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  1. Not PDFs, iPhones work fine. on Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    About the only use for them, really. And with fewer ports, there are less places poo can get stuck when you rinse them off. The 7 really was step forward, to be honest.

  2. Re: This is a BAD idea support wise on Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Spoken by someone who has never been under the gun to get the network back up while trying to download information from the internet via single bar 1G connection, which is all you'll get in the basement of a large building, where all the servers are.

  3. Architectural engineer here on Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a "paperless office" and do 200+ small jobs a year. I still go through about 2 cases of Letter and Ledger paper (combined, for one engineer), plus a 500' roll of 36" wide bond a year. But I don't have any permanent hard copy storage. I've got probably 6 copies in digital format in various online and off-(or near-)line backups. It's far cheaper than storing the real stuff.

    But no matter how I've tried to get rid of paper, when I throw on a set of coveralls to go into the 15" tall crawl space of a 150 year old theater to check existing structure, I'm going to take a pencil, paper, and $2 clipboard and leave my Surface in the truck. I regularly send digital copies of my prints to people, but if it's a small time contractor I'm going to send him at least three full-size printed copies, or else he'll make 8.5x11 reductions of my 24x36 prints on his 8 year old inkjet printer and the poor fool in the field won't be able to read any of it.

    I also still far prefer pencil on paper for sketching to even the best tablets - and I've tried practically all of them. Some twice. I sketch on paper, scan it, then have it drafted into CAD. (yes, it's still much faster than drafting myself, and I'm a pretty good CAD jockey). I'm slowly switching over, but technical drawing on a tablet is just plain inefficient - there aren't enough of us to make it worth while as a market, so there are no good hand drafting programs.

  4. That's similar to my conundrum with my local airport. The hop leg from my regional airport - about 45 minutes by car - to the closest hub adds about 1:15 from gate to gate, plus 45 minutes of layover (in the best case) - or 2.75 hours. My travel time by car to the hub is about 2.75 hours. Often, there is a 1-2 hour layover, which means I can leave my house later and still pick up the direct flight from the hub. And that flight is $200 cheaper. For me, the break even is about 6-7 hours of drive time. Less than that and it's almost always worth driving.

  5. Re:TSA is leniant with small airplanes on Richard Branson Reveals Prototype For Supersonic Passenger Aircraft (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Close, but no. Even small commercial planes require all passengers to go through TSA screening. You're thinking of private air service, which is, iirc, mostly exempt from the traditional passenger TSA screening.

  6. Generally there is no reason to do that, but there are some poorly coded applications that will page memory to disk, even when they don't need to.

  7. What about a 12oz glass of good ol' OJ? on Drinking a Can of Sugary Soda Every Day Can Boost a Person's Risk For Prediabetes, Study Finds (upi.com) · · Score: 2

    Will that also cause pre-die-a-beetus?

  8. Wrong candidate for all of that on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We elected Trump, not Johnson.

  9. From: most of us. on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You can say it - most of us voted for the other candidate.

  10. Re:And to think the DNC wanted to face Trump... on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Indeed.

    Had the Democrats fielded almost anyone *except* HRC, it would have been a D landslide victory. They probably could have fielded a dog and a used ball of aluminum foil and won. But, no, they chose to anoint one of the most hated women in politics - and I say that as a life long Democrat. She's simply toxic in a way that the party core is simply blind to.

    I feel like we just had the Superbowl, and the 49ers and Browns ended up as the NFC and AFC representatives.

  11. Re:Does it mean they'll have replaceable batteries on Samsung Takes Out Full-page Ads on WSJ, NYTimes, and WaPo To Apologize For Note 7 Defects (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the batteries will be fixed, but they'll have removable/replaceable battery regulation circuits. Feel better now?

  12. I once joked to my (then) director of engineering that if I'd screwed up the analysis on a particular sensor mount, I would have to brush up my resume before they fired me. He looked me dead in the eye and said, "Oh, no - I won't fire you. I'll make you stay and fix it."

    Samsung - fix your shit, and I'll be back for the Note 8 (codename: Phoenix).

  13. Re:Missing golden opportunity... on New Tesla Buyers Will Have To Pay To Use Superchargers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously - it's a total waste. If you didn't have to stop and charge, you could just go without eating. Or groceries. Food is just a waste of money. Soylent and gasoline is the real future.

  14. 50 more gallons of gas that Ford offers on New Tesla Buyers Will Have To Pay To Use Superchargers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    on it's new trucks for service. Or Chevy, or GMC, or Honda, or Nissan. Because none of them cover a single cent. And, of course, when you have a problem with a traditional vehicle manufacturer, they go out of their way to deny any problem with their car, charge you an arm and a leg to fix the problems they won't, and don't ever provide a fix unless there's a lawsuit pending.

    That's why your own Consumer Reports ranks it the "Most Satifying Car to Drive" http://www.consumerreports.org...

    Maybe if the oil-bound manufacturers learned a little about customer service, they wouldn't be holding onto the anchor end of the customer satisfaction survey.

  15. 170 miles range from just 30 minutes, you meant on New Tesla Buyers Will Have To Pay To Use Superchargers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm sure you didn't mean to improperly imply that the omission of the 30 minute charge omitted in the Summary would only give you 10-15 miles. Of course not, that would be pushing your coal-fired, grab-em-by-the-pussy, heat the oceans until all the coral and polar bears die, alt-right agenda - which I'm sure you didn't intend. So, just in case you were concerned, here is the quote from the article you ;linked regarding the 30 minute super charging partial fill up:

    "170 miles of driving range from just 30 minutes of Supercharging"

  16. Re:Humans != Good Vote Counters on Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Machines do not make integer mistakes. Humans make them frequently, even when they are not biased. And every human is biased.

    Humans can screw up simple integer addition programming -that is true. But, again, it's a human problem not a machine problem.
    Humans, when looking at the scale of 100 million operations, are wildly more costly than computers
    Humans have a much shorter MTBF than any well engineered machine - and shorter than many poorly engineered machines
    Humans are specifically the reason that machines are untrustworthy.

    What I do find interesting is that we used the same mechanical machines for 60 years and abandoned them because parts were hard to obtain or expensive, despite there being tens of thousands of them. We replaced them with machines costing 1/4 to 1/2 the amount of new mechanical machines, and just 10 years out are finding that those new machines are so old that their parts (aka OS and other software) are abandoned and/or impossible to maintain. We've spent money on modernization because it seemed so fool proof, and didn't even think about how quickly such technology goes stale.

  17. Re:Since when did /. become Musk's personal blog? on Elon Musk Predicts Automation Will Lead To A Universal Basic Income (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    So...what have you done lately?

  18. Yeah, pretty much. Though I'd argue that, at least for singers, the photoshop of audio is Melodyne (or autotune, though most pros I know use the former).

  19. Re:Clinton did nothing wrong! on FBI Launches Internal Investigation Into Its Own Twitter Account (thinkprogress.org) · · Score: 1

    Why would a bot be tweeting that Trump Sr is a nice guy?

  20. Re:Meanwhile in news that actually fucking matters on FBI Launches Internal Investigation Into Its Own Twitter Account (thinkprogress.org) · · Score: 1

    But then wouldn't that make it Podesta's email that had been hacked, and not the server itself? There's a pretty big difference between owning a server and owning a single (or even multiple) email addresses which access the server via POP/IMAP.

  21. Usability between phones? Is that really a thing? Is it really that hard to understand the basic operation of a smartphone to someone who has learned how to effectively use at least one?

  22. Re:We know better than you on Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not, of course, and they're annoyingly small. GB for GB, they're 2-5x as expensive as SD or USB based flash. Plus, they're about a factor of 2-4 behind in maximum capacity. And I have a fuck-ton of them because I own a surface, and it only has a uSD port. I also have several USB adapters for uSD, SD, CF and the like - but they're a pain in the ass to carry if - other than the tablet - I'm taking anything with me.

  23. Re:Okay, what's the business model then? on LastPass Makes Password Management Free Across All Of Your PCs, Tablets and Smartphones (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This, more than anything else, may prompt me to switch. Not that handing my money over is any kind of guarantee of privacy, but if you're giving away nearly your entire product then it means you're making money some other way. And I'm not so sure I trust that "other way" not to be in conflict with my privacy.

  24. Even I I could view the source, I still wouldn't know that. I don't do cryptography or programming for a living at the level which would allow me to review the code for vulnerabilities, which puts me in with about 99.999%* of the general population. I can't verify keepass either. So I can either trust that their business model and livelihoods are based on some level of security, or I can base my trust of, say, keepass on some random set of internet users I've never met, have never seen the credientials of, and have nothing to lose if they happen to have missed a backdoor in the code during their perusal of the source.

    Neither seem all that certain, tbh. I mean, TrueCrypt was open source, and rock solid. Until the day we all found out it was compromised and insecure.

    *I wonder if there are even 70,000 people on earth who could effectively evaluate the entire source for vulnerabilities in their spare time, including every upgrade and change. The number may be quite a bit smaller.

  25. You mean like requiring that you log into your device (laptop, phone) with a fingerprint, an iris scan, or facial recognition in order to even open the Lastpass program - at which point you then have to put in your master password? Yeah, I think modern hardware can accommodate your request. It's not set up to be used that way, but the effective result is the same.