Scrooge is alive and well on the Slashdot boards.

LLVM/Clang builds the DragonFly world and kernel but does not yet build the boot loader. It can be brought in via dports. So it isn't 100% yet but very close. When it does get to 100% it will become one of our two officially supported compilers. Those are currently gcc-4.7 and gcc-5.2.1.

Wayland support isn't really up to us, but there is wayland support in XOrg that I think works for programs desiring to use that API. Don't quote me on it though.

-Matt

Ok, got it. No quoting.

The "Science" of Physics was "settled" back in the time of Issac Newton.

What bullshit! The problem with gravity, its mysterious action st a distance, continues to this day. Physicists are still looking for gravity waves/gravitons with no success yet.

If you want an informative web site that actually works without Javascript, visit http://www.skyandtelescope.com...

Less than 0.1%.

Nah, that couldn't be it. Must be a CONSPIRACY.

A simpler rule would be to raise the price for a H1-B to $1M. The price should be far higher than hiring and training someone here.

Dear advertisers,

I don't mind ads so much, but I definitely do not want to run your programs, hence Noscript.

When did Slashdot turn so misogynist?

Evidence 1: The parent of this post.

Evidence 2: The moderators got it to a 5 rating.

Well, Mr. Evidence Guy, does evidence change your opinion or not?

http://voices.washingtonpost.c...

... instead of hoarding zero-days and working to make our hardware and software more insecure.

"The perfect is the enemy of the good" -- Voltaire.

Yes, those are all hard problems, but at least a widespread partial solution would make mass surveillance at least an order of magnitude more difficult and push TLAs to be more focused in their data gathering.

Also, a partial solution has the chance to be improved into better solutions. This would be a much better situation than what we have now. The fact that we can't solve all those hard problems now should not be an excuse to do nothing.

Corporations decide your worthiness to participate in our society: credit ratings, insurance scores, background checks, etc. It's not as bad as jail, but if you are blacklisted in some way, it's still pretty shitty.

See headsmartlabs.com and scroll down for an experiment that shows a nearly 2 psi decrease due to lower temperature and a wet football.

This leaves the question of why the Colts' footballs were still fully inflated.

You misunderstand how AIs are built.

The AI is designed to improve/maximize its performance measure. An AI will "desire" self-preservation (or any other goal) to the extent that self-preservation is part of its performance measure, directly or indirectly, and to the extent of the AI's capabilities. For example, it doesn't sound too hard for an AI to figure out that if it dies, then it will be difficult to do well on its other goals.

Emotion in us is a large part of how we implement a value system for deciding whether actions are good/bad. Avoid actions that make me feel bad; do actions that make me feel good. For an AI, it's very similar. Avoid actions that decrease its performance measure; do actions that increase its performance measure.

The first big question is implementing a moral performance measure (no biggie, just a 2000+-year old philosophy problem). The second big question is keeping that from being hacked, e.g., by giving the AI erroneous information/beliefs. Judging by current events, we don't do very well at this, so I can't imagine much better success with AIs.

but NoScript seems to block most of them anyway. I don't mind seeing a few ads, but I'm going to try to control what programs run on my machine.