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  1. Re:Lol 700. on Dorms For Grownups: a Solution For Lonely Millennials? · · Score: 1

    Look at the plan in the linked article. The 300 square feet is the private living area, which is like a mini-apartment, but there's also a larger shared area with a big kitchen, living room, etc.

    For a shared living situation it's actually pretty nice. The work equivalent is like having a small office with your own fridge (so people don't still your lunch) AND an open space area with an espresso machine and bean bags and people wearing wool caps.

  2. GIMME GIMME GIMME on Dorms For Grownups: a Solution For Lonely Millennials? · · Score: 1

    Assuming that their baby boomer parents bothered to leave anything for them. Millenials might be the first generation in a long time to get the shaft by their departing parents.

    "Ask not what your parents can do for you – ask what you can do for your parents"
          - Paraphrasing someone wiser and less entitled than you

  3. The answer is fear. on Dorms For Grownups: a Solution For Lonely Millennials? · · Score: 1

    Rule through fear instead of through idealistic government agencies.

  4. Low quality criminals on Badly-Coded Ransomware Locks User Files and Throws Away Encryption Key (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    That hacker has what it takes to join the Home Alone crew (the wet bandits)

  5. expensive decisions on $1 Bid Wins Government Open Source Software Purchasing Experiment (gsa.gov) · · Score: 1

    They could have done it for 20% less by using PHP instead of Python. The government pays extra once again for technical decisions made in the private sector, just like it happened with healthcare.gov.

    Next time a child is left behind, we'll know who to blame.

  6. Re:Hm ... on Ask Slashdot: How Can My Code Help? · · Score: 1

    You forgot the step where 85% of the budget is spent on creating a "framework" that creates a layer of abstraction between the application and the underlying programming language, including a convenient pseudo-SQL API that let programmers query the custom ORM more easily using cacheable lambda expressions.

  7. Re:Please help me with my book on Ask Slashdot: How Can My Code Help? · · Score: 1

    I just started writing a great novel. Well, it isn't really great. In fact it is kind of sloppy. But I think it could turn out really great if I can convince some great writers to pick up the pieces of my sloppy outline and turn it into a best selling novel. Where do I post it to make that happen????

    Try the Twilight forums. It worked for that Fifty shades of grey woman.

  8. Re:Don't let Linus see it, or he'll call you a cun on Ask Slashdot: How Can My Code Help? · · Score: 1

    The guy created Linux and Git. It doesn't matter if you think you know more "tricks" than him - bottom line, he's relevant and you're not.

  9. Re:AniMoJo has the painters in on Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what they said when they created Cobol.

    If it had been invented by a man you'd be saying it was the best thing ever.

    Cobol was created by 3 men and 3 women. Pick something else if you look for controversy about genders disparity in IT.

  10. Re:Not a free speech issue on Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution (coloradoan.com) · · Score: 1

    At first I was thinking, maybe he did it because he's attracted to the candidate he supported. But then I saw her picture. She looks like one of the owners of the "Women and women first" library in Portlandia.

  11. Re:Citizens United on Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution (coloradoan.com) · · Score: 1

    It's all the same money. Both sides are taking it from interest we don't make on our collective 401(k) and from raises we don't get because the economy.

    So in the end it's really the people who pay for all this, we should rejoice! Justice prevails.

  12. Re:one big barrel of worms on Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution (coloradoan.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who exactly are you talking about? The guy who made the Facebook post is a Republican, the judge is a Democrat but his boss is a Republican, the candidate the guy supported is a Republican and her rival is a Democrat. Where exactly to the "neo-con" angle come in play in this situation?

  13. The no man's land on Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nichols also thinks coding tools will become powerful enough in the next decade that the demand for actual, dedicated coders will diminish

    That's what they said when they created Cobol.

    Seriously I've seen this same pattern over and over. Some company comes up with a "power user" development tool which is seen as the best thing ever because it will allow business users (who have business knowledge) to do everything themselves. But unfortunately the tool never does exactly what is needed and it proves a bit too tricky to configure so either the thing is shelved or it's passed on to a team of "real" developers so they can integrate in-house tools with this piece of shit and work around the bugs. It's a nightmare because the tool is too high-level and limited for a programmer to easily sets his hooks in, so rockstars run away from that project (or company). That team becomes a dark pit where only lifers and quota employees are thrown in, and they are miserable and the whole thing sucks and there's champagne for everyone whenever a ridiculously low hanging fruit goal is achieved.

    A power user development tool is even worse than an in-house "framework" designed by some dude who left two years ago to do whitewater rafting in South America and never came back.

  14. Re: Don't Know How You Made That Conclusion on The Hostile Email Landscape (liminality.xyz) · · Score: 0

    Well you do like anyone who use DNS for load balancing,and you keep a low TTL. Lookup google's DNS records, they have like a 5 min TTL.

  15. Re:Don't Know How You Made That Conclusion on The Hostile Email Landscape (liminality.xyz) · · Score: 0

    Script kiddies. Even if the provider doesn't block ports, all email should be rightfully be blocked as there is no Reversed DNS. And by all things practical, a reversed DNS is only possible with a fixed IP.

    What do "script kiddies" (which was already an obsolete label 10 years ago) have to do with any of this? Dynamic DNS like no-ip.org have been around since forever. And many advanced threat management gateways also use dynamic DNS for security purposes.

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with running your own email server at home, as long as it doesn't violate the ISP rules. Internet was designed just for that - decentralization and freedom.

     

  16. Re:Don't Know How You Made That Conclusion on The Hostile Email Landscape (liminality.xyz) · · Score: 1

    I haven't maintained my own email server in a little over 1400 years so, yeah... I don't really know.

    THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

  17. Re: Don't Know How You Made That Conclusion on The Hostile Email Landscape (liminality.xyz) · · Score: 1

    as well as anything from .cn-- as we have zero business coming from China, ever

    If you want to freak out about China, just setup a wordpress server and look at the log files. This is unbelievable. Big hosts like Bluehost or Wordpress.com must have some pretty busy firewalls.

  18. Re:I'm just gonna lay this out there on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 1

    Here's a Techcrunch-y idea: build an online trading platform where public and private organizations can buy and sell all kinds of commodities, from internet bandwidth to drinking water, as well as futures contracts on which smaller players can speculate and benefit from price fluctuations.

    Sounds cool and bleeding-edge, no? But that's what Enron did.

  19. Re:Poetic Justice? on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The minute you have a backup plan, you've admitted you're not going to succeed." -Elizabeth Holmes

    It's always easy to be brave with other people's money.

  20. Re:I'm just gonna lay this out there on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd rather trust 10B of funding than an article on the WSJ

    That's what Enron shareholders used to say.

  21. Re:Anything to disrupt Quest Diagnostics on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 2

    In other words, my company and I pay something north of $20k/year for what is mostly a glorified discount program.

    Forcing people to buy healthcare coupons. That's Obamacare in a nutshell. All this for the low low price of 120 billions per year.

  22. Re:CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 4, Funny

    if you look carefully at many of her pictures, especially close-up shots, she looks like someone who wears a latex mask. Maybe it's Steve Jobs underneath, that would explain the voice and how she dresses.

  23. Re:Has The Whole World Gone Topsy Turvy? on Walmart Open Sources Its Cloud Platform To Take On Amazon (walmartlabs.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Walmart is the biggest employer of H1B visa workers year after year.

    Foreign workers are not locked in a store, but they are locked in terrible work conditions, low-end housing and basically economic slavery. Meanwhile Walmart is getting in the cloud business to allegedly help customers avoid vendor "lock-in". The audacity of those people.

  24. Re:Yeah, makes perfect sense... on British Police Stop 24/7 Monitoring of Julian Assange At Ecuadorian Embassy (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia, Google and common knowledge disagree with you, but don't let that get in the way of your Devotion to His Cult.

  25. Re:Yeah, makes perfect sense... on British Police Stop 24/7 Monitoring of Julian Assange At Ecuadorian Embassy (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There's 2 different things. First one is the "not wearing a condom" thing, which is what the Assange cult members are repeating ad nauseam to make the charges look less serious.

    The second one is the girl waking up while he was inside her. That part is typically swept under the rug by the Assange cult members because it's more difficult to argue that "she was asking for it". See:

    The judges said: "It is clear that the allegation is that he had sexual intercourse with her when she was not in a position to consent and so he could not have had any reasonable belief that she did."

    Another bullshit statement from the Assange cult members is that he agreed to be interviewed by the Swedes in the Ecuador embassy in London but that they declined. Apparently none of those zealots bothered to check Wikipedia (or maybe it's another CIA plant):

    In March 2015, Marianne Ny indicated that she would allow Assange to be interviewed in London. The interview will be conducted by a deputy prosecutor, Ingrid Isgren, as well as a police investigator. As of August 2015, an agreement has not yet been reached with Ecuador which would allow Assange to be interviewed in the Embassy.

    The guy's a rapist, full stop. As for being a fraud and an asshole, that's up for debate.