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  1. It's all about tuition fees on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    US engineers got fucked dry by US universities with ridiculous tuitions, and now they're trying to recoup their losses with big salaries industry-wide. But in the meantime engineers in Europe do the same job for half the price, and those in Asia will take even less. Why should US CEOs and the US economy as a whole enable the racket?

  2. Who the fuck buys a plane ticket and doesn't show up?

    And even on my cheap EasyJet flights I can know my seat number a month in advance. So to overbook they'd have to know exactly who will not show.

  3. Re:No. on Does Code Reuse Endanger Secure Software Development? (threatpost.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you think some code that has been run 10 times might be more secure than code that has been run 10 million times? After all it's less worn out.

  4. Stop! on Londoners Tests A Self-Driving Beer Tap And An AI-Assisted Brewery (gizmodo.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Please stop slapping "self-driving" on any random news about devices totally unrelated to driving... The linked article doesn't even use the term, so it means it's some morons at /. that added it. And here I was rejoicing you stopped reposting the Hackaday crap...

  5. The internet is for porn, don't ever forget that.

  6. Re:Implementation not protocol on 1 Billion Mobile Apps Exposed To Account Hijacking Through OAuth 2.0 Flaw (threatpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the protocol wasn't so uselessly complicated people could implement it right.

  7. Get some neighbours on ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    You want to pay less for your internet? Get some neighbours. Or in other words: move to a country with more than 35 residents per square km.

    As a bonus you might learn how long a kilometre is.

  8. I guess the few people that still don't know that "business ethics" is an oxymoron don't know what an oxymoron is. But that won't stop them from pissing editos faster than silicon valley interns can piss code.

    Amazon need customers, not sellers. So guess which ones are getting screwed.

  9. No fire, no firefighter, no tax on 'Paying Taxes Is a Lot Better Than Phony Corporate Courage, Apple' (theintercept.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple doesn't need to rescue students from fire. Apple doesn't even need to pay taxes that employ firefighters. Instead they have the courage to make batteries that don't catch fire in the first place.

  10. Desktop drives on 8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems the ST8000DM002 is a desktop drive. I've had 3 of the Archive variants (ST8000AS002), and they all failed within a week of use. The third time I got a refund.

  11. Toilet Paper on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 0

    I wipe my ass with products more "popular" than the iPhone.

    Your messiah is long dead, don't you think it's time to pick another religion?

  12. Do you really have to link to some other news site that only repeated stuff? Can't you follow the chain and link to the original source?

    I tried: Slashdot quoted TheNextWeb who quoted Hackaday who quoted Wired who quoted [disable your adblocker to know the end of the story].

  13. PC Master Club on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If anyone could join, it would be called the PC Master Club.

    Just buy a PS4, it got a PC inside but the mobo only has 8 screws. Perfect!

  14. How does it work? on Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment can run in Windows (wordpress.com) · · Score: 2

    None of the linked article explain how this is done. Can anyone chime in and explain? Are the binaries in ELF or in PE? Did they finally complete a POSIX-compatible libc or did they implement the Linux kernel syscall API? Is there some kind of host process that intercepts the syscalls and implements them in user space?

  15. Re:Blizzard takes games seriously on Blizzard Sues Overwatch 'Cheat' Maker For Copyright Infringement (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Shitty programming isn't responsible for people hacking the game, that's just the opportunity. You need a motive, and it's the game designers that provide that. They needed a retention mechanism, and rather than providing a gameplay that is truly enjoyable on the long run based on its own merit, they chose an addictive micro-reward grinding/collection mechanism.

    In such a setup, smartly-priced micro-payment is the only way to prevent the rich and busy from cheating. You would have thought that they learned their lesson with WoW and gold farming.

  16. Re:Blizzard takes games seriously on Blizzard Sues Overwatch 'Cheat' Maker For Copyright Infringement (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 0

    I tried telling game programmers how to code, but that's a pointless task. They already know better. Proof is the general increase in quality and the clear downward trend in the number of bugs in games.

  17. They should sue themselves, because by releasing 'Overwatch Open Beta' just days *BEFORE* the release of 'Overwatch,' Plaintiffs are attempting to destroy or irreparably harm their own game before it even has had a chance to fully flourish.

    If you're going to make a shitty rip-off of a ten-year old game, sell it *before* you let people play it.

  18. Re:Blizzard takes games seriously on Blizzard Sues Overwatch 'Cheat' Maker For Copyright Infringement (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    If they really cared about the business they'd hire better programmers rather than more lawyers.

  19. China is not repeating the mistakes of the USSR. They know showing their superiority would spur the very kind of reaction Smith longs for, so they keep most of their progress under wraps. A competing nation supporting a competing societal ideology, which can send stuff to space before everyone else, that can scare/motivate people. A few hackers in a basement that know your blood type and what brand of detergent your order online, that's not scary.

  20. Re:Was this a virgin review card? on MSI and ASUS Accused of Sending Reviewers Overpowered Graphics Cards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly my thought. Lazy people at MSI/Asus not resetting/reflashing the card between reviewers sounds like a more likely explanation.

  21. Re:title seems to be misleading, at best. on Renewables Are Set To Overtake Gas and Coal By 2027 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    The linked article explicitly reads "It will be 2037 before renewables overtake coal.". So yeah, the title of the Slashdot entry is wrong.

  22. It shouldn't be legal to sell it in the first place, it's not a good. Just as it's not stealing if nobody loses it, it's not selling if you still have it after receiving the money.

  23. Proud and hidden? on Stephen Fry Urges Young To Flee 'Dystopian' Social Networks · · Score: 0

    If you have an ounce of pride, why would you feel the need to hide?

  24. Re:Female voices are easier to understand on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For children maybe. Women voices are higher pitched, and that's what goes first when you start to age.

  25. Public information on Turkish Citizenship Database Allegedly Leaked Online (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Why isn't all of that already public information? A couple decades ago most people were happy to have their address and phone number in phone books availabe to everyone. Hopefully this misguided paranoia will falter as fast as it grew.