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  1. Re:Bullshit on U2 and Apple Collaborate On 'Non-Piratable, Interactive Format For Music' · · Score: 0

    I've got two words that will spoil your evil plot: Virtual machine. That is the easy way, its also possible to reverse engineer the reader and just build a converter to strip the songs from the file format directly.

  2. Re:We really need on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 0

    Part of the problem is that we only have a few ISPs to cover an area as large as all of Europe. Many places are remote enough that one ISP can claim it, and others don't see the expense of setting up infrastructure in the area as profitable enough when they would be competing with another ISP.

  3. Re:Good answer! Fraud is their main source of prof on Oregon Sues Oracle For "Abysmal" Healthcare Website · · Score: 0

    I'd like to see the correlation with moving targets and whether the project originated from the military itself (discretionary spending) or originated from congressional mandate. A few other variables to measure congressional micromanagement would probably make for a very interesting regression line.

  4. Re:What if? on When Beliefs and Facts Collide · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are you Atheist? If so, you still have a religious belief. You believe that the supernatural does not exist. Many atheist form rather dogmatic beliefs around science, believing that science is infallible (which is rather harmful to science, since the scientific method relies on the assumption of fallibility.)

  5. Re:How can you search data on MIT Researchers Create Platform To Build Secure Web Apps That Never Leak Data · · Score: 1

    If it is searchable, then you can create a tracker.

  6. Re: microsoft prommises on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    Hey, you remember all the promises that came up with the Xbox-one?

  7. Re:Enjoy it while it floats on Goodyear's New State-of-the-Art Airship Makes Its First Flight · · Score: 1

    We are not running out of Helium in general. We are getting low on a specific isotope of helium that is used in medicine, but its only a trace amount of it that is in your general helium reserves.

  8. This makes me laugh on N. Korea Could Face Prosecution For 'Crimes Against Humanity' · · Score: 1

    An international court has about just as much legitimacy as a courtroom role-play done by high-school students. You see, there is this little thing called sovereignty. Until you send an army in to conquer the land, then you don't have jurisdiction.

  9. Re:Of course on 'The Color Run' Violates Agreement With College Photographer, Then Sues Him · · Score: 1

    The Problem is that makes this a SLAPP suit, and those are flagrant misused of the legal system that should carry mandatory disbarment and criminal penalties to the plaintiff. If they wanted to do this right, they could have invited him to an office and continued to haggle (ludicrous claims are how you start that, on both sides), or let him sue them and then defend themselves in court. They are clearly in the wrong.

  10. Re:Monopolies on Music Industry Is Keeping Streaming Services Unprofitable · · Score: 1

    So if you want to have a profitable streaming business, you need to file an anti-trust lawsuit.

  11. Re:D-Wave machine Quantum computer on Study Doubts Quantum Computer Speed · · Score: 1

    Even calling the D-wave a computer is a bit of a stretch. Its an experiment on a computer chip.

  12. Re:The correct way to "inform the authority" on Australian Teen Reports SQL Injection Vulnerability, Company Calls Police · · Score: 2

    I've got a better response, skip the company and call the police. Use five words: Criminal Negligence with Confidential Data

  13. Re:Hypothesis vs. conclusion on Is Earth Weighed Down By Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen the orders of magnitude on it, but I'm figuring they may be small enough that these guys aren't factoring in the mass of the rotational energy of the earth. Most of that will be around the equator.

  14. Re:That is a beautiful start of a ... on "Clinical Trials" For Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    And then there are the things which aren't exactly programming languages, but aren't exactly not: SQL

  15. Re:All hail Python! on "Clinical Trials" For Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    I had to do a networking project using a python library. Having to fuck around with a python socket made glaringly obvious the flaws of a language that does not support type casting. Don't call the bullshit python pulls type casting, because those are parsing library functions, not type casting.

  16. Re:Free! Free from the contractors! on RAF Fighter Flies On Printed Parts · · Score: 1

    Its not the forging, its the tempering. Until we have large scale/atomic precision printers (I wouldn't hold my breath for that to arrive) you're printers won't be able to create the mono-crystalline alloys required for modern Jet engines. Huh, that makes me think: a metallic 3-d printer is conceptually a forge turned inside out.

  17. Re:Put a fork in it, it's done. on FBI Edits Mission Statement: Removes Law Enforcement As 'Primary' Purpose · · Score: 1

    You don't know any politicians. All the hate and vitriol is a ruse, and all of the issues that the two parties fight over are red herrings.

  18. Re:The question on TorrentFreak Blocked By British ISP Sky's Porn Filter · · Score: 1

    ON the contrary, there is a significant amount of physical and software modifications to the routing infrastructure required to support censorship of this type.

  19. Fact based? on Bill Nye To Debate Creationist Museum Founder Ken Ham · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Creationist museum did something interesting you don't seem to be aware of: It went back, taking the same primary evidence (Facts) that was used in creating the current evolutionary model of history, and then re-interpenetrates it using the Bible as another source of facts.

  20. Why limit it to an OS? on Developing Games On and For Linux/SteamOS · · Score: 1

    How about instead of tailoring your program to a platform and having to write it three times, just learn how to get the most out of the Java Virtual Machine and being able to run it on pretty much any PC on the planet. You don't even need to use JAVA, there are several languages that were designed for the JVM, and most others have are a library and a few compiler options away from being instantly cross platform.

  21. Re:TL;DR on Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    Only 300 years? It sounds like that can be used in a pile. Don't throw it away.

  22. Re:Because lung cancer is great for the rural poor on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    No its not. You have no idea how bad grafting is. Anti-bribery laws simply aren't enforced anymore. They will not get a new and better $700 stove. Instead they will be directed to a brand new stove company owned by one of the senator's second cousins, the stoves will cost $1200, of which $700 is subsidized, but the stove is actually not as good as their old one and will break down after two years,

  23. Re:National Interest? on Republican Proposal Puts 'National Interest' Requirement On US Science Agency · · Score: 2

    If you actually look at it, the pork comes from congress. The military has historically gotten more effect for less overall money when it had more discretion over what to do with that money. If 80% of your budget was dictated by a team made up mostly of sociopaths, of whom which maybe one in ten at best knows his ass from his elbows...

  24. You don't need to on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose Frameworks That Will Survive? · · Score: 1

    Unless you are using a programming language over than I am, you are using an object oriented programming. It is a huge mistake to forget the basic tenets of OOP. In this case, its Encapsulation that you need to leverage. If you hide the framework behind some of your own classes and use good design practices, you can hot-swap APIs with minimal fuss. One minute working on good design will save you an hour of programming and a year of debugging.