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  1. Re:GPL on Wordpress Founder Accuses Wix Of Stealing Code (ma.tt) · · Score: 1

    This old chestnut?

    It's 2016, and we are STILL having this one?

    2001 wants it's bullshit arguments back.

  2. Can someone say "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" on Researchers Criticize New DAO Ethereum VC Fund (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... aka "There ain't no such thing as a fair election"...

  3. Re:Australia is breaching international treaty on Australia: VPN Users Aren't Breaching Copyright (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    But a contract that breaks the law is not a contract in law. So... if the govt made it expressly legal to circumvent it, then that clause in the contract would be void.

    This is run of the mill stuff - you often see language in contracts "...to the extent enforceable by law...".

  4. Re:Australia is breaching international treaty on Australia: VPN Users Aren't Breaching Copyright (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    2 seconds on google would let you discover that you don't need a signature to make a contract.

  5. Re: never heard of it on RIP Kuro5hin (kuro5hin.org) · · Score: 1

    I think I might even have had an account there...

  6. Re:Go Amish? on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Has aerospace solved the halting problem then?

  7. Re:The solution to all this nonsense on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1

    Oh look - another meaningless flamewar... what's this about again?

  8. Re:The solution to all this nonsense on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1

    well, perhaps not sure. Just hopeful.

  9. Re:The solution to all this nonsense on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1

    I am sure that you can make the counter argument for me.

  10. Re:Visual walkthrough and commentary of the mayhem on Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million · · Score: 1

    1. Queue all orders
    2. Delay. 1 second? 2 seconds? Even maybe 5 seconds.
    3. Randomise the queue
    4. Execute all orders
    5. Goto 1

    Should stop this kind of bullshit.

  11. Re:The solution to all this nonsense on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1

    Words fail me.

  12. Ummm... RAM Hog? on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    That thing had to go. I miss my plugs, but, that fucker had to go....

  13. The solution to all this nonsense on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1

    1. Queue all orders
    2. Delay. 1 second? 2 seconds? Even maybe 5 seconds.
    3. Randomise the queue
    4. Execute all orders
    5. Goto 1

    Kills front running, probably kills HFC. Basically strategy proofs the whole thing. Somebody cryptomath geek can probably finess the protocol some more, but this is the basic plan.

  14. Who the fuck is John Romero on John Romero's Doomy View On Android and Ouya · · Score: 2

    No, seriously, who the fuck is John Romero?

  15. Cartel's exist because people like to buy drugs on Google Joining Fight Against Drug Cartels · · Score: 1

    Prohibition fails. Google are just supporting the problem, not the solution. They should be advocating decrimilization and treatment as an illness, not as a crime.

  16. Surely this is just fashion? on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    Reminds me strangely of BeOS.

    Everything old is new again.

  17. Inherently unsafe on World Is Ignoring Most Important Lesson From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Nuclear reactors are inherently unsafe. There is no fool proof method to ensure cooling.

    Which is why it is not possible to actually insure them. So they are subsidised.

    Which is why nuclear energy is artificially cheap.

    There are so many other inherently safe methods of producing power, that nuclear is ridiculous. Get over it already.

  18. You were almost correct on Solar Company Folds After $0.5B In Subsidies · · Score: 1

    It's not the that the subsidy is too low, it's that the subsidy for carbon based energy production is way too high.

  19. Re:Why is this being made public? on Breaking the Codes In Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto · · Score: 1

    You're new round here, aren't you?

  20. Moderation vs Administration on Wikipedia Losing Contributors, Says Wales · · Score: 1

    I think you are pretty close. /. recycles its moderators. Very quickly. This is probably not quite doable for wikipedia.

    I suggest that there is some limit on the length of time one can be an admin. Increase the size of the pool (still have screening), but decrease the time you can admin. There are lots of ways. Some sort of cycle - 6 months on, 6 months off - that sort of thing...

  21. Re:This is the reason why... on Linux 3.0 Will Have Full Xen Support · · Score: 1

    YHBT. YHL. HAND.

  22. Die Ted, die. on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Gee Ted, in your awful future, I would've be paying PER WORD.

    Fuck you. You lost. Move on.

  23. Re:Anonymous Win, HBGary Fail. on HBGary Federal Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    There is some truth to what you say, but I don't think this is publicity that the hive will mind.

    They have been "hackers on steroids" for a long time now, and this just furthers their reputation as people not to mess with.

    I doubt that anyone will do time for this - it's just simply to easy to be anon these days. The only members of the hive who have been caught are LOICers not proxying.

    Regardless of all of that, this is still massive HBGary fail.

    The emails are the gift that keeps giving, see wikileaks angle today.

  24. Anonymous Win, HBGary Fail. on HBGary Federal Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Lets just score this:

    Anonymous: No damage. No arrests, no lawsuits, no exposure of anyone that wasn't already in the open.

    HBGary: Emails stolen. Websited pwnd. Crap security protocols exposed. Significant reputational damage. Corporate imaged tarnished (looking like fools will do that to you).

    Summary: There IS such a thing as bad publicity.

    Final Score:
    Anonymous 5, HBGary, 0.

  25. Re:Image protected, but is it useful? on New Technique For Making JPEG Images Copy-Evident · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19548&cid=1878668

    I wonder if this still works. Haven't tried it in decades.