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  1. Re: Hmmmmmmm on DNC Says Reported Hack Attempt Was a False Alarm (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a test. A simulation of a test. By an unknown third party. Nothing to see here...we didn't get hacked.

  2. Re:Interesting timing here on Democratic National Committee Says Hackers Unsuccessfully Targeted Voter Database (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Cohen hasn't flipped on Trump yet.

    Cohen would not accept a pardon from Trump, if offered, Davis said. “Not only is he not hoping for it, he would not accept a pardon. He considers a pardon from somebody who has acted so corruptly as the president to be something he would never accept,” Davis told NBC on Wednesday. -- LA Times

    It certainly looks like a flip to me.

  3. I thought the following terms from TFS were a bit off for a production release.

    You will not, and will not allow any third party to (i) use, copy, distribute, sell or offer to sell the Software or associated documentation; ... (iii) use or make the Software available for the use or benefit of third parties;

    Never mind the benchmark clause, there is no way I would expect Debian, Microsoft, or anyone else to start shipping code that has those clauses in the license terms.

  4. Re:I don't spend 5 hours checking email on You Spend More Than 5 Hours Each Week Checking Your Email (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The authors need to spend less time checking email and more time on basic arithmetic. An average of 2.5 hours a day, which is "more than 3 hours a day", or 5 hours per week?

  5. Free upgrades for life is not support?

  6. There are other options too. Upgrading to a flavor of Linux, for example, it if you are ready to replace your hardware, OSX is also an option. As long as people keep seeing other versions of Windows as their only options for dealing with Microsoft's EOL decisions, what incentive does Microsoft have to keep their older ecosystems alive?

  7. Re:London has the dumbest system I've ever seen. on Staff At Gatwick Airport Use Whiteboards After Flight Information Screens Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Airports that are not busy have the luxury of pre-allocating gates days or even weeks in advance. When I've flown out of Heathrow, usually they will have allocated the gate by check-in time if the incoming flight was on time, but if they are still trying to figure out when the incoming flight is going to be needing the gate, they may not have allocated it yet. On short distance flights that have a quick turnaround, this is probably going to happen more frequently, mostly I've taken long haul from Heathrow, and prefer to use City airport for short flights, which does not have this issue.

    No country trusts any other country with security since 9/11. Transit passengers always pass through security screening again, though only the US makes you collect checked baggage first.

  8. Amazingly this worked!

    This solution will only work temporarily. Once people get used to the sound of door knocking, they will no longer need to come out to investigate what that strange noise is, and it will become a low priority notification, only to be responded to if there are no higher priority cat videos pending in the YouTube notification feed.

  9. Re: Women's clothing is what women buy on Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Women's asses are a lot fucking bigger than men's asses.

    Which leaves more room for pockets, making this phenomenon even less excusable.

  10. Re:Bigger Pockets on Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And sell fewer overpriced handbags? Not likely.

  11. As this spirit of happy co-operation spreads throughout Seattle, terrorists everywhere will be able to choose which Virtual Assistant they want to instruct to remotely hijack that passenger jet to fly into the Whitehouse.

  12. Re:Remembered the shared family TV? on Slashdot Asks: Did You Have a Shared Family Computer Growing Up? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember waiting until there was no sports on the TV so Dad would get up and work on his project in the shed, and you could plug in the computer to play some games?

  13. Re: Goodbye Arstechnica on US Invaded By Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realise that "east coast" as a continental climate is not a thing right? South America and Africa have a completely different climate on their east coasts than North America and Asia.

  14. Re:Goodbye Arstechnica on US Invaded By Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're like an inverse Turing test; there would be no way to distinguish you from a 1970s AI program.

    Is it because I hurt your feelings that you say you from a 1970s AI program?

  15. Re:Goodbye Arstechnica on US Invaded By Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your island is too small to have an east coast

    I know geography isn't a strong point of Americans, but this post makes me wonder how you got through 3rd grade geometry.

  16. Re:Nothing new on Online Photos Can't Simply Be Republished, EU Court Rules (politico.eu) · · Score: 2

    Strictly speaking, copyright law has always been like this, but it's a bit of a dick move to go after a school student. Cutting photos out of magazines for school projects that ended up displayed on the walls of the school hall or entranceway if they were good has been a normal part of school activity for decades. That is now happens online where everyone can see it is not a reason to suddenly start enforcing the strictest interpretation of the law against non-commercial probably-fair use.

  17. Re:Can I use this with Exchange? on Thunderbird v60.0 Email Client Released (thunderbird.net) · · Score: 2

    According to the description, it is mail and contacts only. Most Exchange servers have IMAP enabled for mail, but if your's doesn't then I guess this is useful. Otherwise, IMAP for mail coupled with TbSync for everything else seems a better fit.

  18. Re:Idiocracy on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe I misread/misunderstood this article but I read this as, 'let's dumb down computer programming".

    You say that as if it is not a noble goal. Computer programming does not need to be an exclusive club open only to l33t geeks that can master the obscure syntax of the half dozen languages needed to qualify as a "full stack developer" today.

  19. No, Trump just wants the court to declare an Obama era order unconstitutional so he can rant about it on Twitter.

  20. I'll tell you why checked exceptions are a stupid idea: they pollute the method interface with irrelevant information (i.e., what checked exceptions might get thrown).

    What is irrelevant about that? Do you prefer your interfaces to be undocumented and discoverable only by "trial and error and too bad if your test cases didn't cover enough unexpected use cases" in other ways as well, or just for the exceptions?

  21. One thing that makes code smell a particularly useless metric is that many categories of "smells" can be eliminated by simply not using object oriented languages.

    Is the reduced level of "smells" from using Kotlin over Java is because of quality, or because the "smell" cargo cult mostly concentrates on Java-like languages and Kotlin is doing things a bit differently in ways that conventional smell detectors cannot detect?

  22. Why would one need (or want) to provide proof of identity to use a browser?

    So you can buy groceries online.

  23. Coming soon? Here's an article from 2012 detailing how you can set up your Android phone to emulate the iPhone X.

  24. Re: Only the bottom of the barrel? on What OpenStreetMap Can Be (systemed.net) · · Score: 1

    By now, Google probably has data that they have made themselves from satellite images and their Street view fleet, but at the start they licensed the map data from others, including HERE (under their previous name Navteq).

  25. Re:Free Taiwan is dead on US Airlines Change Taiwan Reference On Websites Ahead of Chinese Deadline (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So you first-time posted just to say I was wrong and rant about it, without any further clarification on what your version of right is?