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  1. Legislating Morality. on Kentucky Bill: Wait an Hour Before Posting Injuries To Social Media (kentucky.com) · · Score: 1

    It all comes down to you can legislate morality. Shitty people will always be shitty people

  2. Requirements, requirements, requirements... on Software Error Releases Up To 3,200 Inmates Early (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've always found 90% of software bugs come from requirements gathering/domain analysis. Especially when you are trying convert the law into code.

  3. Guiding force of the internet. on Torrent Sites Earned $70M After Dropping Malware On Visitors (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Again it falls under - if you're not paying for it, then you're the product. From facebook to bit torrent, this is a guiding force of the internet.

  4. Export to excel! on Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? · · Score: 1

    Just add an export to excel button and let the users deal with it. Isn't that what everyone else does?

  5. Security v Convenience. on Self-Encrypting Drives Hardly Any Better Than Software-Based Encryption (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    This just illustrates that the most secure system is the most inconvenient. Sure you could require a password with every read/write, but then it'd be useless.

  6. All depends on the product and the customers. on 'First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses' -- the Zappos Management Experiment · · Score: 1

    It all depends on what the product is in and how the business needs to interact with the customers. However, in certain environments that it works in - I believe steam works in this way. However, I can definitely see this not working in other business, but can be viable in a Tech-only company.

  7. Development kit on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    While I am all for being able to do anything to my personal devices, I believe they did a tear down on a Development kit of the Apple TV which they distributed to app creators. I'm sure there was a clause regarding tear down and app removal.

  8. Publicity stunt on Snowden Joins Twitter, Follows NSA · · Score: 1

    While this is certainly a publicity stunt - it's definitely an entertaining one.

  9. Reasons on Australian Police Get McLaren and Aston Martin Supercars · · Score: 3, Funny

    We need these because of... reasons.

  10. For the Hardcore Apple Fanboys. on Why Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program Is a Bad Deal For Most · · Score: 1
    It's what carries do anyway with subsidized phone. You get the phone for cheaper, but pay the carrier in the long run for well over the cost of the subsidy. But lets just take a look at who this is targeting - people who want the latest iPhone every year. For ~$35 for 12 months is $420. So you save a couple hundred dollars if you were to buy it every year if you just have to have the latest and greatest. This isn't for the people on the 2 year cycle who would end up paying more in the long run.

    What it comes down to is that the hardcore users always pay more - but now this is a way to pay just a bit less. And maybe convince people on the fence to do the same.

  11. No hands! *puff of smoke* two hands!

  12. The world needs a little more understanding on Ask Slashdot: Everyone Building Software -- Is This the Future We Need? · · Score: 1

    I feel like greater understanding is never a bad thing. Many of these people who start programming, won't ever get around to making a full production application or piece of software. But through experience, they hopefully will come to understand how their technology works. At this moment, we are raising a generation of techies who are just users - but have no inclination of how the tools that drive their lives function on the most basic of levels. Understanding how security work in this day and age is incredibly important.

  13. Drone Assassins. on What Happens When Your Own Limb Is Almost Good Enough? · · Score: 0

    Imagine this on one of the quadcopters like the lilly cam or AirDog? It follow you around and aim for you.. erm.. at you. I, for one, welcome our Drone Assassin overlords.

  14. Drone Assassins. on Gun-Firing Drone Raises Some Eyebrows · · Score: 1

    Imagine this on a Lily Cam or AirDog where it would aim for you - and at you. I, for one, welcome our new Drone Assassin overlords.

  15. Seems a bit high on Adblock Plus Reduces University's Network Traffic By 25 Percent · · Score: 1

    I could see 25% if you handling mostly text/images. But with streaming services, I feel like it'd be a bit less. Though there are naturally going to be diminished traffic just due less content being transmitted.

  16. What we want, what we really, really want. on Two-Pounder From Lenovo Might Be Too Light For Comfort · · Score: 1

    We want everything with bigger screens - but not that much bigger. We want everything lighter - but not that much lighter. Sometimes companies tend to focus on what the consumer says they want - instead of trying to figure out what they really want. Let's face it, we are generally terrible at knowing what we want.

  17. Re:Delete? on Where Facebook Stores 900 Million New Photos Per Day · · Score: 1

    The ultimate truth of the internet... there is no delete. Just some things are a bit harder to find.

  18. The meat of the issue on How Television Is Fighting Off the Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's always comes down to the same thing. If you want people to get your product, make a damn good product. Some things will naturally be a fad, but will fade away. Lasting revenue is based on making something people actually want/need. For so long, many networks have been shoveling our crap content - now that there are ways to view exactly what you want, they have the incentive to make something you really want.

  19. Re:Quiet? on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    I've always felt that it's important for a computer to make noise - it means things are working and staying at a reasonable temperature. There are two real options - get something that is low power usage that it can be passively cooled (like a raspberry pi or netbook) or put the computer just in a different place. and run cables to/from your desk. Or you could just get a mechanical keyboard and then you want hear it at all!

  20. A sort of oldie but goodie on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    My setup is a few years old, but still does everything from gaming to coding to a couple VMs CPU: AMD Phenom II (the hex one) RAM: 16GB GPU(s): 2 Radeon 6950s in crossfire HDD/SSD: 128GB SSD for OS and core applications, 2TB for software/VMs, 4TB for General File Storage Oh and I I'm watercooling the GPUs and CPU. I don't OC as much as I used to - but it was a fun project to play around with. And I've had a great life around it. I think I built this around 2010/2011 and I've yet to have any issues with it. My only regret is going with a mid size case sense I was going back and forth to University. I would definitely move to a full size case for my next build... or maybe just go straight for a rack.

  21. Re:There's already satellite internet on SpaceX Wants Permission To Test Satellite Internet · · Score: 2

    It wouldn't take much to beat these. Both in speed and the bandwidth caps.

  22. Oh mozilla on Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... telling the users what they like. Well done.

  23. Re:"Fortunately" on Stress Is Driving Developers From the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    I thought the same thing - it's basically job Stockholm syndrome.

  24. Re:Charges? on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Hell, they probably could have charged me with that when I was in school...

  25. There' a decent chance it's one of the big four on Opening Fixed-Code Garage Doors With a Toy In 10 Seconds · · Score: 2

    Let's be honest, just check all on, all off, and alternating starting at 0 and 1.