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Comment Re:That's not quite it (Score 4, Interesting) 51

Seems you missed the point there.

If the company is big enough, and swings around enough money, you can afford to have others do the time intensive stuff for you. And many on that level will.

A relative of mine owns quite a big precious metals recycling company - and delegates pretty much every tedious aspect of running the show to others. He mostly sits in one of his vaccation homes, has a few personal assistants with him, gets a briefing every day or two and "decides" on important issues. If he spends more than 2 hours a day with actual work I would be really surprised.

And thats how it is for the overwhelming portion of the ultrarich. they dont work hard - they condense their work down to the few moments that are fun.

Submission + - Israeli Firm Tied to Tool That Uses WhatsApp Flaw to Spy on Activists (nytimes.com)

An anonymous reader writes: An Israeli firm accused of supplying tools for spying on human-rights activists and journalists now faces claims that its technology can use a security hole in WhatsApp, the messaging app used by 1.5 billion people, to break into the digital communications of iPhone and Android phone users. Security researchers said they had found so-called spyware — designed to take advantage of the WhatsApp flaw — that bears the characteristics of technology from the company, the NSO Group.

The spyware was used to break into the phone of a London lawyer who has been involved in lawsuits that accused the company of providing tools to hack the phones of Omar Abdulaziz, a Saudi dissident in Canada; a Qatari citizen; and a group of Mexican journalists and activists, the researchers said. There may have been other targets, they said. Digital attackers could use the vulnerability to insert malicious code and steal data from an Android phone or an iPhone simply by placing a WhatsApp call, even if the victim did not pick up the call. As WhatsApp’s engineers examined the vulnerability, they concluded that it was similar to other tools from the NSO Group, because of its digital footprint.

Comment Re:Timeline (Score 1) 390

Oh, and when did Daft Punk join the Federation?

that was pretty much the only character i wanted to learn more about - but WHY does this creature have two identical screens on his face?

the timeline thing seems problematic too - it just looks too "modern" and advanced. you would be hard pressed to tell that this is supposed to happen before TNG and voyager.

also: the plot was so forgettable. i can hardly remember why anyone did what they did when they did it.

Comment Re:Slashdot pessimists (Score 1) 104

i still think the increased production cost of branching movies dont really improve the viewing experience that much. interactivity is so limited and feels detached.

conventional games (provided they are well made) are way more engaging and provide a deeper experience - especially from a educational point of view.

Comment Re: Thank your parrents (Score 1) 594

Non-american here (from Austria). Isn't it a crime to beat your kids in the US, too. Here beating children is a SERIOUS offense - and rightly so. And i'm not seeing us doing so badly on an economic and social level. It's usually a better idea to spur children's will to get better education by making them curious - not afraid...

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The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance 89

igrigorik writes "In the short span of just a couple of years, the Ruby VM space has evolved to more than just a handful of choices: MRI, JRuby, IronRuby, MacRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, REE and BlueRuby. Four of these VMs will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year and will open up entirely new possibilities for the language — Mac apps via MacRuby, Ruby in the browser via Silverlight, object persistence via Smalltalk VM, and so forth. This article takes a detailed look at the past year, the progress of each project, and where the community is heading. It's an exciting time to be a Rubyist."

Comment Microsoft erased Poland entirely from their map (Score 1) 330

things like a missing line in a file can happen easily. what i find much more disturbing, is that microsoft had their worldmap (the one, displayed in the time settings) wrong for years. from windows 95 up to (and including) windows xp this map had poland entirely erased! instead of the large country the map showed sea. here's a link to a screenshot of the map in question. http://www.depauw.edu/it/helpdesk/images/DST_screen.jpg

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