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ITs time to stop coddling these people. WE are neck deep into an Information Age. ITs time to let those that cant live in our new environment die out. Im DONE coddling users. Keep the pace or be left behind. Too much of computing is getting dumbed down and locked up because idiots wont take courses on how to actually operate a computer.

We hired a guy that thinks like you. His previous organization IT told the users what they could and couldn't do. That company decided to get rid of their IT department. He brought that philosophy to our company and to the administrative assistant of some c-level executives. He's no longer with our company. See the trend? Do you know Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy? I think you two would get along.

Ask, and receive! https://chrome.google.com/webs...

Sweden here and it seems like I press the 6 key with left hand. Looking at finger charts it looks like right is slightly more common

I'm sure a politician will get really nervous if there's a website that details his location with just five minute intervals.

https://www.google.com/maps/timeline

I have a Virtual Boy, and like many I too have the glitchy display.

But there are a number of approaches to fixing the cable problem... some of which involve ovens.

Not had the chance to choose one fix to apply, but they do not appear too hard. Remember this was ancient tech so components are still on a human scale.

Yeah, I remember a Slashdot story a while back about how the Department of Justice wanted a giant database of license plate scans and how Slashdotters got really mad at the idea of government spying on us. What most commenters managed to miss is that what the article had in fact said was that this giant database already existed from multiple companies and all the DOJ wanted to do was buy access and federate searches across the various databases.

It reminds me of people getting mad at the idea of the NSA reading their email, and then using services like Gmail. Did you know that everything posted to social media is thrown into a giant database and metrics are run over it to determine whether people have positive and negative views of various subjects? It's not run by the government - it's run by marketing firms. They're called social analytics tools and, uh, you have a lot to choose from.

Ultimately my point isn't that the government shouldn't be doing this. (Both the license plate scanning in the article and the social media scanning I'm mentioning.) They shouldn't. My point is neither should anyone else.

We desperately need better privacy protections laws. You're being watched every second of every day - and it's not by the government. It's by private companies, for marketing research. They just sell access to the government.

There's an old saying: 'If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going.'

Citation needed. I do not believe anyone has ever said this.

I have never used this saying (I don;t pay attention to the maker of the plane I'm on. But a quick google search of that phrase shows it is a saying.

https://www.google.com/search?...

According this article in Der Welt (Google translate from German), ...

It is "Die Welt", not "Der Welt." For heaven's sake, when you click on the link, the correct name is right there on the top of the page in 48-pt font. How do you screw that up?

In German, "der" and "die" are both articles that translate to the English "the," but they have different genders and should not be conflated. ("der" and "die" have more expanded meanings and uses than just "the", but we'll skip that for now.) It would be similar to an American referring to Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Chuck Norris, or Hulk Hogan as "she".

Any other day and HuffPo would be telling us about the horrors of H1B abuse by large corporations. However, if it means furthering the narrative that Trump is bad, then suddenly H1Bs are good.

Someone finally states the correct spin of the article. I doesn't matter who funded the study or why, it's needed to attack Trump.

All your laughable assertion did was prove you are an idiot. It absolutely does matter who funds a study. This "study" is from a Libertarian "think tank" (can you say oxymoron?) so you know it is inherently biased against the government and towards the rich White elites.

To me it is obvious that you know nothing about American politics in the year 2015. You really should read more political science, particularly stuff about about realigning elections:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realigning_election

Others have noted that basically the Republican Party is nothing but a fragile coalition of the Tea Party, Southern White rednecks that became Republicans thanks Nixon's racist Southern Strategy and and a few old-school pro-business Eisenhower Republicans.

The last realigning election is thought to be when Ronald Reagan won, he got racist White Southerners that became Republicans due to Nixon's Southern Strategy to stay Republican by convincing them that the White elites running the Republican Party were looking out for them even though they were not. Due to racism by Whites this coalition has held for years but it is now beginning to fall apart.

The Huffington Post recognizes that this once strong Republican coalition is fracturing so they are picking at the scab that was once the Republican Party in an attempt at hastening its demise. If it makes them a few bucks in the process so much the better. Or at least that is what Republicans and Libertarians like to say when it isn't their ox being gored.

I am a Socialist that is going to vote for Trump in the Texas Republican primary? Why? Because Texas belongs to Hillary Clinton and I support Bernie Sanders so voting in the Texas Democratic primary would be a wasted vote. By voting for Trump I can help accelerate the process of the Republican Party collapse.

For me it is a win-win-win scenario. If Trump wins I also win because sane people will either vote Democratic or they will not vote at all. If Trump does not win but runs as an Independent then he will draw votes away from the Republican party and I win again. It goes without saying that if Hillary wins I win.

So voting for Trump entails very little risk for me, and it could possibly help the country in the long run. That is why I am advocating that fellow Socialists vote for Trump too:

Socialists for Trump

So please do us a favor and leave the political commentary to the adults that know what they are talking about. Or study up on the subject some more and come up with some rational commentary rather than allegations of bias by the Huffington Post at the same time you are deliberately ignoring bias by the Cato Institute.

[MODERATORS] I am used to being down-modded unfairly because I frequently go against Slashdot group-think. Instead of down-modding me why not actually give readers a chance to come up with an intelligent response instead? Is it because the opposing position is basically indefensible? Or are the supporters of the right so stupid that they cannot string together a few sentences that (a) make sense and (b) support their position?

Edit: They still promise the above in their "Timing for Software Updates" section in the following link: https://support.google.com/and...

ADA: https://www.google.com/search?...

https://groups.google.com/foru...

Well, at least in the case of The Verge, they are disabling comments to hide their complete lack of professionalism.

If they publish an article which is blatantly WRONG - there's no way for their readers to see that the content is wrong.

https://plus.google.com/+RonAm...

zRAM's previous name was compcache, and that was available for Linux since 2008.
https://code.google.com/p/comp...
In 2014, zRAM just became a part of Linux kernel tree.

Given the amount of time that it takes to work out the details, convince management that this is a feasible idea, make litho masks, process the wafers, and build an integrated prototype device, I would expect patent applications to be published by now, 18 months after the initial filing.

But I don't see obvious recent patent applications by Intel.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Google Public DNS doesn't do anything malicious, but feel free to change it to your ISP if you'd like. You can see for yourself what the privacy policy is. I work on Public DNS and can confirm that this is accurate; we're quite privacy-sensitive.

But here it says 2009

OnHub Tech Specs I would still like the aforementioned functionality

Because you can bet your ass they're going to get a lot more visibility into everything you do, and use it for their own purpose.

From https://support.google.com/onh...: "the Google On app and your OnHub do not track the websites you visit or collect the content of any traffic on your network".

It's an interesting concept, but I don't think I want to turn my router over to a company like Google or Facebook that makes their money Hoovering up every last bit of data they can get about me.

From https://support.google.com/onh...: "the Google On app and your OnHub do not track the websites you visit or collect the content of any traffic on your network".

As an aside, I suspect this sort of issue is part of the reason for the Alphabet reorganization. Too often, assumptions that Google's only business model is driven by data collection interfere with the launch of products which do not do any data collection. Alphabet may provide more flexibility to move those products out of Google, Inc. when it's helpful.

Gate capacitance on a junction FET (not all FET's are MOSFETs) and base to emitter capacitance on a typical bipolar are comparable. However, the best-case use for a bipolar is a cool little magnetic device called a transfluxer (no, I am not making that up; see US Patent number 4,459,653 for the 'bifluxer' variant and the citations to the original, Google's link is https://www.google.com/patents... ). A transfluxer-based inverter is very close to being as efficient as a MOSFET design. (And, don't worry, that patent expired nearly 20 years ago.)

Insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) are the closest thing to the ideal; FETs in general are voltage-controlled resistors, and at least up until the HEXFET (by Intersil as I recall) invention had substantially higher output impedance than the typical bipolar; bipolars, especially when connected as emitter followers, have very low output impedance but likewise relatively low input impedance. The IGBT is the best of both worlds for high powers and finds pervasive use in the power control industry.

But MOSFETs are good enough for most things. Well, except that the transfer functions are different, just as different as bipolar, point-contact, unijunction, and all other transistors (transit resistors, after all) are from the firebottles they replaced (firebottle, glassFET, valve, tube, whatever you want to call those wonderful vacuum (or gas) based controllers of current....).

(yeah, I am an EE.....got out of EE and into IT to do a bit of stress-reduction.... and, yes, it worked.)

This has been repeated a billion times but people still don't get it. H1B can only fill a position that is not filled by a US citizen.

... and yet the employment rate among tech workers is not 0% (currently about 4.1%). How do these two things jibe? Because they specifiy the position at a certain rate. So all you have to do is successfully argue that nobody wants to take the job at the salary you are offering it, and then you can try to get an H1B person. Without that alternative, they'd be forced to raise the salary until they started getting takers.

A US citizen can anytime come in and show they meet the minimum qualifications and take the H1B's job away.

Not true. At all. There is no mechanism for this. In fact, the company doesn't even have to advertise an opening before applying. They do have to submit a form to the government, but nobody will know they did this unless the specifically go looking for it. And if you do find it and want that job there, there's nothing you can do but whine about it. For instance, just a few months ago Southern California Edison used H1-B's to replace their existing workers, and required those workers as their last duty to train their replacements.

The H-1B program "was supposed to be for projects and jobs that American workers could not fill," this worker said. "But we're doing our job. It's not like they are bringing in these guys for new positions that nobody can fill.

"Not one of these jobs being filled by India was a job that an Edison employee wasn't already performing," he said.

I agree with the rest of your comment, but China isn't larger by size.

Their is a published EOL data for Flash... unfortunately it's just for Firefox (and other NPAPI browsers) on Linux.

It's approximately February 2017. "Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release."
https://www.adobe.com/devnet/f...

The first step (IMO) to ending Flash is to get it click-to-play. Firefox isn't willing to do this, yet [1].. AFAICT the holdup is Adobe with EME.. *sigh*.

[1] https://groups.google.com/foru...

Or are people actually buying external gamepads like MOGA for use with their tablets and phones?

I don't know if they are but I do know that they can.

Except in practice, "can" doesn't matter quite as much as "are". If only one person owns a particular peripheral, it's not economically viable for a for-profit game developer to add support for that peripheral even to an existing game, let alone develop games from the ground up for that device.

They can also use various PS3 controllers (DS3, Sixaxis) if they don't need to use any other bluetooth devices at the same time... on some devices. Yeah, not a perfect solution, but the point is if it works you can do it for very little money and the app to find out if it will work is free.

For someone who doesn't already own a PS3, where might he find a working DS3 or Sixaxis controller with which to try the Sixaxis Compatibility Checker app? I imagine video game stores' return policies don't cover incompatibility with non-PS3 game systems as a valid reason. Besides, the app's description states that root access is required, and at least on the device I own, rooting would require a factory reset.

Didn't I just read that game consoles are going to be eclipsed by tablets in the next couple of years, in terms of horsepower? Aren't those people just playing games on their PC or on a tablet?

A tablet's input device is a flat sheet of glass. It's fine for games that would have otherwise used a mouse, such as a space shooter like AirAttack HD. It's also good for what are essentially racing games that use only one button, like Rayman Jungle Run. But for games originally designed for a gamepad, there's no way to tell where your thumbs are relative to the on-screen controls at the side while you are looking at the action in the center. It's even worse than the widely panned Turbo Touch 360, which at least has a recessed touchpad with ridges and physical A and B trigger buttons. When I tried the free subset of Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure on my Nexus 7, I kept "whiffing", or pressing outside the active areas of the on-screen gamepad, and missing jumps. This continued until I paired a Bluetooth keyboard, after which the game worked fine.

Or are people actually buying external gamepads like MOGA for use with their tablets and phones? The last time I checked, I couldn't find any sales numbers for these external gamepads, which disappoints me because there's no other way to assure game developers that there's a market for games supporting them.

As for PC, some people choose consoles because they're easier so long as one is happy with vanilla versions of games from major labels.

It's the warehouse employees who get shit on the most. While I'm sure there are issues in the office, the warehouse employees are expected to meet ever rising quotas at the cost of safety - the only way to meet some of the quotas is to ignore safety rules. Employee death or injury is not unheard of. While the top tier might not be driving for these metrics, they don't have the right people keeping a hold of the reigns at the lower level.

about 4 years ago now I guess. I thought Steve was exaggerating about Amazon, or trying to be humorous (or both), but now in hindsight I think he was probably being accurate.

The rant

"Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page. They were like millions of his own precious children. So they're all still there, and Larry is not.

Micro-managing isn't that third thing that Amazon does better than us, by the way. I mean, yeah, they micro-manage really well, but I wouldn't list it as a strength or anything. I'm just trying to set the context here, to help you understand what happened. We're talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on many public occasions that people should be paying him to work at Amazon. He hands out little yellow stickies with his name on them, reminding people "who runs the company" when they disagree with him. The guy is a regular... well, Steve Jobs, I guess. Except without the fashion or design sense. Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.

So one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate. He's doing that all the time, of course, and people scramble like ants being pounded with a rubber mallet whenever it happens. But on one occasion -- back around 2002 I think, plus or minus a year -- he issued a mandate that was so out there, so huge and eye-bulgingly ponderous, that it made all of his other mandates look like unsolicited peer bonuses."

Z has plenty of custom hardware - I think it's fair to say it's predominantly custom - the branch predictor would have to be pretty different, and of course power doesn't have a BCD arithmetic unit.

Actually, it does have IEEE decimal floating-point, as does z/Architecture. z/Architecture has decimal fixed point, but, these days, it might just trap to millicode doing tricks such as excess-6 for carry propagation. (And the PowerPC processors in at least some AS/400 machines added some instructions to assist BCD arithmetic.)

Anyway, I'll argue that they're spiritually and economically related, and there's more than a passing family resemblance. Kind of like power and modern ("advanced server") iSeries,

There is no iSeries any more, there's just the IBM Power Systems, which are the successors to both RS/6000^WpSeries^WSystem p and to AS/400^WiSeries^WSystem i; they can run both AIX and IBM i.

Meanwhile, channel controllers aren't as dumb as they look. A little wikipedia action here (I know, citing wikipedia, but it's monday and I'm still tired): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Turns out the little dickens can do a decent amount of work on its own. I think the wikipedia entry is showing its age... seems like IBM's done a lot more work since this.

Yes, but they're still I/O boxes, not general-purpose computers (well, they might be implemented with z/Architecture or Power ISA processors, but what's exposed to the OS or application programmer is just the ability to run limited channel programs). The z/Architecture Principles of Operation says in "Execution of I/O Operations", in chapter 15 "Basic I/O Functions":

For subchannels operating in command mode, the channel subsystem can execute seven types of commands: write, read, read backward, control, sense, sense ID, and transfer in channel. Each command, except transfer in channel, initiates a corresponding I/O operation.

and

For subchannels operating in transport mode, the channel subsystem can transport six types of com- mands for execution: write, read, control, sense, sense ID, and interrogate. Each command initiates a corresponding device operation.

I'm afraid what happened in Serbia is only one example, and it is something that really should never have happened. The radar used there was not particularly sophisticated. If anyone knows they can track a F-35 or F-22 right now then they are going to keep their cards close to their chest.

You can also shoot down the F-117 over Belgrade in the very comprehensive SAM Simulator. Try it, you will see this is not easy...

Not surprisingly, the reaction of the "community" everytime I post things like this (look at my comment history) has been pretty negative. Apparently installing Linux on a laptop is "wrong."

You bought a laptop designed specifically for Windows, with windows pre-installed on it, and you're complaining that it would be too much work to grind through the tedious process of building linux specifically for your hardware.

You'd have an only slightly less frustrating problem if you'd bought a laptop designed specifically for Linux and tried to put windows on it.

Laptops always have uniquely challenging hardware; if you want ease of software installation use a desktop PC with generic parts. If you want a laptop, buy one preconfigured with the OS you desire, and stop whining that it didn't come with a free pony.

Our understanding of what happened back then changes CONSTANTLY as we find out more and more.
In this wiki, along with the links, you will find that at one time, the native population in just USA, was around 20 million. What caused most of the deaths was disease, as well as the Spaniards. The Spaniards used indigenous populations for slavery, etc, but they alsio moved fast grabbing what gold and silver they could steal. Since the majority of stable populations, which are the ones with gold/silver was in South and Central America, they spent the majority of their time down there. Upon wiping out Aztecs, Myans, etc, they tried hard to come up from New Spain/Mexico, but the North American Indians from California through to eastern Colorado fought back bravely.
Sadly, between disease and the wars from them, they were decimated by the time that USA gov moved into that Area, the natives population had gone from 5-10 Million down to less than 1M. In addition, the Mexicans were also less than 250K in the area. As such, when USA moved into this area, it belonged to the Native Americans, but, Mexicans were trying to claim it.

I find it interesting that with the far right, America can do no harm, while with the far left, we see that America can do no right. Due to that, we see history that gets skewed badly. But, if you read a little, you will find that American gov did a number on the Native American population east of the mississippi, mostly via war, while the Spaniards/New Spain/Mexicans, did the majority of killing with disease, and war to the native American population west of the mississippi.

No, history class rarely covers the 'truth' since history constantly changes (history is trying to report what happened in the past; but "recent history always belongs to the victors").
However, our understanding of what happened back then changes CONSTANTLY as we find out more and more.
For example, in this wiki, along with the links, you will find that at one time, the native population in just USA, was around 20 million. What caused most of the deaths was disease, as well as the Spaniards. The Spaniards used indigenous populations for slavery, etc, but they alsio moved fast grabbing what gold and silver they could steal. Since the majority of stable populations, which are the ones with gold/silver was in South and Central America, they spent the majority of their time down there. Upon wiping out Aztecs, Myans, etc, they tried hard to come up from New Spain/Mexico, but the North American Indians from California through to eastern Colorado fought back bravely.
Sadly, between disease and the wars from them, they were decimated by the time that USA gov moved into that Area, the natives population had gone from 5-10 Million down to less than 1M. In addition, the Mexicans were also less than 250K in the area. As such, when USA moved into this area, it belonged to the Native Americans, but, Mexicans were trying to claim it.

Sadly, ppl like you have a VERY poor understanding of history esp this since you are far more interested in Political Correctness, rather than Accuracy. But do not let facts get into your way of thinking. Between the far right (American can do no wrong) and your far left (American can do no right), things like history is being destroyed.

Shhhhh!!! Well, ok, don't tell anyone but you're right. It's called the Su-35 and it's made by the same good people who made your iPhone: https://www.google.com/search?...

And that, kiddies, is how Democrazy was defeated by Autocracy, because Democrazy wastes too much resources on pork barreling and propping up ailing for-profit defense companies. http://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Sa...

Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp

Dastar Corp. V. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. Et Al. No. 02-428, Supreme Court of United States

The EPA recommends no more than .001 mg/kg/day of cadmium in food. The average male adult in the US weighs 195 lb (88.5 kg). For that person the limit translates to .09 mg/day.

It is an open question whether that is really a safe long term limit, as these things do tend to accumulate in the body.

Soylent 1.5 has 21.39g (.021 mg) of cadmium per 500 calorie serving. So, as per the EPA standard, if that person ate mostly soylent, 4 servings per day (2000 calories), you would have .084 mg of cadmium, right below acceptable limit.

Note the definition of mg/kg/day is how many mg of something you can consume per kg of body mass. The soylent guy's google spreadsheet reports mg/kg of the toxic substances in the soylent itself, which is irrelevant. This suggests that he doesn't understand what he is talking about. What a surprise.

The EPA recommends no more than .001 mg/kg/day of cadmium in food. The average male adult in the US weighs 195 lb (88.5 kg). For that person the limit translates to .09 mg/day.

It is an open question whether that is really a safe long term limit, as these things do tend to accumulate in the body.

Soylent 1.5 has 21.39g (.021 mg) of cadmium per 500 calorie serving. So, as per the EPA standard, if that person ate mostly soylent, 4 servings per day (2000 calories), you would have .084 mg of cadmium, right below acceptable limit.

Note the definition of mg/kg/day is how many mg of something you can consume per kg of body mass. The soylent guy's google spreadsheet reports mg/kg of the toxic substances in the soylent itself, which is irrelevant. This suggests that he doesn't understand what he is talking about. What a surprise.

The unemployment rate in Seattle is about 3%

Not according to the BLS; they say it's 50% higher than that (Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area: 4.5%):
http://www.bls.gov/web/metro/l...

Of course, those numbers are also deflate, due to people falling off the eligibility rolls:
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welc...

The video is still available on Google Plus

The unemployment rate in Seattle is about 3%. Anyone who wants to work elsewhere can do so.

Apparently, at least 3% cannot.

Don't mistake the legality of quitting with the ability to quit

The unemployment rate in Seattle is about 3%. Anyone who wants to work elsewhere can do so. Many people enjoy working in a challenging environment and are happy to be well compensated for that. The real "slavery" is people like you trying to impose your values on everyone else. Not everyone wants to be lazy and poorly paid.

I thought that Gmail actually circumvented this with an image caching service, but when I (just) researched it, it doesn't (it only does proxying):
"Also, no caching is performed server-side, every time I downloaded that URL, a request showed up on my server." ( https://filippo.io/how-the-new... )

"In some cases, senders may be able to know whether an individual has opened a message with unique image links. As always, Gmail scans every message for suspicious content and if Gmail considers a sender or message potentially suspicious, images won’t be displayed and you’ll be asked whether you want to see the images." ( https://support.google.com/mai... )

It would be better to just preload all (or at least a random subset) of the images for emails sent to the Gmail servers, thereby poisoning the information stream of spammers to the point of being useless. On the other hand, that means disregarding any caching directives and is perhaps too expensive, resource-wise.

What I'm saying is that when we create problems, we tend to be pretty well self correcting.

https://www.google.com/search?...
https://www.google.com/search?...

Hmmmmm.

What I'm saying is that when we create problems, we tend to be pretty well self correcting.

https://www.google.com/search?...
https://www.google.com/search?...

Hmmmmm.

https://encrypted.google.com/s...

Seriously, literally over a trillion yen in net assets, also stated as literally billions of dollars.

Who?

Steve Jackson Games

What?

Look, I know that nobody reads the fantastic article, but you're allowed to read the summary. Steve Jackson is the founder and editor-in-chief of Steve Jackson Games. What's Steve Jackson Games? Well, since you're clearly new to this whole "internet" thing, that underlined text is what's called a hyperlink. You can click on it and it will take you to another web page with additional information. Or there's this marvelous invention called a 'search engine' (of which there are several) that will let you put in practically any series of characters you can think of, and it will generate a list of resources that contain additional information on your query.

Better than that, the app is still up, it was never even removed - he only removed one version of it:

https://chrome.google.com/webs...

Damn you, OpenSSH devs! Damn you all to heck!!!

I'm pretty sure Phil wouldn't have used "damn." The proper expression is "Darn you to heck!"

RC Planes? What makes a 'drone' a drone is that it's being used for some specific purpose. Delivery, spying, dropping bombs, etc. Without that what else is there?