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  1. Ow My Bones! on TV Programmers Seek the Elusive Dog Market · · Score: 1

    That is all.

  2. 100 jobs on Google Raises Campaign Funds For Climate Change Denier · · Score: 1

    100 jobs is not a "significant operation". It's a drop in the bucket.

  3. Re:Cobol is self-documenting on The Pentagon's Seven Million Lines of Cobol · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well the source code is usually fairly legible, but at 7 million lines the spaghetti factor is likely pretty high.

    You assume the source code was still available.

  4. Skill level? on Modeling How Programmers Read Code · · Score: 1

    How did they determine a programmer's skill level? Length of time as a programmer? Ability to find and fix bugs? Self-assessment? Some other metric? Maybe they should have asked on Slashdot how to determine a programmer's skill level. That would have yielded the one, definitive, indisputable method of determining a programmer's skill level.

  5. "It basically fucks up algorithims" on Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting · · Score: 1

    I would use it based on that quote alone. But if she really wants to fuck with algorithms, she should make it scramble cookies by updating them with random info.

  6. Re:Data Verification on NSA Revelation Leads FTC To Propose "Reclaim Your Name" Initiative · · Score: 1

    No need for the ability to remove it; just change important info to all blanks.

  7. Get the 411 and Google listing people next on FTC Wins Huge $7.5 Million Penalty Against "Do Not Call" List Violator · · Score: 1

    They need to aim their sights at the people who call about your "free" Google and 411 listings (neither of whom are either Google or the phone company).

  8. Re: Citation Needed on Node.js and MongoDB Turning JavaScript Into a Full-Stack Language · · Score: 1

    TFA wasn't making the case that server-side JS itself was jaw-dropping; it was making the case that an application could be jaw-dropping if it was built by a rock-star JS coder who could code for both the client and the server.

  9. Oh, the humanities on Why Engineering Freshmen Should Take Humanities Courses · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with the humanities, but being a programmer exposes you to enough uncertainty, doubt and skepticism for a lifetime. Same probably applies to any of the sciences. What's more, the uncertainty in science can be measured. Not so much for the uncertainty in the humanities.

  10. Re:In conclusion on Google Respins Its Hiring Process For World Class Employees · · Score: 1

    I've seen this TV show.

  11. Re:Good on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    The tax should be on frequency (perhaps in addition to volume). A one-time purchase of several million shares is not HFT, but multiple purchases of millions of shares over a short period is HFT. The longer the time between purchases, the lower the tax would be.

  12. Re:Don't play.... on Ask Slashdot: How To Bypass Gov't Spying On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    Do you really suppose that the people the NSA would identify as "terrorists" would use the word "terrorist" when they're talking to one another?

    Yes--when referring to those they intend to terrorize.

  13. Re:His mistake is obvious on Man Who Sold $100 Million Worth of Pirated Software Gets 12 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    He should have done the transactions in bitcoin.

    That would be insecure since Chinese Bitcoins have holes in them.

  14. Tracking calls on Majority of Americans Say NSA Phone Tracking Is OK To Fight Terrorism · · Score: 1

    56% are okay with the NSA tracking their calls because nobody uses phones for making calls these days.

  15. Re:Constitution on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 1

    By that logic, Verizon could have refused to turn over their records and would have then been immune from prosecution by the government for non-compliance. All that's missing is Step 3: Profit.

  16. Re:Stumped my ass on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    Maybe the car is sentient, hates the current own and wants to be stolen.

    Is it named Christine?

  17. Re:But not to give them a chance to correct it fir on Google Security Expert Finds, Publicly Discloses Windows Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    Security through obscurity is no security at all.

    ALL security is accomplished through obscurity. The difference is in the degree of obscurity used, which usually correlates to the desired level of security.

  18. Re:How to block ? on Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer On Way To Chess World Record · · Score: 1

    Insert lame joke regarding how, in Soviet Russia, Bitcoin mines you!.

  19. Re:oh jeez; let's all discover agile again on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 1

    The one that people title "Project_Status_FINAL_VERSION_23.xls" and email to each other, thereby ensuring nobody ever knows what the final version is or how to determine it?

  20. PET 2001 (futuristic!) and a Teletype on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    I kept my 7th grade programming notes. Yeah, they were mimeographed. Get off my lawn.

  21. Re:Hell, I'd buy it. on Apple-1 Sells For $671,400, Breaks Previous Auction Record · · Score: 1

    I wonder if any of their blue boxes are still around.

  22. Re:Surcharge on AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that when they announce, "This call may be recorded..." they are explicitly giving you permission to record the call.

  23. Re:Try to do something right on Reporters Threatened, Labeled Hackers For Finding Security Hole · · Score: 1

    But the reporter can't be anonymous and trustworthy.

    But how can we trust that this is true since you posted as AC?

  24. Re:They've shot themselves in the foot legally on New Prenda Law Shell Corp Threatening to Tell Your Neighbors You Pirated Porn · · Score: 1

    Not to mention anybody who may have passed by the house.

  25. Re:It is tough on Has Supercomputing Hit a Brick Wall? · · Score: 1

    Moore's Law Horst's Wall