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  1. Re:Absolutely on Fedora To Have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" For Contributors · · Score: 1

    And who decides which are which?

    If society found a law unjust, it would be repealed.

    If that is an individual, and not society at large, then all laws are unjust in someone's eyes.

  2. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, this was very early in the development of this policy/technology, so I don't think they considered the impact... as corporation's are wont to do.

  3. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    Just like EULAs?

  4. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    Your packets are not your body.

    And yes, at some work sites they can do exactly that, the TSA for example, it is part of the job!

  5. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 2

    Especially since you can use your damn Smartphone over 3g, or your personal device at a local McDonalds/Starbucks if you can't tether and avoid the whole issue.

  6. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    In my case, I had both HIPPA and DoD systems access.

    Showing they did everything possible to monitor and detect misuse of that data, particularly the DoD data, was more important than trusting employees.

    I can only imagine how paranoid they are after Snowden.

  7. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    Not when they have told you all communications are monitored and it is considered misuse of the companies resources to do banking during the day.

  8. Re:Not a Nazi Plane on Bugatti 100P Rebuilt: The Plane That Could've Turned the Battle of Britain · · Score: 1

    Boom and Zoom is diving in from higher elevation engaging the Zero from behind/above and continuing the dive to avoid getting into a prolonged turning fight, which the Zero would win.

    http://www.defenceaviation.com...

    [The Zero] superior dogfighter than the early Allied fighters, the Zero was able to out-maneuver its opposition. To combat this, Allied pilots developed specific tactics for dealing with the aircraft. These included the “Thach Weave,” which required two Allied pilots working in tandem, and the “Boom-and-Zoom,” which saw Allied pilots fighting on the dive or climb. In both cases, the Allies benefited from the Zero’s complete lack of protection as a single burst of fire was generally enough to down the aircraft.

  9. Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, that is exactly what my company did. They got ratted out when they let the CA expire, but the argument was "Our hardware, our rules."

    The usage rules stated something along the lines of they had the right to inspect and alter packets on the company owned network, so there you go...

  10. Re:two words on RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores · · Score: 1

    Not sure what market you are in, but in my market it is the same price after shipping costs, exactly the same if it is a Maker kit or whatever.

    Can't really avoid taxes on out of state products here in California, so usually Radio Shack is a perfectly good alternative for needing it quick, even compared to Fry's Electronics.

    The really sad part is I had no idea they had them till I stumbled on it in the Mall. It was either Radio Shack or the shoe store... and lo and behold I find Arduino kits!

  11. Re:Not a Nazi Plane on Bugatti 100P Rebuilt: The Plane That Could've Turned the Battle of Britain · · Score: 1

    This applied to the F-4F Wildcat vrs the Zero.

    Boom and zoom was the tactic that leveled the field.

  12. Re:vim on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    You mean Word 2013?

  13. Re:First! on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 0

    No, my "car", a 75 CB550, has as it's most complex electronic device the humble diode, as part of the discrete component bridge rectifier.

    Even the voltage regulator is electro-mechanical.

    The 77 Vepsa P200, however, has a replacement Ducati CDI, which I believe has an actual IC in it, where the less reliable original was discrete.

  14. Re:It'll be short-lived on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 1

    http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/...

    No no, don't thank me, it was just a google away.

  15. Re:It'll be short-lived on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 1

    8.1 was really just too big to call it a service patch, but that was what it was.... and those should be free.

  16. Re:There are no comments on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 1

    So you will only accept quotes about climate change from sites that support the climate change theory.... talk about selection bias.

    And they are quoting the supporter who did the research, not saying it themselves. The Climate believer used the word "tenet" not the "denier".

  17. Re:Just take the DRM out... on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the service is free, then you are the "product".

  18. Re:Kinda funny on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give me a bing, Vasili. One bing only, please.

  19. Re:But ... FREEDOM! on WV Senator Calls For Ban On All Unregulated Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    Throw the bums out!

  20. Re:Next Generation speeds on New 'pCell' Technology Could Bring Next Generation Speeds To 4G Networks · · Score: 2

    This space ship goes to 11, man!

  21. Re:Ingrediants on Asia's Richest Man Is Betting Big On Silicon Valley's Fake Eggs · · Score: 1

    It's been raped. Virgin Olive Oil is virgin. /sarcasm

  22. 66%? big deal. on NVIDIA Launches GTX 750 Ti With New Maxwell Architecture · · Score: 1

    going from 1 unit to 1.25 unit size is 56% bigger in area, so they gained 10%?

  23. Re:There are no comments on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 1

    Anderegg et al (2010) approached the subject in a different manner by assessing authors as to whether they were “Convinced by Evidence” (CE) or “Unconvinced by Evidence” (UE) of the tenets of Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) as defined by the IPCC.
    xxxi
    This was evaluated by a review o fwhat type of public statements scientists may have signed.
    A contributor to the IPCC report was automatically assumed to support the IPCC declaration.
    This is an unjustified assumption.

    So the 66% is based on some interesting assumptions: if they were a contributor to the IPCC report, they are assumed to be a supporter. Probably, but shoddy. IF they signed some statement in the past, it still holds today. Possible, but shoddy.

    Second, check the interesting word choice by Anderegg "Tenets" not "Hypothesis" or "Theory", as one would expect from a scientific study.

    Oxford English Dict says:

    a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy:

    Not what I think of when I read a scientific paper.

  24. Re:There are no comments on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 1

    Not all climate scientists are part of the IPCC.

    Include them and the consensus is a plurality at best.

  25. Re:There are no comments on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 2

    I am perfectly fine with that, we only ask climate scientists and not everyone with a BS, MS... clearly computer scientists are not client scientists (although, looking at the crap code that the models use, they would be less suspect), the problem is that the media and politicians that quote the "97%" does not make the distinction.

    IF they reported it as 97% of IPCC scientists who are members of the publishing entity IPCC agree with the AGW findings I would not have a beef. People can make their own decision if is unsurprising that 97% scientists who joined an organization of their own free will agree with findings of that same organization. Self selection at it's finest.

    But media, politicians and even self proclaimed "scientists" like Bill Nye don't, they expand it by saying 97% of all scientists, when it is not even 97% of all climate scientists. The media and politicians are misrepresenting the "consensus" as broader than it really is.