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  1. Re:Google are a bunch of cunts on Google Discloses Yet Another New Unpatched Microsoft Vulnerability In Edge/IE (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Am I missing something? Wasn't the bug report public on January 2014? Do they have an option in their issue tracker to keep bug reports private?

  2. What is unfair?
    Who is stopping Microsoft from starting a similar project to find bugs in Chrome?

  3. Re:Happy Granny Buttsex Day from The Golden Girls! on Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Not according to our new wikipedia bot overlords.

  4. It would only require a few years of retraining at most, after that they'd be atleast 10% faster!

  5. Re:Cheating at Tournaments on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they should go back to million dollar chess tournaments and million dollar ball throwing tournaments.

  6. Re:Caring on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Where's the private gain in his spam?

  7. Re:Gartner "analysts" on 99.6 Percent of New Smartphones Run Android or iOS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The true value of Gartner is in giving clueless managers someone to blame for their bad decissions.
    Which is why these managers are willing to pay so much for their service.

  8. Re: Serial Entrepreneur on Elon Musk Is Really Boring (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can either talk people down or rise to their level.
    Think well before you choose.

  9. Re:Serial Entrepreneur on Elon Musk Is Really Boring (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's exactly what he meant.
    You leave COMPETENT people in charge.

  10. "Had she been in another vehicle, she would have been alive for me to yell at her for driving after drinking"

    LMFTFY

    "Had she been drinking under the legal limit, she would have been alive AND still had her vehicle"

    Count your blessings your daughter only murdered one passenger, and not more innocent bystanders.

  11. Re:Hexadecimal on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Or at most decimal number upto 7. (2^3=8)

  12. `// do something` will be executed as long as any flag has been set. Now if you had use only one ampersand, things would have been different.

    I bet if you handle binary file formats, you'll still need plenty of bitwise.

  13. Re:Arrest him and throw him into Gitmo on US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You judge people by what you know.
    GP seems to judge scientists by their (un)willingness to throw a temper tantrum.

  14. Re:Arrest him and throw him into Gitmo on US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    He was just following orders given by a treasonous boss.

  15. Re:Wait, what? on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? · · Score: 1

    That's easy to fix; just make it easy to measure the value a single developer brings.

    Now please hand me my management bachelors' degree.

  16. Re:easy.... on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? · · Score: 1

    But he has. He even prevented the issue from causing future loss of productivity.

  17. Re:Hint: It ain't the guy called in all the time on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? · · Score: 1

    So basically I should work on as little code as possible, since fixing bugs in any code I ever touched makes me a bad coder?

  18. Re:Irrelevant on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah yes, 4GL... where you eliminate the easiest part of what a developer does (write code), make the most difficult part (specifying what it should do) harder and make it the responsibility of people who can't even grasp the easy part.
    And as soon as you want to do something the 4GL language isn't designed for, your only option is porting it to a 3GL (or lower-level) language.

  19. Re:Coffee on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Senior" in most companies literally means whoever worked there longest.
    It says nothing about abilities or quality.

  20. Re:An insanely clever solution, Microsoft-style. on Developer Explains Why All Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006 (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Because there are probably situations where conflicting drivers come from more than two sources, which would break.

  21. Re:Cook will have to apologize soon on Apple CEO Tim Cook Tackles Truth in the Digital Age (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see how this is a defense of Trump.
    Even though Trump labels everything criticising him as "fake news", that doesn't mean that there _aren't_ a lot of media outlets slinging opinionated lies at us.
    The most influential advisor of Trump used to run one of the most prolific such website and for every contradictory news report, you can be sure atleast one is untrue.

  22. Who cares about Android updates on Linux Kernel 3.18 Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares about Android updating beyond 3.18 if they aren't even updating the patches within 3.18?
    Assume the OS you get when you buy your Android device is going to be the last update for it ever.

  23. Overwatch director to hardware manufacturers; "Please stop making money so we can make more money".

  24. You make it sound like those aren't valid reasons to shun a company.

  25. Re:Meh... on Microsoft Introduces GVFS (Git Virtual File System) (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are they that large in the first place?
    Do they also store all design files and compiler-generated files in the repo?