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  1. Re:Somebody already resurrected the only worthy ga on Emulator Project Aims To Resurrect Classic Mac Apps, Games Without the OS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There are other worthy games, like Escape Velocity.

  2. Uh okay? on Bug Bounties Aren't Silver Bullet for Better Security (infosecurity-magazine.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's also claimed that even these elite "top 1%" ethical hackers can't make a decent wage by Western

    Who said it's supposed to be a full time job? Bounties aren't jobs. They're rewards for ethical disclosure

  3. But nazis, antivaxxers, etc can keep posting like normal

  4. Re:Downsides on Album Sales Are Dying as Fast as Streaming Services Are Rising (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even streaming services will let you purchase

    Sure, but quality varies. Tidal, Apple, and a few niche services offer some type of lossless selection(very limited, tbh). The rest? Not so much.

    Permanently renting your music doesn't appeal to me

  5. Re:This is why we can't have nice things on Album Sales Are Dying as Fast as Streaming Services Are Rising (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    The main disadvantage is that you're renting access to music. You buy it, you rip it, the CD, which is very small, goes into a spindle in the garage. You never pay for it again.

  6. Re:Both sides are bad... Oh wait.. on Net Neutrality Bill 38 Votes Short In Congress, and Time Has Almost Run Out (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If it passed the Senate, which the summary says it did, then it had at least two Republican Senators to support it

  7. Re:A chromium based browser to download a chromium on Microsoft Is Embracing Chromium, Bringing Edge To Windows 7, Windows 8, and Mac · · Score: 1

    Because organizations want support for products and Google provides absolutely zero for Chrome(or much of anything, really). Google is a really shitty company to get software support from, unlike Microsoft, whose business model is at least partially centered around customer support.

    You also have to deal with software certification for governmental organizations and other certain industries. Chrome may not be on the list, but Microsoft's browsers almost universally are if Windows is the desktop OS of choice.

  8. Re:A chromium based browser to download a chromium on Microsoft Is Embracing Chromium, Bringing Edge To Windows 7, Windows 8, and Mac · · Score: 1

    Bingo

  9. Re:Developers or Managers? on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is often ZERO ROI for fixing bugs.

    Depends on what you're doing. Sounds like you're talking about one off solutions. Regardless, you sound like like some c-level giving a speech to a dev team. We have thousands of customers, and unfixed bugs means cancelled implementation and cancelled maintenance contracts. Fixing bugs costs time and money, but so does developing an application. Maintenance contracts make up the bulk of revenue, and it's very dependable revenue when the product isn't buggy as shit. Keeping those contracts is what keeps your company alive and what keeps your investors happy.

  10. It's definitely something the compiler should help with, either by enforcing bounds or providing feedback. In the end, it's a compiled program, like any other. That intermediate step of compiling can make all the difference.

  11. Re:Open Season on One of the World's Largest Organisms is Shrinking (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Prion diseases are not something that many people even want to risk. If you want to tempt fate, be my guest

  12. Re:Open Season on One of the World's Largest Organisms is Shrinking (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Deers in Utah have tested positive for a prion disease and (human) hunters are wary of eating those deer(or even touching them, prions are basically impossible to destroy).

  13. Re:The answer is "yes" on Ask Slashdot: Should Open-Source Developer Teams Hire Professional UI/UX Designers? · · Score: 1

    Not that the almost universally-terrible UX in other projects would indicate a better option. Most UX principle driven designs are a race to the bottom. Like 80s and 90s era GM corporate bean counters in control of an interface because some focus group of idiots liked something and some analysis of clicks and mouse movement pointed to something else.

  14. Might be right, but on Former Google+ UI Designer Suggests Inept Management Played Role In Demise (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This guy might be right, but he's also a huge narcissist. This guy thinks he shits gold

  15. They've updated the metric, but the metric is gameable and needs to be refined

  16. Re:Terrible Summary on Europe's Heatwave is Forcing Nuclear Power Plants To Shut Down (qz.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because Quaid didn't turn them on

  17. This is public information.

    And it's wrapped in limestone rather than granite, my bad.

  18. Re:Why not mobiles too? on Pentagon Restricts Use of Fitness Trackers, Other Devices (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    All SCIFs at the Pentagon already required that any electronic devices(computers, cellphones, smartwatches, etc) be placed into a secure locker before entering. This is redundant.

    Regardless, 6ft thick granite walls does a number of cell signal. Other than the metro entrance and the interior quad, you don't have reception inside the building

  19. Re:Renaming Neighborhood is bad? on As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In many large and medium sized cities they are official names, and the neighborhoods can have local councils for things like events, signage/decorations, historic building management, etc. Example from San Diego CA

  20. I would think this is far too soon in the development cycle to have a product ready to go out the door with that level of a fundamental change at this point.

  21. Re:Bug 1325692 still blocks Keybinder on Firefox Blocks Autoplaying Web Audio (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Video downloads are still broken and require desktop applications to combine video and audio streams. Fucking stupid

  22. Finally on Firefox Blocks Autoplaying Web Audio (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that it's taken until 2018 for this to happen is a joke. Luckily, NoScript has existed for about as long as this has been a problem

  23. Re:regional airlines pay very low on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Perfectly fair to desire an entry level wage that kept with inflation from decades ago

  24. My understanding is that NoScript blocks it

  25. Clearly safe, as the article posits.