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  1. I thought the techies were leaving the US for Canada because they couldn't stand Trump?

  2. What about RED? Saxton Hale will hear of this!

  3. I note that Mr. Cameron is himself white and male. I look to him to take the lead here by completely ceasing to make movies, so that there will be one less "stale, male, and pale" moviemaker contributing to this problem.

  4. "I would argue that until I'm blue in the face that science fiction is the quintessence of being human in a sense." James Cameron is, after all, very familiar with blue faces.

  5. I can see the movie now; on Researchers Are Keeping Pig Brains Alive Outside the Body (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    "They Saved Arnold's Brain"

  6. Re:See also: Martin Lewis on Fake Mark Zuckerbergs Scam Facebook Users Out of Their Cash (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    My Friend Irma was a pretty good film.

  7. Re:As a father loot boxes piss me off on Belgium Declares Video Game Loot Boxes Gambling and Therefore Illegal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, no. Back then, if you got duplicates in an Overwatch loot box, you got credits which could then be spent buying the cosmetics you wanted (although you didn't get enough credits from one duplicate to buy one cosmetic, they did add up). Overwatch loot boxes no longer give duplicates.

  8. Re:Higher height is just terrible on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Long and low hoods might look nice, but they're dangerous.

    That would not be because they are low, but because they are long.

  9. Re:Black holes on Scientists Discover That Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs (space.com) · · Score: 2

    Calling it "urinous" has its own problems, though.

  10. A new word wouldn't work on Ask Slashdot: Do We Need a New Word For Hacking? · · Score: 1

    There are those who do not like having hackers not under their control; it's been very convenient for them that the word has acquired negative connotations. It seems likely that any new word invented would acquire similar connotations if it became popular.

  11. "When 1 person does it -- they are a pervert,
    When N people do it -- they have a fetish."

    You're not conjugating that right:

    "When you do it -- you are a pervert,
    When I do it -- I have a fetish."

  12. Re:The Dream Police on MIT Researchers Developed a 'System For Dream Control' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely the first thing I thought of.

  13. Better? Maybe. Good? I doubt it. A computer is a fundamentally different device from a phone, with a much larger screen and fundamentally different input devices. It has different UI needs, and any attempt to shoehorn a common UI on phones and computers is doomed.

  14. Re:Misplaced priorities, solving nonexistent... on One Laptop Per Child's $100 Laptop Was Going To Change the World -- Then it All Went Wrong (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's hard to get people to start using a toilet (amazingly enough.)

    Depends on whether you pay attention to what works. India's having problems with it. Bangladesh, of all places, is having considerably more success despite being poorer.

  15. Re:Agile and Scrum Are Like Communism on Survey Finds 'Agile' Competency Is Rare In Organizations (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But that's the problem. You can say, "Well, that's not Agile", but so many attempts to do Agile wind up like this. If the method seems to create problems in implementing it, it's not a good method.

  16. Re:Agile and Scrum Are Like Communism on Survey Finds 'Agile' Competency Is Rare In Organizations (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. And if almost nobody can make it work in practice, it's not a good method, regardless of the shining successes you can point at.

  17. Re:In other words: on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Make My Own Vaporware Real? · · Score: 1

    Stackoverflow would like you to think so. In fact, it demonstrates that free advice is generally worth what you paid for it.

  18. Re:A Uniquely English Problem on Firms Relabelling Low-Skilled Jobs As Apprenticeships, Says Report (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not, of course, the same thing. The emissions test scandal was blatantly breaking the law and lying about it. This is following the law, just not in the way the lawmakers anticipated. Not really the companies' fault that they wrote a stupid law, and you certainly can't prosecute them for it.

  19. So, so sum up.... on Firms Relabelling Low-Skilled Jobs As Apprenticeships, Says Report (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Law passed that charges companies money if they don't have enough jobs called "apprenticeships". Companies respond by retitling arbitrary jobs "apprenticeships". How surprising.

  20. Article I establishes that Congress has the right to establish a governmental postal service (Section 8) but does not mandate that one be established. If Congress wants to privatize (or even abolish) the USPS it is perfectly within its rights to do so.

  21. Translation provided on Google is Testing Self-Destructing Emails in New Gmail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "the company is now evolving beyond the simple POP3/IMAP/SMTP protocols."

    Translation: "Those leave complete control of the recipients mailboxes in the hands of the recipient. We can't have that."

  22. Microkernel? Oh, god, just bury it now. Microkernels have been the coming thing for decades now, and they never make it work.

  23. "Congressman, in general we collect data on people who have not signed up for Facebook for security purposes to prevent the kind of scraping you were just referring to [reverse searches based on public info like phone numbers]. "

    So, then, you're telling us that you're collecting the data to ensure nobody is collecting that data, is that correct?

  24. Nor on Ubuntu. I can't imagine anybody going out and just getting this package. Is there anything that gets it as a pre-req?

  25. Re:Not dumb on Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper? · · Score: 1

    But, yeah, it's a bit like requiring fountain pens for exams.

    Hey, I love fountain pens! I own about a dozen. Main problem is cheap paper isn't made for them anymore--the ink feathers.