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  1. Apple?.Languages?.Swift?.News?.releaseText ?? "" on Apple Releases Swift As an Open-Source Project (swift.org) · · Score: 1

    Swift source code that generated this announcement.

  2. Do people still use cellular voice services? on Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Earnest question. Nearly everyone I know uses Skype, Facetime, and/or messaging for all their communication. Sure we still have to use cellular occasionally but it's not the norm.

  3. Gets worse near the end of the article on The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Price's life may get more complicated the week of Dec. 7, when TEDx plans to post online a public talk by his former wife, who changed her last name to Colon. She spoke on Oct. 28 at the University of Kentucky about the power of writing to overcome trauma. Colon stood on stage wearing cerulean blue and, without naming Price, read from a journal entry she says she wrote in May 2006 about her then-husband. "He got mad at me for ignoring him and grabbed me and shook me again," she read. "He also threw me to the ground and got on top of me. He started punching me in the stomach and slapped me across the face. I was shaking so bad."

  4. SMR is a stopgap that will disappear in 2-3 years on Western Digital Announces World's First 10TB Helium-Filled Hard Drive (techgage.com) · · Score: 0

    The trade-offs are too great. HAMR will hopefully be viable soon.

  5. Re:SMR Drives are fine for archival use on Western Digital Announces World's First 10TB Helium-Filled Hard Drive (techgage.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Currently SMR implementations increase density by only 30%. IMO that's not worth the performance trade-off for anything other than pure archival/backup applications.

  6. I have the opposite problem on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whenever my WiFi goes down I feel sad and depressed.

  7. Re:Imagine a programmer who can't debug on Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    'Debug' was mostly a metaphor to relate how international pilots lack critical skill sets to perform their jobs, the same as how programmer's not knowing how to debug lack critical skill sets to perform their jobs.

    Trains riding on rails are a bit easier to keep from crashing into things than planes.

  8. Re:Imagine a programmer who can't debug on Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    I wasn't referring to training. I was referring to the pilots themselves. I've trained lots of programmers how to debug and some of them just don't get it. Sure they'll be able to solve issues that directly relate to problems they've been trained to solve. But they lack a holistic, intuitive sense of the system they're working with and that shows when they're faced with problems that don't neatly fit within their training.

  9. Re:Reporting bias on Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    They should train pilots for that because planes are enormously complex engineering devices that sometimes do things that designers and engineers can't anticipate. We're not even talking about exotic events here - just basic knowledge about how to fly the plane under quasi-manual control without putting it into an uncontrollable drive. Oh, and also train them not to pull circuit breakers that are control critical flight surfaces just because you saw a mechanic do it while the plane was on the ground.

  10. Imagine a programmer who can't debug on Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And you'll have a good idea on the skill level of many international commercial jet pilots. Air France 447, Asiana 214, and now Air Asia QZ8501.

  11. This just killed 80% of comedy acts on The Brains of Men and Women Aren't Really That Different, Study Finds (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Now they'll have to open with "What's the deal with airline food?"

  12. Re: Dell T20 server for $139 (CyberMonday sale) on Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree the Xeon is a better value. I recommended the Pentium since the OP was looking for very low cost. Btw the Xeon system works with non-ECC DIMMs as well.

  13. Dell T20 server for $139 (CyberMonday sale) on Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nice base system with Pentium G3220:

    http://slickdeals.net/f/829851...

  14. So instead of pseudonyms like "TheseNutz" on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You'll see the "real" identify people registered under, which for this example will be "These J. Nutz".

  15. In Soviet Russia, software runs you! on KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What a Country!

  16. Man spends 4 years and $35k to find internet troll on One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Not to make excuses for the guy attacking them on One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Fair point, but what were the students visiting his hacked high school's website guilty of?

  18. Not to make excuses for the guy attacking them on One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    But the article indicates the kid being targeted by this campaign is no saint himself, both in his interactions online plus his arrest for hacking his own high school's website.

  19. Black Friday emblematic of wider econimic issues on How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Are Losing Their Meaning (time.com) · · Score: 2

    There is an analog between how the Christmas holiday season keeps getting pushed earlier into the year vs the current disfunction of the economy as a whole. Both are attempting to compensate for poor performance by pulling forward whatever demand there is. For retail this means earlier and deeper sales. For the economy it means greater (and longer duration) fiscal and economic stimulus.

  20. Re:Grammar like this... on Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Haha, was too busy looking for grammar construction mistakes and totally missed the obvious effect vs affect mistake as well. touche.

  21. Re:Affecting on Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Ugh, my bad. What's worse is I'm always pointing out that particular mistake to others. Doh!

  22. Re:Grammar like this... on Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The second subject complement in the first sentence should be removed as well (bold words below):

    Yahoo is running an A/B test that blocks access to Yahoo email if the site detects that the user is running an Ad Blocker. Yahoo says that this a trial rather than a new policy, effecting only a "small number" of users. Those lucky users are greeted with a message that reads "Please disable Ad Blocker to continue using Yahoo Mail." Regarding the legality of the move, "Yahoo is well within its rights to do so," said Ansel Halliburton an attorney at Kronenberger Rosenfeld who specializes in Internet law.

  23. Re:Grammar like this... on Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Submitter here. The only cringeworthy mistake I see in the grammar was my insertion of a superfluous subject complement in the second sentence (extra "that" in bold below), esp. in terms of flow from the first sentence. What others am I missing? Full summary below:

    Yahoo is running an A/B test that blocks access to Yahoo email if the site detects that the user is running an Ad Blocker. Yahoo says that this a trial rather than a new policy, effecting only a "small number" of users. Those lucky users are greeted with a message that reads "Please disable Ad Blocker to continue using Yahoo Mail." Regarding the legality of the move, "Yahoo is well within its rights to do so," said Ansel Halliburton an attorney at Kronenberger Rosenfeld who specializes in Internet law.

  24. What purpose does registration serve? on FAA To Drone Owners: Get Ready To Register To Fly (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Registration will provide the FAA with the owner's name and address. How will this information be useful to them? Are they going to have airports reroute traffic around neighborhoods that have high concentrations of drone owners?

  25. Re:Complete video stream pre-rolling on Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? · · Score: 1

    The streaming is stopped to save bandwidth. Why download large segments of a show that may never get watched? Some stats on how often a given stream is viewed until completion would help support or dispel my reasoning.