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  1. Re:Rise of the... on RoboBonobo: A Project To Outfit Apes With Tablets and Telepresence Bots · · Score: 1

    ...or maybe the internets has corrupted my ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

  2. Rise of the... on RoboBonobo: A Project To Outfit Apes With Tablets and Telepresence Bots · · Score: 4, Funny

    Planet of the Bonobos. If they have wireless tabs, then one clever one will find a way to take control of a Predator. What then humans? It's going to be World War 3, between Bonobos and Robot Overlords with us stuck in the middle trying to stick flowers into their barrels. Wang Weilin will be squished.

  3. Re:Quick Answer on Qualcomm Calls To 'Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, I somewhat agree. I was excited seeing this article appear in my feed, but have since sunken into a depression. The only way that proprietary drivers can be killed off (and I'm not talking drivers for specialist hardware) is if all hardware manufacturers agree on sticking to standards. Even within manufacturer, there are vast differences in hardware configurations, interrupts, etc. (Yes, of course, SATA, PCIe, are all standards, but you know what I'm talking about. How long does it take to get a flavor of *nix running 100% on a notebook? Fiddling with acpid.conf, patching, reverting, etc, etc)

  4. Well that was disappointing. on Mystery of Duqu Programming Language Solved · · Score: 1

    I guess allens don't exist.

  5. The right attitude helps on Building a Case For Telecommuting · · Score: 1

    My CIO's feelings are, "I don't care where or how long you work, as long as you deliver and as long as you are reachable".

    I try to work from home as much as possible. As a team lead, this means that I'm constantly shuffling meetings and workshops around, to free up a day here and there. However, I find that I only tend to work half the day - from lunchtime I mope around the house. But, I do the same amount of work in those 4-5 hours than I do in 2-3 days at the office. I'm a whole lot more productive, and it ends up being cheaper for everyone - I don't have to pay for petrol/gasoline, my employer doesn't have to pay for the energy to power the aircons, etc. Plus it's less stressful for both myself and my team (although I bug the shit out of them on skype & lync when I'm working remotely). I am planning to work 2 or 3 days a week from home, once we

    My work day varies in length - it's fairly flexible depending on what is going on, was is broken and what my workload is. Some days I work 5 hours, other days 24 hours. I sometimes get looks from other departments if I stroll in at 10h00. But I care not: I'm here to get the job done.

    We have a number of devs that telecommute from various places around the country and world. It works because they are the right kind of people to make it work. Yes, they may work slightly less or more than what their contract says, but they deliver. Other people just cannot work outside of an office, they need a strictish/rigidish environment in order to work properly.

  6. Re:Desert Bus on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 1

    s/\(/(unless/

  7. Is the answer! The most realistic game possible, with absolutely no violence (if you're into things that are hard to eat)

  8. Debris would be scattered all over the place on NASA: Satellite Debris Probably Hit Pacific, But Room For Doubt · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to figure out exactly who it was, but an amateur astronomer somewhere in South Africa called in to a radio talk show on Saturday indicating that he saw some debris burning up in the early hours of the morning. Trying to get a link up.

  9. Hadoop on Ask Slashdot: Clusters On the Cheap? · · Score: 1

    From http://hadoop.apache.org/ The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-avaiability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-availabile service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.

  10. But, but, but on .XXX Domain Registrations Begins · · Score: 1

    http://xxx.xxx.xxx/ doesn't resolve :-( Damnit!

  11. Re:in b4 504! on New Zealand Government Opens UFO Files · · Score: 1

    crap, i meant 504, got my responses confused.

  12. in b4 408! on New Zealand Government Opens UFO Files · · Score: 1

    Get to it before it gets ./'ed or someone decides that stuff.co.nz is another wikileaks!

  13. Re:packing my bags ... on Spanish Congress Rejects Internet Censorship Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How will that prevent the great US and A from censoring what you want? Just because you're in a country that doesn't do any censoring, doesn't mean that other countries' policies won't affect you. Too many double negatives?

  14. Re:What on BitTorrent Client Offers P2P Without Central Tracking · · Score: 0

    Or anything that uses libtorrent. I modded libtorrent to work as a distributed content delivery system for an ex-employer. Remove the ignoring of unknown keys, add a bit of hackery elsewhere, and anything added into the swarm ends up on all clients. This was...um...1-2 years ago.

  15. PLEASE SEED! on Wikimedia Trying P2P Video Distribution · · Score: 5, Funny

    PLEASE SEED!!

  16. Re:How about some metric figures? on New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed · · Score: 1


    Officially it's 3 countries that refuse to move to metric: USA, Liberia and Myanmar. You bloody Americans! Really, get up to the 20th century. Because of you, we are often forced to convert units in our heads, since many manufacturers use imperial just because you are the largest buying market. Bastards!

    There are others that use a mixture, but are moving towards complete metrification.

    Oh, and why oh why oh why do you American programmers still insist on MM-DD-YYYY date format? The mixed endianess is stupid and has no place in our world!
    </rant>

  17. Re:First troll post on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    You should be more disappointed by the lack of mentioning of Nazis.

  18. What ever happened with VR? on The Nuts and Bolts of PlayStation 3D · · Score: 1

    It was the "next best thing" back in the mid-90's. But, it almost completely died out. I would think with the incredibly more powerful consoles we have nowadays, someone would re-look at VR again. It's be a whole helova lot cheaper than buying a new TV, etc.

  19. Re:And the people in southern Latitudes? on An Exercise To Model a "Solar Radiation Katrina" · · Score: 1

    Oh, great...So we have to wait for an asteroid to destroy New York, release the virus and infect the world just so that we can surf pr0n during and after solar storms?

  20. Re:The exercise was a waste of money on An Exercise To Model a "Solar Radiation Katrina" · · Score: 2, Funny

    laden or unladen?

  21. And the people in southern Latitudes? on An Exercise To Model a "Solar Radiation Katrina" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do we not have any power transmission systems? Or just donkeys running on treadmills attached to dynamos? How will the such a solar storm affect our donkeys?

  22. What a bunch of rubbish on "2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220 · · Score: 1

    Everyone here knows that the world will end on 19 January 2038.

  23. Gulp... on American Airlines To Offer Wi-Fi In Planes · · Score: 1

    Let's hope they ensure that the network is completely separate from the aeroplane's system network.

  24. Not too difficult./ on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: 1

    I am implementing something similar using trackerless torrents, DHT and LSD from libtorrent. All you need to do is distribute the torrent hashes to the clients, and libtorrent will take care of the rest.

  25. Re:Green? on White House Gets Green by Putting Federal Budget Online · · Score: 1

    Yup, almost all paper produced in the USA is made from trees sourced in a plantation - forests planted specifically for this. The "saving" of 20 trees per year, means that the plantations wouldn't sell those 20 trees, and thus not plant them. Therefore, saving trees doesn't. Okay, one can argue that the process of paper production is bad for the environment.