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  1. Re:What is with naming software after candy? on Google Quietly Unveils Android 5.1 Lollipop · · Score: 0

    If shitty names and shitty practices are required for a "geek card", then I sure as fuck never had one.
    I can't hand in my "CS card" because my parents paid for it and they've got it framed on their wall. (I assume you're referring to my actual computer science degree - if you're trying to make up another shitty "meme", fuck off.)

  2. Re:Who Cares on Canada, Japan Cave On Copyright Term Extension In TPP · · Score: 1

    but it does... pirate bay only caters to currently popular works... it does not run torrents of old stuff that is trapped in limbo and in danger of disappearing from the public when the copyright expires as there aren't any copies anymore of it to digitise...

    That's an issue of seeding.

  3. Re:What is with naming software after candy? on Google Quietly Unveils Android 5.1 Lollipop · · Score: 5, Funny

    This.
    I'm also sick of idiots who use shit like "1.2.6.27 beta" as some sort of version string.
    No one knows what your asinine convention is, so it's meaningless.
    No one in your office understands that asinine convention either, and for the 3 people who do, they'll change "1.4.2.12" to "1.5" for marketing purposes anyway.

    MS got this right - you get a straight sequential build number if you need it, otherwise it's a simple "Windows 7" or "Windows 7 SP1" convention.
    Of course, they fucked that up with "Windows 8.1" and "R2" for all their server shit. Essentially they're:
    1) Killing off service packs for the server software because they want to charge for another license when the historical precedent was a free service pack.
    2) Refusing to release Windows 7 SP2 because it will trigger a support extension.
    3) Refusing to release any service pack for Windows 8 because they want people to forget it (despite the fact that there's nothing wrong with it).
    4) Skipping 9 because they REALLY want people to forget Windows 8.

  4. Who Cares on Canada, Japan Cave On Copyright Term Extension In TPP · · Score: 5, Funny

    thepiratebay.se is back, so none of this matters.

  5. You just confessed to having a small dick and suffering from premature ejaculation. Congratulations!

    Don't forget the worst bit - he fucked AC's mom. She's straight 90s OOGLAY.

  6. Re:Not affecting life expectancy in a positive way on Testosterone Increasingly Being Used To Fight Aging In Men · · Score: 2

    List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy on wikipedia

    Flawed list using flawed data that, even if you trusted it, doesn't properly account for differences in the tracking of infant mortality.

  7. Re: "client-centered libertarian medicine" on Testosterone Increasingly Being Used To Fight Aging In Men · · Score: 1

    to turn himself into a gentle little buttercup...drinking tap-water riddled with phytoestrogens

    The funny thing about all of this mess, is that everyone assumes the estrogen like compounds coming from water sources and plastics, etc., will turn people into whatever female stereotype they have in mind. Yet studies of some of the compounds are found to cause people, especially young boys, to become more aggressive and impulsive.

    You'd be impulsive and subject to mood swings if you had wildly fluctuating hormone levels that your body wasn't able to regulate.
    See women, hysteria, etc. And that's under normal conditions. Men's hormone levels fluctuate much more erratically than women's (again, under normal conditions). Add in soy, plastic, contaminated drinking water, and all the other unnatural sources of estrogens and it's really no surprise that men are fucked up hormonally and are upset about it. Or are you telling me you wouldn't be upset if you started growing tits and then got cancer in them because your environment is heavily polluted with estrogens?

    And of course, when it's women who are subject to hormonal mood swings, you're supposed to be sensitive and understanding. They get pre-menstrual syndrome. But when men have the exact same symptoms you have to fight to get it recognized as anything other than aggression, depression or some other "problem" that you can blame or stigmatize the man for. And when you do finally get someone to recognize the cause, they brand it "irritable male syndrome".

  8. Re:Silly Question on Site Launches To Track Warrant Canaries · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure that the whole point of a canary is that while it's OK for a court to say "You may not speak of this", and "You must speak of this truthfully unless it's self-incriminating", it's not currently OK for a court to say "You must speak falsehood about this", at least in US law.

    It's NOT okay for a court to say "you may not speak of this".
    I really wish someone would have the balls to stand up to the blatantly unconstitutional bullshit prevalent in the system.

  9. Re:Dyson sphere on Astronomers Find Vast Ring System Eclipsing a Distant Star · · Score: 1

    It would take more energy to build it and move the harnessed energy back (to the other solar system where you want it), than you would get out of it. Further, this is entirely unworkable on any realistic time schedule unless you could exceed the speed of light, at which point you wouldn't need a dyson sphere (or much of anything, really) because you'd have the ability to violate causality.

    If you want it in same system, then you'll be blocking out your own star (or one of them) and utterly fucking your system.

  10. Re:Dyson sphere on Astronomers Find Vast Ring System Eclipsing a Distant Star · · Score: 2

    No. A Dyson sphere is impractical and stupid.
    No civilization smart enough to be able to build one would be dumb enough to actually do so.

  11. Okay, Bye! on Book Review: Core HTML5 2D Game Programming · · Score: 5, Funny

    First, this book isn't for people who do not recognize HTML5 and JavaScript as a valid development platform for games. I know you're out there, you can stop reading here and move on to the next article.

    Okay, bye!

  12. Re:Damn the editor on George R. R. Martin's "The Winds of Winter" Wiill Not Be Published In 2015 · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who don't know:

    Published
    A Game of Thrones
    A Clash of Kings
    A Storm of Swords
    A Feast for Crows
    A Dance with Dragons

    Not yet published
    The Winds of Winter
    A Dream of Spring

  13. Marketing on Cutting Through Data Science Hype · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you have a marketing department, you're wasting money.
    If you hire a marketing firm, you're burning money.
    If you hire a marketing firm and then take their advice, you're emptying your bank account into a volcano.

  14. Re:Neil degASSe Tyson - liar, parrot, dangerous. on Cutting Through Data Science Hype · · Score: 0

    It would have been mush more effective if you left the last few sentences out.
    Put simply, Tyson is a celebrity, not a scientist.

  15. Marketable Skills on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Engage 5th-8th Graders In Computing? · · Score: 0

    I would suggest you teach them proper grammar, but I read your submission. Instead, I'll suggest that someone else teach them proper grammar.

  16. Re: The solution is obvious on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 1

    You do not have to pay for android source code. It is open source. You can download and compile it right now I'd you wish. That's what Amazon did with fire os and what cyanogenmod did.

    If you want to use Googles apps on a phone you sell, then yes there is an agreement to get access to googles apps on your companies phones.

    Android is not open source. Android is not free.
    The publicly available open source code is NOT the same as what is developed by Google (and collaboratively by OEMs) and released to market running on high end devices. This (and Google's apps) is what consumers want, and it's what they (and OEMs) pay actual money for.
    The two are not comparable. AOSP is NOT Android.

  17. Re:The solution is obvious on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 1

    Download the Android source from the official site for free: https://source.android.com/sou...

    Android includes proprietary drivers and other code that you don't get to access unless you're a big OEM giving Google money, branding agreements, etc. Android also includes other code that does make it into the public release, but delayed for many months (often over a year).

    The repository you linked isn't Android. It's an old version of stripped-down Android that no one can use to create a competitive high end device. Google does this because of what Amazon did with the Kindle line, and because of what they fear Samsung could do. (Hint: Fork Android, have your own store, and cut Google out of the picture.)

    This is why Google made their apps separate (and not free) for OEMs. People want Google's apps, but they don't care about Android Caramel Apple when they're already on Lemon Meringue. By tying those apps to a CASH MONEY license or a branding / no fork / first born's soul agreement, Google always gets a piece.

    This is also why Google doesn't want to patch old devices. Doing so just means people have less incentive to run the latest version of Android, which is the version Google can guarantee it gets paid for. Carriers have similar motivation - testing/pushing out the updates is costly, and NOT doing so encourages people to buy a new device and extend their contract.

  18. Re:The solution is obvious on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Except that google isn't charging for their new software.

    Yes they fucking are. Android is not free. Android is not open source. AOSP is not Android.
    If you are an OEM and you want the latest version of Android you pay money and agree to bundle Google's apps and store (which cost more money) into a "flagship" phone that will launch within a certain time frame and is expected to sell some minimum number of units and will be heavily advertised as running Android X.Y Whatever Candy.

  19. Re:The solution is obvious on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The updates are NOT free. Android is NOT free.
    You have to PAY to get access to Android source code. You pay more if you want the newer versions. You have to agree to shit like bundling Google's apps and store (which now also cost money separate from Android itself) or guaranteeing a "flagship" phone launch with expected sales of X within a certain time frame if you want access to the latest builds.

    Even if Android was actually free, there are plenty of costs associated with pushing out an update. You've got to make sure the new version runs on the old devices (it won't). Then you've got to do QA. Then you've got to push the update out to the carriers. Then the carriers have to do their own validating. Then the carriers have to push it out.

    Then people have to accept the update.

    Google is the pot calling the granite counter top of Microsoft black.

  20. Re:Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    It's AmiMoJo. It's his job to be a contrarian cynic about everything.

  21. Re:Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    Brawn, Prowl, Ratchet and Ironhide were all killed in the first five minutes with barely a fight, and for no other reason than to make way for the new toys.

    They were killed because Megatron assaulted their shuttle and shot them the fuck up.
    They were at war. People (and transformers) die in wars.
    The movie established right from the beginning that it wasn't just a Saturday morning cartoon and that it was going to have consequences. This is a good thing.

  22. Re:Do You Even Literate, Bro?! on Behind the MOOC Harassment Charges That Stunned MIT · · Score: 2

    So then, you don't trust the professor saying he didn't do it either, right?
    Why do you automatically give credibility to the person in authority?

    He's not. He's adhering to the principle of "innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" that our justice system is built upon.

  23. Re:Install an ad blocker on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 0

    Wouldn't using the HOSTS file be more efficient?
    There used to be a user who would discuss such things...

  24. Re:Kaspersky IS on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 1

    Kaspersky IS has signature whitelisting. If the executable isn't in the whitelist it doesn't run, period. You can configure it to completely prevent the execution of non-whitelisted exes.

    You can do this for free with Group Policy shit.
    I believe you can even whitelist executables based on publisher certificate, so when a new version of whatever rolls out you don't have to update the whitelist.

  25. Re:Windows Defender + Malwarebytes on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 1

    MBAM's realtime shit isn't free.
    So it doesn't help until you know you've been hit.