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You can code review this subset of C++ til you're blue in the face but the next project over to you may not. Even some of the most reviewed and widespread code in existence has suffered serious errors that were the fault of the language. Look at the Heartbleed bug as one example. And it's extremely clear that when we're talking of software that powers IoT devices, or cars, or hydraulic presses in factories, or X-Ray machines or anything else which has a critical function that even ONE screwup could have catastrophic consequences. Even if your software has less critical failure modes, it's still a pain in the ass if it crashes, leaks, suffers mysterious race conditions or is exploitable because the code has to enforce its own buffer checks.

That's why Rust makes such a good fit for systems software. It shuts down an entire swath of potential programming errors before they can even happen. In the normal course of programming there are no pointers, or null pointers, or explicit memory allocation/deallocation. Things like strings and arrays are intrinsic types and are enforced against their length. Threads that share data MUST protect them with locks or mutexes or have ownership. Things that break in C/C++ at runtime are stopped by the compiler.

C and C++ aren't going anywhere I'm sure, but neither are they defensible by saying if you know the exact subset which is safe that it absolves all the stuff which isn't in that subset.

http://crypto.stackexchange.co...

Um, I think you lost a zero. The speed of light in a vacuum is 299792458 meters per second, so your 300,000 km/s figure is more than close enough. However, in a single mode glass fiber, it's about 2/3 of that, around 200,000 km/s. 3000 km / 200,000 is 15 ms, and the round trip would be a minimum of 30 ms.

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

http://physics.stackexchange.c...

Some folks think they're smart by trying to steer the discussion away from what the asker wants to talk about by suggesting that the question is a case of The XY Problem.

Such behaviour is disrespectful to the asker as it asserts that what they're trying to do isn't useful. If somebody wants to manipulate foo files with an unsuitable bar, then the more informative answer would be to:
a) Answer the actual question asked instead of replacing it with something else.
b) Explain why the method the asker is attempting might not be as productive as they believe.
c) Provide the showoff answer so you can feel good.

Something like 'It looks like you're trying to manipulate foo with bar, if you want to do that, use bar.exe -slow foo.txt. However be aware that this doesn't scale since it was written in 1996 and doesn't use multithreading. Instead use multithreaded_baz.exe foo.txt and you'll see a 100x speed increase, also this is open-source.'.

Or movies.stackexchange.com

Thanks for the recommendation, but typing this out seems to be a lot more tedious that copy/pasting an image.

\begin{frame}{Example of columns 2}
          \begin{columns}[T] % contents are top vertically aligned
          \begin{column}[T]{5cm} % each column can also be its own environment
          Contents of first column \\ split into two lines
          \end{column}
          \begin{column}[T]{5cm} % alternative top-align that's better for graphics
                    \includegraphics[height=3cm]{graphic.png}
          \end{column}
          \end{columns}
\end{frame}

I am a slave to copy and paste, which locks me into a GUI program. Also, there no way to go from PPTX (provided by others) to beamer:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/q...

  I tried working with the xml structure of the OpenDocument Format and it is similarly tedious. I guess I should create my own :)

Presence of hair, breasts, and other evidence points to merpeople being mammals.

They may be like Platypuses and still lay eggs?

Presence of hair, breasts, and other evidence points to merpeople being mammals. Their privates (including anus) resemble those of a dolphin, seal, manatee, or other marine mammal, once you get a mermaid to unfasten her scaled swimsuit.

Apparently, it's a bit like the lottery in that it only seems to make dollars if you don't have any sense.

http://workplace.stackexchange...

the "designer" mindset has gifted us with extreme low contrast backdrops and fonts - STOP THAT

About that, discussion on Stack Exchange: What is the reason for small, lightly coloured text?

Be careful with this -- don't forget to UPDATE those physical envelopes when necessary. And that still doesn't solve intentional breakage where someone changes then absconds with the new controlling credentials.

A stored-in-a-safe envelope is still a single point of attack, albeit good for emergencies. If you want to distribute the password and know you have time to recover it, see Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme or overview for how this would work. Basically: for T total users force a quorum subset Q of them to agree to use the password. A non-quorum won't work but it doesn't take all T users to recover it either. Personally, I'd use Multipar to generate the details.

And that's only good for passwords. It's better if you can create alternate groups and accounts with different rights (least privilege) and farm those out for daily use. At work in MS AD, we mothballed the original "God" Forest account and schema master and used other just-as-good proxies and groups for daily and special admin.

The idea was that way if anybody not in the original group successfully took over the tree/forest (or we managed to shoot ourselves in the foot!), there was one "hidden" unused account that still had overriding rights over everything that could be used for recovery. Also, "Administrator" was a false ID -- it didn't do anything and had auditing turned on for any failed attempts. No one used it, so if someone TRIED: something is definitively wrong.

For future reference: venusian, veneric, venerean, venerian, venereal, ... Cf mercurial, martial, jovial, saturnine

If you need that program and it's so special or difficult that nobody has tried to write it yet, you'll have to pay for people's time. There are a number of code bounty sites. From a quick web search: coderbounty, sourceforge:helpwanted, bountysource, freedomsponsors and other alternatives. I haven't used any of them, so no idea how much publicity they get you.

Maybe you get more exposure if you offer a bounty on Stackexchange. Even if nobody accepts the coding challenge, you may get valuable advice in the answers.

Of course monetary incentives for creative work will fail if there's no intrinsic motivation (see Dan Pink, "Drive"). But funding can give a coder the time needed to attack a problem they find interesting.

How cross-platform is Swift ? Are the GUI libraries platform-dependent or independent ? I.E: can i write a single Swift program with a GUI that will compile, work the same and look similar on multiple platforms: Linux, Mac OS, Real Unix-es & BSDs, AIX, Windows ?

Are you implying that macOS is NOT a "Real Unix/BSD"?

You know, of course, you're doing nothing but showing your Apple Hate, AND your monumental ignorance, right?

Oh, I forgot: You're a typical Slashdotter.

And I have NEVER seen a nag screen to force me to update, are you sure you were using an Apple product?

Are you sure *YOU* have ever used one? Jesus its all over the internet. https://www.google.com/search?...

http://forums.macrumors.com/th...

http://apple.stackexchange.com...

You can temporarily delay the nags by deleting the update (but it redownloads it) or blocking apple's servers on your domain, but you can never switch them off. EVER. This is how Apple has yet again decided to ream its users in the ass.

You sound like an Apple hater making up stuff.

You sound like someone who likes to bend over. That makes you a good Apple customer.

So we will have Android distros from now on?

We long have had. See XDA-developers. Some minor distributions support multiple devices. Then there's AOSP-based distributions which are much of a sameness, though with different launchers and baked-in apps. There used to be AOKP and SOKP, the Android Open Kang Project (and Sonic...) but they both seem to have gone away. Now there are many lesser AOSP derivatives. And then, of course, CyanogenMod, which is now going to be Lineage.

I miss SOKP, it's what I was running on my Moto G 2016 (Titan) but then basketbuild asplode and then there was no more SOKP. So now I have the last nightly of CM14 on, and it's working well.

Another said that Windows 10's spyware aspects made him give up on his beloved PC platform and that he will use Linux and Android devices only from now on

Sounds like someone is in for a rude awakening about Android. (I think Win10 is worse than stock Android re:data collection, but if your primary concern is privacy...)

As to the question itself: It absolutely is, for varying definitions of "cool" and "fun". I'm a 90s kid (so many things I have to remember) so I didn't cut my teeth on a C64, but as a youngling I got sucked in by the potential of PCs and what I could do with them after discovering epic tools like "dir" at 12. (Oh, and playing Zork.) There's still a tremendous amount of potential, but a lot of us have turned what were once hobbies into jobs and started specializing in a sub-aspect of computing. The former can easily deprive the "cool" of the hobby if your job is a negative aspect of your life (and thus whatever "computing" you do is associated with that negativity), and the latter limits the "fun" because the simple problems are mostly rote at this point and discovery means chasing the long-tail, if at all.

In my case, a major lure for general computing—that made it "cool" or "fun"—was that discovery. While I've lost my own wonder and interest (for varying reasons), there seems to be as much uncharted territory now as there was in the 80s/90s: augmented/virtual reality, Internet-of-Things, alternative inputs (particularly in motion controls and applied to VR), biomedical, brain interface (both direct and indirect, such as simple headgear that react to brain waves). Computers are far cheaper and more powerful than they were, with software that can allow Joe American to start basic 3D modelling with something he picks up at Best Buy.

Computing itself isn't necessarily static: I think we're going to see computers in general converge, where either your phone/tablet is also your main PC, which, when docked, has more processing power (Nintendo's upcoming Switch is reported to work this way, in fact) or "always-on"+"cloud" means your various devices are just UI for data on the internet. Regardless of which direction you prefer, either will be enough of a shift to provide tons of creation/discovery potential driven by demand.

A point of general agreement was that big tech companies in particular don't treat computer users with enough respect anymore.

A bunch of assholes deciding against consumer interests (and then consumers rewarding them for such) doesn't deprive computing of being "cool" or "fun"; it just means you may have to seek alternative platforms depending on the aspects of computing that drive you and how you want to enjoy that.

This is not a novel invention. This is trivially obvious from hitting the problem 'I am deploying lots of drones'. All of the above solutions are obvious and un-novel and in no way not obvious from prior art.

Prove it, then. If it's not novel, you should be able to find someone doing it before November 2014. Otherwise, by definition, it's novel.
And if it's not obvious, then you should be able to find all of the elements of the claim in one or more pieces of prior art from before November 2014. I'll help. Here's Claim 1:

1. A method of operating an uncrewed autonomous vehicle (“UAV”) comprising:
establishing, at the UAV via a communication interface, communication with a mesh network comprising a plurality of other UAVs;
generating first location data of the UAV using a first navigation system onboard the UAV, wherein the first location data indicates a first location of the UAV;
receiving external data from one or more of the plurality of other UAVs in the mesh network;
generating second location data using a second navigation system, wherein the second location data indicates a second location of the UAV;
determining that the first location data differs from the second location data by a threshold value;
determining operation of the UAV is compromised based at least in part on the external data;
transitioning to a fail-safe mode wherein the UAV is configured to disregard one or more of commands, the first location data, or the second location data; and
transmitting alert data indicative of: the compromise of the UAV; and last available location data of the UAV.

Now, establishing mesh networks and receiving data over mesh networks has been done since at least 2007, according to Wiki.
Here's a post from April 2014 on redundancy in airplane autopilot location guidance, so there's generating first location data and second location data, but it doesn't mention the threshold comparison, and states that the transitioning is manual with only two computers. So that doesn't help.

It's very easy to say that something is trivial in hindsight, but that's like saying that someone "looks" guilty. It's a lot more difficult to prove it with evidence, and that's what's required, legally.

What's a "placeholder"? There's a lot of things we can't observe directly. By this line of reasoning, quarks and gluons are definitely "placeholders", since we're never going to observe an isolated quark or gluon.

A place holder. A placeholder is just that. They have been in use since we've done science, and are critical to advancing science. It's kind of like the old "Strange and mysterious are the ways of God" that bible people use when backed into a corner, but with one critical difference.

The bible people use their term as a way of squelching further argument or discussion. Science placeholders are used as noting that there is "something going on here that we don't understand" or know what it is, but instead of folding the tents and saying strange and mysterious are the ways of the universe, and stopping further research, the placeholder acknowledges the anomaly, and allows further research, and often the further research clarifies just what the placeholder is.

Observing directly is not a requirement for confirmation or denial of a placeholder. http://physics.stackexchange.c... has a pretty good explanation. "Quarks" were indeed placeholders when first proposed in the mid 1960's. Further experiments have exposed things that act just like quarks were predicted to act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... warning - headache inducing stuff.

They're literally the same thing. Apple's "secure enclave" uses the ARM A7's TrustZone/SecurCore tech, which is basically an independent CPU in the same die. There's nothing magical about it - Android's been supporting it for eons now: https://source.android.com/sec...

Sorry, still incorrect. Although Android is (gradually) getting better, slowly, it still is hit and miss, depending on which SoC your device OEM decides to use.

The only thing I was incorrect about is that I was under the impression that the SE was a separate component, rather than being implemented on-die in the Axx SoC. Other than that, my assertion that iOS' Security is more robust than Android's, stands.

Tomorrow may be different; but we're living in today...

This is merely a rebranded version of Hiya, which still requires surrendering your entire contact list and conversation metadata to a third party without any masking.

Then again, even if each phone number was stored as a PBKDF2 hash, since there are only 3-4 billion legal phone numbers in the NANPA numbering system (given 370 area codes). I estimate this would take under 45 minutes on a quad-GPU system (divide by the number of nodes in your cluster). I suppose this is a decent hurdle, but not quite good enough to make me happy. Maybe the solution would be to also include the victim's area code's primary state in the hash (which would then require 12-36 hours to break), but then you'd have limited utility when dealing with interstate regions like the DC Metro area or the Tri-State Area.

Security and privacy often butt heads, but I think that the right design can facilitate the right balance. The same goes with security vs freedom (we all know the Ben Franklin quote, right? "Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither"). None of these are opposites.

I'd feel a lot better if Hiya had a regular transparency report, but I can't find such a thing.

Yes, thanks, I understand that their lab is not in outer space. The best man-made vacuums still contain about 1000 atoms per cubic centimeter(*). So my question stands-- how can they be sure their laser didn't hit a stray hydrogen atom?

(*)Interesting link here on the subject of ultra-high vacuums: http://physics.stackexchange.c...

Coming to terms with who you actually are is a sign of maturity.

You can use the same argument for depressed people. We all went through it as teenagers, but if you're depressed as an adult, clearly you never matured. I'm not going to pretend to be able to fully comprehend the force of why, and clearly neither can you - but we also don't have the condition, and much like an addiction to drugs, I'm pretty sure neither of us will ever fully understand the force behind it unless we actually became drug addicts ourselves. I daresay that if it matters enough to them that they're willing to undergo the extensive and sometimes absurdly difficult tests and procedures to change, and they report a high increase in happiness afterwards, I think there must be more to it than merely a phase - and it would probably be wise to remember that not everybody lives in your shoes...

which adopted the idiotic winner take all formula, which pretty much completely undermined the original intent of the Electoral College

The "original intent" of the Electoral College was to give slave states a way to count their slaves toward their representation in the POTUS election, without having to do anything crazy like actually allow those slaves to vote. The southern states wouldn't agree to a Constitution that called for a straight vote, because their plantation-societies would have been heavily outvoted every election, and there would never be a slaveholder POTUS.

With the EC and the 3/5th compromise in place, 4 of the first 5 Presidents were owners of slave plantations.

Protecting slavery is what the EC was created for. All other reasons for it you may have heard are just a big steaming pile of marketing.

The immaturity of some of these graduate students is astonishing, they're essentially grown up children.

Every adult is a grown up child! ;-)

https://english.stackexchange....

"Private fields do, in some languages, provide certain forms of security" FROM http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/143736/why-do-we-need-private-variables/ & internal program security (which SHOULD also function to protect that data from unintended use from not only internal to object & program use, but also for DLL functions imported into the SAME memory space as well).

APK

P.S.=> Accept it - YOU fail (as always unidentifiable anonymous troll)... apk

By models:

At the center of the Sun, fusion power is estimated by models to be about 276.5 watts/m3.[1] Despite its intense temperature, the peak power generating density of the core overall is similar to an active compost heap, and is lower than the power density produced by the metabolism of an adult human. The Sun is much hotter than a compost heap due to the Sun's enormous volume.[2]

Ref [1] here.
Ref [2] this page, which is not very good; and a simple model here.

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

* Says it all for me right there #1 result as far as private/protected in OOP... encapsulation functions that way (

"They are access modifiers and help us implement Encapsulation (or information hiding) They tell the compiler which other classes should have access to the field or method being defined" - FROM - https://www.google.com/url?q=h...

+

"Private fields do, in some languages, provide certain forms of security" FROM http://softwareengineering.sta...

APK

P.S.=> You shouldn't have said what you did - you blew it (access modification for encapsulation IS about prevention of corruption)... apk

As much as I mourn the loss of USB-A ports, it's not quite the case that you need a bunch of dongles. USB-C is pin-compatible, and what you actually need are different leads. USB-C to USB-mini, for example.

Unsubstantiated claim of seriously broken USB-C support.... or, maybe, it's actually more like this

Except that electors in the past have cast votes against the candidate they were supposed to support, and in this particular election one of the parties doesn't really like it's candidate anyway. Apparently three republican electors have pledged not to vote for Trump.

Faithless electors are almost always protest votes. In other words, you'll only see one if their vote won't change the result.

The only time an elector has ever voted for the other major party candidate was in 1796, and the only time it happened when the electors in question thought they were going to change the result by doing it was 1800. The rules (Constitution) were changed after that. Using electors to overturn the election result just will not happen.

I don't like it either, but I've been a Democrat a long time, and this is not my first loss to have to live through, and it likely won't be my last. Sometimes, even if you are 100% right, you have to be in the opposition for a term or two. Its healthy for the country in the long-run.

That is an enormous amount of weight to send up. Space-x is aiming for (has not achieved) $1,000 per pound. Their current cost is more realistically $4,000.

4425*850*4000=$150,450,000,000. Then add the cost to send up another 4427/7=630 satellites per year (630*850*2000(because they'll get costs way down if they can send up that much material)=$1 billion dollars per year. They need to spend 150 billion dollars initially and an ongoing 1 billion dollars per year.

In 2014 SpaceX had a "market cap" of (optimistically) 12 billion dollars. Let's assumt that 12 billion dollars have already been justified. Now rumors of an IPO have been heard, so let's assume a massive over-the-top IPO: 13 billion dollars. Then add in a billion dollars. (assuming every penny they can scrape together goes to this plan) 12+13+1=26 billion. Using realistic numbers for launch costs and hyper-optimistic numbers for funding, they're about 125 billion dollars short. And I don't see Trump signing a 125 billion dollar Space-X pork bill. If we're very optimistic about launch costs that hypothetical bill could go as low as a still-highly-unlikely 75 billion dollars.

You wish.

All hardware is required to be NRTL approved before it can be sold *commercially*. The buyer or builder accepts all liability

Here's a good read on it.

http://electronics.stackexchan...

The problem isn't the software so much as the purchaser that rarely bothers to change default passwords or settings. Manufacturers are somewhat to blame for trying to make things as simple as possible and people are lazy.

The bottom line here is the consumer generally has no concept of the risk and everyone operates on the attitude 'I saw it on the news so it can't *possibly* happen to me. In reality the ISP should be blocking all RFC 1918, and spoofed traffic from a subscriber.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

This article claims it was 110db at take off. Loud yes. But that has nothing to do with the volume at ground level while the plane flies at Mach 2.2 at 55k feet.

Can anyone dig up a reference for an actual sound reading taken while Concorde over-flies at max speed and max elevation?

There is also this, which starts out very promising and I got excited that it may actually answer the damn question. But it doesn't. The guy claims that the sonic boom is equivalent to a loud trumpet at 0.5m, which may be true, but makes no correction for the fact the concord is 55k feet away.

Some more info here, but still nothing definitive.

The problem is all the reference points don't apply, since the main comments are from those observing the space shuttle (Mach 25 vs Mach 2.2) and military jets at much lower altitude, i.e. performing maneuvers. What we really need is a sea captain's report from the middle of the Atlantic.

Today, if you want to stick with El Capitain, you can run that on a 9 year old Mac.

How can you install it? It's no longer visible on the App Store. Is there a way to order a physical disc?

Try the suggestion mentioned here: http://apple.stackexchange.com...

On Apple laptops the fn key coupled with the left arrow and right arrow maps to the home button and end button. So shift + function + right can give you the behaviour you want. By default home and end behave slightly differently on OS X, but that can be easily fixed to make them behave as you'd expect:
http://apple.stackexchange.com...

The word you're looking for is "mistaken"
http://english.stackexchange.c...
From the New Oxford American Dictionary:
"For complex historical reasons, prove developed two past participles: proved and proven. Both are correct and can be used more or less interchangeably: this hasn't been proved yet; this hasn't been proven yet. Proven is the more common form when used as an adjective before the noun it modifies: a proven talent (not a proved talent). Otherwise, the choice between proved and proven is not a matter of correctness, but usually of sound and rhythmâ"and often, consequently, a matter of familiarity, as in the legal idiom innocent until proven guilty"

This! Pushing electronic voting is inexplicable unless you're either in sales for voting machines or want riggable elections. And if it's the latter, better hope you're the only party interested in doing the rigging. I'm a big fan, btw, of broken-arrow ballots

1) It's already being done. Commonly.

2) Something closer to this. The one you linked produces 128W continuously, plus 2KW of thermal energy. On that kind of power you could run continuous communication with Earth, not just bursts for a couple seconds per day.

3) The probes being small, can be considerably accelerated - rocket equation works in both directions; tiny dry mass can afford a lot of extra delta-V. And you could use colloid thrusters or other similar extreme-ISp ion microthrusters to accelerate them a lot over long time using the RTG energy before it's needed to power the radio.

4) I'm not willing to ballpark the number of the probes, because that number is precisely dependent on precision of ground stations to determine their position. Suffice to say Jupiter definitely exerts clearly detectable influence on probes in LEO - not something on the margin of detection threshold but actual clear readouts. So your ballpark (0.06AU) is way off. Consider each probe covering a "corridor" of 10AU radius a more likely figure and a rather conservative estimate.

It surpasses a school kid by far.

http://chinese.stackexchange.c...

1) Moderately powerful discrete GPU options

15" MBP is a Pascal based GPU, not the most powerful but fairly powerful. 4GB at max.

2) Anti-glare LCD panels

They have been since forever. My 15" from 2013 has anti-glare stuff on the screen.

3) Ports (you know, things like USB 2.0/3.0, Ethernet, headphone/microphone jacks, DisplayPort, etc)

It has four ports that are any of those things you want plus more, with a very high rate of transfer.

4) More than 16GB of RAM :Not impossible you know. It will just cost a lot more. Since the OS is less bloated than Windows and uses memory compression tech now, it's sort of like having a 32GB Windows laptop though...

5) User replaceable batteries, OR a built-in battery of sufficient capacity this doesn't matter

It's (b) already. If you must replace it (though why you would, I don't know, I've not had to in three years of service from my current laptop) you can do that yourself with some effort, or just take it to any Apple store and have them do it on-site for a small fee.

6) Keyboards with a reasonable amount of key travel (0.5mm or whatever it is on the nMBP is hardly sufficient)

This is frankly a stupid ask, it's not the travel (at least not all), it's how the keyboard feels to use.

7) Apparently, I can add "keyboards with a reasonable amount of physical keys" to this list as well

I'm sorry, what number is greater than "infinite + 13?"

Because the TouchBar can be sets of ANY keys desired, along with all of the old FN keys (and ESC) simply by holding down the FN key that already exists unused on every Mac keyboard to date.

True, it's not quite to iOS levels. But you still can't run code that isn't "blessed" by Cupertino and you can't turn that off: macOS removed the ability to disable Gatekeeper.

So this is a lie? Is that you Donald?

Um, no. Niel Armstrong really did fly the lunar lander. He really did run it almost totally out of fuel, because he had to avoid a huge rock. If he hadn't done that, the vehicle would have gone splat.

By the way, the computer was completely spazzing out during the landing and was not giving good data. Fortunately it was written in a way that kept the important stuff going regardless.

http://space.stackexchange.com...

also

http://www.dickgordon.com/Apol...

Their fascist insistence on using spaces for indentation guarantees I will never write anything with it.
If they fix that problem then I will give it a second look.

(also, I'm not alone on this. tabs are correct)

Okay, what's the minimum delta-v required to pull that off?

The best answer I could find (without a ton of effort, honestly) is this. I have no idea how the calculation is done, so I can't comment on the accuracy, but the claim is that a bi-elliptic transfer could potentially do it in between 3000-8000 m/s (from LEO). Take that for what it's worth.

we got probes to Mercury

Yeah -- With payload masses ranging from 1/2 to 1 metric ton...

Fair enough.

Without in-depth research, there seem to be at least 70,000,000 metric tons of nuclear waste in the US alone

Whoa, I think you're off by an order of magnitude. According to this, the entire industry has only produced 76,430 metric tons in the last 4 decades, and is currently generating between about 2,000 metric tons every year.

This is for El Capitan but it is probably similar for Sierra.

See this:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/206123/xcode-7-develop-for-ios-without-developer-account

I see in System Preferences, Security & Privacy, General, that Apple no longer thinks you have the right to run downloaded programs.

The "( ) Anywhere" option has been completely hidden.

Allow apps downloaded from

( ) Mac App Store ( ) Mac App Store and identified developers ( ) Anywhere <-- Now hidden!?

WTF !

Thankfully there is a way to disable this crap.

sudo spctl --master-disable

Reference: http://apple.stackexchange.com...

Still supports Right-Click "Run Anyway"; so quitchetbitchin'. This is actually MUCH safer for ALL Users, while still allowing Power Users to do what they need to.

I see in System Preferences, Security & Privacy, General, that Apple no longer thinks you have the right to run downloaded programs.

The "( ) Anywhere" option has been completely hidden.

Allow apps downloaded from

( ) Mac App Store
( ) Mac App Store and identified developers
( ) Anywhere <-- Now hidden!?

WTF !

Thankfully there is a way to disable this crap.

sudo spctl --master-disable

Reference:
http://apple.stackexchange.com...

Slashdot is a news aggregation site. Ostensibly for 'News for nerds, stuff that matters' at founding. In practice is was a blog for Rob Malda, CmdrTaco. It was also a website with an accidentally really good commenting technology.

Been around long enough to see the jokes about not reading the article? Then you have probably been around long enough to see the argument that a lot of the people still visiting the site do so for the conversation in the articles. They provide everything from group-think arguments, good counter-arguments and funny jokes about the topic to warnings about click-bait, pay-wall free options and corrected sources.

If Slashdot had ever depended upon the quality of the articles it would have failed when it was still Chips-n-Dips hosted on a university student account. The commenting system is more than a chance to keep up your HTML skillz. People in the know are really providing the value. (Queue complaints about Facebook's model, etc.) However, getting quality articles is important to attracting the readership that does not know about the site.

For instance, this article currently doesn't shows up in Google search for annoying LEDs, being a day old. But the top link is for lifehacks.stackexchange.com for whatever reason. Stackechange and Amazon dominate the front page. I almost feel sorry for companies with products on that page. Even with no such thing as bad marketing, being known for having annoying lights on your non-party-joke product is not a good thing.

The Blue LED backlash article on McConnell's blog is page three. And he discusses a vendor that sells low intensity LEDs for computer products. But I expect - or at least hope - this slashdot article to make it to at least page three with McConnell's blog if not higher.