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  1. So I have to send six lines of google maps link.

  2. But now the full url in maps is gone on Google Is Shutting Down Its Goo.gl URL Shortening Service (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I use goo.gl urls to send people map links but the dialog which does that now has lost the shortener option and replaced it with a link which is automatically shortened. Why do this if you are ditching the shortener?

  3. Its only a little place. Any jammer which could cut Assange of 100% would affect coverage in the street, and probably be against local laws. People rely on cell phones for safety.

  4. Yeah Assange is an acquaintance of a friend of mine and he does seem to be the sort of person who will use an exploit to access something when asking politely would have achieved the same outcome.

  5. The Birdman of London?

  6. He should be able to use 4G on a mobile phone. Maybe Ecuador will cut off his power too.

  7. Re:Good Luck to Them on Google Is Buying Innovative Camera Startup Lytro For $40 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Its pretty much what google does with streetview right now. Maybe this will help with google's mapping operations.

  8. Re:Beaten by generic phones on Lenovo Lays Off a Chunk of Its Motorola Smartphone Team · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I am in Australia and I have no complaints. It supports a wide range of 3G and 4G frequencies. I bought it from gearbest.

  9. Beaten by generic phones on Lenovo Lays Off a Chunk of Its Motorola Smartphone Team · · Score: 2

    I have a generic android phone which I bought online from shanghai. I paid about half the cost of a Motorola in the shop. Its no wonder the big brands are scaling back production.

  10. Re:The Indian Ocean: where stuff goes to get lost? on 132-Year-Old Science Experiment Washes Ashore In Australia (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    MH370 will surely turn up in 128 years.

  11. Re:Do what I'd do on Slashdot Outage Update · · Score: 1

    Lets not be too modern about this. How about a roofing nail in the fuse holder? Its good for 200A slow blow.

  12. Re:I'll sit this one out on Dart 2: Google's Language Rebooted For Web and Mobile Developers (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    SpaceX and Tesla will jump on that one.

  13. Re:Always been fucky. on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe the crew bags are a standard size and are stored in slots which only work for those bags. The idea could be extended to passenger bags too.

  14. At some point they all have to interface with anonymous bits and bytes.

  15. Programming languages should be as type safe as possible but I doubt that can be done for low level system programming. A lot more OS programming could be in something like Ada or Java though.

  16. It was a proof of concept for the alpha. Nothing more.

  17. lobotomized

    But what if you need a new brain?

  18. Re:Why are the owners of the cars unknown? on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I am in Australia but there system here will be much the same. Titles refer to land only here because land comes from the Government originally anyway so its the Government's way of keeping track of who owns what.

    I once had a loan on a car I bought but there was no government involvement in that process. I had to sign a binding agreement and the company who have me the loan could have taken the car back if I had defaulted. They would have to go to court for that I suppose.

    As for how to identify stolen property, then I suppose proof of purchase is a major thing. Keep your receipts.

    The only thing our government tracks about ownership of vehicles is registration. They track the VIN in the rego and if somebody else tries to register that car there will be a database hit on the VIN.

    Its an issue but not one requiring a lot of centralized tracking.

  19. Re:Why are the owners of the cars unknown? on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So these things establish ownership in your country? There are no Title records? Remind me not to own a car over there...

    A car is like any other thing you own. Your proof of ownership shows that it is yours. There is no special government run ownership tracking system for anything other than land.

  20. Re:So what did the warrant application say? on iPhone X Purchase Leads To Police, Battering Ram, and Handcuffs (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple also told the police that "this one is registered to this person at this address"

    But obviously a phone registered in that way could not be a stolen phone because the registration happens when the phone is sold.

  21. Re:So what did the warrant application say? on iPhone X Purchase Leads To Police, Battering Ram, and Handcuffs (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they were stolen from a truck, Apple probably had a range of serial numbers (or some other identifier like an IMEI) for the phones that should have been on the truck

    This makes no sense. Ranges of serial numbers are of little value. Apple should know the exact serial number and IMEI of every stolen phone. Apple absolutely does know the IMEI of every phone they have sold. Its a simple matter to subtract the sold phones from the stolen phones before sending a list to the police.

  22. But apple also know who made legitimate purchases. Why don't they subtract the IMEI numbers of purchased phones from the suspect IMEI numbers? Its not like its an ambiguous identifier. Do it in one line of python.

  23. Re:The guy is a moron. on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Buffet is notoriously conservative. He refused to invest in data and software for decades. Conservative investors have better long term returns. Doesn't mean that an alternative approach would not have worked though.

    Bitcoin was predicted by Neal Stephenson in Cryptonomicon around 2000, but he assumed it would need to be backed by gold. He as wrong, and in fact, too conservative.

  24. Re: Try Mithril and Tachyons on Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    I am a back end developer and I can't get our front end developers to do any data modeling in angular at all. They want to work in terms of screens, with the back end serving each page the data it needs in the format it needs. I really don't know what is going wrong. Browsers have a lot of processing capacity now but where I work we don't seem to be using it.

  25. We had GUIs in the 1990s with straightforward architectures. You could develop quickly with Delphi. No problems. JS front ends are just GUIs so why do we need mountains of css, html and js to get it to work?

    Front end development is an expensive clusterfuck.