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  1. Higher Standards, Teams, Structure on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? · · Score: 1

    You help someone progress from an amateur mentality to a professional one by holding them to higher standards of work quality. This means that a programming project is properly planned out before a single line of code is written; whereas amateurs just dive in a make a mess of it. Program structure and comments are inputted logically as courtesy to your team members and others who will work on the program in the future. Additionally, there's a focus on doing the job right, rather than just diving in and hacking away until it works.

  2. Re: Windows key = useless to me on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the new WIN + X shortcut (or right clicking start button)! It gives a handy menu with most of the programs you need for everyday Windows administration. It nice of them to think of those of us who have to do daily touch maintenance on desktop computers.

  3. High School Alternative on Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see this as an alternative to the last two years of high school. Students would graduate with a HS diploma and an associate's degree.

  4. Create licensed data frequencies on Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see the FCC set aside a block of frequency spectrum for commercial data use, just as they already do for LMR. The frequencies should be in the GHZ range and would need a massive amount of separation from the consumer unlicensed spectrum to discourages hijacking by modifying consumer APs. Lower frequencies would be allocated to users who need to cover a larger geographic area. They would purchase an annual license from the FCC for a frequency, which would be programmed into the access point. The business would provide USB WNICs to each of its authorized users with the frequencies programmed in. Cell phone companies would protest this, as currently the only solution for wireless connectivity at the municipal level is to pay cell phone companies for service.

  5. Re: Pay with the pension fund! on Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them · · Score: 1

    Thanks for being prejudiced against us military folks. Your support is appreciated.

  6. Re: Fire all the officers? on Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them · · Score: 1

    If you have that attitude, you'll be walked over every time. Police are taught to be aggressive and assertive so that they remain firmly in control of a situation. Bad guys are professional liars and completely unreasonable. They aren't students in a college class in a polite debate; they are real humans who don't want to go to jail no matter what.

  7. If pictures of the new Mac Pro were posted on April 1, we'd think it was hilarious! Perhaps this is Apple pranking everyone?

  8. Re:It's a TRASH CAN on Apple Updates MacBooks and Mac Pro Desktop With Haswell, "Unified Thermal Core" · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Apple will sell an official "NOT A TRASH CAN" sticker, so that the design geeks won't have to be constantly cleaning trash out of their computer?

  9. Re:It's a TRASH CAN on Apple Updates MacBooks and Mac Pro Desktop With Haswell, "Unified Thermal Core" · · Score: 1

    And the in-joke among geeks will be "Hey, do you remember when Apple designed their top of the line computer after a trash can and people actually bought it?!!"

  10. Re:Consider pilots and radios on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 1

    It's all about priorities: AVIATE, Navigate, Communicate.

    Pilots and others with some level of emergency services / high stress career training know how to prioritize.

    We need to increase standards to receive driver's licenses in America, and drill Aviate, Navigate, Communicate into their heads, and actually expose them to high-stress driving.

    Speech-to-Text at its current level of development will absolutely make matters WORSE. Texting while driving makes drivers more stressed because of frustration: what's in my mind is not appearing on the screen and that means I have to try two or more times to get the message to show up correctly. This greatly increases my level of stress while driving, which is why I don't do it.

    When I'm driving, if I feel like I am becoming stressed, I remove all distractions: the radio is turned off, the girlfriend has learned to be quiet, and I concentrate on the road. I wish everyone would behave this way.

  11. Use a Dock? on Kingston Introduces 1TB Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    Couldn't I just take a desktop SSD along in a dock with USB and eSATA ports and be happier at lower costs? I guess maybe I'd pay about as much, but I probably don't need ALL of that capacity as flash. Maybe a hybrid drive would be good. Lots of data on platters, and the project I'm currently working on cached in flash.

  12. Re:narrow it down? on Library of Congress Offers Update On Huge Twitter Archive Project · · Score: 1

    I agree. I think they should limit the initial database to certain time spans surrounding events of national interest and "tweets" that seem to be related. They can learn database structure and procedures from there and perhaps later add in the full archive. The most important part of anything like this is metadata. For example, a tweet that says "dudes! this concert rocks!!!" is useless unless you happen to know that the user is at a Trans-Siberian orchestra concert. And then, if you are able to attach all of the posts related to that concert together, it could be potentially useful.

  13. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 2

    And yet we have fewer murders here. Strange. Probably because we can defend ourselves. I love Indiana.

  14. Re:Title Is stupid on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 2

    If she's alive, she wasn't electrocuted. Thousands of police officers have been tazed; none have died from it. Nearly every police officer who carries a Taser has been hit with it. They know what it feels like; they know it isn't fun; but they care enough to try to minimize your injuries.

  15. Re:Cue the apologists on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. It's the police FORCE not the police debate club. They are hired and entrusted by society to maintain order and prevent chaos. You can ask politely, but everything an officer does has to be backed up with force. If the police officer was limited to asking politely, it wouldn't be long before no one would comply. Force is a part of their toolbox.

  16. Re:This just in... on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    Make sure you offer your services next time the police have to control a psychotic patient. You have no idea how much damage a crazy or drugged person can do. The Taser offered a solution that was safer for the suspect, safer for the officers, and safer for everyone nearby.

  17. Re:This just in... on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    It's a whole lot safer for her that way. Taser wounds are a lot less painful than torn ligaments, broken bones, etc., that she might have if the Taser wasn't available. She should have complied.

  18. Re:Nothing legal about it on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. There is a use of force continuum; a range of force used to correspond to levels of resistance: officers use force one level above the level of resistance. There are a range of options between yelling at someone and shooting them. Where in that continuum the Taser is used is dependent on department policy. Some departments use it at lower levels to avoid going hands-on with a suspect. Others use it at higher levels (as opposed to a baton). The Taser most definitely isn't a replacement for lethal force. Less lethal shotgun rounds and other less-lethal tools are used for that in the rare circumstance that everything works out just right: the right tool and certified operator is present, other officers are available with lethal force to cover him, the suspect is the just the right distance away with clear line of sight, etc. It's way more complicated than most people realize.

  19. Re:500+ Taser Deaths in USA on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    How about the thousands who die every day after drinking water?

  20. Re:Rest of the world already ahead on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    In Indiana, formal courses are optional. They were way too expensive for my family to afford to send four kids through. Instead, we are required to hold the permit for a certain amount of time (6 months?) and then pass a written exam (the exact same test as for the permit) and a practical exam. I would like to see simulator-based testing to check reaction times in collision scenarios.

  21. Re:The end point should be run by the military on Ask Slashdot: VPN Service For a Deployed US Navy Ship? · · Score: 1

    You cannot even permit charging. If I were stupid enough to plug a non-approved USB device into an AF computer, I could look forward to losing my network privileges, having a nice discussion with the base commander, and possibly going to jail and losing my job for future violations. The military takes USB devices and other IA issues very, very seriously.

  22. Re:Bribes, Corruption, Maneuvering on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    errr... "one" --> "only".

  23. Bribes, Corruption, Maneuvering on New .secure Internet Domain On Tap · · Score: 1

    So, who maneuvered this one into being, so that one they and their closest friends can approve people for this TLD? Oh, and we should start teaching the uneducated public that *.secure is the only way for a site to be trustworthy, so that those key players can make even more money from certificates that cost nearly nothing to generate.

  24. Re:dude what on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    British.

  25. Re:Making the road safer, finally on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    Motorcycles wouldn't be permitted on a driverless road. In fact, motorcycles would probably be permitted only on unpopular rural roads before long, and banned after that as being only for senseless inconsiderate adrenaline seekers.