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  1. Re:Weird choice of project on Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Talk about a lousy stereotype. Just because they're in prison doesn't mean they want to do illegal things. No wonder recidivism is so high.

  2. Re:Technology has nothing to do with it on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That has always been common, as long as there have been pensions

  3. Re: Build one on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    That was negative benefit :)

  4. Re:It only cost GM $11 million so VW did it too on VW Officials Knew Since Last Year of Misleading Fuel Economy Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As for reputation - who remembers GM doing this?

    Let's be honest though, GM is remembered for a lot of bad things....

  5. Debian changed because there were strong signs that developers were starting to introduce hard dependencies for systemd. While those could be overcome for Jessie, the feeling of the Debian people is that in 2 1/2 years there wouldn't be a choice.

    Do you have a citation for this? I've been trying to collect this kind of information.

  6. Happened last year, too.

  7. Pro or Anti union on Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Whether you are pro or anti union, you shouldn't deny workers the right to organize.
    Being able to stand together as a counter-balance to the power of the company is kind of important, whether they choose to take advantage of that right or not.

  8. Re:Avoidance on Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Good plan.

  9. Re:Avoidance on Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I guess the core of what you are saying is, "You don't need to submit to unethical people. Take control and responsibility for your life." Either change the situation or leave.....you have the power to do that.

  10. Re:Avoidance on Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unethical boss? Distance yourself from the company.
    When a company rips its customers off, you can be sure as night follows day, that it will rip you off soon.

  11. Re:Is the news cycle the only explanation? on How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? · · Score: 2

    The environment getting much worse -- mass deforestation, global warming, declining fresh water supplies, much of it abetted by ever-spiraling population growth?

    The environment is getting better. You should have seen how bad the air pollution was in the 70s, for example. Rivers have been cleaned up and come back to life since then.

  12. Re: Build one on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 3, Funny

    A dedicated gaming console has a better cost-benefit ratio than building your own gaming computer.

    But it doesn't run Starcraft. Therefore the benefit is 0.

  13. Re:Build one on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    I think he accidentally touched it to a live wire somewhere, can't remember how it happened exactly, but it was a small, instant expensive cloud of smoke.

  14. Re: Build one on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    Yup. Welcome to the life of a college student (or teenager).

  15. Re:Build one on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    I know a guy who smoked a $200 processor. Worst feeling in the world. Yet he still continues to build his own computers, just he's more careful now.

  16. Re:Build one on Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You always feel better after building your own system.

    At least, I've never met anyone who didn't feel good afterwards.

  17. A GUI needs to provide process management. Modern GUIs in particular, where there is an expectation of dozens of processes running notifying the user require quite sophisticated process management. Arguably the thing that drove the biggest change in Gnome 3 / KDE 4 from Gnome 2 / KDE 3 was introducing a framework dependent on much more sophisticated process management because they wanted notification to work well.

    ok, let me look into that.

    Non process managed systems are simply not going to be supported.

    Unsupported by who? Who gets to decide what is supported and what is not?

  18. Re:If you write SQL injections on VTech Hack Exposes Data On 4.8 Million Adults, 200,000 Kids (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is, the majority of these issues stem from people that specifically DON'T work as a web developer. These cases usually come from other people in a company told to come up with a website and are reasonably smart in a related area, like programming, so they do a quick once over of JS, SQL, PHP and the sort, put together some crap website and call it a day. Don't forget large amounts of copy-pasted code straight outta stackoverflow-ton.

    This isn't an excuse

  19. Re:Why does gov't care about climate change protes on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Protests are about dissent.

    More than one protester has gone to protest just because protesting is very fun.

  20. Re:If you write SQL injections on VTech Hack Exposes Data On 4.8 Million Adults, 200,000 Kids (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    QA can say, "I don't approve this release. If you release it, you can, but I don't approve it." That's about all.

  21. Re:It's their money... on 'No Such Thing As a Free Gift' Casts a Critical Eye At Gates Foundation (theintercept.com) · · Score: 2

    The reasoning behind the inequality movement isn't to help the poor people, rather it's to prevent the rich from having too much power. If you limited the salary of the Walmart CEO to $3million a year, he would still be rich, but wouldn't have as much money to manipulate the government.

    That is the theory, anyway.

  22. Re:If you write SQL injections on VTech Hack Exposes Data On 4.8 Million Adults, 200,000 Kids (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Generally I would suggest avoiding web frameworks etc with those problems, though.......

  23. Re:If you write SQL injections on VTech Hack Exposes Data On 4.8 Million Adults, 200,000 Kids (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well why would QA be in charge of validating security?

    Because security is an aspect of security. They don't have to find every security vuln, but it's not outrageous to ask them to find super-obvious simple things.

  24. Re:If you write SQL injections on VTech Hack Exposes Data On 4.8 Million Adults, 200,000 Kids (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case, you didn't write the sql injection, someone else did.

  25. The article is a lie on NSA To End Bulk Phone Surveillance By Sunday (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Instead of collecting the metadata themselves, they are getting (I think they're even paying) the phone companies to do it. Problems solved.....