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  1. Re:Type safety on The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 · · Score: 1

    Which is handy for building a random number generator.

  2. Re:Type safety on The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 · · Score: 1

    I know how C works. C is incompatible with a large swath of humans. Particularly when it comes to malicious obfuscated code.
     

  3. Re:Type safety on The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't bother me. It bothers all the undisciplined programmers. I program in gates, where everything is a bool.

  4. Re:Type safety on The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 · · Score: 1

    That would be a neat attack vector.

    user = 'low_priority_user'

    Parsed as root, reads like not root.

  5. Type safety on The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If your language returns a boolean from assignment, then it sucks and invites this sort of thing.

    if (a = b) ... should always be an error.

  6. Re:http://83.138.166.114/ on Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection · · Score: 1

    My point is the police were advertising for the commercial companies on the 'police substituted' web site.

    When there's a missing child, they don't post the logo for the parent's business on the missing child website.

  7. Re:Hold on a minute - they've gone beyond DNS on Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection · · Score: 1

    Correct. I just pointing out the extra judicial collusion between the police and the media companies.

  8. http://83.138.166.114/ on Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go to the ip address in the complaint http://83.138.166.114/

    It's got the message from the police, along with a bunch of logos of commercial companies, like the BPI.

    So it's evident who they are working for.

  9. Re:I'm best on What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? · · Score: 1

    asm is bare metal? I design the instructions the asm runs on by rearranging logic gates.

    I could claim that it is bare metal, but then someone would come along and say they design the transistors used to make logic gates by pushing atoms around.
     

  10. Re:hot fusion on Fusion Reactor Breaks Even · · Score: 1

    the first time this had been achieved at any fusion facility in the world.

    that is, if you consider only the attempts at forcefully breaking the Coulomb barrier.

    I think Pat Metheny may have managed this in the 80s.

  11. Re:gift is not a verb on Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own · · Score: 2

    Wut?

  12. Re:LLC on Social Fixer Falls Victim To Facebook Legal Threats · · Score: 1

    Prove it then.

  13. Re:LLC on Social Fixer Falls Victim To Facebook Legal Threats · · Score: 1

    Nope. If you do something, like sell stuff or employ people or enter into contracts, you have legal responsibilities. You are required to file taxes and have an accountant do it. That is the nature of LLCs. In return for liability protection, you have to show you're not cooking the books. If you find your business is taking all your time running the business, you do not have time to be an amateur lawyer.

    LLCs level the playing field.

  14. Re:What would make it sell... on Microsoft Makes Another "Nearly Sold Out" Claim For the Surface Line · · Score: 1

    >All of which are available in a ASUS tablet, at a much lower price.

    This. The 'second tier' manufacturers are making the same hardware with the same silicon for a lower price with sane interfaces and you can run your choice of OS on them.

  15. Re:LLC on Social Fixer Falls Victim To Facebook Legal Threats · · Score: 1

    >It cost less than $50 to form an LLC in my state,

    And $1000 to a CPA and $2000 to a lawyer annually, to stay an LLC. I only know this because we're in the process of changing the family business from a sole proprietorship to an LLC.

  16. Re: Bit off-topic on Linux-capable Arduino TRE Debuts At Maker Faire Rome · · Score: 1

    >if you work in "IT"

    Ha ha. Good one.

  17. Re:Beer connection on Charged Superhydrophobic Condenser Surface May Make Power Plants More Efficient · · Score: 1

    Have a G&T with ice.
    The ice keeps it cold and it doesn't taste like beer. Double bonus.

  18. Re:Bit off-topic on Linux-capable Arduino TRE Debuts At Maker Faire Rome · · Score: 1

    GPIO ports, power and ground on a 0.1" connector are the key.

    It doesn't matter what is driving it whether an 8051, 80C66, 68000, pentiblob, PDP11 or even ghetto chips with ARMs in them. The 0.1" connector lets you plug in your prototype board and wire up transistors and LEDs and stuff like that.

  19. Re:Christian Science? on Charged Superhydrophobic Condenser Surface May Make Power Plants More Efficient · · Score: 0

    Not dishonest at all. I'm not new here and the subject has come up before.
    I was criticizing the name of the CS Monitor for being completely stupid, which it is.

  20. Re:Christian Science? on Charged Superhydrophobic Condenser Surface May Make Power Plants More Efficient · · Score: 2

    I don't discriminate. All religion is nutcase. The difference is just a matter of degree.

  21. Re:Christian Science? on Charged Superhydrophobic Condenser Surface May Make Power Plants More Efficient · · Score: 0

    No it isn't. Those words have meaning. That's what words are for. To convey meaning.

  22. Re:Christian Science? on Charged Superhydrophobic Condenser Surface May Make Power Plants More Efficient · · Score: 0

    It's a bit like me starting a serious journal on cryptography and calling it the 'Virgin Prostitute Reporter'.

  23. Re:Christian Science? on Charged Superhydrophobic Condenser Surface May Make Power Plants More Efficient · · Score: 1

    No. Just flogging a well flogged horse.

  24. Re:Christian Science? on Charged Superhydrophobic Condenser Surface May Make Power Plants More Efficient · · Score: 0

    And cake sales. I was brought up by Methodist parents.
    That doesn't mean I believe a word of the mumbo jumbo. It's the term 'Christian Science' that is choc full of WTFery.

  25. Christian Science? on Charged Superhydrophobic Condenser Surface May Make Power Plants More Efficient · · Score: -1, Troll

    >news from the CS Monitor

    WTF is 'Christian Science'? How does that work?

    Is the result of the experiment valid just because you have faith in it?