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  1. Re:So when the FCC does something you don't like.. on The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    To be fair the rules are consistently referred to as "Obama-era net neutrality" in many of the news outlets. Obama also spoke out publicly in favor of the rules on more than one occasion. On the other hand I doubt this whole mess is much of a blip on Trump's radar, but it seems clear this wouldn't have happened had he not been elected.

  2. Re: He should really get a paramotor on Flat Earther's Homemade Rocket Launcher Breaks Down in His Driveway (desertsun.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need a rocket, or an airliner, or a tall ship on the ocean. Go to any decent sized lake (say, 1 mile across) with a telescope, lay the telescope on the ground and focus on the opposite side of the lake. You'll notice that you can't see the feet of the people walking on the other shore.

  3. NY Times Crossword on The Strange Art of Writing Release Notes (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    My favorite release notes were for a bug fix in the NYT crossword app:

    # Fixes
    - Fixes a crash on launch for some users.
    - Fixes a crash when some users try to log in.
    - Fixes a crash when restoring purchases fails for some users.
    - Fixes a crash for some users after logging in during the onboarding process.

    # Fun Facts
    CRASH has appeared as an answer in The New York Times Crossword eight times and BUG has appeared 15 times. No wonder SORRY has appeared 16 times.

  4. Re:Database locks don't exist? on Refresh Is Sacred (tbray.org) · · Score: 1

    K thanks

  5. Re:Database locks don't exist? on Refresh Is Sacred (tbray.org) · · Score: 1

    They're called locks and transactions. Read up on them.

    Ok, so because Suzie loaded up the Hertz inventory page and then went on a jog the rest of the world can't reserve a car? You can't just put everything in a transaction. The whole point of transactions and table/row locking is to ensure safe multi-client access to the same data. Manual refresh is a simple, clean way for Suzie to see how the inventory changed while she was out.

  6. For any other confused Americans too lazy to google it, "whinging" is apparently a British form of the word "whining". The 'g' is not silent. To your point, the ceaseless whining is a major distraction and threatens to doom us all to 4 more years of this asshole, but I think it hinges much more on the candidate that gets put up against him.

  7. Re:Sad ending on RadioShack Is Preparing to File For Bankruptcy Again (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Try Fry's Electronics if you have access to one, you can still get this kind of service/interaction there - YMMV of course...

  8. Re:I don't care about the average on The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you believe that public K-12 school is "coddling, hand-holding, everyone wins shit"? Conservatives always talk about the trickle down, how a rising tide lifts all boats, etc. This is always in terms of economic output, but why don't we apply it to education? Education at any level should be an entitlement. We have such a vast untapped resource in this world of deprived minds. "But who will dig ditches, clean the streets and serve us our McDonalds?" you might ask - this question is already being answered ominously by the rise of automation.

  9. Re:Echo-chamber fake news on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    Ah, the "seriously, not literally" defense. In despair I tried to rationalize Trump using this argument as presented pretty well by Peter Thiel shortly before the election. I thought wow, maybe they're right, and maybe Trump really can buck the establishment and do some great things!

    What a fucking farce. He's worse than I had originally feared. He is a brainless troll that has packed his cabinet with billionaires and is executing (ineptly, at least) the establishment GOP plan to a tee. Oh, and on top of it attempting to literally implement his bizarre campaign promises, e.g. the idiotic wall.

    Completely disregarding the Russian conspiracy circlejerk - I absolutely believe the man is not of sound mind and therefore unfit for any public office, let alone the presidency. There is no other adequate explanation.

  10. Political Commentary? on Elon Musk Says He'll Start Digging a Tunnel From SpaceX HQ Next Month (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't help but notice that this comes out on the same day (nearly the same moment, in fact) as Trump's "yes I'm serious about the wall" EO (executive order). Even followed up by "we'll begin building the wall within two months." (Musk stated that [they] "Plan to start digging in a month or so") If it is some kind of commentary/joke, I'm not sure I get it... but hey what do I know?

  11. Iiiinteresting... thanks for the link!

  12. I agree with your sentiment to a degree, but the DeepMind/AlphaGo achievements are pretty astonishing IMHO.

  13. Re:Browsers are NOT slow on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 1

    That's not my experience at all either - chrome tabs are and always have been instant for me, as are the search bar and thumbnail sites. Chrome is RAM intensive (~100-200MB per tab for me it seems!!!), and I have a 16GB laptop... I suppose that could be it.

    Now when I run IE11 in a Win7 VM on my laptop I see massive performance issues, while chrome on the VM is a bit slower (the VM has 6GB when running) but still pretty snappy.

  14. Re:Floss on Dental Floss May Have No Medical Benefits, Says AP Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't care if there is no evidence of medical benefit, or correlation with cavities/gum disease - those things are intangible. Flossing teeth after just 2-3 days of NOT flossing produces so much gross tangible stuff from between the teeth I still feel a lot better after doing it, no matter what.

    I'm going to guess there is no evidence of medical benefit to applying deodorant every day, but FFS please do.

  15. Apple TV (Latest) + 2xChromecast on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 2

    On the main TV I have a new Apple TV, problems abound at first but as seems to be the custom with Apple sh*t a few updates later and it's pretty smooth. The trick I found is to embrace the Siri interface. Pretty quick and easy to get around once you get used to it. On other TVs or while traveling I use chromecast, it's pretty slick but of course I can't stream amazon prime to it. I'm really resisting getting yet another device to stream Amazon, I'm hoping at some point they let it stream on either Apple or chrome. I can stream my laptop browser to chromecast while watching amazon prime, but sheesh.

    Would love to cut the chord, the only thing keeping it is the fact that my father in-law wouldn't know what to do with himself if he couldn't watch sports when he's here.

  16. "Hacking" a hand-written chart requires physical access to the chart, which requires physical access to the hospital room, which means you'll likely be seen by the front desk (who would need to actively let you in), security cameras, nurses, the patient etc. If the networked devices are vulnerable you could modify every chart from the back of a van in the parking lot or, worst case, from your parents' basement.

  17. Re:React on Facebook Is Shuttering the Parse Developer Platform (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not so bad as long as you stay close to the intent, where you want to do something like facebook, or a blog, with frequently added/updated items and comments and such. So if you're writing a little half-assed blog type thing it would be pretty easy to make it "reactive" to people adding new posts and comments and things. But try and apply it to something like what I was tasked with, which was a little search/modify/create/delete thing it was a complete disaster. YMMV

  18. React on Facebook Is Shuttering the Parse Developer Platform (cio.com) · · Score: 0

    I was forced (by a "hip" development director) to try and implement a simple small web application using Facebook's "React" javascript library, and after toiling for three days with it I decided that the only thing you can easily implement with React is something that looks and acts just like Facebook, not surprisingly. I abandoned it and created the site framework-less in four hours. I have no idea what "Parse" is, but I am very wary of these corporate frameworks/APIs/languages since that experience.

    Go look at some "hip" github projects out there, it's ridiculous - there are literally 10's of thousands of lines of framework supporting these tiny little applications, it's absurd. There are even massive projects out there to make integration between two frameworks "easier", which themselves rely on any number of other unrelated frameworks. Where does it all end??

  19. Re:Where were you?? on 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? (space.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not really about where people were or what they were doing, that's just how we as humans prompt each other to share our feelings about events that happened so that we can relate to each other. Large scale tragedies and our experience of them are things that all people who lived through them have in common. I find it comforting to talk to other people about how they experienced these things, particularly strangers - anonymously or not.

  20. Third Grade Classroom on 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Thankfully not watching the launch, they interrupted class and announced the tragedy over the PA and we sat and discussed what it meant for a long time. I think I was just old enough to grasp the severity of it, it was certainly clear from the reaction of our teacher and the tone of the PA announcement. Very memorable moment in my life.

  21. Re:Hell of a guy on David Bowie Dies At Age 69 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's a great interview, thanks for the link. I love the exchange just after 11:00:

    Interviewer: [the internet] is just a tool though isn't it?
    Bowie: No it's not, no. No, it's an alien life form.

  22. Re:how does anyone make money off this? on It's Way Too Easy To Hack the Hospital (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll bet there are ways to gain access to all sorts of fun and expensive drugs on the hospital's dime if you get into whatever they use for inventory/procurement.

  23. Secret Weapon: The Times Crossword on NY Times Passes 1M Digital Subscribers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Whoever they have over there that is responsible for designing and implementing their online crossword page/apps is a genius. If you told me 10 years ago that I would enjoy doing crosswords on a cell phone I would have laughed, but they pulled it off. It's the only reason I subscribe - and the actual news/opinion is a very nice add-on feature :)

  24. Re:PP slogans won't cut it on IT Departments Try To Avoid Getting "Ubered" · · Score: 1

    I've seen the same thing regarding AWS. We had already moved away from locally managed hardware to a "private cloud", managed remotely through tickets/change requests/etc. and now we are moving again to AWS. Through all of it we've never had to reduce infrastructure staff, in the case of remotely managed private cloud thing you still needed a team that could take requests from product and translate them into sensible hardware/config requests. With AWS it's even more on the shoulders of our own staff as we will no longer have this remote service group to handle change requests.

  25. Re:Or... just hear me out here... on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    "Because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same" - Bob Dylan, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues