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  1. Re:The stupides and most egoistic idea ever on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    what's the point of extending the life span in the context of exponentially growing population?

    Don't worry, it won't be available in 3rd world countries.

  2. Re:Implying playing a console requires any skill on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    Bows are the weapon of cowards. Real men fight with axes.

  3. Re:Rankin on China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's good too. First time I've heard about it.

  4. Re:Math much? on China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem · · Score: 3

    "There was a 23% drop in temperature." is a worthless comment as well unless you mean it in Kelvin.

  5. Re:Guy Steele on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    Halfway to Lisp? Other than GC, there isn't much about Java that's Lisp like. Guy was rationalizing.

    Reflection is pretty lispy, and C++ couldn't do it without some hacks (that were later standardized to RTTI).

  6. Re:Finally Fixing the Date stuff on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 2

    I sense a fellow Prolog programmer here.

  7. Re:Gawd on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    I very much like my debuggers, but I can't imagine why a few added print statements would make the program compile for 10 minutes, unless your whole codebase is in one file. (Or you have fetish for static linking.)

  8. Re:Too much bullshit from Canonical on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Except with crowdsourcing the backers aren't investors, but donators. They don't get any equity in the company. It would have been in fact illegal to do so. This might change in the near future.

    http://www.salon.com/2012/12/28/equity_crowdfunding_waits_on_the_sec/

  9. Re:Life Imitates Art ? on Mastermind of 9/11 Attacks Designs a Secret Vacuum Cleaner · · Score: 1

    I guess it helped that old Russian vacuum cleaners looked like a rocket.
    http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4128/193134567.2/0_9d4ed_46b8054b_L.jpg

    And here is a washing machine:
    http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4133/193134567.2/0_9d4d1_cf3056df_L.jpg

  10. Re:the way I see it on Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point. If the bomb had killed no one it would still be criminal to set it off in a public place, but even in the best conditions (for the terrorists) it would have not been able to kill thousands.

  11. Re:the way I see it on Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    There's no way a pressure pot bomb could kill thousands. There was no fluke. This is what this type of bomb is capable of.

  12. Re:I hate them both - me too on Java API and Microsoft's .NET API: a Comparison · · Score: 1

    And it is not configured that way by default neither in the JVM or the CLR.

  13. Re:I hate them both - me too on Java API and Microsoft's .NET API: a Comparison · · Score: 1

    I suggest to read a book about security then.

    You go first.

    Private modifier is not a security feature IN ANY LANGUAGE. Neither in C#, neither in Java, neither in C++. C# reflection can read private fields just like Java. To have any kind of security, you mustn't allow untrusted code to run in your JVM/CLR.

  14. Re:I hate them both - me too on Java API and Microsoft's .NET API: a Comparison · · Score: 1

    So my coworker used some funny introspection workaround to get that private field.

    WFT, Microsoft?

    Did you think that the private modifier is a security feature?

  15. Re:Beware Internet Echo Chambers on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    You still will be able to get a new PS4 that doesn't require internet (and if you don't connect it, they can't patch it), or you can LEGALLY restore the old firmware if you have to knowhow.

    With the Xbone you can't decline the firmware update or else your console becomes unusable due to the missed authentication.

  16. Re:Beware Internet Echo Chambers on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just think about how many people is affected by the removal of OtherOS, and how many by the 24 hour authentication.

  17. Re: How silly. on Greek Government Abruptly Shuts Down State Broadcaster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What kind of regulation would solve this? Companies are allowed to sell their products for whatever they want in every EU country.

  18. Re:Not sure this is good on Google To Buy Waze For $1.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    There are other products which are pretty good at offline navigation:
    http://www.igonavigation.com/

  19. Coding on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prove an IT Manager Is Incompetent? · · Score: 1

    "The head of IT doesn't necessarily need to know how to write code, so a coding test serves no purpose, but should be able to run a project. Are there objective methods for assessing this ability?"

    I would expect him to able to solve the Fizzbuzz test and explain what's the difference between a switch and a router or what is a DNS server and understand nested SQL queries. Yes, I know this is a very low bar.

  20. Re:Why don't businesses get it? on PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug · · Score: 1

    They could have paid out to his parents too.

  21. Re:Confused on Integer Overflow Bug Leads To Diablo III Gold Duping · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the above stackoverflow link wanted to be this:

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/124332/c-handling-very-large-integers

  22. Re:Confused on Integer Overflow Bug Leads To Diablo III Gold Duping · · Score: 1

    I mainly program in Java, so my natural reaction was using BigInteger. I'm pretty sure someone already made something like that for C++ too

  23. Re:We will on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1

    Of course, burning them will make the CO2 situation even worse.

    Except that methane is a stronger green house gas than CO2.

  24. Re:Steambox on New Console Always-Online Requirements and You · · Score: 4, Informative

    When did you have this problem? Last year around October there was a major Steam client update. Since then I can go offline without an internet connection too.

  25. Re:No - Resources on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 2

    If the 10 people are in the same collision domain, torrenting won't make things faster. Actually it can slow things down with unneccesary collisions.