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"Principally flawed is parsed as something that is using a flawed principle,"

Except that "principally" has nothing to do with principle, but principal.

Pattern match THAT, you idiot.

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You proved my point: by using odd phrases you invite confusion among people such as yourself, unable to distinguish words.

We're talking about senators here... you can't spew that much bullshit without having impacted bowels.

Oh, by the way: your attempt at pedantry fails as a secondary definition for impacted literally means "strongly affected by something." Or, to see for yourself read #9 on the linked page. Also; by literally I mean that to be without exaggeration or inaccuracies.

defiantly

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...

"The term "natural" implies being OK, renewable, then good to use."

Uh you can redefine words all you want, but don't act like your hipster defintion is correct.

NATURAL: (1) existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial)
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This is what happens when you listen to too much marketing, and let the advertisers change language for you. But i bet you think "organic" means something other than "characteristic of, pertaining to, or derived from living organisms".

Face it, you've been duped, but please don't advise other people on "correct' language use referencing your silly newspeak.

Besides "natural gas" is a noun. Its not implying anything (adjective). Its hardly a propagandists twist like "clean coal". People have been using the noun "natural gas" for hundreds of years.

The Echo is a hit? Citation, please.

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Noun, 24.

"It is either being taken up or it's not" Basically the definition of consumed. Consume: verb: use up (a resource).

What is it that you are arguing again?

Bandwidth is never really "used up" though. Typically, if something is used up, it is no longer available, without an additional purchase if ever.
Bandwidth is utilized: verb: to put to use; turn to profitable account.
Hence, Network UTILIZATION not Network consumption.

here, let's review the full definition of consume for you (per dictionary.com):

verb (used with object), consumed, consuming.
1.to destroy or expend by use; use up.
2.to eat or drink up; devour.
3.to destroy, as by decomposition or burning:
            Fire consumed the forest.
4. to spend (money, time, etc.) wastefully.
5. to absorb; engross:
            consumed with curiosity.

verb (used without object), consumed, consuming.
6. to undergo destruction; waste away.
7. to use or use up consumer goods.

I can see how you might not fully understand the definition with so many options to choose from, I mean, my 10yr old nephew understands it pretty clearly, maybe he has a better education than you ?

I think there is a difference in terminology.

A "workaround" implies that a manufacturer has intently put up roadblocks to installing whatever OS you please.

That's not what "workaround" means or implies. It means you are mitigating or bypassing a problem without eliminating it. It has nothing to do with the cause of the problem.
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I have not seen a single bit of evidence to support the word "explode" being used in context with the Samsung battery problems. I certainly believe they melt, catch fire, even burst into flames... but *explode*???

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The Wikipedia article you cite seems to be semi confused about whether 300GHz-3THz is "Tremendously High Frequency" radiation (1mm - 100um) or "Terahertz" radiation.

It's both. Like many things, that band has more than just one name.

And 3THz to 300THz most certainly does include near ultraviolet...

I said 300 GIGAhertz, not 300 TERAhertz.

Your confusion is understandable, given the unfortunate etymology of the phrase "terahertz radiation". But, etymology is often misleading.

Ultimately, the only way to be sure about the meaning of a term of art like this, is to look it up. While not every source I have found agree with the precise frequency range specified by the article I linked, all agree that the upper end of the band in question is somewhere in the infrared, and that it does not include visible light (let alone ultraviolet).

since you're mister snarky today

There is nothing sarcastic or mocking (the definition of "snark") in either of my comments in this thread. I simply pointed out your error. The fact that you automatically perceive that as "snarky" comes across either as proud or insecure (I will not speculate as to which).

Majority - http://www.dictionary.com/brow...

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You seem to have gotten those two mixed up or at the very least seemed to have confused the majority of the Hebrew faith whose homeland is where ever in the world they choose it to be, compared to your typical religiously prejudiced and racist Israeli (they also disapprove of Jews who are not white enough, even Palestinian Jews versus European migrant Jews, this forcing Palestinian Jews to be more racist to prove the Jewishness). Like the community who pulled up chairs to enjoy a fun night out watching people getting blown to bits, mind you on the peoples land who were getting killed, land they had stolen with government approval and that theft viciously protected by soldiers who routinely kill the victims of racist attacks when they complain about those racist attacks.

What a bloody mess and if it wasn't for the idiotic US government, this problem would not be forced onto the whole rest of the world.

Majority - http://www.dictionary.com/brow...

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You seem to have gotten those two mixed up or at the very least seemed to have confused the majority of the Hebrew faith whose homeland is where ever in the world they choose it to be, compared to your typical religiously prejudiced and racist Israeli (they also disapprove of Jews who are not white enough, even Palestinian Jews versus European migrant Jews, this forcing Palestinian Jews to be more racist to prove the Jewishness). Like the community who pulled up chairs to enjoy a fun night out watching people getting blown to bits, mind you on the peoples land who were getting killed, land they had stolen with government approval and that theft viciously protected by soldiers who routinely kill the victims of racist attacks when they complain about those racist attacks.

What a bloody mess and if it wasn't for the idiotic US government, this problem would not be forced onto the whole rest of the world.

And we should take you anecdotal evidence

Honey, you don't speak for anybody but yourself. And since you have proven yourself time and again to be a bigot, I don't expect you to change your views based on any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise.

Does that mean if people keep using the phrase "I could care less", then the words could and couldn't officially switch meaning?

Only if you don't understand the etymology of both of these phrases http://blog.dictionary.com/cou...

This is what happens when Wikipedia has high school kids write their press releases, and Slashdot editors don't care enough to read them before re-posting.

Because I literally have nothing better to do,

Built by Owen Cornec, it's a Web-based interactive 3D map of Wikipedia that visualizes the website as a cosmic web of information, literally turning it into a marvelous galaxy of knowledge you can conveniently explore with your mouse.

1. It should be obvious to any reader with common sense that the "it" refers to the "web of information" mentioned previously. Not Wikipedia. Because it should be obvious to any reader that whatever Mr. Cornec has done is/was a derivative work and not an actual transformation of the Wikipedia website itself.
2. Besides the most common definition, a "galaxy" can be "any large and brilliant or impressive assemblage of persons or things". I think Wikipedia's overwhemingly vast collection of knowledge certainly counts as such an assemblage.

Therefore I reject your knee-jerk reaction to the author's admittedly trite usage of the term "literally", and wish that should the inclination to make such a statement arise again you might instead opt to shut the fuck up.

Just because so many are wrong don't change the meaning of the word.

I disagree. Definitions of words change all the time because a large number of people agree to a new meaning. One example is Decimate. Originally, this meant to kill 1/10th of a population - from the ancient Roman use of Decimation as a means of punishment of a group at once, such as punishment for desertion. Over time, people at large associated "decimate" with a disaster affecting large groups, and later the assumed meaning shifted to "destroy almost all of something."

And I watched that definition change over my lifetime. When I was in middle school, we learned "decimate" meant "one in ten" (hence "deci").

So over the span of thirty or forty years, "decimate" has changed from 10% to something like 90%.

The current definition:

Decimate
verb (used with object), decimated, decimating.

1. to destroy a great number or proportion of:
The population was decimated by a plague.

2. to select by lot and kill every tenth person of.

Though you look to be good at trolling...

I gave you your own words and an honest opinion. Are you really crying I'm "trolling" you with your own words or is it the idea of people with a differing opinion that disturbs you so?

...and calling anyone who calls you on it an ad hominem thrower.

The word you used was "idiot". I even gave you the definition of "ad hominem" to be sure you understood what I said. Piss off.

control of the internet is being seeded to an international group of countries bent of the suppression of of free speech and the open exchange of ideas.

seeded

ceded

control of the internet is being seeded to an international group of countries bent of the suppression of of free speech and the open exchange of ideas.

seeded

ceded

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It may still be possible to hear the submarine, it depends on how skilled they are at noise dampening.

Well dampening should be easy seeing as they are under water.

P.S. Unless you meant "damping", of course.

See definition 2 and let me know what you think I meant.

Then you have a problem with dictionaries

I'm all for companies open-sourcing cool algorithms. But not a great choice on the name. There are already several products out there called 'Lepton'. There's a software CMS, and also FLIR's thermal sensors are branded 'Lepton'. (Worth noting - Lepton IS an actual word so it probably won't qualify for Trademark protection. But an Apple Music vs. Apple Computer like scenario is not impossible to conceive.)

No need to be butthurt over your small vocabulary.

No, the idiom is "I couldn't care less." The GP deliberate wrote the opposite of that, twice.

That's the idiom, yes.

So the English language's concept of "not" has changed into "is" along the way? So if someone asks you, "Do you want fries with that," you say, "I do not want fries with that," in order to make sure you get your fries?

Only if it becomes an established part of communication.

The question is so don't assume any of them are serious.

No, that's not why you restricted it to just DBs. You restricted it to DBs because you are ignorant. You don't use Linq2SQL in your app. It's that fucking simple. Not if performance is important.

So from your statements, you don't use linq for DBs, and you don't use linq for performant code. So linq is generally useless according to your own statements for the class of systems we're discussing. Glad we got that out of the way.

Conversely, where interesting stuff was done in .Net, Java developers picked it up. The Play Framework v1 is basically what you would get if you port the good parts of -NET MVC to Java.

I reviewed Play a few years ago and found it wanting for a variety of reasons, not least of which was obscurity at the time. However, you might want to correct who took what from whom. A quick review of history shows Play pre-releases preceding the .NET MVC framework pre-release, and v1.0 was released a year prior to .NET MVC 1.0. The only statement I'm making is that your statement implying that Play ported anything from .NET is a complete fallacy.

yet you failed to comprehend what that example was telling you

No, it told me plenty. All of it about you. You have no experience with larger systems.

Sure it did. Your level of reading comprehension dwarfs your IQ, apparently.

You have no experience integrating with external systems over which you have no control. Here is an example of your mind-boggling in-experience. Your comment "You're already toast in my scenarios if you are passing more data than you need into your applications and are parsing shit in memory". I even told you why this was necessary but you simply have no experience with integrating with external systems. You therefore have never been in a situation where you have no choice. The service I was specifically talking about above was an external government (non-US) service which we could query for information vital to our system. The service had no search facilities, it had no possibility of limiting the data set you pulled down. In other words, we had no choice but pulling the data down, and it had to be real-time and do the filtering in memory. It took us seven years to get them to put an API in place and it would have taken us another five to get them to make the data searchable. You have clearly never attempted to gather data from data sources that were not your own and that you therefore had no control over whatsoever.

You're misleading at best, or lying at worst. Let me get this straight: you were processing a multi-million row complex data set on the fly for every query? From a government data set? Right. Oh wait, you had single queries per hour across a tiny data set? Because I can't imagine you were processing 10s of thousands of requests per minute on data that was as monstrous as you imply from any government's service. Setting up a simple searchable data polling proxy service, however, should take you all of a couple of weeks, tops. But why am I telling you that? You obviously know everything there is to know about large data sets and high concurrency.

Yes, obviously. Microsoft released Linux on Azure in 2013, after it having been available in Beta since late 2012. So, when did Apple launch the iCloud on Azure? 2011.

Apple stored encrypted files on Azure in 2011 according to some docs released in 2014. Not exactly what you're implying but hey, what's a few facts compared to an invective laden superiority complex rant?

If I was pretentious I would have to make positive statements about something.

Pretentious:

adjective

• 1. characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exa

I agree with your premise, but just to nit here, "auto" is short for "automatic",

Not necessarily. "auto-" can be a prefix which means "self", as the GP posted. It can mean "automatic", when used in some compound words, but if you look at those words, the "self" is implied. So "autopilot" really does mean "self-piloting". The alternative would be "remote control".

TL;DR: "auto" implies that the device does not rely on external control for its function.

Claim :

I hear there are many dictionaries around, some of them free.

I am not willing to prove my hearing to you, but here is the proof of what I hear : http://www.dictionary.com/.

Further proof, the existence of the word in the said dictionary :
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Claim :

I hear there are many dictionaries around, some of them free.

I am not willing to prove my hearing to you, but here is the proof of what I hear : http://www.dictionary.com/.

Further proof, the existence of the word in the said dictionary :
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With nearly 40 percent of all pregnancies in the United States unintended, birth control is a critical public health issue.

Wow, that statement really makes you want to click and read the text. It's emotional and powerful.

While an unintended pregnancy is a serious issue, note that the US fertility rate is now 1.88 births per woman. The replacement rate for population is about 2.1 (births per woman, depends on the geographical area: percentage of births that live to adulthood).

If we can eliminate the 40% of all births that are unintended, the US population would drop off a cliff. This is already a problem for many areas such as Japan and Germany.

The term critical means "pertaining to or of the nature of a crisis", with "crisis" being " time when a difficult or important decision must be made" (with reference to: emergency, catastrophe, calamity, and doomsday).

This is an improvement and one I heartily support.

Nevertheless, calling the situation a "crisis" is a bit melodramatic... don't you think?

Or, probably a reading comprehension problem on your part? Just a hunch.

open source is more secure because you can see the code

Did you interpret it as "open source is perfectly secure because you can see the code" ? I earlier didn't think this needs explanation, but from the emphasis you are laying on non-comparison, one would think you interpret "more" as "perfect".

Wrong again. What you actually need is not only to see the code but to have the right people look at the right piece of code, understand it and be able to come up with a solution for it. Code visibility does not make software more secure. Everybody could see OpenSSL's code, the bugs in it were not impossible to fix but the issue was that the people capable of finding and fixing them weren't looking at it to identify and fix the bugs.

Now the ability to see the code is one of the things that enables this, an important part - and if one were to be comparing to closed source, which i am not, this would be an advantage of open source - but it does not make code more secure and it is disingenuous and dishonest to suggest otherwise.

Or, probably a reading comprehension problem on your part? Just a hunch.

open source is more secure because you can see the code

Did you interpret it as "open source is perfectly secure because you can see the code" ? I earlier didn't think this needs explanation, but from the emphasis you are laying on non-comparison, one would think you interpret "more" as "perfect".

of greed. Greed is wanting something selfishly. You can't selfishly want for the betterment of someone else. That's a pretty obvious contradiction. I'm surprised something as silly as that made it into the Wikipedia article on the subject. It must be really confusing for anyone who isn't a native English speaker looking up the subject.

You would be wrong. Millions refers to any number between 1,000,000 and 999,999,999.

Are you socially retarded, or do you just play that on the internet?

A secretary, Coren22 you bullshit artist liar

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You say I told others NOT to use AD & DNS?

Basic logic. You said that people should deploy your host file through Group Policy. As that is terrible advice, and will cause a domain network to run slow as shit, and putting the entries into DNS is far better and faster, and WAY better on resources, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that you think people aren't running DNS with AD. Just because you REPEATEDLY fail to understand this, doesn't mean the point hasn't been made at least 5 times already.

Coren22 "doesn't trust 1 security researcher" (though I had over 60++ going MY WAY vs. his desperation DO NOTHING OF HIS OWN bullshit)? Bullshit

You have had 1 person look at your code. This is not a code review, and doesn't guarantee the safety of the code. Also, he has retracted his statement about the safety of your software. 60++ whatever is BS, you have virus scanners that say your software isn't a virus, that means nothing when it comes to the safety of your software, and prevention of you performing a man in the middle attack.

Used your OWN bullshit against you on that one, imbecile... lol!

Yeah, I'm the imbecile, is that why after so long explaining the same damn things to you, you are still not getting how idiotically insecure your shit is? Is that why you are still BS posting on everything I post as if that will solve everything, despite promising to stop? http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

As far as security you fucking bullshitting blowhard, what is it you ALLEGEDLY do & for whom?

I've already told you repeatedly and at length, I can't talk about my own work, it is all proprietary and not for public consumption, but what does that have to do with the glaring holes in your software? Do I have to prove myself before I can point out over and over that your software has these glaring holes? And what would software experience (which you are asking for) have anything to do with security expertise I have shown over and over? Software people are notoriously insecure in their designs, as I have shown in your design. When you fix your shit, then it might be secure, but it doesn't take someone with a PHD to see that you don't know the first thing about security.

YOU WON'T ANSWER THAT ANYMORE THAN YOU WILL MY OTHER QUESTIONS YOU RAN FROM HERE https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org]

Really? I have answered your questions so many times, it is tiring. Just because you post the same thing 400 times, doesn't mean I ran away when I don't respond to every single one. You are the one who can't seem to get it through your skull what I am saying.

P.S.=> You menial fucking liar (I spent 1/2 my career securing code of all types as well as database + webservers & desktops + servers too besides coding solutions people use that work)... apk

More idiotic insults like that has anything to do with it. I've seen your work you published, I did better in middle school. You don't know the first thing about security, just those things you could find and collect together on the internet. You like to act like you are all that, but you really aren't. I have proven it over and over, now I will link to this post every time you reply, have a nice day.

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Contrast agnostic, those who say they don't know. Atheist CAN mean lack of belief, more often those who call themselves "atheist" have a strong, almost violent belief that rhere is no God. Most refuse to recognize that there are a thousand different concepts called "God", so really they are claiming "nothing can exist which can be called God." To some, the word God means essentially "nature", or "natural laws", which makes the atheist's position untenable.

a computer that represents data by measurable quantities, as voltages or, formerly, the rotation of gears, in order to solve a problem, rather than by expressing the data as numbers.

A simulation of the Solar System for the purposes of simulating some aspect of the Solar System where the physical positions of planets at some time are represented by the machine in any way is thus an analog computer.

More generally any simulation of the state of a system used for that purpose which generates measurable values for estimate of some aspect of the state of the system is an analog computer.

Finally, this device was accurate enough for its time... and for the purposes that it was used for, but in relation to what we understand about the solar system today, it was not as accurate as you seem to think it was. Among other things, it assumed that the earth was at the center of everything, which we now know to be false. Copernicus was the first person to posulate the notion that the earth revolved around the sun, and it wasn't until Gallileo that this notion started to become widely accepted as fact.

This is irrelevant to the discussion. It's still a computer even if it uses an obsolete model or algorithm.

The notion that because it simulates the motion of the planets it must be a computer is flawed because simulations are not inherently computations. A fire drill is a simulation of what one should do in an actual fire. An electric slot car race track is a simulation of a real race track. Absolutely anything that can be utilized to approximate something else, to whatever degree of accuracy is desired for one's purposes, can be said to be a simulation.

By the definition of analog computing, these generate measurable quantities of the simulation (such as how fast fire fighters respond to a drill or the speed of the electric slot car) and hence are analog computers.

Absolutely anything that can be utilized to approximate something else, to whatever degree of accuracy is desired for one's purposes, can be said to be a simulation.

And when it is used for the that purpose of simulation, it then becomes an analog computer.

"Guise"??

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Um, what?

You might want to read the actual dictionary definition.

The creative energy that had made it the center of European literature before the war was dampened.

I don't think creative energy can get wet/

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A privilege is something that you're not entitled to; so when you tell people they're privileged, that elicits a strong negative emotional knee-jerk reaction.

Sigh.

  5. any of the rights common to all citizens under a modern constitutional government:
We enjoy the privileges of a free people.
6. an advantage or source of pleasure granted to a person:
It's my privilege to be here.

This is why education is important. You don't even know what this word means. Odds are, you're half right; the other people whose knees are jerking right know also don't know what the word means. Hint: there's more than one meaning. Privilege is not about entitlement. It's about benefits enjoyed by some but not by others. Follow the link and read about the etymology for more information.

FYI, precedent, not precedence.

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Not meaning to be an ass, just hoping to help you improve your language usage. I would expect the same when I make a mistake.

FYI, precedent, not precedence.

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Not meaning to be an ass, just hoping to help you improve your language usage. I would expect the same when I make a mistake.

Uhm, no. When my Uncle fobids me to tell the family he slept with the neighbour, that is censorship.
When a company tells me not to talk about anything, but leave it to the PR department, that is censorship.
Me telling my mom to 'shuuut uuuuup' when she tells everybody how cute I was as a baby? Censorship!

Just because it is allowed, logical, legal and even morally right does not mean it has a different name.

So yes, if /. deletes my postings, it is called censorship.

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Are you claiming that since Google used the headers Oracle has lost the ability to use them?

If this is the lame excuse you give for Google using the APIs, then any one can pretty much copy and use any digital content without paying a cent because the original content is not lost by piracy. This is the pirate's excuse for his crimes.

Oracle/Sun created Java to make money. If Google made money using Java, then they owe Oracle some of the money, don't you think?

BTW, steal has many definitions:

2.
to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.

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Here's another definition of stealing:
profiting from other people's commercial work without paying them anything.

The ability to use the same headers has long been understood, expected, and taken advantage of by the producers of both proprietary and free software.

LOL, who made this rule? It must be the guys who enter the market after a software product is successful and start cloning the software.

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Grok is a perfectly acceptable, defined, word contained in the dictionaries that record the meanings of the english language. Language evolves, get over it.

A joke and a rant are different things.

A joke and a rant are different things.

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There is, but not the way we normally use the phrase never mind.

To the other repliers of my parent post:

Whoosh!

I was thinking more about his comments that certain women only got their jobs because of their looks, or that saying things he doesn't like must be because they are menstruating.

Neither of those things are examples of misogyny. An attack against individual women is not an attack on all women. You need to read a dictionary definition of misogyny. Here's one here.