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  1. Re:I'm skeptical... on US Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' For WannaCry Ransomware Attack (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Or they have the evidence, but don't want to reveal what that evidence is until they have finished checking to make sure it can't be traced back to whoever planted it.

  2. Yeah. His beliefs lack consistency to say the least...

    All the stuff that you learned in school -- that the core is molten nickel -- it's all lies. No one knows what's in the center of the Earth or how deep it is. I'm no expert at anything, but I know that's a fact."

  3. Re:Waste of effort on Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Explain Their Work To Non-Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Just keep it simple even and deal with...

    I've had this problem with Word for the past few months, can you come around and fix it for me next week.

  4. Re:this kills me on Norway Becomes First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (thelocal.no) · · Score: 1

    DVB-T2 does not work well in moving vehicles. That is one important area where DAB+ has it beat. DRM+ requires switching off analogue FM first, DAB+ uses a different frequency range, so can roll out in parallel. Europe doesn't have the 200kHz channel spacing on FM that the US does, so they can't just squeeze a couple of digital subcarriers onto existing analogue FM stations.

  5. I wonder which cloud provider wrote this directive?

    mail.ru

  6. Re:Of all the things in Anime on Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would the future be wireless with regard to power?

    Because even in Japan, new housing areas have had the wires put underground for at least the last 25 years, and over the past decade a lot of the existing older infrastructure has started to move underground as well.

  7. Re:Solar energy on China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Harvesting energy from waves also seems an obvious charging mechanism for a cargo ship. Though with a range of 50 miles, this particular one is probably limited to use on inland waterways.

  8. Re: Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    Zero carbon footprint is like perpetual motion. It doesn't exist in reality.

  9. Re: Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    "Clean burning" just means they output mostly Carbon Dioxide rather than the mixture of Carbon soot particles and Carbon Monoxide that burning wood would naturally emit in an open fireplace. Last I checked, Carbon Dioxide was still a greenhouse gas.

  10. Re:Good grief on Gizmodo: Don't Buy Anyone an Amazon Echo Speaker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    If it were constantly sending full audio and video back to the mothership battery life would nose-dive.

    Remember how your Nokia 3310 used to go two weeks between charges?

  11. Cheap grinders use spinning blades that don't give a consistent grind and go blunt fairly quickly. If you're using a filter or espresso machine, a lot of wastage happens due to all the too big bits that don't get all the coffee extracted from them. If you're using a plunger, some of the grinds will be too fine and go through the wire mesh filter into your cup. $94 spent on getting a good burr grinder that grinds consistently to the grain size you want is worth it in the long run.

  12. Re:code wranglers on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What in the name of Gordon H. Bennett is a sodding code wrangler?

    Ask your cow-orkers.

  13. Think about what you are saying for a minute. Why would Facebook insist on a unique FACE every time you log into Facebook?

  14. Re:Here's the link... on Taking The Profit Out Of Killing 'Net Neutrality' (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    What fancy features? The only one described in the summary is that it is apparently a walled garden where providers pay to play. Which side of the net neutrality argument does this fall on again?

  15. Bureaucracy to blame on Why Do Employers Require College Degrees That Aren't Necessary? (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they just want to say they advertised for the position, or are they really so immensely stupid, so disconnected from their own needs, that they think they are actually asking for something they can have...?

    In most cases, I think it is just a game of Chinese Whispers between the different departments that need to provide bureaucratic approval for a job ad in a large company. The manager who wants to hire someone wants 10 years industry experience and experience with new technology X. Somewhere along the line, that becomes 10 years experience with new technology X, and that is what goes into the ad. Usually the manager in charge is just as frustrated with this process as the potential applicants, as there is always the fear that the best applicants are not applying because they are too honest about their experience to get through the HR filter based on the screwup in the ad. Managers should always insist on final approval of the ad content to avoid this, and not just throw it over the fence and hope to hear back with a shortlist of candidates.

  16. Re:I've been sort of expecting this to happen on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One in a million basically means there are 7600 people who can unlock your phone just by looking at it. Due to the way evolution works, there is a good chance that some of those people are closely related to you.

  17. Re:"Project management is a prized methodology ... on In Defense of Project Management For Software Teams (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Project management is a prized methodology for delivering on leadership's expectations.

    Yeah, I think that sums up the problem with project management these days. It isn't so much about managing the project, as spouting the right buzzwords and showing the agile-compliant burnup charts that make the boardroom feel like they're in with the hip crowd here.

  18. Not even the 1%. To actually get a net positive from the "middle class tax cuts", you need to be making 450k, which places you into the 0.5%.

  19. Re:Watch the timer, step on the train on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    In Britain, there are never any delays unless there is some weather conditions causing it, like when its snowing, raining or the rails get too hot because the sun is shining, or the wind has blown leaves onto the track.

  20. Re:Like Everything Else on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the flavor loss comes from their short lives spent in a cage barely bigger than their own body being force-fed on grains. If you eat free range chicken brought up on a more varied diet, you can still get a bit of the flavour back.

  21. Re:Why companies should stay out of politics on Why Google Should Be Afraid of a Missouri Republican's Google Probe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps politicians should stay out of business...

  22. Re:'This happened for two reasons.' on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I think the cliffhanger ending is the editors attempt to bring back slashdotting. There was once a time, when sites would be brought to their knees by a front page story on Slashdot. These days noone reads TFA, so the concept of slashdotting has faded from memory.

  23. Re:The Problem With Me-Too Languages on ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    I like how you dismiss newer languages as "simply stealing primitives and ideas from existing languages and throwing them together" but hold up Java as an example of a really innovative language for stealing a subset of the syntax from C++ and the VM and garbage collection from Lisp and throwing them together.

  24. Or just have gate sales. Yeah, its a hassle queuing up, and a bummer if you came all the way to the venue from out of town and it is really sold out, but internet presales has proven itself to be so dysfunctional, that I still think it would be preferable.

  25. Re:The U.S.A. is not a monarchy on The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal · · Score: 1
    These days it is:

    1) Twitter
    2) Legislative
    3) Facebook