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  1. Selective Hiring on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ask for the world. Then you can choose not to hire somebody you don't want in the company (age, race, sex, hair color, etc.) because they don't meet the qualifications. HR has been doing this kind of things ever since discrimination became illegal.

  2. Brand Loyalty? Maybe not so much on Microsoft And Apple Target Schools In War With Chromebook (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    My high school combined with 36 other schools to time share a PDP8-E. Connection was via an unbelievably fast hard-wired 110 baud data line. We had one online TTY model 33 and one offline 33. You wrote your programs on the offline 33 by directly punching them to paper tape, backspaces corrections and all, then loaded them on the online 33 when you have your turn. Once you were done editing and debugging the program you once again punched it out of paper tape.

    How do I have brand loyalty for DEC and Teletype in this day and age?

  3. Sir, I award you one internet as first prize. Unfortunately the Freemasons subverted the process before the award could be issued.

  4. Hypocrisy Much? on EU's Highest Court Delivers Blow To UK Snooper's Charter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that the individual, David Davis, who filed the complaint with the EU is also a strong member of the Brexit group.

    No, no, no, we do not want to be part of the EU. Oh, wait a minute. We want to take advantage of some of its laws. In that case, well, never mind. But for everything else we need to get out of the EU.

    It's good to see that the USA doesn't have a lock on political hypocrisy.

  5. Re:Could be fun on Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right. Because companies abandoned China in droves because of their evil policies.

    Oh, wait. No their didn't. Every man and their dog wants to move in to the massively growing and profitable market of China.

    The UK is the same deal. It's a massive financial and tech hub, so companies aren't going anywhere.

    Though they ARE busy trying to wreck that with the Brexit.

    The population of China is roughly 1.4 billion people. The population of England is 0.053 billion. England has 4% of the population of China. Tech companies care a lot more about the marketplace of China than they do about England.

    So that leaves the "massive financial and tech hub" you describe in England. How many financial companies are going to want to maintain, never mind expand, their presence in a country which is allowed to actively monitor their most secure communications? If I were CEO of a global financial company I would be very concerned about the backlash from my customers if my company were to remain in such a country.

  6. Re:I could have told you that. on Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS. The money’s rolling in and this is fun.” - CBS CEO Les Moonves
    http://www.newsweek.com/blame-...

  7. Another Revenue Source for Carriers? on 'Robocall Strike Force' Proposal Could Stop Caller ID Spoofing (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    I didn't read them all, but T-Mobile's solution is an app which you install on your smart phone. The description says that it's a free trial and they state up from that it is a paid service. So if you want protection from spam/scam calls you need to pay extra. I get tired of the various carriers nickle and diming you to death.

  8. Re:Other than Brother... on HP Printers Have A Pre-Programmed Failure Date For Non-HP Ink Cartridges (myce.com) · · Score: 1

    Because paper still needs to be used. I have customers that request paper invoices. I send them paper invoices so that I get paid. I have vendors that have no means of accepting payment other than by check. It is a lot easier to print out a complex troubleshooting or repair guide to use at a remote location than by trying to balance a tablet in some dark corner of a boat. The IRS still requires paper forms to be mailed to them. The local ferry system requires you to present a reservation sheet with its barcode and the ticket printed with its barcode. And the list goes on and on. My business is substantially digital, but paper is still required.

  9. Problematic for EMTs and other First Responders on iPhone 7 Home Button Now Requires Skin Contact To Work (todaysiphone.com) · · Score: 1

    As an EMT I always wear gloves on scene. There are numerous apps which are good reference sources which get used on scene. If in fact the new iPhone 7 can't be turned on while wearing gloves, there is a huge number of first responders that most likely won't be upgrading to the new iPhone.

  10. Depends on how the receiver absorbs the message on 'Only Voice Memos Can Save Us From the Scourge of Email' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    For some people, like myself, it can be difficult to understand a recorded message without visual clues and context. Even with visual clues, I prefer to read most content. If my mind skips a cog I can easily reread the previous sentence, but with a voice recording you spend more time trying to go back, landing in the middle of some previous sentence, listen forward to what you were looking for while retaining the context, and then trying to get back into the stream of what was being said.

  11. Messenger and Payments? on Huge Vulnerabilities In Facebook Chat and Messenger Exploitable With Basic HTML (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And Facebook wants to use the messenger app to send payments? If they have this much trouble with basic security over social chatting, why should we trust them to handle payment processing? If you can't do the simple things right, you certainly can't be expected to successfully accomplish the difficult things.

  12. It's not the AI the I don't trust on Study Indicates Americans Don't Trust AI (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not the AI that I don't trust, it's the companies with access to the data that worry me.

  13. Distracted Driving? on Get Ready To Be Bombarded With Ads When Using Google Maps (news.com.au) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I use the Google Maps on my iPhone for navigating when I'm driving someplace unfamiliar. Does this mean that I'll have to be dismissing ads in order to see continue to have a useable navigation tool? I'm also not wild about the idea of pop up ads drawing my attention away from the road. Time will tell.

  14. Another moral to this story is don't by anything advertised on /. I've looked at a couple of the offers and researched the feedback on the companies. They had horrible feedback. So has /. become the haven of scammers and garbage merchants?

  15. Thank you.

  16. Posting just to move past 666 on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I was amused to note that the number of comments on this article was 666. It's intriguing that an article about the spawn of the devil, i.e. ads, should have 666 comments. So to prevent the devil gaining strength and ensuring ads for everyone, I offer this post to bring the number up to 667.

    Your welcome.

  17. Re:What is a 'Ghostface Killa' and why should i ca on Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There has never been an occasion where it has meant anything else.

    Except when it really means what it says. I came to read the comments because I had never heard of Ghostface Killa. What is it, or who is it? Why is it/he being mentioned on /.?

    And now, having read the comments, and learned what this is all about, I think I'll return to a more valuable source of news, like, say, Facebook.

  18. Re:Slippery Slope on An FBI Hacking Campaign Targeted Over a Thousand Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    What if the connection was accidental/unintentional?

    According to the FA, the information was only captured when the user started the login process, or started the registration process. I don't know about you, but if I accidently landed on a child porn website the very first thing I would do would be to get out of it. I certainly wouldn't start to register as a user to the site.

    Or some rogue process did it?

    That's a different issue, but a highly unlikely event.

  19. Re:Slippery Slope on An FBI Hacking Campaign Targeted Over a Thousand Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How much metal is a vehicle allowed to have before you consider it illegal for a police department to use? Please be specific.

    To keep this on the subject matter I'll quote what Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said about porn, "I know it when I see it". Military grade vehicles look quite different than civilian vehicles. You certainly would notice if your local sheriff's deputy started patrolling your neighborhood in a HumVee instead of a Crown Vic.

  20. Cellular Service Isn't Everywhere on Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not, cellular service isn't as ubiquitous as people think it is. There are still significant areas of the country without adequate cellular coverage. Are you willing to have your "apps" not work because your browser can't connect to the intertubes?

  21. Maybe at some point in their lives, if they ever grow up, they'll learn that just because you can doesn't mean you should

  22. Don't people strip symbols any more? on Juniper's Backdoor Password Disclosed, Likely Added In Late 2013 (rapid7.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One thing that surprised me is that symbols were still in the executable. I'll admit that I'm kind of long in the tooth and have been out of the industry for 15 years now. It used to be that a standard practice was that the final compile had the symbols stripped out. It was done for space consideration mostly, which probably isn't a concern anymore, but also for security. Is it now standard practice to leave symbols in shipped code? If so, why? Yes it is somewhat of a security by obscurity, but leaving symbols in is like leaving the combination to your lock taped to the back of it, or at least a note as to where you've hidden the combination.

  23. Ok no proof ... Licensed Professional engineer that said ok to roll out.

    My guess is that "there must be extensive certification of the vehicle itself" is taking that into consideration. Nowhere does it say that car companies themselves can just decide on their own that a car is ready for the road.

  24. I don't understand why? Seriously, I don't get it.

    Is this just the modern day equivalent of throwing a rock through a shop window in the middle of the night; an act perpetrated by frightened little children acting out?

  25. Re:Thankyou you Cocksucking Envirowackos on Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out of 3rd-Party Bulbs With New Firmware (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh for mod points. But mod points wouldn't really work in this case because I'd mod you +1 informative, +1 funny, even though they don't have it, +1 Zing!