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  1. Re:Sure, I favor doing more of it on How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill In History Changed Almost Nothing · · Score: 1

    Why don't we just agree that neither wording is ideal, and go with "Despite". ;)

  2. Re:One more in a crowded field on Swift: Apple's Biggest Achievement For Coders · · Score: 1

    I get what you're saying, and agree with you, but from what I can tell it's not trying to be an IDE, just a way to try out the language in a browser. With all of the examples, it's a good way to get a taste of what the language has to offer. Just my 2 cents.

  3. Re:What an embarrassment for Microsoft on Surface Pro 3 Handily Outperforms iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9 · · Score: 1

    I don't know if I'd call it "grossly" overcharging if the SP3 is >40% more for a 25% performance boost... Even if you overpay for a $100 keyboard/case, it's a wash.

  4. Re:What an embarrassment for Microsoft on Surface Pro 3 Handily Outperforms iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9 · · Score: 1

    Throw in an extra $10 and you can get a cable, instead :P

  5. Re:Oh the irony on Whitehouse Mandates HTTPS For Government Sites and Services · · Score: 1

    The host name is provided by the client during the TLS negotiation. If the server were to go first, so-to-speak, it might have to send hundreds or more host names if it's hosting a lot of sites, and that would be slow and an ugly information leak (to be able to hit one IP address and discover all of the sites behind it).

  6. Where's the beef? on Why So Many Robots Struggled With the DARPA Challenge · · Score: 0

    So... no one took video of the challenges being completed?

  7. Re:Harder: self-stabilizing parachute, or balance on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    Nice, nice. Started to chuckle before I finished the first sentence of the question :)

  8. Re: As a recent buyer of a mid-2014 MBP on Apple Doubles MacBook Pro R/W Performance · · Score: 1

    True, it was a Powerbook G4, I've just gotten used to saying MBP over the years.

  9. Re:As a recent buyer of a mid-2014 MBP on Apple Doubles MacBook Pro R/W Performance · · Score: 1

    Happened to me a long time ago, but even worse. Just two months after buying my first new MacBook Pro, Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel. I still feel slighted about that, but I got 6 years of good use out of it. Still works fine as long as it's plugged in. And the software is horribly out of date, of course.

  10. Re:No overlap for mindshare on Java Vs. Node.js: Epic Battle For Dev Mindshare · · Score: 1

    I don't have any points to give, so I'll just comment that I thought it was an interesting post, as well.

  11. Re:Pascal on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 1

    Something you could checkout is Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/). It's a Delphi compatible IDE using the Free Pascal compiler. As a bonus, there are versions for Windows, OSX, and Linux.

  12. Not as bad as I initially thought on First OSX Bootkit Revealed · · Score: 1

    I know it's dangerous to base opinions on summaries, but the summary says "during recovery mode boots". So, at least it doesn't seem to be as bad as autorunning files on a usb stick, which used to be pretty common.

    It is certainly a serious vulnerability, but considering the number of times I've done a recovery mode boot, I'm not overly concerned about it.

  13. Re:Relativity on Stars Traveling Close To Light Speed Could Spread Life Through the Universe · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, but you would also have the rest of the universe rushing at you, and you would be saying "ah, so that's where we're going!"

  14. Bad link in summary on Shale: Good For Gas, Oil...and Nuclear Waste Disposal? · · Score: 1

    The link "water is much more of an issue" is broken (the "www." portion should be dropped). This link works: water is much more of an issue.

  15. Re:Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right. Just a few weeks ago I decided to look into backing up my home storage to tape. The tapes themselves weren't terribly expensive, but the drives... couldn't believe what they cost. And it didn't look like eBay had any deals on them either (or, at least, not at prices I'm willing to pay).

    I think $200-$250 would be a better price point, but I would certainly go for one at $300, even if it was an LTO-5 drive.

  16. Re:So is it two or ten times tougher? on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I didn't realize Fixnum supported a base argument for to_s. Something new, everyday :)

  17. Re:OH GOODY on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 1

    An article I read about the sapphire producer claimed that the primary reason it wasn't used for the iPhone was that they simply couldn't get the yields needed to support the volume.

    http://online.wsj.com/articles...

    There's a paywall, but googling the title in a private window might get you a good link (worked for me).

  18. Re:Packages can't be removed? on OwnCloud Dev Requests Removal From Ubuntu Repos Over Security Holes · · Score: 1

    That's correct. It's in the "universe" repo, which is community maintained, so it's not Canonical's responsibility to keep it updated. It's up to the package maintainer(s) to back-port security fixes, and I don't think anyone has volunteered to take that on.

  19. Re:Wow, that's a lot of iterations on VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better · · Score: 1

    Haha, nice, I was thinking the same thing.

  20. Re:Relative sizes on NASA Finds a Delaware-Sized Methane "Hot Spot" In the Southwest · · Score: 1

    Nah, not at all. He was simultaneously writing a commentary on the effects of the new Common Core standards of teaching. ;)

  21. Re:Not completely gone on Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Or, maybe they received a bulk of requests, each for a specific piece of data.

  22. Re:A headline that makes my glad to have on Book Review: Architecting the Cloud · · Score: 1

    I love that add-on because I keep forgetting I have it installed, then, out of the blue, BAM!, a sentence no longer makes sense but is much more fun: "Hospitals now delivering babies in my butt, film at 11!".

  23. Re:Keeping track.. on Ask Slashdot: Remote Server Support and Monitoring Solution? · · Score: 2

    There's no need to install Ansible on the remote systems, only on the machine running the playbooks. All Ansible activity is run over SSH and has no remote dependencies.

  24. Re:COBOL was better than JavaScript. on The Technologies Changing What It Means To Be a Programmer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Also keep in mind that Eich was given only 4 days to create the language. I agree that things should have been fixed long ago, while the changes would have been less disruptive.

  25. Re:This naming trend has to stop on The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nice, you now have Karnal knowledge!