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  1. Re: But not climate change research on Poor Scientific Research Is Disproportionately Rewarded (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that a computer program produces the same results when executed again may be science, but it's computer science, not climate science.

    The reproducability of a computer program proves jack shit about the environment.

  2. standards, use them on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It will never catch on as long as providers insist on creating walled gardens. Create/use a fucking standard, you fucking twats!

  3. Re: Law of unintended consequences, also frosty on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it is a very specific type of circular reason. The phrases do not mean the same thing. That's like saying "red" and "color" are the same thing.

  4. Re: Law of unintended consequences, also frosty on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not once has an audience been confused by my proper use of "begging the question". If you don't follow up the phrase with an answer displaying your ignorance, the meaning is self evident to the vast majority of English speakers.

  5. Re: Dey tek er jebs! on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps you are a rock star programmer because you enjoy programming, and have no interest in the other 90% of the business that would be required of you if you went off to start your own thing.

  6. Re: Impossible... on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They need to learn to play the game properly and share each other's tabs for lunch, then take it as a write-off.

  7. Re: Facts wrong on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    But are Darlene and Elliot different people?

    Think about it...

  8. Re: Why aren't they getting sued? on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure USA is expecting and half encouraging you to pirate Mr Robot. It's a caché thing for them. Back in the day, networks neede a high quality evening news show to be relevant, even if the shows lost money. Nowadays, cable networks need a high quality, critically acclaimed show to be relevant, even if it means losing some money. Longt term, they don't want to be relegated to the garbage pile after a la carte becomes the norm.

  9. Re:Netflix has a unique and obvious strategy. on Slashdot Asks: What's Next For Netflix? (500ish.com) · · Score: 2

    If you can get commercial free premium content from cable TV for $45/month, then you should probably just get cable. The vast majority of the US is paying more like $80-$120/month. Mostly for 100+ channels they will never watch.

  10. Re: Doesn't pass the sniff test on Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think journalists visiting the Middle East fit a profile, you're part of the problem.

  11. Re:Update the review with AuYou responses on Security Researcher Gets Threats Over Amazon Review (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Emails are subject to copyright. Publishing an email thread without permissions is copyright infringement. I would not suggest doing this when the company has proven itself to be litigious.

  12. Re:Please, it's Frivilous Regulation on Airbnb Has Sued Its Hometown Of San Francisco (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    You've completely missed the purpose of the regulation. Airbnb is driving up housing costs because people are purchasing homes and then renting them continuously as hotels. The company is providing meaningful support for people to circumvent existing zoning laws. The regulations are an attempt to put a stop to that.

  13. Re:Super majority on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    All they did was vote to suggest to Parliament to leave the E.U. The vote is not legally binding in any way.

  14. Re:Liability? on Alicia Keys Latest Artist To Enforce No Cell Phone Policy at Concerts (slashgear.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We didn't used to have anesthesia and clean medical facilities, either, and people survived then, too.

  15. We abandoned that shit here in the U.S. decades ago. We setup black sites to hold innocent people so they fall between the cracks of the constitutional system We even had to set up special courts specifically designed to circumvent constitutional rights and push victims through the system more rapidly and cheaply.

    And the Republicans and Democrats just cry "terrorism" and "gun violence" and think that solves the nation's problems.

  16. Re:The usual way on Slashdot Asks: How Did You Learn How To Code? · · Score: 1

    To my knowledge, Visual Studio is straight-forward to get up and running. I haven't used in years, though, maybe it's become a mess?

    PHPStorm is the first IDE outside of Visual Studio I've ever used that just started doing its job immediately upon "install" (which was extracting a tarball).

    But yeah, Eclipse and XCode are a needless pain-in-the-ass (Eclipse, especially).

  17. Re: x64 considered harmful? on Microsoft Declines To Make a 64-Bit Visual Studio (uservoice.com) · · Score: 1

    Plugins are not a valid reason to maintain an antiquated platform. Look at Firefox. They thought their plugins were all so fucking awesome, they failed to get their product updated for Windows until just last year. And look at how Chrome has eaten them alive.

  18. Re: In other words... on Microsoft Declines To Make a 64-Bit Visual Studio (uservoice.com) · · Score: 1

    Your piddly Microsoft PC might no able to handle it, but my piddly Linux PC regularly handles large memory tasks just fine.

    Of course, in the Linux world we solved this problem back around 2002 when it came up instead of throwing our hands in the air and tucking our tails between our legs and whining that 64 bit is too hard.

  19. Why did you give your TV your Wifi password? on Samsung To Roll Out In-TV Ads To Legacy Displays Via Software Update · · Score: 1

    I don't get this.

    If you don't provide a Wifi password for your TV, it can't change features on you, it can't effectively spy on you, it can't inject ads. It can't do anything "smart".

    I bought a Samsung "smart" TV years ago. I never bothered setting up internet access on it. Why would I? In what world would that ever make sense? I also don't have a problem with the TV being "smart", because I never granted it the resources required to actually DO anything.

    I don't understand the feature, but I really don't understand the kerfuffle over the feature. If you give your TV internet access, wouldn't you expect it to deliver internet content? Isn't that the point?

  20. 2.6?!?! on CentOS Linux 6.8 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    2.6? 2.6?!?!?! LOL! Jesus fuck, that shit came out in 2009! I knew they were working with outdated packages, but god damn...

  21. Re: Hydogen is just a way to store energy on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Whenever I have heard hydrogen proponents, it is usually tied in with nuclear power. His entire premise is wrong. The point is NOT to decrease energy consumption. The point is to decrease the environmental impact of our energy use. Nuclear and hydrogen does that quite nicely. In fact, the environmental impact of an electric battery far outweighs the hydrogen cell and corresponding nuclear energy.

  22. Re: Wherefore? on Microsoft Urged to Open Source Classic Visual Basic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 2

    But most people aren't trying to perform surgury. Many are just trying to beat something into a useful shape.

  23. You are correct that the host header (and all headers, including the URL) are encrypted. The only thing you see is the SNI host that might be the entrypoint to any number of other hosts.

  24. Re:North Korea? on Opera Founder Opens Up About New Vivaldi Browser (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A tech company from China.

  25. Re:What this really means is... on IBM Bequeaths the Express Framework To the Node.js Foundation (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Express is more like THE javascript framework for web servers.