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  1. Re:This rant left me feeling...deflated on Patriots Coach Bill Belichick on Microsoft Surface: 'I Just Can't Take It Anymore' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    http://yourteamcheats.com/ That one gives more than anybody would want to know about how the Pats "Cheated" with "spygate"

  2. Re:Cost? on CO2 To Ethanol In One Step With Cheap Catalyst (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    The article only briefly mentioned this takes electricity to run it. Not sure how much energy you store for a given input via electricity.

  3. I can't wait on Apple Patents a Paper Bag (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    for a company to paint their logo on brick and then patent their own paper weight.

  4. Re:They make decent laser printer on HP To Buy Samsung's Printer Business For $1.05 Billion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand my experience with Samsung printers are that they are worlds better than HP.

  5. Re: Fucking Useless Shit on Microsoft Helps Develop Smart, IoT-Enabled Refrigerators (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're using all 3 colors to simulate black you screwed up when buying the printer.

    I guess that's a fair assessment for me since I had a printer that did that even if you told it to just use black but I should have known better. It was an HP printer. (Only way to get it to not use color ink to do black was to remove the color ink cartridge and leave the black one in.)

  6. So they took it by charging the object on US Seizure of Kim Dotcom's Assets Will Stand, Says Appeals Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So they took his stuff by charging the object with a crime. Weird, so now effectively both object and corporations are in some sense people and can be charged? I can't wait for the day when objects and companies are people but people are not.

  7. I will believe that the H1B program is legit on Immigration Attorneys: Industry Pushes Foreign Labor, Claiming 'US Students Can't Hack It In Tech' (breitbart.com) · · Score: 1

    When they let the H1B people come in and stay for 5-10 with no restrictions. (IE no kicking them out of the country if they lose their jobs. I want companies to have to actually work to keep these people if they were actually that good.)

  8. IE Boelcke vs Boyd on The New F-35 Is So Stealthy, It's Harder To Train Pilots (airforcetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    IE the guy who was an actual fighter ace (Boelcke) that basically thought if you were dogfighting you failed vs the "fighter expert" (Boyd) who never actually shot down anybody who was big of cheap agile planes that were good at dog fighting.(Because in Vietnam they higher ups decided on rules that forced dogfighting.) Or you could look up dicta boelcke and see that the best way to shoot down another airplane is shoot him down before the poor stupid fucker has any idea he's in a fight. (IE don't dogfight, shoot him in the fucking back.) BTW when's the last time any US pilot has actually done a dogfight anyway? (My understanding is that it's been awhile. As in 30 or 40 years.)

  9. Something that will piss off the right (because of embryonic stem cell research) and the left. (Because of animal/human hybrids.) The left and right will finally agree on something.

  10. As a contrast to this on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Experiences With Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    I had all my issues (start button, calculator, etc) after doing a clean install. (Installed Windows 7 on a new drive I just bought, upgraded to 10. Formatted the drive and installed 10 again.) Actually my second clean install also had issues. (I haven't tried anniversary though.)

  11. I lost the start button too on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Experiences With Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    And edge just stopped working as did calculator and the store and the account management tool. The only fix is apparently create a new account. Admittedly I haven't tried the anniversary edition so hopefully it's finally out of alpha. Just to be blunt no other modern (nt based) version of Windows has been as problematic for me as 10. (Vista was fine, it never gave me any trouble but 10, things just broke.)

  12. Isn't this a solved problem? on Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware To Steal More Than 30 Jeeps (abc13.com) · · Score: 1

    What I mean is with public/private key pairs the hard part (and why you can't totally be sure on a web site) is getting a valid certificate on your PC in the first place. (Which means it comes with the OS and then there's a chain of certs going back to the original one.) But in this case you'd think they'd just leave a port on the car and the fob, generate a pair of certificates one for the car and one for the fob and then download them over a wire to each one. (Then all the wireless communication could be secured via public/private keys.) I know I know, in theory it's a solved problem but they just messed it up instead of hiring somebody who's actually an expert in this.

  13. Re:We won't be able to make ships with warp on Study: Astronauts Who Reach Deep Space 'Far More Likely To Die From Heart Disease' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Being able to achieve an erection is not more important than treating Heart Disease with little to no side effects.

    Well I guess that's ironic.(Then again someone will correct me if this isn't really an example of irony.) I mean it sounds like he's complaining about Viagra. For those that don't know the pill that gives old dudes woodies was originally developed as an anti-high blood pressure medicine. Yes, really. (Researchers noticed the side effects and somebody saw an opportunity.)

  14. Re: Oh boy on Hillary Clinton Chooses Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine As Running Mate (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why people fail to understand the problem with immigration isn't the people who legally come here to work. Almost no one has a problem with that.

    Well and H1B's which I guess you can argue are a way for companies to get the perks of illegal immigrants but do so in a technically legal but morally reprehensible manner. (If people on H1B's are really that good and that necessary they should be able to enter with no strings attached. Otherwise it's simply a scam to depress wages.) Admittedly I don't know if Trump gives a shit about that but I seriously doubt Hillary does.

  15. Agile was just terribly named on Playing Politics With Agile Projects (cio.com) · · Score: 1
    I mean I think I get where the agile dogma was trying to go but they decided to make something they could sell to business higher-ups and by doing so gave management just enough room to completely fuck it up. From what I can see what I consider agile is really 4 principles

    Talking - Yes, both sides (the person that wants the work and the one doing the work) really need to talk to each other regularly so we don't have somebody going off for 6 months and coming up with something nobody wants. (That also means the one that wants can't be silent either

    Trust - Both sides have to believe that the other knows what they're doing because if they don't everyone is screwed. (That means no micromanagement. I'm always surprised how often people doing agile fuck this one up.)

    Respect - Don't waste either sides time or resources. This is in opposition to talking but the point is if you want your developers to do their work don't waste their time with tech support. Builders also shouldn't waste the owners time with stupid question about minutia.

    Reflect - every so often go over what did and didn't work and what could be done to improve and you really need to act on those things. (For example I've worked at places that didn't automate releases and didn't really want to check if this was a problem even when we brought it up.

    Anyway in most cases what's called Agile is really cargo cult agile. (It looks like agile but things are done for the wrong reasons.)

  16. No because so much doesn't work on Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? · · Score: 1
    I've posted this more than once but I've run into bugs where the following stopped working

    The start menu

    the store

    Edge

    Calculator

    Account administration

    In these cases the only solution is either create a new account or reinstall windows. (Which creates a new account.) The standard advice (sfc /scannow and dism) did not fix it.

  17. Re:Let me be the first to say on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You know there's a youtube video called how to kill a human being where the pro death penalty guy is against nitrogen asphyxiation because it literally isn't gruesome enough.

  18. I'm not surprised on Microsoft Kills Its Game-Building Platform Spark (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean I downloaded Conker when it was free and basically found the game unplayable it was so bad. After that I just figured anything else on it would actually be worse since that was supposed to be a killer app for that project.

  19. Honestly this to me is more like on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Complaining that it's a guys fault that he got a girl pregnant because he wasn't wearing a condom but what actually happened was a girl snuck in his room and had sex with him while he was unconscious and she got pregnant. (Because hey you know he should wear a condom while he sleeps you know, just in case.)

  20. Same here on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been my experience as well that it's extremely buggy. My first clean install various things like the start menu, edge, and calculator didn't work on my main account. I did a format and clean install and now my main account the store doesn't work and neither does the app to add new users. Yes I tried that sfc /scannow and dism apps to fix it which didn't work. The weird part was that other accounts were fine and apparently the main advice if this happens is to create a new account and maybe it'll work for awhile. I can't wait to see what screws up if I do a 3rd clean install. (Yes I'm being sarcastic.)

  21. Oh my god on Oracle V. Google Being Decided By Clueless Judge and Jury (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He couldn't just bring up steering wheel, accelerator, brake, and gear shift as an example of an interface?

  22. Anybody want to point out solar has stalled? on Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity (qz.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I mean here it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It grew fast but now it's stuck at about 6%. I can't remember what they were saying would be the percentile but I don't think it was 6%.

  23. As far as I'm concerned on 'Boaty McBoatface' Polar Ship Named After Attenborough Despite Less Votes (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pluto's still a planet and this ship is Boaty Mcboatface.

  24. Windows admins don't need to on Microsoft No Longer Allows Admins To Block Windows Store Access In Windows 10 Pro (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Given how often the store crashes on Windows 10 right now a good portion of Windows user can't access it anyway.

  25. Unfortunately connections matter on CV of Failures: Princeton Professor Publishes Resume of His Career Lows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean if you want to talk about the penultimate "failure" that would normally ruin an academic we could list that whole attempted murder thing by RJ Oppenheimer. (If you're not part of the 0.01% that would have ended your career. I guess it worked out though.)