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  1. Re:Falling on deaf ears on Crypto Experts Blast Gov't Backdoors For Encryption · · Score: 1

    There is not much use of strong encryption on govt. stuff if the rest of the economy and infra is down or compromised.

  2. Re:Falling on deaf ears on Crypto Experts Blast Gov't Backdoors For Encryption · · Score: 1

    Not when the keys get found and their own security is breached beyond repair.

  3. Re:Meanwhile ... on Chilling Effect of the Wassenaar Arrangement On Exploit Research · · Score: 1

    As if there is ever a shortage of new exploits. Since security is not the first design criterium in current system design it will not be secure. We don't even know how. Just hope you catch the flukes that surround an actual break-in.

  4. More complex projects on Mob Programming: When Is 5 Heads Really Better Than 1 (or 2)? · · Score: 1

    We do pair programming for larger projects without many explicit specs. These projects require you to 'think up' use cases and requirements on the fly to ensure that your code is sufficient, complete and valid. For instance we created a replacement for a parser of complex documents that had to get classified. We had a coder with strong domain knowledge and a strong coder. Not sure what to do when n > 2.

  5. Re:Emacs?? on The 2015 Open Source Summer Reading List · · Score: 1

    It is like learning history in school. It describes a fundament that started the culture. It is good to see and understand how that mechanism works.

  6. Re:Oh Brother.. on The 2015 Open Source Summer Reading List · · Score: 1

    If you mean open source projects community, I might agree. But there are lots and lots of places where people help you using open source tools.

  7. Re:No one wins on Kaspersky Explains Why They Won't Say Who Hacked Them · · Score: 2

    You have me completely surrounded with your infallable reasoning.... not.

  8. Re:No one wins on Kaspersky Explains Why They Won't Say Who Hacked Them · · Score: 2

    I rewrote that for you:

    Announcing to the world that you've been infiltrated by [major unknown party] is a decision that must be weighed by some enormous number of calculated steps.

    If you're correct, you have risk

    If you're wrong, you have risk

    The only winning move is not to play.

  9. Re:What could possiblt make you think this? on Self-Driving Cars To Transform Insurance and Other Industries · · Score: 1

    One part of the problem, now, is that cars can't drive themselves away after you use them.

  10. Re:Free Speech on Anti-TPP Website Being Blacklisted · · Score: 1

    Do you have some actual insight in these processes or are you just guessing?

  11. Re:obvious questions on Anti-TPP Website Being Blacklisted · · Score: 2

    And, for some background for the non-email-experts: The 'free speech'/censor arguments are often used by spammers. And many non-profit/political orgs do care less about such trivial things as 'optin' ('who could be against saving whales' etc).

  12. No, you mix two arguments. You can still publish a signed copy of a further perfectly open process. And only the signed copy will be accepted.

  13. Re:Irrelevant... she signed the contact... end on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    This.

  14. Re:The right way to do this: on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 1

    You would be right in the pre-'Frozen Precipitation' era.

  15. What more do you need?

  16. Re:Basically on Autonomous Cars and the Centralization of Driving · · Score: 1

    Farmers are already the only ones who know how to drive a manual transmission in the US.

    Fixed that for you.

  17. Re:Compactness and Readability on Ask Slashdot: What Makes Some Code Particularly Good? · · Score: 1

    What is missing is the word 'design'. You may comment why you made a design (or write a paper on it). You may understand the design by reading the code. If you don't it is either too complex (because there is a possibility to write the same functionality with the same complexity with easier-to-read code) or you need to explain the design for it.

  18. Re:Gut flora on Sewage Bacteria Reveal Cities' Obesity Rates · · Score: 1

    They might have to do with the large usage of anti biotics.

  19. One example is all you need, right? on Study: Refactoring Doesn't Improve Code Quality · · Score: 1

    What about the case where all java classes are named the same (but in different packages)? I think refactoring would help quality.

  20. Re: Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More on Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots · · Score: 1

    Robots of course. I welcome our new Robot overlord!

  21. Re:careless talk costs lives. on Vandalism In Arizona Shuts Down Internet and Phone Service · · Score: 1

    And here we have Schrodingers cat dilemma. If this comment is true, it has some worth to it. If it is false, it means that many Slashdotters' time is wasted over nothing. Maybe even surpassing the money-limit damage you just mentioned. The things a posting may trigger (pun intended).

  22. Re:NSA also suggests adapters that support MITM on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia you are the Man From Middle

  23. Re:Hmmm .... on The Programmers Who Want To Get Rid of Software Estimates · · Score: 1

    At our place, being PM does not mean being my boss. As PM you get to write specs and acceptance criteria. My boss is someone else. The process is managed by someone else again, the scrum master. It works nice.

  24. Re:Biggest useful future mathematical challenge on Interviews: Ask Stephen Wolfram a Question · · Score: 1

    You have to define a problem before you can state that you need math to solve it. Some believe that a large cluster of simulated neurons is the way to go (but I have yet to see proof it would bring A.I. and is the only/most efficient way to bring A.I. ).

  25. Re:emacs or vi? on Interviews: Ask Stephen Wolfram a Question · · Score: 1

    You can only write Mathematica in Emacs, obviously. Everything runs om Emacs.