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  1. Re:English? on Facebook Introduces Hack: Statically Typed PHP · · Score: 1

    Huh. I responded in a similar way on reddit (to one of the developers, no less). Downvote frenzy ensues as I dared to compare the marvellous nothing-remotely-wrong-with-it PHP with born-of-the-faeces-of-Satan ASP...

  2. Re:Babylon Reboot on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    Apart from General O'Neill, Colonel Carter, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c, Bra'tac, Colonel Maybourne and others regularly appearing in it, no. Not to mention Rodney, who came from SG-1 as the brains of the new bunch and when he couldn't hack it got Carter's help on numerous occasions. Also, the events were happening while SG-1 was still doing their stuff.

    No, not a carry on series at all...

    Maybe you're thinking of SG Universe.

  3. Re:Not useful on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    We have the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (not all crimes apply) such that a certain time after the conviction it is considered "spent" and does not need to be declared in job applications.

    However, this doesn't apply for certain jobs and the enhanced CRB makes a mockery of this; you could have received a caution for nicking sweets 30 years ago while still technically a minor and still not be able to get a job in drug counseling for young adults. Not that that would ever be admitted as the reason you don't get it of course...

  4. Re:What a dimwit on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    She isn't a medical doctor, she has a Philosophy doctorate. As all doctorates are philosophical (it's what the Ph stands for) she has a philosophical doctorate in the study of philosophy.

  5. Re:headline != article on UK Government Wants "Unsavory" Web Content To Be Removed · · Score: 1

    Yet one shrill think-of-the-children bint was enough for the threat of filter legislation if the ISPs didn't do it "voluntarily"...

  6. Re: I wouldn't worry so much about Chernobyl... on Forests Around Chernobyl Aren't Decaying Properly · · Score: 1

    And Anthrax Island is clear as well. I'm not going to plan a trip there either.

  7. Re:Entitled Asshole Mentality on Controversial Torrent Streaming App 'Popcorn Time' Shuts Down, Then Gets Reborn · · Score: 1

    Maybe the author gets "value" (quoted because you're trying to ascribe a dollar amount to an intangible) from creating. Maybe they also get value from the fact that people want to listen to it. If an author is purely doing it for the money then that denigrates the act of creation and makes them a production line worker. Which is exactly what the big labels want, drones that increase their bottom line and to hell with the quality just so long as it sells.

  8. Re:Google Voice still being actively developed on Goodbye, Google Voice · · Score: 2

    Still actively developed would be "We've got this 3+ year old thing, it's really popular and maybe the rest of the planet might care if they could use it".

  9. Re:Out of step with reality on Hungarian Law Says Photogs Must Ask Permission To Take Pictures · · Score: 1

    "implicit consent is still a consent". Yeah, right. So why HSCIC is delaying uploading of the UK population's medical records to care.data?

  10. Re:this is silly_the names are stupid on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Additional, after 2 mins on Google:
    Yahoo! was named because the founders liked the meaning of the Swiftian word (uncouth and rough) tying in with the rough and ready "Wild West" idea of the early Web.

    WhatsApp was because it sounds like "What's up" and it's an app.

    Tumblr was from the emergent term "tumblelog", itself derived from "weblog" as a more stream-of-consciousness variety of self-promotion.

  11. Re:this is silly_the names are stupid on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    You were replying to a post about Gentoo Linux. So was I.

  12. Re:look at 'bluetooth' on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Only confusing and alienating if you don't know that the logo of Linux is a penguin. And if you don't know that then perhaps you shouldn't be using Linux.

  13. Re:Obvious Answer on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, just as it is now?

  14. Frist on Large DDoS Attack Brings WordPress Pingback Abuse Back Into Spotlight · · Score: -1, Troll

    Frosty piss, whatever, I have karma in abundance.

  15. Re:Probably not Illegal. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    No, they really can't. Read the text of RIPA for why, and that's just for starters.

  16. Re:If she wanted them to have the data on Apple Refuses To Unlock Bequeathed iPad · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Grandma was too busy dying to be concerned about what bullshit some company was going to pull with her possession. As was the family. Apple asked for proof of ownership. Fair enough. They provided *three* forms of it. That should be the end of it.

    All that bibble about "what if" is bollocks. It was her iPad, she died, it now belongs to the family who have proven that they are the family. Unlock the fucking thing.

  17. Re:Not in the EU on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    That means relying on the whitelist to be a) accurate and b) kept up to date. Not particularly reassuring.

    Even intercepting the OP example breaches the laws I listed although most people don't give two hoots if their GMaps traffic is snooped. They do have a problem with financial sessions being intercepted however...

  18. Re:Not in the EU on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    Taking just interception of banking logon details as an example:
    Misuse of Computers Act.
    Human Rights Act.
    Regulation of Investigative Powers Act.
    Data Protection Act.
    A whole bunch of other laws about obtaining confidential information that is nothing to do with the business.

  19. Re:Windows 7 != Vista Sp2 on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, it's based off 2000.

  20. Re:Interesting . . . on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 2

    Innocent *unless* proven guilty. "Until" implies that you are guilty (before the fact), but you haven't been caught yet.

  21. Re:"the aging reactor fleet" on NRC Expects Applications To Operate Reactors Beyond 60 Years · · Score: 1

    A meltdown of reactors.

    Isn't this similar to keeping COBOL code bases going as they still work even though the really good developers are dying off? At least with a codebase when things break there isn't an international emergency...

  22. Re:I wonder on NSA and GHCQ Employing Shills To Poison Web Forum Discourse · · Score: 1

    Indeed. He's obviously using a phrase associated with someone else to impersonate in order to confuse...

  23. Re:More like 34 years on The Ever So Unlikely Tale of How ARM Came To Rule the World · · Score: 3, Informative

    ARM themselves incorporated in 1990 (hence the 24 years). However, you are correct that Acorn chips predated the company.

  24. Re:Not the worst keyboard on Nostalgic For the ZX Spectrum? Soon You Can Play With a New One · · Score: 2

    Indeed. Moving from the membrane ZX81 to a Spectrum 48K spongy keyboard was like a breath of fresh air. Still rubbish compared to the Sharp MZ80K I had access to even though the graphics were better

  25. Re:*Puts on tinfoil hat* on TSA: Confiscating Aluminum Foil and Watching Out For Solar Powered Bombs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    *Aluminium*