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  1. Well, my guess is you'll eventually hit another limit (in bytes uploaded) designed for the largest raster images, like those from 24 MPixel cameras.

  2. But it really does. I'm not going to use one map app for the city then have to switch it out at some indeterminate point where its data begins to suck for another map app I'm not familiar with.

  3. The new code... on Microsoft Working on Porting Sysinternals To Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Linux port operates on the command line, and is simply two line bash scripts and aliases.

  4. The market is stupid on Tablet Shipments Decline For 16th Straight Quarter (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Tablets would be great if the market hadn't decided the target customer for a secondary device will only want something bottom-of-the-barrel.

    The long tail of the poors keeps tablets from becoming a useful niche.

  5. Re: Agile is like active methodology in teaching on Slashdot Asks: Are DevOps, Agile, and Lean IT the Same Thing? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Sometimes you plan to work on one thing, then get derailed. Just because someone brings up the same task during standup every day doesn't mean they're not getting shit done.

  6. If the data collection process doesn't scale, then this is just a toy tech demo. 99.9999% of the time, I'm not in the 3% covered area, and neither are most people.

  7. West African Investment Trust based in Geneva, Switzerland. Seems legit.

  8. Generally speaking the term "sex" is indeed biological, while "gender" is social or personal. So, non-story.

  9. Would a SJW call you a faggot cunt?

  10. If you think hiring from HBCs is jumping through hoops, but hiring from Stanford isn't, then you might be a racist.

  11. As a white dude I can hate on white dudes all I want. It's not racist or sexist to want to be around people of a different race or sex. Get a grip, oh whitest of snowflakes.

  12. 0.01 BTC says Twitter uses the image resolution to determine if they mangle it. Which means you can likely embed a significant amount of data before it hits their max upload size.

  13. Who to believe? on Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Do you believe the company who essentially invented wireless technology or do you believe the company that invented rounded corners?

  14. Re: What? on Snap CEO Hired Chief Business Officer, Then Changed His Mind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    She's really good.

  15. Re: Who? on Snap CEO Hired Chief Business Officer, Then Changed His Mind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably because no one ever came up with a business model.

  16. You misunderstand how this stuff works. Diversity hiring doesn't mean lowering your standards. Usually it means waiting for more resumes to pile in before making a decision. Or targeting an HBC for candidates. Or job outreach to traditionally female-oriented organizations. Diversity hiring doesn't mean you start checking a diversity box. It means you actually work hard to avoid hiring more white dudes, because frankly a lot of us have enough white dudes around already.

  17. Re: Freetards Rejoice! on UK Announces Digital Services Tax on Tech Giants (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    The rich pay all the taxes, but they receive outsized benefits from government infrastructure. If you actually follow the money, you'll find the middle class have the largest tax burden relatively speaking, followed by the upper class, and finally government aid recipients at the bottom.

  18. There's a nugget of truth there. Municipal ISPs can't put in the same kinds of restrictions on behavior that private ISPs can. Government is covered by the first amendment, but private industry is not.

  19. Re: Paul Ryan on Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Foxconn deal was a deal with the state of Wisconsin. Ryan is a member of the United States Congress. Though he represents the people of Wisconsin, he does not have a say in how the state operates.

  20. Chill with the arithmetic on Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit By 2033 (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Some people need to back off from arithmetic for a sec and take a moment to critically think about what the math is telling you, and how stupid you have to be to believe the math.

  21. Re: Agreed, it's one of the better systems on Twitter Plans To Remove 'Like' Button in a Bid To Improve the Quality of Debate, Report Says (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We need a -1 Fake News AND a +1 Fake News.

  22. Re: I must be missing something on Windows Defender Becomes First Antivirus To Run Inside a Sandbox (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Some think it's coming.

    https://www.pcrisk.com/interne...

  23. Re: The reason is that it sucks. on It's Becoming Increasingly Unlikely that We'll See a Major Shift To Virtual Reality Any Time Soon (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reason it's ideally suited is because it's a cockpit. VR works best when it simulates something akin to sitting on a couch with your hands on controllers that match those in the VR world.

  24. Re: We need to BUILD MORE HOUSING on High Housing Prices In Tech Cities Are Now Raising Home Prices In Other States (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Because taxes are the way you shift costs for antisocial behavior to the offender.

  25. Because MS has decades of backwards compatible APIs and they attract inexperienced devs who don't know better. If INI files work for you, you use them. If the registry works for you, use it. If XML files in the user profile dir works, use it.

    You can't remove these capabilities without a fundamental, backwards-incompatible redesign of how apps interact with the OS, turning it into a walled garden, iOS-esque environment.