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  1. Re:If you can't make it work, it's you (or your wo on Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? · · Score: 1

    or *have* little ability, that is.

  2. Re:If you can't make it work, it's you (or your wo on Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? · · Score: 1

    It's never the tool, but the wielder. Give a process to a good engineer, and he will find a way to get things to work. Give any process to a code monkey, and you are just going to get a lot of shit flinging irregardless of the process of choice.

    Then you haven't been in software development for very long or how little ability to discern a good tool from a bad one. Shitty tools are foisted upon software developers all the time in the form of buggy and/or poorly documented frameworks, databases, IDEs, etc.

  3. Re:ClanLib Devs have never worked with a game engi on Open Source C++ ClanLib SDK Refreshed For 2015 · · Score: 1

    ClanLib also only supports Linux and Windows whereas SDL, Unity and Unreal support OS X, mobile OSes and, at least Unreal, HTML5 targeting.

  4. Re:Way Way off on Open Source C++ ClanLib SDK Refreshed For 2015 · · Score: 3, Funny

    But...but...they were mentioned in an 8-year-old book on C++ game programming. Unity and Unreal better be quaking in their boots!

  5. Re:Browsers getting too complex on Every Browser Hacked At Pwn2own 2015, HP Pays Out $557,500 In Awards · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's definitely "fresh and new". As in having over 2000 of its own "fresh and new" issues. All Servo has done is trade one set of bugs with its own set.

  6. Big brother ahoy! on Google Nest Rumored To Be Moving Into Audio · · Score: 0

    Google will help us fully realize our vision of the conscious home and allow us to change the world faster than we ever could if we continued to go it alone.

    Said the NSA Director who absolutely loves the new surveillance avenues these devices will open up.

  7. The spin is strong in TFA. on Why It's Important That the New Ubuntu Phone Won't Rely On Apps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cool spinmeistering, brah. But all I hear is someone making up excuses for why Ubuntu phone will have less developers and fewer apps than even Windows Phone. And that's no small accomplishment.

  8. Re:Obligatory reminder that an alternative exists on OpenSSL 1.0.2 Released · · Score: 1

    OpenBSD is what I obviously meant.

  9. Re:Obligatory reminder that an alternative exists on OpenSSL 1.0.2 Released · · Score: 2

    And to head off the obvious rejoinder, yes, their private key can be compromised to allow an attacker to sign malicious packages. But if that is a genuine concern, why would you possibly trust the security of the SSL connection to their site?

  10. Re:Obligatory reminder that an alternative exists on OpenSSL 1.0.2 Released · · Score: 2

    If this doesn't need some way to ensure that I really connect with it instead of an intercepting mitm that injects its own version, what does?

    In what universe do you live in that SSL prevents a MITM attack? MITM attacks exist in order to allow an attacker to monitor and modify your supposedly "secure" connections. You ensure that what you downloaded is what you meant to download by using the signify utility as mentioned on the page and verify that the package you download was signed by the OpenSSL devs.

  11. Re:who cares? on Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition · · Score: 1

    That's funny, I didn't realize that programs such as Autocad, Autodesk Sketchbook, Pixelmator, Adobe Lightroom, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pinnacle Studio, etc. were for consuming content. They seem to be for creating content to me. That isn't even scratching the surface of all the content creation apps that exist for iOS.

  12. Re:Can Abrams correct slashdot grammar too? on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    No, it's a grammar issue. Breath is a noun. So "to breath" is grammatically incorrect.

  13. Re:If it's losing steam it's because on Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. This guy lives in some sort of bizarro world Rubyist bubble. Sure, there is probably some guy's toy project to use Ruby in some sort of faux embedded environment, but that hardly matches what is done by the actual people writing the software.

  14. Re:FUCK SAKE! It was NEVER anonymous on Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous After All · · Score: 1

    IP address != person

    Maybe in less than 1% of cases. All the rest of the time, the only one using the IP address is the person who pays for the internet access.

    So it's reasonable anonymous if you consider your identity.

    It's only reasonable if you think shoving your head in the sand gives you reasonably anonymity.

  15. Re:Money how? on BlackBerry Will Buy Your iPhone For $550 · · Score: 1

    Their product was only "better" because their competitors at the time only had crap products. Not to mention that smartphones were a tiny niche product during the heyday of the BlackBerry. The global sales of smartphones during that time was about 1/20th of what they are now. It's easy to be the biggest fish when the pond is small.

  16. Re:If it's losing steam it's because on Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam? · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of better languages to learn over Ruby if people need to learn the "basics of the industry". Ruby is only marginally more popular than moribund languages like Delphi.

  17. Re:Looks fabricated on Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam? · · Score: 1

    Ruby needs all the help it can get. 19 years later and it's only marginally more popular than Delphi. And that language has been moribund for around a decade.

  18. Re:Ok, so what's the new flavor of the moment? on Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam? · · Score: 1

    I've done C# programming for 6 years and have never had any issues finding documentation and examples from MSDN. Do you have a specific example of what you have been unable to find documentation on?

  19. Re:Math on BlackBerry Will Buy Your iPhone For $550 · · Score: 1

    But what are you going to offer to sweeten the deal?

  20. Re:Creato? on Battlestar Galactica Creator Glen A. Larson Dead At 77 · · Score: 2

    The sad part is the submission had it spelled correctly. "Creato" was all timothy.

  21. Re:help them on GTK+ Developers Call For Help To Finish Cross-Platform OpenGL Support · · Score: 1

    The "Name 2" was to "That's not to mention that a lot of people do like Gnome3, but those who don't tend to not acknowledge that they exist." It wasn't saying to Name 2 other DEs.

  22. Re:AppleGL? on GTK+ Developers Call For Help To Finish Cross-Platform OpenGL Support · · Score: 1

    WGL and AGL are the Windows and Apple (respectively) are the glue APIs that allow you to setup and work with an OpenGL context and surfaces.

    There is no such thing as "AppleGL". There is AppKit which contains classes to set up the OpenGL contexts and surfaces and GLKit for constructing textures, etc.

  23. Re:What, exactly, can What, exactly, can do about on Can the US Actually Cultivate Local Competition in Broadband? · · Score: 1

    And how exactly are you going to have more sway than a couple of multi-billion dollar conglomerates?

  24. Re:How is their infringment? on GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon · · Score: 1

    Unless they are developing on the target tablet then it is...

    Unless who is developing on the tablet? And how is one going to actually develop on the tablet? It's basically a fixed function device that only runs a single application. Furthermore, the act of "developing on the target tablet" does not fall under GNOME's mark's goods and services.

  25. Re: There we go again on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    Your initial post in this thread exposed the fact that you don't know what the fuck a hash is, and thus don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

    That's weird. My initial post nor the post I responded to said anything about hashes. My initial post was responding to someone talking about using a dictionary attack to get someone's password. I presume you falsely think my "initial post" was the one in response to AC-x which it wasn't. I also very much do know what a hash is. You and him seem to have a reading comprehension problem since you failed to understand my post. The point of my post was to say that, yes, having a password hash which you can use to try to recreate the original password does defeat what I stated, but that is tautological. If you can do an end run around the authentication protections it is no different than, as I said in an analogy, to having someone's PIN to their phone. I never once stated that having a hash was the same as having a plaintext password nor was their any such implication. Him stating that I believed the two were the same is basically a false presumption on his part by failing to understand my analogy.

    You should have simply stopped posting, but here you are, digging deeper and deeper, committing more and more errors. You couldn't even quote a post properly.

    I only messed up a quote once out of more than a dozen posts. Yeah, I totally don't know how to quote properly. Oh wait, I do.

    Do you have an actual argument or just stupid ad homs like AC-x?