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  1. Re:"average 257 components per application." on The Percentage of Open Source Code in Proprietary Apps is Rising (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Its called modular software development, perhaps you should look into it? While its true that NPM has had a lot of dependencies that do trivial things that isn't really true for most Java libraries.

  2. Chance... on The Toughest (And Weakest) Phones Currently On the Market (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well not exactly chance, but its all in how the phone hits the ground - a sample size of 1 can hardly be considered meaningful indicator.

  3. Re:Meanwhile: on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    They're following an industry standard test.

  4. Really? on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unlike other vehicles, Tesla is uniquely positioned to address more corner cases over time through over-the-air software updates, and it continually does so to improve factors such as stopping distance."

    Eyeroll. I'm sure you'll be able to make major changes to stopping distance via a software update.

  5. Re:monetization on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We found at they were tracking people all the time and trying to sell information about them.

    Theatres receive almost nothing for ticket sales during the early part of their run, that goes to Hollywood. Maybe MoviePass could have convinced cinemas to give them a discount later in the theatre run where they have more share but if successful then Hollywood would become involved as it would start to detract from their take.

  6. Re:Warranty period too short on The Internet of Trash: IoT Has a Looming E-Waste Problem (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    In some jurisdictions there is the notion of a legal warranty where the length also varies by the type of product. e.g. people have a reasonable expectation that fridges last a long time.

  7. Seems like it would be vomit inducing - latency is one of the biggest issues for VR

  8. Its only relatively recent games since we're talking html5, older games predominantly used flash.

  9. Uncertainty on YouTube Unveils New Streaming Service 'YouTube Music,' Rebrands YouTube Red (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google and Microsoft seem to be consistently creating and re-creating the same services due to internal politics and killing the earlier versions. Eventually this lack of a consistency starts to not only harm the adoption of the product iteration it spills over into the brand and harms the adoption of future products because the potential users aren't interested in becoming invested as it may be killed in X-months.

  10. Re:Really? on Google Fixes Issue That Broke Millions of Web-Based Games in Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clickbait hyperbole, but then what would one expect from a site which no doubt purely by coincidence only ever has its articles submitted anonymously?

  11. Re:People Pulling Train Car on Tesla Model X Breaks Electric Towing Record By Pulling Boeing 787 (inverse.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    People have pulled planes, in fact the record is a guy pulling one weighing 418,000 lbs. Seems hard to know why we'd care about a car doing it.

  12. Re:Psychosis / Mass Psychosis on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The christian bible has been used for just as much justification of violence as any other.

  13. Re:Psychosis / Mass Psychosis on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Salem Witch Trials? Violence against interracial couples, same sex couples, anti-abortion bombings & shootings.... The only difference is that in western countries religions no longer control the government.

  14. Rewarding Spammers on Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw In a Half-Million Pacemakers (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Is Slashdot really going to continue to reward blatent spammers like lod123 and threatpost. Another account they used previously was msm1267

  15. Re:Worst platform for gaming? I belive so. on Mobile Gaming Cements Its Dominance, Takes Majority of Worldwide Sales (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't think they're actually kids - the 'games' making money are clickers trying to manipulate people into spending hundreds or thousands of dollars.

  16. Re:Just don't see it being an issue on Will the T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Be Bad For Consumers? (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Consider the math - if a company offering rate X can gain 1000 clients, when the company is small the customers added are a larger percentage of their base. So when they offer a rate to both new and existing customers they can literally make up the lower revenue on their exisitng customers by the added customers. For a large company the number of customers added is a small part of their customer base so overall the money from new customers won't offset the lost revenue on existing customers.

    Expanded coverage IMO is a red herring, the economics of an under covered area don't much change as there aren't more people there and regulators regardless of stripe have shown they won't hold them to their promises.

  17. Luckily this is the Internet and a bit of search engine foo can turn up good leads to answer a question. Even a bad SO with a wrong answer can at least have some leads, so it's not totally worthless. But I frequently have to dig up proper papers for new coworkers who erroneously trust the content on SO.

    Unfortunately StackOverflow isn't held to the same rules as other internet forums and often occupies a significant number of the results for programming topics. One thinks its intentional given they also show the same questions across multiple subdomains.

  18. Re:Loudness war. on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Loudness is likely a result of the vast majority of music listening occurring in cars.

  19. Good Job That Bill Gates... on Fake Mark Zuckerbergs Scam Facebook Users Out of Their Cash (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    still owes them all that money for forwarding those emails!

  20. that doesn't cater to kids....

  21. Re:Higher height is just terrible on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    High hoods are signficantly more dangerous for pedestrians.

  22. New Submitter? on Researchers Hacked Amazon's Alexa To Spy On Users, Again (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    lod123 has been spamming for a month straight for threatpost.

  23. Re:Anyone that doesn't understand why you'd want o on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe its because you're too busy telling kids to get off your lawn instead of watching TV.

  24. Re:Not zero emission in China yet. on Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Interesting how the 'world leader' in green energy is using only 25% renewable energy.

  25. Re:Because using standards is so 2000 & late on Google Is 'Pausing' Work On Allo In Favor 'Chat,' An RCS-Based Messaging Standard (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't need to be that way - Google Talk was based on Jabber. Ultimately the client doesn't even need to be XMPP based, we just need the service to support XMPP federation so we don't have a walled garden.