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  1. Well it depends on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    A practical job writing code all day probably gains little benefit from a CS degree if you can learn the fundamentals another way.

    If you want to do research and design then you probably should go down the CS degree path.

  2. More than you would think it seems. on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 3, Funny
  3. Re:Just a thought.. on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 1

    You can now choose if you want the auto-reopen behavior from 10.7 or not. The built in versioning has been great for working on documents in my experience.

  4. Re:Unlikely on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 1

    Typically Apple continues to release security patches for n-2 where n is the current OS. I think they are still patching their old Java runtime for 10.6.8 Macs as well.

  5. Re:Update to Mavericks requires login to iTunes on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 1

    It doesn't require an iTunes login, it requires an AppleID. You can make one just to use on your Mac if you want. Security and OS updates aren't restricted to being logged into the store either, just updates for apps that you got from the Mac App Store.

    All of the AppleID functionality is optional as well. You can use 10.9 with no AppleID plugged in at all, but you give up the benefits of the iCloud services.

    Why don't you want to login to a service? You logged into /. didn't you?

  6. Not sure they are reading the KBase Correctly on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 2

    Sophos says that the security updates have stopped for anything older than Mavericks, but the article they link to has updates for 10.7, 10,8, and 10.9 in it that are less than 30 days old.

    So I'm not sure how they are reading this that Apple isn't releasing updates.

  7. The $10,000 App Guarantee on Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World · · Score: 1

    I feel fairly sure that the $10,000 app guarantee had something to do with this. With 47K apps the odds that more than a few will cross the $1,000 threshold are pretty good.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17926037

  8. Re:It's not the RFID at issue here on Texas High School Student Loses Lawsuit Challenging RFID Tracking Requirement · · Score: 1

    Apparently they refuse to carry anything that would identify them with the "mark of the beast".

  9. It's not the RFID at issue here on Texas High School Student Loses Lawsuit Challenging RFID Tracking Requirement · · Score: 1

    The family objects to any ID that has a number on it for religious reasons. They were offered a school ID without RFID and they turned it down.

  10. My wife made the iPad jump a while ago. on Ask Slashdot: Using a Tablet As a Sole Computing Device? · · Score: 1

    A few months ago my wife started using my old iPad 2 more and more. Pretty soon it was all she was using and the kids were using her MacBook. For Christmas I got her a new iPad 4 and she was thrilled.

    She mainly uses the web and email, with some rare Excel and Word document reviewing with iWork. For light photo touch up iPhoto has been fine too.

  11. Re:Good luck driving a car through a swamp on DARPA's Headless Robotic Mule Takes Load Off Warfighters · · Score: 1

    For a moment I thought you meant Highway 101 in California. Wheels are often useless there as well.

  12. I suppose we are stuck with "Warfighters" on DARPA's Headless Robotic Mule Takes Load Off Warfighters · · Score: 1

    They are soldiers! As far as I know the "warfighters" term came around during the 2nd Bush presidency, but I may be wrong.

    I remember doing some work in the Pentagon at the time and everywhere there were signs about "warfighters". It's an asinine political terminology created to make everyone feel included when discussing the military. It would be like calling a programmer a "keyboardtyper".

  13. At first I thought this was a drug related thing on Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook · · Score: 1

    When this headline came across my RSS feed I at first thought this was going to be some crazy Heroin-related story.

  14. Re:Popular vote on DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not · · Score: 1

    At university the joke was always that the H stood for Hitler. That was a long time ago now though.

  15. Re:It's not iTunes or Apple, it's RIAA on Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection · · Score: 1

    The music on an iPod isn't encrypted at all, you just use iTunes to manage the files.

  16. Well this certainly is on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    a sticky situation.

  17. Re:Why is Linux's SSD performance so terrible? on OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu On Apple Hardware, Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Apple disables the on the fly defrag if you are using an SSD

    http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2050.7.9/bsd/hfs/hfs_readwrite.c

  18. Re:What!? on Rover Fuel Came From Russian Nuke Factory, But Supplies Running Low · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, no... It's because we've now given the Martians what they need to make PU-238 space modulators.

  19. Re:Apple and the GUI on Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? · · Score: 1

    There is a LOT more to Siri than just a bundled app. The Siri technology is deeply integrated into the OS now.

    The innovation with Siri isn't the voice recognition, it's the personal contextualization that it's applied with.

  20. Re:It's a blood feud on Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? · · Score: 1

    How is Apple stealing from the open source world for OS X and iOS?

  21. 7.5 hours of video? on State Dept. Cancels $16.5M Kindle Contract · · Score: 1

    So how were they planning on playing video on a Kindle touch?

  22. Re:Is this a genuine case? on MplayerX Leaving Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    I also turn on the service that gives me a "New Terminal tab at folder" contextual menu in the Finder.

  23. Re:Fixed the summary for you on Huge Pumice Rock 'Island' Seen Floating In South Pacific · · Score: 1

    That's just clever obfuscation.

  24. Fixed the summary for you on Huge Pumice Rock 'Island' Seen Floating In South Pacific · · Score: 4

    First time accepted submitter ZombieBraintrust copy and pastes from CNN.com

  25. Re:So much for ... on Wired Writer Hack Shows Need For Tighter Cloud Security · · Score: 1

    Sure, for things that can use ssh keys it works great. This is how I connect to various git servers.

    But in the case of this hack the services that were compromised were Amazon, Gmail, and iCloud web pages. All things that authenticate with user/password and not SSH keys.