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  1. According to who? on NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bloomberg is the reporting organization, so they can't bee the source. They name no sources, just "two people familiar with the matter", which could mean they asked me twice.

  2. Re:Does the "fix" include scrubbing? on NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed · · Score: 2

    A real fix includes not rolling their own malloc, then fixing the bugs that were hidden by their badly written freelist which prevented people from reverting to a normal malloc.

  3. Re:I don't understand on NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    You need to have enough evidence of *something* possibly happening to show that you have standing to bring the case.

  4. Not just coal miners on Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code · · Score: 1

    Most people employed as coders are provably untrainable as coders.

  5. #0 on Seven Habits of Highly Effective Unix Admins · · Score: 1

    Did you try turning it off then on again?

  6. Re:Bigger problem: stupid 'optimizations' on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that: OpenSSL depends on the fact that their custom free list will reallocate the memory just freed to get back the data. If you tied to use the supposedly slow malloc it would fail.

  7. Re:So what is it made of? on LHCb Confirms Existence of Exotic Hadrons · · Score: 1

    You never go full hadron.

  8. Re:"There's zero benefit a consumer gets from that on Qualcomm Announces Next-Gen Snapdragon 808 and 810 SoCs · · Score: 1

    Don't tell it to me, tell it to Anand Chandrasekher.

  9. Re:"There's zero benefit a consumer gets from that on Qualcomm Announces Next-Gen Snapdragon 808 and 810 SoCs · · Score: 1

    "Qualcomm is somewhat forced to go with 64-bit though, because Apple has taken the genie out of the bottle."

    The Qualcomm part was already near completion by the time anyone knew anything about the A7.Going 64-bit as a "response" in ~6 months is not plausible.

    My point was to poke fun at Qualcomm naysaying 64-bit at the same time they were developing 64-bit.

  10. "There's zero benefit a consumer gets from that" on Qualcomm Announces Next-Gen Snapdragon 808 and 810 SoCs · · Score: 4, Informative

    "I know there's a lot of noise because Apple did [64-bit] on their A7. I think they are doing a marketing gimmick. There's zero benefit a consumer gets from that," -Anand Chandrasekher, former Qualcomm CMO

  11. Re:Please NOTE... on U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Rule On Constitutionality of Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 1

    "so damn your rights"

    The EFF, ACLU, and Rand Paul asked for an injunction, and they got it.

  12. "How can congress make it go away without getting a constitutional amendment ratified?"

    By repealing the law authorizing the activity claimed to be unconstitutional. STOPPING unconstitutional activity does not require a constitutional amendment.

    At that point any further action on the injunction is moot, since the law would then match what the injunction is asking for.

  13. Re:No, they don't ! on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 1

    Note that I keep saying "keys" but some planes have an electronic keypad where you enter a combination. Here is a picture of a Airbus 380 flight deck door, with the keypad visible to the right of the door: http://i40.tinypic.com/2vuizut...

  14. Re:No, they don't ! on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 1

    "Cabin crews won't have the keys"

    I specifically said *flight deck crew*, not cabin crew. You are correct that cabin crew no longer have keys. C.f. the regulation that would apply in the US: 14 CFR 129.28(d)(1) http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr...

    "No person other than a person who is assigned to perform duty on the flight deck may have a key to the flight deck door that will provide access to the flightdeck. "

    This does no prohibit the flight deck crew from having keys, which would prevent the scenario where non-complicit flight crew is locked out.

  15. Re:Not that hard on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 1

    The flight deck crew have keys to open the door.

  16. Re:One possiblity, this was intentional on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 0

    What kind of novels have I been reading to make me think "insurance fraud"? ;-)

  17. Re:How does this affect dual-system chipsets? on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 1

    "And with that post you contributed what exactly?"

    I identified a +5,informative post as containing no relevant information beyond repeating what the OP supplied..

    "have something interesting and preferably on topic... learn a bit about slashdot"

    Maybe you should tell that to the person with the 5-digit ID who only quoted the OP's information back to him.

  18. Re:correlation does not prove causation on Study: Exposure To Morning Sunlight Helps Managing Weight · · Score: 0

    -1, self-righteous jackass

    Could it be that people that squawk "correlation does not prove causation" without knowing what that means are just lazy and don't bother to find out what the study actually does and does not cover?

  19. Re:How does this affect dual-system chipsets? on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 1

    -1, uninformative.

    You didn't answer the question (what is the response of a dual-system receiver when one system is sending bad data), you just told the OP what he already stipulated (that the receiver is dual system).

  20. Re:"nerds like us" on Wil Wheaton Announces New TV Show · · Score: 1

    "How do you like that? Even among misfits you're a misfit." -Yukon Cornelius

  21. Re:Two solutions (Encrypt or leave) on Dropbox's New Policy of Scanning Files For DMCA Issues · · Score: 1

    "One of dropbox's key features is it's ability to share your files. So I hardly think access to your addressbook is really wrong."

    The point of sharing with Dropbox is not to share files via email, it's to share files via Dropbox. If I wanted to share files via email I wouldn't need Dropbox.

  22. Re:Forbit all HFT on Adaptation From Flash Boys Offers Inside Look at High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    According to the very people proposing HFT. If fastest communications are reserved for HFT itself then by definition the outcome of the transaction cannot be based on any information about the market because they are outpacing that information.

  23. Re:Not a watch on What Apple's iWatch Can Learn From Pebble · · Score: 2

    No, they'll just switch to complaining about Apple's failure to deliver on their promise of an iWatch.

  24. Re:Hack it to add American names like "John Smith" on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    At one point there were 18 David Nelsons in Oregon alone who got hassled at PDX due to the no fly list.

  25. Re:Hack it to add American names like "John Smith" on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 4, Funny

    The evil twin is the one NOT on the list, because he submitted false evidence about his brother.