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  1. Re:How is this similar to Windows 10? on Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 1

    It's in the Applications folder. Drag it to the trash.

  2. whoosh

  3. Re:Cool but here's another idea on Amazon Begins Housing Homeless In Seattle (jeffreifman.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They tried that already: http://kuow.org/post/amazon-hires-homeless-workers-and-everyone-ends-disappointed

  4. Re: vi, Emacs or IDE on Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is not. But there's only a neutered version of vim too, so either way you're installing something.

  5. Re:Common knowledge on For First Three Years, Consumer Hard Drives As Reliable As Enterprise Drives · · Score: 1

    > AvGas is typically only in the 105-120 range, and it's used in turbine engines with compression levels that would reduce a car's ICE to shrapnel.

    No. Standard avgas is 100LL (100 Octane, low lead). It's just like gasoline from the auto pumps, but the octane level is higher and there's still some lead in it, where the auto industry is fully unleaded. (There are some aircraft that can handle lower-octane mogas, but they're rare.)

    Turbine engines typically use Jet-A, which is a diesel-like, kerosene based fuel.

  6. Re:Only if I can use self signed certs on HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the similar thread on Reddit, someone mentioned RFC 6698, which uses DNS (with DNSSEC) to validate certificates, rather than CAs. If we could make both of them a requirement, that'd fit the bill and get rid of the extortion.

  7. Re:A third reason is they gave it to us free on Delta Replacing Flight Manuals with Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    The iPad 2 is still available. You can go and buy one right now if you wish: http://store.apple.com/go/ipad2

  8. Re:Gatekeeper on Microsoft's Surface RT Was Doomed From Day One · · Score: 1

    ...or install OS updates.

  9. Re:If you don't like metro... on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    The only tell? You mean, besides the ugly-as-sin window controls that look like a wireframe work in progress rather than a finished product?

  10. Mockett on Ask Slashdot: Wiring Home Furniture? · · Score: 1

    At the office, we've retrofitted a few conference tables with simple parts from Mockett . Pretty straightforward stuff - cut the proper holes, drop in the receptacles, and plug them in.

  11. ElasticSearch on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails? · · Score: 1

    Store it all as plain text files (mbox format?), and write a quick script to send it all to an ElasticSearch index.

  12. Re:You're a contractor. Your "secrets" are yours on Ask Slashdot: How To (or How NOT To) Train Your Job Replacement? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I agree mostly with what you've said, keep in mind that, as a contractor, he's been asked to provide a different service, to train the new guy, and is being compensated as both parties deem appropriate. I completely agree that the submitter shouldn't work for free, but if he's amicable to this agreement (as he appears to be) then there's no reason he can't continue. He's made his objections about hiring a newbie to do it, but it's their code to do with as they please.

  13. Re:So What's The Point on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 2

    Don't forget zip bombs, like 42.zip. Over 4 PB compressed down to 42k.

  14. Re:So What's The Point on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 2

    What if the data I stored was a string of "0" characters and the transfer was gz'd? That would shrink it quite drastically.

  15. Re:wow, that's a ton more expensive than I expecte on The Chromebook Pixel Is Real, and Expensive · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, the 13" Retina MBP has roughly the same resolution and only the HD 4000.

    You won't be playing any high-end, full 3D games, but it'll be just fine for Chromebook needs.

  16. Re:What happens when the machine dies? on Retail Copies of Office 2013 Are Tied To a Single Computer Forever · · Score: 1

    The online version includes a license of the offline software.

  17. Re:Hah on Citizenville: Newsom Argues Against Bureaucracy, Swipes At IT Departments · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't have to trade the whole department. But instead of hiring 5 administrators with various levels of expertise, you can hire 2 or 3 and let the experts deal with their systems.

    As for those other people? Of course they're not working for you. But they're working for their bosses who are working for your business. Believe it or not, there are companies out there whose sole purpose in life is not to screw you over. Trust is earned - let them earn yours.

  18. Re:Hah on Citizenville: Newsom Argues Against Bureaucracy, Swipes At IT Departments · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He's not saying it will disappear, but that it's changing. IT jobs will continue to exist, but they'll be moving to service providers rather than being kept in-house.

    And, frankly, this makes sense - if you pay provider X to host your mail server, you're paying them for both the hardware needs (which they can buy in bulk because they're bigger than you) and their expertise (as they're spending their days exclusively maintaining mail servers, while you may be building a webserver one day and fixing a printer the next, forcing your knowledge to be more general.

  19. Re:Enough Already on Latest Java Update Broken; Two New Sandbox Bypass Flaws Found · · Score: 1

    Webex's use of Java seems that it's only to launch the native client. I'm not sure why they go this route rather than using a URL handler (e.g. webex://[meetingnum]), but once it fires off the native client, it's no longer in use.

  20. Re:Does it matter. on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 1

    What's great about running Java on the server platform is that while most of these exploits allow properly crafted code to do something nasty, our goal as a service provider is to never let users run their own code on our servers in the first place.

  21. It's not hard on Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem" · · Score: 2

    Managing SSH keys for known service accounts is easy with configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, or Salt.

  22. Re:So That's Opt In, Right? And That Goes to Chari on Facebook Test Will Let You Message Strangers For $1 · · Score: 1

    Long lost friends wouldn't have to - they'd ask to be your friend first. Once they're your friend, you don't have to pay. This is for when you want to message people you actually aren't friends with.

  23. Re:Is this a 'real' aspect ratio? on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    Well, that's easy to calculate given the specifications listed in the article.

    21/9 = 2.33
    2560/1080 = 2.37

    They're not perfectly square pixels, but close to it.

  24. Re:A few items on Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? · · Score: 1

    1998 for me. Our old high school computer lab had it. 35 old Macs running Netscape Navigator 3, all connected via Cat3 to a 10BaseT hub. That collision light never had a chance.

  25. Re:Surprised? on Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From what I understand regarding Dell's support practices, these laptops include ProSupport. ProSupport is allowed to deviate from the scripts and help you solve the problem.

    YMMV.