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  1. Re:Sponsored post on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 1

    Yes i would have hoped that the most plausible theories (IMHO) for the cell towers would have been examined closer, but then it turned into a diffuse "china is so bad" speech.

    IMHO there are several reasons why such towers could be close to military bases:

    a) Some enemy to the US tries to spy on the solidiers phones (trying to uncover their identities etc) - unlikely

    b) These cell towers serve to protect the identity of all (or some) phones (by filtering the network protocols, hiding location information) on the base, and are operated by the military.

    c) Some US intelligence organization tries to spy on the soldiers to figure out who is spying, or whistleblowing, or something else of interest to them.

    d) The primary fundtion is not to intercept phones of other providers, but to have a private 3G network

  2. Happy that i did not buy an iphone on Apple Reveals the Most Common Reasons That It Rejects Apps · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it's ok for me it the UI of an app it's not so great as long as it does the job which i need to be done right now. (e.g. importing/converting files formats, unusual calculations etc....)

  3. Boobquake? on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    So if we al watch boobquake photos over highspeed internet, something very bad should happen....

  4. Re:Love Free Offline Nokia Here Drive+Maps on Post-Microsoft Nokia Offering Mapping Services To Samsung · · Score: 1

    Nokia never sold any phones in Japan. (it was impossible to even get a charger for my Nokia phone)

  5. Re: How Does SpaceX Do it? on NASA's Competition For Dollars · · Score: 1

    No. I am fine here. I like going on my bike to work trough a forest.

    No matter how bad environmental problem become, earth will still be better than anything which we could plan to reach. Fixing the problems here woll have a fraction of the cost whcih fixin them by flying away would have.

    Lets

  6. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 2

    If anybody related to unix adminstration does not know vi then he should not be hired.

    Not because i think that vi is great or not, but plainly for the reason that vi is installed with the bare minimum installation, which means you will be able to edei config files long before any other editor is installed.

  7. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    You young fool!

    if i am using vi then only becaue ex actually starts vi in ex mode instead of the real ex.

    (just kidding)

  8. Re:lulz on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I worked with Ukrainians, and i worked with Russian, and we worked all together. Most of the normal people on both sides have no problem friends to each other, or being married with each other.

    I am deeply worried about some polititians (on both sides) being more conderned about economics than about saving the lives of many civilians, and soldiers. Russia could have stopped a long time destabilizing the region, and the West made some big mistakes about 9 months ago in not giving Russia guarantees for their safety and constructive influence, and instead of insiting in finally "winning" the cold war.

  9. Re:I bought one of these for Litecoin mining on Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards Show Up In Germany · · Score: 4, Funny

    Better: If you scam on Amazon, you should be forced to work in Amazon mechanicalturk.

  10. No rules on Uber Has a Playbook For Sabotaging Lyft, Says Report · · Score: 2

    I always thought that rules are for cowards (if you belied the Uber etc. lobbyists). The good thing about bein a taxi is that the situation in this case would be pretty clear, i guess.

  11. Re:Hmmm ... on $75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen · · Score: 1

    Could you power down and act death for a few minutes? Then the devices would reset itself for the next owner.

  12. I have seen other things come and go on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    My strategy:

    a) Install distribution according to purpose (default: debian, laptop: ubuntu, server/with supported commercial sw configurations: red hat) out of the Box
    b) Verify if additional features needed are there
    c) Add the features you really need which are missing
    d) If it does not work, follow the documentaiton
    e) If following the documentaiton does not work withing a reasonable time, change distribution to a more conservative one and repeat from step a
    f) perform testing
    g) optimize performance (up to compiling a new kernel)

    Has served me well the last 20 years. If i need knowledge about systemd, i hope its documented well, otherwise its off the list.

  13. Re:What's the point? on If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? · · Score: 1

    So which of the most used apps on android use openGL?

  14. Re:Bad actors? on Airbnb To Hand Over Data On 124 Hosts To New York Attorney General · · Score: 1

    a stupic calculation.

    Preventing the worst 1% of market participatns from offering via a specific platform will never shift the market share of the whole market by 1%.

  15. Re:What's the point? on If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? · · Score: 1

    Program an App in ANSI C does not equal to programming a part of an app in ANSI C.

    "most of the most-downloaded apps" is so vague that it's a non-information. My viewpoint is not "why knowing C is cool" but "that is the shortes route to delivering software to many platforms". If i would be in the business of making a "most downloaded app" then probably i could easily spent a few man-years for platform specific optimizations.

  16. Re:Bad actors? on Airbnb To Hand Over Data On 124 Hosts To New York Attorney General · · Score: 2

    If that would be true, then lobyists who manage to reduce the competition by 1% probably would not be worth their money.

  17. Re:What's the point? on If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? · · Score: 1

    I talk about devices, you talk about microntrollers/processors.

    You can not program 1B android devices in ANSI C. You can not program java smart cards in ANSI C.

    Hypothetically, you could modify parts of all devices in ANSI C, but this this you essentially disassemble the device.

    I agree, if you interested in firmware development, ANSI C is probably the right choice.

  18. "Free" was never a business model on Dropbox Caught Between Warring Giants Amazon and Google · · Score: 1

    And i never will store data on anybody who tells me that he does it for free. Either he looses money, or he has something else in mind.

  19. Re:Bad actors? on Airbnb To Hand Over Data On 124 Hosts To New York Attorney General · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No - there are always definitly easy to spot bad actors on such platforms. These can range from stupid assholes who want to rent out their garbage collection room, people who are acting like they ren something out in private, but in reality operate a full-scale business circumventing regulations and possibly taxes.

    It seems that in NY there are 10000s of hosts. Figuring out the most criminal 1% of these has nothing to do with killing innovation but more wit doing a service to the customers (reputation for the hosts and safety for the customers).

  20. Re:Not at all on Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake? · · Score: 1

    When you operated the crank for a about 20 seconds, you could turn on the buzzer (not very loud, but louder than you could talk or knock) for a few minutes. Probably more useful for the finding you in a burning house (where you cant breathe much) than in a collapsed one.

  21. Not at all on Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I live in an area without Earthquakes.

    But when i lived in Japan:

    -Emergency radio with Crank generator and LED flashlight, Buzzer (in case you are trapped inside a (partially) collapsed house and dont want to shout all the time), mobile phone charger, and radio receiver for all channels, lying close/in my bed (http://tlet.co.jp/pro_radio/ty_jr11/index_j.htm)
    -2 Liters of water (i lived alone)

    In Japan we had earthquake drills of the housing community one time per year, and one time per year in the company. In the housing community we were shown the nearest small emergency area, which had food and water stored in boxes, medical supplies and tools/shovels. We trained how to use fire extinguishers.
    And everybody shoudl have had look at (and i had) how to reach the next bigger emergency area (which typically was a bigger public park with an area for helicopter landings and some toilets.

  22. Re:What's the point? on If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The point of java is that you can program more devices on this planet in this language than with anything else.

    Java has penetrated all areas of computing, from embedded (down to chipcards) to mobile, from science to database and web servers.

    Java has inherent cross-platform mechanisms for elementary things for which c does not have these (treads), and there are (most of the time free) libraries inferfacing in all directions.

    Dynamic, standardized binding to databases and XML makes it extremely easy to persist you data in a well-documented and well-tested structured way.

    Java has nearly all language features you could desire.

    And last but not least: eclipse is a great free IDE. AMong the free IDEs there is IMHO no combination of language+language tools which boots your productivity for specific tasks as eclipse does.

  23. Re:That is not a business decision. on Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers · · Score: 1

    The real business decision would be how many people you put into development and how many requirements engineers and SW quality people you put into the project to validate is the software (including hte database) conforms to the different customers needs.

  24. Re:That is not a business decision. on Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers · · Score: 1

    Actually, even janitors and low level administration staff make a difference.

    The new Employee who asks for something simple and reasonable to be done can get the response "sorry, you can not order me to do that" or he can just do it. In the latter case the new employee may get another picture of your company.

    The team assistant with not even a bachelor degree can significantly influence the output of the specialist.

    If i see that a demotivated mode of work is bussiness as usual in a company, then i run.

  25. Re:Militiarization of police... on Two Years of Data On What Military Equipment the Pentagon Gave To Local Police · · Score: 1

    If they remind you of Ukraine, then you are an idiot without any sense of respect for about 2000 deaths. In Ukraine they use artillery and air strikes. Already in the bery beginning of the conflict snipers shot into protesters.

    IMHO the problem in the US is not the police. The problem is that the police needs to be more heavily armed than the civiliangs. If i should control driver licenses as a policeman in a country where a significant fraction of the population has firearms, and a non-negligible part of the population has a acceptance for anti-state/anti-government ideolody (tea party), i would be freaking nervous.