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  1. That's the big difference on How a Kickstarter Project Can Massively Exceed Its Funding Goals and Still Fail · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Between a real entrepreneur and a person with "just" a good idea.
    You actually need to be both in order to sicceed!

  2. Re:Single key mistake? on Scotland's Police Lose Data Because of Programmer's Error · · Score: 1

    This type of cases falls in the "stupidity" category. That also means that the case has never been reviewd and tested. Double stupidity.

  3. Single key mistake? on Scotland's Police Lose Data Because of Programmer's Error · · Score: 1

    A single key mistake from a programmer (not a user, be warned) that can delete a whole lot of data needs a specific function to be coded.
    Cannot be a mistake. It's intentional. Intentional stupidity at least.
    On the other side a single key error from a user is different. But still, a function that wipes data, all of them, with a single key(press) should require no less than a second key for confirmation.
    My personal diagnosis:
    - 95% The report is totaly nonsense trying to move responsibility on someone else.
    - 5% That was a reall single key mistake

  4. And video? on Samsung Smart TVs Don't Encrypt the Voice Data They Collect · · Score: 1

    I think they also collect video from the camera when present (why not?) and I also think they will use the same "technology" to send it back home.
    Is that encrypted? And, more important, is it allowed by law???

  5. Re:DHT on Demonii Tracker Tops 30 Million Connected Peers · · Score: 1

    Correct, mate, indeed. A tracker won't give you incoming traffic (unless it's also a relay).
    Provided that you have the IP pf your peers, you still need to ask them for those files. This boils down to be either able to connect to him.
    HDT has one disadvantage: if your upstream firewall bocks your incoming traffic, then you are out witouht relays. Even if you don't need trackers.

  6. Re:DHT on Demonii Tracker Tops 30 Million Connected Peers · · Score: 0

    The real problem with P2P in general is that you need incoming connections. This is why you need trackers. They have incoming connections.

  7. Ending mass surveillance on EFF Unveils Plan For Ending Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Or better trying to hide it?

  8. Maybe on Could Tizen Be the Next Android? · · Score: 1

    Tizen could replace Android within Samsung products.
    It needs to be better from both the users' perspective and from Samsung's.
    In my opinion that should be a "native code" system, not a Javascript one.
    Native code needs fewer computing resources and thus less energy.

  9. Red pill or blue pill? on Ask Slashdot: Can I Trust Android Rooting Tools? · · Score: 1

    Can you trust the factory installed software?
    Can you trust the modded ROM you want to install?
    Why should it be different with the rooting tool, the modded recovery or any other thing?
    Which ever pill you'll take, you won't ever know!
    Welcome in the real world!

  10. Re:Do you want the good or bad news first? on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 1
  11. Yet another buzzword! on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How? Why? Who?

  12. Normal stuff, isn't it? on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 1

    [A security related entity] Chief Seeks New Powers After [a (potentially) bloody event] Attack.

    It's getting so annoying that I would include it in all constitutions. So they just fill in a form and get new powers.

  13. Re:Waste of money on Intel Pledges $300 Million To Improve Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    "diversitiy" has a number of meanings and, more important, a large number of contexts.
    And there is a nomber of contexts where we have very low diversity or no diversity at all. But none is putting money to fight against those lacks.
    Thus my point, my question and my quotes.
    Finally, using quotes is also a form of diversitiy. Isn't it?

  14. Re:Waste of money on Intel Pledges $300 Million To Improve Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    Why not?

  15. Waste of money on Intel Pledges $300 Million To Improve Diversity In Tech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you don't understand the problem first, there will be no real solution later. Why don't we have "diversity"?

  16. A matter of love on Review: The BlackBerry Classic Is One of the Best Phones of 2009 · · Score: 1, Funny

    When Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, and I owned a BlackBerry Curve.

    You don't love the grammar very much. Do you?

  17. Unbelievable! on Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't all these countries be focused on renewable energy sources?
    Uh, sorry! Forget! I was just dreaming!

  18. Re:No, that would be BZFlag on NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written · · Score: 1

    For months!!!

  19. Don't foget on NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written · · Score: 4, Informative

    Rogue, Moria and the likes. I personally played Rogue and Moria.

  20. 95% growth on Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service · · Score: 1

    For something that is barely measurable can still be barely relevant!
    Just a little bit more.

  21. Re:Relevant to what? on How Relevant is C in 2014? · · Score: 1

    OK! OK! You are just confirming that the original question still has the original trivial answer. Which is "A whole lot!" in my mind.

  22. Relevant to what? on How Relevant is C in 2014? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    To mobile application market? Irrelevant.
    To online web services? Not so relevant.
    To online web server? Very relevant!
    To high efficiency applications? It's almost the standard.
    To operating systems? There's almost nothing other than C (in terms of market share).

    Please, elaborate more on your stupid question, you insensitive mobile clod!

  23. Low tech on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    The power grid is considered by many (investors) low tech. If you check carefully, a lot of energy related stuff is relying on low-tech or old-tech: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... For these reasons, probably, there is not much attention (or even competences) in planning, research and design. Also technicians tend to underestimate technology impact in those areas.

  24. Re:FIRST on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 1

    Nope. Just the 1st idiot.

  25. Re:Hmmm ... on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Naaah! The media it's already full of such kind of people. But maybe this very one is the only to write an operating system ... Sorry, forget this. There was one in Redmond some time ago ...