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  1. Re:ummm.no. on Microsoft Urged to Open Source Classic Visual Basic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 2

    What is with all the hate towards JavaScript and Python, especially JavaScript?

    One could say the same thing about VB6. I discovered many years ago programmers are rather irrational and dogmatic about computer languages. Many of them are just repeating what others have said and don't have good explanations for believing the things they do.

  2. Re:Nope, nope, nope. NOPE! on Microsoft Urged to Open Source Classic Visual Basic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 2

    Why is "On Error Goto label" any worse than try/catch?

  3. Why not public on New Surveillance System May Let Cops Use All Of The Cameras (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do all the cameras need to be private? Just open them up to everyone.

  4. Re:And in other news, Chevys Outsell Mercedes... on Chromebooks Outsell Macs For the First Time In the US (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is this even a story?

    Why is this even a post?

  5. Re:Microsoft's standard annoying programming on Microsoft Needs To Fix Skype (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They're encouraged to make each new version of look different so it looks like you need to upgrade from the previous version. Because aside from shitty 64-bit support, everybody was still pretty content with XP. No reason to upgrade except to get the shiny new UI only available in the new version.

  6. Re:Why does this matter? on Warren Buffett Buys $1 Billion Stake In Apple (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    He's just saying what we're all thinking. Jobs is gone: there's won't be any cool new products, there will only be mediocre products.

  7. Coincidently, my Air just froze 10 minutes ago while viewing an animated gif in Safari.

  8. Cigarettes are more like a food craving. It's very easy to satisfy that craving by going to the store and getting a familiar product that does the same thing to you time after time. But if you take away that ease of acquisition, product consistency, and safety then you've really made the product much less palatable.

  9. Re:I call bullshit on the "wider campaign"... on Second Bank Hit By 'Sophisticated' Malware Attack, Says Swift (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    all these claims of "advanced" and "sophisticated" really only serve to daemonize the attackers

    I confess I've never heard of this technique, but it sounds like a lot of work. I've just been using the daemon() function.

  10. There's a difference between allowing them to destroy themselves, and selling the means to do so at every gas station and grocery in the country.

  11. Re: I don't know why it stops here on FBI Has Sights On Larger Battle Over Encryption After Apple Feud (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That will never happen. It might sound like it'll work, but people with power (the ultra wealthy and government) maintain their power through secrecy. What would end up happening is nobody has secrets except the wealthy/ruling class.

  12. Re:Killing jobs? on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    To be successful a self driving car doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to avoid killing 30,000 people a year as well as avoiding about 5.5 million auto accidents that in turn injured 2.5 million people.

    I don't think the sue happy populace will see it the same way. If a person accidentally kills someone, it's an accident. If a computer accidentally kills someone, it's some corporations wallet being drained.

  13. Re:Can we get them to remove other annoyances? on Microsoft Removes Wi-Fi Sense Feature From Windows 10 Which Shared Your Wi-Fi Password · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. Pulled it down from the MSDN website about a month ago so it's possible I grabbed the wrong version, but it did make me enter my Win 10 Enterprise key, and the Insider Build looks like it doesn't require one at all.

  14. Re:Hey assholes! Gonna make a habit of this now? on Microsoft Removes Wi-Fi Sense Feature From Windows 10 Which Shared Your Wi-Fi Password · · Score: 1

    So, people complain when dupe stories show up. And now people complain when Slashdot removes them. Why don't we get the anti-dup people and the anti-delete people together in a room to fight it out and determine once and for all how this will be handled.

  15. Re:While we are at it on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny, I have the same combination on my luggage.

  16. Re:Can we get them to remove other annoyances? on Microsoft Removes Wi-Fi Sense Feature From Windows 10 Which Shared Your Wi-Fi Password · · Score: 1

    And how about removing the lovely feature I discovered last night. I needed to make a few simple calculations, so I launched calc.exe and was typing away. I looked up and it had ignored my last several keystrokes and Windows was displaying a screen asking me to complete a survey on how satisfied I was with calc.exe. I shit you not.

  17. Killing jobs? on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    In order to kill jobs, you have to have a fully autonomous vehicle which is not 5 years away. Self driving cars still require a human to take over whenever it doesn't know what to do...or if fails to see child running into the road...or if you're driving in an extreme weather situation...or...

  18. Re:Asian privilege on Seattle Seventh Grader Wins National Math Bee (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Or at least read the summary(RTFS?). When you get to the 999,999,999/13 part it's kind of hard to continue thinking it's a spelling bee.

  19. Re:Admissions of guilt on Hacker Magazine Phrack Returns After Four-year Hiatus (phrack.org) · · Score: 1

    Where I come from, cracking is breaking the copy protection on software.

  20. I don't disagree, but from a Start menu perspective, Windows 10 is a big improvement.

  21. Re:Who are these people they are talking with? on After ISIS, Americans Fear Cyberattacks Most (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you listened to talk radio in the 20 years? They create fear. It is a gigantic propaganda engine that the media is indeed complicit in...because fear sells like hotcakes.

  22. As we would say when we were children: He started it!

    If they didn't want the American people to betray them, they shouldn't have betrayed the American people first.

  23. Get with the program on UAE To Build Artificial Mountain To Improve Rainfall (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Moisture vaporators

  24. Re:call me heretic on Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? · · Score: 1

    You are never likely to get an explanation to this question that you like. The only honest answer is: "I like it." It almost sounds like you're spoiling for a fight though. Almost like you want to disprove anyone's explanation for liking this book. But even if someone engages you here, you're not likely to change their mind.

  25. All the usual Bogey Men on Drones Being Used By Peeping Toms, The Military, And Terrorists (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Bogey's Law alert: Gov. says there's link between drones and pedophiles, terrorists, commies, and satanists. Fear the drone. The drone is bad. The drone will eat your children. Oh by the way, in light of how bad drones are, we just have a few suggestions for new laws to combat this greatest-threat-ever. All drones must be registered with the government. All drone pilots must be registered with the government. All drone makers must be registered with the government. Anyone caught manufacturing a drone without a license will be charged with a felony. We could just keep going with this.