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  1. Hacking vs. Cracking on Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    While we're at it let's argue over hacking vs. cracking.

  2. Re:INTERJECTED! on Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 2

    Lynx doesn't have much of an attack surface.

  3. Re:Both, of course on Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey neckbeard, you're going senile. If you read your post it makes no sense :)

  4. Re:Linux is gay and so is Slashdort on Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    vi ia an editor, newbie. nothing you said makes sense. I bet you run Windows.

  5. Re:Neither on Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking "Redhat OS".

  6. Re: Let the show begin on Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes! Yes! Yes!. Welcome to slashdot, now where's tub girl?

  7. Re:So... on 'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. But why this obsession with the god of death and the underworld? Should we name a planet "Satan"?

  8. Re:So... on 'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    try the Greek god of the underworld.

  9. All this AI stuff is just marketing buzz words.

  10. Re:Equifax got away, so why change? on After Equifax Breach, Major Firms Still Rely on Same Flawed Software (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know how many groups/people have a hand in even new home construction? The foundation was poured by concrete specialist, he plumbing by plumbers, the dry wall was manufactured by companies specialized in it etc. Now for a skyscraper the number sky rockets with all of the specialized construction materials and techniques required. An Architect or CE has to trust that each of them has delivered to spec. Things get tested on site, e.g. slump tests, but by and large the contractor must deliver to spec. The problem with software is there is no spec. Due to no liability.

  11. Re:Working on a micro scale on Alan Turing's Chemistry Hypothesis Turned Into a Desalination Filter (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You can't steal it if it was published in a public scientific journal. That's what publicly publishing is for, spreading information around without encumbrances. Sort of like open source...

  12. Irrelevent. You are comparing Euclidean Geometry to Spherical Geometry. Apples to oranges.

  13. Increase number of tree == increase sequestration.

  14. How about 26 listed here: https://agwobserver.wordpress....

    In addition the physics chemistry is well known and can be derived.

  15. Re:C'mon people the word is "cracking" on Ask Slashdot: Do We Need a New Word For Hacking? · · Score: 1

    it entails cracking and but also hacking.

  16. C'mon people the word is "cracking" on Ask Slashdot: Do We Need a New Word For Hacking? · · Score: 1

    Defeating security systems, cracking codes, and cracking safes is known as cracking. Duh.

    How the hell hacking became cracking is a mystery to me. Hacking was always about one of two things:
    1) coming up with something clever such as hacking an X-Box to run Linux.
    2) Hacking code to death as in "sales said the customer wanted right now so I hacked it to death until I got something to run"

  17. Re: Mythological war on coal. on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Koch family empire was built on coal.

  18. Content free article on 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality' (500ish.com) · · Score: 2

    No content was harmed in the making of the article. 500 words on a complex social, economic, political, labor, gender roles, and political topic. Common now there is no way to do that except to rely on sweeping generalizations, stereotyping, unsupported assumption, and simplistic conclusions. Maybe this actual is intended to be an illustration of the arrogance and lack of intelligence I see in Silly Valley.

    And a slashdot post is too short for me to even begin my ranting and raving. Maybe a journal entry.

  19. How hard can it be? Computers are magic right? We just sprinkle a little technology dust on it and bingo! $100 dollar laptop! What could possibly go wrong!

    (later)

    What! We should have investigated component costs, form factor prices, and production costs *before* we set the price?

  20. Re:With Tablets is this even relevant anymore? on One Laptop Per Child's $100 Laptop Was Going To Change the World -- Then it All Went Wrong (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    *carrier not found*

  21. my back pocket, you know my wallet.

  22. So we basically have a haggling system where only one party haggles.

  23. I blame the Garden of Eden Myth. Things were better in those days...

  24. people can walk up or work the ATM from the back seat. You know, the seats few people use these days.

  25. They've pretty much gone away once people actually discussed Free Markets (what they actually are), the actual complexity of economic systems, how businesses game things, inefficiencies inherent in products preventing free market forces from ruling the day, the importance of careful regulation in maintaining free markets, etc. When someone says anything simplistic they usually get spanked for it.