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  1. Simular story happing now in Aus on Facebook Sued Over Fake Ads (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Where the 'celebrity' was used for erectile disfunction ads.

    Facebook don't give a shit about upholding standards, as long as people are clicking on stuff. Maybe a few lawsuits will get them to start caring.

    Every day I see posts that violote the groups policy on not having completitions where people are asked to 'tag and share' which is not allowed, but there's no way to actually report it. And clearly, they don't bother inforcing it. People have the images stolen and used on clickpage pages, which no consequence whatsoever to the offenders. Maybe if it's cleaned a little I wouldn't hate being on there so much.

  2. Maybe you're just trying to deter people from coding to reduce your competition.

    Dear blog,

    Today I put step one of my devious plan into action. I went to the Slashdot forums, and posted on every programing related story about how there are no paid coding jobs.

    Soon, the people will think there are no jobs and find other careers. Then... all the coding jobs will be mine! BWAHAHWHA!!

  3. Can they actually geolocate routers? I always thought it would be valuable to display the distance you are from the router. When connection is crap you'd know if you were getting closer if you walked around. You could work out what shop to stand in front of to leach their wifi. You could track the router down in order to reset it so everyone else gets booted. I wonder if this info is possible to calculate. The developer blog mentions nothing about wifi in the 8.1 updates. For Googles use only, not fpr app developers?

  4. Can they use it to not show me shit on Facebook Announces That It Has Invented a New Unit of Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    that someone posted 5 days ago, just becuase some dumbarse 'liked' it today?

  5. Re:Notice the weak winter Sun is strengthening? on Flat Earther Plans New Rocket Launch, Predicts Super Bowl-Sized Ratings (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 2

    Because Australia isn't real and we are all actors perpetuating the myth. Hi from 'Melbourne'.

  6. Cause they are the worst off? on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Flooding and erosion? Maybe Australia and New Zealand can sue for all the skin cancer?

  7. Re:So much DRAMA ! on Microsoft: We're Not Giving Up On Cortana (Even In Home Automation) (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the kind of thing I would disable but I use Win 10 at home and I've never even noticed it... When I saw this article I had no idea what Cortana even was I had to look it up. When I get home I'll have to look in the start menu and see if it is there and what it is.

  8. Re:Easy to solve on Microsoft: We're Not Giving Up On Cortana (Even In Home Automation) (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If it comes with Clippy, sign me up!

  9. Tell that to all the AngularJS developers. There is no real need to support non-javascript users anymore. WCAG 2.0 doesn't even think so.

  10. Re:Japan just has lots of above-ground power lines on Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that's what they say, but plenty of other earthquake prone places are capable of burying them.
    I suspect the real reason is that 'Japan does what Japan has always done' which is why the school uniforms have not been udated since the end of World War II.

  11. Have you ever been to Japan? on Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the most common fucking thing you see everywhere you look. That's like asking why cartoons set in the Egypt always show shots of the sand.

    Apparently they 'can't' bury them like every other country does.

  12. Re:"lowkey aimed at women" on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    As a women who isn't really into pink or cupcakes at all, I now feel shame that I am not womaning correctly. How dare you shame me, Taylor Lorenz, whoever you are.

  13. Yeah man, I think if the bus is late and it tells me it's a 25 min walk and I can burn some cal, maybe I'd think, hell why don't I just walk?

    There was a cardio app that was abondoned by the developers that used to be really good called Cardio Trainer and at the end of your workout they's show you the calories represented as different things, for example 5 apples, 2 oranges, 1 cupcake. It would randomly pick one that matched the amount.

    I'd like if Google maps told me I'd burn a pint of beer by walking home from work, I could alter my course via the pub and know that it was ok!

  14. Outsource the development on Symantec CEO: Source Code Reviews Pose Unacceptable Risk (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    to a third world nation.

    Then anyone can review it and probably won't be able to make any sense of it whatsoever. Unless they are fluent in spaghetti code. It's like a cheaper type of encryption.

  15. Re:Detailed Explanation at StackExchange on Why Is 'Blade Runner' the Title of 'Blade Runner'? (vulture.com) · · Score: 1

    Also thanks, Stack is blocked on my work network (don't even ask...)

    So the definitive answer is: 'It's called Blade Runner because that sounded totally cool.'

  16. Re:Thank you early adopters! on Ask Slashdot: Why Would Anyone Want To Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    I thank you too. I buy my phones second hand from these people for $300 when the next one comes out. They are usually well taken care of.

  17. Re:No, study finds... on Binge Watching TV Makes It Less Enjoyable, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A better study would have been with different types of shows, one type that ends with each episode leaving you without the answers you want, and desperate for the next episode to start, like Orphan Black, and another type where the story is neatly wrapped up at the end of each episode, like House. I’m willing the bet the result of the study would be, ‘Binge watching TV makes you enjoy some shows more, but not others’. I don’t think many people would be interested in reading the results of that study though.

  18. My mechanical keyboard which I love the look and feel of has a very serious flaw in that it did not come with a manual, and in order to know how the hell to work it, you need to go to the website and watch a VIDEO! There is no way to skip to parts on certain topics, you just have to watch it. As a result of this I set up the colour scemes once and have never changed them because I cannot be arsed finding the video again and sitting through it. I would not recommend Cooler Master keyboards for this sole reason.
    EDIT: I just checked the website and there is now a PDF manual. Maybe people complained?

  19. Re: How fucking stupid can you get ? on Man Used DDoS Attacks On Media To Extort Them To Remove Stories (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be easier to just change your name? You'd just have to avoid employers who did a proper background check (in which case, getting a few atricles off Google wouldn't matter anyway). Lolololol.

  20. Re: Isn't deregulation wonderful? on Uber Drivers Gang Up To Cause Surge Pricing, Research Says (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well they pretend they want to fix this. If you complaion to them that your ride was cancelled several times and then suddenly it went into surge pricing, they want to know your account and when it happened. Sure they make more money but it also makes them look bad when it's a dodgy system being abused.

    They should definitely be able to track something like this though, if they wanted to. I think that's what they did with the driver cancelling thing and now there's a penalty for doing it too much.

  21. Re:How fucking stupid can you get ? on Man Used DDoS Attacks On Media To Extort Them To Remove Stories (itwire.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah you write to them and tell them you did it, and then you expect not to get in trouble for it how exactly? Sounds like Canada let a real winner in there, at least they get to send him back to the U.S. Can the revoke his citizenship and send him back to his original home, or are they stuck with him now?

    The weirdest part it, it was several years after the articles were published. Who was still even finding them?

  22. I thought it was just for Tinder contacts on More Than One Billion People Use Facebook's WhatsApp Service Every Day (whatsapp.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have any friends that use it, I have only heard that if you meet people on Tinder and you don't want to give them your real number yet (or keep chatting in the shit Tinder interface) you get them to ad you on WhatsApp. I didn't realise there were people who used it as an way to contact their actual friends instead of SMS.

  23. Oh, the article is an ad... on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Da fuk is this article about? View source and more importantly Inspect lets me rip most websites fully apart, see how stuff works, steal their code, and often send posts bypassing their client side scripts because it IS so tinkerable. Anglular sites in particular with the controllers exposed, you can see everything. When I see something cool on a sight I look at the source and see how they did it, it's never hard. Pretty print helps.

    If you view source on a site I wrote and the javascript looks like gibberish to you, tough tits, you can learn how to code on pluralsight or stack exchange. If you like my jQuery go to Github and download my repo.

  24. Official bugs go in the Jira backlog on Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Team Track And Manage Bugs In Your Software? · · Score: 1

    A post-it note on my desk lists all the bugs that I know about, but the testing team and users have not found yet. If they will need dedicated testing I will make a Bug or Defect issue for them, otherwise I sometimes just slip a fix in along with something else that's going to be tested.

    Use of labels in Jira helps keep some of the junk findable.

    I have used HP Agile Manager in combination with HP QC in ALM (or whatever the fuck) in the past and don't recommend this approach. Having the defects in a separate system that was supposed to sync across, but didn't always, made things harder not easier.

    If you end up with a lot of duplicates maybe you just need to make better use of the fields in your system to keep everything sorted. HP AGM was a pile of shit but we were able to use it's tagging feature and custom views to get stuff somewhat organised.

  25. I made a text adventure in C on ESR Announces The Open Sourcing Of The World's First Text Adventure (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    for a university assignment years ago.

    I didn't have it in me to do more than 5 rooms.