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  1. Yay, 'murica! on Proposed Regulation Could Keep 3D-printed Gun Blueprints Offline For Good · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This will be extremely effective, because no other nation in the world could possibly come up with a 3D-printer blueprint for producing gun parts. :P

  2. Political types use connections: News at 11 on Silicon Valley Is Filling Up With Ex-Obama Staffers · · Score: 1

    Political types use their connections to stay employed.

    News at 11.

  3. Re:I'm surprised on Theresa May Named UK's Internet Villain of the Year · · Score: 1

    Oh? And claiming that the UK will make encryption illegal or decryptable by GCHQ isn't a threat to the internet for UK citizens?

    Believe me, Cameron is quite willing to shove his foot in his mouth up to the knee...

  4. Oh, good! on Russian Progress Cargo Ship Docks With Space Station · · Score: 1

    Oh, good! They were almost out of toilet paper. :P

  5. I'm surprised on Theresa May Named UK's Internet Villain of the Year · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised the "evil overlord award" didn't go to David Cameron.

    Then again, maybe he's too obvious a winner.

  6. Re:Redundant request? on Theresa May Named UK's Internet Villain of the Year · · Score: 1

    I suspect what they want is positive identification of anyone using a VPN connection.

  7. Re:Happy 4th of July! on Bitcoin Snafu Causes Miners To Generate Invalid Blocks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ah, screw that. It doesn't matter if you're free or not. If you've got oil or minerals, we're going to bomb the shit out of you...

  8. Re:Happy 4th of July! on Bitcoin Snafu Causes Miners To Generate Invalid Blocks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Please be assured that if you aren't currently free and are in possession or mineral resources, we'll be on our way to bomb you into freedom shortly... :P

  9. Re:I didn't see the point until I read "analog" on Brain-Inspired 'Memcomputer' Constructed · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It must be so sad to be so unintelligent and unimaginative that the only thing you can come up to say during a discussion is to nitpick about grammar and spelling. I feel so sorry for your pathetically pedantic ass.

  10. I didn't see the point until I read "analog" on Brain-Inspired 'Memcomputer' Constructed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I didn't see the point to this design until I noticed the part about it being "analog".

    Until then, I wasn't seeing the difference between the memcomputer and older non-symmetric parallel processing machines which used to cluster a CPU with it's memory for each node/board of the system, but without the shared memory of an SMP system.

    Still, I'm afraid I can't see much practical application to their system, and they don't give any examples of the types of problems they think it'll be suitable for.

  11. Media whore on In Response to Open Letter, France Rejects Asylum For Julian Assange · · Score: 0

    Every time it's been a few months since Assange has made the headlines, he pulls some useless stunt like this to keep himself in the news. He's become nothing more than a media whore/glory hound.

    He hasn't done anything relevant or useful in years.

  12. Bennett Hasselton, is that you? on Google: Stop Making Apps! (A Love Letter) · · Score: 1

    The OP loves to spew buzzwords and bullshit as bad as Bennett Hasselton does. :(

  13. Re:One of these days on Qt 5.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Umm. Yeah.

    And why would someone writing GPL software care about that?

  14. People will put up with a lot of shit if you're brilliant.

    If you're just average, they're just going to call you "Asshole!" and walk away.

    Teaching people to emulate Jobs is teaching them to be dicks, not to be brilliant.

  15. One of these days on Qt 5.5 Released · · Score: 1

    One of these days I'll have to get "into" QT. It looks like a great successor to some of the concepts originating with Neuron Data's tools, which I spent a lot of years learning and working with. For now I've been focused on Java server code, but I've never really been a fan of Java for writing client applications, and I've no interest in buying an Android device just so I can stick with Java while working on front-end code.

    No, to me, client side means an actual computer, not a mobile device. And QT hits almost as many platforms as Java does, so it would seem to be an excellent fit for my goals. :)

  16. Re:No worries on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    Bozo, it's not a pedestal. It's a complaint about the pathetic CPU power on the typical home router and the fact that they choke traffic with even one device trying to use a reasonable amount of bandwidth.

    WiFi is useless by design for anything but the most casual of surfing.

  17. No worries on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No worries here. I always disable the WiFi on my routers. I prefer hardwired connections that don't give the router fits trying to perform encryption with their underpowered chips.

  18. Re:Is "waste" the right word to use here? on NASA To Waste $150 Million On SLS Engine That Will Be Used Once · · Score: 1

    What's bad planning is to design and build the engine at all if you're only planning to use it once.

  19. Re:A new record for the Microsoft Slashdot .. on People Are Obtaining Windows 7 Licenses For the Free Windows 10 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I see one -- this article.

    Maybe if you went into your options and disabled the Microsoft news checkbox option... :P

  20. Good idea on Amazon's New SSL/TLS Implementation In 6,000 Lines of Code · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Standards have a notorious habit of becoming bloated with rarely used features that never do get properly tested. Rethinking what is actually useful and needed is great for pruning code and handling the majority of use cases. Sure there will be edge cases it can't handle, but that's the whole point: they're edge cases that most programmers aren't going to need to use.

  21. Fraud on How Verizon Is Hindering NYC's Internet Service · · Score: 3, Funny

    Verizon committing fraud. I'm shocked, I tell you, absolutely shocked.

  22. But... but... HTML5!!! on Is Safari the New Internet Explorer? · · Score: 1

    HTML5 was supposed to be the be-all and end-all compatability standard that would render all browser differences irrelevant.

    Then reality kicked in...

  23. Re:Depends of what you mean by "Use" on Ask Slashdot: Choosing the Right Open Source License · · Score: 1

    Linking GPL code is considered the same as copying in the source code. The library has to be released under the LGPL to be used by non-GPL source.

    But you are correct about invoking canned binaries of GPL products or sending IPC messages to a GPL product, provided you're not using the GPL messaging libraries provided with the product, but rolling your own which happen to be compatible at the messaging layer. But I'm pretty sure your messaging code would have to be written in a different language as well in order to avoid any claims that you copied code from the GPL source.

  24. Re:If you're using GPL code, you have no choice on Ask Slashdot: Choosing the Right Open Source License · · Score: 1

    The same is true of any "GPL compatible" license, not just BSD.

  25. Re:If you're using GPL code, you have no choice on Ask Slashdot: Choosing the Right Open Source License · · Score: 2

    If GPL part "A" calls BSD part "B", then yes, that is true. But if BSD part "B" calls GPL part "A", it is in violation of the GPL license.