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  1. Re:Just Don't Buy It on Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack (sammobile.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be pedantic. "You", in this case, is clearly plural.

  2. That's classy. (Also, canceling moderation misclick. My apologies.)

  3. Re:The Theater Experience on James Cameron: Theater Experience Key To Containing Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Great, watching a movie to the sound of people munching.

    I've watched movies at Alamo Drafthouse with people eating around me multiple times and have never noticed anyone chewing.

  4. I'm pretty sure it's possible to disable autoplay-next-episode account wide. Mine is turned off.

  5. Re: Really? How does this work? on Microsoft Tests New Tool To Remove OEM Crapware (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Additionally, most Powershell commands have a long form and a set of preconfigured aliases (along with the option to define your own). For example, Get-ChildItem comes with gci, ls and dir out of the box.

    When writing Powershell scripts, I usually use the long form for future maintainability and ease of understanding; but, when writing a quick script at the command prompt, I'll almost always use the short form.

  6. Re:Waste of time on YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Video Downloader (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure YouTube doesn't send you an unencrypted stream (anyone know for sure?). I've always assumed you run their EULA-bound, DMCA-protected software in order to decrypt that stream and watch it. Easy enough to save that, of course, but you have to bypass the DRM.

    Depending on the quality, but at HD+ for sure, the videos are downloaded as video and audio streams separately from public sources, without any kind of DRM. It's possible to manually grab those files and mux them locally (that's what the player is doing in real time). I used to do that before I found an acceptable local downloader program that handles that for me.

  7. Re:Sleeping with the enemy on Phone-Friendly Movie Theaters For Millennials Could Be Reality Soon (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you could just not get married to inconsiderate bitches.

  8. From within the browser... on Google Will Kill Its Chrome App Launcher For Windows, Mac, and Linux In July · · Score: 1

    The only way I've found to get to the real apps list from within the browser is chrome://apps ... is there even a link to that from a menu?

  9. Re:Something Fun, not Math on Ask Slashdot: Good Introductory SW Engineering Projects? (HS Level) · · Score: 1

    This is probably the best response I've seen. It summarizes the valuable point that there's no way high school introductory programming curriculum should have introductory-college-level-computer-science-like elements in it. (You're trying to excite the students about the possibilities of something they might not have considered before, not bore them to death and scare them off forever! If they decide to not only go into "programming", but also into "software engineering" via a degree in Computer Science, then they'll get plenty of that later on.) And, it asserts that programming that produces visual results is the most likely kind to spark interest and keep attention while tricking the students into learning by doing. (You can tell a new software engineer that this or that is the best practice and they may pay lip service and go through the motions, but until they see the need in their own code or in the course of their own work, they won't really believe you.)

    I will add that it has been demonstrated time and again that framing learning in the context of a game can dramatically improve uptake. If there's any way to start with something like what rockmuelle suggested and transition into creating games, I feel like that would be the best! Providing good introductory curriculum at this level almost always will require more of the instructor in terms of planning and environment set up than it will require of the students during execution of that curriculum. Though, you wouldn't be asking if you didn't want to spend that time, I suppose.

    --(a different) Chris

  10. What article?

  11. Re:couldn't hurt on Do We Need More Emojis? · · Score: 1

    You forgot to close your dashed appositive in the second-to-last paragraph ;).

  12. Re:Apologies for very off-topic, but... on Open Source, Collaborative Rich-Text, Web-Based Editor Almost Available · · Score: 1

    The reasons they give for not supporting actual Markdown are fairly weak, IMO. I have a custom GitLab/Slack connector service that I wrote and I actually do a manual translation from Markdown to Slackformat syntax to at least try to carry over the original message's formatting.

    Definitely off-topic, though.

  13. Re:It's a Good Idea.... somewhat on Windows 10 Home Updates To Be Automatic and Mandatory · · Score: 1

    wrestling - I'm not usually connected to wifi outside of my home, so the "Only install updates over WiFi" setting would prevent that for me.
    work computer - I've never had windows updates being downloaded or installed slow my computer down that much. Ever. Even on the slowest computers on which I've ever had the pleasure to work.
    emergency updates - Your domain administrators can set a timeout of up to 30 minutes to attempt to allow more time for users to delay the reboot. Apparently that's a maximum (I just went through this line of inquiry at my current job.).

  14. Re:A fictionalized conversation. on A Visual Walk Through Amazon's Impact On One Seattle Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I spent the entirety of the time I would've spent reading this post imagining what an "artesian" coffee shop would be. Does the coffee bubble up from the bedrock, after being brewed deep below the surface? Awesome.

  15. Print the Legend (Documentary) on MakerBot Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Employees · · Score: 2

    While unrelated to this actual event, the documentary Print the Legend focuses on several companies, MakerBot included, beginning near their inceptions and through their growing pains. It is an interesting commentary on 3D printing, business and the legal hullaballoo surrounding the 3D printing of gun parts. It's available on Netflix.

    By the end of the documentary, the direction MakerBot was headed seemed somewhat unhealthy; the remaining founder, Bre Pettis, had made several 180s at that point.

  16. Re:My password is alt-f4 on Illinois Students Suspected of Cyberbullying Must Provide Social Media Passwords · · Score: 1

    Technically, it's: http:///..org

  17. CSR on The Great Robocoin Rip-off · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the only thing I can see "wrong" with what the support guy did was that he wasn't apologetic. Outside of that, he seemed attentive, persistent and adaptable. If I were trying to remote troubleshoot some hardware and the internet kept cutting off and the people I was trying to work with kept leaving early or showing up late, I would probably have been hard pressed to act as calmly as Frank did.

  18. Oh, good... on Northwest Passage Exploration Ship Found · · Score: 1

    So, based on that timeline, we'll find the Malaysian flight in 2188?

  19. Apple Registered Devices on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 5, Informative

    Going to https://supportprofile.apple.c... and making sure my old phone was removed was what eventually fixed this for me. Just putting the SIM back in and turning off iMessage did not fix it.

    It was a while ago, so it's possible this might not be the exact right location; but, I do know that it was "removing registered devices" that I did. This seems right.

  20. Biogas? on Biogas To Power Experimental Microsoft Data Center · · Score: 1

    Am I the only person who read "biogas" as the plural of "bioga" and wondered what a "bioga" was?

  21. Re:Instead of Linux laptop on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    As if anyone here didn't already know: http://xkcd.com/325/

  22. Re:Horrible. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    That design philosophy seems to work great for Apple. Well, the fuck up something essential and fix it later for praise, part.

  23. Re:If you want a hideous layout... on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    It's pants.

  24. Re:ARGH! Correction! on Blizzard to Boll - DENIED! · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but does nobody with mod points find this as funny as I did?