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  1. You can learn to write sentences in a couple of days. Writing a book is something else.

    There are a lot of people with programming jobs who are highly overpaid, they can only write sentences but not a book.

  2. Re:That is why I use mutt on The Only Safe Email is Text-Only Email (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    I do the same. However, the worst part is the multipart emails which contain a text/plain version with content:

    > your email client does not understand HTML emails, bla bla bla

    As if HTML to readable text/plain is so difficult.

  3. Pirated papers of mostly public funded research on Subscription Journals Are Doomed Because of Sci-Hub's Big Cache of Pirated Papers, Suggests Data Analyst (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    A lot of research is funded by governments, yet the resulting reports should be locked away by some publisher who doesn't contribute any real value.

  4. Re:I refer you to The Oatmeal. on Game of Thrones Pirates Being Monitored By HBO, Warnings On The Way (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I cannot even get HBO (the complete package) here unless I physically move to a location where the only ISP who offers HBO provides their service. Last year HBO pulled the plug to provide service to the rest of the country.

  5. Re:Print quality has gone downhill on O'Reilly No Longer Selling Individual Books, Videos Online · · Score: 1

    Plus, ACM costs only $100 a year. Sure you only get a fraction of Safari's content.
    But $400 a year for a full Safari subscription is just expensive. I do not read that many of those books a year. Why doesn't safari offer the 5/10 slot bookshelf anymore? This is what you still get via ACM and I suits my consumption.

  6. No on Should Your Company Switch To Microservices? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    Microservices are not _the_ solution. It is a possible solution for some problems. Microservices solve various problems, but make other problems way more complicated. There simply is no silver bullet.

  7. Re:Another reason to avoid any such generic login on Google Was Warned About This Week's Mass Phishing Email Attack Six Years Ago (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not true. You authenticate via Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever, and possibly give access to data in that account to the website you log in to. But that website has no access to any other site you logging in to with that Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever account. You only (partially) compromise your Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever account. The sites you log in to also have zero knowledge about your credentials,

    The big reason why you do not want to use Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever to log into every other site is that Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever will know even more about you. And you are probably giving away a lot of information from your Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever account to the site you log into.

    But you also need to use uBlock and Ghostery to block all those webbugs placed everywhere for Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever.

  8. Re:Ugh spreadsheets on The Biggest Time Suck at the Office Might Be Your Computer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    One of my colleagues needed a newer laptop. the previous one wasn't even 2 years old, i5 with 16GB RAM, but it was getting slow. They needed a fast laptop because they worked on complex queries for reports... the queries are executed on the database server.

  9. RTFA on MIT No Longer Owns 18.0.0.0/8 (ttias.be) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I did it! I read the whole article. And so did everybody who read the summary.

  10. Can I use it on my colleagues? on New 'Spray-On' Memory Could Turn Everyday Items Into Digital Storage Devices (duke.edu) · · Score: 1

    Because they keep forgetting things.

  11. Then those artists shouldn't have sold their copyrights to the label. They do not own that music anymore.

  12. // TODO on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    or the alternative: // FIXME

  13. Re:Professionalize computer science on Bruce Schneier Calls for IoT Legislation, Argues The Internet Is Becoming One Giant Robot (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    those engineering activities are/will be moved to India. You need to hold upper management accountable.

  14. Re:My heart bleeds for them on Filmmakers Take Dutch State To Court Over Lost Piracy Revenue (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Netflix has a whooping 111 Dutch titles of which only about 33% is cabaret/stand-up comedy.

  15. Just shock them if they move while the camera isn't on.

  16. What does he do? on Maybe It's Time For Jack Dorsey To Pick a Company (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Does he need to turn the knobs of the company every day?

  17. Cloud on Facebook's Parse Is Shutting Down Today (parse.com) · · Score: 1

    One day it's here, the other day it's not

  18. Re:sorry on Meet Lux, A New Lisp-like Language (javaworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Java did. Besides running in the JVM it is also quite successful in Android's Dalvik and now ART.

  19. Re:Requirements on Ask Slashdot: Why Did 3D TVs and Stereoscopic 3D Television Broadcasting Fail? · · Score: 1

    I have little choice in the cinema. It's either watching in 3D or not at all.

  20. with a top speed on the 5GHz band of 1.73 megabits on Norton Announces Core, a Smart Router To Protect Domestic IoT Devices (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How is is a shitty 5GHz wifi a selling point?

  21. It's fixed version which was also released on Steam. It contains all the fixes and changed to SDL2 by Ryan C. Gordon, and is known to run on 6 platforms: https://twitter.com/icculus/st...

  22. Re:T-mobile appealing, continuing practice on Dutch Market Regulator Bans T-Mobile's 'Free' Streaming Music Service (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If the EU regulation would explicitly say something is allowed, then local law cannot prohibit it (and the other way around).
    But as far as I know this is not the case with respect to zero-rating or "fast lanes".

    Without a doubt, the most interesting bit of the Dutch implementation is the explicit banning of zero rating, the practice where telecom operators do not charge end customers for data used by specific applications or internet services. In addition to that, the Minister of Economic Affairs must establish binding rules regarding traffic management in the case of impending network congestion and specialised services. He may also establish other rules explaining how the net neutrality regulation should be interpreted.

    https://www.bof.nl/2016/05/25/...

    ps, I'm a bit off on the usage of "regulation". An "EU directive" needs to be translated into local law (and thus though through the law construction procedure) and an "EU regulation" only needs to have some i's dotted and t's croess and activated (so still being activated as local law, but doesn't have to go through the classical law construction procedure).

  23. Re:T-mobile appealing, continuing practice on Dutch Market Regulator Bans T-Mobile's 'Free' Streaming Music Service (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    this is allowed by the European law, which takes precedence over Dutch law

    Which is not true. "European Law" is not a law, it's a regulation specification a member state you implement into local law.
    Netherlands already had a net neutrality law, which is more strict than the EU regulation. There is nothing in the EU regulation which does not allow these stricter rules.

  24. Re:At which point do you need to pay for Java? on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If your software contains this commandline argument you have to pay Oracle:
    -XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures

    Or if you use something else than the standard edition of Java (i.e. the one for PCs).

    Stick to OpenJDK builds and you should be safe.

  25. Re:At which point do you need to pay for Java? on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    JEE is not proprietary. JEE is a (dead-end) standard for which multiple open source and proprietary implementations exists, both free to use (with paid commercial support) and fully paid.

    What the article is about is about Java SE (Standard Edition) Suite and Advanced. This is apparently just Java SE with some additional (non-gratis) tools.