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  1. What was wrong with JavaScript... on Dart 2: Google's Language Rebooted For Web and Mobile Developers (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in the old days, things like ActiveX and Java forced web users to need a specific browser to see some sites. JavaScript is now implemented fully across all known browsers, so how does Dart become better enough to be worth implementing outside of Chrome?

  2. Re:Greed again exposes some? on Bitcoin Exchange Accidentally Allowed Customers To Buy Coins For $0 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of this in dollar terms...

    The glitch caused the bank account of the hacker to raise his balance to something higher than the bank, or all banks combined have. Therefore, he was showing more money than exist at the vaults.

    Try to move this money out... wait a second, that's something the trucks/bitcoin codes can't support. Error is detected, and the hacker is caught.

  3. Re:Cancelled the transaction? on Bitcoin Exchange Accidentally Allowed Customers To Buy Coins For $0 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The bug allowed the hacker to buy bitcoins at zero, so he typed in the number he wanted and was suddenly showing his number in the account without any actual trade happening... the exchange then killed all nonsense trades... and nobody was willing to take his bitcoins elsewhere. It's a market malfunction that CNBC/FBN/Bloomberg can have fun with, claiming that bitcoin still isn't safe yet.

  4. Re:Cancelled the transaction? on Bitcoin Exchange Accidentally Allowed Customers To Buy Coins For $0 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A bank that collects deposits to make loans is an "interest bank"... a bank that relies on transaction and maintenance fees is called a "fee bank".

    BitCoin exchanges are acting like fee banks currently.

  5. Re:Cancelled the transaction? on Bitcoin Exchange Accidentally Allowed Customers To Buy Coins For $0 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Any transaction can be reversed by an equal and opposite transaction in the future.

    Remember the day a bunch of bad prints caused the NYSE/NASDAQ market to go near zero. All of that was reversed and the market moved on...

  6. Re:JPEG already replaced, try to beat PNG on Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, PNG ain't perfect, but it's better than JPEG. Therefore, TFA should have have compared itself to PNG, because that tech is already rolled out and is in use.

  7. Re:Clickbait headline on Church Elder/'Jeopardy' Champion Charged With Computer Crimes (mlive.com) · · Score: 1

    It may cause Alex to release a statement that the former champion obtained undue prominence if they used their Jeopardy!-level smarts as part of their being hired or kept.

  8. Re: Church elder, 'eh? on Church Elder/'Jeopardy' Champion Charged With Computer Crimes (mlive.com) · · Score: 2

    I haven't found a good church since I left Mt. Zion of Atlanta... most churches I've encountered are about getting power for the speaker, regardless of law or court decisions.

  9. JPEG already replaced, try to beat PNG on Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Holding this up against JPEG is the wrong standard. Does it outperform PNGs?

  10. Law changed on me when I wasn't looking... but let's read it...

    "Except as otherwise provided in this section, no employer in the commonwealth shall employ any of his employees in an occupation, as defined in section two, for a work week longer than forty hours, unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of forty hours at a rate not less than one and one half times the regular rate at which he is employed."

    The 48 hour rule was removed... it's now time and a half for anything beyond 40. Computer admins and programmers are not excluded.

  11. Actually, salary is pay for 40-48 hours work here in MA. Force 48+ and you end up with paying overtime for everything over 40.

  12. Actually, there's a tax line there...

    Somebody tried to pay me $12/HR for programming work on 1099... that was a minimum wage violation, and I ended up owning the company... and this was the one that went from PSS Inc. to PSS Corp. while a sponsor of CBS golf coverage.

    Bottom line: When you pay by 1099 and make the programmer bring his own tools, you don't own the program. Shoulda paid by W2 and incurred the health care, vacation, and other standard liabilities.

  13. A Medical Information Technology company I used to work for has the problem of its medical customers insisting everybody report to work no matter what goes wrong... this lead to massive traffic disasters on snow days. My boss was subject to this hypnosis... but the powers above her were willing give me lots of time off when I had nothing in the task system.

    I even convinced them to call for a snow simulation day where everybody tried to work from home... we ended up with record productivity that day.

    Basically, the program I was working on never failed outside of simulations when the given statement is that the program failed... I was doing work in response to customer upgrade requests, and never had to look at real patient data.

  14. When there's more capacity than load... on Slashdot Asks: Should an Employee Be Fired For Working On Personal Side Projects During Office Hours? (quora.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked at a company I partially owned, and we gave our star talent the chance to work on their personal projects on days when there was no company workload for them... but we fired one for working on his own projects when we were busy.

    I was the lead developer on a timesheet project, and that told the story. When you have no tasks assigned, letting the person do something fun kept them at their desk during business hours, and when they have tasks on the board the timesheet must match the output.

  15. Controlling Parents on Firefox 52 Is The Last Version of Firefox For Windows XP and Vista (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    A key factor in XP support is that there's no user-to-user encryption, which is required by Win7+... in other words, parents can't steal cookies and stored passwords.

  16. Re:Some can't afford new OS or hardware on Firefox 52 Is The Last Version of Firefox For Windows XP and Vista (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    There's two situations here:

    In some third-world cases, Microsoft offers cheap software compared to American prices... so do something and get the latest operating system just like here in the USA.

    In other cases, Microsoft is not popular. Long live Linux.

  17. Minimum Version 53 on Firefox 52 Is The Last Version of Firefox For Windows XP and Vista (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    Next step: Release a Firefox 53 so that 52 indicates an outdated OS.

  18. Re:They're onto something. on Google Fiber Sheds Workers As It Looks to a Wireless Future (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    5 is an unused frequency now. PSIPs of 2 is still supported.

    What's the callsign of the station we are talking about?

  19. If only McDonald's had a blender in the McCafe area.... hey, wait a second!

  20. The article was a response to the press release issued today, and has a clear "THIS MAKES NO SENSE!" type of statement in this.

  21. As we used to say in censored chatrooms... on McDonald's Hires Project Ara Design Team To Reinvent the Drinking Straw (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    This straws! ("Suck" was a banned word there...)

  22. PR Guy, please release your drones... on McDonald's Hires Project Ara Design Team To Reinvent the Drinking Straw (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Any of the McDonald's employees out there able to step up and explain what was in the need-my-glasses press release this morning? We appear to have a CHOCOLATE Shamrock Shake this year....

  23. Re:They're onto something. on Google Fiber Sheds Workers As It Looks to a Wireless Future (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Check that, is 5 the PSIP or the frequency?

  24. PirateBay legal in 3 years? on Swedish Court Rules: 'Block the Pirate Bay For Next 3 Years' (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the reference to three years doing here? Is this supposed to be fixed by then? Perm block and transfer to a legal effort such as what happened to Napster and FourSquare please.

  25. Re:The Weather Indoors... on RSA: Ban On Booth Babes Has Been No Big Deal (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    64.4 degrees Fahrenheit is not the right number in the USA.