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  1. Guys,

    a curious European here.

    If what he did was not illegal (treason or not) in US, how could US government prosecute him?
    Why did he have to flee at all?

  2. Re:A bot that flagrantly violated Blizzard's TOU on Sued Freelancer Allegedly Turns Over Contractee Source Code In Settlement · · Score: 1

    Is violating game's TOU is a civil offense, let alone, crime?
    IANAL, just wondering...

  3. Re:Rape in America versus India. on The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital · · Score: 2

    "or touching" does wonders.

  4. What "gender balance"? on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: I come from USSR myself.

    It's true that women had access to education and what not from Lenin's times.
    Yet it is still statistically "not balanced" as majority of STEM-ers or politicians are, again, men.
    The same goes for the top management of the most companies.
    You can sure come across women here and there, but it's hardly any different from the West.

    On top of it, views in regards of what harassment and "other things" is are much more, let's say, relaxed.
    Just an example from a popular series ""
    http://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/8...

    1) sexual relationships with the boss, so what, no big deal
    2) rape attempt, again, no big deal either

  5. Re:The U.S is literally a Hard Target on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Flamebait, huh? What a shame...

  6. Re:The U.S is literally a Hard Target on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Soldiers on Paris train WERE UNARMED!!!

    "Dozens died because of some armed motherfucker" is nothing unusual in US.

    Please check the stats on the likeliness of being shot in various countries, before promoting US way:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Re:India, Kenya, Paris...where next? on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently you are not taking into account that weapons being easily accessible also seriously increases number of motherfuckers misusing them.

    So no, thanks:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. AMD Carrizo, ever heard of it? on Intel Skylake-U For Laptops Posts Solid Gains In Testing, Especially Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD does fine at low power, at least after Carrizo release:
    http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

    E.g. in HP EliteBook 725 G3, 7+ hours on battery:
    http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/...

  9. AMD is stuck with 28nm fabs.
    AMD has much smaller budget.
    AMD is rapidly losing GPU market share despite having excellent products (both R9 380 and R9 390 rock).

    So yeah, shame on AMD.

  10. What bugs me in kstarter, is not when it fails on Another $1 Million Crowdfunded Gadget Company Collapses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean you bet X bucks, company might or might not manage to do it, if it fails, you lose.
    I'm OK with that.

    The problem is even when one out of a hundred (thousand?) projects is a huge success, e.g. Oculus Rift, backers don't get rewarded for it. AT ALL.

  11. Too much hype for what it actually is on Vulnerability In Java Commons Library Leads To Hundreds of Insecure Applications (foxglovesecurity.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your app needs to be accepting Serialized Java objects as input.
    Yay.
    Never seen that used in any project I was part of and if that would happen security concerns alarm would ring in pretty much any competent team.

  12. Re:Another example of why Java sucks on Vulnerability In Java Commons Library Leads To Hundreds of Insecure Applications (foxglovesecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Magnitudes slower means "10-100-1000 times slower" which is BS.
    Java's main problem is memory footprint, not execution speed.
    Which is on par with C++ code, unless you do extreme object allocate/GC or use sin/cos (which used to be done NOT using CPUs capabilities, leading to much slower code. All to guarantee exactly the same result across platforms)

  13. Reasons listed in TFA are TOTALLY wrong on Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix (coglib.com) · · Score: 2

    Based on my experience, I'm working for one of the big multi-nationals for years.

    Bugs fixed quicker in commercial software, are you kidding me?
    Fucking, seriously???
    It's not only that most of the times you have to find workarounds/fixes yourself, it's that since it's commercial and not OSS code, what you'll likely face won't even be decompiled code, it will be bloody OBFUSCATED decompiled code with things like a.b.c.d1() all over the place!!!

    At least for the corp I work for (and I'm pretty sure for most corporations out there) the main reasons for go for commercial over OSS is: LEGAL.
    Some motherfucker patents "using (some ancient thingy that everyone on the planet uses) to quickly iterate over tree)" and kaboom, with OSS (no protection whatsoever) you need to pay either them directly or lawyers to fend them off.

    With commercial software that's seller's problem.
    As easy as that.

    There are, of course, libs that are too widely used and would seriously harm IT projects if not used, e.g. apache commons libs. Well, for that there is short whitelist of items that "have been reviewed" along with "mitigation strategies".

    Every manager is aware of this, so when you have a choice over "ShareIt" or "ShareThis", one is free, one is not, decision is made instantly, "of course we want the non-free one".

  14. Re:No car hits its official CO2 output level on Volkswagen Emissions Issues Spread To Gasoline Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it hasn't been even lab results, they've just made up some numbers.

    PS
    CO2 can be calculated from known mpg or l/100km.

  15. Re:High correlation between nerotypical and slacke on Huge Survey Shows Correlation Between Autistic Traits and STEM Jobs (cam.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's about number of neurons, dude.
    Long-finned pilot whale (also known as "dolphin" =)) is the only species with more neurons than humans.

  16. It works differently in (most of) EU on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are not limited by dealer's inventory.
    You normally order a fully customized car, which is built specially for you.
    It normally takes 2-6 weeks to manufacture and deliver it.

  17. Re:Slashdot Reader's Reading Comprehension FAILED on Study: Standardized Tests Overwhelming Public Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's spent on taking the tests, so what?
    A sample test excerpt, showing how you need to learn "tests" instead of actual subject, to pass it, would help your argument.

    Because, otherwise, it seems you are forgetting that tests, while not ideal, are created to test for knowledge.

  18. Re: 20 hours? That's nothing. on Study: Standardized Tests Overwhelming Public Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What about students who can't stand being evaluated by dumbasses?
    What about teachers who can't teach a shit, but are there just because, oh well, there aren't really too many candidates for the position?

    You can't pass good tests without learning anything, just by "learning how to pass tests". There might be a couple of tricks, but that's it.

    Teachers can't control, who gets into their class, but they sure can try to make them better. Without any kind of objective feedback system, there is neither motivation for the teachers to teach better, nor a way to evaluate their performance.

    And 20 hours per year being too much, what a joke...

  19. Re: Did they learn anything?? on Study: Standardized Tests Overwhelming Public Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    No, not really.
    What's good for a bad/cheating teacher isn't good for his/her students.

    Without tests, you can't objectively judge teacher's performance.

  20. Latest AMD GPus are Fury and 3xx not 2xx, 7xxx on 22-Way SteamOS Graphics Card Comparison: NVIDIA Wins Across the Board (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    And while they are not brand new architecture from AMD, they DO perform differently than 2xx series.
    Yet they didn't make it into the review.
    HALF of the AMD cards reviewed aren't even previous generation, they are pre-previous.

    There is a reason (LiquidVR) Dell/Alienware went exclusively with AMD for Oculus Rift builds, somehow that doesn't matter for SteamOS, eh?
    http://hexus.net/tech/news/sys...

    AMD 380 is the best 200$ card out there at the moment. It beats 960 handily in most games, while consuming 10-30w more (n games)
    390 is within 5% of 980 performance, at a fraction of a price, and 30-40% more power consumption.

    AMDs GPUs are more than competitive at the moment, stop spreading BS.

  21. Re:I've been waiting for this! on Quantum Theory Experiment Said to Prove "Spooky" Interactions (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, as there is:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    which states that, during measurement of an entangled quantum state, it is not possible for one observer, by making a measurement of a subsystem of the total state, to communicate information to another observer.

  22. Sony Readers on Is Amazon Harming the E-reader Category? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    Sony was making (they actually pioneered the market) e-ink readers.
    They were making money on actual devices.
    Then came amazon.
    Amazon couldn't care less about making money on hardware, prices go down.
    Sony exits the market.

    Did we, customers, really benefit from the fact that only major book stores can actually compete, since devices are subsidized?

  23. Re:LOL .. RICO on Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns (scottandscottllp.com) · · Score: 1

    BS.
    Zalando.de (a major German online shop) runs on Postgres and they have one hell of a DB.

  24. Re:Fixing an ostensibly US only problem - NOT on Volkswagen Seeks To Repair Its Image By Focusing On Electric (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    It isn't US only issue, they've messed things up in other countries as well.
    3.6m european cars need hardware fix:
    http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/v...

    Before that, there was (mostly unnoticed) "oscar scandal" with ADAC rigging votes in favour of VW Golf:
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/774a...

    VW is rather "known" in German auto industry for having cars that perform on par (e.g. VW Sharan vs Ford S-Max) yet are regarded as way better cars by many journalists "for some reason".

  25. Re:Here here! on Happy Ada Lovelace Day (findingada.com) · · Score: 1

    In real world certain groups are over or under represented in certain fields.
    That's a fact.

    Whether it is because of "race issues" or not, is not a fact. Not at all. Something that SJWs tend to forget.