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  1. Re:Good grief... on There's Kanye West-Themed Crypto-Currency On the Way · · Score: 1

    Since I don't pay such, does this mean that the US dollar is useless?

  2. Re:One word on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Convince Management To Hire More IT Staff? · · Score: 1

    I think it stands for "work".
    But I understand your confusion.

  3. No, you need to lack a brain for it to work.

  4. Re:Weather intolerance risk? on Ask Slashdot: Why So Hard Landing Interviews In Seattle Versus SoCal? · · Score: 1

    Hip-shooting indeed... And you managed to get it wrong by 180 degrees.

    When you got summer only 3 months a years, YOU DON'T WASTE THEM HACKING. You hang out, drink beer and ogle at the girls in short skirts. Hacking is done indoors. Which means rain and cold and dark (hey, no sunlight glares in the screens!) are perfect conditions. I'm not ashamed to admit, that there can be several days in July that I don't even turn on my computer. And this includes tablets as well as phones.

    Incidentally, this explains why "the rest of the world" sneers at Silicon Valley - where it is summer all the time. Which by logic induction proves they never work there (hard, at least). And they still have the audacity, like OP, to brag about ".8 returns on job applications". This prejudice, I'd wager, is the real crux of OP's problems. OP, take a hint. A .1 return on applications is freaking awesome! Stop crying over it, and welcome to the real world.

    Who modded parent up? Californians?

  5. Re:Well DUH on Piracy Offers Heavy Metal a New Business Model · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTaD9cd8hvw&list=PL44E1F9F9F11B432B
    Now, why would I ever pay for Iron Maiden music again? (except for a some somewhat unpopular sense of decency, and Iron Maiden seems to be doing just fine without my "charity")
    I am sincerely amazed that there is any money to be made in the music industry these days.

  6. Re: Old News on How Microwave Transmission Is Linking Financial Centers At Near-Light Speed · · Score: 2

    Cutting down the ping from 6.04ms to 4.13ms. How is this not progress?

  7. 00000001 would not work on Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World · · Score: 1

    If I had to launch a nuclear knowing I'd be killing hundreds of thousands of people, I guess my hands would shake pretty badly. Eight zeros would probably be as complex a encryption key I could manage, and I'd probably foul that too by hitting seven or nine zeros.

    No, I never qualified for the nuclear troops. Me, I'm just a grunt with an AK-47. I'd probably fare as badly with that one too.

  8. Re:Oooold.... on Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World · · Score: 1

    Yes, we know. Its stated right there in TFA.

  9. My engineer's brain hurts on Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself Using Tor · · Score: 1

    The shortest path between two points would not be a straight line, but it would go around three sides, twice.
    Can't we all just get a long so we wouldn't need this sort of nonsense. *sigh*

  10. Re:Shame on them on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    That was 9 unrelated words and two synonyms for me.
    Guess that makes me a woman or gay, then?

  11. Open source? on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    From the license: http://www.menuetos.net/m64l.txt

    1) Free for personal and educational use.
    2) Contact menuetos.net for commercial use.
    3) Redistribution, reverse engineering, disassembly or decompilation
          prohibited without permission from the copyright holders.

    For an OpenSource OS written in assembly, that 3rd clause is a bit strange.

    (yes, yes, I did notice that the 32bit version is more traditionally open-source-licensed...)

  12. Re:Cool! on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 1

    like massCannonBall_kg, or distanceToOuthouse_m. It also helps to insist that all units be base units. With floating point, why use _kOhm or _MOhm, when you can just use _Ohm for everything?

    Because kOhm is the natural unit, just like kg? Or is that domain specific?

  13. Re:Gee, they're going to build an ARM-based comput on Project Seeks To Build Inexpensive 9-inch Monitor For Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Because arduino does not run python.
    And so we come a full circle, just like the Ouroboros.

    The R-Pi is a nice and cheap devboard from Broadcom, don't get me wrong. But somehow ... all the hype about "school children that cannot program" has a false taste about it. Guess I sound like one of the Yorkshiremen, but I prefer my microcontrollers being programmable in assembly, and delivered in DIPs.
     

  14. Re:4.8.2 is not even 2 weeks old on GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Precisely what I tried to say. But do argue, by all means :)

  15. Re:4.8.2 is not even 2 weeks old on GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 · · Score: 1

    In the context of "gcc 4.8.2", I find your comment strange. Obviously gcc pushes out bugfix updates to 4.8. Why would they put any though to 4.8 anymore?

  16. Re:4.8.2 is not even 2 weeks old on GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Strange - everyone is constantly using the bleeding edge Clang, as a new version is popped out every six months, and nobody is complaining about that (loudly, at least). Just try and file a bug against last year's clang, and the first question asked is "does it work on 3.3?". If it does, that bug is closed, with no more thought to it.

    If LLVM can (quoting the insert) surpass GCC with this release method, then why should GCC not adapt a more rapid pace to accomodate contemporary fashions in opensource? Adapt or die.

    BTW, has anybody else noticed the change in time? Way back when, GPL:ing your compiler was the right thing to do, forcing it to be open source. This way GCC devs knew improvements would be fed back to the main line. But nowdays (I argue), LLVM's more liberal license is giving it an edge in the way industry is taking an interest. LLVM/Clang is becoming the "obvious" choice when developing a custom compiler, as you don't have to contribute your stuff to mainline LLVM.
    But the rapid pace of LLVM makes it actually cheaper to do so, due to lesser maintenance costs. Because your custom compiler you sell your clients is certainly not versioned against the current source tree, forcing you to jump through hoops backporting bugfixes from old LLVM snapshots.
    This makes LLVM getting the same improvements as GCC would get due to the license issue due to a carrot, not a stick. While still keeping the PHBs happy because of the license.

  17. Blue collar-workers? on The Boss Is Remotely Monitoring Blue-Collar Workers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lucky I am a white-collar. So none of this applies, right?

  18. Re:This is why I'm keeping my truck for forever on Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile · · Score: 1

    Greenpeacers see this as a good thing?? Surely you mean "big oil"?
    No "greenpeacer" would see these sort of tax reliefs on fuel-hungry cars as a Good Thing, surely. Because that is precisely what a milage-based tax is.

  19. Re:Evil, powerful men have enemies. on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    I mean look at the differences in customs there that we look at as barbaric, such as female circumcision and honor killings.

    (emphasis added)
    Anyone who condones chopping off (parts of) childrens penises I find barbaric, sadistic and and a bit perverse.
    I guess we too have alienated from "the west" long ago.

  20. Re:Full of BS on OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs · · Score: 2

    My supplier exchanged my broken OCZ drive whithout even testing it to a bigger one, as they were out of stock for the particular model.

    But the support from OCZ doesn't seem bad at all in comparison with any other electronics manufacturer, IMHO. Better even, they have a nice informative website. What sort of support do people expect from their SSD vendor, and what sort of support does their competition offer?

  21. Re:Tiniest violin on OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs · · Score: 4, Informative

    OCZ does that too: http://ocz.com/consumer/download/firmware. GP had a case of bad tech support, I guess.

  22. Re: Nobody cares about bitcoin on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 2

    How did we get from

    And they have a great use: eliminating payment processing costs. Those costs are distributed among the people who run the mining software.

    to

    That "percentage" is not an actual percentage, but a minimum fee you have to pay for a miner to accept your transaction into their verification process... and each miner can set their own.

    in just 5 posts?
    No wonder I haven't grokked bitcoin yet.

  23. Re:Colonial Cousin? on Glenn Greenwald Leaves the Guardian To Start His Own Site · · Score: 2

    Dear IRGlover,

    In the future, please order your history books from amazon.com, not from amazon.co.uk.

    sincerely,
    W.Smith
    revisor, Ficdep, Minitrue

  24. Re: what's the burning issue here? on Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos · · Score: 1

    That's just the point. Nobody needs to "bring" micro-usb cables. They seem to be ubiquitous.

    Or am I being trolled here?

  25. Re: what's the burning issue here? on Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos · · Score: 1

    Why so hostile? I don't think anyone was showing any disrespect here before this posting I am replying to.
    Originally you wrote

    I cannot comprehend why everybody feels so strongly about micro usb

    and then you failed to get bdwebb's point in the GP post. All we tried to do was explain our point-of-view.