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  1. The biggest problem with UBI is on Could We Fund a Universal Basic Income with Universal Basic Assets? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    it attempts to give "to each according to their need"

    without requiring "From each according to their ability."

  2. Given that there were between 750-800 million passengers per year during the past nine years without a fatality, I still like the odds.

    Source: US DOT

  3. Re:Comp Sci on Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper? · · Score: 1

    What is a LEFT JOIN?

    <raises hand>

    Is that like same-sex marriage?

  4. Who thought this was a good idea? on Microsoft Launches LinkedIn-Powered Resume Assistant For Office 365 Subscribers · · Score: 3

    I'm sure HR is thrilled that our corporate Office 365 subscription is helping current employees find better jobs elsewhere.

  5. $1000 Paternity Test on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    If your kid can't unlock your iPhone X, maybe you should have a little chat with your wife.

  6. If he'd only waited on The Father of Mobile Computing Is Not Impressed (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    He spoke prematurely.

    This interview happened before Apple unveiled their talking poop emoji.

    Millions of people are about to get really creative.

  7. Studying vs Practicing on Facebook Enabled Advertisers To Reach 'Jew Haters' (propublica.org) · · Score: 2

    If you look at the ad-buying screenshot, these categories are under "Education - Field of Study" which leads me to believe these are anthropologists as opposed to hate group members.

  8. For the Executor on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 1

    Another good reason for using a password manager has to do with death. The executor of my estate has my master pass phrase to the LastPass account with all my financial and social account details. Should I die (when I die), it will be a simple matter for him to clean up my estate. I also have the master password for my Dad's online password manager, as I'm his executor. These passwords are stored offline and not easily recognized as a pass phrase.

  9. iPhone... iPad on Apple Considering Expansion Into Wearable Glasses, Says Report (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it too obvious to call them iGlasses? Or maybe they'll go trendy with something like iWear.

  10. Obama only codes with dual monitors on Why President Obama Was Held Back a Year Before Starting Code School (quora.com) · · Score: 1

    One for the IDE, and the other for the teleprompter so he knows what to type.

  11. Metro Skype was Crippled on Microsoft's Skype Drops Modern App In Favour of Old-Fashioned Win32 App · · Score: 1

    Or, to use the politically correct term... "Login Challenged"

    It was tied to the windows login and could not be changed on the fly to another Skype login id, which made it pretty much useless for those of us who have several Skype ID's, one for work and another that we've always had for personal calls.

    Microsoft is pushing Windows 10 Universal Apps as the development platform for now and the future, but its Skype team have just disagreed big time. If Microsoft can't get behind the plan why should developers?

    No, they Skype team did not disagree. Windows 8 Skype for the "Modern UI" was not coded as a universal app, but using the original limited windows 8 API's. Universal apps are those that share a common .NET code base between devices but use different layout for the the screen based on size, orientation and input capabilities.

  12. Re:No, but your own choices are. on Is Facebook Keeping You In a Political Bubble? · · Score: 1

    so maybe liberals have more conservative "friends" to de-"friend" than conservatives have liberal "friends" to de-"friend".

    This is impossible as these are one-to-one relationships; for every liberal that has a conservative friend, that conservative has a liberal friend.

    It's more likely that liberals are the one's that initiate the un-friending.

  13. Re:GOTO is a crutch for bad programmers on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 1

    RAII and modern C++ get rid of this error-prone coding style. The shared_ptr and unique_ptr template classes, with custom deleters if necessary, can remove all of these contortions and prevent someone from adding a return in the middle of the method that would lead to resource leaks..

  14. Re:A turn-based game? on Sid Meier's New Game Is About Starships · · Score: 1

    A turn-based game? Flaw number 1.

    Not if you name it "Worlds with Friends"

  15. Re:So let me get this Straight. on Point-and-Shoot: TrackingPoint's New Linux-Controlled AR-15s · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...And if you screwed up the first step, and tagged a plant instead, you are screwed.

    For that you need a Salad Shooter.

  16. Re: Fix HD First on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    While compression may be an issue, the larger problem with most consumer televisions is too much sharpening. This results in halos around the players and the shimmering grass. Disabling the sharpening on my Visio television vastly improved the look of football games. Saturation, contrast and sharpening were all set way too high from the factory.

  17. Apple does the same thing on Microsoft Could Earn Billions From Office For iOS · · Score: 1

    And how is this different from not porting iTunes to Android or WP7? Microsoft wants to use the flagship product to drive their OS's sales, just as Apple does with restricting mobile iTunes to iOS. As the full Windows 8 OS is shoehorned into more mobile friendly packages, it will be interesting to see how or if Apple tries to restricts iTunes to desktop devices.