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  1. Clinton hired a buddy on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Clinton hired a buddy to do it. This wasn't a government server, this was her own.

  2. How it should be on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is how it's supposed to work. Whether he can make a functioning team or not is an open question, but at least he can see if a more polite environment gets better results.

  3. vs TIFF files? on FLIF: Free Lossless Image Format · · Score: 3, Funny

    How well does it work relative to TIFF files?

  4. Bias? Or reality? on Houston's Gifted Education Program Biased Against Blacks and Latinos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the tests are too easy, the kids aren't "gifted."

    If they don't pass the test, then they aren't "gifted."

    If the test uses words they don't understand, then what words would the researcher suggest the tests use that aren't "culturally biased?" Using three letter words well isn't a sign of ability.

  5. Re:The other real problem on The #NoEstimates Debate: An Unbiased Look At Origins, Arguments, and Leaders · · Score: 1

    Customer: build this
    Developer: OK, it should take X
    Customer: great

    Customer: why is it late?
    Developer: oh, I used a bunch of new technologies and techniques. Now it does all this crap you never asked for, but I was able to pad my resume.
    Customer: but it doesn't even do what I asked for
    Developer: you idiot, you didn't spec it correctly.

  6. Oh, and blackberry on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    I totally forgot about them, which is kinda sad.

  7. That's what Nokia, Moto, and Microsoft said on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's exactly what Moto, Microsoft, and Nokia said about the iPhone. Where are they now?

  8. Split Tunneling? on Apple's iOS 9 Breaks VPNs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Problem is DNS during split tunneling, which isn't the same as "breaks VPN."

    I guess the editors are either click-baiting, are technically illiterate, or both.

  9. Note that the violation is subject to a fine. The administration has no authority to order a recall.

  10. No javascript = no ads on One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store · · Score: 1

    Turn off javascript, and ads go away.

  11. Play store review fail: reviews by non-owners on Apple's First Android App, Move To iOS, Is Getting Killed With One-Star Reviews · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why can non-users review an app? That seems to be a play store fail.

  12. ET messages on Why We're Looking For ET All Wrong · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't an ET leave a big message that was hard to miss, like, say, a moon? Or even better, a big pyramid in the middle of nowhere? That would be kind of hard to miss, wouldn't it?

  13. But if you have nothing to hide on Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public · · Score: 2

    If you have nothing to hide, why would you be afraid of the authorities?
      - the authorities

  14. Lobotomies for everyone! on First Library To Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Halts Project After DHS Email · · Score: 2

    Did you know that criminals can use their brains to come up with crimes! The public should be lobotomized so criminality will be impossible!

  15. Still supports ipad 2 and iphone 4s on Apple Product Event Highlights · · Score: 1

    Just checked, and the iPhone 4s and iPad 2 are still supported on 9. How annoying for devs, how great for everyone else.

  16. Well, that would be like $1 in 50000 BC dollars on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    We'll pay $1, because fuck you.

  17. Relevancy via references instead of text on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Instead of ranking relevancy by hits of a word inside the document, which was how it was done before, google ranked relevancy by references to the content.

    Note that most in-house wikis still rank things the old way, which is why most search results from your internal wiki suck. Even google's custom search on your internet page sucks...because without humans performing relevancy ranking via links google is just as bad as the old stuff.

  18. Fast Lens (1.8 or 1.4) + Offsite Backup on Ask Slashdot: Storing Family Videos and Pictures For Posterity? · · Score: 1

    To capture anything good in low light you need a fast lens. A fast lens is one where the aperture number is small, like 1.8 or 1.4. A fast lens means that you don't have to wait for a flash to warm up and you don't have to carry it around.

    The downside to a large aperture is that focusing will be hard, even with autofocus, and the exposure will get all weird. The exposure will be weird because your focus area is small, but the exposure logic generally is set to measure the entire picture. You don't really care about the rest of the frame because it'll be blurry due to your huge aperture. Also, autofocus will hunt all over the place because the depth-of-field is short.

    So, be sure to set the autofocus on your center point only and exposure should also be spot (right there) until you get used to it.

      Luckily, you'll have time to practice.

    You'll also have to stash all your pictures somewhere. You can use Apple's photos or some other Windows/Linux solution. However, you should also put them offsite. Flickr has like 1TB free, and google pictures (or whatever it's called now) should be the equivalent. Also, your photo library is prone to corruption, so be sure to use Time Machine or the platform equivalent to back up your metadata etc.

    You can capture JPEGs, they're fine. You might want to consider JPEG + RAW or RAW too, since space really isn't an issue these days.

  19. total bullshit? on Snowden: Clinton's Private Email Server Is a 'Problem' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Clinton: "I was so busy dealing with the world's problems that instead of using my work email that I get for free I got some guy I knew to build a server for me, my associates, and my husband's foundation."

    Does anyone actually believe this line of bullshit?

  20. Who cares on Bugs In Belkin Routers Allow DNS Spoofing, Credential Theft · · Score: 1

    If you care enough to compromise the upstream WAN the router is fucked anyway.

  21. Tinfoil hats on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is why you make a tinfoil hat: to keep the radio waves out of your head. It's simple to do, and as a bonus the voices stop.

  22. Go Amazon, you probably won't regret it on Who Makes the Decision To Go Cloud and Who Should? · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can get a better performing, more resilient environment for less than your enterprise-class hardware. Plus you get free monitoring via Newrelic.

    Save your business tens of thousands of dollars and get up to Aws.

  23. Jayson Blair wants to talk on Amazon Work-Life Balance Defender: Prior Employer Nearly Killed Me and My Team · · Score: 1

    Your idea of the new york times is a few years behind the curve.

  24. Gen1 was unencrypted on At Black Hat: Square Reader To Credit Card Skimmer In 10 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Gen 1 was always unencrypted. They didn't hack the gen2 or gen3 hardware to unencrypt it.

    I can't tell from the slides whether they used a gen1, gen2, or gen3 reader to do their playback attack.

    Even before Square, you could buy card readers on eBay. This doesn't really bring anything to the table.

  25. Fuck that: most developers are customer-ignorant on How Developers Can Fight Creeping Mediocrity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I work with an application where the VP of engineering burned 6 man-years on dynamically loadable plugins, a feature nobody IRL actually gives a shit about. It made the code unreadable, caused all kinds of work due to the total refactoring of the application, and caused performance to degrade tremendously.

    In addition, it is practically impossible to tell what version of a plugin is correct or if it's loaded.

    Why? Because he thought it was cool.

    So, when developers tee off on upper management decisions that kill companies, I can swing right back on dumb engineering decisions that kill companies.