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  1. Re:Wheb you can't beat 'em on Utah Supreme Court Ruling Bars Direct Sales of Teslas Through a Subsidiary (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Some courts do work that way.
    In my country, the Netherlands, judges are supposed to rule on intent.
    In the US, judges are supposed to rule on the letter of the law.
    It may seem like a small distinction, but it affects how laws are written and is deeply ingrained in the large body of existing laws in both systems.
    Both these legal systems would crash to a halt if switching between intent and letter of law.

  2. Re:I don't see why on Windows 10 Mobile Needs To Be Put Out of Its Misery (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Besides, think of the backlash they would get from people who DID buy Win10 phones.
    Everybody loves to hate Microsoft and in this case, they're hating Microsoft for supporting a platform beyond it's commercial lifespan, upto it's support lifespan.
    Evil Microsoft!

  3. Re:This is awesome on Your Save Data Is Not Safe On the Nintendo Switch (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Flip the digits and it would be a perfect fit.

  4. Re:A "horror" story is what is happening in Yemen on Your Save Data Is Not Safe On the Nintendo Switch (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There have been worse horrors than Yemen. What's your point?

    http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/N...

  5. Re:Sick of the hypocrisy on Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter (hollywoodlife.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm neither republican nor democratic, I'm not even from the US.
    From my point of view, both republicans and democrats have about an equal share of sane people and an equal (and WAY too vocal) share of zealot idiots who scream at the other party every time they have a reason. And pretty much every time they don't have a reason.

    Democrats would complain about as much about Michelle Obama as Republicans now and in the future will complain about whatever Ivanka does.
    Republicans complained about as much about Michelle Obama as Democrats now and in the future will complain about whatever Ivanka does.

    Don't for a second believe that either party is any better or worse than the other.
    The only people who can't see this are the screaming zealot idiots.

    Remember that the vast majority of people on both sides just want live in the US to be the best possible.
    They just differ on what exactly they believe "best" to be.

  6. Re:Sick of the hypocrisy on Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter (hollywoodlife.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why are so many of you bashing her for this? She's doing something with her daughter, and it has nothing to do with you, or this country.

    This particular news was made public through US Secretary DeVos.
    How can you possibly claim this does not have anything to do with "this country"?
    Even ignoring that she is de-facto an advisor for the president with an office in the white house, security clearance and everything.
    Even ignoring that she is acting as first lady in lue of the actual Mrs. Trump.

    I want you to honestly ask yourselvesif this was Michelle Obama doing this, would you be bashing her for it?

    Would republicans? Yes.
    Would democrats? Yes, as it would be equally much a publicity stunt.

  7. Re:They really don't understand. on Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter (hollywoodlife.com) · · Score: 1

    but we'd still have to discuss why STEM should start with programming vs. a solid foundation in traditional math, science and literacy.

    Because programming can act as a gateway drug.
    The path to learning is what is imporant; the goal is what puts them on that path.

  8. Re:Lesson 1 And after lesson 1 on Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter (hollywoodlife.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's what they'll think anyway.
    With trumps, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

  9. Re:Biggest programmer lie: "I'm an engineer" (nt) on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    Ah okay, so according to that site a software engineer IS an engineer? Unless of course only civic architects and/or war-machine makers are to be considered engineers.

    The point I'm trying to make is that the idea that a sofware engineer is not an engineer is just a case of marking one arbitrary point in time in the long chain of an ever-changing definition of "engineer" as the only, absolute and final definition of that word. Whereas most of the people claiming such, work in fields which also didn't exist when the word "engineer" was first used.

  10. Planning on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    "I've been planning badly for decades and know to double my estimate; this time my planning will be close to the truth".

  11. Re:Biggest programmer lie: "I'm an engineer" (nt) on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that a big lie for every engineer except for the people running steam engines in old trains and boats?

  12. Belief system inconsistent with project goals on Prominent Drupal, PHP Developer Kicked From the Drupal Project Over Unconventional Sex Life (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Larry's belief system is inconsistent with our project's goals

    Larry's belief system seems to be that consenting adults can act out in their private life something far less sociopathic than what millions of middleaged women fantasize about over bestselling erotic novels.

  13. Heavily discounted, I presume? on Galaxy Note 7 Is Not Dead, Samsung Says It Will Sell Refurbished Units (samsung.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    So; is this going to be a fire sale?

    Ba dum tss!

  14. Re:Holy Blinking Cursor, Batman! on Blinking Cursor Devours CPU Cycles in Visual Studio Code Editor (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You always blame the language authors' for crappy code written in the language?
    That's like blaming Shakespeare for what Trump says.

  15. Re:I see 1-2 movies per year on 18 To 24-Year-Olds Are Hitting the Big Screen at Lower Rates (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    4- long movies.

    Seeing a movie is part of a night out with friends/family/date, it shouldn't be the entire night.

  16. Re:The new device uses 35 microliters of sample... on Researchers Develop App That Accurately Determines Sperm Quality (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    GP said "people on here can understand".
    So that would be roughly "half a handful".

  17. Don't you know? The real summary of a Slashdot article is in the second post (or the first post during school hours).

  18. Re:Conversely... on Patents Are A Big Part Of Why We Can't Own Nice Things (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    If we could outlaw sociopaths, we wouldn't have a need for IP laws in the first place.

  19. Re:Conversely... on Patents Are A Big Part Of Why We Can't Own Nice Things (eff.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you wish to claim that without patents, those nice thing would not be made?

    Perhaps it would take more time, effort and money to make those things, but that is debatable.

    Patents are also why we can't have nice things that share some property with a patented thing.
    Patents are also why those nice things are more expensive.

  20. Re:What about imparements and videos? on New Technology Combines Lip Motion and Passwords For User Authentication (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, it's great protection against drunk emails.

  21. Re:FAKE NEWS! on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's in the law; the presidant can't lie.

  22. If CSS counts as a programming language, then I'm pretty sure Markdown is the most popular programming language on Github.

  23. Re: Compatible? Nyet! on Could We Eliminate Spam With DMARC? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Works only of you don't have any kind of automated provisioning; DNS doesn't propagate fast enough to compensate.
    Also; SPF is limited to a set limit (10 if remember correctly) of entries which can either mess up your entire SPF when SPF is changed down the line or simply because you have too many IP ranges in your network.

  24. Re:Nonsense on Could We Eliminate Spam With DMARC? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    DMARC can only ever block fake mail pretending to be sent from legit domain names.
    It's mostly to prevent phishing, not spam.

  25. Re: Compatible? Nyet! on Could We Eliminate Spam With DMARC? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You can configure DMARC to ignore SPF, mitigating the problem with unpredictable IP's on some cloud providers and O365 (and most other bit email hosting providers) support DKIM just fine.
    DMARC hasn't been picked up because most email recipients don't handle it at all, making it a low benefit for a relatively high risk of misconfiguring, confounded by the almost total lack of recipients actually sending RUA/RUF reports (only ever gotten them from Gmail) you need to configure DMARC confidently enough.