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  1. Re:why does it matter? on New York City Orders Mandatory Measles Vaccinations in Brooklyn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    The "who can't get a measles vaccine" includes every single person on the planet. The current CDC recommendation is to get the MMR vaccine at 12 to 18 months; that means that we are all susceptible at some point in our lives.

  2. Reading the Actual Story, and looking at the web site for Creative Access, that's not really the whole story. A group of people noticed that although London has a ton of non-white people, that the creative agencies were overwhelmingly white. So, like any set of capable and energetic people, they set out to do something: they created an agency to widen the incoming funnel.

    Kind of like how Harvard pushes it's graduates on the industry, but for non-White people.

    The BBC, like many other organizations, would like to be more diverse, and is having trouble doing it. Hence the partnership.

  3. Won't make a difference and will break things on HTTP 103 - An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints (ietf.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think I've seen this rodeo before. What I see is that web developers work to make their site "fast enough". In Scrum terms, they don't apply premature optimizations. They use too many modules with too many dependencies and assume everyone has a fast internet.

    My two predictions: this will just encourage web site bloat, and a bunch of people are going to discover that their cheap-and-barely-working HTTP parsers don't actually handle 100-series responses.They are also going to discover that many high-level APIs don't provide any access to this new paradigm.

  4. Re:Gov't data on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Example of government data I trust:
    • Tide tables
    • Atomic clock time
    • Astronomical and orbital data
    • How many people live in different states
    • Tabulated results from asking companies how many people they are hiring

    Each of these are more or less accurate and precise, and each has their own source of biases, and therefore you can trust them more or less.

  5. Re:view not shared by all link on Stephen Hawking and 150 Royal Society Scientists: Brexit Disaster For UK (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I read that part of the article as being completely oblivious to the scientist's arguments. The scientists said that Brexit would harm British science. Forbes says, "so what, Britain can just import the science like it does jeans."

    In other words, Forbes seems to agree that Brexit will harm British science. They just don't think that it's important.

  6. TL/DR: More expensive boards perform better on Raspberry Pi 3 Is a Nice Upgrade, But Alternatives Exist With Faster Performance (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    What is it with reviewers and their complete inability to explain that more expensive often means higher performance?

    I see it in phone reviews all the time -- "we compared this quite nice inexpensive phone against an $800 phone. The inexpensive phone had a worse display, used plastic instead of metal, and felt less pleasing....". Yeah, not really a surprise.

    In this case, they compare the Pi3 against other, more expensive boards and are shocked -- shocked! -- to discover that some more expensive boards have more components and run faster!

  7. Re:Climate Change on Cold Fusion and the Reputation Trap (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    So in your mind Astronomy isn't a science?

  8. Re:Nice summary! on Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    It's only common within a subset of the community.

    I've been a Slashdot reader forever; I own a smartphone; I have been a professional programmer since before they even had smartphones. But until I joined a group that actually had to interact with MDM software (I do email sync; we need to interact with policy managers to support Exchange ActiveSync policies), I had never heard of MDM as an acronym.

  9. Re:TRS-80 Basic on Retro Roundup: Old Computers Emulated Right In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    My first computer was a ZX80 -- fond memories!

    I liked it enough that my hobby Calculator app for Windows is now programmable in BASIC. It turns out that making a BASIC interpreter is pretty simple these days; there's a bunch of parser-generators to make it simple to program up the language, and modern computers are super-fast even when dealing with non-optimized code. In fact, the hard part is that people expect more GUI bits in the code, and getting those to all work took longer than the actual programming.

    The downside is that it doesn't emulate any particular computer, and it's missing some nice features like "graphics" and "multiple statements on a line".

    Link to app: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/best-calculator/9wzdncrdfd6x/

    Link to manual: https://bestcalculator.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/bestcalculatorbasicreference.pdf/

  10. Yes....and no. There are four codes like you say -- T40.8X1, .8X2, .8X3 and (no surprise) .8X4.

    But you know what? Each of the drug overdose sections includes the same subtypes, and using the same codes (except that actually LSD is an outlier; the other ones in the same section include items for "Adverse effect" and "underdosing".

    Doctors (and intake nurses) who use electronic patient records (which should be most by now) should find that their software will guide them through the codes as they enter the patient data.

  11. Re:Shouldn't this work the other way? on Unicode Consortium Looks At Symbols For Allergies · · Score: 1

    You go to war with the army you have

    What we have is Unicode and a good set of font fallbacks. What we don't have is an unspecified, unplanned, unwritten way to somehow insert a "pictogram" inside my stream of "glyphs".

    What we need is a way to draw shapes on a screen or piece of paper where a designer gets to pick roughly what they look like. Unicode does that, and therefore seems like an adequate tool for this job.

  12. Re:Shouldn't this work the other way? on Unicode Consortium Looks At Symbols For Allergies · · Score: 1

    Yes, except that they didn't. They took a list of eight items (section 4.2.1.4 of the underlying CODEX STAN 1-1985), and presented a proposal for seven of them. What happened to the last? I don't know: perhaps they didn't figure out how to make a character for "Sulphite in concentrations of 10 mg/kg or more".

    They also missed section 5.2.1, irradiated foods, with a separate symbol.

  13. Re:After all the "Adjustments" on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Without a hearing? The hearing happened, and they lost big time. At this point, they are just repeating vague and badly grounded accusations.

  14. Re:The difference... on BBC Reveals Its New Microcomputer Design · · Score: 1

    I've recently been pawing through my old Basic manuals (I'm implementing a Basic environment for run). And what stands out is how incomplete and limited most of the old environments were (although I did love them at the time).

    The Basics were grossly limited. Examples includes the Sinclair AND and OR statements, the very limited FN statements and severe limitations on FOR loops. Given the high expense of disks in those days, it's no surprise that disk handling was uneven at best.

    Networking capabilities were trivial to non-existent, and mostly non-existent.

    The connection to their environment was deeply weird. From a modern perspective, the first thing we normally do when we see a bit of hardware is to wrap it in a little bit of code to make it simpler to control. The common pattern in the old days was to revel in the POKE and PEEK statements, directly setting hardware registers.

    The difference between then and now is that then my plan was to write an program to play lunar lander. My plan today is to write a program that will listen to my mailboxes and change the color of my lights accordingly ("Make it pink!", "Make it blue!")

  15. Re:what is interesting is not that it won on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: 2

    You'll need some kind of cite for that "was bragged about..." bit. Everything I've read is that it's just not true; that none of the states (for example) realized that by not setting up an exchange that they would be at a disadvantage.

  16. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    So, of that persons comments, the one about branded actually makes sense. Different companies actually do work on different frequencies (and there's a bunch of other differences; frequency is just part of it). Once we posit that some microwaves cause problems, it's very reasonable that different frequencies would cause more or fewer problems.

  17. Re:We'll talk when on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    There are multiple wineries in Alaska (and they all seem to be new).

  18. Re:Two things... on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to rephrase what you said, and change it. Don't whine at your boss. Don't complain at your boss.

    But do ask for advice ("this other team is delivering really slowly, how should I handle it?", or, "I think I have a better solution for the problem of the day, but I'm having trouble advocating for it, can you help me?")

    And let them know when you're behind. My company takes the output of many, many teams and sells the result; there's nothing they hate more than surprises.

  19. Re:20 Years on How Java Changed Programming Forever · · Score: 1

    The alternative (and I've done it..) is "write once, port everywhere."

    What used to be an long, frustrating process (what do you mean, 'unlink' doesn't work?) is now almost trivial.

  20. Re:Last week I tried to write a Win8.1 universal a on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 SDK · · Score: 1

    I've got several apps in the store. Most of the UI code is fully shared, and moderately adoptive to screen size. In a few places, I needed something special for one or the other.

    My trick is that the 8.1 universal apps have two mainpage.xaml files (one for desktop, one for phone). I just make a shared UserControl. Each MainPage just has one object, which is the shared control

    (BTW: I work at Microsoft, but not in the group that does XAML; my way works but that doesn't mean there isn't a better way)

  21. Re:Lift the gag order first... on House Republicans Roll Out Legislation To Overturn New Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    It's called, "the general operations budget" I work for a big company; from on high we get general guidelines ("computers are expected to last xyz years" and "you have abc to spend on travel this year"). itt's up to the more lower-level people to decide how to portion it out.

    In the FCC's case, congress has already given them money to inforce their regulations (and gave them the authority to make the regulations, but also gave them requirements like hainvg a certain number of public hearings). The FCC can then spend it on those things.

  22. Re:Lift the gag order first... on House Republicans Roll Out Legislation To Overturn New Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    So you're in favor of government regulations for conduit? Because seriously, none of the existing companies are very willing to share their expensive conduit, and nobody will build it for "everyone" unless they can get some serious customers.

  23. Re:This thread will be a sewer of misogyny on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 1

    How's this for a counter-example? Orchestras used to have a ton of reasons why women were grossly under-represented -- they just weren't interested, they didn't have the skills, they didn't have the long-term ability -- whatever. But when orchestras started to have players audition behind curtains, suddenly a lot of talented women started getting hired.

    Right now there are plenty of teachers who literally don't want women in their high-tech classes. This bill helps solve that problem, and doesn't let the teacher weasel their way out with cop-out answers.

  24. Re:5th Admendment? on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1

    Quote: "within their jurisdiction". That means that the court has ordered (in compliance with your rights) that certain data be discovered or turned over. Seriously, folks: the police do get to investigate crimes. If they need to look at your car (or, in 18th century terms, your horse), they get to.

  25. Re:Reclining should be banned in coach. on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 2

    I don't understand this modern "etiquette". Airline says have a recline button; it has exactly one function, and people are using it correctly. How can anyone then suggest that politeness requires that people should not recline their seats?