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  1. I don't recall specifically doing anything to get Curl in WSL - but it's been there over a year for me. If it's not Curl, then what exactly is "curt" ? not many other words come to mind which are similar in spelling to "curt" which the author intended to type... unless it was supposed to be... - oh, my!

  2. Precursor to new Google home theatre platform? on Google Removes 'Kodi' From Search Autocomplete In Anti-Piracy Effort (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If in 12 months Google release a product/service/platform for managing your offline as well as online media content in a nice interface, then this makes a lot of sense.

  3. More like counteracting external forces on Boston Dynamics Is Teaching Its Robot Dog To Fight Back Against Humans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This looks more like counteracting external forces than the clickbait heading "Boston Dynamics Is Teaching Its Robot Dog To Fight Back Against Humans". The next step is for the robot to determine what external force is being applied - if it is from a human, then it should yield - there may be a very good reason why a human is trying to prevent a robot from opening the hatch to a nuclear reactor, to give a simple example. If it's an anti-riot robot performing crowd control duties, then maybe yielding wouldn't be the best course of action. Unless it was being pulled back by a human police officer. Except if that human police officer is actually an antifa member disguised as a police officer during a riot...

  4. Re:Time to write Australia off on Australian Birds of Prey Are Deliberately Setting Forests On Fire (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    If the animals are giving you an STD you're doing nature watching wrong.

    I think that was an attempt at humour. A firestick. STD's. Think a moment about that.

  5. I'm just biding my time waiting for Steve Sanderson's Blazor to emerge as a supported front end UI framework.

    A short video presentation from a demo Steve presented at NDC Olso shows how the possibility of sidestepping what I think is the current javascript framework madness.

    If I was more disciplined, I might learn to love javascript and some of the various UI frameworks, but as an experienced .NET developer, Blazor appeals to me.

  6. Re:DDoS by botnets running Windows. Thanks Microso on A Third of the Internet Experienced DoS Attacks in the Last Two Years (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 2

    Acutally, the handful of times I've traced back attacking IP's during a significant DDoS attack (3+Gb/s) I found the attacking IP's to be web servers from small to medium businesses running the LAMP stack. The most common was a php file was uploaded to the server and simply executed via the web server due to misconfiguration. Not surprisingly contacting the owners of the compromised servers never yielded any response - but one I did contact I saw that about a week later the offending php file was gone as attempting to execute it via web browser resulted in a 404 when previously it did not. This was only about 3 or 4 years ago, too.

  7. Re:So "Hyperloop" is a 200mph maglev? on 201 MPH Pod Run Wins SpaceX's Second Hyperloop Competition (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    they expect to go supersonic eventually.

    What is the speed of sound in a vacuum, or a near-vacuum?

  8. Re:Wrong tool! Focus on what we need! on Announcing 'build', Auto-Configuration In 1000 Lines Of Makefile (github.com) · · Score: 1

    The code is closer to the original artistic vision when it's left in the original black and GREEN.

    The code is closer to the original autistic vision when it's left in the original black and GREEN

    FTFY

  9. Re:It is appficial. on Debian 8.8 Released (debian.org) · · Score: 1

    *like this

  10. Re:It is appficial. on Debian 8.8 Released (debian.org) · · Score: 1

    I keep seeing posts like like - is there some reason for it? Is this an attempt to associate some keywords to other keywords so search engines somehow associate the two (like this example associating "Luddite" with "app")? What is the point?

  11. I for one, have learnt how to use one hand when viewing web pages - no residue on my input devices - except... never mind.

  12. Re:The old adage on Tesla To Start Pilot Production of Model 3 This Month (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Haven't you heard about the new Agile development methodology? It's great! Ship first, then deal with problems via updates as they arise from your annoyed (or dead, as in this case it may be) customers.

  13. I always thought UAC was a mechanism to start to make developers follow better security practices in the applications they develop.

    For instance, It alerted the user when applications tried to store data/config files in the Program Files or C:\ folder, instead of %APPDATA% and the like. Lots of software back in the day simply stored data by default in C:\xxx or even their installers defaulted to folders other than the program data folder. I think UAC made some developers ask why was their application causing a UAC notice, and if it was something they could fix (like writing data to the appropriate folder) they did.

  14. Re: 2 more I've seen on 'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Also Superman III, which was a decade or more earlier. I don't recommend watching Superman III, however... but Office Space should be mandatory viewing.

  15. My bank charges a fee for a printed statemen on German Police Mock 'Not Very Clever' ATM Robbers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    My bank charges a fee for a printed statement to be sent to me. Maybe these guys were not so dumb after all.

  16. But you have already installed from scratch, and saved the hard disk. What's the difference between restoring and reinstalling anew? You must be horribly confused.

    Unlike yourself, I've done both and there is a difference. Ever heard of "Windows Update" ?

  17. How are they measuring when new installs are performed?

    That's what I would like to know also.

  18. why do you keep installing Windows 7 "on a VM"? Are you some kind of knucklehead? You need to install it exactly once.

    Because replicating what users actually do is better than an artificial test scenario where the VM is imaged years ago.

  19. Of course it doesn't. A license can only be used once unless you're on a very expensive corporate free-for-all scheme. Obviously I'm assuming you're not running pirated version.

    As a developer, why are you creating new VMs? Do you not know you can save a clean VM, and duplicate it / trash it with no effort. You must be horribly inefficient.

    Because experience has taught me to replicate what users do. Users reinstall from scratch, and don't restore a previously saved VM. You must be horribly inexperienced.

  20. VM's on Windows 7 and 8.1 Are Gaining More New Users Than Windows 10 (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About once a month I install Windows 7 on a VM to test out my application on that OS. I wonder if such activity taints the analysis. My application has "online help" which uses a web browser to deliver help when the user presses "F1" - stats from visitors to that webserver that shows unique Windows 7 declined from 31% in Oct 2015 to 10% in Oct 2016, compared to unique Windows 10 users growing from 38% to 53% in the same period.

  21. Re:360 Video of all the known asteroids on Asteroid Day On June 30 Aims To Raise Awareness of Collision Risks · · Score: 1

    That is pretty cool. I look forward to the day we can pick an asteroid in such a display and easily get information such as mass, velocity, projected paths over time - minority report style. I don't think that will be too far away.

  22. Does not support genitals on Microsoft Tries To Guess Relatives With "Twins or Not" · · Score: 2

    I tried, and it only accepts faces. Don't ask.

  23. Re:Not a panacea on Ask Slashdot: Is an Open Source .NET Up To the Job? · · Score: 1

    It does seem a token gesture. I guess the desktop aspects of the .NET framework are too closely tied to the Win32 API to be of much use in the open source context.

  24. Re:The 3 Es: Embrace, Extend, Exterminate on Ask Slashdot: Is an Open Source .NET Up To the Job? · · Score: 1

    Such extraordinary claims require only a little ordinary proof.

  25. Re:Sanitizing comments, trolls, first to market on Ask Slashdot: Software Issue Tracking Transparency - Good Or Bad? · · Score: 1

    but if your competitors continue down the path of claiming that your software is buggy, set up a public Bugzilla database for their product and watch the fun.

    I like this idea so very very much.