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  1. Re:Why the Hell didn't Let's Encrypt register it?! on Comodo Attempting to Register 'Let's Encrypt' Trademarks, And That's Not Right (letsencrypt.org) · · Score: 1

    Nonetheless, it is utterly stupid to have not registered the trademark in first place given what it will cost them to oppose to Comodo in court.

  2. Re:Why a flying drone? on Why Drones Could Save Door-To-Door Mail Delivery (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I wrote walking, but think anything rolling, crawling on the ground instead of flying above it.

  3. Why a flying drone? on Why Drones Could Save Door-To-Door Mail Delivery (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I find it utterly stupid to look at flying drones for such a task rather than looking at walking drones. Keeping in the air mail is much more energy hungry than walking, it is subject to winds and bad weather and so on. While a walking drone has its limitations too, it is much less limitative than a flying drone for the same task. It seems the Jettson's syndrome is stricking back again.

  4. Re: Mind bogglingly complecated co-processing on California Researchers Build The World's First 1,000-Processor Chip (ucdavis.edu) · · Score: 1

    There is already GPU for this with more than 1000 processing unit. For example, the nVidia GeForce GTX 980 has 2048 cores. http://www.geforce.com/hardwar...

  5. Re:Can this chip run GNU/systemd/Linux? on California Researchers Build The World's First 1,000-Processor Chip (ucdavis.edu) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your GPU processors need to execute the SAME instruction at each clock cycle, this one has each processor capable to execute any instruction at each clock cycle. So, this is truly like a 1000 cores CPU. While the GPU is limited to dispatch the same instruction to all processors.

  6. Re:Because they ASKED FOR, paid for, short term le on South Australia Refuses To Stop Using An Expired, MS-DOS-Based Health Software (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    In short, the IT department at SA Health is run by a bunch of f... morons.

  7. Re:If they pay the license fee on South Australia Refuses To Stop Using An Expired, MS-DOS-Based Health Software (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    For the court to declare the software public domain, it must first appropriate the software. No court will do such a thing.

  8. Re:If they pay the license fee on South Australia Refuses To Stop Using An Expired, MS-DOS-Based Health Software (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    It is not about actual updates it is about the responsability that comes with selling a license for the software you actually wrote.

  9. Re:If they pay the license fee on South Australia Refuses To Stop Using An Expired, MS-DOS-Based Health Software (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    I doubt you can force anyone to release publicly source code of something they are the legit owner even if they no longer support it.

  10. Re:If they pay the license fee on South Australia Refuses To Stop Using An Expired, MS-DOS-Based Health Software (abc.net.au) · · Score: 2

    You cannot force a company to sell licenses for a software they don't support anymore and maintain staff to maintain a piece of software the revenues cannot justify to. So, don't hope too much from the court verdict. There is no law that state you must sell and support a piece of software forever.

  11. Incorrect summary about the bank hack on Political Party's Videoconference System Hacked, Allowed Spying On Demand · · Score: 4, Informative

    The BMO ATM was not hacked two weeks ago, it was hacked two YEARS ago. http://o.canada.com/news/bmo-a...

  12. That's why lobbying exists. I cannot believe the Senators were not 'educated' on the matter by the enterprises with interests in this law to not pass.

  13. The hypothesis is just plain stupid and take its roots in the idea the body or an intelligent design is making decisions about the ADN. This is a syncretism of two opposite ideas. The evoution is not intelligent and is not making conscious decisions, otherwise it is creationism and intelligent design. No wonder the hypothesis is not experimentally verified, it is flawn.

  14. In summary on Hackers Find 138 Different Security Gaps In Pentagon Websites (go.com) · · Score: 1

    In summary, the participants were stolen collectively 1 million dollars in exchange of 75 000 dollars. When will CS people start to understand their own work worth something better than the f... peanuts given in such f... events?

  15. Re:Spelling? Do you do it? on Autonomous Robot Intentionally Hurts People To Make Them Bleed (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Asi on the move I guess.

  16. Re:So it's useless in the real world. on jQuery 3.0 Stops Supporting Internet Explorer Workarounds (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know for him, but where I work, a very large financial institution, IE8 is still the standard web browser for nearly 50% of our ten of thousands users in-house only. Yes, I know, it is totally crazy. Most of these users are still running on Windows XP as well. They are in the process to migrate everyone to Windows 7. Things are not going as they expected, no surprise, and they are behind on schedule. I expect we will have to support IE8 for another year or two and by the time they will be done with Windows XP, Windows 7 will probably be no longer supported by Microsoft and they will have to start over again. That's the life in a large corporation.

  17. Unfair comparison on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "For instance, the company charges $599 for replacing the display on the iPad Pro tablet. Which sounds insane when you realize that you can almost certainly purchase a new iPad Pro under $700."

    Well, on a iPad, the display is everything. So, it is something to expect replacing the display will nearly top the price of the device itself. You pick the most expensive part to compare the brand new one price to the repair. That's not a fair comparison. Almost the rest of the iPad components worth nothing.

  18. Re: All three customers will be disappointed on BlackBerry Hands Over User Data To Help Police 'Kick Ass,' Insider Says (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: -1

    The irony is the code to crack the iPhone was already developed and Apple's argument was pure bullshit at the time. So, it was just a f... PR show for the mass.

  19. The passenger can still go out of his autonomous car and hit the pedestrian pretending being in control with a baseball bat. Who is in control now?

  20. It's a f... on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a fucking good reason to be silent, I admit.

  21. Assange is seeking for some media attention on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    It seems Julian Assange is tired to see Snowden getting all the media attention these days. So, he decided to spit some kind of bullshit in the hope to bring the spotlights back to him.

  22. Re:Well, it is either her or Trump. on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, he's an opportunist in all the way of the term. Oh! I see what you meant by politician.

  23. Re:Well, it is either her or Trump. on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but she is not the one that needs to bend.

  24. Re:Well, it is either her or Trump. on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 1

    Good one!

  25. Re:Use an application or OS that allows passphrase on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    An arbitrary length password/passphrase with no limit is something a cracker will have hard time to crack. Not only you can make passwords using multiple words and spelling variants, but the length being unknown to the cracker, there isn't a clear pattern to try or a finite number of combinations.

    The passphrase should be checked against an entropy calculator.before being accepted.