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  1. Re:68th to 22nd and there are many to go on JavaScript, PHP Top Most Popular Languages, With Apple's Swift Rising Fast · · Score: 1

    I don't think it'll really catch on until you have access the entire iOS API.

  2. Re:Citation needed. on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 2

    The absurdity of this argument is that even if it were true, is having a mentally ill child worse than death?

  3. Re:Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    That's how I feel. Don't want to vaccinate your kids for philosophical reasons? They don't get to be part of my herd.

  4. Re:No on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    I used to work for a bank that would entice the lowly field techs with offers of exempt positions and once they had them, they'd work them to the bone. It was purely a scam to get more work out of already productive employees.

  5. Re:Nice and all on Eben Upton Explains the Raspberry Pi Model A+'s Redesign · · Score: 1

    But when you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

  6. Re:Nice and all on Eben Upton Explains the Raspberry Pi Model A+'s Redesign · · Score: 1

    It can't run Crysis, so it's not a gaming machine :P

  7. Re:Wait.. on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    The path you are advocating is fully of unintended consequences that you won't be immune from despite your obvious arrogance.

    Yeah, it's sure to have a chilling effect on all those perfectly legal threats.

  8. Re:But DC is different,no? on Marijuana Legalized In Oregon, Alaska, and Washington DC · · Score: 1

    Where I work, you can smoke, but you have to pay more for your health insurance. I think it's $15 a month extra for smokers. If you're not a smoker you have to sign an affidavit to that effect. I think there's a penalty of some sort if it turns out you're lying.

  9. Pony up the $80! on Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? · · Score: 1

    Your parents and grandparents took care of everything for you when you were growing up. $80 is a small price to pay to make grandma happy. You owe it to her.

  10. Re:sounds delusional and self-gratifying on 2600 Profiled: "A Print Magazine For Hackers" · · Score: 1

    2600 has always been about cultivating that hacker mystique. It's a kids magazine plain and simple. I think it's important, because it does give kids who are interested in electronics and communication a place to congregate, but you ain't going to be saving the world reading a magazine.

  11. Re:the last line of the summary on 2600 Profiled: "A Print Magazine For Hackers" · · Score: 2

    Read Phrack instead. 2600 has always been and will always be an ankle-biter magazine. That said, their meet-ups are their biggest contribution to hacker dom. Back in the late 80's and early 90's that was the place to go to meet like minded kids, and get access to all the hacker BBS's.

    http://phrack.org/

  12. Re:So you have to install an app... on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 0

    iOS it's completely impervious to this attack.

    Because no one's figured out a way to run unsigned applications on iOS, right? Umm...

  13. Re:Recognition on 'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand · · Score: 1

    It's not exactly the name recognition, it's the name's reputation.

    Nokia: well recognized, well liked brand with positive reception everywhere,except amongst developers that actually programmed for Symbian.

    Microsoft: well recognized, universally hated brand, regular finalist in "most hated company" competitions,but appreciated by developers for their excellent dev tools/environment.

    Marketing 101 says: they picked the right name but for reasons that aren't readily clear to the general public

    FTFY

  14. Re:android = windows on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 1

    And the distinction is at least as meaningless as it is in Android.

  15. Don't worry, PETA on PETA Is Not Happy That Google Used a Camel To Get a Desert "StreetView" · · Score: 1

    Don't worry PETA, I'm sure they killed the camels like you do with all the animals in your shelters.

  16. Re: Does that mean they'll get to vote? on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1

    Chimpanzees are apes, not monkeys, you jerk.

  17. Re:Jamming unlinced spectrum is illegal? on Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The ISM bands are not unregulated. Operations in the ISM bands are not protected from unintentional interference, but the FCC most certainly has the authority to, but chooses to abide by agreements with the ITU deferring to ETSI.

    This is exactly what the FCC should be regulating, and not the content of TV or Radio broadcasts. This type of intentional disruption of service should be policed by the FCC.

  18. Re:C# using xamarin on Ask Slashdot: Swift Or Objective-C As New iOS Developer's 1st Language? · · Score: 1

    I would tend to agree with this. If you intend to develop cross-platform, do yourself a favor and design your applications from the ground up with cross-platform in mind. Anything else and you're going to spend a lot of time rewriting code. That's just the reality of the situation.

  19. Re:Obj-C on Ask Slashdot: Swift Or Objective-C As New iOS Developer's 1st Language? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you serious? Objective C is crap. It may have been hot stuff 25 years ago, but it's older than Java, and that shows. Swift is the future for Mac OSX/iOS development. Don't waste your time learning what was state of the art in 1988 (ie Objective C).

  20. Re:board of directors is the problem not Wall Stre on Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets · · Score: 1

    The problem is faceless Wall Street, which will sue if they don't feel the CEO is doing their duty to artificially buoy the stock price in the short term. It most certainly is Wall Street that created this culture of "what have you done for me lately?" that guides the decisions of management. It is Wall Street's fault that executive management expects to be paid a hefty amount of stock instead of simple monetary compensation so that the higher ups making the decisions are all rewarded by taking the short position.

  21. Re:Hosted in the US? on Service Promises To Leak Your Documents If the Government Murders You · · Score: 1

    But then stopping any of the stripes will stop the entire revelation.

  22. Re:Shipped figures vs Sale figures on Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days · · Score: -1, Troll

    Amazing. Even when confronted with wording from their own 10K filing, the reality distortion field wins the day.

  23. Re:Almost twice on Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, that first iPhone really sucked.

  24. Re:Good on Next Android To Enable Local Encryption By Default Too, Says Google · · Score: 4, Informative

    iOS, like Android, only encrypts all data if a user opts to put a pin in. iOS8 might be different, but all prior version of iOS only encrypted when a pin was entered.

  25. Find an Astronomy Club in your area on Ask Slashdot: How To Pick Up Astronomy and Physics As an Adult? · · Score: 1

    Find an amateur Astronomy club in your area. Go to their events. Meet people. Learn things. Look at shit.

    There are a lot of amateurs that hunt comets and asteroids.