Slashdot Mirror


User: selven

selven's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,692
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,692

  1. Re:Let's have some fun with the law! on Texas Teen Arrested Under New Online Harassment Law · · Score: 1

    Playing the court system (unless you're part of a multimillion dollar conglomerate) is highly illegal and could result in a few lawyers losing their licenses.

  2. Re:what's the DRM story? on Google Takes On Amazon With Own E-Book Store · · Score: 1

    Browser-based, likely as in "you can only access it from your Google account, no downloads".

  3. Re:How can this be secret? on Secret ACTA Treaty May Sport "Internet Enforcement" Procedures After All · · Score: 1

    After the secret negotiation. So the people don't have their say. And no, senators don't count as "the people".

    And BTW, I'm not an American citizen either.

  4. Re:Don't forget about Cybersecurity Act of 2009, t on Secret ACTA Treaty May Sport "Internet Enforcement" Procedures After All · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Kidnapping two people is enough where I come from

  5. Re:How can this be secret? on Secret ACTA Treaty May Sport "Internet Enforcement" Procedures After All · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So by the time the democracy part actually happens the negotiations are finalized and it's just a "take it or leave it" situation? I say screw that tradition and give us openness and accountability.

  6. Re:If you play enough, you will ALWAYS lose. on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 1

    It's still conceivably possible to count cards in poker.

  7. Re:Well of course on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 2, Informative

    Technically that strategy gives finite gains (ie. 0% return on investment). If you have a finite amount of money, however, the steady gains will be (in a fair game exactly, in a casino game more than) counterbalanced by the slim possibility of losing everything.

  8. Re:If you play enough, you will ALWAYS lose. on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 1

    A poker game with four twos of hearts in one hand would be weird. How would you classify it? Four in a kind flush?

  9. Re:How about using XP sp3 for comparison??? on Comparing Performance and Power Use For Vista vs. Windows 7 WIth Clarksfield Chi · · Score: 1

    ur mom might win

    This is slashdot, son, not 4chan. Here we post maturely and intelligently without ever resorting to personal insults and outdated internet memes.

  10. Re:Yep on Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking · · Score: 1

    In the world of PR, perception > reality.

  11. Re:The U.S. and the EU have the same power. on China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day · · Score: 1

    In a free country, that 10% justifies the other 90%. It's better to set 10 guilty men free than keep an innocent man in jail and all that.

  12. Re:(Un)Surprising on China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day · · Score: 1

    You mean the one that is enforced by nations so if a real world war starts it will get thrown out the window in two weeks?

  13. Re:Yep on Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking · · Score: 1

    Wait, so if you were an established well-known corporation you would WANT to get associated with cyberstalking? That kind of publicity is only effective for obscure small companies, and even then not very well.

  14. Re:Conspiracy? on Doubts Raised About Legal Soundness of GPL2 · · Score: 1

    Access to GPLV3 code. Whether or not that's significant or enough to overcome the loss of unupgradeable GPLV2 code is the issue.

  15. Re:Dual licenses don't work for open source ... on Doubts Raised About Legal Soundness of GPL2 · · Score: 1

    If you have a GPL project, contributors must agree to license their contributions under the GPL. If you have a dual-licensed project, contributors must agree to license their contributions under the dual license. Nothing that difficult about it.

  16. Re:Not as bad as it sounds! on Doubts Raised About Legal Soundness of GPL2 · · Score: 1

    Depends on what kind of compatibility you want. Getting GPL works into your license is impossible, but explicityly making your license GPL-compatible the other way is quite easy ("derivative works may be licensed under this license or the GPL")

  17. Re:Sounds cool, but... on 12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000 · · Score: 1

    Um... the primes in question are just a long list of ones.

  18. Re:Sounds cool, but... on 12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000 · · Score: 1

    It's a separate donation fund managed by the EFF. They're not stealing from our brave soldiers fighting the RIAA and the government.

  19. Re:Actually the 47th on 12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000 · · Score: 1

    Yep, there' only one more left - just multiply all the ones we have and subtract 1. Err... and multiply all the ones we have and add 1. Crap, now there's more prime numbers to multiply.

  20. Re:Movies on UK Copyright Group Tells Cinemas to Ban Laptops · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Good thing we have engineers working hard to remove the smartphone/laptop distinction.

  21. Re:How about using XP sp3 for comparison??? on Comparing Performance and Power Use For Vista vs. Windows 7 WIth Clarksfield Chi · · Score: 3, Informative

    Windows 98 might win.

  22. Re:Microsoft Windows on Device Protects Day Traders From Emotional Trading · · Score: 1

    Windows has prevented you from installing Ubuntu because you do not seem to be acting rationally.

  23. Re:why drones are so BAD on Behind the Scenes With America's Drone Pilots · · Score: 1

    We should go back to the model of having important people fighting on the front lines. It would discourage war quite a bit I imagine.

  24. Re:ChAir Force on Behind the Scenes With America's Drone Pilots · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hate use of the word "coward" in a military context. Two thousand people use guerrilla tactics against your army of forty thousand? Cowards. Many of your men are killed while sleeping in an ambush? Cowards. A gunman refuses to fight your sword-based army from melee range and keeps firing and running away? Coward. When you're doing it, it's good strategy. When the bad guys do it, it's cowardice.

  25. Re:ChAir Force on Behind the Scenes With America's Drone Pilots · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What part of the GP's post is bigotry? People kill over religious figures, that's true for every religion (and every other ideology while we're at it). But Christians, even ones transported 800 years forward from the Crusades, are not going to kill you for insulting Job, because they don't revere him like they do God, Jesus and Moses.