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  1. Re:Security Is All Set on Your Face or Fingerprint Could Soon Replace Your Plane Ticket (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    My own sister has trouble telling my brother and I apart and we aren't even twins. Not so much now that we wear our hair different but when we did people, even family, would would always mistake us.

    Facial recognition is a joke.

  2. Re: Nothing new here on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines of visual studio... but yeah some the drag-n-drop stuff out there is a nightmare.

  3. Re: Nothing new here on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The use of frameworks, ide, and markup is common already and you don't need to be a rocket surgeon just need to have played with a model rocket... it's easy and fast though you are right if anything goes wrong only someone that really knows what they are doing can fix it.

  4. Re:How many different ways to solve problems? on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I like how you point out it's the assistant that is doing the grading of assignments.

  5. Re: Nothing new here on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Today everything is color coded and can't be installed in the wrong place or backwards, not like years ago when installing a stick of ram could fry everything if you put it in backwards... The barrier to entry is much lower for just about everything computer related and as kids now grow up with computers in their pockets from the time they are little, that barrier is going to just get lower. Eventually there will be few real programing jobs and a bunch of drop in ide code everywhere and it's not far off at all.

  6. Re:How many different ways to solve problems? on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There also some commonly used variables for loops with int i and st as stream and they are repeated all over but generic variables are a different problem.

  7. Re:But President Trump goes on 8 In 10 People Now See Climate Change As a 'Catastrophic Risk,' Says Survey (trust.org) · · Score: 1

    I think it was an abrupt warming followed by an abrupt cooling that lasted for about 2,000 years for both together but don't quote me on that I read about it in the 70s or 80s.

  8. Re:Cord-cutters are ruining TV on Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot pay for but still endure many commercial breaks... I don't mind content with commercials like on the cwtv website so long as I'm not paying for it.

  9. Re:But President Trump goes on 8 In 10 People Now See Climate Change As a 'Catastrophic Risk,' Says Survey (trust.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not a climate scientist but that doesn't sound correct didn't the last glacial have an ubrupt warming period?
     

  10. My computer from an American company says made in China on it so I'm not even sure you can by an all American made computer even if it's assembled here most of the parts are made elsewhere and many in China.

  11. Re:Long-haul trucking... WHY??? on Self-Driving Cars Could Cost America's Professional Drivers Up To 25,000 Jobs a Month (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is already an option that is in use...

  12. Re:How is this better than crossover-office? on ReactOS 0.4.5 Released (reactos.org) · · Score: 1

    wine and react share libraries...

  13. Re:Hellcat buyers don't care about fuel economy on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I drive a impala limited and get around 30 mpg, it's a much smoother ride than a lot of sports cars, and at 305 HP it's got some get up and go... It's in the shop {the problem with living in the boonies something got into the electrical} and I'm driving a 2017 Camaro w/ v6 right now they cost about the same and the Camaro isn't that much faster, I'm sure it would be if it was the v8. I haven't hit my head on the roof yet but there isn't much head room in that thing either.

  14. I don't have a computer related degree but I've worked in IT forever....
     

  15. Re:So pirate? on Netflix Says No To Unlocked Android Smartphones (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife watches stuff on her phone all the time on trips, in the kitchen while she's cooking, or in the laundry room folding laundry but it's more like a phablet.... I couldn't do it my phone is much smaller.

  16. I haven't had a linux desktop as my default for probably 15 years so I couldn't tell you how well wine works now... but I used it for a lot of games back then.

  17. wine has a rather large list of retail games with a platinum rating....

  18. Re:Are we at the point yet on A New Instance of Android Malware is Discovered Every 10 Seconds, Say Researchers (9to5google.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    No.

    Google tries to keep malware out of the play store but malware does make it's way into the play store.

    Things like this are constantly popping up... Thinking that only using the google play store is enough is wrong.

    http://www.technewsworld.com/s...

    http://www.zdnet.com/article/c...

  19. Re:Linux Mint on How Good is Antivirus Software at Protecting Itself? (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    It does matter... if every windows user switched to {pick an operating system} overnight it wouldn't be long before it would be a cat and mouse game of who can find an exploit first the people patching or the people writing malicious software. It doesn't matter how secure you think it is when there is money to be made and the os with the most installs has it people will find a way. Android is quickly turning into swiss cheese just like windows.

  20. Re:This is why they need H1b on Interns at Facebook, Google Out-Earn the Average American (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No there wasn't and it's not as easy to get your foot in the door anymore unless you have a long good work history. My second wife did key punch before I met her but there really wasn't any call for it by around 95 and she had no idea what she was going to do so she ended up managing a restaurant.

  21. Re:This is why they need H1b on Interns at Facebook, Google Out-Earn the Average American (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Me ex majored in English Literature like her mother but taught at a state university instead of a high school. I studied applied arts but left teaching to work for Ma Bell. I've contracted with 3 of the companies on that list.

  22. Re:and the cost of liveing in the bay area is very on Interns at Facebook, Google Out-Earn the Average American (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen the same thing I make good pay for where I live, I could get better pay if I moved but the difference in the cost of living doesn't make it worth it.

  23. Re:This should be fun. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    We installed ubuntu on my nephew's laptop when he was a teenager after multiple times of wiping his drive to remove all the infestations he had in windows. Even without root access he still managed to get firefox hi-jacked and he wasn't running wine.

    I had a friend that managed to get windows malware under wine that worked so well it should have been gold certified. It was an ongoing joke for a while "He could get anything to work on linux that did in windows even the viruses".

  24. Re:This should be fun. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 2

    no need for anti-virus!?!?!

    Sorry, the entire security though obscurity thing died a long time ago. There are plenty of nasties for macs and linux though on linux they are more likely to target servers still doesn't make them bullet proof.

  25. Re:Targeted Advertising Epidemic on Facebook Lets Advertisers Target Insecure Teens, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing about targeted advertising is it's persistence, if you buy or shop for something online then you will start seeing ads for it on every site you visit unless you have an ad blocker. ads for antidepressants and suicide hotlines popping up all over may not have the desired effect