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  1. Re:Why not both? on Sharp Announces Sales of DC Powered Air Conditioner, Other Products To Follow · · Score: 2

    It is. Fridges desiigned for RVs and such are (often) dual input.

  2. Re:Solution: on How Developers Can Fight Creeping Mediocrity · · Score: 2

    . The end user doesn't know what they want, but you do. Make the decisions for them.

    Unlike the rest of your snarky post, this part is most certainly true. An end user rarely knows what they want.

    Of course, if you ignore what they say they want, you have to actually be able to deliver something that scratches that itch. Basically "fulfilling the exact spec from the user" is just the least culpable way of failing.

  3. Re:The future of private and open tech? on Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question · · Score: 1

    there was a time when there was no such thing as Facebook. Believe it or not, people still managed to have social lives.

    Yeah, there was. And people had social lives with other people not on facebook. But facebook exists now. And too many people allow it to gatekeep their entire social life. So there is no social life with those people without facebook.

    Depending on where you live, how old you are, etc, excising those people may be acceptable or not.

  4. Re:So you made this giant database of sensitive in on What Federal Employees Really Need To Worry About After the Chinese Hack · · Score: 1

    A perfectly reasonable assumption, if it was in a locked room secured by armed guards. Which is really where it should have been.

  5. Re:Old tech is good tech on 950 Million Android Phones Can Be Hijacked By Malicious Text Messages · · Score: 1

    Would you want it to work on Verizon? I mean, they're advertiser-friendly unique-id headers alone should make you swear them off.

  6. Re:This is a smart move for them on Google Is Dropping Its Google+ Requirement Across All Products Including YouTube · · Score: 1

    You think it's about targeted advertising selecting stuff you like? It's about targeted advertising knowing what kind of emotional appeals work best on you. It's about knowing enough about you that your drunken argument online goes viral and is the first thing everyone knew learns about you (as opposed to being pseudonymous and allowing you to walk away). It's about avoiding being tracked now because you can never get untracked.

  7. Re:...actually that's kinda cool. on Samsung Unveils the First Monitor That Can Wirelessly Charge Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Sure, for things where you move them around a lot, that may make sense for data connectivity (they have a battery). That's a special case. This is something where it's tethered to four inches from the mat anyway. And tons of people want their desktops, etc. to be wireless because it looks cool at the cost of, well, everything.

  8. Re:...actually that's kinda cool. on Samsung Unveils the First Monitor That Can Wirelessly Charge Your Phone · · Score: 2

    Are you saying that you don't need the wireless, or that adds something to your life.

    I love wires and cables. They work in the many nine's reliability wise. Wireless is taking a limited resource and wasting it on something a wire does perfectly well. But more importantly, it only works like 70% of the time.

  9. Umm... you could just not let Flash play. That's easier than using an automated method designed to avoid bad behavior in a Turing Complete language autorun natively.

  10. Re:Of course on Study: Push Notifications As Distracting As Taking a Call · · Score: 1

    The justification for policing actions is "danger".

    It's not just danger. Regulations that improve traffic flows reduce the risk of accidents. Accidents are expensive and time consuming in addition to dangerous.

    Teslas are incredibly safe... people walk away from 100+ MPH collisions. If everyone drove one, could we get rid of all traffic laws?

  11. Re:New rule on The French Scrabble Champ Does Not Speak French · · Score: 1

    . If he had the forethought to learn all the 2 letter words, he can no doubt learn their definitions too, and then move on.

    He could, or he could accept that using all those 2 letter words is acceptable in competitive scrabble, but not beer and za games. It's a great rule for that purpose. (At least, as I've experienced it.) In casual games, I'm limited because I didn't memorize the definitions, in serious games I can use blocks of letters that make no sense, but are for some reason legal.

  12. Re:Of course on Study: Push Notifications As Distracting As Taking a Call · · Score: 1

    But driving has never been safer. We don't need our every minute policed by punitive government overseers.

    Driving is safer due to little things like mandatory seatbelt laws. Seatbelts are relatively new (50 years old), and were not widely used by people alive when they came out. In the mid-eighties, I think it was 50% adoption. It was 80% a decade ago. Now it's 90-95%. So, maybe [our driving actions] should be policed.

    There are also airbags, etc. And ABS and other technology can help avoid accidents.

    Now, what you would want to do is find out about accidents in general. Also, you'd want to try to isolate the causal factor of the cellphone, controlling for safety features (like ABS) in cars, and other factors. You know, what science has to do.

  13. Re:Focus! on Study: Push Notifications As Distracting As Taking a Call · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I could only make it partway through yo

  14. Re:So testing for on Pro Gamers To Be Tested For Doping · · Score: 1

    Well, Red Bull actually. Okay, just caffiene, but...

  15. Re:to much security BS out there on What Non-Experts Can Learn From Experts About Real Online Security · · Score: 1

    Only a jackoff would suggest getting colleagues arrested because they aren't following the mother government's rules.

    These are people who explicitly sought out this employment. And it's a reasonable restriction. This isn't someone speeding down the highway. This is someone who asked for special privileges (in terms of seeing data, etc.)

    So hey, keep calling the authorities on your team members you see forgetting to leave their iPhone in the car,

    If that happens as an accident, I guess you tell them to go put it back in their car. If they keep doing it...

  16. Re:Non-experts are concerned about the update's co on What Non-Experts Can Learn From Experts About Real Online Security · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure they do. They tell non-experts to install updates. When's the last time you heard about someone's grandmother testing a patch?

  17. Re:No government interest on FCC CIO: Consumers Need Privacy Controls In the Internet of Everything Era · · Score: 1

    Meh, with the same paperwork, they could pull it straight from your inhouse server. This seems like a Good Thing(tm), and one that makes me want this guy to have more political power knowing only this about him.

  18. It's the *Star Trek* translator on Skype Translate Reportedly Has a Swearing Problem In Chinese · · Score: 2

    Of course it's profanity-ladden when it's trying to translate for people that it thinks are KHAAANNNNN!!

  19. What about the MPAA/RIAA on New Facebook Video Controls Let You Limit Viewing By Gender and Age · · Score: 2

    Facebook video is already filled with copyright infringement from YouTube channels, where rebranded content is being posted. The rebranding of content, plus the limited lifespan of most videos plus the inability to find it publicly, are causing pain in the "YouTube Star" group.

    How is the MPAA/RIAA/Whomever going to deal with Facebook facilitating massive copyright infringement? I mean, it's one thing to share a fairly powerless guy's content with 20 million followers, get caught and just have to remove it. But when I want to see a movie my friend has, so he just posts it so only I can see it...?

    Given how Facebook is trying to make most people's whole internet experience solely based on their servers,t his is the one time I'm hoping the MPAA can make a ton of trouble for someone.

  20. Re:I propose grades to the lawyers. on Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired · · Score: 1

    Then more lawyers will be pressuring worse settlements on their clients to get a higher win percentage.

  21. Re:Just like Teacher "Grades" on Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired · · Score: 1

    That's assuming good teachers are super-relevant. If most teachers are not-to-smart, rigorously applying what some better thinker says to is superior to them trying there best. See also, a great chef is a great chef, but any idiot can churn out a McDonald's burger or Chipotle burrito.

  22. Re:So What on Genetic Access Control Code Uses 23andMe DNA Data For Internet Racism · · Score: 1

    As a plus (and as in some famous examples) some will find out their ancestry isn't as "pure" as they thought, and may cause them to stop hating great-grandma Jane or whatever.

  23. Re:Error in the summary on Microsoft Edge Performance Evaluated · · Score: 3, Interesting

    According to the people at MS, they regularly test the most popular 500-1000 sites. You have to optimize for something, after all.

    They also focus on standards compliance.

  24. Re:No! on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    I assume the larger desire isn't to prevent malicious exfiltrationof data, but the malware driven, unknown, exfiltration.

  25. Re:Am I the only guy here that likes G+? on Google+ Photos To Shut Down August 1 · · Score: 1

    I dunno... Google knows too much about me. FB knows to much about me. (Whether you use it or not, both services extract info on you from your friends who do use it). The idea that Google would also have all of FB's knowledge is scary.