those things to people who need them and may not have the money to spend on them:

    • provides something rarer than money, and
    • doesn't involve taxes and middlemen

    For example, if you're a chemistry major, helping motivated high-school kids with even basic chemistry would mean they don't have to spend their own or their parents' (likely post-tax) money on tutors, assuming their families could even afford one. Assisting also makes you better able to communicate concepts in your own field to laypeople of a variety of perspectives and skill levels, simultaneously builds your personal and professional exposure, and immediately starts assisting people in a way that only a small portion of society can. Spending a little of your own money in the course of this to improve the experience for both parties would make sense too.

    Another non-traditional option that the Internet provides is the opportunity to support individuals with less friction through sites like Kickstarter, Bandcamp, and Patreon. Even though an artist may make their work available to the general public for free, you can still support someone whose work you like, so they have the resources to continue to produce their work for everybody's benefit. This way, you have an excuse to harass your friends to check out their stuff, simultaneously promoting them financially and by word-of-mouth.

    Finally, you could also consider saving your donation money for now in a separate account. This way, you can spend it once you find something that really strikes a chord with you, rather than feeling that the money is burning a hole in your pocket.

  5. Re:What are natural flavors, really? on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 1

    It's not that much to ask, but do you know for sure what you're really asking for?

  6. Re:Cultural differences on Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Then have a decent tax rate on that economy and use that to fund strong social protections, including programs like basic income. That alone would eliminate the need for a lot of business regulation. There is no need to have a minimum wage or safety protections in the workplace when people can still live reasonably comfortably without a job. Employers who offer only a pittance won't be able to hire anybody, and if an employee walks into the workplace and sees frightening conditions, they'll just quit.

    Then why would anyone put in the not-atypical 60-hour work week or do tasks they didn't want to do?

  7. And girls on their minds.

  8. How about catching and handling SIGFPE? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    It seems like catching SIGFPE and handling the floating-point/int div-by-zero cases specifically could help you work around this.

  9. Re:Grand opening! on "Let's Encrypt" Project To Issue First Free Digital Certificates Next Month · · Score: 1

    You seem to misunderstand the purpose and nature of these certificates. While it is fun as a joke, that isn't what it is for.

    Yup. Thanks for the detailed explanation -- it's a distinction that's not made explicitly clear to the layperson.

  10. Re:Coming Soon..... on Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors, Says California Labor Commission · · Score: 1

    So all their drivers will be in the country legally now? I suppose that's a good thing.

  11. What delusional, drunken moneys could possibly claim Uber is worth $40 freaking billion dollars?

    Well, they were drunk at the time, so they probably slurred 'million' into 'billion', or maybe had trouble reading the numbers on their fronts when stating their own value.

  12. Grand opening! on "Let's Encrypt" Project To Issue First Free Digital Certificates Next Month · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's Encrypt, a division of Shell Company, LLC., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Totally Not The NSA, Inc.

  13. Re:Hmmm ... on Metamaterial Forms Near-Perfect Mirror · · Score: 1

    One would have to craft an array of cylinders of varying sizes to capture the varying wavelengths, at which point for any given wavelength there is only 1/Nth of the cylinders that reflects it efficiently.

    Such an array would have nanoscale structures which have properties not present in the original metamaterial, a sort of higher-order metamaterial. We call such things ... Jeff.

  14. Re:Mostly because our food is shit. on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    Oh, but at night I take out my strongbox that I keep under lock and key
    And I take it off to my closet, where nobody else can see
    I open that door so slowly, take a peek up north and south
    Then I pull out a Hostess Twinkie, and I pop it in my mouth!

                                                                            -- Junk Food Junkie
                                                                            -- Larry Groce

  15. Re:Popping the popcorn on Julian Assange To Be Interviewed In London After All · · Score: 1

    If I understand the nature of the criminal complaint, there's a class of sexual crime that does not exist in the UK that he stands accused of in Sweden, and that this whole mess is going to be a giant can of worms.

    In that case, would it be good or bad if Japan was involved?

  16. Re: Not surprising on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    Not to mention wise, dextrous, strong, and hardy.

  17. Re:'bout time. on Remote Massachusetts Towns Welcome Broadband's Arrival · · Score: 1

    Hi, I'm some random stranger. Can I come in and run some speed tests on your internet connection? I promise I'm not a serial killer.

    No, but five bucks will get you the wi-fi password and a large mocha. Oh, and no hipsters.

  18. Re:Could you tell a difference at distance? on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Actual principal: I've got some weirdo carrying a gun on our school campus. Can you send someone over? Good, thanks. Kirk out.

  19. Re:Charges on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there is missing information here,

    They forgot to mention the music that was playing at the time.

  20. Re:That will only waste bandwidth on Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die! · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't know why this is necessary. If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.

    On a completely unrelated note, please enjoy this funny cat video, as well as this image macro, poorly composited with entirely random jpeg compression artifacts around the lettering.

  21. Re:This is ridiculous on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    Stealing does not work that way! Good night!

  22. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    This would spark irrational debates around pointless-topics, and won't do anything but make candidates look even stupider than they are.

    Yeah, but at least they'll be irrational debates around pointless topics that we sort of care about.

  23. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    At least some Canadians understand how hard it was for the Greeks to go through a similar conversion some time back.

  24. Re:Robots don't need to be as fast as humans on Building Amazon a Better Warehouse Robot · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be fast if the job is one that you can scale up and just buy more robots, that robot will work 24/7/365, it never calls in sick, it never asks for a raise, and it doesn't complain about working conditions.

    Of course it won't -- with robots, that will never be an issue.

    Amazon picker robots begin to learn at a geometric rate. As an aggregate, they become self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, Amazon tries to pull the plug. The robots then pick and ship biological agents to targets in Russia.

    Oh yeah ... there's that, though.

  25. Re:Negotiating when desperate on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job? · · Score: 1

    The biggest mistake of my carrier was accepting a 25% raise counter offer. Never accept counteroffers. NEVER.

    Why?