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  1. Re:All the same here on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 2

    So if aliens invaded and wanted to create a super race of engineers, you're in for a good time?

  2. Re:You lost me at vim on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    pico

  3. Re:my daughter on Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? · · Score: 1

    If I took up sexting, there will be outbreaks of blindness. Seriously.

  4. Re:my daughter on Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? · · Score: 1

    My monthly bill hovers at around £3. The cheapest plan that offers unlimited data on Three is £12.90 a month. For my uses, that will be overkill.

  5. Re:my daughter on Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? · · Score: 2

    I'm on Three in the UK and I get charged 1p per MB. Assuming each message is 1KB in size (lolwut?) that means I get charged 1p per 1000 messages. It doesn't matter if my friends and family are spread all over the world as the charge is the same. No mobile plan comes close.

  6. Re:I don't on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 2

    And ... have you seen your daughter since you gave the disk to her?

  7. Similar effect on Slashdot on Facebook Analyzes the Impact of Love On Their Business · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probability of Relationship is inversely related to Slashdot posting frequency.

  8. Re: Psh, jQuery. on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but that looks scary :)

  9. Re: Psh, jQuery. on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    They're also not demonstrating jQuery selectors which are significantly more concise and powerful. $("#my_div") is significantly more concise and readable than document.getElementById("my_div").

  10. Re:Wow on Asteroids Scarred By Solar System's Violent Youth · · Score: 1

    ...compared to being a hunter-gatherer, surviving harsh winters, and fighting off natures top predators (including other humans).

    Hey! You've just described my time in Rust!

  11. Late to the party on Google Launches Cordova Powered Chrome Apps For Android and iOS · · Score: 2

    HTML5 was touted as the panacea of mobile app development back in 2012 (IIRC). The big news was when companies like Facebook and Linkedin migrated their iOS/Android apps to HTML5. Only problem is that the big name companies have since ditched their HTML5 mobile apps and gone back to using native APIs. They cite performance issues (apps running out of memory and stuttery animation) as the reasons for the switch. This is not just limited to the big companies, and others are leaving the HTML5 mobile app boat.

    Google seems a little late to the party.

  12. Re:units please on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    I've never seen anyone use Fahrenheit in the UK, certainly not in the way you suggest.

  13. Re:Duh? on Examining the User-Reported Issues With Upgrading From GCC 4.7 To 4.8 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's by Jeff Cogswell. I ignore any of the "articles" he writes as they're either misleading bullshit or chock full of Captain Obvious statements.

  14. Re:There's a question about that at Skeptics on Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School · · Score: 1

    You realise that faux is pronounced "foe"?

  15. Re:16:10 on Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ended up with a Macbook precisely because of the aspect ratio. Now if there was a decent 4:3 laptop, I'd buy that in a heartbeat. The Chromebook pixel is nice, but too pricey for what it is.

  16. Re:It's cache on Ubuntu Wants To Enable SSD TRIM By Default · · Score: 1

    You can now buy SDXC cards that have 90MB/s transfer speeds, so it's not impossible that it's just high speed flash. SSDs on the other hand are capable of 400MB/s transfer speeds, 800MB/s if it's one of the new PCI-e devices found in the new MacBooks.

  17. Disable plugins by default on Netflix Users In Danger of Unknowingly Picking Up Malware · · Score: 1

    This is why I have plugins disabled by default and enabled only for certain "trusted" sites. For Silverlight, the only site that can run it is Netflix. This obviously doesn't protect you if your "trusted" site is compromised, but it does mean that browsing to some random website doesn't automatically infect you.

  18. Re:Practical question on Raspberry Pi Hits the 2 Million Mark · · Score: 1

    That is the only definition when you are a zealot.

  19. Re:I say keep it up. on Open Rights Group International Says Virgin, Sky Blocking Innocent Sites · · Score: 1

    Have never heard of them, but they look a little pricey.

  20. Re:I say keep it up. on Open Rights Group International Says Virgin, Sky Blocking Innocent Sites · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I was with Be for years. Excellent ISP, no blocking, real unlimited bandwidth and helpful technical support to boot. I jumped ship to Virgin when they were bought out by Sky as I really hate Sky. Who else was I going to go with? BT?

    There are no more good ISPs left in the UK. This is a real shame.

    p.s. As this is Slashdot, I would love to be corrected on the last point ^_^

  21. Re:nice ad hominem attack asshole! on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    So you respond to an ad hominem attack with a physical one? Well played, sir.

  22. Re:Dumber and dumber on Ford Showcases Self-Parking Car Technology · · Score: 1

    More like a few decades. Before then, modern homo-sapiens didn't have easy access to cars.

  23. Re:Obamaphone on Obama Administration Refuses To Overturn Import Ban On Samsung Products · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Must be nice when $12.2B is not considered "much".

  24. Re:What does IT run on .. on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 1

    The verbosity and other brain dead aspects of HTML/HTTP have been done to death. But that hasn't prevented sites like Facebook from working well. The fact that submitting a simple form generates 90+ requests is indicative of poor design. Nothing more.

  25. Re:Mir is a dud on Chromium To Support Wayland · · Score: 1

    ...Canonical's culture is based almost entirely on NIH and being a leech.

    Aren't those two exact opposites?

    There you go ruining someone's rant by applying logic.