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  1. Re:if that's true, on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 2

    You are the one who is "full of shit", since you are getting all of your information on the implementation of this feature on Windows 10 from an old article about Windows Phone 8.

  2. Re:if that's true, on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 0

    This is per PC. And it is on by default. All it takes is one user with sharing via Outlook enabled, and Outlook automatically adding all the spammers' and phishers' mail addresses to his Contacts, and your network has been compromised.

  3. Re: What was the command? on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 1

    For the more security conscious, a safer option is sudo dd /dev/zero /dev/sda

  4. Re: that's it...thanks on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 1

    With 3500 servers, its probably worth setting up your own package archive. Then the command to patch all the servers would most likely be pushing your tested and approved package to your local archive to be pulled by all the production servers on their next poll for updates.

  5. Re: What a confusing summary! on AP CS Test Takers and Pass Rates Up, Half of Kids Don't Get Sparse Arrays At All · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, nearly half the students taking the test are far enough along the autism spectrum that they could not answer the questions about implementing getter methods when faced with a class containing private member variables with no methods to set them.

  6. Re:That's good on BBC Curates The "Right To Be Forgotten" Links That Google Can't · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, this article (7th from the top of the May 2015 list) makes no mention of anyone by name, so it may also be possible that the victim is able to request its removal, despite not being identified in the article.

  7. Re:Is Haselton going to jail? on My United Airlines Website Hack Gets Snubbed · · Score: 1

    To hack the account, they need both the account number and either the PIN or password. This allows them to brute force the PIN, and retrieve the account number as a byproduct of that. Knowing the email address or home address only gets you the account number.

  8. Re:No business acumen on Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing' · · Score: 1

    You mean like this?

  9. While we're at it, pi on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 2

    Indeed. And my programs would run a lot quicker if pi was 4. Does anyone really want pi to be anything other than 4?

  10. Re:Elop just fulfilled his destiny. on Elop and Others Leaving Microsoft, Myerson Taking Bigger Role · · Score: 1

    Now that his destiny has been fulfilled, Microsoft no longer needs his services.

    Or maybe they do need his services again. Watch where he goes next very closely. That is the industry Microsoft wants to fail in next.

  11. Re:How many times? on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman mostly,

  12. Of course, administration of the pot consumes 80% of the remaining revenue after Apple's standard 30% cut, which is entirely taken from the artist's cut as "promotional expenses".

  13. Re:Thank you captain obvious on Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it was Google who wrote Windows, we would have hit Windows 95 back in the 1980s.

    The Google Windows 95 beta was discontinued in 1986 after too many people came to rely on it for their daily work.

  14. Re: Brings back memories on Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10 · · Score: 2

    The Windows key only really became a bad idea in Windows 8. Before that it was relatively harmless on its own, and quite useful as an additional modifier key.

  15. Re:hardly revolutionary on Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is clearly a conspiracy by Emacs users to make vi unusable on Windows 10.

  16. Re:Hire That Programmer Immediately! on Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. Amiga's default stack size was 4 KiB (4096 bytes), and did not auto-extend. So nothing of any significant size was going on the stack.

    Is anything of significant size needed to control an HVAC system?

  17. Re:What's that you say? on How American Students Can Get a University Degree For Free In Germany · · Score: 1

    For a full comparison, remember that US has both state and federal taxes, and that education, health, retirement and employment insurance are separate expenses that you need to account for over your life time (not just in your twenties when you are young and healthy and your parents have provided for you so far in life).

  18. Re:Don't do everything the developer don't like on On Managing Developers · · Score: 1

    I've seen all too often in my career introduction of good new processes fail because noone is there to champion them. As a manager of an established embedded development team that is still working "the old way", I accept that I'm going to have to 'do everything for the developers' until I get their buy in. The alternative of forcing new processes on developers before they've seen the value themselves just causes them to grudgingly follow the letter of the process with the intention of making it fail. If the processes you are introducing bring real value, then the developers will slowly see this and embrace them. If the processes don't bring value, then suddenly realising 3 months later that you've increased your own workload with no benefit is the best filter. I've successfully introduced my team to 100% coverage code review this way, and am working on unit testing now.

  19. Re:Huh? on Why Apple and Google Made Their Own Programming Languages · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It reduces the pool of resumes that you have to sort through into just previous employees and liars. Since you know that the previous employees are either no good or have a grudge against the company, you can filter them out and hire the rest for sales.

  20. Re: Minified JavaScript on How Much JavaScript Do You Need To Know For an Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    If they do it properly, those 250 000 frameworks are loaded from the same CDN URL as every other framework laden site out there, so are mostly already in your cache. The problem is all the developers who have copied an old, security hole ridden version to their own server, which they never update.

  21. Re:Is there a difference? on LG Arbitrarily Denying Android Lollipop Update To the G2 In Canada? · · Score: 1

    My "obvious explanation" is the Canadian carriers added their own crap, and now we're not considered a big enough market to fix it.

    Not so much that Canada is not a big enough market, but if the carriers are demanding modifications that are low level enough to affect the kernel (as opposed to just adding a few branded apks on top of a standard international image), then LG is going to want them to pay for the maintenance of those modifications. So it is back to the carriers again.

  22. Re:the mobile site distributes malware in asia on Malware Attribution: Should We Identify the Crooks Who Deploy It? · · Score: 1

    Is it only in Asia that this happens? I ticked the "Disable Advertising" box because of the intrusiveness of the advertising, especially on the mobile site, but it seems that box unticks itself in Asia too.

  23. Re:Why WOULDN'T you? on Malware Attribution: Should We Identify the Crooks Who Deploy It? · · Score: 1

    If you can identify them by their real name in a way that will lead to them being caught and punished, then go for it. If you are identifying them by an online pseudonym that they use on darknet message boards, you are only giving them notoriety that may help them gain future customers.

  24. Re:Not ignoring the story is a good start! on SourceForge and GIMP [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind, /. is not stale news for nerds for the most part.

    You must be new here.

  25. Re:So will Android M... on Android M To Embrace USB Type-C and MIDI · · Score: 1

    I don't think Android M is going to fix your car stereo. It's not Google's fault that Subaru chose to support Apple's proprietary protocol and ignore the relatively open MTP, or Bluetooth AVRCP, either of which can control most Android phones.