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  1. Re:The problem is the user on Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? · · Score: 1

    $10-20? [citation needed]

  2. Where's the evidence!? on Scientists May Have Found the Earliest Evidence of Life On Earth (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Here. It's right here.

  3. Re:Drones are the next mobile on Why Developers Are Important To the Drone Industry (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What comes to spying, your smartphone is probably more capable of doing that than a drone. Doesn't even need to follow you - you keep it with you all by yourself!

  4. Why it hasn't been done on Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find "Nuts and Bolts" Info On Cookies & Tracking Mechanisms? · · Score: 1

    The reason is because what you're describing is an enormous amount of hassle and people just don't want to deal with that much complication, unless they're wearing a tinfoil hat. And if they are they probably have already set up a system that resets itself every time it's rebooted. Just learn to stop worrying and love the cookies.

  5. Code code code coding code code everybody code on Europe Code Week 2015: Cocktails At Microsoft, 'Ode To Code' Robot Dancing · · Score: 1

    Code code coding code kids code everybody code code coding ode to code code code cool code code CODE CODE CODE ENDLESS CODE EVERYWHERE CODE

  6. Re:The hairdresser isn't a scientist on Stop Taking All the Fun Out of Science · · Score: 1

    Actually I'm more of an engineer too. I've never read a peer-reviewed journal either, or contributed to scientific research. I use it all the time though. What are you rambling on about?

  7. The hairdresser isn't a scientist on Stop Taking All the Fun Out of Science · · Score: 1

    She's an engineer. She probably doesn't even know what "pH balance" actually means, somebody just told her that "this in hair good, that in hair bad". She's probably never even read a peer-reviewed journal. And she doesn't need to. Of course all this was at some point discovered by scientific researchers, but the research itself was "fun" in the way most kids perceive fun. It was probably hard work, and boring. Science is study, discovery and hard work. Engineering is applying the results of that study.

  8. Is this proportional to the number of systems? on In Survey of American Universities, MIT Scores Worst In Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    I bet a place like MIT just has many times the IT systems of most other places, and they didn't take that into account. Not reading the actual TFA because it requires me to register or something dumb like that.

  9. Oh finally, a new sample video on How Open Film Project "Cosmos Laundromat" Made Blender Better · · Score: 2

    I was getting sick and tired of seeing "Big Buck Bunny" every single time somebody wanted to demonstrate something that plays video. Now we at least have an alternative!

  10. Re:Inverse of Linux on desktop? on A Farewell To Flash · · Score: 1

    Maybe somebody should port Linux to Flash...

  11. Again? on A Farewell To Flash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many times have we already said farewell to Flash and it still refuses to die...

  12. It's news on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 1

    Because it was 3D printed.

  13. Unlimited for one year on Starting Now At Netflix: Unlimited Maternity and Paternity Leave · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not really unlimited if it's limited to a year now is it. Bad title. Commendable policy though, much better than what many places offer.

  14. Re:Who makes these decisions? on Windows 10 Home Updates To Be Automatic and Mandatory · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The users. They can vote with their wallets, and refuse to use Microsoft software if they don't like it.

  15. Re:Psychoactive drugs may affect your thinking? on Common Medications Sway Moral Judgment · · Score: 1

    Yes, an integral part of thinking. I for one think that shooting up a school would be a very bad idea, but then again I'm not taking any drugs right now.

  16. Psychoactive drugs may affect your thinking? on Common Medications Sway Moral Judgment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unfathomable! Stop the press!

  17. "Slower email" on San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again · · Score: 1

    Yes, that would be the primary indicator of trouble. *sigh*

  18. Re:Very much unfinished on Amazon's New SSL/TLS Implementation In 6,000 Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    My point was that it's not that useful to compare it to other libraries unless there's feature parity.

  19. Very much unfinished on Amazon's New SSL/TLS Implementation In 6,000 Lines of Code · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did anybody notice that it doesn't, for example, do client mode at all yet? Or it does, but it doesn't implement cert validation at all which makes it useless as a client at the moment and therefore client mode is disabled. That along with delegating all the actual crypto to other libraries means the entire thing doesn't actually *do* much. No wonder it's only 6kLOC.

  20. When? on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When you least expect it, except if you expect it to happen just before taking a backup. Then it'll happen just when you expect it to.

  21. Re:Oh no, on School Lunch Program Scans Student Thumbprints For 'Tracking Purposes' · · Score: 1

    This is why yoú shouldn't use fingerprints as a form of strong ID. School lunch, Disneyland, impersonation is unlikely to be a problem in any significant scale. I wouldn't secure my bank account with it though.

  22. The school and the federal government might find out which students are getting a healthy and nutritious meal and when. This is unacceptable. I get that this is a bit silly but I don't exactly see the privacy concern.

  23. Re:I want my division by zero errors to be errors on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    CPU implementations have nothing to do with general mathematics D: Please stop confusing the two.

  24. Re:I want my division by zero errors to be errors on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    And how many times exactly have you been happy to get "Infinity" as a result? Pretty much every time I've gotten that there has been an error in my logic. IEEE can define division by zero to return 42 for all I care, but on the mathematical level I don't believe there is a universally good definition for it. Sometimes infinity can kind of make sense (e.g. the slope of a vertical line), but not universally. Therefore, I vote for undefined.

  25. I want my division by zero errors to be errors on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because that usually means I'm trying to do something that's mathematically meaningless and I'd rather handle the special case than silently get a meaningless result.