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  1. Re:What OS? on 'Breaking Bad' Crypto Ransomware Targets Australian Users · · Score: 1

    BS

  2. What OS? on 'Breaking Bad' Crypto Ransomware Targets Australian Users · · Score: 1

    What OSes are affected? And why it's not part of TF[AS]?

  3. Re:"SAY MY NAME!!!" on 'Breaking Bad' Crypto Ransomware Targets Australian Users · · Score: 1

    Well, considering how the show ends, I guess the password would be his son's name...

  4. Seriously on Apple Watch Hack Adds a Browser For Your Wrist · · Score: 1

    I wish there is a poll "Do you have or plan to buy this year the Apple Watch v 1.0?" to show a Yes being < 5%.

  5. Can Earthquakes Be Predicted Algorithmically? on Can Earthquakes Be Predicted Algorithmically? · · Score: 1

    TL;DR No.

  6. Re:Eureka! on Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week · · Score: 1

    Keep them at 0 K to be sure.

  7. Re:Photobucket's punishment? on Photobucket Hackers Nabbed, Face Serious Charges From US Authorities · · Score: 2

    But if you leave your window opened, can I record from outside the music you are currently listening to?

  8. Re:Photobucket's punishment? on Photobucket Hackers Nabbed, Face Serious Charges From US Authorities · · Score: 2

    How much jail time did Photobucket executives get for allowing such lax security in their app in the first place? Must be at least twice the 5 years that these two are getting. Maybe more. Right?

    In the eyes of justice, the intention is worth more than the act.

  9. Re:Kansas isn't even remotely flat on Shape of the Universe Determined To Be Really, Really Flat · · Score: 1

    TFS refers to "flat" as being uniform in less dimensions - as seen on a 2D plan. Kansas is almost a perfect rectangle (while NE nibbled), seen from space. The Universe seem to be a rather uniform cylinder. I think.

  10. With a bit of luck on Doomed Russian Spacecraft Re-Enters Atmosphere Over Pacific Ocean · · Score: 0

    It'll fall on and uncover MH370

  11. Watch your cat on Researchers Make Spiders Produce Silk Strengthened With Graphene · · Score: 1

    and dog, they may very well end up caught in the spider web!

  12. Re:Older = more experience on NFL Releases Deflategate Report · · Score: 1

    but slashdot user == regular user?

  13. Re:Older = more experience on NFL Releases Deflategate Report · · Score: 1

    or maybe slashdot's DB is suffering some severe corruption!

  14. Re:Its more complicated on Why Companies Should Hire Older Developers · · Score: 1

    the reason older developers are not hired is because they are perceived to not be willing to put in the hours that younger developers will.

    Comparatively, to be fair an experienced older developer should have to spend less hours to produce quality code.

  15. Re:None of that will matter on Why Companies Should Hire Older Developers · · Score: 2

    In the age of "screw everybody to get another quarter point from the stock", the ones in charge will never pay the older developers what they are worth. It doesn't matter that the inexperienced developers will make the huge mistakes the older people could have warned them away from. It doesn't matter that the degradation in product quality will likely have long term negative effects on the company. All that matters is short term financial gain by the executive staff in this country.

    Indeed. And a good example of that is the direction Apple is currently taking (software wise).

  16. Re:The problem with older developers... on Why Companies Should Hire Older Developers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they are too expensive

    and a quick note about that: a competent manager should know it's worth paying someone twice to do a program 3 times faster that will not have to be rewritten 3 times by 3 different persons within the next 3 years.

  17. Re:The problem with older developers... on Why Companies Should Hire Older Developers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Meaning, they are too expensive and are able to look through the incompetence of managers.

    Which is the signature of a company to be avoided at all costs.

  18. Re:The problem with older developers... on Why Companies Should Hire Older Developers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real problem with people hiring developers is that they often see development as a first step in life, which a preparation for another job having management responsibilities for instance. They don't understand that some people consider development to be a career, like to code, like to learn technical stuff and don't consider changing for management positions. Moreover, a "natural selection" eliminates the worst developers in their 20's who naturally turn to other jobs after a while. Of course, there are still a bunch of incompetent older developers - but thanks to these many years of experience, it is usually much easier to discern the good and the bad from older developers than from beginners.

  19. Re:Stupid on C Code On GitHub Has the Most "Ugly Hacks" · · Score: 1

    Hmm, a code is supposed to be read and maintained. Using ugly hacks whenever possible is more of a showing off attitude. You know the "I use ugly hacks to show how good I know C, and then I post it on github to reach as many people as possible" attitude.

  20. Re:A spokesman for Uber said on Uber Forced Out of Kansas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know that taxi, right? It's the one you're stuck with because there's no alternative now.

    That taxi, the one who insulted me when I dared to insinuate he took a longer path? The taxi as nice as a prison gate? And yet expecting a tip? Oh yes, unfortunately, I know.

  21. Re:A spokesman for Uber said on Uber Forced Out of Kansas · · Score: 1

    Yet another recurrent "Uber is evicted from [somewhere]", Could we have a status on where Über is still allowed/active/authorized/working?

  22. Re:The most plausible theory on Mysterious Sounds Recorded During Near Space Balloon Flight · · Score: 1

    The most plausible theory is that microphones are made and sold on Earth to work at soil level, or at least where humans can still hear from their ears, where air is dense enough to propagate sounds. "Near space" would be better for light, certainly not better for sounds.

  23. Re:Freedom is an illusion on French Version of 'Patriot Act' Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    Between unofficially, militarily and secretly recording and storing all and every digital communications
    and
    officially requesting ISPs to maintain a "black box" that records information, at the ISP level, which do you prefer?

  24. Re:That's C code on Singapore's Prime Minister Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Code · · Score: 1

    I teach you C - or at least the things you ignore - anytime.

  25. Re:That's C code on Singapore's Prime Minister Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Code · · Score: 1

    GP doesn't seem to understand the difference between no parameters and unspecified parameters...

    In C, the compiler doesn't care if you return nothing from a 'int' function. So, while 'void f()' would be cleaner, only 'f()' without a return type set (ie 'int') is seen a lot.
    :-)