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  1. Re:No. on Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? · · Score: 1

    met the original specifications

    The key word here being "original" when discussing waterfall vs iterative development. Agile is not meant to deliver the original specification; it's meant to allow developers to adapt to a changing specification.

    Unfortunately, it often requires the client to accept a product that was different from their original specification thanks to the dropping of features along the way.

  2. Re:So which is it? on Poker Pros Win Against AI, But Experts Peg Match As Statistical Draw · · Score: 1

    It's the poker players' mentality. if you speak to any of them, none will ever tell you they are a losing player. The losers always say "Oh,I pretty much break even"

  3. Re:Mind games on In New AI Benchmark, Computer Takes On Four Top Professional Poker Players · · Score: 1

    not have to worry about if he thinks that I think, etc.

    I think he's wrong on this. A computer would still need to consider what his opponent thinks he holds and raise accordingly.

    Actually, in heads-up play using GTO strategy, this is not necessarily true.

  4. Forget it, Jake. on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 1

    It's Chinatown

  5. The live ones can be set free if it turns out to be a wrongful conviction. The dead ones...not so much.

  6. Re:Saudi Arabia, etc. on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In other news, most Wall Street banks aren't located on Wall Street.

  7. Re:Contradiction in article summary on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 1

    He was good in Magnolia.

  8. Re:Wouldn't really matter on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 1

    The suspect pool in the latest incident is exactly 1. How much smaller does it need to be?

  9. Re:Let me fix that for you... on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 5, Informative

    He may be up on charges - it's currently under investigation. Oh, and he was on about his 3rd warning after being disciplined for his racist comments.

  10. Re:Your tax £. on BBC Returns To Making Computers For Schools · · Score: 1

    Part of the BBC's brief is to educate. I'd much rather have this than another series of Strictly Come Dance With My Great Sewing Bee Cup Cakes.

  11. Re:but I'll defend to the death your right to say on Google Knocks Explicit Adult Content On Blogger From Public View · · Score: 4, Informative

    The full quote is, apparently, not Voltaire's but rather his biogropher's (Evelyn Beatrice Hall).

  12. Re:Data by the GIG still? on Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call · · Score: 1

    If Austria was 2000 miles across and had 10 people towns living 300 miles apart, it would be a fair comparison. I'm no fan of the US plan structures, but geography is a limiting (and expensive) factor in the equation.

  13. Re:Discovery nightmare on Slack Now Letting Employers Tap Workers' Private Chats · · Score: 1

    If your compliance monitoring application will let you store and view those unsent, often inappropriate or ill-conceived, messages then you're going to have to cough them up during discovery or during any investigation by regulators.

    That is exactly the point. The 'compliance' refers to compliance with the regulators/regulations.

    I work for a company that provides call and SMS recording solutions to banks where they can record the phone calls and text messages sent and received by their employees on their mobile phones. This doesn't mean all employees, it's just those in certain positions like traders.

    Doing so is an FSA requirement - banks *must* do this in order to gather the evidence that can prove or disprove that traders are involved in things they shouldn't such as insider trading, libor rate fixing etc. The bank has a team that is responsible for monitoring those communications and preparing reports for the FSA proving they are recording these communications as required (which is essentially showing you have a recording of every call made/received).

    This is just an IM platform catering to that market.

    Of course, the beauty of all these systems is whenever the SEC asks for emails, they are often "missing" due to backup or archiving mishaps. The fact that the penalty for not producing the emails is significantly less than the penalty for financial misconduct is purely coincidental.

  14. Blow on PC Cooling Specialist Zalman Goes Bankrupt Due To Fraud · · Score: 1

    Another blow for the Zalman fanbois.

  15. Re:Good luck with that. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    1) Because with NFC, you don't have to carry around your wallet (at least in the ideal scenario where CVS and others don't boycott it)

    Except I need my wallet to carry my drivers license, my health insurance card, my ATM card and my monthly train ticket.

  16. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: -1

    You're not even supposed to run the amber, never mind the red.

  17. Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. on Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated · · Score: 1

    Stop citing Myth Buttheads.

    Hahahahahahah. I see what you did there.

  18. Skinny Jeans on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 4, Funny

    It only bends in the front pocket of hipsters' skinny jeans. So pretty much 100% of users, then.

  19. Re:Different things for different people on Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 · · Score: 1

    Which is why Apple are giving people the choice between a larger phone, or an even larger phone. Because choices are important.

    If you liked the original iPhone size, Apple has nothing for you. Because your choice isn't important. Whatever Apple says you want, that's what you get.

    If you liked the original iPhone size you can keep what you have - the new versions don't offer much in the way of new hardware (apart from size). I don't think it's coincidence, however, that Apple are releasing the Apple Watch and the Phablets around the same time. They want you to keep your phone in your pocket/purse and have quick access to data on your new (gold) wrist device.

  20. Re:hackers and painters on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    The best programmers I know are artists and musicians. Most have liberal arts degrees.

    The best programmers I know all have STEM degrees. So there are 2 data points. What now?

  21. Pretty much the entire language of Prolog..

    How many Prolog programmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

    Yes.

  22. Re:Pick a different job. on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Yep. I'm sure all those multi-millionaire left wingers in the NFL and MLB unions agree.

  23. Re:Consumers on French Provider Free Could Buy US Branch of T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    I thought the French saved the 'Merkins' collective ass during that little skirmish with the Brits.

  24. Re: name and location tweeted... on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    Airports are NOT public places, particularly the Gates at airports.

    They are called places of public accommodation just like restaurants. There is zero expectation of privacy for the employees in areas where there is customer access. Members of the public have access to them. Specifically... any members of the public who have paid a fee and obtained a ticket.

    This isn't really about privacy, though - it's about SouthWest's perogative to refuse service to someone they feel was being abusive. They could just have easily refused to board this guy if he had been rude to the person't face. Airlines have complete control over access to their planes.

  25. Re:Christmas is coming early this year on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 0

    Many Samsung owner I know don't know they can replace their battery also. Most don't know the difference between a SIM and MicroSD card either.

    Really? Because almost every Samsung owner I know factored in a replacable battery as part of their buying decision.