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  1. Re:Swift Compiler on Developers Explain Why iOS Apps Are Getting Bulkier (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    OO languages are just as easy as anything else, you just need to know the entry point.

  2. Re:Swift Compiler on Developers Explain Why iOS Apps Are Getting Bulkier (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    I dunno, while they do reter to duplication they also mentioned copying a crap from Github

  3. Swift Compiler on Developers Explain Why iOS Apps Are Getting Bulkier (ndtv.com) · · Score: 2

    Doesn't it prune unreachable code?

  4. Re:Why are they reading signs in the first place? on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So how do you add a new sign? Do you need to publish it 6-months in advance to ensure all the self-driving cars have updated in time?

  5. Re:There can be stop signs on freeways on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The trouble is that this is also abuse-able, if an automated car will aggressively stop in unexpected situations then an attacker can use it to cause accidents.

  6. Re:There can be stop signs on freeways on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Its common sense until you realize the number of construction sites both public and private that will need one. The number of people who will have access to them would make them impossible to secure so you'd have people toggling them on the middle of a busy highway for shits & giggles, putting them in their neighbourhood to force cars to go slow, etc.

  7. Again, how is that different precisely? Whether a machine or a person counts the bills the result is still sent to a central authority which can easily do the reporting or you can implement it in 47 different places.

  8. Re:You couldn't just post mine, could you? on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I pointed it out on yours, but both cover a topic we looked at 5-months ago.

    I'm not sure why bleepingcomputers is posted at all - every single story is submitted by an anonymous user, pretty hard to accept its not someone from the site spamming Slashdot.

  9. Or watching someone struggle to do something with one hand for 5-minutes because they have a cellphone in the other.

  10. The graphic in this article shows the why nicely - http://www.zdnet.com/article/f...

  11. AFAIK Chrome doesn't 'figure it out' it uses all the memory all the time - hence losing every memory usage benchmark.

  12. Not sure what you mean by standard ATM, here virtually every machine accepts deposits barring the shady ones in bars. I stand by my point, reporting standards aren't only for deposits, they are also for transfers, cheques, etc.

  13. Re:What a waste! on High School Students Compete In 'Microsoft Office Championship' (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Were your parents rich? Most kids I knew worked the summers.

  14. Re:Why have it manned by astronomers? on China Built the World's Largest Telescope, But Has No One To Run It (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I dunno, making out details many light-years away seems a lot more precise than a pointy object, flammable liquid and a match ;)

  15. Why exactly is the ATM machine the piece that is doing the reporting? Shouldn't it be a central authority not some piece of hardware the a large number of people have physical access to?

  16. Re:Ok then on 'Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is Doomed For the Worst Reason' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Last year there was a scientist who explained a bunch of flaws with the system. If memory serves, a puncture an inch in diameter is enough to kill everyone in the tunnel, if a car hits anything the riders are dead and it probably punctures the tunnel, killing everyone else.

  17. Re:Is writing code a crime? on The Kronos Indictment: Is it a Crime To Create and Sell Malware? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you might be an accessory if you knew about it. Its an interesting question though, if you write something for a friend whom you have reason to believe would abuse it is that different than maintaining something openly that has the possibility for abuse?

  18. Re:python is a trainwreck on It Will Take Fedora More Releases To Switch Off Python 2 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The best thing was to fuck over everyone else and piggyback on the name of an existing incompatible project?

  19. Re:Ads on the Internet != Other mediums on P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million In 'Largely Ineffective' Digital Ads (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I see mostly ads for things I have no interest in e.g. I watch videos about sports cars but get ads for pickup trucks.

  20. Re: Spend that 100 million on improving products on P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million In 'Largely Ineffective' Digital Ads (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that non-digital advertising works either? I suspect neither is particularly effective but that digital ads are actually measurable.

    They point at fraud in digital, but we also know that Neilson numbers and print circulation numbers are flawed. Did users really stay the follow-up to a popular show, or did they simply forget to indicate they had stopped watching?

    In general, I think advertising functions like a virus- the more you're exposed to it the less effective the tactics they use become.

  21. Re:Incompetent? Or 800,000/yr oversupply? on India is Betting On Compulsory Internships To Improve Its Unemployable Engineers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    There was an article a while ago talking about how 95% of graduates were unfit - https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

  22. Bad grammar, but I assume OEM is there to exclude Android Pay which would push Samsung down the list.

  23. Re:People Don't Remember on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you lookup statistics, 0.3% of patients die from measles, others experience hearing & vision loss. Patients with auto-immune die around 30% of the time. If someone is skipping one vaccine they're usually skipping a bunch.

  24. Welcome to Engadget on How Jony Ive Masterminded Apple's New Headquarters (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Where we cover technology for hipsters.

  25. People Don't Remember on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think the issue is that most people alive today of childbearing age have no experience with how awful the diseases that plagued our ancestors were which leaves them with wiggle room to accept doubt from dumbass celebrities.