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  1. Re:More human work? on More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    ok, you're talking about the far distant future then, far beyond what anyone knows how to automate.
    If a robot is going to act as a locksmith, then who is going to take the robot to the client site? How will the robot know what lock to change?

  2. Re:North Korea unstable on The US Waged A Secret Cyber War Against North Korean Missiles (tampabay.com) · · Score: 1

    Headshots. Either that, or an axe to the neck.

    No, usually things that are more gruesome, like feeding them to a pack of wild dogs, or running over them with a tank.

  3. Re:I was worried about how Trump was going to reac on The US Waged A Secret Cyber War Against North Korean Missiles (tampabay.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently he wants to meet Trump. One interpretation is that he is firing missiles in hopes of getting a better negotiated deal (which is something the North Koreans have done in the past).

  4. Re: North Korea unstable on The US Waged A Secret Cyber War Against North Korean Missiles (tampabay.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    China has total control of the North.

    I don't know what you mean by this. How are they controlling them? There are clear strains in the relationship between the two countries, as I linked in the article above. Here is more information for you to digest. Claiming that N Korea is completely controlled by China is a horrible misunderstanding of the relationship.

  5. North Korea unstable on The US Waged A Secret Cyber War Against North Korean Missiles (tampabay.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    North Korea appears to be super-unstable right now. The chubby one can't get along with his Chinese masters, and lacks a good understanding of what is important. His underlings don't respect him, understand that the outside world is better (at least, the high-ranking ones do). He keeps them in line by killing them but that doesn't work for very long.

  6. Re:New Scamming Technique on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Handle A Bogus Copyright Infringement Notice? · · Score: 1

    Can't they trace the money to the bank account? Find out who's bank account it is, etc?

  7. Re:Streisand Effect on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Handle A Bogus Copyright Infringement Notice? · · Score: 1

    Kubo and the Two Strings, on the other hand... well, it looks kind of lame

    It's really good.

  8. Re:We don't need a new language on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I find CSS gets one about 80% of what one needs, but one has to use programming to get the rest, unless you live with half-ass stuff. (Or maybe there is a magic CSS trick I cannot find.)

    What kinds of stuff can't you find in CSS?

  9. Re:i have no problem on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    First off, tone it down, calling names only makes you look foolish

    No, of course not: failing to read makes you look foolish. Calling names makes you look like an ass.

  10. Re:More human work? on More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you categorize manicurist in there? Or barber? What about locksmith or carpet installer or piano mover? Construction? I feel like there's a lot you're missing.

  11. Re:Global Politics on The City of Munich Might Stick With Linux (fsfe.org) · · Score: 1

    Kind of reminds me of AWS. Great system, easy to use, but wow the learning curve is steep and the documentation not particularly helpful in climbing it.

  12. Re:Global Politics on The City of Munich Might Stick With Linux (fsfe.org) · · Score: 1

    That's true, the word is hyperbolic, I would assume, in the case of Germany.

  13. Re:Fuck The Purists on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a good point, Applescript is indeed a good example language in this context.

  14. Re:Global Politics on The City of Munich Might Stick With Linux (fsfe.org) · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's a good quote, it explains a lot. Thanks.

  15. Re:i have no problem on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Clinical observation and judicial oversight largely eliminate revenge commitment.

    You idiot, the post you replied to above contains evidence of how bad clinical observation actually is. LTR.

  16. Re:Comma-separated vs. tab-separated on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The solution is easy. The tab character is ascii 0x09. We can remove it, and slide down all the other ascii characters to match and fill in the hole. For example, ascii 'A' would go from 0x41 to 0x40. People can just rewrite their software to handle the new character set, and then the world is cleaner and easier. And don't talk to me about backwards compatibility that's how we get messy software to begin with, lazy people unwilling to refactor to keep things clean. All we need to do is refactor ascii: the benefit is that unicode being a subclass inherits the change automatically OOP is soo cool.

  17. Re:Global Politics on The City of Munich Might Stick With Linux (fsfe.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    if they did that then the City would not be contemplating the switch back.

    Unless....the reason for switching is because Microsoft bribed them in some way.

  18. Global Politics on The City of Munich Might Stick With Linux (fsfe.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's somewhat disturbing to me that they received pressure from so many groups around the world, who are really just hoping to promote OSS, not help the city of Munich run better.

    On the other hand, they have a lobbyist from Microsoft who definitely isn't trying to help the city of Munich run better, so I guess it's fair. Must be overwhelming to be an administrator in Munich, though.

  19. Re:Fuck The Purists on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Tools for people should allow for any style, they should encompass all styles, and they should be infinitely adaptable

    "When someone says 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,' give him a lollipop." --Alan Perlis

    Trying to use a language with a hundred or less keywords is just archaic, I want at least as many meaningful keywords as a toddler has to speak with.

    Languages like that tend to be difficult for a team to work with, because no one knows every area well. Also, do you know how hard it is to memorize a thousand vocabulary words? It's a pain.
    All the same, you might enjoy the Shakespeare programming language.

  20. Re:tabs4lyf on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Emacs can do it in a lot of languages.

  21. Re:tabs4lyf on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The right way to do it is tabs to the point of indent, and spaces thereafter.

  22. Re:Oh, well, as long as they SIGNED something. on Facebook Begins Marking 'Fake News' As 'Disputed' (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    I can easily see the tag "Disputed by Politifact" becoming a source of pride for certain posters. Politifact is already maligned by many people (fairly or not, I don't know), and it would fit easily into people's biases, eg: "if Politifact doesn't like it, then it must be true."

  23. Re:Not the first time on US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas (sfgate.com) · · Score: 2

    Next you'll want people to do things like RTFA. :)

    Nah, prefer they research a bit independently, because often the article sucks :)

  24. Not the first time on US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas (sfgate.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They also delayed processing in 2015, with the same reason given: so they could catch up on their backlog.

    My dream is that Slashdot become a place where people do a little research before commenting irrationally.

  25. Re:i have no problem on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, then how about a law that holds the family criminally liable if they suspected that the person was mentally ill but did not report it and the person goes on to commit a murder.

    That's one of the worst ideas I've ever heard of. Historically, reporting people as insane was a method of getting rid of people you didn't like.