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  1. Oracle should thank Google. on Oracle Tells Supreme Court Google Copyright Breach Knocked It Out Of Smartphone Market (crn.com) · · Score: 1

    Oracle has caused a lot of harm to java with this litigation, with its bad handling of security issues and its general bad governance. The fact that Google has made so much effort to use java in android is a testimony to the qualities of this language.

  2. Linus is more nuanced ;-) on ARM In the Datacenter Isn't Dead Yet (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The claim of Linus is "that as long as everybody does cross-development, the platform won't be all that stable". I have my web hosting on arm and I compile on arm. I cannot find any good and cheap arm laptop with ubuntu. If this does not happen soon, arm in servers will die shortly, like a hype. IMHO the future is not decided yet and what give Linus is a good indicator to analyse where it is aiming. If this summer we have many arm laptops that sell reasonably well on the market, I continue hosting on arm. Otherwise I go back to intel.

  3. One solution is what I did for my old mother on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Should I Buy For My First Employee? · · Score: 1

    When the windows XP laptop of my parents died, I bought them a mini desktop with ubuntu. I live far from them and I perform the maintenance remotely (ssh and x11vnc). I think you could do the same for you employee: a dell XPS13 with ubuntu. You configure your remote access (for example using a ssh tunel from one of your sites) so that you can fix all her issues. Even dist upgrade can be performed remotely using ssh. The main advantage of ubuntu is that she will not install tons of crapware. IMHO, the single drawback is that battery does not last very long.

  4. A landmine is already an autonomous weapon systems that can kill without human intervention.

  5. documentation on HP Will Give You $10,000 To Hack Your Printer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a HP Officejet Pro 7612. I have little experience in hacking (I have almost finished stripe CTF 2), but I have not found much documentation abour my printer. I am interested in trying to hack my printer, at least to know better all it can do. Do you have links to doc or code?

  6. improve documentation for advanced users on Mystery Donor Pledges $1 Million To The GNOME Foundation (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I am a gnome 3 user since 2013. I have installed it on the computer of my (old) mother who lives far away. For remote administration, I use wakeonlan and x11vnc through a ssh tunnel. I often also connect remotely to my personal computer. This is already more complicated since 16.04 LTS. I wonder how gnome will again make my life more complicated with 18.04. Remote connection is a family of basic scenarios that should be clearly explained.
    If I want to add support to a new file extension (like http://torvalds-family.blogspo...), where shall I start? Again a very weak documentation (or I have not found it).
    The file indexer is a nightmare (I have a big disk with many small files (like git repositories). Nothing about how to mitigate this issue in the documentation.
    I want to share the Document (and Image) directory of the main computer or the house with the 2 other ubuntu computers. What are the best solutions (I have setup nfs but everything is not smooth).
    For basic usages (usages that were common and easier 20 years ago) of an advanced user, gnome introduces a level of abstraction that needs to be documented, otherwise, we have to find half working workarounds.

  7. Re:Edit Address Line Is Not Hacking on 19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Event guessing login/password is not hacking if they are simplistic. There was the case of a guy who has hacked into the site (a minitel site in France) that contains the telephone number of important people. He has used it to give the telephone number of the president to a radio station that has called him in direct. The guy was never send to a judge because the login/password were: aa/ab

  8. Re:Never thought I would hear about Legacy Ruby on Can Ruby Survive Another 25 Years? (techradar.com) · · Score: 2

    Java is declining because of Oracle. If Oracle made Java opensource with no strings, there would be a huge regain in popularity. IMHO the trial against Google has hurt a lot the reputation of Java.

  9. There is a precedent on NASA Hires Lockheed Martin To Build Quiet Supersonic X-Plane (space.com) · · Score: 1

    There are many UFO observations beyond sound speed where the bang was not eared -> it is feasible.

  10. Re:"Don't be evil" on Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    It was the motto. This example shows why they have changed their motto.

  11. difficult question but on Ask Slashdot: Which Tech Company Do You Respect Most? · · Score: 1

    the company I respect the less is ORACLE. Incontestably the worst company.

  12. Actually it is worse on Why Airports Rename Runways When the Magnetic Poles Move (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    When an airport has two parallel runways, they are often numbered differently in order to "avoid confusion". When landing at CDG, runways 26R and 27L are parallel.

  13. Re:In breaking news.... on City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    I think Limux failed because they kept a fraction of machines under windows. Cohabitation of Linux and Windows introduces many difficulties and costs that do not exist in homogeneous park.

  14. Re:This is what you are looking for: on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Replace My Netbook? · · Score: 1

    pretty keyboard. Do you have it in bluetooth to transform my phablet into a laptop ?

  15. Re:The West is so fucked on $30 Unlocked Android Smartphones To Launch in India This Month (factordaily.com) · · Score: 2

    I am french paying 10€ for 20GB.

  16. Re:This seems to reinforce how clueless he is on Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have studied deeply C++98. I try to avoid C++ and favor Java each time I can. I am programming since 1994 and I agree with every single word ESR said. I do not know if rust or go are the future. I think we can do better and that there are a lot of insight to get from Ada (and ravenscar).

  17. The windows XP laptop of my parents was becoming almost unusable because of slowness. I wanted to migrate them to a small desktop with ubuntu. Like old people, they receive many powerpoint documents. The perfect working of powerpoint viewer with wine was a condition sine qua none for my plan. It is working perfectly since 2013.

  18. Re:Everyone but the marketing department knows... on Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID a Week After iPhone X Release (wired.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    fingerprint scanning increases the cost of the phone. Face recognition does not require any additional hardware.

  19. macbook + win10 desktop on Ask Slashdot: What Should A Mac User Know Before Buying a Windows Laptop? · · Score: 1

    give him a macbook for real work and a win10 desktop for games. A desktop is still far better for games. I am a Linux user since many years and I have changed my PC this spring. I boot on windows around once every 2 month for a specific application that my entreprise use to manage absences. The experience is awful. I can not use the computer during the lengthy upgrades during which I can not even see what is happening. I get insane notification that I should install software I have never heard of to keep up to date other unknown software. The documentation is shit: after 20 minutes of insane PR, no way to know how to start the proposed installation later if I refuse to do it now. 2 computers will open his mind on the differences and he will be able to work when win10 is updating.

  20. no question about remote display on Interviews: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst Answers Your Questions (redhat.com) · · Score: 1

    gnome 3 and others are focusing on desktop use where most of the enterprise use of RHEL I have encountered is using remote display. I feel as if the desktop team is killing the main use case.

  21. Re:dongle on The Impossible Dream of USB-C (marco.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    you missed the link https://xkcd.com/949/

  22. Re:electricity on Ask Slashdot: What Are The Lesser-Known Roles Of The IT Department? · · Score: 1

    you are american

  23. Migrating linux should be the target on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    IMHO, C should be replaced by a better language. The most important peace of software that should be replaced is the OS. The new language shall be perceptibly optimized for this task so that you can convince Linus Torvalds to migrate. Once Linux is migrated, conquering the rest of the world will be peace of cake ;-)

  24. I never put passphrase

  25. Re:No Clicks! Wow! on New Malware Downloader Can Infect PCs Without A Mouse Click (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    does it work also with powerpoint viewer on wine ?