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  1. Re:This will do WONDERS for Yahoo's image! on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've never actually had it successfully UPDATE. I've always had to uninstall whatever version I have and download the full installer myself. I'm at the point where I pretty much don't install it except when I need it....and uninstall it a week or so later when I'm done running it.

    Also, Bing has gotten so much better. I use it about as much as I use Google. It's not like it once was. That being said, I've never had Windows Update change my search settings.....probably something else did it.

  2. Re:Not enough information. on Ask Slashdot: Is C++ the Right Tool For This Project? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you mix languages? Write the pieces that are easier in the "higher" level languages in those (Java or C# since those are what you know) and write the pieces that need C/C++ in one of those languages? C# can call out to unmanaged code fairly easily but makes all of the simple tasks easy......I only do minimal amounts of Java, but I'm sure it can too. Back in the day, I used to write some C and every once in a while break out some ASM for those routines that needed to be closer to the hardware.....why should this be any different?

    We have all of these tools available to us and yet we always try to use a single tool as the end-all-be-all. [car-analogy]Sure, you can race the LeMans in a Volkswagon Beetle, but shouldn't you use a car better suited for it?[/car-analogy]

  3. Re:Makes sense on YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else · · Score: 2

    Yeah, if I'm interested in videos from a company, I usually go to the company web site and look for "videos" or "media" or something similar......and if they host those videos on YouTube and embed them or redirect me directly to YouTube, I don't really care.

  4. Re:Makes sense on YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do no evil.....but if you do, pay someone off so they aren't as mad about it.....

  5. Re:Order of operations is important on Researchers Find Major Keychain Vulnerability in iOS and OS X · · Score: 1

    Easy enough to spam the keychain with any of the "interesting" options.....if it's already there and fails, skip it, otherwise, the malware is prepped for a value getting added in the "YourBank" entry to whatever else.

  6. Re:Computer science and the lowest common denomina on San Francisco Public Schools To Require Computer Science For Preschoolers · · Score: 1

    This is exactly the message I came to say....but for me, it was Computer Literacy. I'm not opposed to teaching some form of programming (hopefully using something akin to LEGO Mindstorm where it's less about typing the code).....but honestly, most of the computer teachers around here aren't exactly great at it ---- if they were, they'd be in some sort of programming job because teacher pay really sucks.

  7. Re:WoW? on First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame · · Score: 2

    UO or EverQuest should have made it before WoW.......simply put, WoW was just the better implementation of an existing game. The others that made the list were all ground-breaking (I probably would have gone Wolfenstein over Doom, but Doom really did define the genre). I agree WoW should be in the HoF, but there were plenty of more worthy candidates that should have gone in BEFORE WoW.

  8. The cliches are right on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have to own your career.....no one else will do it for you. Negotiate a good salary. If you ever get passed over for a raise or a promotion, start looking for a different job. If the choice assignments aren't being given to you, look for a different job. Take ownership of your education....learn new skills before you need them and make yourself invaluable to the company. Take on the hard challenges.

  9. Re:0 terminated strings are the root of all exploi on Critical Vulnerability In NetUSB Driver Exposes Millions of Routers To Hacking · · Score: 1

    And Windows Phone on the same hardware specs outperforms them all (which is why a $49 Nokia running WP is actually not a terrible experience)...........I'm pretty sure .Net has garbage collection.

  10. Re:North Pole on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    Or a very large powered barge that is keeping your absolute position the same while you travel a relative position across its surface.......

    but he's probably looking for the north pole answer.......which again, requires a rather large floating platform for at least some portion of the journey.

  11. Re:Depends on the project on Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? · · Score: 2

    I'd argue the opposite. As a consultant, when we're brought in for a 1.0 type project, we're more successful with an Agile approach because requirements are less solidified in detail but the high-level stories are fairly well known. Each sprint, we can take a story, detail it out and implement it. The customers see progress and enjoy the feedback loop.

    Projects that are more focused on enhancements (smaller scale, not a "major upgrade") tend to have issues in an Agile fashion because everything needs to be done "right now" because it's "affecting such and such group" and the prioritized backlog turns into a big mess of conflicting priorities.

    That being said, my main complaint about Agile is that the typical implementation of it is too short-sighted. Sure, Agile allows for refactoring phases, but if you are only focused on what's in the current sprint, you might make a sub-optimal decision in Sprint 2 for a feature that isn't even considered until Sprint 6......but the decision you made in Sprint 2 locked you in to a bad approach and refactoring will take almost a full Sprint.....had you known about the Sprint 6 feature, you could have implemented the Sprint 2 feature in a way that the Sprint 6 feature could be implemented in a matter of days.

  12. Re:I don't trust any auto-top ups on Hackers Using Starbucks Gift Cards To Access Credit Cards · · Score: 2

    They need all of that caffeine to fuel their hacking sessions.

  13. Re:Talk the talk, but doesn't walk the walk... on Microsoft Is Confident In Security of Edge Browser · · Score: 1

    Linux and Apple also used to talk about how secure they were......until they weren't. The only secure computer is one that's never been turned on.

  14. Re:How hard will this break Corp Intranet apps? on Microsoft Is Confident In Security of Edge Browser · · Score: 1

    I'm more than willing to try Edge. My barebones, current version, no-plugin version of Chrome has been slowing to a crawl lately. So much so that I've considered making IE or Firefox my go-to browser again (all of them are installed --- typical dev)......and IE has a slight lead because Firefox has always been so bloated.

  15. Re:No one wants this on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 1

    There's always plenty to learn......computers are a very broad subject. You may know most in your small little corner, but you can always take on projects that stretch you.......

  16. Re:No one wants this on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think anyone who is a 10x programmer (which I consider myself to be) should be interested in bringing as many people as possible up to their level. Who wants to be LeBron James playing pick-up basketball in the rec league when they could be LeBron James playing in the NBA championships? When you are so much further ahead of everyone around you, people can't fully appreciate how great you really are.....but if you are surrounded by stars and yet still shine far above all of them, you look that much more awesome. It's one of the reasons that I spend time with the noobs mentoring them.......also, if I mentor them, they'll be more apt to do things my way.

  17. Re:me dumb on Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox · · Score: 1

    But is it still not a pipe?

  18. Re:In a Plugin! on MP3 Backend of Firefox and Thunderbird Found Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Then why do people blame Windows when it's a Flash/Java issue?

  19. Many hosting providers offer a free domain. on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Domain Name Registration? · · Score: 1

    I pay $8/month for hosting with Arvixe.com (the Linux hosting is cheaper/month) and comes with a free domain name. If you're going to pay for hosting beyond a free "parked" page, it might be better to shop for hosting instead of shopping for a registrar.

  20. Re:So? It's a good corporate move. on Is Microsoft Trying to Become "King of Search" With Cortana Strategy? · · Score: 2

    So, a long time ago (1996 or 1997), I had made a statement to a friend that "If it's on the Internet, I can find it." This was back when Lycos and Webcrawler and AltaVista were the best search engines. He challenged me to find out how much a bullet fired from an M-16 dropped at 500 yards (back then, it took me 45 minutes to find). He was ex-Marine, so this was information that he already knew.

    So, I used that same concept to test your theory. My exact query was:
    -- how far will a bullet drop at 500 yards

    The Google results were very heavily weighted to a 308. The Bing results included multiple caliber rounds. I think the Bing results are more comprehensive for this query and it is sufficiently non-simple.

    I'm sure there are plenty of queries where Google is better, but there are also queries where Bing is better. Which is why I use every tool available to me.

  21. Re:So? It's a good corporate move. on Is Microsoft Trying to Become "King of Search" With Cortana Strategy? · · Score: 2

    Yahoo is usually better for pop-culture type of searches.

  22. So? It's a good corporate move. on Is Microsoft Trying to Become "King of Search" With Cortana Strategy? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A company tries to get their product to be more popular. Sounds like a good strategy. If it works, bully for them. If it doesn't, they'll try something else. Either people will use it or they won't. Bing isn't a terrible search engine......in fact, there are some features that Google buried related to Image search that Bing still keeps up front. Anyone who just uses Google is actually missing out. I use more than one tool to accomplish my task (Google, Bing, and Yahoo plus a few obscure search engines for specialized searches). Each one offers up results that the other doesn't.

  23. Re:How leet can they be? on New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware · · Score: 1

    Because there's no month 13 (in the Julian calendar) and no day 37 (again, Julian) and I would suspect a lot of hackers don't use the mm/dd/yy notation but the yy/mm/dd notation.

  24. Re:Not really on Strange Stars Pulse To the Golden Mean · · Score: 1

    That was my thought. Celestial Positioning System with a clock broadcasting.

  25. Re:Shouldn't they be after Google? on Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones · · Score: 1

    At Mobile World Congress this year, Kyocera was showing off a demo unit running Windows Phone....their first Microsoft device in years. What's the over/under on that unit failing to make it to market........or conversely what's the over/under on Kyocera pushing MORE Windows Phone units in order to save money on the patent settlement?