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  1. O RLY? on Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    it's not easy to write native apps to run on both Android and iOS, never mind considering Windows Phone and BlackBerry

    apparently you haven't heard of Qt because it supports all of those platforms.

  2. a speedier Atom processor? on Google Glass For Work Is Sleeker, Tougher and Foldable (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    what indicates that they have put in an Intel Atom processor? i looked through the pictures and didn't see anything from Intel.

  3. good. on Dissecting a $231 Million High-Tech Boondoggle · · Score: 2

    it's good that they cancelled the project. the only thing left is for everyone involved to pay back the money they took... with interest. to be fair, they can have the rest of their lives to pay it back.

  4. positive change but still distressing. on Justice Department Shuts Down Huge Asset Forfeiture Program · · Score: 4, Insightful

    i find it quite distressing that this was ever considered legal.

  5. A study from Georgia Institute of Technology find that students from University of Georgia are just jealous of their rad robo-bro who is so cool he's not even stoked about being on the cover of Popular Mechanics.

    come on, do those University of Georgia people even lift? ;P

  6. Oh great! on Ruby 2.3.0 Released (ruby-lang.org) · · Score: 1

    similar to what exists in C#, Groovy, and Swift

    So now it's more like the other languages that I don't like! ;)

    Ruby: consolidate your hate!

  7. the reason why on Australian Government Tells Citizens To Turn Off Two-factor Authentication (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reasoning behind myGov's suggestion is understandable: some tourists will swap their Australian SIM cards to local ones while on holiday. Once this is done, they won't be able to receive myGov security codes without reinstalling their Australian SIMs, which is a hassle.

    it seems to me this is probably the result of many support calls/emails because people don't realize when they switched their card that they couldn't authenticate. perhaps instead of turning off two factor authentication in a situation when it's needed most, that they should add a "vacation mode" that let's you temporarily pick a new destination for the text messages.

  8. Re:Fuck the Patriot act on Forrest Mimms On Modern Air Travel With a Bag Full of Electronics · · Score: 1

    Fuck the Patriot act

    No comrade, you have it backwards. In Soviet America, Patriot Act fucks you.

  9. EA issue apologies on its Twitter account

    it's about time! have you seen what they do to game series'? now what's all this business about DDoS attacks? ;)

  10. it will at least have to pass the turring test on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Using a Reputation Engine To Rate Information? · · Score: 1

    the only reputation system that will ever beat legions of jerks will have to be able to determine if the information itself is correct. when dealing with jerks, you need to remember they are humans, the most cunning and devious of superpredators. jerks will build a good reputation by giving good answers just to destroy the reputations of others or build up reputation of jerks that give bad answers. no system you come up with will be infallible.

  11. it's all fun and games... on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 1

    ... until your rover detonates. :P

  12. It's why people should move to solar+battery. on Hackers Have Infiltrated the US Power Grid's Control Networks (lasvegassun.com) · · Score: 1

    One thing that is clear is that capitalism is incompatible with computer security*. In lieu of a massive regulatory overhaul that won't happen, we should be switching to independent self-sustainable systems. Therefore, people should switch to using solar panels with battery backup for power because they are both independent and self-sustainable. For those who do not have the space to do so, you will remain at the mercy of the power grid until you get the space.

    * Capitalism is about making money. Making a perfectly secure product is expensive and would be counter-productive when you could just sell new versions of the same thing.

  13. Re:Seems pretty obvious that blowing up planets on Economists Discuss the Financial Repercussions of the Destruction of the Death Stars (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    oh please, Alderaan was jerks. ;)

  14. Re:And since our Legilators Rarely Read the Bills. on CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No, a bunch of us were aware of it WAY before snowden. Of course, we were tagged with labels like "crackpot", "crazy", "delusional".

    to be fair, being correct and having a few screws loose are not mutually exclusive. however, hats off to the CIA for putting a satellite in orbit that can steal your thoughts. ;)

  15. proof is in the pudding on AMD Goes Open Source, Announces GPUOpen Initiative, Linux Compiler, Drivers (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    while i think this is great, i'll wait for AMD's GPU driver to actually show up in the kernel upstream before putting any stock in what they say.

  16. cracked in about two years. on Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I guess they should have let people use OtherOS like the PS3... until they didn't. Coincidentally, a couple years after OtherOS was disabled the PS3 was cracked.

    The lesson to be learned here: lock out Linux hackers and you're gonna get pwn3d.

  17. Re:Discrimination is discrimination on Google Hosts Special Demo Day For Female Entrepreneurs (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 2

    having the occasional female-specific event to try and correct some of the imbalance does not count as discrimination.

    actually, it is discrimination by definition.

    Discrimination is treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing is perceived to belong to rather than on individual merit.

  18. what could possibly go wrong? on Gigster Wants To Be the Uber of Software Development (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure, I'll write you a great app for that below insultingly amount of money. I pinky swear it won't have any backdoors.

  19. Re:Facebook's open source license contains evil te on Facebook Open Sources AI Hardware Design (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine works at a company where the lawyers reviewed Facebook's "open source" licensing terms ... and concluded that it isn't safe.

    if you think that's bad, just wait 'til you read the terms under which Facebook's AI releases the next Facebook AI. ;)

  20. interesting note about the design on Germany Fires Up Bizarre New Fusion Reactor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    if you haven't heard much about the "stellarator", the twisted design is actually a resulting design from an evolutionary algorithm.

    robotic evolution will happen quickly.

  21. why would you want to pay for 99.99% uptime when it's rarely provided?

  22. penalty? on First Ever EU Rules On Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    so what's the penalty for failing? if they fined all the executives 50% of their annual income for failing security, i'm sure they would be less resistant to spending 0.1% to have good security.

  23. just a warning on Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    while clang is probably fine for most projects, if your project needs -std=c++14 then you should be warned that sometimes Clang can't properly deduce (even when you are explicit) variadic template parameters.

    for example, this code will not compile on Clang no matter what but works fine with G++.

    template<typename... ArgTypes> using deeper = void(*)(ArgTypes...);
    template<typename... ArgTypes> void shallow(deeper<ArgTypes...> arg) { }

    int main(int argc, char* argv[])
    {
        deeper<int> arg;
        shallow<int>(arg);
        return 0;
    }

  24. Re:Intel Inside... seriously on TAG Heuer Increasing Weekly Production To Meet Demand For Its Smartwatch (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel don't seem to publish specs on the low power performance of that SoC, but it does seem like an odd choice for a watch.

    it's likely that Intel gave them an extremely discounted rate. they did the same thing to get some smartphone designers to use the chip but wouldn't ya know, two models later and they were right back to ARM chips.

  25. Intel Inside... seriously on TAG Heuer Increasing Weekly Production To Meet Demand For Its Smartwatch (slashgear.com) · · Score: 2

    powering the Tag Heuer Connected with an Intel Atom Z34XX processor

    well i guess if you wanna be that dumb son of a bitch that dishes out $1500 for a watch that lasts "all day", you might as well enjoy the energy consumption of x86 on your wrist.