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  1. Re:Expensive on UK Company Wants To Deliver Parcels Through Underground Tunnels · · Score: 1

    The London Mail trains are basically running between the mail sorting centres and the major rail stations (for mail going and coming from London) and major post offices (for within central London). Unless Royal Mail also rents this company space in those locations for setting up their distribution network, their existing network is not going to be much use for them.

  2. Re: Decent on Seattle CEO Cuts $1 Million Salary To $70K, Raises Employee Salaries · · Score: 2

    If he's been on a $1M salary for some time, he should own his house outright and have some investments outside of his own business tucked away already. In a perfect world, all CEOs should be on modest salaries, and get most of their incentive from bonuses and stock. They are ultimately responsible for the performance of the business after all, and a 7 figure basic doesn't give them much motivation to perform.

  3. Re: Managers need an algorithm for that? on Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, that's pretty much how it goes. I don't normally wear jeans to work though.

    In some workplaces that could be considered inappropriate, in others it may depend on your style of underwear.

  4. Re: Tabs vs Spaces on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    The moment you throw in a few spaces to line something up on a non-tab boundary (say, to align a second line of arguments with the first argument), then you have a mess

    It is trivial to avoid this problem by configuring tab-width to 1. Yet again,newbie configuration wins over decades of experience.

  5. Re:And yet, no one understands Git. on 10 Years of Git: An Interview With Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Except that for people who are not working alone, there are more commands that need to be considered basic in DVCS than in traditional VCS.

  6. Re:It's the cloud on The New Struggles Facing Open Source · · Score: 1

    The biggest threat to free and open source software is, and always has been FUD. What this article is saying is that previous FUD did not work, so it is trying to come up with new FUD.

  7. Re:Android, not quite an Egg but close. on Is This the Death of the Easter Egg? · · Score: 1

    And if you tap quickly on one of the other items in that menu multiple times, you get a real Easter egg, the contents of which depend on the version of Android (for Lollipop it is a flappy bird type game, other versions have been animated histories of Android versions, or static images related to the current version in 2.x).

  8. Re:Patent? on Swiss Launch of Apple Watch Hit By Patent Issue · · Score: 1

    It would only be like Apple Records if they already had an out-of-court settlement agreeing that Apple the Computer company would never get into the watch business, and Apple the aspiring watch company would never get into the computer business so lets both agree to let the other use its trademark in its own space.

  9. Re:Same question as I had more than a decade ago on License Details Hint MS Undecided On Suing Users of Its Open Source Net Runtime · · Score: 1

    It's really not clear what fully open source alternatives you are talking about here, as I'm not aware of any alternative web development environment comparable in scope to .NET today that lacks Unicode support.

  10. Re:Brilliant idea on If You Want To Buy an Apple Watch In-Store, You'll Need a Reservation · · Score: 1

    What if thousands of people were to walk in to Apple stores during the first week, excitedly ask for an Apple watch, then act disappointed and decline to pre-order when told they couldn't have one right away. Apple is so asking to be gamed here, they aren't going to have a clue what the real demand for their watches is, and may end up seriously overproducing for the following months' supply based on the market research they gather from this exercise.

  11. Re:Arduino? Good riddance! on Arduino Dispute Reaches Out To Distributors · · Score: 1
    Sorry, what part of type some simple code into a webpage (with better formatting and syntax highlighting than the slashdot example below), get a binary file back which you copy over USB to your board, reset and it runs is funny in the context of this discussion? Cross platform tools are available if you want them, but the beginner doesn't even need to install them to get started.

    #include "mbed.h"

    DigitalIn enable(p5);
    DigitalOut led(LED1);
    int main() {
    while(1) {
    if(enable) {
    led = !led;
    }
    wait(0.25);
    }
    }

  12. Re:Arduino? Good riddance! on Arduino Dispute Reaches Out To Distributors · · Score: 1

    Yes

  13. Re:You are missing the obvious point! on Win Or Lose, Discrimination Suit Is Having an Effect On Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    If a person works 35-40 hours a week should they receive the same pay as someone working 45-50 hours? Anyone looking at that should say "No, the person working more hours should receive more pay." but somehow this obvious point eluded you.

    We have two people - one who completes a set amount of work in 35 hours, and another who completes the same amount of work in 50 hours. And you want to pay the second person more ...why exactly? To encourage slacking off on the clock?

  14. Re:Most of Japan is very beautiful... on Japan To Build 250-Mile-Long, Four Storey-High Wall To Stop Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    Often river embankments are grassy mounds, but they're more for seasonal flood control than tsunamis. The tsunami walls I've seen along beaches are very much concrete walls, and while they do have a roadway along the top and sloped sides with steps at intervals and the occaisional roadway leading up to them, they are anything but attractive.

  15. Re:On the Nexus anyway this is disabled by default on Android's Smart Lock Won't Ask You For a Password Until You Set Your Phone Down · · Score: 1

    Trusted devices is useful for avoiding the driver distraction issue of having to enter my password when I want to read and post to Slashdot while I drive. Having it recognize my Home and Work Wifi networks would be far more useful than this body motion detection.

  16. Re:From a simpler era on South Korea Begins To Deprecate ActiveX · · Score: 1

    Printing was another reason to require a signed applet. It was possible to limit the extra capabilities granted to an applet - but it was a huge learning curve that most developers were not interested in, and chances are that the end user isn't going to notice, or understand the difference (since their brain will shut down when they see the security dialog) so in most cases, a signed applet was getting full access, just like an ActiveX control.

  17. Re:Didn't knew they even had computers on South Korea Begins To Deprecate ActiveX · · Score: 1

    Daewoo cars are now mostly branded as Chevrolet (maybe still Opel or Vauxhill in Europe), even in Korea. They are responsible for most of the smaller car designs from GM (from the Cruze down).

    Chery is the only Chinese manufacturer I've seen locally, though another poster commented that Great Wall is available in Australia, so different manufacturers may be targeting different markets.

  18. Re:Didn't knew they even had computers on South Korea Begins To Deprecate ActiveX · · Score: 1

    It was also due to the government's insistence that their homegrown encryption algorithms be used, combined with a delay in getting the algorithms registered as an official Cipher Suite for SSL/TLS, that led to them being implemented at the application layer rather than the transport layer.

  19. Re: Didn't knew they even had computers on South Korea Begins To Deprecate ActiveX · · Score: 2

    They tried it for a while - N. Korea had a special zone just across the border where South Korean companies could send in managerial staff daily, but it turns out that such a scheme is not sustainable in the political climate that exists between the two Koreas. I don't think many South Korean companies are interested any more in having a factory that they can be closed down on a whim every time the supreme leader has a tantrum.

  20. Re:Type "bush hid the facts" into Notepad. on OS X Users: 13 Characters of Assyrian Can Crash Your Chrome Tab · · Score: 1

    4. Inconsistent policy for character inclusion. After years of opposing addition of symbols commonly used in typesetting or web pages (such as a common symbol for indicating external links consisting of a box with a curved arrow coming out of it) on the basis that they are "not plain text and best represented by graphic images", we get emoji added. And they still won't add many of these symbols they've opposed in the past (they recently added the standard triangular recycling mark, but this was long after the emoji was added with several circular Japanese recycling marks clearly demonstrating the hypocracy).

  21. Re:Type "bush hid the facts" into Notepad. on OS X Users: 13 Characters of Assyrian Can Crash Your Chrome Tab · · Score: 2

    For UTF-16. "Only Windows uses BOMs" is pretty much correct for UTF-8, where the Unicode standard discourages it.

  22. Anecdotal evidence on MRIs Show Our Brains Shutting Down When We See Security Prompts · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was going to post something insightful, but I got a warning from my browser about sending data over an insecure channel to http://slashdot.org and my brain shut down.

  23. Re:Like Bing and Yahoo? on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    As soon as you admit you weren't watching your speed, you're toast. You've admitted that you weren't watching your speed. That's why the first question they ask you is "Do you know how fast you were going?"

    Recommended defence when you rear-end a police car: "sorry officer, but I was watching my speed, not the road".

  24. Re:What on earth on No Fuel In the Fukushima Reactor #1 · · Score: 1

    Are nuclear reactors mounted on an angle in the US? Is this a deliberate strategy to prevent China from attacking the power stations in the next world war?

  25. Re:They *still* libel Linux on Not Quite Dead: SCO Linux Suit Against IBM Stirs In Utah · · Score: 1

    Some distributions used to also distribute ABI compatibility, back when commercial software targeted Sco/Unixware/Xenix etc and ignored Linux. See here for example. These days, I expect it is the other way around - anyone left still shipping traditional Unix on x86 (or even other architectures) needs to provide a Linux ABI if they want to ensure that proprietary software will run on their platform.