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  1. Re:If ever we do develope a Ministry of Truth on Last Stop For Wikipedia's Feuding Editors -- Online High Court (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia has its own internal "Supreme Court,"

    s/Supreme/Kangaroo/g

    This is Wikipedia we're talking about here, not an actual functioning system.

  2. Re:It's the whiplash with a touch of insider tradi on President Trump Pledges To Help China's ZTE, After Ban (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Two obvious answer candidates:

    Three actually:

    (3). It's Trump. He'll say one thing one day, the opposite the next, and something else again on the third day.

    How long has he been president and you still haven't noticed this?

  3. Re:Gay on Microsoft Turned Customers Against the Skype Brand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    No, I think the article is spot on.

    Given that the link is to "Apple Leaves Overseas Cash Out of Its Latest Quarterly Report", I think it's spot off. Yay, Slashdot editing!

  4. Re:3.5 inches on NASA Will Send Helicopter To Mars To Test Otherworldly Flight (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    It's not just very thin, most of the distance to Mars is a total vacuum. I'm not sure how they're planning to fly it to Mars.

    Also, the batteries will give out long before it gets there.

  5. Re:Mac OS and macOS? on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    And mAcOs is kinda lumpy, while MacoS is either a suspension bridge or a Filipino meat dish.

  6. Re:too little, too late on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's also Windows 10 Bleeding Edge Edition only, so it's still not going to help that many people.

  7. Re:Trying way too hard on Microsoft Hopes Money Will Entice More Developers (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    If you were Big Bruno's boyfriend you'd also be pretty loose by now.

  8. Re: Yes and no on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 2

    And that's safer? You're sitting on top of a fully-fuelled, giant flying bomb waiting to see if the launch will get scrubbed yet again (STS-61, STS-73). From memory one of the aborts for -61 was due to them losing a huge quantity of LOX with the crew on board, which doesn't make a strong case for fuel first, crew later.

  9. Re:Yes and no on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 2

    Also, NASA used cryogenic propellants for many manned missions. Pot, kettle, black.

  10. Re: So Much For "The Internet Of Things" on New Hacking Tool Lets Users Access a Bunch of DVRs and Their Video Feeds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Thankfully my monitor isn't in Australia.

  11. Re:The mob is fickle, brother...forgotten in a mon on Facebook Survey Suggests Continuing US Loyalty After Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yup. It's like saying "nine out of ten heroin users would continue to use it even when warned about the dangers of contaminated needles".

  12. Re:I'm getting the feeling... on GCC 8.1 Compiler Introduces Initial C++20 Support (gnu.org) · · Score: 0

    IOW you're writing noncompliant code and blaming it on compiler bugs.

    You're a gcc maintainer I assume? That's one of their main comebacks, "your code is noncompliant and it's not our compiler that's broken". Funny thing is, the thirty to forty other compilers that the same code is built with (see my other comment above) all work fine, it's only gcc that generates invalid code. Odd that, isn't it, that gcc is right and every other compiler out there is wrong?

    Oh, right, but it's noncompliant code, not a gcc bug. Closed, WONTFIX.

  13. Re:I'm getting the feeling... on GCC 8.1 Compiler Introduces Initial C++20 Support (gnu.org) · · Score: 2

    I know you don't have an example of consecutive releases with different codegen bugs, but asking at least makes it clear to other readers that you don't know what you are talking about

    Gosh, you know a lot about this, don't you? Which version of gcc would you like the bugs for? There's so many of them I'd have to go for a specific version.

    Incidentally, this code is built using between thirty and fourty different compilers, depending on how you count them (for example are VC++ 6.0, .NET, and the current Visual Studio counted as the same compiler or not? There are at least three different code bases there). gcc has more code generation bugs than every other compiler combined. That's the sum of thirty to forty compilers that have less bugs combined than gcc. Quite an impressive record. It really is an awful compiler to work with.

  14. Re:Are you tired of your existing compilers? on GCC 8.1 Compiler Introduces Initial C++20 Support (gnu.org) · · Score: 2

    In the case of Apple and Qualcomm, they apparently prefer a compiler that will let them distribute a proprietary (non-free, user-subjugating) derivative.

    I prefer a compiler that generates efficient, error-free code, and that's it. I'll leave focusing on the ideological wankery to the SJWs.

  15. Re:I'm getting the feeling... on GCC 8.1 Compiler Introduces Initial C++20 Support (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    "Are you tired of your existing compilers? Want fresh new language features and better optimizations?"

    "Then consider ditching gcc and going with LLVM". Is that how the quote ends?

    I can't wait for that festing pile of bloat and compiler bugs to finally die, I really can't. Every single new release brings more code-generation bugs that we have to work around in our product, we're slowly working away at The Mgt. to get them to simply require LLVM or some other compiler that doesn't break things on every release, and whose maintainers will actually respond to bug reports rather than closing them all with WONTFIX, "if you squint at the spec from just the right angle and use your imagination then this showstopper bug is actually permitted".

  16. It depends. If it's a US product then it's most likely a backdoor, if it's made in Asia, particularly China, it's standard programming practice.

    That's not snark, it really is, security is just a zero-priority thing for products from there. And when you find the vulns there's close to zero chance of ever getting them fixed.

  17. Re:Jesus on 60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Heck, I once partly solved a great maths problem too, the conjecture that x^n + y^n = z^n has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2. My partial solution was "let x be a nonzero positive integer".

  18. Welcome to the Apple walled garden, from which there is no Escape.

  19. Re:Why am I not reassured. on Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity has found a new opening that smells like money to relentlessly jam its blood funnel into?

  20. Re:Parents? on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost always vote against the incumbent

    In women's tennis, I always root against the heterosexual.

  21. Re:The bees can hold out for another few years? on EU Votes To Ban Bee-Harming Pesticides (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    I served the state for a number of years as entomologist.

    An entomologist who only managed to figure out how to create a Slashdot account last Thursday?

    He's a Trump-appointed entomologist. His qualifications consist of commenting about roach extermination for Fox and Friends.

  22. Re:what the f- on Go Programming Language Gets A New Logo and Branding (golang.org) · · Score: 1

    If their idea is to promote a language that "follows the brand's core philosophy of simplicity over complexity", shouldn't they be using this as their logo? That has good brand recognition and has been around for years.

    Another suggestion for a logo for Go would be this.

  23. Re:No. on Can We Fight Climate Change With Carbon-Absorbing Rocks? (indiatimes.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Extended answer: No, we can fight climate change by emitting less CO2. And that's the only way we can fight it.

  24. Re:Good on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 0

    You're full of shit, fanboi.

    You do realise that you're calling someone who has never owned a piece of Apple hardware in his life an Apple fanboi? Obviously you know as much about fanbois as you do about router security.

  25. Re:Good on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: -1

    That was just the first Google hit. MikroTik in particular have a long, long history of 0day in their firmware.

    In any case, if the vendor lets users put devices online without getting them to change the default credentials it's still the vendor's fault, they've just set it up so they can blame the users. Heck, the shitty Thomson routers/APs that the local telco gives you for free when you sign up for Internet access do security better than that.