Comment You got it backwards (Score 1) 283
It's true: real programmers don't like FileMaker and Microsoft Access. But it's not because we don't want OTHER people do it, it's because WE are eventually called in to maintain it.
Comment Re:Skeuomorphic interfaces (Score 1) 214
How about a knob that acts like a slider.
Comment There's a simpler explanation (Score 1) 397
Lack of sleep. Sailors are allowed inadequate time to rest.
Comment How would they show harm? (Score 1) 134
People bought a kit-kat instead of an atari 2600?
Comment Re:So much for common carrier status (Score 1) 486
Seems people aren't aware of the blogspot debacle.
Comment Re: Shame (Score 2) 486
Bakeries are also private companies. Why are they forced to serve all?
Comment They'd make money off of me (Score 1) 274
I think I saw 2 movies last year.
Comment Re:False representation/slander? (Score 4, Insightful) 577
Several of his sources said "yep, he pretty much understood our research and got it right."
Comment Don't worry! (Score 1) 80
They will still fill the phone with crapware.
Comment Betteridge's law holds true (Score 1) 330
Comment Low information news article (Score 1) 119
What are the actual rules?
Submission + - Obama officials unmasked hundreds of Americans in intelligence intercepts (thehill.com)
mi writes: When American spies capture our communications with foreigners, the identities of Americans on the other side of the conversation are generally protected — if not by bona-fide laws, then certainly by rules and regulations. A transcript of the conversation should have their name replaced with labels like "US person 1". The citizen involved can only be "unmasked" with a good reason. In 2011 Obama relaxed these rules, making it much simpler even for officials without any intelligence role to obtain the identities.
Predictably, certain top officials of the Obama Administration abused their access to get this information:
Predictably, certain top officials of the Obama Administration abused their access to get this information:
“The [House Intelligence] committee has learned that one official, whose position had no apparent intelligence related function, made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama administration,” [Intelligence Chairman Devin] Nunes wrote. “Of those requests, only one offered a justification that was not boilerplate.”
Comment That summary was extremely hard to follow (Score 1) 42
Maybe it's just me?
Comment Re:What for? (Score 4, Informative) 80
Imagine you're a developer and you want to see if your website works. You open your website in Chrome and run a few tests.
As the website grows this starts to take a long time. So you automate the process by having software control the web browser.
Headless mode is useful so you can run this automated process on a remote server with no monitor. Every time you check in code this automated test process runs and tests your website.
Comment world of warcraft (Score 1) 96
Your spinning the World of Warcraft thing a little. How many MMORPGs have shipped complete? That's right: 0! In fact, some launches have been total disasters, such as WWII online, Horizons, Shadowbane.
World of Warcraft even "incomplete" is more complete and stable than most existing MMORPGS. It's for the best that WoW launches soon, because if Blizzard was not given a shove from Vivendi they would not have released it until 2006 :)
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