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  1. When their next waves of movies are boring and meaningless and Americans watch movies from the new studios made up of ex-Disney employees, we will see this move hurt shareholders.

  2. Re:Um.. why the heck did he have the code... on Sued Freelancer Allegedly Turns Over Contractee Source Code In Settlement · · Score: 1

    Lots of ways, from operating on an NFS or remote FUSE mount of some type (like SSHFS).
    In any case, I'm SURE when my contracts are over that my code is deleted because I don't want to be the source of a leak.

  3. Re:Firefox long term strategy on Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes · · Score: 1

    I figured this relates to their effort to stop using their weird XUL system. The fewer parts of Firefox that are over a decade old, unused, and unmaintained, the better.

  4. Re:How can there be? on No Such Thing As 'Unlimited' Data (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Quality of Service is oversubscribed, but not the product itself.

    A hotel's electric system that couldn't handle full occupancy of modern techies still had a bed, shower, & breakfast, so I gave it a worse rating & review, but not awful.

    Here, the product is becoming more expensive. What's true for both: The capitalist solution is to encourage & unblock competitors.

  5. Global Touble-Makers Vote: Yes on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 2

    Where have the past 2 years major data breaches occurred: Off-Cloud.
    But what about adjusting for Cloud vs Off-Cloud %-usage: Still no contest.

  6. Re:Error Handling in Go on Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go · · Score: 1

    What's your thought on syntactic sugar:

    result, err = StdLibFunc()
    if err != nil {
          return err
    }
    FunctionTwo(result)

    ===to===

    FunctionTwo( StdLibFunc() || return error )

    Languages' expressiveness is often compared in lines-of-code because the higher percentage of a program on your screen at once, the bigger picture you have easily. This is how inner functions often operate. Defers handles clean-up. Here error represents unexpected outcomes which usually must bubble up the stack.

  7. Re:I worry about autonomous language activities on Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go · · Score: 3, Interesting

    These statements come from experiences in other languages with obnoxious GCs. This is a performance-focussed language with great multiprocess primitives. The GC causes far less latency.
    https://talks.golang.org/2015/...
    Pauses average 1ms and will be halved again next release to 1/2000 of a second which is plenty workable for games & audio mixers
    Further, intelligently-written code can massively reduce GC frequency.

    A certain high-throughput web service I've built runs GC roughly once per hour (yet services 1000s of concurrent requests). And this is without any serious effort at tuning. This is because (unlike Java, Python, and JS) GC is avoided if possible for stack space (whenever provably-safe) which is freed when it leaves scope. The proving algorithms are improving too.

  8. Compiler hack guide on Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go · · Score: 2

    Could the GoLang team produce a walkthrough on enhancing the compiler?
    Even something as simple as making the code more idiomatic (since it was translated) could garner huge increases in contributions.
    A guide to the structure would also be helpful.

  9. Safe Performance on Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go · · Score: 1

    Reimplementing the Gnu+Linux toolchain in GoLang could provide safety that decades of eyes on C could not (thinking about the recent BASH bugs & OpenSSL overruns).

    Even a small portion would add security to Android. Performance is close & 1.5's library loading should keep executables light.

    Is there interest in rebuilding Linux's base userland?

  10. Re:This is why we can't have a nice civilization on Mimic, the Evil Script That Will Drive Programmers To Insanity (github.com) · · Score: 2

    It's important that children destroy: It teaches them that they're an influence on the world around them & they have impact.
    Then at some later point they should be taught (or just realize) the value of creating over destruction.

    This kind of thing is for people who never make it fully through that 2nd psychological development step.

  11. Accidentally Invulnerable on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    My company defeated this accidentally by having WIFI routers on the ceiling & a bunch of laptops on WIFI. Even the printer is WIFI. We don't even have Ethernet ports. Blast the electric outlet and you'll just burn-up the power bricks (we had that once: lightning).

    The only data cables are to the displays (when not AirPlay/WiDi). Even the keyboard & mouse is wireless.

    Does this mean we've already dealt with the problem?

  12. Re: Universal Apocalyptic truth on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 1

    Many businesses became possible when 1930s infrastructure arrived that weren't possible otherwise. Also I hadn't realized people considered their commute path as communistic.

  13. Re:Universal Apocalyptic truth on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 1

    The Works Progress Administration was a 1930s government organization that offered employment of last resort for "crazy" jobs like:
    - The Hoover Dam
    - The National Highway System
    - Many government buildings & fairgrounds in use today.
    - Art, Music, Theatre, and more

    And was shut-down only due to WW2 removing all the unemployed.

    I'd say it's preferred to always have work for people to do via the government coming-up with more "crazy" jobs.

  14. Re:Quite a version jump on Node.js v4.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's so that apps searching for "Windows 9" to match "Windows 95" or "Windows 98" wouldn't get a positive match.

  15. Quicken/QuckBooks on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    Not-only would this move over a huge number of accountants (and back-offices), but also: isn't your company's financial data a good place for security?

  16. Re:uh on The Most Important Obscure Languages? · · Score: 1

    LIke it's better to fly on languages with buffer overflows & stack smashing?

  17. CS guy question: on 'Ingenious' Experiment Closes Loopholes In Quantum Theory · · Score: 1

    Does this open the door up to FTL communication?

  18. TX Solar Field construction on Next Texas Energy Boom: Solar · · Score: 1

    I know a small company in S.E. of San Antonio that has been building solar farms in that area for a while for themselves to manage. It's a boom everywhere in the state & has been going on for years.
    The federal subsidies help.

  19. Re:And? on Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users · · Score: 1

    It's no different. They're aware of the traffic, the ports, & the TCP connections just as before & you're still identified with it.
    However, Linux as the foundation layer and Windows in a VM would accomplish what you're looking for.

  20. Cloud: bitcasa.com on Object Storage and POSIX Should Merge · · Score: 1

    AWS offer Object Storage for its scalability. Cloud file services sit on-top of that & only accept "complete" uploads.

    The only happy medium I know of is www.Bitcasa.com which implements POSIX (most of it) atop S3 in the form of a virtual drive. Their Linux client is only for corporate users due to a lack of focus consumer-side, but their Windows & Mac clients offer virtual desktop.

    Ref: I work for Bitcasa

  21. Re:What I don't understand... on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 2

    Because it's a copycat of many other things already out there:
    - Evernote: Notes everywhere
    - Tomboy Notes: Save-on-Keypress desktop sticky notes. Public & Private host backup possible (I use this now, for reminders)
    - GNote: Linux-only lightweight Tomboy Notes
    - Google Keep: My preferred Android + Browser (Linux) note taker (I use this now to note what I should research later)
    - Calendars of all kinds: Want to remember to do something at some time? Just put it at some free time in your calendar!

  22. Re:Color Support on Ask Slashdot: Switching To a GNU/Linux Distribution For a Webdesign School · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Inkscape's native format is SVG, and it works great. It should be part of the curriculum long before hand-holding designers who can't produce consumable assets.

  23. Re:Stop teaching slicing on Ask Slashdot: Switching To a GNU/Linux Distribution For a Webdesign School · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Agreed. Good designers know CSS and at-least try to understand the technologies they're asking to be used.
        - Microsoft & Linux-based small corps I've seen.

    If the designers aren't supporting the company's end-product in an effective way, the company should be critical of the designers. And you can't be effective at guiding tech creators if you don't understand the tech.

    We no-longer are painting banners and putting them online as websites. We now have transitions to consider, varying screen sizes (not just 3, or just X, but 100s).

    Copy-pasting images is worthless. If you really want to teach it, make them do it from JPG, but it'll look like crap in Retina no-matter what. Honestly trash the copy-paste and teach a little Inkscape hacking on SVGs.

  24. Bad vs Good GMO on Genetically Modified Rice Makes More Food, Less Greenhouse Gas · · Score: 1

    Height changing genes are not changing the food content.
    However roundup ready gene changes not only what I'm eating but that soaked-roundup its whole life. This creates a much less safe product.

  25. When MA supported OOXML on French Government IT Directorate Supports ODF, Rejects OOXML · · Score: 2

    I knew the guy who worked on the Microsoft legal team who came up with the idea to use accessibility as a reason that ODF should not be a standard in Massachusetts. Of-course he's since-then been furloughed by Microsoft. So much for selling-out freedom for a little personal security.

    ODF doesn't preclude an accessibility-capable editor, and it's a real format (not 90% too big and full of ambiguity like OOXML), and not changing every release.