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  1. Re:Don't Worry... on ITT Tech Is Officially Closing (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I would be surprised if they cannot do exactly the same thing. The problem ITT Educational Services, Inc. currently faces is the sanctions imposed on them. A new company won't be under the same sanctions. It takes time to build up enough history to be sanctioned by DOE. Playing whack-a-mole with unethical corporate entities is a long-held tradition in the US. This is because we consistently fail to hold corporate officers accountable for their actions.

    I would love to be wrong about this.

  2. Don't Worry... on ITT Tech Is Officially Closing (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry. The same people will have already started a new company, under a new name, which does exactly the same thing as the old company. Bonus points if they also have ITT Educational Services, Inc. sell all the trademarks for "ITT Technical Institutes" to the new company.

  3. It's Called Quitting on Ask Slashdot: Would You Fire Your CEO? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    We've all done it at some point -- fired our boss by leaving for another firm.

  4. Re:A little salt anyone? on Tens of Thousands of Infowars Accounts Hacked (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The Illuminati invented salted hashes to sow a false sense of security among the sheeple. Don't you know anything?

    You're one of them, aren't you?!!

  5. Re:PsyOp? on Group Wants To Shut Down Tor For a Day On September 1 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    You're comment is asinine. People have to have trust in the people they are working with. There is no community without trust. There is a difference between trusting technology and trusting people you work with.

  6. Seems to me like the govt has managed to destroy trust within the Tor community.

  7. What do we do when buildings and bridges fail, or when an aircraft falls out of the sky? We should do something like that. In a more enlightened age, we'd have the NTSB-equivalent for massive IT failures.

  8. Re:Better vs. Perfect on NIST Prepares To Ban SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    So we're throwing out the "better" in search for the "perfect?" Until tokens gain the ubiquity of phones (which seems unlikely), doing away with SMS-based two-factor authentication may just force many users back to the password-only era.

    Two words: Google Authenticator.

    There is no excuse for using SMS for 2FA when you have TOTP with a well-documented interoperability standard in RFC 6238.

  9. Re:Pissing contest on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    At home, dual IPS 1600x1200 displays that are over a decade old. Home-brew Intel i5 4690. 32GB RAM. 250GB SSD. 2TB spinning rust (4TB mirrored). Nvidia GTX 970 graphics. Fedora 24 w/Cinnamon desktop. Primarily used to run Eclipse, KiCAD, Chrome.

    At work, 8-core Xeon E5 running RHEL7/Cinnamon, 32GB RAM, 250GB SSD, no spinning rust, and three 1920x1200 IPS displays, plus 3 other headless E5 boxes with same RAM and SSD.

    On the go, a 2013 Macbook Pro running El Capitan with 8GB RAM and 250GB SSD. Often found running Windows 10 under Virtual Box, Simplify3D, Eclipse, and KiCAD.

    On the sofa, a Google Nexus 10 running Lollipop because those bastards dropped support for the best tablet ever made.

    Now, please excuse me while I get off your lawn, old man.

  10. If Any Country Needed a Coup... on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Blocked In Turkey During Reported Coup Attempt (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not normally a fan of military coups, but Erdogan was a frickin' menace and had it coming. The Turkish military has always done a better job running that country then the politicians the Turks elect for themselves.

  11. Re:Arguing over the subjective on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    GC is unusable for real-time systems. Heck, dynamic allocation can be unusable for some systems. RAII provides deterministic behavior and timing. And if is useful for far more than memory allocation. Suggesting otherwise just demonstrates ignorance. Not throwing in destructors is rarely a limitation. GC has its place, but IMO it is overused in modern systems.

    No one memory allocation is better than another. They all have their place and it is a well-rounded professional that knows this.

  12. Re:Java is just way too confusing... on Oracle Says It Is 'Committed' To Java EE 8 -- Amid Claims It Quietly Axed Future Development (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    And then there's that wonderful warm mug in the morning.

  13. Re:GEEK POLICE RAID on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for a mod point.

  14. Highly Inefficient on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Manage Developers Distributed Across Multiple Projects? · · Score: 1

    First off, this is a good question, since I see this happening more and more.

    It can be done, it is just highly inefficient from a management perspective. More of the manager's time will be spent soliciting and providing feedback. Without being there in person, if there is a performance problem, it may be hard to tell what the political situation on the ground is like, and whether the team dynamics, developer or PM is at fault for any project-related issues that come up. And there is no substitute for in-person meetings when it comes to providing reviews, feedback and coaching.

    If you are a manager in this situation expect to travel quite a bit in order to meet with your team members (at least quarterly) and their local co-workers and PMs. If, by chance, your company does not permit that sort of travel or you do not want to travel, I recommend finding new employment. It is not likely to work well.

    I would not want to manage in that sort of environment unless I understood what problems they are trying to solve and was convinced that it was the most efficient way to solve it. The real key question for me has always been "are they paying me enough to put up with this shit?" It's going to be a lot more shit to deal with. You should expect to be compensated for it.

  15. Re:Small black holes, right? on Second Gravitational Wave Detected From Ancient Black Hole Collision (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless you have a testable theory to show that its size is is anything less than the event horizon, you just have faith that its size is 0 and nothing more.

  16. Re:Work around the problem... on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    WTF are you talking about? This isn't about drug abuse.

    This is about a blatant violation of patient confidentiality and government overreach in a time when the fourth amendment has apparently been rescinded by fiat.

  17. Work around the problem... on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Get your drugs from a state that does not have a PDMP: http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.... Lots of mail-order pharmacies operate out of states that do not have a PDMP.

  18. As Yogi Berra Said... on The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

  19. Re:Famous Quote on Man Sued For $30K Over $40 Printer He Sold On Craigslist (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    "If you have seen further than others, it is because you have stood on the shoulders of giants." - They Might Be Giants

  20. Re:It's amazing on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think any of the plane's passengers care how long it takes to find the plane at this point. I know I wouldn't pay for a higher priced ticket just because they claim they will find the wreckage faster if the plane is blown up by terrorists.

  21. Can an A.I. Judge be Far Behind? on BakerHostetler Hires Artificial Intelligent Attorney 'Ross' (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine an A.I. taking into account the ways in which a human jury can be swayed.

  22. Write what your boss tells you to write.

  23. "one of the best UIs"

    Yeah... that's why the first thing I do on my Fedora and RHEL installs is switch to Cinnamon. Yes, it is/was Gnome-based. But with all the crack-addled BS fixed, and everything that should work just does. No need to install a bunch of shell extension to get semi-sane behavior from a desktop.

  24. Re:mythical anyway on Freshly Minted Unicorns Now a Rare Sighting In Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A "unicorn" a delusion from licking too many hallucinogenic frogs in Silly-cone Valley.

  25. A timer error? No... on Did a Timer Error Change the Outcome of a Division I College Basketball Game? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was the Tri-Lambs getting their revenge on the jocks. Eat it, Alphas!