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  1. Re:Whaaa? on File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Didn't you notice it's always the same groups that release your TV shows?
    LOL, ASAP, AFG, DIMENSION, mSD?

    Take those down and it will become quite annoying.

  2. Re:No proof on FBI Seized 144,000 Bitcoins ($28.5 Million) From Silk Road Bust · · Score: 0

    All this technology is anonymized. There is no tracking possible, it's just guesswork.
    This is not a normal bank account.

  3. No proof on FBI Seized 144,000 Bitcoins ($28.5 Million) From Silk Road Bust · · Score: -1

    This whole seizing was done without any proof and is therefore illegal.
    With all the violations of due procedure that the FBI made, Ulbricht should be fine, like the MEGA guy was.

  4. Re:This game already exists, wtf. on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    Star Citizen is actually more like the X series.
    X Rebirth (upcoming)
    X3 Reunion (previous iteration)

  5. Re:They'd better ship the thing. on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    I'm one of the lucky folks who's never funded a Kickstarter project that failed to deliver.

    You could have just said you've never funded a Kickstarter project.

  6. Re:"Scare Quotes" on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    It works the same way when investing in businesses.
    People who invest earlier get a larger part of the pie, then they sell it for profit to new investors. The whole point of the exercise is to get a return on your investment, typically multiplying it by 4.

    Of course, this isn't quite like investing: crowdfunding is more like a gift in exchange for a future product, there are no returns on investment.

  7. Re:what? on Network Scientists Discover the 'Dark Corners' of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Japanese culture is different than western culture, especially in regards to how women are portrayed by the media.
    News at 11.

  8. Re:Tiniest violin on OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you buy a boat engine, you can complain all you want that it doesn't want for your car, there is nothing the seller will do to make it work.

  9. Re:Tiniest violin on OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's not their fault the customer doesn't use software that meets their requirements.

  10. Re:Tiniest violin on OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you can't even install Linux (which doesn't require any wiping of a hard drive), then you clearly aren't in their target market.

  11. Re:Not Surprising on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    I'm in favour of a minimal government, with minimal spending, minimal laws and overall minimal involvement in people's lives. Essentially let people do what the fuck they want so long as they do not prevent other people from doing so.
    This is not, however, what the Tea Party offers.

  12. working with management on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 1

    The hardest part of being a Software Engineer is making management understand how valuable you are and making them assign to you interesting work.

  13. Re:Fortran (plus MPI and some CUDA) on Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? · · Score: 1

    A FORTRAN compiler can generate better code than a C compiler for dumb code, the difference in that with C you have the option to optimize your code yourself and actually do a better job than even the FORTRAN compiler.

  14. Re:FORTRAN on Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? · · Score: 1

    FORTRAN is for scientists that aren't software engineers.
    You cannot do advanced optimizations (you do not have fine control of memory nor codegen) or make parallelism scale well with just FORTRAN. It's just a dumb number crunching language. While FORTRAN is still used for supercomputing, most of the time it's just for black box routines with the rest of the application in C or C++.

  15. Re: Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Somehow Americans have been led to believe that they're the caretakers of world and that they represent democracy and all that is just worldwide, but the truth is, everywhere their army goes, it's rejected and is doing more harm than anything else, because people do fine on their own with their own way of living.
    All the world has been asking is for the US to leave the rest of the world on its own.

  16. Re: Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A couple of thousand years.

  17. Re: Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 2

    That's because you're rich. The whole point of the system is that the rich pay more so that the poor can pay less.

  18. Re: Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 2

    American Imperialism is hurting my country's sovereignty more than it is protecting it...

  19. Re: Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In my country, 20% of my income goes to health care, and everyone finds it normal.
    It's the Americans that are weird.

  20. Re: Generic Shooter X on Under the Hood With Battlefield 4 · · Score: 1

    CoD and Battlefield are different games? I never noticed.

  21. Re: Obligatory SCons plug on GNU Make 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    ninja, tup, tundra...

  22. Re: Obligatory SCons plug on GNU Make 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    you realize make doesn't scale well either, right?

  23. Yes, all dropped projects.
    Delphi died quite a few years ago, and so did its compiler scene.

  24. Re:the oracle at... on South African Education Department Bans Free and Open Source Software · · Score: 2

    If you're teaching Java, you're irrelevant to the industry.
    The only language that has passed the test of time and that will always be relevant and a worthy language to master is C.

  25. Re:SA Educational plans and pricing for Office 365 on South African Education Department Bans Free and Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    All those services are available for free on the Internet.