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  1. Re:gpg on Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course · · Score: 1

    How do you know how useful it is if you've never thought about how many people use it?

    Wrong question. It doesn't matter if anybody else but me use it. It is still an enormously useful thing, with just me using it.

    Amount of usefulness has nothing to do with how many people use it.

  2. apple is no less complex than data on Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan · · Score: 1

    Did you even read the post to which you replied?

    In case this was supposed to be an on-thread-topic post, apples have so many different types of matter. There is water, sugars both simpler and complex. There are trace amount of vitamins. There are proteins - both from the apple tree as well as any insects that might have made this apple their home.

    Many of these are behind the scenes - i.e. under the apple skin. Why should an apple vendor have to weigh all of these to be able to sell a pound of apples? Data pipeline providers don't have to - T-Mobile is the only judge of how much data a customer used. Their "scale" or "meter" doesn't have to be approved by any regulator.

    Why so much unfairness against apple vendors?

  3. Re:Oh i think its overvalued but its much differen on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    Then it's good for eBay that it's business model doesn't depend on buying laws. Even when it was new, it was far less illegal than uber is now in most places.

  4. Re: One strike on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    You don't need the shell of a nearly standard laptop - because buying the motherboard for it means you're dependent on that laptop's manufacturer for driver support. So any advantage of "build your own" is gone right there.

    You need a shell for a small form factor non laptop motherboard.

  5. Re:Oh i think its overvalued but its much differen on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    But once uber gets the laws sorted out by spending money, there are other big companies to move in to the same market. Uber doesn't have much uniqueness to last and hence no pricing advantage in the long run.

  6. Re:The lesson here on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 1

    You have better things to do with your day than sit there like an angry little person and dwell on it. But you don't have better things to do with your day than telling others that you have better things to do with your day than sit there like an angry little person and dwell on it. You also don't have better things to do with your day than falsely proclaim that Lenovo care about people like you because they're taking steps to fix the situation rather than ignoring it. I note that your so proclaiming also doesn't achieve anything.

  7. Re: One strike on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    Then it's not "build your own" anymore.

    Even if it were, driving to rent your 3-D printer could easily take longer than it takes to cook your rice, and designing the 3-D model over the bought small motherboard keeping in mind extensibility, cooling, access ports is another task that surpasses rice cooking.

  8. Re: One strike on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    TFS mentions laptops. They are selling more than desktops for a while.

    With 3-D printing, equipment list is now longer than just a screwdriver.

  9. Re:Misses the point on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    If Linux wont he marketshare wars they would have fake certificates, app stores, in Ubuntu too

    Yes, but fixing it will be simpler. Most Linux distribution installations are easier than windows installations. And getting the installer image is easier as it is most prominent in the distribution website rather than obscure as in the case of Microsoft's windows downloads.

    MS needs to change the EULA to prevent this since Windows 10 will be free for the consumer version of it.

    What has the end user got to with it? Lenovo is the middle-man, so MS need to change the MMLA (middle man license agreement).

  10. Re: One strike on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    Since laptops are (also) involved, you need machining of the body around your small form factor motherboard. Most experienced machinists wouldn't be able to do a good job in 15 minutes. And the tool list is much longer than a hex driver.

    With just a hex driver, the "machining" can easily take a month.

  11. Re:I used to recommend IBM/Lenovo on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    1366x768 is an epidemic that I see affecting every laptop manufacturer. Do you know of any laptop maker that is immune?

  12. git encourages merges which are not easy here on Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers? · · Score: 1

    2 factors make git a bad choice here :

    1. Git encourages merges. Even to someone used to source code version control, the branching and merging in git is a bit too easy for comfort. And it is by design - anyone should be able to completely clone a repository easily, keep rebasing while working, test all changes locally and then merge.

    2. Even many so called "MS word experts" are not really experts in branching, diffing, merging files. Excel is even worse. While I don't doubt there are tools Microsoft , and probably even others, provide for making these activities simple. But I haven't come across any experts that are really confident doing it hundreds of times a day.

    This coupled with MS Word's insistence on "saving" even cursor position changes makes life even more difficult. I am sure there are solutions to this which probably the experts know - but intermediate proficiency MS Word users typically suffer from this.

  13. Re: Pointless on Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System · · Score: 1

    From brief overview the arguments it does everything is fud

    fud, as well as strawman. GP didn't say it does everything, GP said it takes over all of system management.

    SystemD is no different than the other event driven alternatives

    4583 package depend on it. Much much fewer depended on other "event driven alternatives". So you are wrong. http://lkcl.net/reports/removi...

    That is my answer to the grandparents argument there was no need for change

    Another strawman. They didn't say there was no need for change. They said "for many if not most an alternative to init was neither needed nor desired".

  14. Re:Make them pay on Smoking Is Even Deadlier Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    When we talk premium, typically it is yearly or monthly or any other periodic payment. So no, living less is no reason for smokers to pay less.

  15. Same thing happens when you use functions. Is this a reason to not use functions?

    E.g.

    activity(){
        if(part1required){
            part1;
        }
    }

    Here, part1 is under if which is under activity(), so part1 is indented two levels lower than activity(). Later part1 becomes complicated, so we move it out in a function - funcpart1().

    activity(){
        if(part1required){
            funcpart1();
        }
    }
     
    funcpart1(){
        part1;
    }

    By using functions, part1 has come at just one level under activity(), even though logically it is 2 levels under activity().

    By using the functions, flow has changed, and in this new flow part1 is just one level under activity. Similarly, by using goto, flow changes and there is less indentation required in the new flow.

  16. Re:Peanuts on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 1

    , that you want it to launch now is obvious and make is superfluous

    Not necessarily. If the regular usage is to schedule it for launching at optimal time calculated automatically - launching it now is a special case and function name must make it clear.

  17. Re:Nonsense on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 1

    For any sane definition of null, an uninitialized variable is null.

  18. Re:Nonsense on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 1

    Why not simply

    public Foo foo;

    No getter or setter needed, by default it can't be null

    But "public Foo foo;" IS null. Where the definition of null is that the variable's value isn't anything definite. It either points to a random, uninitialized memory area. Or it automatically calls the null constructor of the class Foo - which is very expensive in java. Or it is just null, but you call it with some other name that is not null.

    By default not allowing "null" such defined is idiotic. It is equivalent to organizing your room by stuffing everything disorganized under a bed. Instead of null, you get uninitialized random variable or very high garbage collection losses.

  19. Spam is censorship on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    Because no one can read everything - so a preponderance of unwelcome body part augmentation advice can limit ability of people to have intended conversation. Hence any attempt to reduce spam is counter-censorship.

    Moderation is an attempt to reduce spam, and therefore, counter-censorship.

  20. Re:There is no legitimate reason to show it. on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 1

    Not sure how to break it to you but Germany and Japan are (and were) not human beings or living beings. They didn't have eyes to melt out of their sockets with effects of the bombs, nor guts that stopped functioning.

    Of the living beings that were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is no proof that all of them knew and/or approved of war "crimes" committed by "their" armed forces abroad. Even most human beings. So no, tit for tat argument of yours is shit, false, immoral and repulsive.

    I can accept the collateral victims argument, I can maybe accept the reduction of overall casualties argument, but not this. You're a monster.

  21. Re:Not over the phone on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    If prompt is the only security offered, PGP is an enormous overkill. Just use an address book, and configure email client to prompt when sending to out of address book recipients.

    Q : CronoCloud is not in address book. Post anyway?
     
    Ans : YES slashdot, post it. Nothing sensitive in this post and it is publicly visible anyway.

    Advantages :
    1. Customer doesn't have to do anything.
    2. Financial institution IT can handle this - most likely by MS ActiveDirectory group policy or something like that.

    If confirmation prompt is not enough security, the sensitive information will be encrypted to the wrong customer's public key and send to that same wrong customer.

  22. Re:Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Die on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    A steak and an apple or a bit of salad already has all the vitamins you need

    Not sure why you included apple in it - one apple doesn't contain even 20% of minimum requirement of ANY vitamin or mineral that is in human top-30 nutrients, and not even 10% of anything other than vitamin C.

    The only reason your above statement isn't false is that it isn't falsifiable. That is because "salad" doesn't mean anything in particular, and means everything in general.

    If you knew what vitamins are in what food, you wouldn't have included apple.

  23. Re:Double Irish? TAX ALL FOREIGNERS!!! on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    Your certainty and personal trust have less than zero importance in a supposedly logical discussion. Did you mean it to be a blind faith based discussion from the start?

    With internet, the problem of authentic information has increased, not decreased.

  24. Re:Double Irish? TAX ALL FOREIGNERS!!! on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    Then others provide inexpert opinion under the same brand , spoiling the brand.

  25. Re:Double Irish? TAX ALL FOREIGNERS!!! on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    Government shouldn't be protecting anybody in business for any reason, including 'intellectual property' nonsense.

    Gasoline quality and whatever other quality, all of it is up to private brands to maintain and compete upon.

    So brand A maintains good quality gasoline. Brand B simply sells under brand A - because there is no one to enforce the intellectual property - trademark of brand A. So how is brand A supposed to convince its buyers that this gasoline is of the quality that brand A is supposed to be known for?