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  1. Re:soudex? on TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database · · Score: 1

    Or Levenshtein distance.

    I knew a Mexican citizen with a green card who would be constantly harassed and held for questioning when entering from Canada because his name was similar but not the same as an alias used by someone on the 10 most wanted list. Apparently their matching algorithm is thrown for a loop by Slavic names.

  2. Re:Christie has no chance to win anyway on Tesla's Fight With Car Dealers Could Help Decide the Next Presidential Election · · Score: 2

    The only thing Hillary was personally involved in was Whitewater which turned up absolutely nothing other than lies in a deposition and BJs from an intern.

  3. What does he have to hide? on Jimmy Carter: Snowden Disclosures Are 'Good For Americans To Know' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What does President Carter have to hide? Must be some sort of terrorist if he wants to communicate privately. We should get a government security detail to monitor this dissident ASAP.

  4. Re:Sure on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    I would trust them do do exactly what they claim: Stop blanket collection of voice telephone conversations of US citizens. That will be just a minor inconvenience since they will retain collection and tracking of SMS, IMEI, email, IM, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, financial transactions, passwords, travel reservations, and any other electronic information they can get their hands on.

    The American people are dumb and don't know how technology more advanced than a telephone works or how much information they leak in their everyday lives. You'll see the press roll over and accept their claim of reform without any critical analysis and exposure of what's still being exploited.

  5. Re:Is the problem really patent trolls? on Adam Carolla Joins Fight Against Podcast Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    A sane and rational reform of the USPTO would hurt the economy in East Texas. That would be an unacceptable blow to the Litigial Industrial Complex.

  6. Re:All for not... on How 3D Printer Maker Aleph Objects Pushes the Open Source Envelope · · Score: 1

    It would be relevant in any patent dispute including alleged infringement. Even with first-to-invent, claiming the existence of prior art didn't protect you in any way until you worked through the court system to have a judge/jury validate your claim. Nothing changes in that regard with first-to-file. The lawyers will get paid no matter what.

  7. Re:Data caps on AT&T Exec Calls Netflix "Arrogant" For Expecting Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    It isn't about data caps. They don't even want to provide the contracted service to their customers who stay below the caps. AT&T and Comcast just want to double dip by singling out the biggest source of incoming traffic and making up special pricing rules for them. Never mind that that they would have to serve up the same amount of data if Netflix's volume was hypothetically split among 1000 equal competitors.

  8. Re:Controlling the Message on Turkish Finance Minister Defends Twitter Ban · · Score: 1

    "The way you make sure to generate profit is to be sure that the enemy you create is us. That we are the enemy in need of surveillance "

    --Naomi Wolf, 2007 (28:53)

    One prescient lady.

  9. Re:Aluminum on Titanium-Headed Golf Clubs Create Brush Fire Hazard In California · · Score: 1

    Titanium is used for its unmagnetic nature

    You wouldn't want some poor golfer to have his swing deflected by the Earth's magnetic field would you?

  10. Re:Unequal, but also unquantifiable on In the Unverified Digital World, Are Journalists and Bloggers Equal? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That just sets up a system where freedom can be revoked for anyone deemed to not have something worthwhile to say or who doesn't meet arbitrary professional standards. Everybody's "equal" but some are more equal than others isn't what the constitution was created for.

  11. Re:Ponzi scheme on Cryptocurrency Exchange Vircurex To Freeze Customer Accounts · · Score: 1

    So, basically the same as stock exchanges and future markets.

  12. Re:Only thing I hate about Twitter on Twitter Turns 8; May Drop Hashtags and @replies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hashtag and At are just a condensed form of markup. They are useful for entry of tweets but completely unnecessary for displaying them.

  13. Interview the interviewer on Ask Slashdot: Re-Learning How To Interview As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    I like to ask probing questions to get a feel for what the work environment is like, the stability of the business, and other peripheral topics not directly related to the specific job opening. Take the mindset of being the one evaluating them to see if they will be a suitable employer.

  14. Re:What a fool. on The Net Routes Around Censorship In Turkey · · Score: 1

    That's Saint Reagan to you liberal scum.

  15. Re:What a fool. on The Net Routes Around Censorship In Turkey · · Score: 1

    It would be pretty difficult since there are constitutional prohibitions on religious extremists and they worship Ataturk far more than Americans do for George Washington.

  16. Re:I prefer BlueCoat's SSL MITM functionality... on Some Sites That Blue Coat Blocks Under "Pornography" · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sarbx requires record keeping for financial auditing, not logging every single action by employees. If you think it requires monitoring all internet traffic then you are afflicted with a clueless PHB who would rather enforce draconian measures that treat all employees as a liability.

  17. Re:XP didn't make sense in the first place on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    They went with XP because it has some API similarities to the previous generation OS/2 machines.

  18. Re:Candidate on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 1

    Give up. The sort of small minded people attracted to the power and prestige of political offices will not be dissuaded by facts. The voters they pander to aren't bright enough to realize they're being lied to.

  19. Re:Fake? on College Grads Create Fake Tesla Commercial That Elon Musk Loves · · Score: 1

    The creators weren't connected to Tesla as part of any form of commerce so it isn't a commercial.

  20. Re:Good, and iceweasel on Firefox 29 Beta Arrives With UI Overhaul And CSS3 Variables · · Score: 1

    I wonder if iceweasel will ever learn to play nice and run when a firefox process is already running.

  21. Re:Never understood OLPC on CEO Says One Laptop Per Child Project Has Achieved Its Goals · · Score: 1

    The Sugar UI was supposed to be "discoverable" by illiterate children. As in they tap an icon and "discover" that waiting an eternity for a response from the over taxed processor is boring and not very fun.

  22. Re:Dynamic typing is a hack on Facebook Introduces Hack: Statically Typed PHP · · Score: 1

    Why do we need to "pack" and "unpack" the data? In any sane programming language, you can access the bytes directly as an indexed array.

    Because it's a simple way to control the endianness and low level layout of binary data. Few "sane" programming languages provide that level of control with direct memory accesses, Ada being one exception and even that requires some extra incantations to make work.

  23. Re:CSS sucks on Firefox 29 Beta Arrives With UI Overhaul And CSS3 Variables · · Score: 2

    Because it isn't a table. It can be rendered in a single column if a browser (lynx for instance) can't do three column.

  24. Re:Forty-year-olds also have lives... on Ask Slashdot: Will Older Programmers Always Have a Harder Time Getting a Job? · · Score: 1

    They don't care about BS phrases like "Work hard play hard!"

    I interviewed for a company that used that as their slogan. Every interviewer mentioned it to me. It was like their mantra. They were absolutely gushing about all the neat things their founders were able to do and how fabulously wealthy they were now with nice glossy brochures detailing their exploits. I found out during the interview that they accomplished that by selling out to Wall Street, gutting their engineering staff, and outsourcing key development tasks to the point that they didn't know how their stuff worked. I'm so glad they never called me back.

  25. Re:As a 40 something programmer recently interview on Ask Slashdot: Will Older Programmers Always Have a Harder Time Getting a Job? · · Score: 1

    Since Java has been around for nearly 20 years there is a whole generation of management that is convinced of the dangers of developing without a GC. Then there is the whole fleet of youngins who are scared to manage memory allocation themselves. Native code is being expunged from all but niche corners of development because of the inexperience and ignorance of the masses.