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  1. Re:Too Bad on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers · · Score: 1

    Why? I don't find the site useful and would be happy to not have it wasting half the entries on search results for any programming topic.

  2. Re:Too Bad on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers · · Score: 1

    I rarely to never find useful answers on StackOverflow, further many unrelated issues appear and often end up ranking higher on search engines than the actual documentation or bug report for the project. I wouldn't have an issue with the site if it didn't completely pollute search results, its 'network' is a forum and should be treated as such (being present only once in a search engine results page).

  3. Too Bad on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'd rather they stopped cluttering up search results and disappeared.

  4. Re:What do you propose that they do? on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure for random Joe's website it would be difficult. However why is it any different than circulation numbers for print ads?

  5. Re:Oh really on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Larry Ellison also had a cameo in Iron Man.

  6. Re:The technical problems with this are immense. on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All the inconvenience & cost of air travel with the speed of a train. Why not just argue for an electric zepplin, at least it could probably cross an ocean or a continent.

  7. Re:STOP, EVERYONE STOP on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've only heard it from tech press who are constantly cheerleading Tesla and Musk. I've questioned the number of Tesla stories on Slashdot before and been downvoted by fanboys, their marketing, sales methods, spats with journalists etc just aren't technology stories.

  8. Flamebait eh? Guess the Apple fanboys are out in full force today. FTR I could have obviously referred to Google's search engine or Android.

  9. Sure. They guy who just got out of jail for mass-murder can cut my lawn. He can manage the local Wal-Mart. He can teach English-as-a-Second-Language classes to orphan refugees. Just... maybe let's all agree that "passenger airline pilot" isn't the job for him.

    So you're agreeing its fine that he's a member of the Wikipedia board because he wouldn't be in charge of hiring?

  10. Re:No Context on Wikipedia Editors Revolt, Vote "No Confidence" In Newest Board Member (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have mixed feelings. Our society is supposed to believe that people can improve themselves and we should (eventually) forgive people. More importantly the people responsible for this are really Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt, how many of these wikipedia voters are running macs and iphones?

  11. Re:Language matters less than integration/content on Stephen Wolfram: No Need To Teach With 'Toy Programming Languages' Like Scratch (wolfram.com) · · Score: 1

    Even Java could work if you were to create the right libraries. If anything strict typing and compile time errors are probably more helpful to novices and beginners than trying to understand a failure afterwards.

  12. Re:Not sure any of this is that good... on Stephen Wolfram: No Need To Teach With 'Toy Programming Languages' Like Scratch (wolfram.com) · · Score: 1

    We're all taught trig in school, but most people will never need to apply it. The intent of learn to code isn't to train programmers, rather to provide people with a understanding of how things work. In truth, it probably helps more people than trig as the knowledge would help with spreadsheets.

  13. Re:2212 guns being "smuggled" into airports on TSA: Gun Discoveries In Baggage Up 20% In 2015 Over 2014 (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure if you fired enough bullets into the cockpit through the walls/door you'd hit something vital, either the pilots or equipment.

    More-over the pilots will feel pretty obligated to go wherever the gun toting whack job threatening to shoot the other crew or passengers wants to go.

  14. Lets just lock everyone up in cells, its much easier that way.

  15. Re:No Changes, No Violation on Remix OS in Violation of GPL and Apache Licenses (tlhp.cf) · · Score: 1

    I have read the GPL, along with a quite a few other OSI approved licenses. See previous statement about unchanged source != violation.

  16. No Changes, No Violation on Remix OS in Violation of GPL and Apache Licenses (tlhp.cf) · · Score: 2

    IANAL but, if there are no changes then it isn't a violation. Similarly as others have noted the Apache license doesn't require the same license be used for derivative works.

    Seems like the author isn't really familiar with how open source licensing works and shouldn't be posting sensationalist articles.

  17. Re:Seems like time to consider the alternatives on LastPass Vulnerable To Extremely Simple Phishing Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    No less secure than your PC.

  18. Re: The studios may not have a choice on Geoblocking, Licensing, and Piracy Make For Tough Choices at Netflix (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The one catch is that TV adverts aren't bringing in what they used to

  19. I'm Canadian, so I also spell it colour (except when coding, as it won't compile....)

    My point is mostly that most regions have their own local content available via netflix. (Except for Canada, because dumbasses sold out and decided it would be easier to just rebroadcast US TV.)

  20. Worth noting that regions often have different content, particularly non-english regions.

  21. Are they required to have easy ways to open them also?

  22. Re:Why is everyone thinking about 1970's power pla on Why James Hansen Is Wrong About Nuclear Power (thinkprogress.org) · · Score: 1

    What was that, I was playing candy crush

  23. Re:Nuclear lacks lobbying on Why James Hansen Is Wrong About Nuclear Power (thinkprogress.org) · · Score: 1

    IIRC from the movie Pandora's Promise its also been shown in the past that coal companies funded some of the FUD around nuclear.

  24. Re:About that cost problem on Why James Hansen Is Wrong About Nuclear Power (thinkprogress.org) · · Score: 1

    In fairness though, Chinese labour costs even for skilled labour are still significantly lower than in the west.

  25. Re:Old? on Java Named Top Programming Language of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    C was designed at a time when memory and run-time efficiency were given much more importance than runtime data integrity or safety.

    Application complexity was also significantly lower than today making easier to troubleshoot and avoid problems in the first place