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  1. Re: 20 years later... on City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    You just described my Windows experience, never had those issues with Linux, then again, I never got used to a GUI with Windows 95 only coming to market a few years before I was finishing school.

  2. Re: In breaking news.... on City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software (europa.eu) · · Score: 2

    Trust me, once you glue in Excel to the average IT department nobody will want to use it. Excel is a symptom of bad (IT) management, a "solution" that users build on their own because they can't get an IT person to help them or the 20 year PeopleSoft/SAP implementation will never be completed.

  3. Re: In breaking news.... on City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    Lol, you must never have delved into the AD details, even AD works if you're willing to go to the terminal and hand writing LDIF. It all boils down to LDAP and Kerberos, if you understand how those work and how to adjust schemas you can simply switch between the different softwares.

    Samba is great, if you really don't know what you're doing, there are plenty of really nice fully packaged solutions, some will even take over your AD in the same process as if you were upgrading from Windows AD 2008 to 2012.

  4. Re: In breaking news.... on City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    Linux runs on more hardware than Windows and even Microsoft's productivity runs in the browser now.

    People switch from Microsoft to Google Docs to avoid overbearing IT departments, the problem is not the users or the software usability.

  5. Re: In breaking news.... on City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    Word is a word processor, not a layout tool. If you needed to maintain a layout you would use LaTeX or PDF.

    MS Word can't keep its own layout together between Word for Mac, Word 2013 and Word 2016 not to mention the O365 online version actually rendering different between Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome and Firefox and any of the latest are failing to render Word 2003 documents with pictures altogether, which is even documented as "rebuild your document with new pictures"

  6. Re:Really? on How Millions of Iranians Are Evading Internet Censors (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's no secret HOW it's being done.

  7. Re: Can we please get writer's names on 'Science Fiction Writers of America' Accuse Internet Archive of Piracy (sfwa.org) · · Score: 4, Informative
  8. History repeated. on Intel Unveils 'Breakthrough' 49 Qubit Quantum Computer (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    "This is also why we won't be seeing quantum computers in anyone's house at any point"

    About a hundred years ago, a computer cost several millions of dollars and took up a whole factory floor. "This is why we won't be seeing computers/telephones/radios/television/movies in anyone's house at any point" (variations of which were uttered by IBM, DEC, Western Union, Warner, AT&T, Popular Mechanics, ...)

    It may not be in my lifetime, but I fully expect quantum computing to come to the home within the next 100 years.

  9. Re:Still just using jQuery/UI on Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly this. The problem with Angular and all the other libraries is that they're trying to solve the problems of 'simple' libraries like jQuery but then end up even more complex or break all sorts of convention and expectation trying very hard not to become jQuery, and then you get a new library trying to solve whatever problem is in that library.

    What you need in a framework (regardless of language) is not complexity (trying to do "everything") but simplicity. If the framework is dictating how your application should work/flow/represent the data, you're going to run in a situation sooner or later where your framework doesn't quite fit your problem and then you'll spend an eternity trying to make it work and you'll end up writing most of your code in the native language anyway.

  10. Re:Put all candidates in pool on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Use Computers To Make Elections Better? · · Score: 0

    Within the US, there is only 1 choice. The voting stuff is illusion and spectacle as you saw how Clinton "defeated" Sanders, you can also see how "defeated" Clinton feels with her millions of dollars she got to pocket not once but twice for "losing" an election.

  11. Re:I could think of a use... on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Use Computers To Make Elections Better? · · Score: 1

    Racist!

  12. Make myself the only option on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Use Computers To Make Elections Better? · · Score: 1

    If I could use computers to make elections better, I would have only 1 option, myself. It's very usable, it's very secure and there would be no doubt that the machine was wrong.

  13. Sales taxes are collected from purchaser but it is the retailers duty if they collect to also pay it to the state. The problem is that the US has thousands of local tax rules which aren't always obvious even to the government.

    Hence both collection and enforcement becomes a headache similar to date/time zone calculations, currency displays and daylight savings.

    Large retailers can afford to have an army of programmers and accountants on staff, but small business having to file taxes in every locality they ever sold something in is going to be a recipe for disaster.

    Given the total "losses" are less than a few billion dollars per year, my guess is that most states will spend more on collecting these taxes than it will benefit. For every piece of paper you send to the government, about $100-1000 is spent between collection, processing, digitation and storage. Here's my $5 in taxes I owe.

  14. Re:Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Legally speaking, the government has the right to establish age if there is reasonable doubt, even in Europe. The above exchange is obviously from an American perspective.

    Within Europe, this is pretty much the exchange:
    - "You're under arr..."
    - "That's racist, I know where you home is"
    - "Okay, carry-on"
    5 more Islam gang members come on the scene
    Police: "Let's get out of here, we have guns but we can't shoot unless someone shoots at us and kills someone"
    *bang* *bang*
    "He's not dead yet, we can't shoot back"
    *bang* *bang*

  15. Re:Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    As I said: Look up the Cologne new year attacks. Even ZDF eventually covered it after enough outrage.

  16. Re:Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying there are no criminals in any group. Merkel ran on the platform that "criminal adults claiming to be minors" is not a thing, there is clear evidence that governments and media have been covering up these stories. Look up the Cologne new year attacks.

  17. Re:Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Learn some German politics. The current government is no longer elected, it's a leftover because Merkel has "failed" to create a new government knowing that her term is at an end.

    This government (Merkel and party) has indeed said and ran on the platform against the groups saying "many illegals are criminals claiming to be minors, raping and killing" is overblown rhethoric and no such persons exist.

  18. Smells like a political coverup on Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Missing chunks of data from both phone and video evidence when it involves a highly debated group that the ruling government says doesn't exist. Age can be determined by teeth.

    Merkel's propaganda machine hard at work while she's trying to cobble together her government.

  19. Having read the case on Violating a Website's Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, Federal Court Rules (eff.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It seems two things are at play here: the fact that a EULA cannot limit the publicly or contractually available Information.

    The other thing reading further into the case is the fact that Oracle seems to argue that it's copyright does not permit any third parties to obtain any part of the closed source system and the courts agreed with that. The court also holds that any modifications to closed source software are illegal unless you hold an explicit license.

    So let's say you are a company and want maintenance work done on your Oracle system, the third party cannot download copies of eg software updates for you because the license does not include that third party.

    This should be a big warning for anyone using Windows and other closed source software, the software license does not extend to anyone else therefore even just downloading the patches could get you into copyright infringement.

  20. How could you possibly do that though. Draw any random map and I can find you an overt political or sociological affiliation.

    Black people, Muslims, poor people, rich people, farmers, they all tend to live together in the same area.

    What's more surprising is that gerrymandering didn't prevent either Obama or Trump from becoming president even though nobody in the established political climate really wanted them there.

  21. So if they win on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Will these big companies be able to sue NYC for the profits it had over the years thanks to technological development driven by these companies or will the residents be able to sue for the taxes NYC collected all these years without tending to the well-known erosion and flooding issues that have targeted the city for the last 40 years.

    The city allowed significant development below the sea level and its land has been well known to be sinking for centuries, you can find news reports back to the 1820's about the situation that NYC is in.

  22. Re: About time. on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The question is whether these things will hold up to that. They've demonstrated a single tile being resistant to a golf sized hail ball, once the tile is installed it will have significantly less "flex" and the energy has to be distributed some way. They have the same ratings that my roofing contractor showed me last year on a quality shingle, time will tell I suppose.

  23. Title should read on Senator Wants Apple To Answer Questions on Slowing iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Senator wants Apple to donate to its campaign funds. You know, to resolve the "issues" that they may have due to "consumer criticism"

  24. Re: About time. on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your insurance won't pay for it. The roof is at least 3 times as expensive, twice as heavy as a regular roof, requires major engineering both due to weight and the electric and still won't hold up if the structure underneath it doesn't hold on.

    Architectural shingles are likewise supposedly hail and wind proof, if your roof keeps getting damaged every few years, it may be time to get some better roofing materials or contractors with a good warranty, I just did my roof and it came with a 25y warranty against any condition. Make sure they don't keep layering shingles on top of a damaged structure and such.

    If you want something like it, put a regular solar panel on your roof, all of the benefits, fewer of the drawbacks.

  25. Re: This is really an attempt at legal evil geniu on Nvidia Wants To Prohibit Consumer GPU Use In Datacenters (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No they aren't, they run at the same speed as a GeForce.