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  1. "Ypsilon minus" by Herbert W. Franke on Ask Slashdot: High-School Suitable Books On How Computers Affect Society? · · Score: 1

    "Ypsilon minus" by Herbert W. Franke. It touches upon prism controversy, hacker ethics, singularity...

  2. it is called "refactoring" on If a Network Is Broken, Break It More · · Score: 1

    Makes perfect sense. If it is too broken to fix - refactor it.

  3. 3 ways to make profit on One Bitcoin By the Numbers: Is There Still Profit To Be Made? · · Score: 1

    1. Be first 2. Be smarter 3. Cheat

  4. Re:Would Someone Explain This? on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    This is probably the cost to retrofit police crime lab to use DNA sequencing. They cannot just send for shrink-wrap test. It will not hold up in court.

  5. Re:Daily? on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Push To Production? · · Score: 2

    That's not true. If you have good automated regression, have reasonable coverage and do continuous integration you can cut the release as soon as you have a clean regression. It may take a few hours or a day to prep the release (sign-offs, paperwork, push, etc) but it can be done in parallel. There is always a balance. Prepping the release incurs costs in manpower and resources. Pushing daily may not be practical if cost/benefit is not there. For example if it takes 6 hours to prep the release then doing so for a wording change on the page that get 10 hits per day is not practical. on the other hand, if dev team cranks out dozen cool and exciting features daily it may be worth to staff release and QA automation teams to allow them to prep multiple releases per day.

  6. every time ... on Quantum Measurements Leave Schrödinger's Cat Alive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every time they take a peek, God kills a kitten.

  7. Re:Article has it Wrong on What Should Start-Ups Do With the Brilliant Jerk? · · Score: 1

    The article describes a spectacular failure of being able to retain and accommodate creative talent. When company grows and management consultants move in and start laying out verticals and org charts then the bureaucracy sets in and top talent leaves because there is too much red tape to deal with. It looks from the article that the company failed to setup non-management vertical and allow people who have no desire to become managers to grow. The thing is that CEO or COO or another acronym would have benefited greatly from direct communication with Brilliant Jerk instead of relying on management vertical to percolate the message through. Lots' of successful tech companies have "distinguished engineers", "product fellows" or other non-management positions that report directly to the top management. Technology changes every 5 years. Getting rid of Brilliant Jerks is a direct path to obsolete products and becoming irrelevant in the marketplace. Examples are readily available: look at RIM, Nokia, Windows Mobile spectacular failures. You just cannot manage you way out of this one.

  8. important source of revenue on Why Cell Phone Bans Don't Work · · Score: 1

    What do you mean they don't work? These bans are important source of revenue for the government

  9. still alailable just not in App Store on MplayerX Leaving Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    MPlayerX will still be available just not in AppStore. I would assume existing users will still get updates through internal update service.

  10. Re:Who the eff cares? on San Francisco To Stop Buying Apple Computers · · Score: 1

    RTFA? "Only around 500-700, or 1%-2% total, of municipal computers are Macs, Walton estimated. "

  11. Re:Who the eff cares? on San Francisco To Stop Buying Apple Computers · · Score: 1

    probably not because apple products amount to less than 2% of SF government computers.

  12. software firewalls on Choosing the Right Security Tools To Protect VMs · · Score: 1

    linux iptables or windows firewall can be used to filter traffic between VMs. Network firewalls can be used for the traffic that actually leaves the physical host. It is safer to make assumption that all VMs on the host share the local network and therefore if they need to protected from each other that is responsibility of the guest system.

  13. Re:I'm from Russia, and I was stopped at Arizona on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    Riding bicycle in sidewalk can be illegal in some cities. It is usually an infraction and police will follow "cite-and-release" procedure but you have to have to have a proper ID otherwise they will have to take you to the station for booking and then you can post bail. Now, in Arizona, if you cannot prove your legal status they will hold you until ICE clears your status which may take a while. It is worth to keep a copy of your I-94 with you just in case.

  14. Re:I don't get it on Russian Programmers Dominate At Google Code Jam · · Score: 1

    Just to be fair CS is big O notation and calculating algorithmic efficiency, Knuth's books, so its possible to be a decent computer scientist without a computer. You need calculus and a blackboard a lot more than you need a computer.

    "Scientist" - may be. "Engineer" - hell no. You wouldn't want a surgeon who knows the theory but never practiced it to operate on you, would you?

  15. http://aide.sourceforge.net/ on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Who shives a git!!! on Is Onlive Pirating Windows and Will It Cost Them? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Powershell runs circles around bash.

  17. Re:Like NT/RISC before it... on Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM · · Score: 1

    No, attempting to emulate x86 on RISC was a disaster. Native apps worked reasonably well. Qualifying apps for A platform is not a bad idea. Nobody expects to be able to run Crysis on ARM. I hope Microsoft puts "windows experience index" to a good use and categorize apps based on it.

  18. Re:What? on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    The President can order Attorney General to investigate the allegations. He is just not willing to respond for political reasons. I think it is an important lesson in how democracy really works in this country.

  19. Re:Control signals- NOT Data on NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you are describing AlarmManager

  20. Begun the Core Wars has on Fujitsu To Develop Vigilante Computer Virus For Japan · · Score: 1

    ... or Core Wars Reloaded?

  21. Re:Sigh on Sorry, IT: These 5 Technologies Belong To Users · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Look, "tech-savvy" user usually has no clue about corporate IT. The fact of the matter is that the work done on the company time is subject to licensing, permits, regulations, insurance, bonds, etc. That also covers tools that are used to perform the work. You must use approved tools and technologies. That includes software and computers. Tech-savvy user can use his personal software for the company business while his personal software license explicitly prohibits commercial use. Tech-savvy user can put confidential data on his personal box then it ends up in his personal backup, his personal backup system gets upgraded and the old one is sold on eBay and happy eBay buyer recovers confidential files because media destruction procedures have not been followed. I can give you dozen more scenarios that "tech-savvy" user simply does not think or care about because its is the job of corporate IT.

  22. Re:i would hate for you to see what really goes on Sorry, IT: These 5 Technologies Belong To Users · · Score: 1

    a) banks are not processors b) quite a few retailers and processors have been fined or suspended for security breaches. google it

  23. Re:Prior art on Apple Patents Using Apps During Calls · · Score: 1

    Windows Smartphone 2002 home screen had "call in progress" plugin. If you switched to home screen (by clicking or pressing a button) while call was in progress UI was modified to reflect that.

  24. Due Diligence on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    "Cloud" is just another service provide your company or your are dealing with. They should and usually do spell out how they respond to subpoena for your data.

    Amazon AWS, for example:
    8.1 Your Content. As between you and us, you or your licensors own all right, title, and interest in and to Your Content. Except as provided in this Section 8, we obtain no rights under this Agreement from you or your licensors to Your Content, including any related intellectual property rights. You consent to our use of Your Content to provide the Service Offerings to you and any End Users. We may disclose Your Content to provide the Service Offerings to you or any End Users or to comply with any request of a governmental or regulatory body (including subpoenas or court orders).

  25. Re:So what? on Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? · · Score: 1

    They live in crapware infested mess because over 50% of internet traffic is made of p2p and porn. People don't "get" crapware. They willingly install it because it gives them something they want. Gated communities are nice but the world is larger than that.