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  1. Re:Honestly, it seems justified. on Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 · · Score: 1

    but its not her contract.

  2. Diet drugs? on The Facebook Ads Teens Aren't Supposed To See · · Score: 1

    aren't teenager the main target for such products?

  3. Re:O(n*n) Insertion sort on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? · · Score: 1

    O(n^2). Slashdot breaks superscript. Maybe finally a feature, the beta could fix.

  4. O(n*n) Insertion sort on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? · · Score: 1

    Grab a paper, go through the already sorted papers and put it at the right place. Its n*(n/2) (approximately), because i do no binary search, but search from top/bottom whats more likely to be the shorter way (with some intuition about the already inserted papers). So its O(n)

  5. Re:IPv6 should have been entrenched before TLD pro on ICANN Considers Using '127.0.53.53' To Tackle DNS Namespace Collisions · · Score: 1

    people will use .com and the Countrycodes anyway. The rest will just be reserved or redirections.

  6. Re: Obsolete on ICANN Considers Using '127.0.53.53' To Tackle DNS Namespace Collisions · · Score: 1

    The best thing: Protocols like QUIC, which should be just above IP and are above UDP.

  7. Re:Refund. on WhatsApp Founder Used Unchangable Airline Ticket To Pressure Facebook · · Score: 1

    look at some SLAs (yeah, WA has no SLA for its users, and should not have). If you get uner 99% uptime, you may need to pay more than a years pay back to the customer.

  8. I hope, Distros will start patching chromium on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 2

    And remove some of the new unfeatures.

  9. Re:Text File with GPG on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 1

    here it is tmpfs, because i want it to be.
    You can use /dev/shm, which is always tmpfs on modern systems.

    do not rely on shred, it does not work on journaling filesystems. You may end up with writing 25 times to unused blocks, because the journal tries to keep the operations atomic.

  10. Other question: how to remember a forgotten pass? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 1

    I still have some big encrypted file here, were i forgot the password. I know i did change it to something secure once, and i have a bit of a clue, what the password was. But every variation i can think of did not work. So i still hope, i remember the password someday ...
    Is there any good trick to recall a password you once knew by heart?

  11. Re:Text File with GPG on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 1

    a simple script to decrypt to /tmp (tmpfs) and encrypt it after reading/editing. So there is no trace of the decrypted file on the harddrive

  12. Re:Air Gapped Box on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Why? Do you really assume some box connects to wifi, if you have some system without a driver installed and no credentials entered anywhere?

  13. Re:OMG! Spelling Natzis! on Why Your Online Impersonation of a 16-year Old Girl Won't Last Long · · Score: 1

    grammar nazi, its called a grammar nazi

  14. Re:this will only make it EASIER to impersonate on Why Your Online Impersonation of a 16-year Old Girl Won't Last Long · · Score: 1

    your approach is "genetic programming", some sort of unsupervised learning / reeinforcement learning.

  15. Re:The FBI is screwed! on Why Your Online Impersonation of a 16-year Old Girl Won't Last Long · · Score: 1

    I guess its the same problem. A girl hired for such a trap WILL behave other than a normal girl. maybe its not even recognized by the software then.

  16. Betteridge's Law of Headlines on Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? · · Score: 1

    finally proven wrong?

  17. Re:License needed only for specific things on Why Do You Need License From Canonical To Create Derivatives? · · Score: 1

    The GPL does not say you cannot bundle binaries with trademarked stuff (logos). You can, you will be required to give away the source. But this still does not interfere with any trademark rights.

    Not 100% sure for v3, because there are at least clauses about patents (one of the big differences between v2 and v3: You need to allow people to use the patents needed by the software), but afaik this is only about patents and not about trademarks.

    The other point is fair use. You can use the binary, get the source, build it, use it again ... you may only not distribute it with logo/name which associates it with the vendor.

    Now look at some very free license:
    http://opensource.org/licenses...

    > Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

    See?

  18. who tries classifies character treats of trolls on Psychologists: Internet Trolls Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic · · Score: 1

    Hasn't understood online discussions. Everybody can troll, everybody can be a troll, the same posting can be seen as trolling or not trolling by different people, some people try to troll and only ignite a useful discussion. Trolling isn't something you can objectivly define.

  19. Re:License needed only for specific things on Why Do You Need License From Canonical To Create Derivatives? · · Score: 2

    First: Do not confuse trademarks with copyright, and copyright alone not with licenses.
    If their trademark is violated, this does not have anything to do with the license. You may be allowed to do with source/binaries what you want, but if you distribute it with trademarks you can be sued for this. The clause tells you how to avoid this.
    The license can only be enforced by contributors. If you have at least one patch in a software and then encounter a binary of the software, you can request the source. Otherwise you cannot, because its not your copyright, which was licensed.
    And if they bundle any trademarks, the copyright depends on:
    - is there code from other authors in the package?
    - does adding a file apply by the GPL (which speaks about linking code)?

    But the real problem is, you should not use the logo/name, because they can enforce some use (or no use at all) by trademark laws.

    btw: several opensource licenses tell you, that you need to clearly distinguish your fork from the original software.

  20. Why no precompiled code? on Background Javascript Compilation Boosts Chrome Performance · · Score: 1

    When its compiled to platform independend sandboxed binaries, why can't the website provide this? This would safe a lot of compiling on the clients.

  21. Re:What part of "we invented it" don't they get on ICANN's Cozy Relationship With the US Must End, Says EU · · Score: 1

    You did not. Switzerland did.

  22. Debugging and rebugging on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? · · Score: 1

    If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then coding is the process of creating bugs.

  23. Weird? on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 1

    Is it weird to see linux for example on the monitor in a bus, which displays the next bus stop? Why would a Windows (CE?) be more appropriate (which is used by other systems, like ticket automats)?

  24. Re:STOP REDIRECTING DAMMIT on Wine On Android Starts Allowing Windows Binaries On Android/ARM · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Isn't it strange, that every anti-beta post is now modded -1, even when the majority of the users is against beta?
    And off-topic is wrong, anti-beta is on-topic, because this is a slashdot article, and it will be displayed in the beta website, if slashdot decides to abandon the classic one.

  25. Re:Code is like math on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    oh. How does labview work, i do not know really know it. Is this really graphical, or are the graphical blocks building blocks for much more code, one of their programmers wrote before? Stuff like putting together code blocks in a form of configuration can be useful i.e. for testing scenarios, but i thought of stuff like implementing a graph algorithm or similiar, which is possible, but will look pretty ugly.