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  1. Re:Television...Radio...Books... on Slashdot Asks: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Ones written in cuneiform and baked in clay. Because that's the oldest recorded repeat of this complaint.

    Do you have a citation of that? Because that's pretty cool.

  2. Re:..and why not? on For 20 Years, This Man Has Survived Entirely By Hacking Online Games (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Those MMOs are either overtly or covertly encouraging many people to spend huge amounts of time (and often, hard cash) for a meager award.

    Yeah, that's the whole reason a market for gold farmers exists in the first place. Because huge sections of the game are very, very boring.

  3. Re:Dumb to do a talk and interview on For 20 Years, This Man Has Survived Entirely By Hacking Online Games (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    He's been banned over and over from multiple games. If he gets banned from a few more, he doesn't care.

  4. Re:Lions and tigers and... well, not many tigers on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    That's too bad. This movie is still great.

  5. Re:Siberia looks cool on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, any study that measures deaths from AGW is one-sided if it doesn't also measure the decrease in deaths from the cold areas that got warmer.

  6. Re:There's your problem! (Knows nil about India) on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    This looks really good, tbh.

    I'm interested in seeing how Elon Musk's solar powered batteries turn out. If they work well (and cheaply enough) then suddenly solar becomes a viable alternative to nuclear.

  7. Oh, that's all on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    In a part of the world that has leeches raining from trees, 400 pound catfish, giant scorpions, spitting cobras, and oh yes, man-eating tigers.........eh, what were we worrying about again?

  8. Re:Why does BTC win this one? on Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Feud (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    DIAF you magnificent bastard. also ltr

  9. Re:Too little too late on Google Says AI Better Than Humans At Scrubbing Extremist YouTube Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sad thing is I'm gonna miss the ad supported internet.

    No. I used to think that, but it's pushed the average quality of the internet down. Clickbait is too easy to find, good stuff too hard.

  10. Re:Instead of Perimeter Security on US Senators To Introduce Bill To Secure 'Internet of Things' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The vendors aren't leaving telnet ports open

    A huge chunk of them are. There was a talk at defcon last week (titled "All Your Things Are Belong To Us") where they showed exploits for a couple dozen devices. A good number of them had ports open. The Mirai botnet spread through devices that not only had telnet open, but also had them connected to the internet (which is where your idea would be helpful). You can see the source code and a list of passwords used starting on line 124.

  11. Re:Why does BTC win this one? on Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Feud (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks. You're dumb because you lack reading comprehension. The GP (who is me), never said that only the advantages of paper money will be ported to bitcoin. That was your own stupid bias that read that, it's not in the text.

  12. Re:Why does BTC win this one? on Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Feud (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Essentially, yeah, except they will be in some bitcoin wallet where it's possible to verify that no money has left, and the derivatives will be merely another blockchain backed by bitcoin.

    It's inevitable that all the strategies used for traditional money will eventually become part of e-coin.

  13. Re:Instead of Perimeter Security on US Senators To Introduce Bill To Secure 'Internet of Things' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Your idea has promise, but it isn't the lack of ideas that is causing problems. It's vendors leaving their telnet port open without a password. They are not following best practices from decades ago, how can we expect them to implement a modern standard?

  14. Re:Why does BTC win this one? on Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Feud (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A reasonable solution is to offer derivatives........a 'sub-bitcoin' offering that is backed by bitcoin, but doesn't require a full calculation on each transaction.

  15. Scott Adams saw a rising star early and attached himself to it. It's worked: he's sold a ton of his books and made a bunch of money off of it.

    ANd if you object to calling Trump a rising star, I understand......call him a rising hot air balloon instead.

  16. Re:Sometimes an old system is best on US Voting Machines Cracked In 90 Minutes At DEFCON (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? Who used a false bottom in the last election? (Or even in the last two decades)

  17. Re:Sometimes an old system is best on US Voting Machines Cracked In 90 Minutes At DEFCON (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Something like that, yeah

  18. The command-line is a feature.

  19. Re: Greatly Insane on Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    It was better before. "Usable" is always better than "beautiful"

  20. Re:The Apprentice: White House Edition on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They could have kept it All in the Family, but nooooooo.........we wanted american treasure but got lost.

  21. It's been done https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10933669&cid=54915343/ before you copycat.

    HE DIDN'T DO IT I WILL NOT LET HIM GO!

  22. Re:The Apprentice: White House Edition on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not really surprising that the guy whose tagline is "You're Fired" actually does a lot of firing.

  23. Re:"Best" is a semantic argument on HackerRank Tries To Calculate Which US States Have The Best Developers (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    That said, I'm a bit confused. You seem to be in favor of timed programming competitions, are you aware that HR does that, or do you find some other flaw with how they run them?

    It's not whether or not they have programming contests or not, because programming contests are not necessarily a measure of top programming ability. They measure one aspect of programming ability (my current favorite programming contest is defcon CTF, although again that only measures certain aspects of programming).

    The important thing is whether they brand or advertise themselves in a way to attract the top programmers. Topcoder is definitely attempting to do that, whereas hackerrank is branded to attract job searchers. They just aren't trying to attract the country's top programmers so sampling will be a problem for them.

  24. Re:"Best" is a semantic argument on HackerRank Tries To Calculate Which US States Have The Best Developers (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are one of those best programmers who is messing around on hackerrank. Good job being a top programmer.

    If you want to find where the best programmers are, to begin with you'll do better with a random sampling, or even by attempting to attract the top programmers (like top coder, or ACM programming contest). Hackerrank markets to people who are looking for a job or are trying to build up their skills. So sampling needs to be improved, and that's even before talking about how to measure 'top,' which is not clearly defined in itself.

    I do agree with you that hackerrank is a good way to practice new programming languages. It provides ways to practice in the language easily. Please note I wasn't saying that hackerrank is bad, just that it's bad for this particular purpose (for reasons I've elucidated).