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  1. Re:Floodplains & new borders? on Trump's Border Wall Could Split SpaceX's Texas Launchpad In Two (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If I was to build a fence inside my property, after a number of years the land would become legally my neighbours - does this apply here?

    Another "not true" reply here. At least in most localities, zoning rules require any structures - a fence, wall, shed, garage, etc - to be setback a certain distance from any property lines.

  2. Re:Exactly. on Trump's Border Wall Could Split SpaceX's Texas Launchpad In Two (latimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Would someone PLEASE explain how a launch pad would be "cut in two" by a border wall that would sit on the US-Mexico border?

    I pay little to no attention to the subject of the proposed border wall but one part I understand is it won't be located exactly on the border. Two pretty simple reasons why it won't be - or can't be - are 1) physical barriers in the way. Part of the US-Mexico border is the Rio Grande River. Not going to build a wall in the middle of a river. 2) In order to build a fence, wall, etc, you have to work on both sides of the structure. That means workers would be in Mexico.

  3. Re:Locked bootloaders killed them on Ask Slashdot: Are Custom Android ROMs Still a Thing? · · Score: 1

    I saw builds where the stock camera app didn't work and you had to download a separate one. Or even if you got a workaround for the camera, no video recording capability. Saw many that lacked VoLTE like you mention too and people blew it off like it was a non-issue - "dont u understand what beta means???? its not a DD!!!"

  4. Google+ on Ask Slashdot: Are Custom Android ROMs Still a Thing? · · Score: 2

    I got the email a few days ago from Google telling me how Google+ is shutting down (already knew this, of course) so I logged in to my account. Haven't been there in probably 2-3 years. My "communities" are almost all custom Android ROM groups or other Android software. Even a ROM like LiquidSmooth has effectively died. They announced in early '16 that all development had stopped ("devs are too busy or moved on to other things") but some re-start occurred in late '17 but little indication if it went anywhere.

    I'm not trying to be American-centric but with Verizon and ATT being the pre-dominant carriers in the US and if I'm not mistaken, locking down their devices, it really hurt custom ROMs for many. I used to have Samsung Galaxy phones and after they locked them down, that was it for me.... If you had any hope of a custom ROM, you had to have the latest and greatest model because support for older ones was pretty much non-existent. I think someone or some group gained bootloader access but it wasn't back-portable nor were they interested in working on it. I remember lots of "bounties" offered too.

    Still appears to be activity with TWRP and XPOSED Framework.

  5. Re:I don't know. Is having a resume still relevant on Ask Slashdot: Is LinkedIn Still Relevant? · · Score: 1

    I still get connections requests sent to my business mail (which I have never used on LinkedIn) saying how they found me on LinkedIn. That would be a miracle.

    I've gotten emails to "firstname.lastname @ companyname.com" the same way except I don't use that email address format. I just so happen to have it set up as an alias though but it's never been used anywhere. So unless Google is selling email addresses (we use Google Apps for Business) what they did was found a co-worker's email address and guessed what mine was. Some employees do use that format but not all.

  6. Male or female ? on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 2

    Does he reject code written by women ? Probably .... if it's bad code!. Does he know if a male or female wrote it ? Only based on the submitter's email address which can easily be faked or changed I would presume.

  7. Re:Steam vapor cleaners on Bacteria Becoming Resistant To Hospital Disinfectants, Warn Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Bacteria create their own shelter called biofilm. Mature biofilms can withstand temperatures in autoclaves so "cleaning" surgical tools or similar items in autoclaves is often not sufficient.

  8. Re:not just hospitals on Bacteria Becoming Resistant To Hospital Disinfectants, Warn Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue is they are not cleaning. You clean, then sanitize (or disinfect). If the surfaces are dirty, bacteria can 'hide' or be protected in the dirt. Doctors performing surgery scrub in using soap and vigorously scrub, then they use a sanitizer (or even hot water). When you wash dishes, do you just run them under hot water or do you clean them (with soap) first ?

  9. Re:What about pet waste? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    The majority of "baggers" at grocery stores have no clue how to properly load paper bags. Plus, using plastic bags is so simple, it's why in most stores, the cashier also bags your stuff.

    I say this jokingly, but you would think the bag manufacturers PAY the stores to get bags with the number they use / waste. I have went to the store on more than once occasion, bought a few items and they have PUT ONE ITEM PER BAG. So with three items, they use three bags ! Buying milk THAT HAS A HANDLE ? They will still put it in a bag !

  10. Don't let the FBI know that they have a pool at their new building with "freakin' sharks with lasers" too !

  11. Researchers = Intel engineers ;-)

  12. Re: works offline? on How Google's Pixel 2 'Now Playing' Song Identification Works (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    yet, the actual results database is so bad, that shazam and google both fail to identify most of the jazz songs I try with their service.

    Shazam and the like frequently fail to ID classical songs, even the most well-known ones. I presume it's because these services haven't "fingerprinted" every different orchestra's or symphony's version of different songs. Even though the notes are the same, there are no doubt differences that are detected by these fingerprinting mechanisms.

  13. Re: works offline? on How Google's Pixel 2 'Now Playing' Song Identification Works (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    He said he has as many CDs as the poster above has of songs (32k).

  14. Re: works offline? on How Google's Pixel 2 'Now Playing' Song Identification Works (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    His library is certainly not small by any means. Your library is completely out of the ordinary though.

  15. Re:Since when does Amazon use USPS? on WSJ Op-Ed: The Post Office Is Delivering Amazon's Packages Below Cost (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    More than once, our not-too-bright mail carrier marks a package as not deliverable and the reason is "receptacle blocked". That's odd though 'cause they put multiple letters, magazines, etc, etc in the same mailbox on the same day they tried to say it was blocked !! My guesses are either a) they forgot to load the package in their truck or b) it wouldn't fit in the mailbox, meaning they have to get out of their car, walk 40' to our door, knock, and hand it to someone. My money is on "b"....

  16. Re:Since when does Amazon use USPS? on WSJ Op-Ed: The Post Office Is Delivering Amazon's Packages Below Cost (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 2

    My stuff from Amazon comes about 75% USPS and 25% UPS.

    A few years ago, Amazon used a few different local or regional carriers (can't even remember their names now) but it was only over a pretty short period of time too.

  17. Easy to guess web address on Millions of Verizon Customer Records Exposed in Security Lapse (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "The data was downloadable by anyone with the easy-to-guess web address"

    And there's actually (security) people who go around doing this ?? Well, I realize there are, but it's still pretty freaking strange to do !

  18. Enlightenment WM author ? on Security Researcher Says Samsung's Tizen OS Is The Worst Code He's Ever Seen (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Going way to this site's "nerd" days, people should be familiar with the window-manager-then-a-desktop-environment-under-development-for-a-decade-and-a-half called Enlightenment. It's main developer - Rasterman - worked at Samsung and had a lot to do with this OS. I don't know if he's still involved or not but I haven't heard anything about this OS since he mentioned it years ago.

  19. I remember, oh, around 1995, when people were proclaiming "Linux is ready for the desktop" ! I was a full-time user myself and was in full disagreement with that idea too. Yes, some users can adapt and would do okay, but not the business world, average office workers, and so on.

  20. FB should on Facebook Threatens LinkedIn With Job Opening Features (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook should go for it. Linkedin is just turning into a Facebook for older people anyway. I see selfie picture posts, "Click 'like' if you agree" posts, even ran across this one, copied and modified from a similar FB shared post from a couple of months ago (on FB, it was a Harley-Davidson though): "A guy looked at the Corvette the other day and said I wonder how many people could have been fed for the cost of that car. I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families in Kentucky who built it..."

  21. Lame justification on A Radiologist Has the Fastest Home Internet In the US (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "There were situations where my daughter would be FaceTiming and the others would be streaming on the 4K TVs and they'd start screaming at each other about hogging the bandwidth."

    Bullshit - that's just his lame attempt at justifying "needing" a connection that fast. How did his poor family function with ONLY a 1 Gig connection or worse, something as pathetically slow as 5-300 Mb/s ?

  22. Re:Who gives a shit? on TP-LINK Loses Control of Two Device Configuration Domains (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Because a sequence of random numbers, 'dots', and so on are too complicated for most users. Everything they type in the address bar has to start with "dubbayu, dubbayu, dubbayu" anyway, doesn't it ?

  23. "Ready for the desktop" on Linux Grabs More Than 2% of Desktop Market Share (w3counter.com) · · Score: 1

    Who remembers that big push related to Linux .... back in 1995 !?

  24. AVS "audiophiles" on IMAX Will Build You a Home Theater -- Starting at $400K (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many AVS audiophile snobs will be lining up to add one of these to their homes (in addition to their already existing 'home theatre') ? Then again, they'll probably find fault with the specs of the system from IMAX....

  25. Re: If they pay the license fee on South Australia Refuses To Stop Using An Expired, MS-DOS-Based Health Software (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Clearly the license is a legal or contractual thing, not a technical one.