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  1. NOTE 2: A lot of the good devs at Apple who made the iPhone and OSX have left the company. Most of them have a lot of money now.

  2. Re:This isn't surprising on Dell is Considering a Sale To VMware in What May Be Tech's Biggest Deal Ever (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What is in the tax plan that encourages people to do that? I haven't heard.

  3. Re:But why?? on First 'Jackpotting' Attacks Hit US ATMs (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    So who is doing this and why?

    Mexican gangs, from how I understand the article. They figure out a way to attack an ATM machine type, then train some low-level goons to perform the attack, then send them across the country looking for ATM machines of that type.

  4. Re:Grab the popcorn on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    To be fair, ObamaCare, which I call RomneyCare, was a bad idea.

    I call it PelosiCare, because of the monumental effort she put forth to get it passed, while Obama was waiting to get something to sign. It is extremely impressive what she did.

  5. Re:Not Apple anymore.... on Apple Deprecates More Services In OS X Server (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    "If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth — and get busy on the next great thing." - Steve Jobs

  6. Re:one-time-use addresses on Deanonymizing Tor: Your Bitcoin Transactions May Come Back To Haunt You (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, bitcoin is a transaction system, not a money laundering system.

  7. one-time-use addresses on Deanonymizing Tor: Your Bitcoin Transactions May Come Back To Haunt You (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    FWIW you can easily choose a one-time-use bitcoin address to deal with this problem. Some people advocate using a different address for each transaction (for example, if you are selling a lot of things, give each customer a different address, that way you can tell who has paid you).

    OTOH bitcoin transactions are inherently traceable, so even if there's no known way to determine who you are at this moment, in the future someone might figure out a way.

  8. Re:Keep on believing that bologna.. on Robert Mueller's Team Reportedly Interviewed Facebook Staff As Part of Russia Probe (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like the WMD's in Iraq!

    When I try to explain that to people, they say, "No, that was different. Trump is much worse than Bush."

    Trump is more annoying than Bush, but so far he hasn't started any wars, so he's better than Bush. That's a low bar but it was a low Bush.

  9. Re:Javascript isn't the problem. It's the browsers on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Javascript has the problem that you can type obj.typo = 5 and it will run just fine, and you won't ever be notified of your typo unless there are some behavioral issues. Whereas many languages will catch that typo before you even run the code. Python, of course, has the same problem.

  10. Re:Toddlers and hand grenades on The World's First Graphical AI Interface (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Coming soon to a Best Buy near you: Do-it-yourself Home Nuclear Reactor kits! What could possibly go wrong?

    I don't know, but I would definitely buy one. Do they have an IoT version? Gift it to your neighbors!

  11. I think you need to read a book once in a while. I doubt her name (or nickname) being Scout is an accident.

    What book is that from?

  12. California "thinking" in action I suppose.

    No, because it is completely tone-deaf on race: the 'intelligent' white kid talking down to the 'ignorant' black woman at the end. It's actually rather offensive.

  13. it's not about the computer on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's because the kid acts like an arrogant rich twit who can't look away from his screen for three seconds to have a decent conversation with someone. He looks like a poster-boy for smartphone (or tablet in this case) addiction.

  14. Re:Chrome keeps improving. Firefox keeps stagnatin on Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Popup Blocker, Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Firefox 57 replaced a rather powerful extension system with one that's very limited and crippled. Not only were pretty much all existing extensions broken by Firefox 57, but the new extension system is so limited that there are critical Firefox extensions that couldn't even be reimplemented properly due to missing extension system functionality!

    What functionality are you missing? All the plugins I want still work.

  15. Now if only they had adblock on Android on Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Popup Blocker, Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Now if Chrome had adblock on Android, it might actually be a usable browser. I sure don't want to pay for downloading all those ads.

  16. Re:Chrome keeps improving. Firefox keeps stagnatin on Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Popup Blocker, Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    For years we've had Firefox users saying that they just want a fast, extensible, secure browser.

    That's what Firefox is now, it's really great and just getting better.

  17. the only programming language that seems strange with a decade of coding experience

    Oh, wait until you find out about Forth.

  18. You may not think of it, but at a higher level, it drives what you are going to work on. For example, Google+ was created when Google was in heavy competition with Facebook being able to give advertisers the age and gender of their users. Once Google got that information, they let the platform languish. You can see this kind of thing all over Google. For example, Android was purchased entirely to make money off ads, and Android had an ad framework before they had a decent accessibility framework (compared to iPhone, which had a decent accessibility framework before they had a decent ad framework. Disclaimer: I use Android). The entire reason Google bought Youtube is because they thought they could make money off the ads.

    tl;dr Google execs make decisions based on advertising revenue.

  19. You can try putting the specific word in quotes. That has worked for me in the past. Or just use duckduckgo.

    btw "hide-all-complexity" user interfaces are the way of the future, might as well get used to it. I don't know how to get used to it, if you figure out then let me know.

  20. Intel stock went up before the exploit was revealed, and hasn't moved much since then. It goes down a bit on bad news days, but then bounces right back. There's an earnings report tomorrow, and that should give us more visibility.

  21. I've noticed their search has been getting worse as well. Google has been using their search results to penalize sites for things other than quality: not using HTTPS, not using Google's AMP for mobile pages, etc. Those are fine things, but.....

    When you stop making "page quality" your primary focus, the search results are going to stop reflecting page quality. Even yahoo search is as good as Google now.

  22. It's because the aerosols leave the atmosphere quickly (relatively) once you stop producing them. So imagine humans added enough CO2 to the atmosphere to warm the earth 5 degrees, but then also added aerosols so it balanced out. If humans stopped producing aerosols, then the temperature would rise that much within a decade or two.

  23. Re:L O V E I T ! not on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    A decade ago, Gimp was mostly compareable to Photoshop. Today, Photoshop has continued to improve and now Gimp is far behind.

  24. Re:Is there any other option, Linus? on Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    If you don't have branch prediction, that means the pipeline will get cleared every time there is a branch. So in some kinds of branch heavy code, it wouldn't be surprising to see a 10-20% reduction in speed. (if the pipeline is 8 instructions long, you'll have to wait for those eight instructions to execute before taking the branch).