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  1. Re: commercial support == subscription on Oracle Plans To Switch Businesses to Subscriptions for Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you' make an assertion with an equal sign. All the == does is set up a test. Nothing implies that a return of 1 means anything.

    'Hacker jargon' is annoyingly wrong here.

  2. Re: Type 2 help? on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The patent protections on the old insulin ran out. Lilly Pharmaceuticals can't have you using that *old* insulin that they don't have a patent on.

    It's similar to (offtopic warning) the way that Freon formulations are determined to be 'bad for the environment' after DuPont's patent runs out on them. Then a new Freon type * needs to be used and your refrigeration equipment updated or scrapped.

    (*that DuPont happens to have a patent on)

  3. But what is the single lens reflex viewfinder component on the drone for? It sounds more like a 'buzzword' for 'more expensive camera price' to me. It sounds like there isn't a viewfinder at all on the drone. DSLR on regular cameras usually just means 'changeable lenses' and a higher price.

  4. To expand on your message since there are people not aware of the details, you can get a brand new Android device, or factory reset an old one, and never ever set up a Google account on it.

    If you want an alternative app store, configure it to load apps from 'unknown sources' and download the Amazon app store (or others that are available) which is an installable apk file. Then you log in with your amazon account and can install most of the important Android apps without ever touching Google's servers with a logged in account.

    There are lots of other places to download apk installers as well, to run without an 'app store' at all. None of this is new to a lot of slashdotters, but it's not common knowledge to the world at large.

  5. I am just trying to figure out the utility of a single lens reflex mechanism on a drone. I figure it must just be marketing jargon, acronym goo that people who preen over their appearance gobble up off sales brochures. The kind of stuff that people who always have the latest Apple gear concern themselves with.

  6. Above all, Bring it to the Apple Store for our geniuses to look at. Do not show it to any technically adept person who is not an Apple employee.

  7. Re: might be a valid strategy on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Found the Google employee.

  8. Re: Type 2 help? on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    and this is important - you must never microwave the vegetables.

    Oooo wah woo.

    Do I need to keep my veggies away from my cellphone and wifi router, too?

  9. Re: Type 2 help? on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    His doctor probably wants to sell him the meds. Diabetes 2 is big biz right now for big pharma.

  10. Re: Too bad the Republicans will never let us have on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    It's probably under patent any longer.

    Big Pharma is hard at work on new, patentable therapies for diabetes.

  11. Re: OH MY God... on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    No, Annihilation is Vandeveer's Southern Reach project brought to film. That's actual SF, not schlock.

  12. Re: why Lucas needs to be controlled on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    I noticed while shopping for DVDs today that the three parts of 'The Hobbit' are now packaged and being marketed as 'The Hobbit Trilogy' which is a little bit tooth-grinding. I mean, wtf?

  13. Re: Choosing between Disney and Lucas... on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    During the short twilight period in ~1940 when Poland was being munched on, you didn't have to choose between Stalin and Hitler, they were one big happy ideology.

  14. Re: Reality surpassed sci-fi long ago! on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Science Fiction was badly damaged by the space cowboy shit that Lucas and his gang brought. The new wave SF of the 70s was awesome: Ellison, Pohl, Ballard, Sturgeon, LeGuin, etc.

    The Star Wars crap sucked the oxygen out of the SF subculture. It took decades to recover (Meiville, Vandermeer, etc.)

  15. Re: Oh thank goodness then on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    'What we got' could be seen as an infection. We didn't all need to catch the disease.

    About a decade ago I got a job working with a Star Wars fanatic. Before then I had managed to just ignore the whole SW universe aside from having seen the film once in 1977. (There is so much other stuff and culture that a nerd can choose to be involved with than mainstream 1980s SF films. i.e. The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, Punk Rock, Industrial music, TTL gates, etc)

    Annyhow, I sort of inoculated myself from the Star Wars disease during the period after the prequels by chasing down a copy of the Christmas Special, which is the only other SW production that I've watched, except I've also watched (I kind of like) Turkish Star Wars. Jefferson Starship rock the Christmas Special, btw.

    The mainstream Lucas crap is, well....

  16. Re: Hmmm... on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    I have never seen any of the other SW movies except the 1977 Star Wars, which I saw in 1977 in the theatre.

    I thought it was cool at the time, but dislike what the 'space western' influence did to the science fiction genre.

  17. Re: Slippery slope on Should Professional Sports Switch To Robot Referees? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    The solution is to shut down professional sports. Sports are games for children to play.

  18. Re: commercial support == subscription on Oracle Plans To Switch Businesses to Subscriptions for Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you asking if commercial support equals subscription? If you were not looking for a return value of 1 or 0, you needed to write: commercial support = subscription

  19. Real programmers code in Assembly language.

    Technicians code in machine language, using diodes, a wire cutter, and a soldering iron.

  20. Re: Not sure I understand... on Oracle Plans To Switch Businesses to Subscriptions for Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately we can't download Oracle's OpenJDK source tarball.

  21. Is the physical point of delivery neatly managed to correspond to the vpn location? Does the vpn provide a big encrypted truck to deliver the goods?

  22. And you are now going to assert a special "on the Internet" exception? I thought we were mostly over that stuff.

  23. Where is the irony in making business decision based on reality?

  24. There are far too many tiny 1-man "businesses" in the US. These small entities are hard to regulate and monitor for compliance to laws, regulations, and taxes.

    Boo fucking hoo. What a nightmare for the 'people in charge' to maintain proper control over these little businesses. What little cubbyhole from some huge shitty company did you type that message out of? Are you a middle manager in a minor division of one of the conglomerate's companies?

    And why should we care?

  25. Never Would Have Used It on Happy Birthday Alan Turing! How Modern Technology Could Win WWII In 13 Minutes (digitalocean.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Germans never would have used such an encryption if modern methods of breaking it existed. So a complete misnomer.