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  1. Re:I often disagree with RMS, but... on GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project · · Score: 1

    All languages are crap at some level and for some uses.

    But watch this from Bjarne last february for some insight in C++11:

    http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Keynote-Bjarne-Stroustrup-Cpp11-Style

  2. Re:How about they.... on Virus Eats School District's Homework · · Score: 1

    But ... But... the companies said that this was a "Trusted Computing" system!!! So all they needed was trust!

  3. No he is insulting fruit flies.

  4. Re:This is exactly why... on Petraeus Case Illustrates FBI Authority To Read Email · · Score: 1

    Is your IMAP server hosted on your own machine or co-located, or "in the cloud"?

  5. Re:Grin on FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here are some very interesting, compelling reasons to switch to Clang:

    http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Clang-Defending-C-from-Murphy-s-Million-Monkeys

  6. Re:Umm on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've seen two instances where a drive failed. Each time there were no handy replacement drives. Within a week a second drive died the same way as the first! back to backup tapes! Better to have replacement drives in boxes waiting.

  7. Re:There's a reason for that. on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    All I know is that unpure beer makes me feel bad. YMMV.

  8. Re:There's a reason for that. on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 0

    Don't even bother trying to drink any beer unless it is brewed to the Bavarian Purity Law standard of 1516. Lots of smaller breweries in the U.S. and Canada have beer that complies.

  9. Re:I don't get the point of Kickstarter on When Kickstarter Projects Go Missing · · Score: 2

    It can be looked at as a investment to the larger eco-system, where the benefit to you is more abstract.

  10. Re:correct horse battery staple on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    well it still works! "'correct horse ba"

    who needs staples anyways? I hardly ever print anything out.

  11. Re:Someday iPad apps will be developed on an iPad on Will Developers Finally Start Coding On the iPad? · · Score: 1

    Back in 1984, the Macintosh was first released. The only way to create applications for it was to run the development tools on the Apple Lisa.

    Then, it became possible to run MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) and then came Lightspeed C aka ThinkC aka Symantec C which ran natively on the Macintosh.

    Today, the only way to create native applications for the iPad is by running the development tools on a Macintosh.

    Perhaps there is a pattern here?

  12. Re:Let me get this straight on Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, that is incorrect. They are perfectly capable.

    They have no business reason to support people who do not purchase the new operating system.

  13. Re:Security? on 19-Year-Old Squatted At AOL For 2 Months · · Score: 2

    ... And they STILL let you post on slashdot??? even in your spare time?

  14. Re:Different Approach? on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that the BSA likes apple's iPad as a platform better since it had a very tiny percentage of people pirating apps?

    Or perhaps they would prefer to be able to write off the equivalent losses?

  15. Re:Seems reasonable to me on Connecticut Resident Stopped By State Police For Radioactivity · · Score: 1

    Good point! And those special doctor notes could never be fabricated! :-)

  16. Re:Seems reasonable to me on Connecticut Resident Stopped By State Police For Radioactivity · · Score: 2

    So... The radiation was important enough to stop him. But then the radioactive person effectively says "this is not the terrorist that you are looking for" and the police let him go on. What if it were a terrorist?

    It sounds like every terrorist now knows what to say when they are stopped.

    Either this stuff is important enough to legally restrict or it isn't!

  17. Re:paranoid nanny state on Surface-To-Air Missiles At London Olympics · · Score: 1

    http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?20677-Vaunted-Patriot-Missile-Has-a-Friendly-Fire-Failing .... But after the war, congressional and independent analyses concluded that the Patriot may actually have missed every Scud it targeted....

  18. Re:paranoid nanny state on Surface-To-Air Missiles At London Olympics · · Score: 1

    The patriot missile had a beginner level programmer's bug in it which caused it to miss every scud:

    http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~downing/papers/PatriotB1992.pdf

  19. Re:Nothing new? on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An old man once told me that age and treachery will always trump youth and skill...

  20. Re:Scientists Charged For Not Being Psychic on US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case · · Score: 1

    But this is exactly what happened:

    http://newsbizarre.com/2009/04/giacchino-giuliani-italian-predicted.html

    An Italian scientist, Giacchino Giuliani says he tried to warm the people in the earthquake devestated city of L'Aquila that a massive disaster was imminent only to be told he was an "imbecile".

    An alarmed Giacchino Giuliani reportedly strapped loudspeakers to cars and vans and drove around the city in late March warning people that an earthquake was imminent due to increased activity involving radon gas.

    "There are people who must apologize to me, and they must have the weight of what occurred on their conscience," Giacchino Giuliani said.

    Observations of underground water before Sundy nights earthquake were also observed by Giacchino Giuliani but the man employed by a physics institute at Gran Sasso said he felt helpless as he knew Italian police would arrest him for further scare mongering.

  21. Re:Firefox Plugin on Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship · · Score: 1

    And this is why only Homeland security should be allowed to edit your /etc/hosts file!

    --jeffk++

  22. Re:Password not the problem on SCADA Hacker: Water District Used 3-Character Password · · Score: 1

    Most likely no one DID connect a computer that controls industrial machinery to the internet.

    They probably connected a DIFFERENT computer on the same network to the internet.

  23. Re:Maybe Apple should make a smaller one? on Kindle Fire Will Be Hotter Than iPad This Holiday · · Score: 1

    Apple already "innovated" that size in the Newton back in 1993: https://www.msu.edu/~luckie/gallery/mp100.htm

    But I can't figure out the exact size of the screen - all the old articles just show pixel counts.

    --jeffk++

  24. Re:Where can I get one? on Linux 3.1 Released With Support for the OpenRISC CPU · · Score: 1

    I haven't tried the OpenRISC cpu but apparently it takes more gates than the MicroBlaze soft-cpu that Xilinx provides. BTW you can already run linux on the Microblaze in many Xilinx devices; see my github repo: https://github.com/jdkoftinoff/mb-linux-msli

    --jeffk++

  25. Re:Where can I get one? on Linux 3.1 Released With Support for the OpenRISC CPU · · Score: 2

    Where can I get an OpenRISC CPU and a motherboard that will support it, and how much do they cost compared to Intel/AMD CPUs of similar performance?

    OpenRisc is a soft-cpu, defined in the Verilog language, suitable for implementing in many different types of FPGA's of varying price/performance/power.
    Here is one source for boards of all types:

    --jeffk++