Comment Feature Request User Story (Score 1) 139
As a slashdot reader I would like to filter stories by submitter so that I can save myself the pain of seeing articles from Dice shills and other self promoters.
somebody else can do it - somebody who isn't trying to make a product that will last. Startup type people who will bang something out and then, if it proves successful, rewrite it in boring technologies anyway.
Startup types will use whatever technology lets them shortcut their way to being first to market. Once it's up and running they move on to the next startup and leave it to the new owners to figure out how to implement it using a boring technology that will actually scale and be a viable business.
Oh, horseshit
Uh, none? Maybe you're thinking of HD from 2003 or so. These days their showrooms are full of bikes with some still left over from last year. Want a particular model/color? There's usually 3 dealerships within 50 miles that have it in stock and will discount from MSRP to sell it to you.
In the meantime, you can always delete the trust yourself. Open your Browsers Certificate List ("Options, Advanced, Certificates, View Certificates" in Firefox), find CNNIC's certs (there are two in Firefox - "CNNIC ROOT" and "China Internet Network Information Center EV Certificates Root") and either delete them altogether or edit the trust and remove the ability to sign websites.
What happens the next time there's an update to firefox?
While Boeing may been granted the patent, it's unclear how long it will be before the company deploys the real-life force fields.
This makes me think that this is just a patent application.
I'm pretty sure the plume of molten copper of an RPG couldn't give a crap about a shockwave.
Actually I believe it does. Thats the whole principle behind reactive armor. My understanding is that the detonation of the armor produces a counter shockwave that disrupts the precisely shaped detonation of the warhead and the plume ends up splashing rather than boring through.
Apple Pay is for stupid people.
I take it that you use Apple Pay daily then?
Absolutely. Contactless is pointless and expensive as fuck for merchants. I can't imagine many businesses where the "neat-o" factor from a few phone enthusiasts to be able to pay with their phones is going to outweigh the costs.
You do realize that newer EMV cards support contactless payments as well, right? No phone needed. You get the convenience of "tap and go" with the added security that EMV provides.
I like the looks of Apple Pay, and think it's a great move forward but even as an Apple fan, it seems bizarre for Apple to move forward on their own payment standard rather than the industry creating one. I mean, I know they did it so that they could skim profits off the top, and that they got away with it because they're worth 700 gazillion dollars and could probably make demands of the ocean, but I really wish this had come about via an industry standard.
You don't get to be first to market by waiting for an industry standard. In fact, if you wait for that to happen you probably won't even get into the market. You build it out as fast as you can using as much existing infrastructure as you can, then pivot if and when the industry gets around to creating a standard. In the meantime you build a leading market share and can even leverage that during the standards creation process.
For those who still want to believe that there's a long-term future in coding
By not having a felony conviction?
But so I ask, how is this different than online backup service providers like Mozy and CrashPlan that allow client-side encryption and end-to-end encryption??!?!? Or even Amazon S3 for that matter?!
Or taken alternately we can hypothesize that these service providers are different in some way. This would lead us to wonder what is different about these providers that causes the government to leave them alone? That's where things start getting interesting.
So it appears to be linked to the lighting conditions that your eyes are adjusted to when seeing the image initially... even after they've adjusted to the ambient light, the brain appears to stick to the image it created initially.
Here is a pretty good explanation of why this might happen.
That I do not possess any keys I could hand over when I have to travel to anywhere where any violent regime can easily access me physically and use torture to extract such a key.
If you live in the US it's already too late.
The problem is that Softcard payment requires more steps than you think:
Don't forget the effort to unroot your phone in order to install the app. I unrooted mine just long enough to spend their bribe money.
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. -- Mickey Mouse
