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  1. Re:It ain't there yet on Apple Pay Has a Siri Problem (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I do have a couple of places that I shop at that are insanely fast on credit. Although the new terminals that read the chip have really slowed things down, it seems like the card has to stay in the slot for a decade before the transaction can complete.

  2. Re:It ain't there yet on Apple Pay Has a Siri Problem (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That isn't how a US card transaction goes AT ALL...

    Card:
    "That'll be 27.73"
    *get wallet, swipe card*
    Enter zipcode
    Affirm final amount
    Sign
    Wait for register to process transaction.

    Credit is quicker than cash on maybe 2 in 10 transactions.

  3. Re:I still don't get this... on Microsoft Revises Windows 7, 8 On Skylake Cut-Off Date To 2018 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I really doubt you can, at least not with networking support.

  4. Time to move some dirt and mix some concrete on Sea Rise Could Force Millions In Florida To Adapt Or Flee (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Articles like the Herald's are just the first step towards multi-billion dollar public works projects. Politicians and their mega-contractor cronies love these. I predict a lot of high-dollar dirt shuffling in Florida's future.

  5. Re:from the not-so-bright department on Scuba Diver Survives Being Sucked Into Nuclear Plant (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    It had a grate originally but there were problems with it getting clogged by jellyfish.

    -E

  6. Re:Way To Much Effort on Pirates Hacked Shipping Firm's CMS To Plan Attacks, Find Valuable Cargo (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The reconsignment process would potentially draw attention to what was happening, as it's a fairly high-profile thing to do to a shipment.

  7. Re:Awesome! on Microsoft Brings Post-Breach Detection To Windows 10 (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't look that great on AV-Test. I just checked and it's 3rd from the bottom on protection, if I'm reading it right. (Note - I use MSE/Defender and am not inherently a basher).

  8. Re:Missing feature on Cross-Site Scripting Enabled On 1000 Major Sites (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The spec is short-sighted and should've been designed to allow multiple origins. The spec puts the onus of implementing support for multiple origins back on the server-side developer, when it would've been better implemented in the browser.

  9. Re:Can you work with an image? on John McAfee Offers To Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For the FBI and Save America (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Makes sense, thanks.

  10. Re:Can you work with an image? on John McAfee Offers To Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For the FBI and Save America (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    So, after failing ten times, you restore back to the phone from an earlier image?

  11. Re:Why the fuck is this on Slashdot?! on Flat-Earth Argument Results in Rap Battle (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    This, like most rap beefs, is just media whoring.

  12. Re:a Synology NAS on Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition) · · Score: 1

    You buy a new enclosure _if_ one is still available. It's not like you can just slap the drives into any chassis, even inside the same brand. It's definitely an issue worth mentioning, especially considering the OP's zeal, since it's easy to mistakenly overestimate the reliability of data on a NAS.

  13. Re:a Synology NAS on Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition) · · Score: 1

    And what do you do when the NAS fails? A single NAS represents a single point of failure, unless you bought a spare enclosure.

  14. Re:They need online pickup to work at night on Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon · · Score: 1

    That's part of the experience when you select the lowest cost provider.

  15. Re:Physical store advantage? on Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon · · Score: 1

    The physical store advantage goes to Dollar General. Amazon is decimating Walmart on one demographic and Dollar General is killing them on the rest.

  16. Re:Good luck with that project on U.K. Government Seeking To End Reliance On Oracle · · Score: 1

    Good point, you're right and I've experienced this firsthand with Oracle.

  17. Re:Good luck with that project on U.K. Government Seeking To End Reliance On Oracle · · Score: 2

    EnterpriseDB nearly costs as much per server as Oracle does.

  18. Good luck with that project on U.K. Government Seeking To End Reliance On Oracle · · Score: 1

    Migrating away from Oracle is a horrific, expensive task. And, because they'll want the same level of support that they had under Oracle, they'll hand all of the software licensing savings over to a third party vendor to support a free software solution.

  19. Re:When does the powerhouse part start? on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 1

    It actually does a really great job at gathering data from backend stores and presenting it via web services or vice versa. Once you quit using it for HTML generation it works pretty well.

  20. Re:Use === on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 1

    "Loose" equality has been around since dbase in the 80s and probably prior. Just because you're not familiar with it and it causes problems for you doesn't mean it's bad.

  21. Re:PHP is great on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 1

    You consider string escaping, in any form, to be a good mechanism for interacting safely with the database?

  22. Re: PHP is great on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 1

    In short, you have no idea what you are doing and you're blaming that on the language.

  23. Re: PHP is great on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just you, though, because there's no shortage of perfectly functional sites out there that use PHP. Personally, I'd much rather look at PHP code, with explicit subroutine arguments, than Perl with the @_ BS .
    .

  24. Re:Hyperbole on Kaspersky Lab Reveals Cyberattack On Its Corporate Network · · Score: 1

    The Kaspersky source code (completely ignoring the presence of any exploitable bugs) wouldn't be much value to anyone other than Kaspersky. The mechanism behind virus scanners is pretty well known.

  25. Re:Hyperbole on Kaspersky Lab Reveals Cyberattack On Its Corporate Network · · Score: 2

    One could wonder... if they burned three zero days for essentially nothing... how many zero days do they have?