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  1. Re: Well what did they expect? on Microsoft Unhappy With Beta Testers, Demands Answers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Uhh...those come after beta and would be more polished. Alpha and prealpha are the least polished stages of dev.

  2. Re: Is that on Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh. This guy gets it

  3. Breaking News: Sky is Blue on Best Way To Mine Bitcoins - Allow Errors! · · Score: 1

    This is super obvious...how did this paper get published?

  4. Re: Stupid design on Some Reversible USB-C Cables/Adapters Could Cause Irreversible Damage · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean fusible relays?

  5. Re: And when are they going to allow 7 Enterprise on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Uhhhh Win7 is widely regarded as the one they DIDNY screw up

  6. Re: Stupid design on Some Reversible USB-C Cables/Adapters Could Cause Irreversible Damage · · Score: 0

    Fuses? Is it 1985?

  7. Re: This is why on Storing Very Large Files On Amazon's Unlimited Cloud Photo Storage · · Score: 1

    "Im gonna weld stuff onto these minivans so that they look like a gokart"

  8. Re: Letting a great man say why I did those... apk on NSA Hacker Chief Explains How To Keep Him Out of Your System (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm agreeing with APK...the new owners of slashdot are! already making things weird.

  9. Oh my..an SEO company..if we thought Dice was bad..

  10. Re: Gets worse near the end of the article on The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated · · Score: 1

    There ARE some good ones just not many...Zimbardo's comes to mind

  11. Re: Treat it like all other medicine on Washington Hosts Summit On Gene Editing and 'Designer Babies' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can't provide an alternative advocacy yor entire rant is moot.

  12. Re: Coren22 exposes his reduced brain size on Washington Hosts Summit On Gene Editing and 'Designer Babies' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying his brain is an ASM stack?

  13. Re: Random .PNG file? on DecryptorMax/CryptInfinite Ransomware Decrypted, No Need To Pay Ransom (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a couple possibilities I can think of.
    A) Maybe there is a risk that the PNG you used would already be encrypted, so it says to use an external source.
    B) Malware tends to hook common system functions, such as those used to generate data for testing, and the malware author gives his solution just in case. This is particularly true with .net assemblies, as the entire set of addresses for the method table is readily available.
    C) Some combination of the 2.

  14. Re: IT workers shouldn't freelance on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    Test network? Restarting the application? Pfft my patches get injected at runtime, and are 100% reflection. Thats how you out-elite the elitists!

    Actually I once had to patch a mission-critical piece of software with a java agent at runtime. Waiting to see if loadAgent() failed was a real nailbiter.

  15. Re: IT workers shouldn't freelance on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 0

    I smell an elitist application dev (webdevs are scrubs)...but you're not wrong.

  16. Re: uh? on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    CISSP seems like an odd thing to choose...infosec is a tiny sliver of IT. As someone with a GSE and CISSP I'm gonna say it's the best part. Red team 4 lyfe!

  17. Re: uh? on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 2

    I've found that devs (working devs!) without degrees tend to have a far more broad knowledgebase. Typically they are part of the "IT culture" and are immersed in learning 24/7.

    Too many degreed devs do it for money and only know what they were taught in school. Most dont even bother to remember ASM/C in favor of high level languages.

    Someone who feels development helps define them as a person is usually far more competent.

    There's overlap, but that's been my experience.

  18. Re: Avoidance on Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is not true if develepors in my experience...we have tons of metrics that decide it.

  19. Re: 3.5mm? on Pursuit of Slenderness May Mean No More Headphone Jack In iPhone 7 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    xbox 360 used it actually...still many devices that do

  20. Re: USB is a support nightmare on What USB Has Replaced (And What it Hasn't) (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Found the guy who last used or upgraded Windows a decade ago.

  21. Re: Build! And skip SLI. on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    4k is a very real reason for it

  22. Re: Depends if you want to support it on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    That webcam app is itself bloatware.

  23. Re: Depends if you want to support it on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    You dont put xeons in the same machines with quadro\firegl..you use i7s. 99.99% of boxes with a xeon dont even have a GUI.

    Certain scientific purposes demand both...but cad/video/etc do not. Their software is not optimized for lowspeed high corecount environments.

  24. Re: It sure is. on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 2

    Haha..this is the slashdot I miss

  25. Re: Close the loop on Finnish IT Retailer Reveals Most Returned Products · · Score: 1

    Said company only operates in half this context. A RAM mfg isnt going to make that tool...the burden is on MS. It would piss off investors/be a waste