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  1. Re:Enforce login to post on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    I still moderate them when asked.

  2. Re:Enforce login to post on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    It's actually my email account ID for many system. But my homepage really identifies me.

    But the point is, if someone is going to spend time creating an account (including email verification) only to have it deleted because he abused the comments, chances are that creating another troll account (with a different email) would become bothersome.

    I care not really to know that your name is Charles (or whatever) or that you know that my name is Martin-Gilles Lavoie. That's not the point.

    Right now anyone can post without even logging in and that's making it really easy for the script kiddies and poorly-upbrought people in need of attention.

  3. Enforce login to post on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Anonymous posting has become a haven of trolls, far from it's original goal of protecting people when discussing work conditions and the like.

    Allowing anyone to post as anonymous without login simply paves the way for endless trolling. The value of the comment section has diminished greatly over the years because of stupid comments.

    Enforcing authenticated login, federated from elsewhere to tender to the laziest if need be, would at least allow for some accountability by weeding out repeat abusers of the comments section.

    Logged-in, members could still post with anonymity to allow a return of the original intentions.

  4. Live on TV on 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? (space.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember not having school on that day. I was all hyped up watching this live on TV. Like the commentators, it took me a moments reflection to realize the deflagration was not normal. I remember being quite shocked by it. When my mother came in from work and I announced it to her, I was amazed at the indifference she exhibited, contrasting my thorn feelings on it.

  5. Re:Hillbillies of the US get another sport! on Drone Racing League Wants To Be the Next NASCAR (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no fun in watching drones do circles.

    And I'm talking about the cars.

  6. Re:Imagine Europe on Estimating Damages From the VW Emissions Scandal (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    And gas chambers.

  7. Re:There are US DHS at London Gatwick?? on US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike other countries that process immigration at arrival, the US has customs verification at departure.

    Ie, in Montreal (YUL), there's a small portion of the airport that is actually under US control. You go through baggage check-in and then head to the US customs office (a long wait really) and then through the body scans. Those potions are effectively US territory with their own police. Then it exists back into Canadaland at the boarding gate for the US-bound terminal.

    So yes, they have long-reaching arms.

  8. As history would have it on Apple Releases Swift As an Open-Source Project (swift.org) · · Score: 2

    Let the forking begin

  9. So you're telling us on The Brains of Men and Women Aren't Really That Different, Study Finds (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    They're doing this on purpose????

  10. Re:Oh, really? on Apple Looks To Introduce OLED Displays In iPhone Models From 2018 (thestack.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's one thing to ship a couple thousand OLED screens, it's an entirely different thing to ship millions of them.

    Apple's biggest problem right now is parts supply. That's why it has two suppliers for displays and CPUs.

  11. Re:ISIS fighters can get paid up to 700 USD/month on ISIS Help Desk Assists In Covering Tracks (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    That's because the CIA and Halliburton (/Backwaters) only accepts US currencies for their weapons drops.

  12. Re:Data data everywhere and not a drop to think on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The iPad is not at fault here. Pilot did simple math and forgot to carry over a "1". There's no carry over when you let a software add.

    It's a whole system failure: paper being handed out to be hand-computer and then the number punched into a iPad for final trust numbers which are then entered in the avionics system.

    A frickin piezo on the landing gears would have done the trick.

  13. Re:No mention of ad blocking support on Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS · · Score: 2

    Programmable apps are OK for as long as they dont download code. Even scripting applications (I have one on the AppStore that even has an Obj-C bridge).

    It's a bit of a non-sensical rule given the web's use of JavaScript. Previously, so long as your app used the system-provided JS engine in the various web views available to developers (such as the WebKit), your app was sufficiently protected (and so was the user) because Apple took the grunt of the sandbox protection.

    According to the link in the original post:

    Mozilla has since decided that its stubbornness isn’t worth the loss in potential users (Firefox for Android passed 100 million downloads in four years). While Firefox for iOS may not be powered by the company’s Gecko rendering engine, it still includes features that Firefox users have come to expect, and that’s what the company plans to push to anyone interested.

    Basically means that FireFox uses WebKit and thus Apple's JS implementation.

  14. It could make a lot of money on Ocean-Mapping Robots Could Help Uncover Mysteries of the Deep Blue (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    If it could find MH370.

  15. Please elaborate on your inclusion of OS X in this discussion.

  16. OS X caught up??? on Ask Slashdot: Innovative Operating Systems/Distros In 2015? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seriously?

    It's got a much stronger heritage through NextStep/OpenStep/BSD than Linux could ever claim to have. Plus the object oriented language/SDKs/dev tools.

  17. Recycling at it's best on Is Buying Cuban Software Legal In the US? The Answer is Hazy (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    But really, who'd want to buy new software made out of refurbished bits and parts of old cold war -era Cobol and Ada source code hacked together with with Bondo compilers and chicken wire linkers?

  18. Re:It's a good idea, but shouldn't be on by defaul on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over iOS Wi-Fi Assist (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Forfeiting mod points because I accidentally modded down while I meant "insightful".

  19. Let me get this straight...

    You're actually complaining about bug fixes?

    Disclaimer: I work for Oracle, but not in the Java group.

  20. Re:I got a laugh on Google Books Wins Again (documentcloud.org) · · Score: 2

    Yeah that's retarded.

    Does this mean MusicMatch and other lyrics Apps no longer need to pay royalties, since they "expand the public knowledge and understanding" of mumbly singers?

  21. Re:1996 was the year of Linux on the desktop on KDE Turns 19 · · Score: 1

    19 years and it hasn't aged a bit!

  22. Re:We are local creatures with local knowledge on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The amount of material required to build such a thing exceeds what's available in a solar system. That's beside any issue regarding building this structure which wouldn't collapse on itself.

  23. Re:Going out of business ... on Playboy Drops Nudity As Internet Fills Demand · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The I read it for the articles joke was actually not so much of a joke for many. Tities notwithstanding, there were some good material in that magazine, including famous writers participations. Asimov being one of the many.

    But without the pink, there will be little left in there that can't be gotten online anyhow.

  24. Re:The Message on Study Finds Humans Are Worse Than Radiation For Chernobyl Animals · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I dont think it's overblown. But humans tend to live longer than most wild animals and thus makes us more fragile to the continuing radiated environment.

    Short-lived creatures and short gestation does tend to favour the critters.

  25. Save the rainforest on Study Finds Humans Are Worse Than Radiation For Chernobyl Animals · · Score: 5, Funny

    With just a couple of nukes!