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  1. Be generic, be obvious on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Follow those two rules and (usually) the code will turn out ok.

  2. Re:Write-only code. on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Were a and b moved or copied? In your example we can't know.

  3. Re:Write-only code. on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Elegant means nothing if the code is shit. Poco is a prime example of this. Beautiful interface and API's... that suck balls when you actually use them.

  4. Pulsars on Strange Stars Pulse To the Golden Mean · · Score: 2

    Were they not also deemed as artificial at one point?

  5. Just fucking great.

  6. Re:beta lovers use systemd on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 2

    What was wrong with Event Horizon?

  7. No on Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? · · Score: 1

    We are not your fallback plan in the event that things to to pot in Europe (yet again).

  8. Re:This is why... on Quebecker Faces Jail For Not Giving Up Phone Password To Canadian Officials · · Score: 1

    I am thinking of the child who just ranted against America in response to Canadian violations of privacy.

  9. Re:Don't call it "hand over" on Quebecker Faces Jail For Not Giving Up Phone Password To Canadian Officials · · Score: 1

    Well, in the US you do... if you are under arrest.

  10. He is crazy on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 2

    The trial will be classified. He will be made an example of to prevent further leaks. He'd be nuts to return.

  11. Re:USA vs UK on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 2

    Actually, no. Had we been allowed a seat in Parliament we would be happy Brits to this day. Well, maybe more like Canadians.

    No, strike that. Not like Canadians as we have tans here.

    Also, their tea really sucked.

  12. MIsinformation on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    The whole thing is bullshit.

    He is only trying to mask the fact that they already have broken most if not all encryption.

  13. Re:I don't see what's wrong with this on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    No.

  14. Qrne Zvpurny Ebtref, on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    Tb shpx lbhefrys.

    Gung vf nyy.

    Fixed that for you.

  15. Re:Not used in concentration camps on 100 Years of Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    It is a valid distinction. Also note that three of the extermination camps employed carbon monoxide. Treblika, Sobibor, and Belzec simply hooked up tank engine exhaust to fake shower rooms (plus there was a place with so called gas vans that were simply moving vans with the exhaust routed into the back of the truck). No fancy chemicals needed.

  16. Carbon Monoxide on 100 Years of Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    Despite the press Zyklon B gets, carbon monoxide was the Nazi gas of choice.

  17. Re:Pesticides for humans on 100 Years of Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    Too bad there isn't an obvious meta tag.

  18. Re:Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    Come to Baltimore and try that.

  19. I have been predicting this for years on The Robots That Will Put Coders Out of Work · · Score: 0

    Code generators, syntax highlighting, then on to integrated refactoring tools, things like Intellisense.... I give software engineers 15 years.

  20. "Jumps into our system"???? on Ask Slashdot: How Could We Actually Detect an Alien Invasion From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    WTF does that even mean? It is useless speculating about what is unknown or is fiction.

    That said, if they were arriving through more conventional means, we would simply see them: some mode of optical detection such as star occultation, sunlight glints, drive flares, and eventually just flat out seeing them via telescope (assuming we were looking).

    Also we could hear them: energy discharge from drives, EM transmissions... assuming they communicate as we do.

    So far as I know there are no deep space facing military radars - I once worked at the Maui Space Surveillance Site in Hawaii: basically the place is an Air Force observatory with awesome optical trackers and some laser tracking facilities. No massive radars pointing at Alpha Centauri.

    Maybe we would get lucking with some ballistic missile early warning radars... but they would be fairly close in at that point.

  21. Re:Run Silent, Run Deep on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 1

    I would willing to bet against that theory.

  22. Re:Not shit on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is true, my post isn't shit.

  23. I am an embedded developer on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and can not produce a decent web page to save my life.

  24. Re:About half are below average.... on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 1

    I see what you did there.

  25. Hopefully the applicants had a relevent backround on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because PKI is more of a specialization, not a fundamental.