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  1. Re:Is everyone else getting sued, too? on Intel Hit With More Than 30 Lawsuits Over Security Flaws (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    MIGHT have been done to make benchmarks better but without the realization that it exposed a vulnerability. Often engineering projects are success-oriented, and once the chip was running all of the tests and benchmarks and the performance was good, that may have been as hard as anybody looked. You need to have people whose job it is to break all such new products, but that both costs more and delays the time to market, and executives rarely want either.

  2. Re:Is everyone else getting sued, too? on Intel Hit With More Than 30 Lawsuits Over Security Flaws (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    When you post things like this, log in first unless you really ARE a coward.

  3. Start living up to this, Alphabet,

  4. Re:It's BS that they can do nothing about it. on Hollywood Is Losing the Battle Against Online Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Though I see now that about 100,000 more votes made this a 5.0... That STILL needs to be fixed.

  5. It's BS that they can do nothing about it. on Hollywood Is Losing the Battle Against Online Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    They own the database, they have the DBAs, they can fix this.

  6. Victim Blaming? on Uber Ex-engineer Who Alleged Sexism Retains Lawyer (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Worked so well for Cosby, after all...

  7. According to recent numbers, Apple devices lead all others in activations during the Christmas season...

  8. Just glad I'm not an engineer there! on North Korea Ballistic Missile Explodes On Launch Fourth Straight Time · · Score: 4, Funny

    I imagine failure is not associated with longevity.

  9. Re:Why a TV at all? on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? · · Score: 1

    Netflix. Amazon Prime. CNN. And pretty much anything else.

  10. Re:Why a TV at all? on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? · · Score: 1

    Do many people still do that?

  11. Re:Why a TV at all? on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Why a TV at all? on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? · · Score: 1

    Yup. Built-in HDMI speakers. Not-bad sounding ones, too.

  13. Why a TV at all? on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A computer monitor makes a great dumb TV. I use a Raspberry Pi with one as a media center.

  14. Chevy outsells Mercedes, too... on Chromebooks Outsell Macs For the First Time In the US (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ...doesn't mean Mercedes is in danger.

  15. I've been saying this for years! on CIA Is Investing Heavily In Firms That Do Social Media Mining and Surveillance (theintercept.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We get all bent out of shape when the NSA collects nearly useless phone records, and then give every secret in our lives to Facebook, Google, and Yahoo without a care!

  16. Of course there should be no virus left on hands! on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you washed your hands properly, there would be no virus left to spread this way.

  17. Dr. Suess on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do I think "Star-bellied Sneetch"?

  18. I do get work done when I work late on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Work Schedule Make You Unproductive? · · Score: 2

    In fact, I find that after the distractions of the office are gone, either because I am working at home or everybody has gone home, I can get a lot more done.

  19. My ISP allows servers... on EFF Slams Google Fiber For Banning Servers On Its Network · · Score: 1

    ...except IRC servers. Beyond that, they're good.

  20. Why fire HER? on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sure, somebody points out sexual harassment and you FIRE them? I hope she has retained a lawyer because she is going to make a mint.

  21. Voting with my feet on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    I bought every single SimCity title so far, and lots of other Sim-games.

    I'm not buying this.

    It's enough of a compromise to buy online content from someplace like Steam or GOG without also having a game that CANNOT be played offline. That's BS. If it needs a server, make a microserver for personal use.

    And WORSE they can't even make it WORK? Utter crap, guys. If my professional product operated like that when it was deployed, I'd be out of a job.

  22. I guess I'm an idiot on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 1

    When I get to work at home I work MORE hours than when I am in the office.

  23. Pump in sand? on Florida Sinkhole Highlights State's Geologic Instability · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps if you could identify where this was happening, it could be remediated by pumping in a slurry containing solids that would lock in place and resist leaching like coal ash and some kinds of sand?

    Any civil engineers care to comment on that?

  24. Re:It's the future... on Surface Pro: 'Virtually Unrepairable' · · Score: 1

    One of the tools *I* need is a binocular inspection microscope.

  25. But what if Java is the next WAIS? on LibreOffice 4 Released · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think the issue that needs to be faced is that it seems likely that Java is dead. As such, it seems unlikely to me that the interpreter will be maintained for much longer.

    What are the options for a project like LibreOffice?