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  1. Re:what if... on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The brick builder charges accordingly. Since 90% of programming is debugging and testing, you could concur and demand a 1000% pay rise.

  2. Old News on Tiny Motors Controlled Inside Human Cells · · Score: 1

    This is old news. Raquel Welsh did this years ago in the Fantastic Voyage.

  3. Re:Imagine That You're a Biology Teacher on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 0

    > You know that more than half of the students in your class have been told by their parents and their pastors, that when the subject of evolution comes up, they should just tune out.

    For fucks sake don't mention the turns ratio, lenz's law, conjugate variables or titration to any Christians. They'll want to fuck that up their children's minds about that too, by inventing crackpot alternative 'theories'. Just keep quiet and let them fail their exams.

  4. Re:It's the devil on Massive New Cambrian-Era Fossil Bed Found · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > I believe in God

    Why?

  5. Re:Who wants another ^&#$ thing to remember on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Cash has lots of security. No one can duplicate your cash, impersonate you and appear to have your cash, repeat a transaction made with the cash.
    The merchant gets the cash and has it. It can't be reversed later.

  6. Re:Misleading liability claim on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    >Yes, there is no further liablity that can be shifted onto the merchant. The carrot is for the merchant, the stick is for the issuing banks. I'm not sure if the mere potential for fewer chargebacks will convince merchants to purchase new card readers. It's a major investment for a minor reward.

    We have a shop. We have a credit card swipe machine and a square so we can take Amex.

    We don't need convincing to purchase C&P capable card readers. We don't have that option. The bank chooses which machines it will work with. Neither that bank nor the bank we doing our personal banking even offers C&P cards. The merchants would be way ahead of the banks of the banks were not able to stand in the way.

  7. Re:So..... on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 0

    >Unless we're somehow going to regulate laser pointers like guns, it would be far more effective to add some sort of countermeasure to the planes themselves, or the pilots.

    Like build them out of materials that don't self destruct when exposed to low energy coherent light.

  8. Re:So..... on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 1

    > idiots failing to understand the consequences of their actions and the potential damages they can cause

    What was the damage? What percentage of the 11 planes fell out of the sky? Are plane hulls vulnerable to lasers? Cat's don't seem to be vulnerable to lasers. Perhaps we should be prosecuting people who point lasers as cats.

  9. But built in shells are generally horrible. on A Dedicated Shell For Git Commands · · Score: 1

    The mistake with the thesis of the authors is to think that little tools with built in shells to handle subcommands (dc, ftp etc) are generally not horrible. They are horrible and reproducing their interface mistake for git is also a mistake of the same type.

  10. Re:Editing? on Sophisticated Spy Tool 'The Mask' Rages Undetected For 7 Years · · Score: 1

    They should put stories under version control.

  11. Re:Editing? on Sophisticated Spy Tool 'The Mask' Rages Undetected For 7 Years · · Score: 5, Funny

    4.
    5 if you include "Hoy many errors can you spot?"

  12. Re:Dice is selling out Slashdot with the Beta on Is Intel Selling Bay Trail Chips Below Cost? · · Score: 0

    Dice will come back with their quad core, out of order execution beta.

  13. The Environment!! on Build an Open-Source Electric Car In About One Hour · · Score: 0

    These electric cars are bad for the environment. They cause emissions of a nasty toxic chemical known colloquially as 'Bee Tar'.

  14. Has the NSA sent out its minions to mod down comments pointing out they standards they worked to subvert?

  15. Re:Ciphers on Firefox 27 Released: TLS 1.2 Support, SPDY 3.1, SocialAPI Improvements · · Score: 1

    GoogleCloudMessaging != Galois Counter Mode

    Galois Counter Mode != Offset Codebook Mode

    Offset Codebook Mode != Counter Mode with Counter Block Chaining Mode

    So from the field of block cipher modes we can extrapolate that:
                  X != Y for all X and Y.

  16. Re:Ciphers on Firefox 27 Released: TLS 1.2 Support, SPDY 3.1, SocialAPI Improvements · · Score: 2

    What makes you think that the ciphers available in TLS were chosen for the benefit of users?

  17. Re:Eh? on NPR Labs is Working on Emergency Alerts for the Deaf (Video) · · Score: 1

    I'll see your SNL and raise you a NTNOCN.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  18. Re:Who cares? on First Evidence That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All · · Score: 1

    The transistors in your CPU are most definitely quantum in a meaningful way. If it wasn't, the electrons would arrive at the gate and just refuse to keep moving. Great for low power and leakage reduction, but sucky for playing Bioshock.

  19. Eh? on NPR Labs is Working on Emergency Alerts for the Deaf (Video) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Pardon?

  20. Re:I think you missed the joke in AC's comment on Finnish Hacker Isolates Helicopter GPS Coordinates From YouTube Video Sounds · · Score: 1

    Predicate Calculus FTW!

  21. Nope. Just that people born later may not have had learn about synchronous, asynchronous and plesiochronous serial line protocols because that stuff is buried in the lower layers of multi layer protocols.

  22. For those born after the 1970s, 0x80 is the sync byte. It's what you would send on serial line protocols when you have nothing to send, in order to maintain synchrony.

     

  23. > every other nation has a name that works with -ian
    Not in the UK

    UKian?
    Britian?
    Britishian?
    Walesian?
    Scottishian?

    We get by with Welsh, English & Scottish. The Irish have varying opinions about their name but that's a regional thing.

  24. Re:Come stand trial. on Russia Plans To Extend Edward Snowden's Asylum · · Score: 1

    Bad call.

    Spend life in relative freedom, eating non-spicy Russian restaurants.
    V.S.
    Spend life in federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

  25. Re:Wow. on Microsoft Reports Record Revenue · · Score: 1

    Right. You should breakdance with a desktop.