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  1. how can we fix economics? on How Can We Fix The Broken Economics of Open Source? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Venture capitalism is completely unsustainable and broken.

  2. You didn't get it: the security evaluation in the XKCD cartoon assumes that the attacker knows how the password was generated, and knows the wordlist.

  3. Re:Outdoor on Giving Up Alternating Current · · Score: 1

    At current prices multiplied by up to 1.5, the world uranium supply will last about 90 years at current consumption rate.
    If you increase consumption by replacing oil and coal plants with uranium, it will be gone in a very much shorter time.
    Also using fission for energy production is at the moment barely profitable when you leave most environmental concerns out of the cost structure.
    Without subsidising no new nuclear plant could compete with a wind water solar mix (even with the trouble of temporarily storing energy for peak uses).
    With higher priced Uranium i have no idea, why anyone would want to build one.
    Oh and if you think of nuclear reprocessing, that's even more expensive.

  4. Re:Most people won't care on Project IceStorm Passes Another Milestone: Building a CPU · · Score: 4, Informative

    Forget the future, they are here and they are advertised as features:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. If they promise pork... on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 2

    best case is, you get spam.
    average case is just manure.

  6. if the cops aren't doing anything wrong... on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    they have nothing to fear. Or wasn't that the theory they always try to feed us?

  7. Under US Jurisdiction? on Eric Schmidt: To Avoid NSA Spying, Keep Your Data In Google's Services · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They will be immediately forced to hand over everything and be silent about it.
    Until US laws are fixed AND respected, data going to a US Corporation can by definition not be safe.

  8. Why are Paywalled papers still promoted on Slashdot?

  9. Re:Is it not obvious? They have dirt on him! on Why No Executive Order To Stop NSA Metadata Collection? · · Score: 1

    What in hell is funny about parent?

  10. Please stop linking paywalled papers. on Turing's Theory of Chemical Morphogenesis Validated 60 Years After His Death · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Science should be readable by anyone.
    Don't advertise the profiteers.

  11. Re:USB and video but no terminal server on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Actually when you start with a false premise your conclusion can be anything, it can even be true.

  12. Re:Waiting for Nexus 4 image on Jolla Announces Sailfish OS 1.0 · · Score: 1

    just to make that clear (it'snot very clear on the homepage) only parts of sailfishos are open source.

  13. meh! on Zynga Puts Random Stranger In Customer Support Role · · Score: 2

    Quite a creative reaction to a corporate screwup. :-)

  14. The NSA has government-mandated permission so their access doesn't fall under this law.

    This is EU law we are talking about. Please substantiate your claim that the EU government has given the NSA permission.

    You are absolutely right.
    Your parent misses the obvious.

  15. Re:Pffft. on Why We Need More Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Why does everyone nowadays seem to think that WYSIWYG is an improvement over a simple descriptive readable language?

  16. Re:Not sure I see the point of this. on Anonymous Releases 90,000 Military E-Mail Accounts · · Score: 1

    But most people in germany (i know from personal experience) ARE idiots. Why should it have been otherwise when Hitler was elected?

  17. Re:Why should Facebook care what app is used? on Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics · · Score: 1

    If the user is careless enough to use an app that spams without their permission, they deserve loosing their data and being banned.

  18. Re:I love git!! on Linus' Other Gift to the World · · Score: 1

    You forgot one important point: Git is FAST. With larger Projects the other two sometimes take some time to think.

  19. Re:People Entering Politics on Key Music Industry Lawyer Named EU Copyright Chief · · Score: 1

    don't try to be clever, it's corruption all the way up. ;-)

  20. and slashdot is still ignoring the problem on Google Extends SSL To Developer-Facing APIs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Typing https://slashdot.org/ just brings you back to http://slashdot.org./
    Is it to hard to do, or does no one care here?

  21. avoiding paradox? on Large Hadron Collider is a Time Machine? · · Score: 1

    the article claims the theory avoids paradox but in the same breath proposes that messages could be sent to the past...

  22. So where is the Paper? on 17-Year-Old Wins Intel's $100K Science Prize · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When i try to read more than the abstract, they want some kind of login.
    Please next time spare us the teasing and ignore news without content.

  23. Re:and so society dies out on Crime Writer Makes a Killing With 99 Cent E-Books · · Score: 2

    no what you are talking about is usually called intellectual property, not socialism.

  24. Re:Think beowulf cluster of arm processors on Pocket Wars and Cores · · Score: 1

    those are not arm chips but mips-based x86 emulators.

  25. Re:Enough of this already on Tolkien Estate Censors the Word "Tolkien" · · Score: 1

    EXACTLY!