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  1. Why the fuck are you buying Snap, Inc? on How Many Snapchat Clones Does It Take For Facebook To Lose Its Self-Respect? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Snap has filters and disappearing texts. Other than ads, there is no user or product data to mine unless they are breaking their own rules. The product is easily cloneable by Facebook, goliath of Internet with it's brethren of Google, Microsoft and others. Reminds me of... Groupon?

    As described by a coworker: "Snap is the Uber of Twitter."

    at least Twitter has data to mine, the product is still you... even with a character limit.

    Facebook is big enough to get the Goliath media attack. Looks really like a Snap stock prop piece.

  2. Re: coffee was over the limit on Olympic Committee Prohibits Streaming Apps, Vines and GIFs From Its Events (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Coffee is a Coke product. It's Georgia Peach coffee, and it's literally big in Japan. It tastes so bad to American palettes that it's a beverage allowed to be brought in from the outside to Coke headquarters in Atlanta.

  3. I'll just leave this Second Life nugget on Bernie Sanders' Second Life Headquarters Besieged by Trump-Supporting Swastikas (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Cove Story for Realtor Magazine, 2007

    http://realtormag.realtor.org/...

  4. Re:You don't have to use keurig brand cups on Keurig Spends 10 Years Developing A Recyclable Coffee Cup (boston.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a market solution to your problem:

    http://www.bedbathandbeyond.co...

  5. Re:As a former resident of Crestwood, IL... on Flint, Michigan Declares State of Emergency Over Lead In Children's Blood (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In Crestwood's case, PCE or dry cleaning chemicals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    As for commenting style, Slashdot never allowed subject only comments.

  6. As a former resident of Crestwood, IL... on Flint, Michigan Declares State of Emergency Over Lead In Children's Blood (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Lots of feels for Flint.

  7. Samba 4? And to that end my company uses AWS Directory Service, which the "Simple AD" is supported Samba 4 that hooks our servers, windows laptops and AWS workspaces to one non-MS domain controller.

  8. There are 4 types of shops.... on Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns (scottandscottllp.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are Microsoft shops out there, and there are some that I've worked with that are happy with Microsoft.

    There are IBM shops out there, and there are some that I've worked with that are happy with IBM.

    There are Best of Breed shops, (LAMP/OSS/etc) and they are happy as hell.

    There are Oracle shops out there, and never have I heard a client say "We Love Oracle!"

  9. Precursor to Tech Singularity on Tim O'Reilly and the 'WTF?!' Economy (Video) · · Score: 1

    If I was making a new civ tech tree, the "wtf economy" would be right before tech singularity. Doesn't end well.

  10. Re:Europe has also had wire transfers on Cashless Adoption Growing In Europe · · Score: 2, Informative

    Chase Quickpay?

  11. Too Many Cooks... on The Open Container Project and What It Means · · Score: 1

    When you get a project with a bazillion vendors and no "benevolent" dictators... It will end up as politicware.

    See Openstack or SDMI.

  12. Some of the top customers from my RadioShack years on RadioShack Puts Customer Data Up For Sale In Bankruptcy Auction · · Score: 2

    Johnny Cash
    123 Anywhere St
    Frankfort, IL

    Dagwood Blues
    1060 West Addison Street
    Chicago, IL 60613

    (Elwood was too obvious to store managers)

    George Bush
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
    Chicago, IL 60611

    (Address verification on SCO Unix 3? HA!)

  13. Re:At least Microsoft and Slashdot listen to users on Microsoft Has Received 1 Million Pieces of Feedback For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    The software was Xfree86 vs Xorg. The quickest way to get up to speed on the politics of that fork is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X... XFree86 was the default X server for 15+ years till it made a nasty license change and all the distributions dropped it like a hot potato for Xorg in 2009.

  14. Re:Rails is decaying, but Chef is keeping Ruby ali on Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam? · · Score: 1

    Wow. The core of Chef is Erlang which allows modules to load in ruby,perl, python or whatever you want. The client is in ruby.

    Excluding the top tools on the market because of zealotry against the language? Wow.

  15. Stew on this. on Can Ello Legally Promise To Remain Ad-Free? · · Score: 0

    Microsoft could infiltrate the FSF and issue a GPL 4. All those GPL "OR ANY LATER VERSION" are at the whim of the FSF being a benevolent organization in the future.

    Conspiracies are hard to pull off.

  16. Re:Do they make high-quality LTE bridges? on Ask Slashdot: LTE Hotspot As Sole Cellular Connection? · · Score: 1

    We have a Cradlepoint MBR1200B with Verizon LTE service as tertiary fail over for our headquarters. The router is about $800 for router + modem + replacement 4G antennas. $500 for a static IP from Verizon. $50 a month for a sim and basic service. (If we ever need it, we expect to pay overage.)

    http://3gstore.com/product/524...

  17. Easy Mitigation Strategy on If Your Cloud Vendor Goes Out of Business, Are You Ready? · · Score: 1

    Use meta cloud scaling tools like RightScale or Scalr. Create hybrid cloud solutions across AWS, RS Cloud, Google, Azure.... doesn't matter.

  18. Re:Ruby? on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 1

    And completely forgetting that both Puppet and Chef are both ruby based and not going anywhere. Rails may die.

  19. What days on Chicago Red Light Cameras Issue Thousands of Bogus Tickets · · Score: 1

    The article doesn't list the days in question.

    There are certain days in the winter where there are icy conditions and cars slide through lights or rolling right turns for safety reasons. Of course, the cameras don't care.

  20. Re:That's ADMIRAL Grace Hopper on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Whoosh. (You guys are +5ing bad facts again). The point the AC is trying to make is that Admiral Grace Hopper has a title, and it should be used to honor her career.

    Also, the Commodore to Rear Admiral changed occurred in 1985, and Admiral Hopper was involuntarily retired in 1986.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  21. Re:Solution - Face-saving way out on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 3, Informative

    Compelled vaccination would fall under implied power. Random fact of the day: ICE's jurisdiction is an implied power.

    Here are the relevant parts of the constitution:
    "Implied powers are which can reasonably be assumed to flow from express powers, though not explicitly mentioned. The legitimacy of these powers flows from the "General Welfare" clause in the Preamble, the "Necessary & Proper Clause", and the "Commerce Clause." " (Quote from Wikipedia)

  22. I have left companies over coffee... on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    One company I worked at had a Flavia machine. Flavia is expensive as hell but the packages always work. Then they got rid of it for regular coffee. I left. (One of many reasons).

    The next company had regular coffee and then "upgraded" to a Keurig machine. Every other day the machine would overflow is some spectacular fashion. I left.

    My current company had regular coffee,was acquired and a perk of the new megacorp is Flavia machines in every office. Happy bee.

    The patent on the Keurig has run out, so they are going to try and borrow the playbook from HP/Lexmark/et all? Hahaha. Sell short.

  23. AGPL ... DOA License on POV-Ray Is Now FLOSS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nasty, nasty license. GPL used to cause lawyers to run around with the flamethrowers, then they learned all the nuances and all was well. AGPL? Now they run around with flamethrowers and nukes. As they should...

  24. How can you "hack" a git repository? on Urban Terror Code Stolen · · Score: 1

    The entire source tree for a git repository is in git clone, with the magic sauce of "--mirror" to get the full repository. This is an advantage for open source distributed teams, but not a great methodology for closed source development like this was.

    Deeply amusing.

  25. Re:Rock and a hard place on Microsoft: Xbox One Won't Require Kinect To Function · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Quite simply, the main feature Microsoft has been touting to advertisers is the ability to detect who is in the room and target ads accordingly. The gold mine is not in Kinect for games, its for the TV/Video/Music/Netflix/Hulu consumption and the "big data" of being to tell that there is a 30-35 white male (recognized and tracked via Bing), 30-35 white female (Not logged in but we know her profile), and another 25-30 female guest that we have an 90% confidence is person Y who has a bing account. Lets target Ad X, Y and not Z.

    MS will put Nielsen to shame with all that mineable data. There will be still be people who leave the MS eye on all the time, at least now you have the option to unplug it.