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  1. Then AT&T Uverse is also illegal on T-Mobile's Binge On Violates Net Neutrality, Says Stanford Report (tmonews.com) · · Score: 2

    Uverse Internet/Video is on same pileline. But U-verse video doesn't count against data cap while all other streaming services do.

  2. Nothing is broken on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Calories are the units of measurement we have, and they work well enough. It even says so in the article. We've always know everyone's body is different. That has nothing to do with the calorie.

  3. How did they find 400k porn sites? on Pakistan Orders ISPs To Block Over 400k Porn Websites (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Who's working for them, Glenn Quagmire?

  4. What even is the point in designing security where this is possible? If Apple can just circumvent the security and hand over any data, then who else can? Isn't that just admitting that their security/privacy is flawed?

  5. Cartoons on Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects (newyorker.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Overuse of CGI and unrealistic camera movements are turning live-action movies into live-action cartoons. There's a difference in your brain thinking you are seeing something real vs. seeing an impression of something real.

  6. Anti-virus software is our savior! on Symantec Disavows Business Partner Caught Running a Tech Support Scam (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 1

    Let's all say a prayer and offer our faith-based donations to the church of anti-virus.

  7. Linux Desktops on GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Do people really care that much about them? There's really not that much of a difference between them all. There's not even that much of a difference between them and Windows in the first place.

  8. Re:cost and benifit on Antivirus Software Could Make Your Company More Vulnerable (csoonline.com) · · Score: 0

    I can confirm that it is possible. Are you an AV salesman?

  9. LG? on Netflix Teams With LG For 'Prepaid' Streaming Worldwide (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    OK, I read both articles and I still don't have a clue what LG has to do with any of this. What are they doing again?

  10. Microsoft mugshot on Microsoft Makes a Selfie App For the iPhone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You may as well be taking a picture at the DMV or getting a mugshot.

  11. I've been trying to run notepad on my phone for years.

  12. As long as it comes with a kickstand, I'll buy it.

  13. String theory is gibberish on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Tiny vibrating strings? That explains everything! But why not tiny vibrating llamas? I bet the math would still work out, plus that would make the theory somewhat interesting.

  14. How about offering a 720p option? on Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of just giving the user the choice to watch at crap 480p quality or use ALL THEIR BANDWIDTH, how about a 720p option? The bandwidth jumps from .7 MB per hour with SD to 3 GB or more per hour for the next option. Why?

  15. AT&T sent me a letter on AT&T Building Massive Fiber Network That Barely Exists (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    AT&T send me a letter this week asking me to join their high speed gigabit network. No. I don't care for gigabit speeds when you can't even keep the service running for longer than a week. And when it does break your entire debugging process is to turn the modem on and off and then send a tech (all within an hour long phone call somehow). Then the techs whole debugging process is more or less the same and then after than pretending to do stuff until the next call (this process costs you an entire day). Wired service will always be crappy because when it breaks (and it will) they have no real incentive to fix it because you're just one guy. I moved everything to mobile (tv and internet) and I'm not going back.

  16. Re:Do people actually learn to code anymore? on Interviews: Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Searching the internet leads you to what documentation you need to look at, which is also ON THE INTERNET. RTFM is almost never an alternative to that. And TFM wont have you any more informed on "best practices" when you realize nothing in it addresses your question in the first place. Once again, same thing. You're gathering information. You can either find a slow way to do it, or use modern technology and search the internet. People keep trying to be snobs about it when in reality they search the internet and copy and paste just like everybody else does.

  17. Re:Do people actually learn to code anymore? on Interviews: Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Why do people keep saying this? Looking up something on the internet has nothing to do with how good a programmer you are. The idea that you can just copy and paste an entire program from the internet is dumb. In fact, if that were true, this is exactly what everybody should be doing (because what else is there to learn). Looking something up on the internet is no different than reading documentation, only faster and more efficient. I've never worked on a single project that could be copied and pasted in it's entirety like people here are claiming. But for stuff you can, you don't reinvent the wheel just because "I wanna be a REAL coder".

  18. Step away from the Bookmarks on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Bookmark Manager That Actually Manages Bookmarks? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've bookmarked a thousand web pages and haven't clicked on a single one of them. Let them go, people. Just let them go.

  19. Re:Holy links ... on Hour of Code 2015 Star Wars Tutorial: Spare the IF Statement, Spoil the Child? · · Score: 1

    He's basically saying bla bla bla [INSERT REFERENCE TO STAR WARS] bla bla bla....

  20. Re:Why did they buy based on "cores"? on AMD Sued Over Allegedly Misleading Bulldozer Core Count · · Score: 1

    Though "next to nothing" is an exaggeration, What has happened to Slashdot? The amount of cores obviously makes a difference and they vote up nonsense about how caring about amount of cores means THAT IS ALL YOU CARE ABOUT. Who ever said that in this entire story??????. WHO EVER SAID THAT A RASPBERRY PI 2 IS FASTER THAN EVERY COMPUTER EVER MADE THAT IS NOT 4 CORE??? ............. NOBODY. Just stop.

  21. Re:Why did they buy based on "cores"? on AMD Sued Over Allegedly Misleading Bulldozer Core Count · · Score: 1

    All you have to do is browse the internet with multiple tabs open and multiple cores matter.

  22. Re:Why did they buy based on "cores"? on AMD Sued Over Allegedly Misleading Bulldozer Core Count · · Score: 1

    The amount of cores is extremely important when you working with multiple processes or multiple threads. And the reason isn't terribly complicated. Though it's possible that a single core processor could be faster than a multi-core processor, in the real world benchmarks of multi-core processors of similar product lines are always faster. In other words, double the cores, and roughly double the performance. Same reason video cards are fast. The amount of cores matters. There's a reason pretty much all "gaming" machines have at least quad core. It's not a superstition.

  23. Re:wtf.. on Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements (blog.atom.io) · · Score: 1

    That's classified information.

  24. And the pig goes ... on Chinese Company To Sell Genetically Modified Micro Pigs as Pets (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Quaaack!

  25. Re:I don't see the problem on Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands · · Score: 1

    How does the argument go from Microsoft and the government spying on us to I want to redesign the processor to have more cache and instructions?