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  1. Catch 22 on Android Co-Founder: Fragmentation "an Overblown Issue" · · Score: 0

    The only real options boil down to fragmentation or forced obsolescence. Android chose the former, Apple chose the latter. Both suck in their own ways.

  2. Re:Why Binary? on HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol · · Score: 1

    Hex? No, it should use octal EBCDIC XML.

  3. Re:Windows XP on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    So is Linux off the table for some reason? I've had that on the desktop for years, and I'm no *nix guru.

  4. Re:Except, in that case there was an actual war on Lincoln's Surveillance State · · Score: 1

    Granting powers to someone at "his discretion" has nothing to do with limiting those powers to wartime.

  5. Re:Except on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 1

    Listening to the audio clip of the witness who originally said that (third video on the first-linked page), I believe he meant that the airplane began to roll left, not that it actually completed a tumble in any particular direction. The left wing hit the ground during that "beginning to cartwheel" event, then the wheels all touched down and it came to a stop.

  6. Re:Seriously. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    Since Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, I wouldn't make any assumptions about what percentage "got over their fear" vs other means of no longer being counted in that group.

  7. Re:A constitutional amendment on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 1

    Technically, there are laws that are passed which allow violation of privacy rights, under some "secret interpretation" of those rights in combination with the effective martial law we have here in a perpetual state of non-declared war.

    So these actions are in some sense "legal", but the laws that allow them to be so are themselves illegal.

  8. Re:Harmless? on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 2

    Harm? What harm? This is /exactly/ what needs to happen in order to start to correct the systemic violations and illegal (unconstitional) laws. I believe international pushback is going to be more effective than the actions of the US citizens in these cases.

  9. Re:Already Been Invented: Fired Ceramic Tablets on Ask Slashdot: Permanent Preservation of Human Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    Anything that's going to last into unknown civilizations is by necessity going to have a low storage capacity, because it needs to be readable unassisted, and survive handling and environmental changes.

  10. Re:This one gives an idea: on Ask Slashdot: Permanent Preservation of Human Knowledge? · · Score: 2

    Yet when people find things like that and don't know what they are, they want to find out why it was built and what it holds.

  11. Re:They still can get out of Europe with some risk on Bolivian President's Plane 'Rerouted Over Snowden Suspicions' · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a job for the Peel P-50!

  12. Where we are going as a nation... on Bolivian President's Plane 'Rerouted Over Snowden Suspicions' · · Score: 1

    ...is in a handbasket.

  13. Re:Where's the global campaign to say "This is wro on Bolivian President's Plane 'Rerouted Over Snowden Suspicions' · · Score: 1

    The "biggest websites in the world" are already complicit in the activities that the US is in trouble for, so don't expect any impetus from them this time around.

  14. Re:So sick of popular geek culture. on New Moons of Pluto Named Kerberos and Styx; Popular Choice 'Vulcan' Snubbed · · Score: 2

    At first I thought this read "So sick of popular _greek_ culture", to which I'd agree. If we're going to draw from mythological names for astronomy, there are plenty to choose from beyond the typical Roman & Greek ones, both modern and ancient.

  15. Re:Shred of dignity on New Moons of Pluto Named Kerberos and Styx; Popular Choice 'Vulcan' Snubbed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kerberos and Styx were the equivalent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters thousands of years ago.

  16. Re:Patents, not trolls, the problem on FTC Chairwoman Speaks On Growing US Patent Problem · · Score: 1

    The patent system allows scumbags to exploit it, with all the rubber-stamp granting of vague, non-novel, and non-unique crap.

  17. Re:somebody's got some splaining to do... on Snowden: NSA Spying On EU Diplomats and Administrators · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, countries likely have a mutual spying agreement. USA spies on $COUNTRY, $COUNTRY spies on USA, and they share information. Both never technically spy on their own citizens and therefore obey their own constraints, yet they effectively have full unchecked information invasion on their own people.

  18. Re:Just how would you explain the risks? on Ask Slashdot: Explaining Cloud Privacy Risks To K-12 Teachers? · · Score: 1

    I'm not an anti-vaccine person, but I think it makes sense to space them out a bit more. When I was a kid, I think I had under 10 things I was vaccinated for, and that was over multiple shots.

    Nowadays, they shove cocktails into kids that have upwards of 60 pathogens in them. Why not give them a shot a month over a course of time, to give the body a chance to deal with things?

    Vaccination is fine. The delivery seems kind of iffy to me, but I'm not a medical professional.

  19. Re:no formal training on Ask Slashdot: How Will You Update Your Technical Skills Inventory This Summer? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People learn new platforms via reference materials, which brings existing programmers into their realm. This is especially true with Android, since it builds off of Java and to a lesser extent from the user & app-programmer perspective, Linux.

    Learning to program, however, is a separate skill. I'd suggest learning Java, then applying what you've learned to Android. If you're good at learning on your own, then go straight into Android programming examples from Google's materials and learn both at the same time, sussing out any weird language understandings with Java references.

  20. Re:Prior art on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port · · Score: 1

    Your post completely overlooks the required traits of novel and non-obvious. The question isn't if it infringes on prior patents, but if this is patentable at all given that the proverbial cat is out of the bag on the ideas and implementations of combined card-edge connectors.

  21. Re:Prior art on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port · · Score: 0

    You don't (or shouldn't) get patents for an idea, you should get patents for a working implementation.

    Sure, IF that implementation is novel and non-obvious. The diagram looks like it contains exactly the same application of ideas as its predecessors, making it obvious.

  22. Re:anti-sex ad policy? on Google's Blogger To Delete All 'Adult' Blogs That Have Ads · · Score: 1

    Senior information like health & retirement, alumni & reunion sites, credit reporting, bars, any hobby club or organization or even forum with 18+ or 21+ limits on membership... all of these are technically "adult" sites.

    I, for one, am sick of "adult" always implying adolescent, sexual, or vulgar topics. It's impossible to use the word for grown-up stuff anymore without people looking askance.

  23. Re:Repeat ad nostrum. on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And where was the political outrage towards Apple when they opened their own stores, for causing "unfair" competition with the other retailers?

    (Obligatory computer analogy in this car thread.)

  24. Re:The Good/Bad of Kickstarter on Kick-started Remake of Leisure Suit Larry Now On Sale · · Score: 1

    It's a 3rd party escrow service. The funding threshold and levels also add a sense of gamification.

    Also, people giving money are not investors looking for a positive return, but just want to see something done, and just expect a perk or trinket for their support.

  25. Re:To quote Einstein on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    Yes, but this [hash out all the hidden requirements and assumptions] should be done prior to code writing.

    That is impossible. Waterfall design cannot cover everything.