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  1. Re:Why is this here? on WikiLeaks' Big Tuesday Announcement Will Now Take Place Via Video (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    His first list of picks were way to the right, stock full of anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage zealots; and worse, politicians.

    His new list seems like it was meant to appeal more to the center, this time including minorities. However, I wouldn't be surprised to later find he had no intention of really choosing any of these.

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/...

  2. Re:Why is this here? on WikiLeaks' Big Tuesday Announcement Will Now Take Place Via Video (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    As opposed to who Trump would name to the Supreme Court. Sorry, that is one of the things that worries me the most about Trump being elected, that the court will swing too far to the right. At least I believe Hillary would pick moderates and maintain the status quo in most respects.

  3. DOL already knows what the median salary is for a given position, require that the H1B hired be paid 150% of the median for that position. How bad do they want them, better be pretty bad.

  4. Re:HTTPS support on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    You could use a separate subdomain: secure.slashdot.org, just make that host default to https. But a looming problem is that browser vendors may start making non-https look bad: http://thevarguy.com/secure-cl... I suppose the inverse could be done too, default to https on the regular address and have a subdomain dedicate to non-https.

  5. Re:How can there be? on No Such Thing As 'Unlimited' Data (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I expect to get what I pay for. If I pay for 65Mbps of bandwidth, just as I pay for Netflix to stream to 4 devices simulaneously. If I have 4 devices (2 adults + 2 kids) in my house, and each is streaming 15Mbps video, there should be enough bandwidth to satisfy all with 5Mbps left over for web browsing, email, etc. ISPs are just upset that we are relagating them to the status of a utility and envious of the profits enjoyed by the video services who CAN actually deliver what we each want, on demand.

    These services are built around the idea of a normalized distribution of usage.

    And they realize that as that distribution drifts over time, their lucrative business of broadcasting packages of channels, turns into managing the plumbing for their partners/competitors.

  6. Re:Related to the Hacking Team hack? on Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading · · Score: 1

    I wondered if they were related; their respective Anti-virus vendors notify them that they are vulnerable to some bad-nasty that was discovered and the patches hadn't been through QA yet.

  7. Netflix Icon, unlearning is harder than you think. on Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Netflix changed the its Icon from having a red background to a white background. While this seems like a minor change, when I scan the screen on my tablet or phone I don't see it right away. It is like having muscle memory that suddenly fails you.

  8. Re:Computer hacking... on E-Sports League Stuffed Bitcoin Mining Code Inside Client Software · · Score: 1

    I had the exact same thought, a new way to subsidize "free" software so that developers can make back some cash on their investment. Be completely upfront about the fact you accept bitcoins as form of payment and give the user the option exchange cpu time for "credit"

  9. Re:Time to check again on LHC To Narrow Search For Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    Dropping the double negative and adding while loop would be nice, but browsers appear to lockup when you loop continually. theWorld = 1; while(typeof theWorld != 'undefined') { document.getElementByID('main').innerHTML = 'NOPE'...

  10. Re:Time to check again on LHC To Narrow Search For Higgs Boson · · Score: 2

    Ha ha, Viewing the source code is even funnier: if (!(typeof worldHasEnded == "undefined")) { document.write("YUP."); } else { document.write("NOPE."); }

  11. Re:Power Safe Write Cache on Intel Replaces Consumer SSD Line, Nixes SLC-SSD · · Score: 1

    ...Well, "Intel has also included small capacitors in its latest SSD, so that in the event of a power loss, data writes in progress to the NAND flash memory will be completed."

  12. Re:Charlie Rose on AP Harasses Own Member Over AP Youtube Videos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, then they could just Google their "beacon" and find all the sites that posted their article; hey, maybe then Google could start charging THEM for search.