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  1. Developers care about eating on Apple Begins Rejecting Apps With 'Hot Code Push' Feature (apple.com) · · Score: 2

    You can't eat open source revenues. Most of the open source devs work for some corp or another, after all.

  2. Finally, some Xeon competition on AMD Offers Full Details and Performance of Zen-Based Naples Server Platform (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Xeon line has been pretty lame for the last couple of years. It's nice to see some competition.

  3. The double-check script way works until it doesn't.

    The command wasn't mis-typed, the scope was wrong.

  4. The correct answer: look on stack overflow on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The correct answer to all of these questions is "why don't you look on stackoverflow?"

  5. How is he getting them back? on SpaceX Plans To Send Two People Around the Moon In 2018 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Shooting two people around the moon is hard. The trick is getting them back. Are they planning on coming back?

  6. This is a prime example of how money corrupts science. The scientist in question needs grant money, and he can't get it if Pluto isn't a planet.

    Likewise, the citizens of Pluto now can't exercise their planetary rights because Pluto isn't a planet anymore. As a non-planet they aren't eligible for grant money designated for planetary authorities; they now have to get their monies from the less-funded "heavenly bodies" fund, which already has a waiting list.

    The demotion has also caused issues with the accreditation of the various educational institutions on Pluto; the accreditation body only deals with planet or supergiant objects, by charter. All of Pluto's institutions need to be re-accredited, and until that happens credit transfers cannot be processed. When processed they will be processed at non-planetary rates.

  7. There are obvious EEOC and labor law violations all over the place. If she wants, she could make lots of bucks by helping out the EEOC.

  8. As far as a journalist can tell? on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Journalists are idiots, who only know what they're told.

    Why would Intel be sharing its CapEx decision-making process with a journalist?

    If the Journalist really knew, he'd go back through his "notes" and find the list of where Intel's proposed fab was going to be, then hunt down the decision-making process.

    But he can't, so he basically is saying "I don't believe them because I have no information."

    What an f-tard.

  9. Oh no! My body shop will close! on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now we know who's abusing the H1B visa program - the ones who complain the loudest.

    We offshore our India team, so we won't be affected by the H1B changes. But the body shops here will be decimated, which is probably going to be a good thing.

  10. If you make sure an H1B holder is paid over $100k a year the abuses will stop.

    Or require them to be paid the average prevailing wage of the position in the CEO's MSA.

    Either one will kill large chunks of the body-shop industry.

    Lastly, put in a bounty program for body shops that use B1 visa holders for body shopping. Reporters get 40% of the imposed fine, which is a multiple of the salary delta between the body shoppers and the equivalent FTE.

  11. This is presumably so you can't block ads via plugins.

    Soon you'll have to use google's proxies, which will automatically insert appropriate and life-changing ads into any network stream you use.

  12. Did he get charged an extra cleaning fee?

  13. Where do you see LLVM going?

  14. No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. on Apple's iPhone Turns 10 (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    I'm glad nobody on earth really pays attention to slashdot. So many toads.

  15. Free Pizza? Free beer? on Astronomers Pinpoint Location of Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's obviously an advertisement for Universal Pizza trumpeting their new intergalactic pizza delivery service. That's one of the few signals powerful enough to cut through the galactic noise.

    The only other thing it might be is a "free beer while supplies last" beacon, which would also be powerful enough to attract attention of all sentient beings.

  16. For CPUs, there's really not a lot that left to do. Stream video? Load Facebook? I'm pretty sure the older chips do that just fine.

    The real action is in GPUs.

  17. "Contact" means many things on Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides the initial interview, half of everyone he interacts with on a daily basis probably works for the intelligence service in some form or another.

    I mean, it's not like he's Joe nobody.

    He's a smart guy and probably knows that everyone he interacts with is working for someone or another. The $64k question is "is he actively working for and/or providing information to the Russians." There's no evidence that he's released anything to Russia that he hasn't released to anyone else, but you never know.

    The good thing is that Snowden didn't flip for money, which probably means his motives are what he said they were. The downside is that there's no guarantee he won't drop some more info in the future, although that info is slowly losing its value as time goes on.

  18. Why can't we be FRANDs? Why can't we be FRANDs?

  19. It's all about the FRAND.

    How do you calculate FRAND when there are only two or three companies left?

  20. FTA: similar results as early as 1910/1920 on Scientific American Column: 'It's Not Cold Fusion...But It's Something' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Perhaps most surprising is that, in the formative years of atomic science in the early 20th century, some scientists reported inexplicable experimental evidence of elemental transmutations. In the 1910s and 1920s, this research was reported in popular newspapers and magazines, and papers were published in the top scientific journals of the day, including Physical Review, Science and Nature."

  21. It's alchemy! Alchemy I tell you!

  22. China says "what are you going to do, nuke us?" on China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US (thehill.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    So we stole a drone and you freak out. I mean, we already stole islands and you did nothing. Why would you care about a drone?

  23. Obama is "directing" the drone war on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Putin "directed" the attack the same way that Obama is "directing" the drone war.

  24. Things are a bit different now. on Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Historically that's how it works, but Trump is a different kind of President. I wouldn't use any kind of "how things normally work" as a model for the Trump Presidency.

    And in any casethe switchboard blocks people because they're told to block people. "The Switchboard" isn't some entity that makes its own decisions. If the administration wants to do things differently it's completely possible, but probably not recommended.

  25. I'm not sure these guys understand what'll happen if there's in-camera encryption. I can see at least two possible outcomes:

    1. The device is encrypted, so the authorities just take and destroy it
    2. The device is encrypted, so the authorities just take and destroy it, and kill the jouro when they refuse to unlock it.

    I'm not sure either of these are really want the person in question wants. I can think of other issues (and you can too), but encrypting the device is probably not the right answer.