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  1. The old guard comes from a world where if you worked hard, the company would take care of your until your retirement. So work ethics came as a natural result of this symbiotic relationship. Sadly nowadays this seems to be more the exception within today's mega corporations. The workforce is now seen as an expendable just like any other equipment. And naturally this then also affects work ethics and how workers relate to companies. In this regard it is kind of sad watching companies like Amazon taking advantage of the old generation who have not yet adapted to deal with today's company culture.

  2. I guess on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 1

    Pretty much the same result as if your airplane would fail.

  3. Obviously you have to expect on Mystery of Sonic Weapon Attacks At US Embassy In Cuba Deepens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    some teething problems when building a mind probe.

  4. Re:Not impress on Hobbyist Gives iPhone 7 the Headphone Jack We've Always Wanted (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are basically admitting that Apple makes inferior products compared to for example a Samsung phone, who has all the same thing that Apple has plus a stereo jack, wireless charging and USB charging that can be used while playing music using the jack. Oh and also they still manage to make their phones water resistant with stereo jack and all btw.

  5. When the **** on Linux.com Raves About New Snap-Centric 'Nitrux' Distro (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    did typing in a search query become an efficient way to navigate a desktop interface?

  6. As little as possible. on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Navigate Your Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    I am MUCH more efficient on a real computer.

  7. Never is a very long time..

  8. Just the tip of the iceberg. on DJI Spark Owners Must Update Firmware By September, Or Their Machines Will Be Bricked (suasnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The hacking community have been pulling apart DJI drone software and firmwares for a while now. And the more they learn, the worst it gets. For example both the iOS and Android versions of the DJI GO 4 app have built in hot patch functionality (Tencent Tinker / JSPatch), then enables DJI to make unrestricted app modifications outside of the users control. This is in direct violation of app developer policies on both platforms. And after the community found out, DJI has been scrambling hard to avoid getting their apps banned. It is also speculated this is one of the primary reasons why DJI drones recently was banned from US military usage.

  9. Don't put all your eggs in one basket on Does the World Need Polymaths? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The way tech is jumping from one fad the next, you better choose very carefully if you are going to focus on one thing only. Sure by all means have a strong specialty, but not to the point where it excludes anything else.

  10. Re:Trade off std head phone jack on The Verge's Essential Phone Review: An Arcane Artifact From an Unrealized Future (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung models have better water proof ratings then Apple and still has the 3.5mm jack. Just because marketing says something fancy (water proofing, 'courage' etc), doesn't mean it is true or have any technical merit.

  11. Baby steps. Someone has to push the envelope even if the results are far from perfect. This is the only was to get a true "revolutionary battery" for consumers in our lifetime. Point in case. Lithium batteries where invented in the late 70s, but it was only relatively recently that we figured out how to mass produced them cheaply enough for consumer products. So the current state of the art battery technology is actually older then most people in here.

  12. Google after all this time, finally figured out how to integrate and setup a working WebRTC system. I understand their pain, for something that could have been so much simpler. Ohh wait, they where involved in making WebRTC? I retract, no sympathy from me.

  13. The point is that while anyone can get a Phantom at Walmart, you need serious cash and a certain degree of skills for a heavy lift drone with enough payload to be of real concern..

  14. a tiny drone (Phantom class) that can lift 2 kilos and fly an usable distance, and I'll buy it just to figure out what kind of new motor and battery tech they are using. Flying and landing where you shouldn't is bad I get it, but don't use obvious hyperbole to make it worse then it really is.

  15. Judging by their reaction and rushed 'counter' release, they where caught with their pants down. And this is a good thing. Intel have been resting comfortable at the top for a while now, so this will be good for all of us. Now while highly unlikely, if only AMD could pull some similar stunt against NVidia also..

  16. Does this mean.. on High School Students Compete In 'Microsoft Office Championship' (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ..there exist people in this word that understand why the autocomplete does the things it does?

  17. Let me fix the headline for you. on Verizon, AT&T Customers Are Getting Slower Speeds Because of Unlimited Data Plans (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Verizon, AT&T Customers Are Getting Slower Speeds Because Of Lacking Infrastructure To Support Unlimited Data Plans

  18. Internet is a pull system, on Google Is Testing Autoplay Videos Directly In Search Results (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    stop trying to make it a push system instead.

  19. Anti-vaccination is just like IT. on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    When IT is doing a proper job, the users rarely experience any problems. And consequently them assume IT is not needed.

  20. Re:Not looking at pipeline on Having a Woman On Your Team Ruins Your Chances For VC Funding (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sadly, this was pretty much exactly what I expected. It is no longer just news that are hyperbole, but also so called scientific studies.. Showing that VC funded teams are overly represented by males (no big surprise there), does not correlate to women being excluded unless you can show a matching trend of teams with women in them being refused VC.

  21. Nothing left on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If the definition is that Microsoft replaced software with something functionally different that don't behave like the previous version, then.. . what is left? What has not at one time been"killed off" as the article says?

  22. I guarantee you it will not be Uber.

  23. Spoken or written human language is about as far from a native computer language as possible. So when a computer tries to talk efficiently to another computer, it becomes obvious that using human language is the wrong choice.

  24. It's not AI on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    99% of all the AI news lately is actually ML (Machine Learning). But I guess AI sounds more sexy. But the point is with ML if there is bias in the data sets, you also naturally get bias in the result.

  25. Depends on the task. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    If I am just skimming code to find the relevant part, I use visual cues from the formatting. When I need to write or understand actual code, I form a mental image as I work with it. Only when struggling to understand some logic do I fall back to verbalization, since this by far is the least effective way of reading code.