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  1. Re: Sarcastic & Condescending on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Wifi inside of wires? Preposterous. And what the hell is "CAT5"? Sounds like a classification for crazy cat ladies...

  2. Re: Do we need computers in schools. on Microsoft Targets Google and Apple in Schools With 'Surface Plus' Hardware Subscription Program (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    Carrying books is the closest thing some students get to exercise these days... also books handle being dropped a lot easier.

  3. Security through obscurity always works! In other news, Ajit recommends moving telnet to port 22 and changing the password from "secret" to "S3CR3T", and they'll never get in as long as you keep it secret. Foolproof!

  4. Further questioning on Russia Bans VPNs To Stop Users From Looking at Censored Sites (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    When questioned further if this could be used to silence free speech and be abused by the government, Levin was quoted as saying, "Nothing to see here. Move along."

  5. reasonable behavior? on O'Reilly Media Asks: Is It Time To Build A New Internet? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1
    "Reasonable behavior" sounds like a euphemism for censorship. I do not trust anyone to determine what is and is not acceptable. That's a problem so difficult no central authority can decided. See also: communism and China.

    Do. Not. Want.

  6. if I owned a business... on India is Betting On Compulsory Internships To Improve Its Unemployable Engineers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't own a business in India, but if I did, I'd be glad to know there would be a ton of free entry level software developers forced to work for free or next to nothing to get their degrees. Great job, India!

  7. Re:Take the Remington Steele approach... on Having a Woman On Your Team Ruins Your Chances For VC Funding (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1
    I love when people use fictional stories as support of their argument. Then I can do this:

    You know another problem that's not unheard of? Velociraptors hunting down humans.

  8. Re:Fully strange... on Having a Woman On Your Team Ruins Your Chances For VC Funding (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sorry to hear about your experiences. Sadly, I'm not surprised.

    At a previous job, there was a young girl at the front desk as a glorified receptionist. On a few occasions, she would complain about her job and her low salary. I asked her what does she want to do with her life? She had no concrete career goals and little to no training or valuable skills in any field.

    I still can't understand why she would expect to earn anything close to everyone else in the office. Everyone else had years of programming experience, including the managers. If I worked in a doctor's office and had no medical training, I wouldn't expect to earn much. A receptionist is easily replaceable and doesn't have any rare or valuable skills. Doesn't matter how much people are making around me, I wouldn't be worth much. Why couldn't she understand that?

    Yet there she was, complaining about unfair treatment. She wanted more money but had no way to make the company more money. That's the sort of entitlement that I'm getting sick of...

  9. Re: It's time for someone else to pay the piper... on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds good. We should get Mexico to pay for it... /s

  10. I'm German you fucking idiot - go troll somewhere else. Look up, I replied to the idiocy of another poster with information from reality. If you consider that a problem then perhaps you need some mental health treatment. Reality isn't flexible, and it is what it is.

    There's that friendly German personality I've heard so much about ;-) .

  11. Messy repos on Why The US Government Open Sources Its Code (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    These projects need some linting added to their CI setup. They got some n00bs on the team who can't keep their whitespace under control.

  12. An algorithm that only needs to check for any age under 21 is hardly groundbreaking.

  13. These headlines are so horribly written that they're misleading at worst, and confusing at best. After over 15 years visiting this site, I think I've finally had enough.

  14. Re: Would be nice,but doubtful that it happens imm on Americans Support Letting Cities Build Their Own Broadband Networks, Pew Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Um. No. Wireless will never beat wired. I can pump only so much through the air before that link is saturated. Worse yet, I have to share it with everyone. Not only is there a tradegy of the commons scenario, there's also increased security and privacy concerns as well. With wired, I can keep adding wires. You can't keep adding wireless channels.

  15. Re: This could be problematic. on Facebook To Use Photo-Matching To Block Repeat 'Revenge Porn' (aol.com) · · Score: 1

    With a policy like that, I hope you have spent years trying to fill up a floppy disk.

  16. "We've been very successful in hiring from [coding] bootcamps" - I call bullshit. There's no way you can get a good coder from a crash course. Best you'll get is a code monkey.

  17. misleading headlines on 'Brainstorming Doesn't Work' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Wish the title was not misleading. Something like "The right and wrong ways to brainstorm" would've made a lot more sense. It'd be like saying "eating food contributes to death" with a summary saying "only certain foods are to be avoided." Damn this alarmist bullshit.

  18. Just do it on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 4, Informative
    Nike had the right idea: just do it. Pick a distribution. Use it. See if you like. If you don't, switch.

    A very non-techie friend of mine installed Ubuntu 8.04 almost a decade ago and has only needed my help a couple times in that time period. Once he needed help with X config settings to hook up an old TV via HDMI. Another time it was a Comcast issue. Granted, my friend is on the high end of intelligence and he's not easily discouraged. His experience and lack of problems makes me believe Linux has been ready for the desktop for some time.

  19. This is why I do all my coding in PHP and JavaScript. Performance concerns are jettisoned before the coding even starts.

  20. When I was a kid, we learned all the different common projections and how they skew portions or shapes. Greenland was used as an example of how distortion can make accurate maps misleading. Seems that school is trying to put a bandaid on a larger problem: their kids don't know geography.

  21. If only there were some form of sign language to tell them how you feel.

    There is, but that would be cultural appropriation, so we can't do that.

  22. Which confuses me as to why that option wasn't used.

    The claimants are deaf so sure they cant do it but I'd help a kickstarter that wanted to caption these videos.

    Before, as I previously mentioned, they're assholes. The money used to sue them could've been spent transcribing large swathes of their video catalog. In their eyes, that money was better spent being assholes.

  23. Re: Bubble Company on Two More Executives Are Leaving Uber, Drivers May Unionize (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uber has been working on driverless car technology for years in Pittsburgh. They simply kept it quiet until recently. Their self driving technology is pretty awesome. An engineer from Uber hooked me up with a ride on my birthday this year and it was a very pleasant ride.

  24. deaf assholes on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Two assholes ruined it for everyone else... great. Forget that there's technology to automatically add subtitles. No, we must fuck over everyone. At least the two snake bastards won't be able to hear anyone sneaking up on them to enact revenge...

  25. in other news on Women Still Underrepresented in Information Security (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Women still haven't reached parity in workplace fatalities. Protesters vowed to do their part by jumping like lemmings into a wood chipper until enough awareness was raised to end this injustice.