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  1. Re: Wireless headset with wired option? on Wireless Headphone Sales Soared After Apple Dropped Headphone Jack (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Marshall Major Bluetooth II do exactly this. And when using them wirelessly the jack becomes an output, so you can share, or us them as a BT receiver for an amp.

  2. Wave.

  3. "is Windows really $1000 worse than macOS?" on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not quite the way to look at it, these are not capital items. For a 3 year lifecycle for a laptop, is it worth $3 a day for the environment of your choice? That's the question to ask.

  4. Herman Hesse. on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 2

    - was awarded the Nobel prize for literature exactly 70 years ago. The Glass Bead Game, his magnum opus, is most definitely SciFi.

  5. Re: Science Fiction is busy destroying itself on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    > Why can't women be space marines

    Private Vasquez and Corporal Dietrich say they can.

  6. Knowledge is power

    but power isn't knowledge.

  7. One Trillion Dollars. on Software Industry Has $1 Trillion Economic Impact In US (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Is it a +ve or -ve impact?

  8. TANSTAAFL on 'Technology Will Replace the Need For Big Government' (vice.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Technology may replace governance on 'Technology Will Replace the Need For Big Government' (vice.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Kaos and Control on Federal Law Now Says Kids Can Walk To School Alone (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    This will just enable children to be radicalized.

  11. most dangerous place in an airport is the queue... on Strict New Security Measures Put In Place For CES 2016 Attendees (cepro.com) · · Score: 1
  12. Mars is a Harsh Master on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    TANSTAAFL

  13. I have said it for years, Privacy is changing, not going away. It used to be about anonymity. Now it is about the appropriate collection and curation of data; yours and others'.

  14. Re: Probably not on Apple Reportedly Disables Its News App In China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    5000 years is plenty time for selection.

  15. Re: Probably not on Apple Reportedly Disables Its News App In China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    5000 years is plenty of time to select. Otherwise dogs.

  16. Re:Holy crap ... on CIA Details Agency's New Digital and Cyber Espionage Focus · · Score: 1

    Yes it is a mission statement. Mission statements are an important element in any sustainable governance ecology. They provide guidance when procedure, process and policy fail. Why are we here? What are core domains and responsibilities? Etc.

  17. Re:Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. .. on Why America's Obsession With STEM Education Is Dangerous · · Score: 1

    You need to go to college to know *which* books.

  18. Selling stuff to kids on 2014 Hour of Code: Do Ends Justify Disney Product Placement Means? · · Score: 1

    I used to work for Disney. It stank and I went and got a job at an oil company just to feel better about myself....

  19. Requirements on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About the Sorry State of FOSS Documentation? · · Score: 1

    Programmers, some of them at least can write programs. Deploying a solution requires more. Architecture, human resource management, scheduling, testing, triage, review, marketing and documentation user support and product management, for example. There are reasons there are such specialisations. Business Cases and Functional Requirements should provide use cases or stories, which inform your testing and provides the skeleton of your user manual. You do start a project/phase/update/maintenance by understanding the requirements, right? You accept the output by validating it against the original impetus. And then you describe it in something of a narrative. Whether you sprint, spiral or fall over water, this works.

  20. Herd Immunity on Rich Countries Suffer Less Malware, Says Microsoft Study · · Score: 1

    I have worked in ICT ops & triage in the richest countries and the poorest. Without doubt the higher malware rate is a function of a lower standard of systems configuration and maintenance. It has nothing to do with the capital cost of the systems and everything to do with the availibility / cost of skilled administration. This scarcity means that functionally, the herd immunity threshold for malware in the localised information ecology is rarely crossed. As in epidemiology generally, different localised conditions favour different transmission profiles. So for example in less developed locations USB memory sticks are the most common infection vector, as telecoms are less accessible. The prevalance viruses and malware in LDCs is akin to the global Windows server ecology in the late 1990s, or home PCs of the late 1980s. In these two historical examples different vectors flourished as a function of the immaturity of configurations and configurers with respect to the threat.

  21. Re:LAMP on Ask Slashdot: Management Software For Small Independent ISP? · · Score: 1

    Just build yourself a LAMP setup, with workers feeding a database, and web GUI to access/update. Sync data from other sources into that, to provide a single converged view of whatever item (customer, router, location, network link...whatever). (Don't forget copious use of memcache btw)

    Trust me....this works really well and scales to millions of customers :-)

    Yes, like an MS Access database.

  22. Re:"Medical experiments" on China Completes Its First Manned Space Docking · · Score: 1

    Uranus Experiment II

  23. Re:Some bad practices in HR that needs to end on 'Scrapers' Dig Deep For Data On Web · · Score: 1

    If you don't try to minimize legal liability, you'll find yourself with more legal liability than you need. And legal liability really hurts.

    Liability only hurts if you have done something actionable.

  24. phone home on Fun To Be Had With a 10-Foot Satellite Dish? · · Score: 1

    ET phone home.