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  1. Re:Alternatives on SourceForge Responds To nmap Maintainer's Claims · · Score: 2

    Try looking for good subs on Reddit. If you get rid of the defaults and just use your own, it can be a pretty good place.

  2. That's it- I'm out on SourceForge Responds To nmap Maintainer's Claims · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No more DHI Group anything, ever.

    You want to bitch about it- call these people- don't even bother posting here:

    http://www.dhigroupinc.com/investors/corporate-governance/default.aspx

  3. I guess... on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Since I started learning from my dad in the 70's- I wish someone would have told me how mean and spiteful would come to prevalence as the default behavior. I am glad I began when I was young and had wonderful mentors. I am glad I knew who Don Nelson was as well.

  4. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    The two things can exist independently of one another.

    Yes, I don't like the car because it's not my thing and I agree with their conclusion of if you are wanting a car to take to the track this car is pointless. However I do believe the car can perform as Tesla say it does if you treat it the way they say you should.

    The court showed they did not lie- because they didn't. The handling is awful, it takes a longer time to 'fill the tank' than it should to be useful on a daily basis for anyone who commutes over Tesla's distance, the brakes failed, the batteries, when using it as race car, last ~52 miles. Factual all.

  5. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Is it a good track car in low performance mode? No. Does being in low performance mode make getting shots of it for a film about a sports car going around a track possible? No. Were the calculations correct for when it would have been drained of power? Yes. Are they correct in that, for this purpose, the Tesla is useless? Completely.

    In what was said, they did not lie. The court ruling backs that up.

    Sounds like people are being fanboys of Tesla. The car is a pointless waste of money unless you want something to stand next to it and talk all about it. If you want a track car a 25k BRZ is a vastly superior choice. Plus, I disagree with them, it's ugly too.

  6. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    And would they have if they continued to run it as they had in the time that they indicated? Why yes, yes they would have. The charge when driven that hard lasts *exactly* as long as they say it does. They didn't drain them on film because they were trying to get all the shots in before light was gone.

    The only point at which people would be deceived is if they weren't actually listening to what was being said.

  7. Re:battery weight in the middle on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    That much weight in the low middle is handling nightmare as evidenced by the Tesla's abysmal handling in corner.

    Hydrogen is the best, easiest and 'greenest'. It's the right way. We made it to space in a decade. We can do hydrogen on a cheap substrate in half that time. Think of all the lithiums we'll save alone.

  8. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Annnd you didn't watch the segment on Top Gear. The brakes broke on the first one. Charging the battery back to full takes -far- longer filling a tank of gas. When they drove it hard around the track, I don't know, like a sports car, the batteries didn't make it very long. The weight distribution with all those batteries in the middle is atrocious. The things they said happened did happen and they are all valid points. They did tart some of it up to get good shots.

    In that same episode May points out the correct method of powering a car of the future, with hydrogen. Not toxic, useless, ancient battery technology.

  9. Stop with the dogs on Gaming Clichés That Need To Die · · Score: 1

    Could I please get you guys to stop making us to shoot dogs. Even demon dogs. It just sucks.

    Also, more grappling hooks. In fact, in a completely formal and scientific pole [sic] here at work at a *major* games company, it was decided every game developed from here on out should allow the player the use of a grappling hook. Just Cause 2 FTW!

  10. Re:Intriguing but... on Animated Presentations Using SVG · · Score: 2

    But what about Facebook and Twitter integration?

  11. They force you to do it. Then there are the ones who thrive on it like Chambers. Remember- they guy who 100% botched the mobile Flash announcement?

  12. Re:Is it open sourced? on Facebook Releases JIT PHP Compiler · · Score: 1

    Weren't you my friend on some site somewhere?

  13. Re:"not nearly as well realized as with Flash" on Adobe's New HTML5 Design Tool No Threat To Flash · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it does not produce a canvas. It uses divs and CSS. Add to that the lack of a scripting window and I think what you have here is just a cute, memory intensive animation tool.

  14. Re:We've all seen Maker Faire on Detroit Maker Faire Was Kinda Awesome · · Score: 1

    Thank you for completely validating my point you jaded internet neck beard.

    F*5k now I am doing it.

    Someone, anyone rescue the world from this incessant hypercycle commentary. Let the world breathe.

  15. Re:This was America before "free trade". on Detroit Maker Faire Was Kinda Awesome · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes let's do this. Let's have one of these imbecilic discussions in the face of someone who has found joy. This is a great idea.

    So here we go. I know for certain what killed America- it was Obama. He did. All by himself. No wait, maybe it was the Tea Party... no... taxes, yes that was it, taxes punched America in the nuts. No, Kevin Smith. Cop Out FFS? No, it was Gingrich and Reagan- the original tax and spenders. No, it was dogma (not the Kevin Smith movie- well- wait, it could have been that...) Wait, it was religion. Religion killed the whole world and Obama is it's Rosicrucian overlord. Wait, George Bush- he is still killing America and in league with the Trilateral commission which is a Masonic plot to immanentize the eschaton.

    What were we talking about?

    Jesus Christ. Perhaps it was a bad fu$&ing attitude that is killing America?

    The author found inspiration and hope in a place without a whole lot to spare. Let's, perhaps, for once, applaud and foster that.

    I do remember my(the) first Maker Faire. It filled me with the same exuberance as the author- took tons of pictures, talked to people and got encouragement about a few ideas I had milling about in my brain, made some great friends, met the makers of the flame spitting serpent, saw kids engaging and creating in a way that I would hope they could in school. It all left that fire in me not just of self worth but of hope. It's still with me. It reinforced my belief that there are more people who want to do and share and be part of something than those who don't.

    Rock the f#(k on CmdrTaco.

  16. Re:AZ isn't anti-immigrant on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 1

    Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.


    There is still slavery.
    There are still Nazis.
    American independence is far from secure.

    So that's that then. War is just a brutish, stupid way of stating one's opinion.
  17. Re:Interesting. on Camera Lets You Shift Focus After Shooting · · Score: 1

    See what 'cursory' reading gets you? I thought the array was integral to the chip. Makes me wonder if one were to modify a Sony NEX(since the sensor is totally exposed with the lens off) with a similar array that you might get the same thing. For that matter any Canon that can employ CHDK might be able to do the same thing using a script or a special build of the firmware.

    Thanks for taking the time to read it right.

  18. Re:Interesting. on Camera Lets You Shift Focus After Shooting · · Score: 1

    I don't believe that it is. From the cursory second reading of the paper- it's a new type of sensor.

  19. Re:Not as surprising as it should be on SSL/TLS Vulnerability Widely Unpatched · · Score: 1

    My point is that if you walked in to Mr Pointyheads office and started rattling things off like MD5, plain text or ROT-13- eyes would just roll back and he would grumble how much he hates IT and that it should just be stuffed in to the Cloud because the Cloud just works and is safe and makes toast and answers help desk support calls and installs the latest patches and and and... All while saving "8 billion dollars" of salary of those horrible IT people who just sit there an complain all the time and put up resistance to his brillian company saving 1 week implementation schedule listed on the micro-transaction slide in his power point presentation.

    Or to say it another way, the patch for the web server and code that we read about here only appears to him as down time and dollars spent on surly cave dwellers- an expensive line item for the unwashed that he will be forced to comprehend.

    And this is the same guy who will have moved on to some other department when the DB containing all the credit cards and passwords ends up on a tweet and the fingers get pointed at the surly cave dwllers who have been telling Pointyhead to prioritize the patch over his ill thought through bullet points.

    Sorry. These stories really touch a nerve with me.

  20. Re:Not as surprising as it should be on SSL/TLS Vulnerability Widely Unpatched · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this all eerily fit in with the slashdot story about the hating of IT and all the Anon 'hacking' activity lately? Or should I just keep my mouth shut?

  21. Re:Best book on the subject on Book Review -- JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 6th Edition · · Score: 1

    This is probably the clearest explanation I have seen of this problem in ever. Yes, in ever. It makes it look just as nice as it can which is ugly as hell. If I may hang on to it to share?

    Also, I was looking around the other day for 'promise' type stuff in JS and found this:
    http://blog.jcoglan.com/2011/03/05/translation-from-haskell-to-javascript-of-selected-portions-of-the-best-introduction-to-monads-ive-ever-read/

  22. Re:Best book on the subject on Book Review -- JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 6th Edition · · Score: 1

    Ahh gotcha. Have never actually run in to that being a problem. I guess that's from know that is one of the quirks is helpful and allows me to code with that in mind. Now, I am just beginning work on a pure JS application. Perhaps it will come up there. Lots of fingers in this pie.

  23. Re:Best book on the subject on Book Review -- JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 6th Edition · · Score: 1

    Crazy rules for var? Like every child object of the object in which var is declared has access to that variable? Doesn't sound like too much mayhem if you use closure. And for scoped code like interfaces I quite like the 'require' pattern. var Foo = require(foo.js); Where foo.js: require.exports = {random assortment of scoped objects}

    I don't see these as cleanup problems, just ability to write clean code to begin with.

    Although I am not sure I am getting to the root of your issue. The problem isn't really clear.

  24. Re:Thank God we have Coffeescript on Book Review -- JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 6th Edition · · Score: 1

    Dunno if I would have worded it quite that way. Probably would have left out the fucks. I probably would have gone on to say that both Ruby and Python syntax are absurd to look at and decipher if you are blessed with the gift of understanding C-like syntax. The notion that white space is syntactically crucial is ridiculous.

    Nah, the Ruby/Python quirks are as numerous and odd as JS so it appears that the thesis of the parent's statement is mostly invalid.

  25. Re:Best book on the subject on Book Review -- JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 6th Edition · · Score: 1

    Here's an idea- don't be a lazy good-for-nothing and use 'this'. Try working with var self = this. You'll find your headache magically disappears because scope is clear.

    And I'll betcha a fin that little piece of advice is in the book. It's in Javascript: The Good Parts.