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  1. Obligatory Penny Arcade on Ubisoft's Day-One Patch For 'The Division 2' on PS4 is 90 Gigabytes (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    Also, the first Penny Arcade: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18

  2. Not the same thing on Verizon Says It Won't Launch Fake 5G Icons Like AT&T Did (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not that actual logic is likely to make a difference, but... From the summary:

    Malady says Verizon will "not call our 4G network a 5G network if customers don't experience a performance or capability upgrade that only 5G can deliver." But that isn't the same thing as saying "we won't label our network 5G unless it's 5G." In fact, if you turn that sentence into a positive statement, it says "we will only call our 4G network a 5G network if it delivers a 5G-like experience."

    No, that positive statement is not the same thing. If you say you won't use the 5G label unless you're providing a capability that only 5G can deliver, then an upgraded 4G network (that's still 4G) can't qualify by providing a 5G-like experience: if 4G can provide it, then it's not something that only 5G can deliver.

  3. I wish I could believe that the president has been doing this as some sort of Corbomite Maneuver.

  4. Multiple markets on 'Plugspreading' is an Abomination (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The short answer is that devices are designed for use in multiple markets with varying plug arrangements. To reduce cost, the form factor of the conversion hardware is unchanged between markets; only the prongs are changed. That which is inconvenient in Europe may be perfectly fine in the US. It's not evil. It's a natural consequence of global commerce without global power connection standards.

  5. Dueling Impersonators? on You Could Be Flirting On Dating Apps With Paid Impersonators (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And what happens when a paid flirter interacts with other paid flirters? Can an entire relationship be developed by paid proxies?

  6. Re:Yeah, Slashdot has become wildly 'conservative' on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies has been around for a while but it's still worth a read. Not that I'm saying any of this is actually happening. Just something to keep in mind.

  7. Reminds me of an exchange from the movie Deal Of The Century involving a totally automated fighter aircraft: Haven't ya ever heard of RAIN?

  8. During the first Cold War, American and British spies would sometimes place coded messages in newspaper classified ads to communicate with each other.

    Turns out that's the origin of the word "classified" for secret documents. Lol.

  9. Re:PROPERTY on 2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not merely the wish of the author of the article. In the US, there is, in fact, a difference between physical property and intellectual property, as provided by the Constitution in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8. It's a limited time monopoly. If you don't like it, make your contributions in another arena. Or seek to amend the Constitution. Or join the corporations that continue to buy the extensions piecemeal as other commenters have predicted will happen.

  10. Pay with my face? on 'Pay With Your Face' Technology Tested in a KFC Store In China (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what happened after I kicked my brother!

  11. Forever on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    Here's one of those not-what-you-expect lies that you learn you're telling yourself after a year or so: This code will be used everywhere forever. It will be totally worth it to make it super flexible and super maintainable.

  12. Database lies on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    Seems like the article is mostly lies that database programmers tell themselves.

  13. A more helpful bit of math for them to do for us would be to calculate the change in calories. Not all, and perhaps not even most of the calories in milk chocolate come from sugar. If you believe this, slightly more than half come from fat.

  14. Let them eat cake on Keep Two Bank Accounts To Beat Cyber Attacks, Says Bank of England Adviser (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Typical advice from an out-of-touch banker. This is impractical for those most at risk of serious consequences if their bank closes for a few days. It's not like getting an extra hard drive and copying your money to the backup bank. You have to split your limited assets and make sure you meet the minimum requirements of two institutions. And heaven help you if each requires you to have direct deposit in order to avoid monthly fees.

  15. Right Tap on Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? · · Score: 1

    Find a way for a touch screen to tell the difference between my index finger and my middle finger so I can go back to using context menus on all my devices. Also so I can tell it when I'm really angry with it.

  16. Melodrama on EasyJet Turning To Drones For Aircraft Inspections · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nobody's leaving aircraft inspection to the drones. They're just a tool like any other. As long as there's no question that the images reviewed are of the right aircraft (no spoofing, please), I think it's really no different from using a 20 meter selfie stick to take the pictures.

  17. Re:Easy fix on The Engineer's Lament -- Prioritizing Car Safety Issues · · Score: 1

    I expect the decision was made by a manager/executive, who was advised by an accountant (who may have gotten an award) and a lawyer (who probably got fired).

  18. Tissue? on Single Pixel Camera Takes Images Through Breast Tissue · · Score: 1

    You know, on chickens, breast tissue is usually called breast meat. I've only seen it called breast tissue on mammals, and then usually only on females.

  19. Re:what about on Designing Tomorrow's Air Traffic Control Systems · · Score: 1

    They do have redundant backups: enough spare capacity exists in the other centers to carry the load the Chicago center dropped. Switchover to operations at alternate facilities was accomplished (and reversed) without incident. Yes, it took some time and there were substantial flight delays, but this is a once-in-a-great-while type of failure.

    Or are you talking about backups so expansive that in the event of a problem, no one need ever know anything ever happened, whether we're talking about the failure of a single chip or the destruction of an entire facility? I agree it could be done, but at what cost? As a taxpayer and occasional traveler, I'm satisfied with the level of redundancy they have now.

  20. Anniversary on Xbox One Set To Launch On November 22 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is also the same day that the Xbox 360 launched in 2005.

    It's also the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK... coincidence? Actually, yes, I'm pretty sure it's just a coincidence.

  21. Retaliation on The Return of Surveillance Camera Man · · Score: 1

    A lot of the retaliation by his, er, subjects is physical and likely an illegal escalation. I think a simpler response is to produce a mirror or better yet a camera-disabling laser pointer. But then, he holds the power of edit, so any truly effective responses won't make it into the videos. There's a lot of creative people in Seattle, and I'd like to see those "outtakes" which didn't produce the effect he was going for.

  22. When a number comes out of that lock box, it's just a phone number ... If they think that's relevant to their counterterrorism investigation, they give that to the FBI. ... the FBI has to go out and meet all the legal standards to even get whose phone number that is...

    I do not understand how he can tout the uselessness of the number that pops out of the "lock box" and then gloss over how its relevance can be determined before the FBI seeks to learn anything more about it.

  23. Fog Of War on Israeli Army Retweeting 1967 War As It Happened · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It would be most interesting if the tweeting team managed to dig deep enough into the historical documents to recreate the fog of war that blankets all such events, announcing and then retracting as reports arrived at HQ (or whatever).

    Full realism would be uninteresting since no real HQ would tweet everything it thought it knew at the moment it knew it. But then, perhaps using declassified documents, we could recreate what it would be like to work at the top levels of a Twitter-based government with Top Secret initial and revised reports and guesses bouncing around, seeing how little time people really had to make decisions that put thousands or millions of lives at risk.

  24. Back it up on Planetary Resources To 'Claim' Asteroids With Beacons · · Score: 1

    Absent international treaty or a national law (assuming their competition can be assailed in the court system), anyone with a plan like this will be forced to defend their claims the old fashioned way: by force. Will the beacons have probe-disabling lasers on board? The article doesn't say. But my guess is that the cost of getting a defense system on the rock is the same as the cost of getting mining equipment on it.

    A better defense plan is to scan 10 times as many rocks as you normally would and leave beacons on all of them. Then develop either stealthy or very fast mining tech for phase 2.

  25. Inversion on Can You Do the Regular Expression Crossword? · · Score: 1

    And here I was thinking the crossword clues would be as normal, but the answers in the grid would themselves be regular expressions.