Comment Nope (Score 4, Funny) 532
Stupidest question I've ever seen on /.
Comment Re:There was simply no other tool (Score 1) 217
That's probably why MS hired the guy responsible for Turbo Pascal and Delhi away from Borland. I believe he was the head man for C# when it was developed.
Comment Re: Not too surprising (Score 1) 264
Scottish MPs can't vote on England only laws, EVEL applies to them at the speakers decision
Comment Data Breach ? (Score 5, Insightful) 107
Cambridge Analytica wasn't a data breach.
Every piece of data they gathered was allowed by the site rules
Every piece of data they gathered was allowed by the site rules
Comment Their system is really simple too (Score 1) 129
It's a clay pigeon shooting team with unlimited shells
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites (vice.com) 310
Jason Koebler from Motherboard argues "we should replace Facebook with personal websites." An anonymous reader shares the report: As a freshman in high school, in the year of our lord 2002, I made a website called "Jason's Site." While a website named after myself and devoted to updates about my own life was unspeakably vain for the time, it was also quite forward looking: The site has a news feed, an "about me" page, and an email mailing list for people to receive updates. I intended for it to be funded by reader donations. It had a section for Flash videos and photos, a guestbook, and a "friends" page that was literally a list of my friends. It had an ill-advised but nonetheless prescient "hot or not" section that featured photos of my friends and acquaintances and predated both Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg's original idea for the social network, called "FaceMash." I updated the site regularly and obsessively for about three months, and then never returned to it. The site was embarrassing then and is embarrassing now, but abandoning it was a terrible mistake.
Facebook gets a lot of credit for "disrupting" social media and for turning MySpace into a worthless piece of garbage, but millions upon millions of teenagers and young adults were already sharing every aspect of their lives on other social networks, and on their own websites. Facebook had the good fortune of being new, slightly different, and exclusive. It was even luckier to come to power shortly before the rise of the smartphone. I guess what I'm saying is that Facebook isn't really all that much better or more convenient than having your own website, or sending emails or chats. But for some reason, Facebook (and Instagram) are where we post now. Facebook has of course become something much larger than a single website, and has, despite its flaws, "helped connect the world" for better or worse. But Facebook tapped into a trend that was already happening -- it didn't invent the idea of letting people put stuff about their lives online, it just monetized it better.
Facebook gets a lot of credit for "disrupting" social media and for turning MySpace into a worthless piece of garbage, but millions upon millions of teenagers and young adults were already sharing every aspect of their lives on other social networks, and on their own websites. Facebook had the good fortune of being new, slightly different, and exclusive. It was even luckier to come to power shortly before the rise of the smartphone. I guess what I'm saying is that Facebook isn't really all that much better or more convenient than having your own website, or sending emails or chats. But for some reason, Facebook (and Instagram) are where we post now. Facebook has of course become something much larger than a single website, and has, despite its flaws, "helped connect the world" for better or worse. But Facebook tapped into a trend that was already happening -- it didn't invent the idea of letting people put stuff about their lives online, it just monetized it better.
Comment Corrosion problems on Forth Road Bridge in Scotlan (Score 3, Interesting) 141
When they identified corrosion problems with the main cables on this bridge, they installed dehumidifiers for the cables.
They also built a replacement bridge and now use the older bridge as a public transport route, a traffic level it can easily cope with.
Perhaps this should have been done with this bridge too ?
Comment Re: Half the UK providers already advertise "fibre (Score 4, Informative) 143
My line is fibre.
They moved the connection 60 feet from the exchange to a cabinet and told me I had fibre broadband.
They didn't bother to do anything about the 3 miles of garbage copper between the cabinet and the house but they've ticked their box and I have fibre broadband
Comment Pretty normal practice by Microsoft (Score 2) 323
Their own open source hosting site at Codeplex didn't pull in the numbers so they shuttered it.
Now they've decided they need something in that area they just go out and try to buy the market...
Now they've decided they need something in that area they just go out and try to buy the market...
Comment Re: Great (Score 1) 270
There;s your problem right there.
Cops are civilians whether they are on duty or off duty.
Cops are civilians whether they are on duty or off duty.
Comment Re:So who are they (Score 1) 203
There's a thing called the rehabilitation of offenders act.
It details things like how long you must declare convictions to employers.
The same time period should be used to determine if a newspaper article should be indexed online
It details things like how long you must declare convictions to employers.
The same time period should be used to determine if a newspaper article should be indexed online
Comment Re: OS updates (Score 1) 222
Pixel 2 XL is a decent phone. All the whining about the display in reviews isn't a problem in day to day use
Comment Interesting notion (Score 3, Insightful) 406
I presume he already has a couple of friends lined up to buy them ?
Comment New Pixel 2 XL owner (Score 1) 193
Got one today.
Came with a USB-C to 3.5mm adapter and a USB-C to ordinary USB adapter for connecting sticks in the box.
Not seeing what the problem is here ?
Comment Slow to post (Score 5, Funny) 104
Sorry, I was laughing so much at the idea of Murdoch and quality news being in the same sentence that I passed out...
