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  1. Re:At Least... on Alan Moore on V For Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous · · Score: 1

    I would question how a historic deist in a country full of religious people differs from an atheist.
    Franklin probably considered himself a deist, and most of the founding fathers were not avowed Atheists.
    But most of them were faith/religion haters.

  2. Re:At Least... on Alan Moore on V For Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Well the difference between a historic deist and an atheist is pretty thin. And wanting religious freedom for all or simply knowing that most of your citizens are religious so laws and policies must be made to account for this is not deistic.
    Many of them were not full atheists, at least in their own opinions, but most of them were not really differentiatable from an atheist.
    And quite a few of the major ones were quite clearly religion and faith haters. Which is different then Atheism as a lot of atheist do thing that religion serves a purpose.

    "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."

  3. Re:That was England... on Alan Moore on V For Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Anyone, of any nationality, can be pretty easily and quickly indoctrinated into doing any sort of mass murder.
    They have proved this scientifically already, if the historical evidence is not enough.

  4. Re:Slashdot is dead on After Rewrites, Google Wallet Still Has Holes · · Score: 1

    I would hardly call him a troll, he has a point even if he does over dramatize the matter.
    You would have to be pretty blind to not notice the huge bias in most of the news summaries.
    It's not dead, but it could benefit from some healing.

  5. Re:Publishers on Double Fine Raises $700,000 In 24 Hours With Crowdfunding · · Score: 1

    I think you give publishers too much credit, most of them probably do not realized how outdated they are becoming.

  6. Re:A language that compiles to JS on Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? · · Score: 1

    So how do you create code that is modular and can be reused if the manipulators and data are spread all round your code instead of being grouped into a single spot (aka a object)?

    Sure, all of the programming theoreticians might have long winded definitions for OO that I do not even really understand but go to a person or any college programming course and the definition is modularity, re-usability, and maintainability.

    Modularity implies groupings of data and manipulator functions/methods into a class/object like system therefore it implies OO.

  7. Re:A language that compiles to JS on Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? · · Score: 1

    If it is modular, reusable, and maintainable then it is OO and if it is not then it is not. It does not matter what the developers had never heard about OO or called the code OO.

  8. Re:A language that compiles to JS on Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? · · Score: 1

    It is ridiculously easy to use, but almost impossible to use well.
    And "OO hype"? Because reusable and maintainable code is overrated?

  9. Re:A language that compiles to JS on Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? · · Score: 0

    I think the real point of his request is to come up with some better ways of programming JS, he just did not realize that you don't have to and should not learn JS to do this.
    JS is a poor language with horrible compatibility. You are either a JS guru or you should entrust the hard stuff to the experts and use their tools.

  10. Re:A language that compiles to JS on Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? · · Score: 1

    Well HaXe in particular is designed from the ground up to compile to other languages.
    I think because of this it has a lot of benefits over a simple converter.
    I personally have never used it, but have both seen and heard about it a lot, and it looks so amazing for web dev.

  11. Re:A language that compiles to JS on Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? · · Score: 1

    Oh I would not say that at all.
    And even if you did, it still takes care of all of that annoying cross browser compatibility, OO, and other hard parts of JS.

  12. A language that compiles to JS on Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You could try a language that compiles to JS/etc.
    My friend uses HaXe for all of his server development (http://haxe.org/doc/why).

  13. Re:They can afford it thanks to Microsoft on Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding · · Score: 1

    My opinion of the first release of Unity on Ubuntu was absolutely no, it is not a tablet/notepad UI.
    It took up a lot of space, and it was horizontal space as well. On small screens Unity is not only close to useless like normal, but has the additional misfortune of being far to much in the way of other running apps.
    And yes, simply because it is searched based it does not really work for any set up, but most of all a tablet.
    Look at the iPad, that is the general idea when you are talking for in a tablet GUI.

  14. Re:Have you been living under a rock for the last on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And for every one killed, depending on what statistic you read, it can be anywhere form 20 to 300 dead Iraqi.
    You are the only one I have ever met who seems to think that Iraq won the war, I think it is you who might have been under a rock for the last 10 years.

  15. Re:How many Amendments are left ? on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 2

    Yes because discipline, training, a strong command structure, and clearly better equipment never won a battle against the odds.
    The US military would win against its citizens at odds 100/1, 10/1 would not even be a real fight. Within a day the entire country would be under military control.

    The only chance would be long drawn out guerilla warfare.

  16. Re:I have to agree on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    I would say it is inevitable. Change is inevitable.
    But that does not excuse them. It does not take a far thinking moral expert in this age to tell you that someone with some Simpson porn, or a teenage boy who sex texted his girlfriend should have their lives absolutely ruined.

    What they do to paedophiles nowadays could be considered worse then the death sentence. They are the gays of the 21th century, but with even worse official punishments.

  17. Re:It's not a choice on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am pretty sure the UK government did officially apologize for Turing's treatment (And I am sure they mentioned everyone else convicted of the same laws at the same time) like a year or two ago.

    And I concur, while pardoning him does not really wipe the evidence that it happened away it is still a step in that direction and not something that should be done.
    In a way, as a guilty man, he is a pioneering gay rights activist and that should be remembered not pardoned.
    It is no "crime" to be convicted of breaking an unjust law, and it can be considered a virtue.

  18. Re:Your right to what? on BTJunkie No More? · · Score: 0

    And according to MS, Linux violates its patents to I guess torrents are actually 100% copyrighted material.

  19. Re:Not a huge loss on BTJunkie No More? · · Score: 1

    Well they did have a few spidered private torrents, but that is all about logging into the private website not btjunky (to be fair I never used those torrents, maybe you had to log into both or somehow add your external private torrent site to your btjunkie account?).
    My best guess was, if you are logged into the private site those links will just magically work.

  20. Best on BTJunkie No More? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Best torrent site ever.
    I don't know if anything new one has come up in the last few years but it is the best torrent site I have ever used.
    Pirate Bay and Demonoid got nothing on btjunkie.
    Or at least they didn't.

    R.I.P old friend, or better yet go all zombie and come back to life.

  21. Re:Not a huge loss on BTJunkie No More? · · Score: 1

    ??? you don't have to log into BTJ for anything other then profile management.

  22. Sleep? on Study Finds Social Media Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes, Alcohol · · Score: 5, Funny

    So sleeping is an addicting activity and anyone doing is just giving into a base desire?
    Don't know why this study did not include breathing, I know some air addicts that cannot stop breathing for more then a minute. They are so addicted they even do it in their sleep.

  23. Re:Lesson of the day: on Google In Battle With Its Own Lawyers · · Score: 1

    More like: "Never trust a man in a suit".
    Lawyers are just a small subsection of this greater grouping.

  24. Re:D-Wave sold a commercial Quantum computer in 20 on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible · · Score: 1

    Ah, thanks for the clarification. But marketing is what makes any product a scam so I would not say that this fact makes it not a scam.
    And If real practical quantum computers are possible I am pretty sure that it has been proven that they are a whole lot better at at least some things.
    from what I hear they are massively parallel by nature, kind of turning any problem into a constant time solution.
    So P=NP, since N is always equivalent to 1 in quantum computing.
    I am sure the preceding comments are a gross approximation at best, but that is how I understand it.

  25. Re:D-Wave sold a commercial Quantum computer in 20 on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible · · Score: 2

    From what my friend who is into Quantum computers tells me that was almost certainly a scam.

    And even without knowing the specifics of quantum computers enough to have any opinion I know that one of the leading quantum computing places in the world, Waterloo Canada does not have a QC that is even close to being usable. It is just like a few quantum bits with a few rooms full of machinery that operates these bits and is both slow and has way to small a number of bits to really be useful.