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  1. Well it's not like they could get a visa to stay on Russia Backs Sending Top Students Abroad With a Catch · · Score: 1

    in the US if they wanted to. So why not? Hell, they could partner with the State Department for stateside enforcement on this whole "get educated in the US, contribute to the economy back home" scheme.

  2. moving to the woods and then worrying about slow on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1, Funny

    internet is "doing it wrong."

  3. Car requires marshmallows. Please follow onscreen on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 1

    navigation...

  4. it's simple... on Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? · · Score: 1

    their contractor doesn't know how to build high traffic websites. duh.

  5. Does anybody who cares still use GNOME now anyway? on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that anyone who would care about this sort of thing would have abandoned GNOME long ago when they announced with GNOME 3 that they were done with creating functional desktop interfaces and were instead focusing on radical UX/UI research.

  6. Just read his bio... on Silicon Valley's Loony Cheerleading Culture Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    I think I'd call him a Kling-on, by his own definition!

  7. All big players have this nowadays... on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 1

    VOA, BBC World, France24, Al Jazeera, PressTV, CCTV News, NHK World, DW-TV ... it's fashionable.

    What sets RT apart is that they have a bunch of money and all the motion graphics/design/branding on the channel is all superfuturistic in that classically weird Russian kinda way.

  8. Re:CIA's next move on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 1

    Why do you think Putin granted asylum in the first place? He fancied himself a new "travel companion."

  9. leechblock and chromenanny on Ask Slashdot: Software To Help Stay On Task? · · Score: 1

    have worked pretty well for me in the past. you can build a list of fuckoff sites and limit the amount of time you can spend on them per day. they don't actually stop you from wasting time on internet sites if you really want to, what they actually do is slow you down and give yourself a chance to ask yourself "wait, wtf am i doing? i already spent xx minutes doing this crap." it's not perfect, but it works pretty well.

  10. toilette and douche on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    the bobs hive is not exactly the first place i tend to think of when i want to know about information security trends... maybe they should stick to their core competencies. like really busy powerpoint templates that the government likes and "anybody whoever built an empire..."

  11. when you have had enough... lithium on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: 1

    and you know when too much lithium from the battery has leeched out when you're overtaken by tremors, seizures, coma and cardiovascular collapse.

  12. The Real Official Statement from Adobe... on Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing? · · Score: 1
    ...or why it would probably really suck to work there. Here's the official statement from the horse's mouth:

    http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2013/01/update-on-cs2-and-acrobat-7-activation-servers.html

    "Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers."

    It's rather fascinating and somewhat indicative of a completely dysfunctional company. It reads almost like the head of support wrote an apologetic explanation that tried to downplay the issue a bit to the rest of the execs who then didn't quite understand the issue itself or the gravity of it. The solution, obviously, was to then just forward it directly to PR who then faithfully published it letter for letter. Wow.

  13. Bureaucracy and Inefficiency on Companies Getting Rid of Reply-all · · Score: 1

    Putting all concerns about having a cluttered, but complete, inbox that can be searched for answers versus tighter distribution groups and more delays in having to query actual people for answers aside, if you ask me, paying someone a six figure salary to write memos about the proper use of the "Reply All" button and paying IT staff to monkey with email software to remove it is pretty much the definition of bureaucracy and inefficiency gone wild.

  14. Forget speed, fix congestion control. on 802.11ad Will Knock Your Socks Off, Says Interop Panel · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't theoretical speed, it's congestion control for shared radio bandwidth when tens or hundreds of consumer owned unlicensed wireless devices stomp all over each other. In recent years, I've noticed that existing 802.11 devices in any reasonably densely populated area completely fall apart due to interference from neighbors.

  15. PRINT STRIKES BACK on Television Network Embeds Android Device In Magazine Ads · · Score: 1

    You think you can decimate our industry?! You think you can reduce us from journalists to mere "content creators"?! You think you can take our work and stick it in your little glowing devices?! WE'LL SHOW YOU! WE'LL TAKE YOUR LITTLE GLOWY SMARTPHONE AND GLUE IT RIGHT INSIDE OUR MAGAZINE.

  16. I'd use it as a learning experience on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Unix Fan Look For In a Windows Expert? · · Score: 1

    What do Windows people do when they need to rsync stuff? How do they version control their configuration? How do you "grep" with no external utilities installed? What's the equivalent of lsof? How do Windows machines handle the split between 32bit and 64bit code? What's the equivalent of LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Do you really have to point and click for everything? Is there a command line equivalent of "su"? You'll be able to tell if the answers are smart. Literally, treat interviews as "tell me how people actually run Windows on a real scale because I'm green with it and if I tried to do it I'd go mental... I'm honestly interested" and you'll quickly figure out who knows what the hell they're talking about and perhaps learn something along the way.

  17. Fuzzing equipment that talks over the air on FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    At least that part was interesting. I'm sure there's loads of radio driven digital equipment out there that has been designed under the assumption that the radio is proprietary and therefore the other side is almost certainly going to behave properly.

  18. God this is stupid. on Algorithmic Pricing On Amazon 'Could Spark Flash Crash' · · Score: 1

    The world will not end.

    "We're sorry, due to a pricing error, we are unable to honor the price you were quoted on xx/xx/xx for xxxx priced at $xx.xx. Your payment has been refunded and the transaction has been reversed. Again, we apologize for the issue and any inconvenience it may have caused.

    Sincerely,

    Some Random Amazon Marketplace Seller"

  19. ha ha! google, you fools! right into their trap! on Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features · · Score: 1

    don't you know that apple holds worldwide process patents on pushing out software updates that cripple shipped software and devices?

  20. So instead of... on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    Making a car that can accelerate faster, we're going to deploy a massive network of autonomous motorcycles. When you step on the accelerator, the closest motorcycle will be dispatched with mind bending speed, your seat will be flung aboard in a feat of mechanical engineering never seen before, the motorcycle will accelerate to full speed faster and when the car catches up you'll be flung back. ...and I gotta be honest, the only real reason why Adobe would be interested in moving towards some kind of SaaS model would be because they basically get unbreakable DRM for free.

  21. How about this?!?! on Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime · · Score: 1

    Lets not have government agencies get in the habit of piping music into public spaces! Can we? Really? I don't care what the reason is, it's just way too creepy eastern-blocish for me...

  22. This was done for iTV.. on Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution · · Score: 1

    Ten years ago by a company called Liberate Technologies. (The company that Larry Ellison's NC morphed into) Their application area was set-top boxes and they built a number of embedded software stacks that were Netscape (licensed) and Mozilla (OSS) based (Browser sitting on Linux or vxWorks) that booted straight into the browser where everything lived in the browser. (the whole UI was HTML/Javascript/Flash, and all interaction with the underlying hardware was done through a Javascript API). There was no native code, everything was the browser.

    But then nobody really cared about iTV, the company folded and I think the remaining shell company got into the trucking business (no joke).

  23. Job Description? Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're looking at this the wrong way... You have obviously done the right thing by taking the initiative in the first place, but now, I hate to say, your attitude is all wrong.

    Here's how it works:

    1) You get some job
    2) You "beast" it. That is... you do what you're asked very well and you take the initiative to use the extra skills you have to wow everyone by changing everything
    3) You ensure that it is known that you are responsible for your work
    4a) They offer you a payrise or more responsibility and pay
    4b) They don't, you stick it on your resume and you get a better job somewhere else with a beamingly positive reference

    Do the right thing, make sure there are no problems of attribution and it will pay off in the end. Do not crap up your reputation by trying to strongarm more money out of them upfront. Keep a good attitude and it will pay off in the end. If I had tried to extract extra pay for going above and beyond every time I did so in my career, I can all but guarantee I would not have done as well as I have.

    Do interesting stuff, be unbelievably useful. The money will follow, it always does.

  24. Drudge generates more inane comment traffic than.. on Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm always amused by the comment sections on stories that get linked by Drudge. It's like a freakin' firehose that sprays misspelled conspiracy theories about illegal space alien Obama clones that maraud across the countryside in the thick of night, eating babies and freedom while dropping turds of poisonous socialism that are festering with job eating worms.

  25. Tower caches probably exist on old phones too on iPhone and Location: Don't Panic · · Score: 1

    I'd wager that most mobiles from the pre-smartphone era also maintain some kind of tower cache. I'd also wager that at least one of them also has some kind of bug where old cache entries live for way longer than they should.