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  1. Re:armchair engineers on Some Virgin Galactic Customers Demand Money Back · · Score: 2

    His post doesn't sound like he's reached any conclusion.

  2. Not enough lasting value on Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App · · Score: 1

    According to the page you told me to read, it means

    "If your app doesnâ(TM)t offer much functionality or content, or only applies to a small niche market, it may not be approved."

    That's actually pretty useful information, if you want to design something targeted at a relatively small community, perhaps steer clear of Apple.

  3. Re:Unusual in a huge system ... on Information Theory Places New Limits On Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    It isn't not an entirely unreasonably way to discuss the opposite.

  4. Re:Dumbest argument ever on Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,' According To a Koch-Backed Astroturf Group · · Score: 1

    It's not dumb if it costs you nothing and influences your victim as you desire.

  5. Re:That's it? on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    Without a TPM or asking questions about the ads that the user has seen, ad-blocker blockers are ultimately fallible.

  6. Fire(wall) and forget on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It sounds a little like you're trying to just fling a firewall at the system and improve some sort of objective security metric.

    What threats are you risks to mitigate with the firewall? What threats will it help guard against?

    They don't come for free, and configuring them don't come for free.

  7. Re:The only good thing on Suddenly Visible: Illicit Drugs As Part of Silicon Valley Culture · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where's the '-1 heartless' mod?

  8. Re:Forget reading, GET AN IMPLANT! on A Brain Implant For Synthetic Memory · · Score: 2

    "a lot of basic research needs to be done first" == "is unlikely to happen in your lifetime"

  9. Re:brace yourself on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1

    Everyone damn well should know the basics of how engines work, though.

  10. Re:Money for his defense on DOJ Hasn't Actually Found Silk Road Founder's Bitcoin Yet · · Score: 1

    Looking at the shows she does watch, you'd assume she doesn't finds televised fiction too stimulating.

  11. Re:WTF.. on Relicensing of MySQL Man Pages Just a Bug · · Score: 1

    I know right. How hard is it to say something fewer good??

  12. Re: More objective would be welcome on Chemists Build App That Could Identify Cheap Replacements For Luxury Wines · · Score: 2

    it does if you're trying to indirectly identify chemicals in a glass of wine.

  13. Re:a rose by any other name on Today Is International Day Against DRM · · Score: 1

    But without a big explanation, it doesn't look like you're attemping to point out that the actual name is a deceptive ploy to obfuscate what DRM does. It looks like you've made an embarrassing mistake.

    People love writing off people who make silly mistakes as nuts.

    Look at my post above - typed it on a phone, full of typos and grammar errors. If I was trying to argue something important there, anything that could be interpretted as error on my part invites ad hominem attacks which are always good for swaying the opinion of the masses.

  14. a rose by any other name on Today Is International Day Against DRM · · Score: 1

    calling it 'restrictions' is petulent and confusing. without a verbose disclaimer about what you mean and why youve corrupted the name it becomes confusing.

    arguments against DRM are just as valid whilst avoiding cheap shots.

  15. Re:How to be retarded. Step one: Buy a Mac on Stolen Laptop Owner Outwits Mugger, Police, and the Media · · Score: 1

    Calm down polemics aren't much use if you don't address the facts.

    Seems to have strong evidence this chap new the laptop was stolen, even if he didn't steal it himself.

    Laptop belongs to the insurance company now. It was insured.

  16. Re:What? on Apache Terminates Struts 1 · · Score: 1

    Yes. It wasn't always terminated.

  17. Re:No, coding is useless to an entrepreneur on Do Tech Entrepreneurs Need To Know How To Code? · · Score: 1

    "But this is a fundamental change in the data model and means touching nearly our entire code base"

    Red flag. Badly designed system.

  18. Re:No. No. Fuck no. on Social Robots May Gain Legal Rights, Says MIT Researcher · · Score: 2

    "if we treat animals in inhumane ways, we become inhumane persons. This logically extends to the treatment of robotic companions"

    Non sequitur, surely.

  19. Re:Oracle doesn't care about developer people on Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly they were so overwhelmed by their success with OpenOffice they want to replicate it with MySQL.

  20. Re:Facts! Don't talk to me about facts! on The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record · · Score: 2

    Most people I see on Slashdot, whether they think piracy is great, terrible or anywhere in between don't think the damage it does warrants special laws or draconian civil penalties. Reading anecdotes like this makes economic arguments for additional copyright legislation harder to swallow.

    Saying piracy is theft confuses it with a completely different thing. Only good to call it that if you are looking to confuse people.

    You (I guess?) live in a country where your copyright on what you create outlasts anyone alive when you publish it. Madness to think this is a good thing.

  21. Re:No bubble. on How Long Before the Kickstarter Bubble Bursts? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone I know buys pet food online, but none of us have pets.

  22. Re:c# what a lousy name on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 2

    Generally, for those who don't get it: don't explain.

  23. Genetic influence on Is Humanity Still Evolving? · · Score: 1

    Is this the same as asking if their genetic makeup influences a person's chances of having kids?

  24. Re:Passwords are for philistines on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 1

    Are you thinking of RSA SecurID? That is something quite different.

    If you want to log in to my SSH server, then in practice you need a private counterpart to a public key which you have added to your authorized_keys file.

  25. Re:I hope this is an April Fool on British Government To Grant Warrantless Trawl of Communications Data · · Score: 5, Informative

    The story is real, the Slashdot summary is utterly incorrect. For example, from the article:

    "A new law ... would not allow GCHQ to access the content of emails, calls or messages without a warrant"

    Also it doesn't say anything about trawling stored data, or proposing a requirement to stored data, rather that with a a warrant, GCHQ must be able to access data in real time.