The Floyd Tribute that I play with, The Pink Floyd Appreciation Society, performed Dark Side Of The Moon in it's entirety for a crowd of about 5k folks in McMinnville, TN. We let the heart beat at the end run through totality then picked up with Set The Controls For The Hear Of The Sun as good ol' Sol peaked around the other side. Great times were had by all.

Well, we've been successfully rooting mobile devices for years so... I'm sure that teams of experts will have yours liberated shortly.

Personally, I modded this up because the REAL new ads are making it very difficult to get into the meat without having to wait for ALL of the ads to load, which then screw up my scrolling position, hide the top story, etc... I understand that folks need to make money and ads are how that happens but it's screwing up the site to the point of almost being unusable. It's been annoying enough that I've twice ran offline scans and hand checked cookies, settings and extensions to make sure that I hadn't picked up some adware somehow. If it wasn't still the best "quick-tech-news" site on the interwebs, I'd have donned a babelfish and split a few weeks ago. And if you're about to say "try browser X", I've found the same behavior with Chrome (Linux and Win), Firefox, IE and Edge. So, it's not browser or renderer specific.

OK. Let's say that my company has a product that has a C++ backend and a Java frontend with multi-platform support for both and a well functioning automated build system using GCC and Ant. Why would I want someone to start adding C# code? I worked for a dev shop for 15 years that was in exactly this situation. One dev decided to go rogue and start coding in Ruby but, to maintain platform support, wrapped his code up in an interpreter that ran under TomCat with the rest of the front-end. When he left there was a whole project that was completely outside of our dev standards forcing us to take two devs and have them come up to speed on Ruby just to support this and port it back into coding standards. At the end of it all, the company lost around $250k in productivity because someone didn't follow the standards.

Are you kidding me?!?! Did they really just ask "Do you use any Linux-based operating system?" It seems that our fairly new corporate overlords have no understanding of the /. community back-story.
Granted there are more Microsoftians around these days and, sure, WinBlows doesn't blow like it used to but I think the Dice newbs should be forced to go back and re-read the entire site archive, Ludovico style, starting with Chips&Dips.

There's not even a need to extend existing formats. Both AIFF and WAV support metadata chunks. But BWF (Broadcast WAV) is a widely used standard that has well defined chunks for XMP and if you need files larger than 4GB, the RF64 spec extends the format to ~16EB.

The company I worked for a few years ago had a huge replacement cycle and wanted me to "make sure there aint no data left no how". So, being in Nashville, I picked up an old 3M tape degausser from a recording studio that was ditching its analog gear. Many-a-disk have been wiped with that thing. Even better is that it's strong enough that it can take out some chips as well.

Probably not the first to point this out but I got tire of scrolling so...

This was first discussed right here on /. in 2006 and was implemented with varying levels of success.

https://slashdot.org/story/06/...