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  1. Re: Maybe Kotlin on Ask Slashdot: Should I Move From Java To Scala? · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's quite stable at this point. JetBrains has released version 1.1 and anything written in 1.0 will work long term. We're using it in production and have had zero issues. I honestly don't see how someone could pick Scala over Kotlin if they've actually looked at Kotlin seriously. This biggest win is that it's syntax is close enough to Java that a new team member can read it and understand the code without even having worked in it at all.

  2. Makes Perfect Sense on WebAssembly: An Attempt To Give the Web Its Own Bytecode · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is ultimately where the browsers need to go. Many have tried in the past, but always from some side angle assuming that it had to be through a plugin or had to use Javascript as the underlying byte code, e.g. GWT. This could finally allow a wide array of languages to be used to build web applications, similar to the explosion of languages that now run on a JVM.

  3. Re:Well... on Russian Cargo Spacehip Declared Lost · · Score: 0

    Yeah, yeah. I've been hearing this crap for a while. Putting China's ability to not give a crap about its people on a pedestal as something to be revered and voted as insightful no less. The U.S. space program has accomplished more than all other countries combined with respect to space exploration. We've even become so good at it that companies are now solely taking over many of the near earth tasks that used to be solely in the realm of NASA and its cost+ contracts. We'll have vacationers on Mars before China gets a taikonaut there.

    I mean, what has China done other than try to launch a few people into very limited space missions and a simple probe to the moon. The U.S. has gone far beyond this and will continue to be decades ahead for the foreseeable future.

  4. Re:Questionable claims on Sony To Offer Partial Refunds For PS Vita · · Score: 1

    Well, technically he still hasn't suspended deportations (or otherwise changed immigration policy) through an executive order.

    He used a Presidential Memorandum which is effectively indistinguishable from an executive order as defined in Armstrong v. United States (1871). Nice try, though. Yes, the next president can undo it. That doesn't make it right.

  5. Re: The first one is always free on Snapchat Will Introduce Ads, Attempt To Keep Them Other Than Creepy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The advertiser is the customer, but we are the user, not simply the product. It's an important distinction. The companies that have done the best in social networks have focused more on the user. Obviously they're going to have to get money somehow. Advertisements is one way. They could also start charging to use the service. One or the other is inevitable and if it's a big problem for you, the user, then you're free to stop using it.

  6. Re:This is going to end so well for them! on T-Mobile To Throttle Customers Who Use Unlimited LTE Data For Torrents/P2P · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's only for TETHERING beyond the allowed limit on unlimited data connections. Let me say that again, TETHERING only and only when you've used up you're tethering allowance for the month. Hell, they basically said you can tether as much as you want for everything else, which is pretty freaking cool.

    If you've got tons of bittorrents running over your TETHERED t-mobile connection beyond 2.5 GB/month, you're a douche. You brought this on yourself and no cell phone company should have to put up with it.

  7. y mine everything just like everyone else. on Google+ Photos To Be Separated From Google+ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good lord people. They use your information to display ads. Just like almost every other social network in existence. Clearly this isn't a sticking point for most people or Facebook would be a ghost town.

    Problem for you? Fine don't use it, but it's not like it's a secret. For most people it's worth the conveniences Google provides to have their data mined. I know it is for me.

  8. Re: This reminds me of a great Simpsons episode on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    There are an innumerable set of resources available to help someone lose weight or help people with doing self harm. That's not what this is about.

    This is about whether the employer must accept the responsibility of adjusting to the person's condition. Think of it as giving an employee time at work to gamble online because of their addiction vs. providing time off to get help at a treatment facility.

    It is most definitely a slippery slope, especially since this is case law being set.

  9. Re:Of course vendors love it on OpenStack: the Open Source Cloud That Vendors Love and Users Are Ignoring · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has nothing to do with cloud computing service providers. OpenStack is more about companies using the software for private clouds in which case they would be running it in their own data center.

    In this case, customers are still not picking it up even though they could have cloud computing without the service providers dicking them over.

    I think the software will have to prove itself over time in addition to companies figuring out how it fits into their data centers. Red Hat throwing it's support weight behind it will definitely help.

  10. Re:No price != No cost on Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? · · Score: 1

    The advertisers are the customer and you are the product.

    Ugh, not this crap again. I'm a customer who pays with my information. Google then takes that information and offers it to advertisers. So, if Google wants me to keep paying with my information, they have to provide me, their customer, with a good service.

    It is possible to have more than one type of customer.

  11. Re:consumerism at its finest on Google's Project Tango Seeks To Map a 3D World · · Score: 1

    Lowe's already has this in their mobile app. They recently added bin numbers to all their shelving. Select a store, search for something and it will give you the aisle and shelf number in addition a map of the store with the location pointed out.

    So this is pretty much done, and in a very nice way.

  12. Re:But... on Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' · · Score: 2

    My dad is a home inspector and I was talking to him the other day about how amazing Glass would be for his job. He often has to climb into difficult spots and take pictures or movies. This would be a dream tool for him.

  13. Re:Favorite part on French, German Leaders: Keep European Email Off US Servers · · Score: 1

    INCOMING!!!

    >>>joke**** WHOOSH ****joke>>>>

    No shit Sherlock.

  14. Re:what price increases? on Time Warner Deal Is How Comcast Will Fight Cord Cutters · · Score: 1

    It's technology. You pointed out yourself how the price per mbs has dropped over the years and then suggest for some reason it should now go up. Technology naturally drops in price because of advances regardless of how many people are using it. Unless of course you have a monopoly.

  15. Re:It's called Gcoin now. on Google Says It Has "No Current Plans Regarding Bitcoin" · · Score: 1

    Wow, where to begin.

    First of all, in-store credit vouchers are not "their own currency" at all. They're just U.S. dollars with restrictions on where they can be spent. They'll always be worth the same amount in dollars because they're not a separate currency at all. other currencies values are tracked separately from each other. Yes, a particular currency can be tied to another currency, but at any point, that tie can be severed. A voucher's tie to the U.S. dollar can NEVER be severed because it IS U.S. dollars.

    All cryptocurrencies that follow the same architecture of bitcoin by their nature are controlled by 51% of the owners of the currency. Just because a company creates a new currency and blesses it by accepting it at all their terminals doesn't mean it's controlled by them, as long as it follows the bitcoin architecture.

    I was VERY skeptical of bitcoin until I read this article by Marc Andreesen: http://techland.time.com/2014/...

    Yes, he has a lot invested in bitcoin companies which gives him a bias and some of his arguments are in my opinion flat out wrong, the majority of what he says does sound very interesting and gave me a new perspective on the currency.

  16. Re:bad bad idea on Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts · · Score: 2

    Good lord. I understand Slashdot folks generally don't like to read the actual article, but I don't think a single comment on this has come from someone who actually read it.

    It is simply and integration between G+ and gmail. They are NOT merging. IF you use G+, then you'll be able to send emails to people in G+ without having to know their email address. It's a nice convenience. That is all.

    So if you're not using G+ for anything now, nothing at all will change for you in gmail. If you are using it, you will get some nice new feature.

  17. Re:All or nothing on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everyone can get access to as much healthcare as they want. This simply is a determination of whether very specific religious organizations are required by law to pay for something they find unethical. Just because something isn't covered by insurance doesn't mean it is denied to them. They must simply pay for it on their own. This isn't something that even costs that much.

  18. Re:How many don't use the chrome part? on Chromebooks Have a Lucrative Year; Should WinTel Be Worried? · · Score: 2

    I bought an Acer C720 for my wife. Chrome OS is nearly perfect for her. All she does is surf the web and the small amount of photo editing can be done in web apps like pixelr. Plex and Netflix work like champs.

    The only hitch was Skype as she uses it to talk to her family in Italy. That's where linux comes in. Installed crouton and have it running aside chrome OS. Skype runs beautifully in it and she can hear a call while in chrome OS and switch with a single key combo and switch back when finished.

    Microsoft should be worried about this. It will only improve and piece by piece take over the last remaining bastion of their empire.

  19. Re:Blowing bubbles again? on Nasdaq 4000 — This Time It's Different? · · Score: 2

    If you've only gotten a 9% return in the past 12 months, you should either be near retirement or are way too conservative in your fund choices. I have a very diversified portfolio and still easily have a return above 20% in the last 12 months.

  20. Re:Transparency on CPJ Report: the Obama Administration and Press Freedoms · · Score: 2

    Are you on drugs? Bush was lambasted by the media. Constantly. Now Obama is in office. Remember how we're still fighting a war in Afghanistan? What happened to Guantanimo? The only reason we know ANYTHING about the NSA is because every news outlet would be dumb as a bag of rocks not to report it. It was thrown in their lap.

    Who knows what else is going on. There's very little real journalism in today's media. Part of that really is a belief by many in the media that Obama is overall a great man and they should not pound him too hard for anything, and part of that is because of the KGB like surveillance of the media keeping everyone else in line as much as possible.

  21. God damn it. disk? ruined the whole post.

  22. Your word for today is Asshole. Learn what it means.

    You need to stop being a disk when trying to make your point. It doesn't make you right.

  23. Not that I think Mayer is any good as a CEO, but this entire article is based on the premise that most of their revenue in the second quarter was from selling off an investment which is false. The $1.07 billion in revenue is completely separate from the investment gain from Alibaba. Investment gains like that are never counted as revenue.

    See official quarterly results for more details: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-reports-second-quarter-2013-200500159.html

  24. Re:selling shares is not revenue on Why Yahoo and Marissa Mayer's Over Reliance On Alibaba Could Spell Trouble · · Score: 1

    It is NOT reported as revenue. TFA and summary are wrong. If you want the details: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-reports-second-quarter-2013-200500159.html

    Yahoo! reported $1.07 billion in revenue without including the gain from Alibaba. The whole article makes little sense and the summary plays up a small piece from the article that isn't even correct. This should never have made it onto Slashdot.

  25. Re:Welcome to corporate America on Perspectives On the Latest IBM Layoffs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    While what you're saying is true for some corporations in the U.S., maybe most, there are plenty that treat their employees with respect as long as their employees respect the company. I left IBM for just such a company and am VERY happy at my new job. IBM will slowly whither and die if it continues on its track. Natural selection and a healthy entrepreneurship continually reform the corporate landscape ensuring only the fittest survive in the long run. And to be the fittest, you have to have a healthy corporate culture and good people.