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  1. So, in other words.... on Amazon's New SSL/TLS Implementation In 6,000 Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    6,000 lines of code that DO NOT replace OpenSSL. Only partially replace. A sub-set.

  2. Re:How do they know? on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    If it's not encrypted, it's not a VPN (Virtual PRIVATE Network). The PRIVATE part comes from encryption.

  3. If this is stealing... on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    ...then this Bell Media executive must be a child molester because every time he looks at a child, he is molesting children. LATEST NEWS: Bell Media management and executive-level personnel littered with Child Molesters! Won't somebody please think of the children?

  4. Re:Eliminate all tax withholding on FCC Proposes To Extend So-Called "Obamaphone" Program To Broadband · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting:
          * 7% payroll tax paid by the employer that is not included in the employee's gross
          * state income taxes
          * local income taxes
          * everything you buy included a 6%-9% sales tax (depending on locality)
          * all taxes and fees that are paid (like the aforementioned special fee - do some research and see how many there are)
          * everything you buy includes implicitly all the taxes paid by every level involved in production (including corporate income taxes)
          * fuel tax - that ends up in the cost of all goods and services as well
          * so called, "Sin" taxes, on things like cigarettes and alcohol

    In the end, all taxes, no matter how they are levied, are paid by the consumer. I've done the math before on all the taxes one pays, and it easily comes out to well over 50% for the average lower or middle-class consumer.

  5. Wrong on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1, Informative

    The only correct answer is the North Pole. South means follow a line of longitude in the South direction, West means follow a line of latitude West, and North means follows a line of Longitude North. The only place this gets you back to where you started is at the North pole.

  6. Are you serious? on Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died · · Score: 1

    I cannot believe these kind of crappy comments. I have the textbook written by Stewart. It is excellent. Every book I ever purchased for College (with my own money as I worked through College) I still own. People who complain about the cost of textbooks that are well written, well illustrated, etc and complain about their debt are jackasses as far as I'm concerned. Why don't you have a little admiration for the work that went into creating it. For fuck's sake, sometimes I think that America is full of whiny pieces of shit.

  7. Perhaps you need to review grammar rules on NASA Offering Contracts To Encourage Asteroid Mining · · Score: 1

    The sentence you quoted and object to can be (and should be) interpreted as follows: "...certain elements sank to the core of the Earth and are therefore very rare..." The clause, "along with the iron", only says that they sank along with the iron, the clause involving "very rare" still only applies to the object of the sentenc, "certain elements".

  8. Re:Amazon Book Price on Book Review: Bulletproof SSL and TLS · · Score: 1

    Same here: $48.10 - that's with Amazon Prime and through the "AmazonSmile" link (where it donates a portion to your chosen charity).

  9. 10 years ago and earlier.... on Car Thieves and Insurers Vote On Keyless Car Security · · Score: 1

    Car thieves in any country have been expressing their opinions on the security of keyed car entry and/or control systems. The thieves are happy to steal them (often using equipment intended for dealer maintenance of the vehicles *OR SIMPLY USING A COAT HANGAR/SLIM-JIM, A PAIR OF WIRE CLIPPERS/STRIPPERS/THEIR TEETH AND THEIR HAND AND FINGERS*), but, car insurance companies insured the cars anyway taking into account the risk/likelihood of the car being stolen knowing that it didn't require much expertise or knowledge to steal the car. HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT? SOUNDS LIKE THE INSURANCE COMPANIES HAVE LOST THEIR MIND.

  10. Re:Aether on Dwarf Galaxies Dim Hopes of Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    The Luminiferous Aether was something that *HAD* to be there under the experimentally very well justified assumption that Maxwell's electrodynamics and Newton's mechanics were the correct description of reality.

    Are you sure about that? It is my understanding that Maxwell's Equations specifically deny a preferred frame of reference which is what a Luminiferous Aether would be. Is that not so?

  11. You forgot the best one... on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 1

    M-x dunnet

  12. Your example is bad I think on Fighting the Culture of 'Worse Is Better' · · Score: 1

    Clojure should solve the problem of using too much stack through recursion by properly impelementing tail-recursion. When writing recursive functions, the programmer should always write the function so that it can be "properly tail-recursive". If not, you are saying at the outset that you are creating something that will use unbounded memory to do a computation that *could* always be done in a fixed memory size. Writing a recursive function that is not properly tail-recursive is simply bad programming and an anti-pattern. Either refactor the algorithm into something iterative or make it properly tail-recursive. Then, the max stack size will never be an issue.

  13. Re:Still not actually open on AMD Building New GPU Linux Kernel Driver To Unify With Catalyst Driver · · Score: 1

    Binary Blob =/= User Space

  14. Re:Employers don't want employees who LOOK lazy. on Coffee Naps Better For Alertness Than Coffee Or Naps Alone · · Score: 1

    That's called hazing. You're supposed to realize that it is a non-assignment and object. If you don't, it shows you are a push-over.

  15. I have a solution that works for me on Ask Slashdot: What Recliner For a Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    I use a standard recliner loveseat (dual recliner). I sit on the left side with my mouse on a hardbook or and a mouse-pad (wireless) next to me on the seat on the right. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse (Logitech MK700/MK710 & MK705 - comes as a kit) with the wireless keyboard in my lap. I have the laptop on a wooden stand on my left-front, a 32-inch Sony LED TV directly in front of me on a coffe table, and a third monitor (Samsung 24") mounted on an arm that attaches to a similar wooden stand that I have the laptop sitting on to my right front (basically almost in front of the other seat, but, closer). I use the 32" TV that is enough in front of me that I can get the foot rest up when I want to (I often change from up to down from time to time; otherwise, legs get tired). The monitory on my right I can move the swing arm around as needed and out of the way when I get up and down. My wife can still sit next to me and read or mess with her phone or tablet and talk to me to a certain degree. It's the best set-up I've been able to find that allows me to work productively for long hours while minimizing eye-strain, neck strain, leg strain, etc. Hope this helps.

  16. Re:So what is it made of? on LHCb Confirms Existence of Exotic Hadrons · · Score: 2

    Hmmm....this sounds familiar: http://www.theonion.com/articl...

  17. Well.... on Astronauts' Hearts Change Shape In Space · · Score: 1

    It depends on whether you are talking ONLY about inertial frames of reference. In the non-inertial frame of reference, there most certainly is a measurable centrifugal force. Everyone who keeps trotting out, "there is no such thing as centrifugal force, only centripetal force" has a fairly naive understanding of the difference between inertial and non-inertial frames of reference.

  18. Re:glibc cannot be statically linked on GOG.com To Add Linux Support · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but, you are a fool. You do realize that you can include a lib folder as part of your application and include in that folder whatever versions of whatever libraries you want (yes, including libc) and simply load it via: env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib/libc.so ... myexectuable. You can even wrap this up in a nice script. No static linking required. Your whole rant just shows you to be more interested in trolling than actually having any real expertise.

  19. The funny thing is... on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    I bet that less than 1% of college grads even understood what you mean by the "Tulip Bulbs". Great education they have.

  20. Re:Not much larger? on The Science of Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    80 sqare feet = 8' x 10' (96" x 120") King Size Bed: 6' 4" x 6' 8" (76" x 80") So, that leaves about 10" (or a little less than 2' on one side if you prefer) and 3' 6" at the foot of the bed. Yeah, that sounds like "a little larger" to me. If you don't think it is, perhaps you should spend a few week so confined. My guess is you'd buckle like the pathetic belt that you are.

  21. Correction! on The Science of Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    Were taken directly from the dark ages, and were never designed or intended to rehabilitate but to ... wield the power of the state and show how much worse it can be when you don't conform. FULL STOP!

  22. Re:RIP on Mozilla To Show Sponsored Links To First-Time Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out!