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  1. Re:Sly on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Give me one free certification provider that doesn't require installing anything on the user's side.

  2. Paying for studies on Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? · · Score: 1

    This concept still feels so alien to me.
    Studies are meant to be free.

    If you're paying, doesn't that mean they're basically handing you your degree in exchange for money?

  3. Re:And... on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    This guy gets it.
    The living room is for watching movies and sharing drinks with guests.

    Keep your gaming to your office room. That's where your computer should be anyway.
    Only students have computers in their living room.

    You can still have a media center in your living room that can access your NAS in the office room, but you're better off buying a dedicated noiseless box for this. Nowadays even the stuff they give you with a DSL subscription do this.

  4. Re:Efficiency on There's No Such Thing As a General-Purpose Processor · · Score: 1

    Most processors require less than 100W.
    It's the peripherals that take a lot of power.

  5. Re:"Approacheable FPS" on Blizzard Announces Overwatch, a First-Person Shooter · · Score: 0

    How can your days of twitch play be long behind you when twitch is a brand new thing?

  6. Re:Nothing? on Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing · · Score: 1

    It's Jon without an h.

  7. What is this "opinion piece"? on Space Tourism Isn't Worth Dying For · · Score: 1

    Since when does slashdot publishes some random guy's opinion?
    Who gives a fuck if some nutbag likes to proclaim he knows whether the death of someone else was worth it?

    I'd rather have news instead.

  8. Natural light on The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows · · Score: 1

    So I guess that means window-less airplanes won't have any natural light.
    This is more of a problem than lack of a view.

    Staying 20 hours seated in a plane, waiting, is painful enough as it is, lack of natural light only makes it worse.
    Remember that some people (me included) just cannot sleep during a flight.

  9. Re: Spiritual Needs on Jedi-ism Becomes a Serious Religion · · Score: 1

    Social constructs that go beyond a single person's individuality are real; be them beliefs, philosophies or values.
    Humans are social animals, and it is usually accepted that narcissistic individualism, which goes against this, makes it harder to reach happiness.

  10. Re: Spiritual Needs on Jedi-ism Becomes a Serious Religion · · Score: 1

    If you believe that wanting to be part of something greater is juvenile, then I'm afraid you're being delusional and lack self-reflection.
    My guess is that you're insecure about your own maturity, which in its itself is more juvenile that the natural human trait you're trying to deride.

  11. Re:UK article, US units on U.K. Supermarkets Beta Test Full-Body 3D Scanners For Selfie Figurines · · Score: 1

    Is it fluid enough that money is counted in dollars too?

  12. Re:This won't end well on U.K. Supermarkets Beta Test Full-Body 3D Scanners For Selfie Figurines · · Score: 3

    What's the problem? Are you afraid of nudity?

  13. UK article, US units on U.K. Supermarkets Beta Test Full-Body 3D Scanners For Selfie Figurines · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why is that allowed?

  14. Re:Your patents are already invalid on Ask Slashdot: Handling Patented IP In a Job Interview? · · Score: 1

    Yet another proof that the US patent system is a joke.
    It doesn't work like that in the EU.

  15. Your patents are already invalid on Ask Slashdot: Handling Patented IP In a Job Interview? · · Score: 1

    If you mentioned your patents on your resume before the long and tedious process of patenting is finished, your patents are already invalid anyway.

  16. Re:Not news on Where Intel Processors Fail At Math (Again) · · Score: 1

    It's commonly used by everyone using "long double" instead of "double" in their x86 code.

    long double isn't even supported by all compilers that run on x86-64 (most notably MSVC++), and of course it's specific to those processors. With other processors, long double can mean something else entirely.
    Anyone serious about floating point only uses the IEEE754 formats, and for scientific computing the only one used is double precision, though single precision is also popular as a way to get an estimate on which you can apply iterative refinement.

    For example, if you want to write a function that calculates sqrt (x^2 + y^2) for double precision x and y, that's very very hard to get right using double precision only, but using long double in the calculation and rounding to double makes it trivial.

    Just use a library that does it correctly. The function is called 'hypot'.
    Using long double just makes it slow and non-portable.

  17. Not news on Where Intel Processors Fail At Math (Again) · · Score: 1

    First, it's an x87 instruction. This unit has been deprecated for a decade.
    Second, It was never meant to produce correct rounding for extended precision, and never claimed to. The documentation has always clearly stated 1 ULP of precision.

    Apparently, some newbie doesn't understand what this means, and somehow it's a thing.

  18. Re:Exact mathematical value isn't the ideal on Where Intel Processors Fail At Math (Again) · · Score: 1

    IEEE754, however, does require the standard C 'sin' function to be correctly rounded (i.e. as exact as it can be given the limited amount of bits).

  19. Just pirate it on Adobe Photoshop Is Coming To Linux, Through Chromebooks · · Score: 1

    As usual, the only option to be able to run software decently is to pirate it.
    They won't even sell the damn thing, there is no other choice.

  20. Re: Catching up with Fedora on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Try clink. It makes the shell slightly less bad.

  21. Re: Let's talk methodology on Analyzing Silk Road 2.0 · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. It's a perfectly fine assumption.
    Maybe you're the only ass that reviews products he didn't buy?

  22. Re: It seems to me... on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    2. Why would a weapons grade laser have great output power but the mirrors not similarly improve?

    You do realize weapons-grade laser at not science fiction, and actually exist and are in use in the military?

  23. Re: It seems to me... on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    A weapons-grade laser will still burn the mirrors of even the best telescopes.

  24. Re: It seems to me... on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but mirrors don't actually work against lasers in real life.

  25. Re: Best outcome on Exxon and Russian Operation Discovers Oil Field Larger Than the Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 1

    I don't get it, though I only watched the first few seconds.
    It's just a bunch of selfish people who don't give a shit about morals.

    What's the inherent idiocy here?