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  1. Re:EPIC headline on OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World · · Score: 1

    a bit over 50%. A bit under if you count the job offers I've turned down as "successes".

    I've actually had better luck than most on interviewing for positions.

  2. Financing on Ask Florian Kaps of the Impossible Project · · Score: 1

    What is the financing of this project? I.E. do you take donations, or are you planning to sell a product (and how do you expect to make a profit if the original manufacturers felt they could not)? In either regard, do you plan to release your methodology so others can make their own film?

  3. Re:Land of the free on DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    (1) avoid DMVs in "lower rent" districts of town - they tend to be more crowded
    (2) Don't go Saturday (very busy), Tuesday or Thursday (presumed to be quiet days, so everyone shows up then).

    Early morning is usually pretty good, lunch is bad (people try to get in on their breaks. Things start to quiet between 1 and 2 pm, and pick up again between 3 and 4pm (end of work shifts).

    There are two locations in particular where I live, where I'll have a half an hour wait if I go during a busy time, and any other time, usually less than 10 minutes.

  4. Re:EPIC headline on OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World · · Score: 1

    Of course, it is to protect us from the space hackers trying to invade our networks!

    It is a friendly (to us) giant blowfish!

    I once was at a job interview, and they asked if I had any experience with "the OpenBSD variant of Linux".
    I was silent for a moment trying to gain my composure, and then said "... Well, it isn't actually a variant of Linux. It's derived from the original Unix work that Berkley did in conjunction Bell Labs, and not Linus Torvalds independently written Kernel."

    Needless to say, I didn't get a job.

  5. Re:Land of the free on DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Who do you expect to do that housecleaining?

    If the republicans win, we'll have the people who installed these groups in the first place.
    If the democrats win, well, we can see how much (zero, for those living under a rock) they've done to alleviate the issue so far.

    I can only assume you are moving to another planet by that point. So, I have to ask, since there are no others in this system, where is your space ship, and how do I get a ticket?

  6. Re:Land of the free on DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners · · Score: 0

    Interesting anecdote about the lines, and that mistake may make sense if you aren't from the US, but if you've been in the US for a while, and can't figure out when to go to the License Bureau to get short lines, that's your problem, not the systems.

    I.E. the story really doesn't add much to your point.

  7. Re:Land of the free on DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners · · Score: 2

    The thing is, other countries wouldn't put up with the enhanced pat downs either.

    Mostly because they'd simply accept the scanners, and the issue would never arise.

  8. Re:Great on DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Welcome to America. You must be new here.

  9. Re:Cornholio on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did you eat them...?

    (a) ...Out of curiosity
    (b) ...Out of self defense (lest they eat you first)
    (c) ...Because you wanted to

  10. Re:I have a better idea: on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 1

    Any side effects we should know about?

    Impaired language skills to both you and those you interact with, apparently.

    With a name like that, I'd also expect occasional outbreaks of death and burial in a box.

  11. Re:first thanks! on Google Releases Geothermal Potential Map of the US · · Score: 1

    because we won't be using geothermal energy to kill people from other countries?

    Maybe if we decided on a geothermal laser. I'm thinking of the mining laser from star craft 2, but geothermal...

  12. Re:Use CE, Avoid AD to designate the years. on Mystery of an Ancient Super Nova Solved · · Score: 1

    Since dates and time frames are the subject, I'm just going to comment on your sig since it's tangentally related.

    3.5GY - 4GY, not 3GY.

    one link I found places life at, at least, 3.85GY.
    http://books.google.com/books?id=csJlqn4BokIC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=fossilized+bacterial+mounds+australia&source=bl&ots=Sdw9htUNHx&sig=kOTPe0YO_Y0snxGJ2XGnLaLQa_o&hl=en&ei=ThWoTvmhCfT5sQL33eHsDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

    <SARCASM>
    Damn you 3GY young earthers. Trying to be trendy like the 6KY young earthers while still trying to fit into the scientific community! :-P
    </SARCASM>

  13. Re:Heavy metals? on 10-Centimeter Single-Celled Organisms Photographed 6 Miles Underwater · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The pressure difference isn't such an issue, the pressure differential for a single celled organism should equalize fairly well - it likely won't explode/rupture.

    The temperatures will be an issue. Many chemical reactions may fail.

    Also, certain reactions may actually require the high pressure.

  14. Re:Teachers already have performance reviews on Bill Gates On What Business Can Teach Schools · · Score: 1

    And don't forget - bad parenting causing the child to be encouraged NOT to learn. I've seen that a lot with other students when I was in grade school.

    Mind you, these parents are less likely to go to a PTC for any purpose other than to yell at someone.

  15. Re:security? What about.... on Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It · · Score: 1

    Addendum, didn't read your whole comment, still not what we were discussing. We were discussing the use of dynamic code entered by the user making a request via the web, and compiled/executed by the application. Not a specific set of pre-defined templated code that is modified without taking code directly or indirectly from the user.

  16. Re:security? What about.... on Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It · · Score: 1

    Please read the previous comments, a JIT compiler is NOT what we are discussing. Those are used to compile static, pre-existing code.

  17. Re:security? on Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It · · Score: 1

    I'm simply talking about popen() and exec() like features. Loading of dynamic libraries, etc.

    You can have pretty much the same effect without having to resort to native compiled code.

  18. Re:Change cannot be stopped on The Case For Piracy · · Score: 2

    The later one should be 'who receive' rather than 'who pirate'

  19. Re:Change cannot be stopped on The Case For Piracy · · Score: 1

    Allow lawsuits with reasonable sums and limited legal action against offenders.

    For people who sell copyright materials of others - all the proceeds plus a decent fine per work. Possibly jail time (at most, a small number of years)
    For people who distribute (not sell), a small fine (maybe 10% of the estimated sale of the materials), minimal jail time (90 days or less)
    For people who pirate - pay the full MSRP for the product to the manufacturer.

  20. Re:Change cannot be stopped on The Case For Piracy · · Score: 1

    The majority of the value is preventing large free access to people who would have otherwise paid.

    Ex:

    Lets say I write a book that's pretty good (not great, but most readers find it worth their time).
    * 100,000 copies are sold
    * 1,000,000 people download it from the net
    * 10% of the people who have downloaded it, would have bought it if they didn't have the internet copy
    * 5% of those people who downloaded it, also bought it, but wouldn't have if they hadn't pirated it.

    If I make $0.10/book, I've still lost $500, I've lost 1/3 of my potential gain due to piracy. This is a huge incentive. Given the majority of copyright infringement, to my knowledge, is free sharing, this is still where the loss will be.

    That sure as hell would hurt me as an author.

  21. Re:Hi Jack on The Case For Piracy · · Score: 1

    The original creator still needs incentive to make it. The idea of copyright is to provide that incentive.

    If people continually copy art works without compensation, fewer people will create, because they cannot afford to. The system as it is now isn't perfect, copyright length should probably shortened to 10-20 years. Renewals should be allowed, but only by the original author, not his or her descendants, not media companies, just the original author. At the same time, piracy, really should be a "try with the intent to buy if it is good" type thing and not a "I want this, but don't want to pay for it" type thing.

  22. Re:security? on Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It · · Score: 1

    This is the reason why gcc (or any other compiler) should never be installed on any production Linux machine.

    Having a compiler installed permits the add-hoc creation of code, with all the resultant security risks. Self-modifying code, including compiled self-modifying code, is an elegant solution in certain environments, however it is a huge security and reliability risk in any production application.

    By that logic, Python, PHP, Perl and any other scripting language that can popen() or eval() should not be allowed on a production server as well.

  23. Re:3 years ago on Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It · · Score: 1

    I thought there was a limit of one or two commercial projects from VS Express.

  24. Re:security? What about.... on Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It · · Score: 2

    So? my code could be put in an apache module. Use WSGI and it is available in Python. PHP has the ability to do it straight away.

    It's still not adding any vulnerabilities to the ecosystem that haven't existed before. Yes they used it as a demo, but that's probably because it's a quickly visible demo that everyone can easily see what it is doing. Only an idiot would use it like that on a production system, just like only an idiot would use C, PHP or Python to do the same thing, and those have had that feature for almost as long as they've been around.

  25. Re:3 years ago on Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It · · Score: 1

    Very few would need more features than the professional version, which is $750 or so a seat from many retailers. Still steep for a lot of users, but unless you are a huge software corporation, Ultimate is overkill.