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  1. Re:At last? on Red Hat Assistant General Counsel Analyses Supreme Court's Patent Ruling · · Score: 1

    More interestingly is will this be used as the final kill shot in the SCO zombies vs Linux legal battle.

    Then again, if Darl had had more BRAINZZZZZ!! to begin with...

  2. Re:Complete nonsense.... on Overeager Compilers Can Open Security Holes In Your Code · · Score: 1

    volatile is a storage class, meaning that something else (i.e. another process) might modify the memory location, meaning the compiler shouldn't remove reads even though it knows that you haven't modified it since it was last read and there might still be copy left lying about in a register. Even if you apply it to the buffer, it doesn't mean that the compiler can't decide that memory you didn't allocate doesn't belong to you anyways and remove the check. Additionally, volatile typically applies to single locations and not to whole buffers.

  3. Re:old news from decades ago on Overeager Compilers Can Open Security Holes In Your Code · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's why I always use a pessimizing compiler.

  4. Re:Supermicro fails, indeed on Supermicro Fails At IPMI, Leaks Admin Passwords · · Score: 0

    Turn in your geek card on your way out the door.

  5. NOOOOOOOO!!!!! on Draper Labs Develops Low Cost Probe To Orbit, Land On Europa For NASA · · Score: 4, Funny

    Attempt no landings there!!!

  6. Re:Serously? on Why China Is Worried About Japan's Plutonium Stocks · · Score: 1

    Clearly it was not "pointless", as it demonstrably caused Japan to surrender unconditionally.

  7. Re:Serously? on Why China Is Worried About Japan's Plutonium Stocks · · Score: 1

    And yet, to my point, the reason you're arguing the way you are is because you've SEEN what those bombs can do. If Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been firebombed a la Dresden, few would remember or care, they certainly wouldn't be second-guessing the decision 70 years later.

  8. Re:Serously? on Why China Is Worried About Japan's Plutonium Stocks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everybody in the modern world should get out of bed every morning and thank $deity for Harry Truman's decision to drop those two little bombs. If the world hadn't seen firsthand what those bombs were capable of, we certainly would have found another excuse to try them out, lots and lots more, with much bigger yields. Maybe Korea, maybe the Cuban Missile Crisis, maybe Viet Nam; first a "tactical" nuke or two, then an all-out exchange. Harry Truman should be sainted.

  9. Re:When nobody thought of privacy on Restored Bletchly Park Opens · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right, because there's absolutely no difference between spying on your enemies in a declared war and spying on your own citizens in peacetime.

  10. Re:Or what? on Wikipedia Forcing Editors To Disclose If They're Paid · · Score: 1

    Didn't you read TFS? They're being "forced" to. Bwahahahaha.

  11. Oh, good on Wikipedia Forcing Editors To Disclose If They're Paid · · Score: 3, Funny

    That'll put a stop to it.

  12. Re:Also focus on on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't have to "destroy" them, just "cut off their air supply".

  13. Re:Easy for him to say. on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    But no wait, in the business world, ethics are inversely proportional to profits.

    FTFY

  14. Re:So says the richest man in the world... on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    I've got this mental image of John D. Rockefeller handing out shiny new dimes to homeless orphans for the benefit of the photographers...

  15. Oblig Soviet Russia joke on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, Bill Gates thinks YOU'RE a hypocrite.

  16. Re:Standardization is critical on BMW, Mazda Keen To Meet With Tesla About Charging Technology · · Score: 3, Funny

    Prepare to be burned as a heretic. Everyone knows that patents CAUSE innovation by forcing inventors to do the same mundane tasks differently. Plus, they help keep attorneys employed, which is vitally important. Disclaiming or sharing patent rights that you've already acquired is socialism, which is the ultimate evil.

  17. Re:Now I have over 50% of the comments! on Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool · · Score: 1

    I'll sell this post back to you -- for a price.

  18. Re:I now have 50% of the Slashdot comments here! on Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool · · Score: 2

    Heh. I just stole 17% of your total.

  19. Re:What's wrong with html and javascript? on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    So your question is "What's wrong with HTML and Javascript?" and then you go on to say you prefer Perl for data processing. And me without mod points.

    +11 Funny

  20. Re:That's literally the worst idea I ever heard on Transforming the Web Into a Transparent 'HTTPA' Database · · Score: 1

    Or you could just airgap your intranet. Even moving sensitive pages to a different port and firewalling outside access on that port should do it.

  21. That's literally the worst idea I ever heard on Transforming the Web Into a Transparent 'HTTPA' Database · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So we have a stateless database with built-in DRM on every record and user tracking. Brilliant.

  22. Re:Seems Prudent on Nominet Compromising UK WHOIS Privacy, Wants To See Gov't-Issued ID · · Score: 0

    As long as you're not waiting for Probable Cause. 'Cause we don't need that shit.

  23. Re:Captain something or other on NVIDIA Is Better For Closed-Source Linux GPU Drivers, AMD Wins For Open-Source · · Score: 1

    Closed Captaining?

  24. Re:Protecting the Weak from the Strong on Interviews: Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    So it's OK if I rape your daughter, because it's "only your opinion" that I shouldn't, and I assert that "might makes right"?

  25. Re:But didn't their patents protect them? ;D on Cisco Spending Millions of Dollars Secretly Purchasing New Juniper Products · · Score: 1

    ...it lacks some of the interest a more historically grounded show might have.

    Like Mad Men, for example? I think HCF is starting out just fine. I'm curious to see where they take it.