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  1. Re:Rotate on Should Developers Do All Their Own QA? (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and IT always tells me that they cannot fix it. They bounce the bug around between three levels of support, until I give up. :-(

  2. Re:Fuck no on Should Developers Do All Their Own QA? (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    It is fine that every developer should be testing. But nobody should be testing their own code - it is just not effective.

  3. Re: I personally have several dozen on 9.6% of Facebook's Users 'May Be Fakes' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You sure have a shadow profile, though... unless you don't use email or phone either.

  4. It could be 420 Million, but I very much doubt it would be. So the subject is incorrect.

  5. My Android phone struggles to keep 30 Hz refresh, not just in games, but also in Google Chrome and other apps. iOS has real time scheduling and native code, while Android is still messing around with translation and the JVM. The result is that iOS is smooth, while Android invariable stutters.

  6. The days of optical connections are over on Is the Optical Cable Dying? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Optical fibres are great for transatlantic data transfer. For getting data from coast to cost. But for local installations, they are just not cost effective. Splicing fibre is too expensive, transceivers are too expensive. 100Mbit Ethernet was often over fibre, but now everything is twisted pair, up to 10Gbit. HDMI is twisted pair. DisplayPort is. Coax and fibre are dead.

  7. Every year on Why Do Web Developers Keep Making The Same Mistakes? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    my students make the same mistakes. It is as if they learn nothing...

  8. Re: Just like Lois Lerner's drives on US Voting Server At Heart of Russian Hack Probe Mysteriously Wiped (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    To be honest, American Airlines is a risk for any passenger.

  9. Re:To summarize the summary on Google Might Need To Recall the Pixel 2 XL Because of Defective Screens (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, OLED is great. It has better colours, better contrast, and better efficiency with mostly dark images.

    The article to me sounds very much like a non-story: changes in contrast and colour balance depending on viewing angle are pretty common - even my 4k screen has that.

    The only real concern with OLED is burn it. I had not seen any, but there are reports.

  10. Yes, and I fail to see how the government could use the credit card information or the password for any legitimate reason.

  11. Don't hold it the wrong way.
    Don't do un-apple things with it.
    Don't be creative.
    Don't break out of the mold.

  12. Exactly. The problem is in the phone, and this is a just a rather brazen attempt of blame deflection.

  13. What you call a "charger" is actually a power supply - the charger is integrated into the phone. It is therefore physically impossible to use a third party charger. And consequently, blaming the power supply is just a lame attempt to avoid liability.

    Who knows, this could be Apples "Note 7" moment.

  14. You may have to re-calibrate your irony detector.

  15. Re:"PGP security is harder than it should be." on Adobe Security Team Accidentally Posts Private PGP Key On Blog (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Basic, yes, but not easy. The whole terminology is quite obscure, starting with "public and private key". Only the private key is a key in the usual sense of the word, in that it opens things. The public key is more like a container or envelop, and should have never been called key. And PGP suffers from a complete lack of usability design throughout.

    Arguably the expected usability cannot be achieved in a decentralised serverless system.

  16. Yes, but even then, people can decrypt emails previous send to Adobe, right?

  17. Humankind always did this on Can An Individual Still Resist The Spread of Technology? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 0

    This is the history (and pre-history) of humankind: to invent technology, and to use. Fire, clothes, weapons, why would you not use them? Or do you really want to dig up roots to chew with a pointy rock for the rest of your life, running around naked?

    Technology makes live easier, and because it is so useful, it is hard to reject.
     

  18. Re:I always wonder why on Is Online Advertising Worthless? (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and this is the main reason you would buy your own brand name as an adword: to keep out competitors. Whether that is legitimate or not is hard to judge. And obviously it does not usually generate new sales, but it will protect existing customers.

    Getting new customers takes a bit more ingenuity. You actually need to know what your potential customers are looking for.

  19. Hey, facts only get in the way of a good discussion.

  20. Re:Wow, slashdot has gone down hill on El Nino's Absence Is Causing An Active Hurricane Season (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    And that is exactly what I mean. Some science words thrown in, spiced with insults, thrown from a bubble of ignorance.

  21. Wow, slashdot has gone down hill on El Nino's Absence Is Causing An Active Hurricane Season (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This used to be a place for eccentric and intelligent people to talk about technology and science. But this sounds more like a pub discussion of ignorant backwater folks now.

  22. Re:Good engineers, terrible marketing on The Google Drive App For PC, Mac Is Being Shut Down In March (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I completely agree. Google products can be amazing, they can do exactly what you want. But that is pure luck, and even if it is great, you cannot rely on Google keeping it around. To many times they have pulled the plug on one of the features I used.

  23. Re:Of course... on The Google Drive App For PC, Mac Is Being Shut Down In March (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it should not be turned on by default, but somehow I have a feeling that it will be.

  24. Re:So what's the problem? on The Google Drive App For PC, Mac Is Being Shut Down In March (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are two problems:

    1. Why expose all the hassle to the user, when it is really just a new version? Why not make it seamless?

    2. It says it will work very much like the current program, which unfortunately means not very well. Too many times has it told me that everything is synchronised, and for me to discover later that it has not pushed my changes to the server. Out of all the synchronisation programs I have tried, it is by far the least reliable one. It also has a nasty habit of just crashing.

    Now of course the new program might not have these problems, which would be nice. We shall see.

  25. Exactly. If you insist on a payment of $0.12, that is stupid, but it is probably you right. However, you should also offer the full range of initial payment options. Although to be honest, I do not know a payment method that would make sense .