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  1. Happy with the decision on Apple Won't Replace Faulty MacBook Pro Keyboards With Third-Gen Components (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Iâ(TM)m just glad that Apple has blessed us with the option of buying a new machine with an improved keyboard. The issues with the old one were blown out of proportion and number of users affected was pretty small. Iâ(TM)ll just be glad when the new units start shipping.

  2. Re:Great! on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My 15" Retina MacBook Pro that I bought for $4,200 maxed out in 2012 goes for around $1,099 on eBay, so maybe not for $300, but for cheaper.

  3. Re: creimer spam alert! on Windows 10 Is Adding an Ultimate Performance Mode For Pros (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Does the youtube auto subscribe button actually work? Youâ(TM)d think theyâ(TM)d be smart enough to check the relevant headers.

  4. Control over employees on Why Do Employers Require College Degrees That Aren't Necessary? (thestreet.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    People with degrees start life later, and often times with a lot of debt. They are organized in the most traditional sense, and will probably be buying a home a few years after graduation. This debt load makes mobility hard, and the chances that the person is living paycheck-to-paycheck are a lot higher. However, unlike someone with less earning power living paycheck-to-paycheck, the person with the degree will have a higher chance of having more to lose. You want the employee that needs you, not the one that will just wander off and say fuck-all when they're pissed at you the employer; they don't have anything, much less anything to lose, so why put up with you? The college grad has a credit score, mortgage, car, and family to protect.

  5. Only reason that /r/nosleep keeps you from sleeping is the ensuing laughter. When your sub-reddit / site rules start banning criticism and every post goes to the top, then the result is pretty predictable.

  6. Re:Was anyone using it? on Reddit's Main Code Is No Longer Open Source (reddit.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It does show a huge culture shift. I remember making a snarky comment about starting a new site because they did something stupid, and the current owner/admin of the site replied to my comment with something like, "Well then you better start with our codebase then!"

    It's something about how bubbly/happy/engaged/accommodating their admin staff was, was just .. infuriating; it also somehow kept me on the site. Today is now another story, with rampant censorship, vote manipulation, and a site-wide hive-mind mentality that's enforced by the admins themselves. Their utopian hands-off philosophy love-your-enemy philosophy has morphed into some weird dystopian-esque love me or leave me world where censorship is seen as a virtue.

  7. Casting to int generally just cuts off the digits so (int)4.8 returns 4

  8. Re: Let me guess... on Boot Camp Might Damage Speakers on 2016 MacBook Pro (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    You say that, but I've been trying to transfer this file from my mac for the last 45 minutes...

  9. Damned if they do damned if they don't on The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    If Apple policed the Mac App Store as well as it does the iOS one, everyone would be yelling censorship and crying. At least on the Mac, their app store isn't the only way of getting software. Sounds like the one that should be getting policed more isn't.

  10. If no medic then it's not an ambulance on Flying Robot Ambulance Finally Takes Its First Flight (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Without a medic on board, it isn't an ambulance, it is a meat wagon. Using something like this would be considered patient abandonment, this will never take off for use in the medical field. The idea of hauling people to the hospital as fast as possible was replaced with prehospital care a long time ago.

  11. Re:privacy.com does better on French Banks Offer Credit Card Numbers That Change Every Hour (thememo.com) · · Score: 1

    /r/hailcorporate .. wait, wrong site

  12. Re: Seriously...music off YouTube...? on YouTube-MP3 Ripping Site Sued By IFPI, RIAA and BPI (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish I had a playlist from the audiophiles on Slashdot. I've heard what music is bad, I really want to know what is good.

  13. Re: I'm Confused on Mozilla's Proposed Conclusion: Game Over For WoSign and Startcom? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    I've started looking at Root and Intermediate CAs country of origin, and found that a lot of the big name guys don't actually reside within the US, and the Intermediate one might be in a different country. Really whenever inspecting a certificate within a browser, it might be a good idea for the interfaces to put pictures of little flags next to each one as to better identify their source.

  14. Re: Wine on macOS Sierra Is Now Available For Download (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    GNU's Not Unix!

  15. Betteridge's Law on Should We Seed Life On Alien Worlds? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    No

  16. Re:It's not as simple as "just switch over" on London's Metropolitan Police Still Running 27,000 Windows XP Desktops (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I always held the philosophy that security starts with the network. If a custom or legacy solution needs to be roped off, then what's the problem? Almost anything can be mitigated.

  17. Re:It's not as simple as "just switch over" on London's Metropolitan Police Still Running 27,000 Windows XP Desktops (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Then write some custom software/scripts to allow those functions to pass through to the parent machine. SysAdmin isn't meant to be a walk through the park. Use a little bit of ingenuity to make the workflow smooth.

  18. Le Brexit Fourth World Problems on DoNotPay Bot Has Beaten 160,000 Traffic Tickets -- and Counting (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It's worth noting that this service is for the United Kingdom. Robot lawyers or systems that give you legal advise based on questions the application asks you are illegal or fall on very shaky grounds.

  19. Re:Nothing like buttery fly hunting on Tesla Owner Makes 'Solid Metal Snake' Self-Charging System That Elon Musk Promised (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    He could have gotten the price down cheaper if he just wrote it all with machine code and created his own chips by doing photolithography at his workstation.

  20. Re:Old people are left behind on Google To Deprecate SSLv3, RC4 in Gmail IMAP/POP Clients (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Get them an iPad

  21. Re:Accounting rules are craazzyy on Oracle Whistleblower Suit Raises Questions Over Cloud Accounting (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called unearned income

  22. Yeah, I trust:

    # openssl rand -base64 100

    A lot more than some website I really know nothing about.

  23. Re:Lockdown - so? on Working at Facebook Sounds Like Joining a Cult (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    A better idea would be to ask people willing to volunteer and work as a special team to tackle the problem rather than arbitrarily keep everyone there. Offer overtime pay or some sort of bonus or stock option to those who stay and join the team, thereby only keeping the ones that really want to be there on the task.

  24. Re: "simply right click" on Microsoft Removes 260-Character Path Length Limit In Windows 10 Redstone (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember C:\PROGRA~1\ ??

  25. Re:Hardly suprising on Nearly 1 In 4 People Abandon Mobile Apps After Only One Use (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If only there were a universal protocol that ties people to a domain name and can allow them to send messages between each other. Maybe a few set of protocols as well, one for chat, like an Internet Relay Chat, and another one being a Simple Mail Transport Protocol.

    Nobody wants to publish standards anymore, they just want to create their own shitty infrastructure based around obscurity.