>> Remember when Slashdot was for techies not 10 yo boys?
Many of us stuck around because SlashDot has always been great for techies who behave like 10 yo boys. Are you sure you wouldn't be happier here: http://www.itworld.com/ ?
This. When my fifth-grader wanted a music player and a handheld to play games and text, I walked up to the pay-as-you-go phone section in Walmart and bought a $40 Android smartphone. My son hooked it up to WiFi and now communicates with me via text apps. There was never any need to activate the pay-as-you-go phone service.
>> "Can courts compel Facebook to provide analytics of who might be a criminal?...Or Google to give a list of names of people who searched for the term ISIS?
Not quite. The core beef seems to be that the commonly used STARTTLS method of SMTP transport encryption is essentially optional, which allows hackers to use a variety of methods to force-downgrade target connections (in situations where mature implementations of HTTPS would have safely blown up). In other words, the authors are seeking a world where you install your mail server cert just like you install your web server cert, and it all works fairly securely out of the box. The reality is that it's early yet, but a lot of the work seems to be needed on the part of application developers rather than IT right now.
>> 13 years ago, BBC3 launched...that launched countless comedy careers...
In the words of John Oliver, settle down people. It's only been around 13 years. Surely, the number of people who are still working in comedy after working on that channel is finite. Here's a list of the most famous, I guess: http://www.theguardian.com/med...
>> Apple who dictated what was taught in high school computer science courses
Given their direction on Swift 2, I wouldn't let Apple within 100 yards of anyone who wanted a job in CS someday. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3027100/mobile-development/seven-swift-2-enhancements-every-ios-developer-will-love.html)
>> These aren't sitting in showroom-like garages of wealthy collectors....yet.
FTFY. The free market will ensure that the best of these cars make into collector's hands quickly. And I wouldn't cry for the Cubans who sell them to the "stupid Americans" for 5x their value in Cuba - they'll each be laughing to the bank with their relative wealth.
I think you dropped a decimal. If not, these criminals are dumber than they sound: stealing a pocketful of candy at the neighborhood store is $5 worth and won't land you in prison.
>> are selling fake bomb threats
And what's a "fake bomb threat"? (A "bomb threat" is one where someone calls in claiming to have planted a bomb.) Is a "fake bomb threat" where someone just pretends to make a call...?
I work in a job where (as a "thought leader") I'm supposed to tweet regularly, but I never, ever find time to read anything from Twitter. It's a write-only assignment as far as I'm concerned - it could be/dev/null for all I know or care.
I'll bet there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people like me out there too, all dumping regularly scheduled 140-character tweets into a space probably half populated with advertiser's bots using keyword-based algorithm to retweet, favorite and react to my stuff, all for the benefit of even more robots.
Also, that over half the participants will be magically be someone's brother-in-law, cousin, college buddy, or connected to someone at the sponsoring firm.
You want to see a real-life experiment in "universal basic income"? Go visit the "streets and san" division in Chicago and nearby suburbs.
So, now is it finally legal to slap the phone out of pedestrians hands when they're about to stumble off the curb (whether into a crosswalk or not). I know I already honk at drivers who are staring at their dashboard (or their lap) as they inch through an intersection or change lanes on a highway.
TLDR: It's quite possible to build a business selling services people don't need on top of open source codebases (e.g., the Red Hat model) because corporations will happily pay for "commercial support" of critical systems, even if no one actually ever uses it.
As a developer, I want my laptop to have a large, bright screen and shit-tons of battery life so I can do work on a sunny patio instead of the office when it's nice outside. And since I own a backpack, I don't care about weight or how metro I look carrying my electronics. Therefore, I own a Dell Latitude, which can run VS 2015 on a single charge for about 6-8 hours and weighs a lot more than my (used mainly for pentesting) MacBook Pro.
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>> Remember when Slashdot was for techies not 10 yo boys?
Many of us stuck around because SlashDot has always been great for techies who behave like 10 yo boys.
Are you sure you wouldn't be happier here: http://www.itworld.com/ ?
>> human-scale muscle structures that matured into functional tissue after being implanted into mice
So which human-size structure did you implant OH MY GOD THAT MOUSE IS HUNG LIKE A HORSE!!!
>> grandparents died...when they were six
Not to be an asshole, but I think we're getting whooshed. How did your grandparents have kids if they were six?
This. When my fifth-grader wanted a music player and a handheld to play games and text, I walked up to the pay-as-you-go phone section in Walmart and bought a $40 Android smartphone. My son hooked it up to WiFi and now communicates with me via text apps. There was never any need to activate the pay-as-you-go phone service.
>> Government to [Company]: "Also, develop it on your dime"
This is why businesses hate regulations in general.
>> cold war era weapons?
I was thinking it could be a 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88 sedan with a drunk Kennedy at the wheel.
>> "Can courts compel Facebook to provide analytics of who might be a criminal?...Or Google to give a list of names of people who searched for the term ISIS?
Facebook already publishes a guide for law enforcement: https://www.facebook.com/safet...
Google does too: https://www.google.com/transpa...
>> at the Grammys
The what?
>> It's a big live music awards show.
I didn't know that was still a thing. Is the Ed Sullivan show still running somewhere too?
>> Now we can do more than write ones and zeros to a disk: We can actually write code that tells a machine how to extrude, cut, bend
Keep it up. You'll invent programmable robots and automated control systems within a week at that pace.
>> I just want a kid with an Asian brain, a black dick, and a white sense of entitlement.
If rule 34 applies be careful what you wish for.
Not quite. The core beef seems to be that the commonly used STARTTLS method of SMTP transport encryption is essentially optional, which allows hackers to use a variety of methods to force-downgrade target connections (in situations where mature implementations of HTTPS would have safely blown up). In other words, the authors are seeking a world where you install your mail server cert just like you install your web server cert, and it all works fairly securely out of the box. The reality is that it's early yet, but a lot of the work seems to be needed on the part of application developers rather than IT right now.
See https://blog.filippo.io/the-sa...
>> 13 years ago, BBC3 launched...that launched countless comedy careers...
In the words of John Oliver, settle down people. It's only been around 13 years. Surely, the number of people who are still working in comedy after working on that channel is finite. Here's a list of the most famous, I guess: http://www.theguardian.com/med...
Thanks for the translation!
>> Apple who dictated what was taught in high school computer science courses
Given their direction on Swift 2, I wouldn't let Apple within 100 yards of anyone who wanted a job in CS someday. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3027100/mobile-development/seven-swift-2-enhancements-every-ios-developer-will-love.html)
>> These aren't sitting in showroom-like garages of wealthy collectors....yet.
FTFY. The free market will ensure that the best of these cars make into collector's hands quickly. And I wouldn't cry for the Cubans who sell them to the "stupid Americans" for 5x their value in Cuba - they'll each be laughing to the bank with their relative wealth.
>> for an extra $5 worth of Bitcoin
I think you dropped a decimal. If not, these criminals are dumber than they sound: stealing a pocketful of candy at the neighborhood store is $5 worth and won't land you in prison.
>> are selling fake bomb threats
And what's a "fake bomb threat"? (A "bomb threat" is one where someone calls in claiming to have planted a bomb.) Is a "fake bomb threat" where someone just pretends to make a call...?
I work in a job where (as a "thought leader") I'm supposed to tweet regularly, but I never, ever find time to read anything from Twitter. It's a write-only assignment as far as I'm concerned - it could be /dev/null for all I know or care.
I'll bet there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people like me out there too, all dumping regularly scheduled 140-character tweets into a space probably half populated with advertiser's bots using keyword-based algorithm to retweet, favorite and react to my stuff, all for the benefit of even more robots.
>> What do you think about the significance?
That everyone who "invests" in it is a moron.
Also, that over half the participants will be magically be someone's brother-in-law, cousin, college buddy, or connected to someone at the sponsoring firm.
You want to see a real-life experiment in "universal basic income"? Go visit the "streets and san" division in Chicago and nearby suburbs.
No, the missing flamebait phrase is "percentage of women doing X is woeful". (e.g., http://tech.slashdot.org/story...)
If it's the newly discovered tenth planet that's been nudging comets our way for all these years, I'd score it Planet X: 1, Earth: 0.
>> "death by GPS."
So, now is it finally legal to slap the phone out of pedestrians hands when they're about to stumble off the curb (whether into a crosswalk or not). I know I already honk at drivers who are staring at their dashboard (or their lap) as they inch through an intersection or change lanes on a highway.
VC = Venture capitalist
TLDR: It's quite possible to build a business selling services people don't need on top of open source codebases (e.g., the Red Hat model) because corporations will happily pay for "commercial support" of critical systems, even if no one actually ever uses it.
>> I am at the point where I'm ready to buy new boxes, just because they come with the latest sw version.
By design.
As a developer, I want my laptop to have a large, bright screen and shit-tons of battery life so I can do work on a sunny patio instead of the office when it's nice outside. And since I own a backpack, I don't care about weight or how metro I look carrying my electronics. Therefore, I own a Dell Latitude, which can run VS 2015 on a single charge for about 6-8 hours and weighs a lot more than my (used mainly for pentesting) MacBook Pro.
>> they can pay their fare share
It looks like we should also continue to invest in education. That would be the only "fair" thing to do.