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  1. Re:Read between the lines on Google Chairman on WhatsApp: $19 Bn For 50 People? Good For Them! · · Score: 1

    French programmers only work three hour days.

    And produce the same as you do in 8 hours?

  2. Contradiction on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    They throw away the elected government (yes, it was corrupted, but elected) through a revolution, which means the former constitution does not apply anymore. And that constitution tied Ukraine together. Once it is no more, there is no more legal grounds to retain a part of the territory that want to separate.

    I hope ukrainians will manage to sort this mess, but it does not smells good.

  3. IMEI change on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? · · Score: 1

    I thought IMEI could not be changed. Is it possible here because on a smartphone everything is software defined?

  4. Re:By that reasoning... on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    I am an atheist and I agree faith is a strength for some people that have it. Life may be easier if you have an explanation for the universe and its meaning.

  5. Re:interesting story, shit website on How Tutankhamun's DNA Became a Battleground · · Score: 1

    Of course it was true, Gengis Khan took over China.

  6. Re:certpatrol on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    You can still see that the signing CA changed.

  7. certpatrol on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you fear your SSL traffic is intercepted, install a browser extension that track certificate change. Firefox has certpatrol, for instance.

  8. Intent may be fine. CA system is to blame. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their intent may be just fine. For instance, you want want to have an internal CA installed so that you can deploy SSL-enabled services without having to buy certificates from a commercial CA.

    Of course it allows SSL traffic interception, which is likely to be illegal, but nothing proves it was done, or even planned. The the real problem here is that the CA framework allows any CA to sign any certificate.

  9. Re:interesting story, shit website on How Tutankhamun's DNA Became a Battleground · · Score: 1

    There's some kind of fear that [Tutankhamun] may have been a Jewish ancestor. Which would somehow make Egypt part of Israel.

    With that kind of rationale, China would be somehow part of Mongolia

  10. Re:I'd replace Java with Perl, for one. on Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So you'd switch from a newer technology to an older one?

    It is common to replace code quickly written in recent language, by something faster written in ancient C.

  11. Taxes on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 2

    Mega corporations do whatever they can to dodge taxes, and then discover that they need tax-funded public services: cops and transports. What is next? Microsoft will subsidize roads? Cisco will build a sewage? Apple will raise an army?

  12. Re:God on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    How much study do YOU suppose is put into proving/disproving the efficacy of any substance which cannot be patented? Take all the time you need to think that over. And then tell us who will pay for those studies and why.

    France have public research centers (in Univerisites, but also CNRS and INSERN), therefore the knowledgeable people are available to do it.

    Next you need the funding. Considering that expensive patented drugs are reimbursed to the patient by socialized healthcare, you can play a zero-sum game: tax payers money can be invested into developing patent-free drugs that will be less expensive, and will cost less to healthcare. And here tax payers get their return on investment.

  13. Fiber in the sewers on Belgian Barrels Reveal History of Human Gut Microbes · · Score: 1

    Fiber in the sewers is nothing new. Many operators use it in Paris up to the risible situation where multiple fibers can connect a building.

  14. Net bubble on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    Ok, we know the next bubble is student loans. Now the interesting question is: is there a way to profit from it? What kind of financial product could win from the bubble burst? Is it possible to buy a CDS on student loans?

  15. Re:two words: trusted proxy on Snowden's NSA Leaks Gave IETF a Needed Security Wake-up Call · · Score: 1

    We need to replace both SSL/TLS AND the broken CA cert model

    Here is a proposal: DNSSEC ensures DNS record integrity, so use it to publish domain-specific CA. If you need to connect to www.example.com, get example.com's CA from the DNS, and use it to validate www.example.com certificate.

  16. Re:God on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But homeopathy secret is the placebo effect, and that is real science.When french drug agency allowed homeopathy a long time ago, they wrote that it helped though the placebo effect while having less side effects than real drugs.

  17. Humans are social on The Science of Solitary Confinement · · Score: 2

    Human beings are social animals. Depriving someone from social interaction is therefore inhumane.

  18. Re:What could go wrong on New Review Slams Fusion Project's Management · · Score: 1

    The main contribution was turning a design into reality.

  19. Re:What could go wrong on New Review Slams Fusion Project's Management · · Score: 5, Informative

    multi-billion dollar international project led by the French. What could go wrong?

    French managed many big industrial projects on their own. To name a few: Ariane, Concorde, nuclear reactors and nukes...

  20. Pressure from megacorporation on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    I think it is the first time I see government lobbying by a megacorporation as a positive thing.

  21. Re:Where are the ennemies on US War Machine Downsizing? · · Score: 1

    It has been a long time since the number of soldiers ceased to be the key factor.

    And you should not fear conflicts between China, India and US: they are all nuclear powers, and this forces everyone to be reasonable

  22. Re:Where are the ennemies on US War Machine Downsizing? · · Score: 1

    I hear you about guerrilla, but the solution is simple: just avoid them. No guerrilla has ever been threatening US territory, and all the guerrilla the US army encountered were during foreign operation that had nothing to do with preserving US territorial integrity.

  23. Re:Where are the ennemies on US War Machine Downsizing? · · Score: 1

    What are you afraid of? All that countries fit in the 20% worldwide war expense that are outside of NATO. None of they would even think about a real conflict with US.

  24. Finance weight on Oklahoma Schools Required To Teach Students Personal Finance · · Score: 1

    Finance weight has become so important that it has be taught in school.

    I cannot wait for other constraints to become so important that instead of managing them, society decide to train children to cope with them: find a cave to sleep, make fire, spare attacks from wild animals, manage a raid from rival tribe...

  25. Where are the ennemies on US War Machine Downsizing? · · Score: 1

    With the US amounting for 50% of army expenses worldwide, and NATO accounting for 80%, it is not obvious where the enemies are.

    The USSR does not exist anymore. A much smaller army would protect US security as well as the current one.