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Comment Give me the text data damnit (Score 1) 402

Having just journalists look at the files isn't good enough.

Give us plain text files of all the textual info so we can search ourselves.

Text is useful on any operating system windows apple linux you name it.

I would search emails by looking at the "subject:" line matches. This app can display 30 or more matches per page.
Anything that interests me can be looked at in context.
The matches can be extracted to a text file and sorted for a different look.

There will be many more leaks and this form of data release just doesn't cut it.

Comment Tthey sould target those in charge of ballots (Score 1) 105

The problem with politics is the process only allows for dishonest candidates.
They are there to outsource and sell off all our resources.

99% of candidates are corrupt and will never represent citizens.
Check out how many are Business types and Chamber of Commerce members (Way too many)

The corrupt political system makes it almost impossible for anyone honest to get on the ballot.

Comment The 2ndbestest program doesn't need a flowchart (Score 1) 315

For simple things no flowchart is needed ever.

I'm saying look at the 2 page flowchart of the print logic. That was the only tuff thing in doing a Search Engine. A search finds text and hi-lites it. First and formost. Then if the next line has a pic or video or song. Stand back and Look out. you are on your way with flowcharts.

Comment Flowcharts aren't hard once you know the app (Score 1) 315

One other time I needed a flowchart. We were making changes to a property management system to give it budgeting capabilities. The oiginal programmer (working at a different ministry) said "Don't touch that code" I charted it out and passed it by my supervisor. We tested it and it worked. I was the maintenance contractor after that...

Comment FlowCharts can be very useful (Score 1) 315

Talk to them about flowcharting:

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/pict01.jpg
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/pict02.jpg

When you have a nasty task, a simple flowchart can be a big help.

The above 2 charts are the flowchart for hi-liting TEXT search results.

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/source.txt Follow the logic in the source code

Once I threw out a program I was struggling with and did a flowchart that evening. The next day the program ran first try. That doesn't happen often. By the time I decided to throw it out and start again, I knew the problem inside out.

Comment Human fed bears are dead bears. What a stupid stup (Score 3, Interesting) 75

Many years ago I worked on a forestry bridge crew. The camp cook made 6 or 8 pies a day. There were only 4 of us on the crew. He would put all the extra food in 5 gal buckets to feed his bears.

One day his favorite old black bear got in a big fight with a 4 or 5 year old Grizzly. Old Irish waded into the battle with a broom to break it up. Irish got a couple broken ribs from his fav bear.

Now if the FishCops had a guy like Irish working for them, he would build a trail of pies deeper and deeper into the bush to save those bears. But not so with the highly educated game wardens of today; their answer is to shoot them. Anything that takes away from their budget for jetboats atv's and the latest fancy truck is dealt with that way.

A similar story (from 5 or 6 years back) was the killing of 8 or 10 Moose (some with calfs) that wandered into town during a winter with more than usual snow. A couple cowboys with ropes and a large pen with a few bails would have saved those animals but NO a bullet is better and the FishCops know "best". That year a bullet ended up in a balcony after it passed through or missed the moose. They then started shooting them with marbles until they got the poor animal in a less public place to kill them. Most of these university trained biology students are afraid of wildlife. These guys and gals are chicken shit, scared what ever you want to call them. Protectors of wildlife they are not.

This issue is bound to be made in to a reality show. So beware FC's you will be demonized if you kill all these animals.

Maybe get a couple of those bear dogs to put the run on them if you can't find a pie man to lead them away to safety. Wildlife officials don't care about the wildlife if their answers are always Shoot Shoot.

My trapper friends would do a better job. They released cougar and wolf from their snares by putting a blanket over them then slipping their hand under to cut the cord with snips. These guys are brave. The cougar was a protected species and the wolf had hair rubbed off its back and was worthless. Boo FishCops boo.

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Marijuana Growers Use Wild Bears to Guard Pot 75

Two Canadian marijuana growers were using at least 14 wild black bears to guard their crops. The pair had lured the bears onto their property with dog food in an attempt to deter thieves. Fortunately for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police pot bears turn out to be pretty chill. "They were tame, they just sat around watching... at one point one of the bears climbed onto the hood of a police car, sat there for a bit and then jumped off," said RCMP Sergeant Fred Mansveld.

Comment Re:You are being called to an external debate (Score 1) 2

Called out for a total of 33 times. (all my rejected submissions) You are being called out. So buck up and come over to discuss the greatest program on the Planet. SpectateSwamp is calling out the SlashDotters. Come take your whoppin.

http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/13917/217350.aspx#217350

Space

Submission + - Scientists Need Volunteers to Look at the Sun

Hugh Pickens writes: "BBC reports that Royal Observatory's "Solar Stormwatch" needs volunteers to help scientists spot Sun storms — known as coronal mass ejections — before they cause damage on Earth. "When you look up at the Sun obviously it's too bright to look at properly," says Dr Marek Kukula of the Royal Observatory, but "with special instruments and telescopes you can see there's all sorts of stuff going on." Nasa already monitors the Sun using two 'Stereo' spacecraft that produce 3D images of earth's nearest star which can show the trajectory of these explosions. However, the sheer amount of data means Nasa's scientists are unable to analyse the data as closely as they need — which is where the world's internet population comes in. After a brief tutorial, users get access to the actual 3-D images taken by the Stereo spacecraft. If a user believes they have spotted the beginnings of a solar storm, they can bring it to the attention of scientists. "Every little bit counts," says Kukula. "I've spoken to the scientists involved and they all agree that even if you log-on and just do it for a few hours, get bored and never touch it again it's all really useful — and helps them to do their work.""

Submission + - Awesome Underwater Robot Lost At Sea (nature.com)

this_boat_is_real writes: Somewhere off the coast of Chile a pioneering underwater robot named Abe lies in a watery grave today. The Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE) was one of the first truly independent research submersibles, being both unmanned and un-tethered to its launching ship. While on its 222nd research dive on Friday all contact with the craft was lost, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has announced.

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