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  1. What happened to sticks and stones? on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Turn off the computer.

    Go outside.

    It's only crybabies and bullies calling names. What happened to the island that once said 'here and no further' and stood alone against fascism? They're now cowering because someone used strong language.

    Did someone put something in the water?

  2. ZTerm, Kermit on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Pay To See Open Sourced? · · Score: 1

    I miss the old days.

  3. If someone posts something on-line and it contains enough information to make identification likely if not probably, how is a third party reading it somehow culpable for making an elementary inference or deduction?

    Moreover, are they seriously going make illegal the cross referencing of public information?

  4. And nothing of value was lost on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Seriously, the sheer lack of incremental development on Paint is a bit of a head scratcher. I suspect that the ignoring of Paint was the result of it being orphaned in the Microsoft-Adobe pact of the early 2000s that resembled the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement. MS killed their graphics products and Adobe killed Persuasion and their other office products.

  5. As Dr Bergman would toast... on George A. Romero, Martin Landau Both Died This Weekend (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    "Here's to everything that was."

  6. John Clarke must be spinning in his grave on Crypto-Bashing Prime Minister Argues The Laws Of Mathematics Don't Apply In Australia (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I suspect Oz politicians bumped him off so they could get away with such idiotic statements.

  7. Any comment from Balmer? on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Just curious.

  8. But not everyone can be a marketing executive on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I swear to God if those clowns had to put in an eight hour day they'd be in tears from the exhaustion.

  9. Ethics certainly applies in many cases on 'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    What and how you count for billing.
    What you market as features versus something the salesman conned the UX bunny to create behind the backs of the product team .
    And in my current case, analyzing how to show production line performance. We can tell exactly what the operators are doing on the line but the flavor we give to those numbers could be used to grade employees for dismissal or raises. We we can't be slipshod about it.

  10. Remember when HP rooted a reporter's laptop? on Keylogger Found in Audio Driver of HP Laptops, Says Report (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    All because they were unhappy with their press coverage? Why is anyone surprised that they stooped to this?

  11. You misspelled 'compile-able' on Only 36 Percent of Indian Engineers Can Write Compilable Code, Says Study (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Just pointing that out.

  12. If it's infinitely fast, and I don't have to maintain the code, why not?

  13. I went apesh*t the first time I received a spam on 39 Years Ago The World's First Spam Was Sent (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    I sent the message to his network administrator and then even phoned the guy demanding to know what the heck he was doing polluting my in-box.

  14. That's a lot of money for hammering coffin nails on Marissa Mayer Will Make $186 Million on Yahoo's Sale To Verizon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    On the positive side for shareholders, she sold off the company for an increased share value. However, the cost was the destruction of the company.

    This seems to me to be missing the point. However, if the shareholders are happy for this short term win, then who am I to argue.

  15. Seriously, what sort of a dumbass do you need to be to not think you'll be fired after this. Normally ethically functioning people will update their resumes and web sites and as a side bet apply for a few jobs.

  16. Re: Desktop PCs have no microphones on WikiLeaks Releases New CIA Secret: Tapping Microphones On Some Samsung TVs (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Congratulations on missing the point.

  17. Desktop PCs have no microphones on WikiLeaks Releases New CIA Secret: Tapping Microphones On Some Samsung TVs (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really, really need a laptop?

    And if you're paranoid, you can install a switch on the speaker so that it cannot be turned into a microphone.

  18. Were credit stealers mentioned on Researchers Determine What Makes Software Developers Unhappy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I have one at work and am forced to work with him. He spends all day giving sidelong glances at my screen and I've caught him announcing things to people in a way that it makes it look like he's the originator of the thought.

  19. Overdue but positive. on The Mac Pro Is Getting a Major Do-Over (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    My Mac Pro is turning into the Ship of Theseus. I've changed so many parts on the darn thing waiting and waiting for Apple to upgrade the workstations.

    I think it's great that Apple tried something but people who need Mac Pros need to change parts to upgrade video cards, PCI cards and storage volumes. This is the whole point of a Mac Pro. The Trash Can mac was really a super Mac Mini. Changing parts is a factor and fact of life for a pro machine. There were too many custom parts in the Mac Pro 6 for it to be useful for the pro market.

    A second phenomenon was Apple's simplifying its parts bin for its product line. The laptops, iMac and Mac Mini all shared a common parts bin. This mean trading off performance for battery life was built into the engineering. A Mac Pro desktop unit should be able to use all of the AC it can suck out of the wall and let the fans and SIZE OF THE CASE handle the thermals.

    Now, if they're backing off, and giving us the Data Truck this market wants, good. However, I don't want to hear more about pipelines. I want product.

  20. Workstations with no mic or camera on WikiLeaks CIA Files: The 6 Biggest Spying Secrets Revealed By the Release of 'Vault 7' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Are still a good idea it seems.

    Devices with mics and cameras will soon be revealed to have tacit recording modes, including laptops with trickle transmission of content to hide the uploads in cahoots with major ISPs.

  21. The sharing of table scraps economy not viable? on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who'd have thunk it?

    Uber's not special. If you want to open a lemonade stand you're free to do so. The second you start feeding people en masse then society has a right to make sure your kitchen is clean and you aren't accidentally poisoning people. They're transporting people in bulk, that means some oversight from a public safety perspective is warranted and that means everything that goes along with the rest of the economy including not lying to people about income.

    The sharing economy will change things, but only so far. Is the medallion system we've used up until now for taxies ripe for reform? Sure! Why not have a sanity check to bring it into the 21st century. However, pretending the rest of the world, including vehicle inspections, truth in advertising laws and the like do not exist is not the sharing economy, it's being a dumbass.

    Like Napster, this may only evolve into a different set of problems.

    We'll see if taxis survive self-driving cars.

  22. Have they talked with network engineers? Once? on Seven Film Studios Want 41 Web Sites Blocked By Australian ISPs (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    The internet, as designed, will treat this like damage to be routed around. Most people probably won't notice or at best will encounter temporary outages. Yes, of course people should get paid, however this is playing whack a mole and not coming to a practical economic solution.

    How often do must we go over the same terrain. I guess, like masochists, they like it?

  23. If Apple stopped building macs for vegetarians... on Tech Reporting Is More Negative Now Than in the Past (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Who apparently lack the upper body strength to lift a sheet of paper, we'd have more positive things to say about them other than pointing out that their machines have sacrificed every performance characteristic for weight. And that their tower, while it may be the best Mac Mini ever made, is not a substitute for an actual tower.

    Don't blame the messenger.

  24. Tech breakthroughs can go into a new tower on Tech Breakthroughs Take a Backseat in Upcoming Apple iPhone Launch (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I want a new Mac Pro Tower, not another box using throttled laptop parts. Oh, and I'm not storing video projects in the cloud so I need to have a box that has a lot of room for hard drives. And two ethernet ports.

  25. It's ring shaped because they make no more towers on Apple's New Spaceship Campus Gets a Name, Lifts Off In April (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    More's the pity.

    I want a full-sized Mac Pro tower with two ethernet ports, room for at least four drives and PCI cards. The iPad Pro may be great for people who live entirely in Google docs, but not for the rest of us.