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  1. Re:if you've voted R or D... on Ars Editor Learns Feds Have His Old IP Addresses, Full Credit Card Numbers · · Score: 1

    No, see, that's the problem. You, as a voter, are presented with a choice. Do you vote for the candidate you actually want, knowing full well that the American system, as currently implemented, is specifically geared against third-party candidates? Or do you game the system, and aim for the best realistic outcome?

  2. Re:if you've voted R or D... on Ars Editor Learns Feds Have His Old IP Addresses, Full Credit Card Numbers · · Score: 2

    It's a democracy.

    Given that the American government setup was SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to avoid 'too much democracy,' I'd have to disagree with you, champ.

  3. Re:if you've voted R or D... on Ars Editor Learns Feds Have His Old IP Addresses, Full Credit Card Numbers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nonsense. For example, if you voted for Ross Perot, you're directly responsible for the Republicans losing the White House. If you voted for Nader, you're directly responsible for the Democrats losing the White House.

    Either go back to your government as intended; that is to say, without political parties, or accept the fact that there are, in fact, political parties, and change your government setup to work with that.

  4. Re:MS Research was meant to mop up talent, that's on Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997 · · Score: 1

    Microsoft isn't static. Take their utter dismissal, followed by 180 degree turn around and headlong rush into TCP/IP and the Internet. They're surprisingly agile, for such a large company. If they weren't, they'd have been eaten long ago.

  5. Re:MS Research was meant to mop up talent, that's on Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997 · · Score: 1

    The only reason Microsoft still has it's 'monopoly' is it's ability to change and refocus, thus preventing it's competition from disrupting them.

    Were Microsoft static, it would have been supplanted long long ago. When is the last time, for example, you saw a piece of software which advertised, as a system requirement, "IBM PC or 100 percent compatible?"

  6. Re:MS Research was meant to mop up talent, that's on Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997 · · Score: 1

    Progress is what allows one to maintain a monopoly. History has demonstrated that static monopolies die quick, natural deaths.

  7. Re:MS Research was meant to mop up talent, that's on Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997 · · Score: 1

    As a monopolist you don't -want- any innovation.

    Why do you say this?

  8. DC Follows suit on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 2

    After Wonder Woman is killed, a brave young man takes up the bracers, lasso and breastplate, becoming.....

  9. Re:Simmilar experiences ... on Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows? · · Score: 1

    I've had 'yum update' do things like change completely where data files for a service are stored, update the configuration, but not move, link or otherwise do anything with the existing data. I've also had 'yum update' introduce kernel level file system bugs that result in data corruption. Both on vanilla Centos installs with no extra repos.

  10. Bring back my beloved Audigy line.

  11. Re:Al Franken? on Senator Al Franken Accuses AT&T of "Skirting" Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't forget, he was a noted political pundit/analyst as well. He just decided to put his money where his mouth was. Tell Ann Coulter to run for congress or the senate, and see what happens.

  12. Re:Aaaaahahaha ... gotta love it: on Prof. Andy Tanenbaum Retires From Vrije University · · Score: 1

    He might as well have said '640k should be enough for anyone.'

  13. Re:That's actually 1250 MB/s. on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    Network speeds are always properly measured in bits.

  14. Re:Well the SCOTUS did leave a hole on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 2

    This is why companies are always advised by counsel to have document destruction policies in place. Otherwise, yes, cleaning out your mailbox can retroactively become destruction of evidence.

  15. Re:Lock Screen on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    A lockscreen wallpaper would do just fine.

  16. Loophole on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Despite the strong privacy protections established in the court's Riley decision, police still have the right to search your phone without a warrant in a few certain scenarios known as âoeexigent circumstances.â This includes, for example, the abduction of a child, when police suspect a person is in imminent harm, or âoesome imminent threat of evidence destruction,â says Fakhoury. âoeSo its not like a carte blanche rule.â In those instances, there's simply not much you can do.

    Your Honor, I knew that the defendant could, with as few as six taps on his phone, completely and irrevocably erase all evidence contained. Therefore, due to exigent circumstances, I felt justified in searching the phone without a warrant.

  17. Re:StarFlight on Building the Infinite Digital Universe of No Man's Sky · · Score: 1

    If I'm going to sink a few hundred hours into getting good at a game, I prefer to win by skillful improvising instead of by optimizing my build orders around map travel routes that are known to-the-second and careful memorization of tile counts where I know I can block off a passage most efficiently every game.

    So, I shouldn't wait for you to join my $$$BIG GAME HUNTERZ$$$ FFA?

  18. Re:The very best book for C#? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way to Learn C# For Game Programming? · · Score: 1

    I've been thinking about this, as my daughter has asked me to teach her some programming, and quite honestly, the progression of games in real life is perfect.

    Make pong. Make death race 2000. Make Asteroids. Make Space Invaders. Make Tetris. Make a platform jumper with static screens with transitions at the edges. Make a side-scrolling jumper. Keep working your way up.

  19. Re:What about rapid development in a GUI? on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    Visual Express for Desktop programming in vb.net, c# or whatever.

  20. Re:Glass is incredibly hydrophilic on Gecko Feet Inspire Hand-Held Spider-Man Paddles · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, it doesn't work RIGHT NOW! In CERTAIN SITUATIONS! Abandon all development!

  21. Re:About damn time! on Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS · · Score: 1

    Then again I occasionally go back to Master of Magic or Master of Orion (1 or 2) so YMMV.

    This. I'm still looking for a decent modern version to either of these series. No luck.

  22. Re:Glass is incredibly hydrophilic on Gecko Feet Inspire Hand-Held Spider-Man Paddles · · Score: 2

    My understanding is that the technology works poorly on dusty surfaces, due to the setae sticking to the dust rather than the surface, but the only surface that absolutely won't work is Teflon.

  23. Re:Who's to say we're not being watched now? on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    It is, unfortunately, the primary (if not the only) way it's gone here on earth.

  24. Re:Radio: the first assumption on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    I've often wondered: Would a scientist, or group of scientists, from, say, the 1860s, locked in an RF transparent dome in the middle of a modern city, be able to detect intelligent communication?

    Could they detect, receive, and decode 802.11a/b/g/n wifi? Digital television? The various cellular protocols?

    The 1880s? The 1900s? 1920s? 1940s? 1960s? Hell, the 1980s?

  25. Re:Summary is disingenuous on Canada Poised To Buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 JSFs · · Score: 1

    Obligatory comment about Avro Arrow goes here.