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  1. Re:I must have read this right when it came out. on Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the old saying? "If you make someone think they're thinking, they'll love you. Actually make them think and they'll hate you."

  2. EP-101: How to Encourage Piracy on Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes Following Rule Change (variety.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "[A] law in the country requires movies to not appear in home platforms for 36 months after their theatrical release" - customers want it now, not later, and they will probably get it now, or not at all. This kind of law ensures jobs for lawyers, though, I guess...

  3. Re: Is this some kind of joke? on Mozilla Removes Individual Cookie Management in Firefox 60 (ghacks.net) · · Score: 2

    You should run that site in a container: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

  4. Re:Purism - linux phone in development on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? · · Score: 1

    Hardware switches for turning things like GPS and WiFi off, too!

  5. Re:USB-AC on The Impossible Dream of USB-C (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    Some of those appliance switches are 'soft' switches, so not the same. If find switchless outlets disturbing.

  6. Re:Why isn't Mozilla shitting its collective pants on 'See the Future Firefox Right Now' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    As a dev: if I make it work in Firefox, it will likely work in all other browsers; if I make it work in Chrome, it might work in other browsers; and if I make it work in IE, it could work in other browsers. Lesson: using Firefox for dev reduces effort and widens your potential audience.

  7. Rubber hose decryption, like they've used for centuries.

  8. The nineties called: they want their internet banking login Java applets back.

  9. Memory Missing from Summary on Firefox To Let Users Control Memory Usage (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The new Performance page will allow tech-savvy users to control how much RAM Firefox will be using. The more "content" processes Firefox will be allowed to use, the more responsive the browser will get, and the easier will be to handle tens or hundreds of tabs.

    The downside is that more "content" processes means more RAM usage, but if users have RAM to spare, this shouldn't be a problem. It is a problem, though, on older systems. This is where the new Performance section comes to help, allowing users to put a muzzle on Firefox's unwieldy memory usage, preventing crashes or computer freezes.

  10. Re:Prototypical example on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd mod you up. I grew up with DST, and now have lived as much of my life without. I prefer DST.

  11. Goldman Sachs 600 Traders on Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alternative title: "Goldman Sachs 600 Traders"

  12. Re: Where the fuck is the problem? on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you're at, but no DOSA I've ever been in excludes alcohol. That just wouldn't fly.

  13. Re: Where the fuck is the problem? on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of people only smoke socially, so it's busier inside than you assume. Furthermore, people inside now have a choice not to sit in smoke.

  14. Re:Where the fuck is the problem? on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I started smoking when I was performing in bars (musician). I stopped when smoking was banned inside bars. People can still smoke in the DOSA (Designated Outdoor Smoking Area).

  15. it will not always be obvious that it is an adver on Lawyer Rewrites Instagram's Privacy Policy So Kids and Parents Can Have a Meaningful Talk About Privacy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    [I]t will not always be obvious that it is an advert

    Super-illegal over here...

  16. Re:Agile is good for some teams & projects, ho on Ask Slashdot: Has Your Team Ever Succumbed To Hype Driven Development? (daftcode.pl) · · Score: 1

    There's nothing preventing you from running an agile project with a robust and complete design. Agility allows you to pivot if and when required.

    The easiest way to think of agile projects is a series of really small waterfall-like mini-projects that deliver a working product at the end. As you complete each mini-project, your product comprises a larger set of features. When your feature set reaches MVP, you can release or continue iterating to complete more features, but you can feasibly release at the end of any mini-project.

    All of the arguments I've seen around [Aa]gile have shown that both sides are unwilling to concede that they don't actually understand the others' points of view.

    There is no project that can't benefit from the ideas agile project management introduces, and there's no rule that says you should throw away your working model to implement agile (although it is generally easier to start with a single team that does start from scratch).

    ALL projects benefit from measuring the outcomes of small, incremental changes and continually finding and limiting waste.

  17. Re:If you pay people to do fuck-all... on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    It's likely that they'd be consuming content that is generated by the willing, which would feed the money back to the system as only creative and scientific endeavour will have any value. Why are we even still talking about money? It's been a valuable tool, and will likely continue to be so for some time, but it's unlikely to remain the optimal solution in a fully-automated world.

  18. Samsung Internet for Gear VR on Google Is Adding a VR Shell To Chrome To Let You Browse the Entire Web In VR (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this new chrome for Chrome, or are they merging Samsung's additions to their Chromium build for Gear VR?

  19. Is My Device Vulnerable? on Old Qualcomm Vulnerability Exposes Android User Data (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I did not see any mention in the article (I went to the ZDnet one) for how to identify if my devices are compromised and would greatly appreciate any assistance from the lazyweb in methodology for determination.

  20. Taking Notes is Too Slow on Slashdot Asks: Do You Prefer To Handwrite or Type Notes? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I can't take notes at all or I miss most of the content. I just have to shut up and listen and study course notes and texts that are already available.

  21. Re:duh on The Feds' Freeway Font Flip-Flop (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    I think most people who don't like Comic Sans gained that opinion due to saturation and the ensuing 'inappropriate' usage.

  22. Bad Habits are Formed Early on Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    I used book-learning to teach myself programming before I was ten. This had hugely negative impacts for my University degree over a decade later. Starting early will also expose 'natural talent' and make it easier to give them guidance and support (in the example that the child may never otherwise have access to computing facilities that would allow them to learn this, although that is becoming far less common).

  23. Re:Muscle memory - where UI designers go wrong on Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout For Swype · · Score: 1

    It's always fun when someone else tries to use your keyboard (I had only changed the keymap; still QWERTY on the keycaps).

  24. Re:Why would any novice on Flaw In Netgear Wi-Fi Routers Exposes Admin Password, WLAN Details · · Score: 1

    I noticed my ISP recently upgraded my router's firmware even though I have kept the remote management feature off...

  25. Re:./ Headlines are becoming unparseable on NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Android Lollipop Update Performance Explored · · Score: 1

    Title case is a good indicator that you are, in fact, reading a title.