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  1. Re:You can't make this stuff up on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Several years ago Yahoo eliminated it's customer base. That had a larger impact on their net worth than QA.

    It also had a major impact on the number of reported bugs in their software. I think we've found the magic formula folks!

  2. Re: Sounds like an MBA plan! on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The measure of success should be the improvement to the company's finances after this measure was introduced. Oh wait, it is Yahoo we are talking about here.

  3. Re:The UK is regressing to Victorian times... on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The last few elections have resulted in minor parties (not necessarily fringe) holding the balance of power and requiring negotiations to get legislation through.

    This only really works if the minor parties are more centrist than the major parties. But in general it tends to be the other way around, so the major party has to make their policies more extreme to get the votes of the far-right or far-left coalition partners.

  4. Re:Cruz can't be trusted on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Change to what???

    A man who once kept Adolf Hitler's books by his bedside, perhaps?

  5. Re:Summarize it on Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model (arvideonews.com) · · Score: 1

    I am, which is why I originally replied to his post. Somehow Mr Mischief got moderated to +5 Informative with his summary that has nothing to do with your talk.

  6. Re:Anti-virus on AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    And you can fix stupid with software by locking down and limiting the amount of stupid things mr stupid can do.

    If you define work as stupid, then you've probably succeeded with that IT policy.

  7. Re:Within a matter of centimeters? on Baidu Speeds Up Driverless Race With First Full Test On Beijing Roads (thestack.com) · · Score: 1
    You misunderstand. That was while it was doing U-turns, lane changes and joining traffic. All on a motorway ramp.

    Google might as well give up now. The Chinese just won the race to provide a self-driving car that can deal with real Beijing traffic conditions.

  8. Re:Summarize it on Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model (arvideonews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see how Oracle vs. Google is relevant to the argument that another developer can come along and fork your open source library in slightly incompatible ways that cause problems for downstream projects.

  9. Re:Summarize it on Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model (arvideonews.com) · · Score: 1

    By the same logic, open source licenses don't work for libraries either.

  10. Re:Sleeping too FEW hours on Prolonged Sitting and Poor Sleep Can Work Together To Shorten Your Life (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The editors were getting the articles mixed up. "Sleeping too many hours a night" belonged to the previous article.

  11. Re:But you consented! on Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is, I didn't click through that agreement, the salesperson in the shop did, then insisted that I give them my hotmail address or let them create one for me before I could take the PC out of the shop. They eventually gave in and let me finish the rest of the initial setup at home after I threatened to call the credit card company and reverse the transaction they'd just put through on the grounds that they weren't handing over the product I'd just purchased.

  12. Re:Managed languages on The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I really don't think it would make a difference to split them out. As someone else pointed out above, it is not the languages, it is the developers they attract. Classic ASP/Cold fusion - think people who jumped on the Web 1.0 bandwagon pre 2000, and have never updated their skills. PHP - again, it is an easy language to pick up and write dynamic web pages, so a lot of beginners. C and C++ are really only accessible to skilled coders, and their well known potential for major screwups that aren't even possible in higher level languages means that C and C++ developers are very conscious of security issues.

  13. Re:Meaningless conclusion. on The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the differences in standard libraries, programming tools and complexity of typical applications.

  14. Strange choice of languages on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    I find the choice of languages to be a bit strange. Surely the whole world will be speaking Esperanto by the time this takes off.

  15. Re:Do it yourself on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Approach Big Companies With Your Product? · · Score: 2

    And for a device that purports to prevents electrical fires for homes and businesses, I imagine a standalone device similar to the timers you can plug an appliance into may be an option. Whether there is a market for such a device when the devices that plug into it already need to comply with NFPA 70/70E and other safety regulations, I cannot say.

  16. Re:What about the restrictive nature of the GPL? on The FSF's Donald Robertson Talks About Secretive Trade Negotiations (Video) · · Score: 0

    The GPL is about maximizing the freedom of users of software. The BSD and MIT licenses are about maximizing the freedom of developers. No license can maximize the freedom of all parties involved, because what you consider the freedom of developers (to ship binaries without source code) is directly at odds with the freedom of users.

  17. Re:Most of the kits are sold out, too on Why the Raspberry Pi Zero Isn't a Practical Tool For Teaching Students (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Element14 was not mentioned as having initial stock in the original press release, so I don't think they were ever not sold out yet. Apparently half of the initial run of 20000 PCBs were given away on the magazine cover, the other half went out to Adafruit, two UK online distributors and one brick and mortar chain in US. The morning after the announcement I checked all 3 online sources, and all were "sold out" of bare PCBs but Adafruit and one of the UK sites were still offering kits at that point. I honestly don't know if they sold any bare PCBs from the first batch, there must be very little, if any, profit on those $5 boards, so bundling it with accessories which have some profit margin is very tempting to the resellers, and some are making it quite difficult to discover how to unselect all accessories to get the board only at $5.

  18. Yes, the resellers are currently out of stock of $5 bare PCBs but are selling bundled kits ranging from $10 (with adapters and cables but no power supply, mouse or keyboard) to $60 with all the above and some breakout boards to make the IO pins easier to access individually.

  19. Re:14 is bad, but doesn't seem 'mass' on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is how far America has come? 14 dead is no longer considered a "mass" shooting, just a plain old everyday event?

  20. Re:Politically incorrect fact on Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux · · Score: 1

    so why would anyone use 32-bit Windows w/ PAE?

    Because they have an Atom chipset more than 3 years old, which lacks the amd64 instruction set.

  21. Re:Politically incorrect fact on Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux · · Score: 1

    The announcement was only about Linux, and more specifically it was only about .DEB packages.

  22. Re:Android is also 32-bit Linux on Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux · · Score: 1

    If you go to the source email thread, it is only x86 builds that are being dropped. 32 bit Android and ChromeOS ARM platforms will still be supported.

  23. Re:Devs continue to develop for these gimped thing on Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that you will start to hear glitches on the audio if this feature is made use of, as without having a core reserved for it, the "FMOD sound engine" is going to have to start sharing resources with other demands on CPU processing power.

  24. Re:in Pakistan on BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns (blackberry.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the NSA negotiated their contract first, they were able to get an exclusivity clause in there.

  25. Re:Violence! on Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos (middleeastmonitor.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the land is Israel, why don't its citizens get to vote in Israeli elections?