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  1. Re:We were hacked, honest on Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Says It Was Hacked, Roughly $60M Stolen (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    somehow I think Draymond is going to make a little more money playing b-ball than he will in the porn industry. Unless he's got something that no other guy has.

  2. Re:We were hacked, honest on Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Says It Was Hacked, Roughly $60M Stolen (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was a hack, just like when a pro athlete sends out an inappropriate picture because their twitter was hacked.

  3. Re: Don't care, not my card, card issuer's problem on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 1

    Yep. My cc charges are for the amounts of my purchases. Period. Cost to me is exactly the same as if I paid cash for my purchases.

  4. Re:Don't care, not my card, card issuer's problems on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 1

    You pay fees and interest on your credit card? You are doing it wrong.

  5. Re: As a C programmer on C Top Programming Language For 2016, Finds IEEE's Study (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    Sounds like you don't have the appropriate libraries available. I worked for years in an environment with C and it was extremely productive. Never felt like I was "resolving the same problems" because the first time I solved it, I spent some time thinking about how to make the solution reusable.

  6. Re: Rule of thumb: believe the man on Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When you start dating you'll understand that you don't get a signed consent form when you have sex. It doesn't generally work that way.

  7. Re:So what? on Microsoft's Surface Hub Is a 'Hit', Demand Outstrips Supply (petri.com) · · Score: 1

    As opposed to Google harvesting everything that you do?

  8. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist on Saudi Arabia Revives 15-Year-Old Ban On 'Zionism-Promoting' Pokemon (timesofisrael.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Funny thing, if the Arabs states had just let Israel be instead of trying to crush it in 1948, Israel would be a tiny bit of land that they wouldn't even notice. Instead, the whole "drive the Jews into the sea" thing kind of backfired on them.

  9. Re:Three Space Indent! on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Turns out that as long as you use tabs *consistently* to indent code, they're fine. And it's also handy because for us older devs, we can set the indentation the way we need it. I've dealt with code that has a 2 space indentation and I find it virtually unreadable. But if you use tabs for the indentation, you have 2 spaces per tab, I can have 4, everybody's happy.

  10. Re:I agree with Linus. on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That seems to be the modern style: "my code is so clear and self-evident it doesn't need comments". Except it isn't. I couldn't count the number of hours I've spent decrypting what some chunk of code does, or worse, figuring out why something that looks obviously extraneous or even wrong is actually necessary. My attitude is that if you don't have time to write the comment, you shouldn't bother writing the code. And if you have trouble writing the comment, the code is probably wrong.

  11. Man, don't go there.

  12. Re:A question of definitions? on Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What if a terrorist has planted a nuke and the only way to avoid mass death is to torture his wife until he tells you where the bomb is?

  13. Re: fp on Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. This means that if you get someone else's password and use that to access a computer system, you have committed unauthorized access. If that isn't a crime, then anyone who can grab your keystrokes and get your password has a free pass to do whatever they want, with no penalty.

  14. Re:Sweet on New C++ Features Voted In By C++17 Standards Committee (reddit.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that some C++ still rely on runtime. The ideal C++ program only relies on compile-time templating.

  15. Re:This can't be true on 'Linux vs Windows' Challenge: Phoronix Tests Popular Games (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Once you say that AAA == CoD / Battlefield you instantly lose all credibility.

  16. Re:Commercial airlock on Axiom Plans A New Private-Sector Outpost in Space (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that... do you have another credit card?"

  17. Uh yes, there was a theft of a product. The fact that that product was virtual is irrelevant. The same as if you signed a contract to create some software, wrote the program, and then the company you wrote the program for refused to because you because "information wantz to be free!".

  18. Re:lol Cheap Chinese batteries are the answer on It's Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab In Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So in response to your sig: really? You've lost freedom of speech? The freedom to assemble? Freedom of religion? soldiers are being hosted in your house??? exactly which rights have your lost?

  19. Re:Somebody else's work? on Coursera Commits 'Cultural Vandalism' As Old Platform Shuts (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Just because you want something to be free doesn't mean it has to be free.

  20. Re:Cultral Vandalism? on Coursera Commits 'Cultural Vandalism' As Old Platform Shuts (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. I can, for example, sell you the location and disposition of enemy troops. Information. Not material, yet incredibly valuable.

  21. Re:Cultral Vandalism? on Coursera Commits 'Cultural Vandalism' As Old Platform Shuts (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    You create something, and you want to offer it for free.. go ahead. Just because one channel for hosting it has been closed doesn't mean there's not available channels.

  22. Actually, if you had patience to read the summary, they did something very clever. They did find the people who had been actually diagnosed with cancer. Then they went back months to their previous searches, and found that BEFORE they had any idea they had cancer, they were searching for information on their symptoms... symptoms of the cancer that would be discovered much later. How much would it be worth to you to find out you have cancer when it can be treated, rather than too late?

  23. Re:Not user-posted content at issue here on Judges Rule Raped Woman Can Sue 'Enabling' Web Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally, I don't worry about mass shootings, I worry about cases where two people know each other and there's a murder-suicide. The problem is that we are so surrounded by gun violence that the daily occurrence of such cases just doesn't cause a stir anymore. In order to be shocked now it has to be children slaughtered in a school or movie-goers killed at the mall. And then gun idiots use that kind of thing to argue that there should be MORE guns... like we aren't already awash in weaponry. Somehow the idea that anyone can buy and carry an efficient killing machine doesn't make me feel safer.

  24. Re:The most disgusting part.. on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Inflation??? are you nuts? It's running 1-2% right now, it can't get lower.

  25. Re:This sort of thing is why people like Trump on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oh please. Yes, Trump says he'll do something. He also says he saw thousands of Muslims dancing on the streets in New Jersey on 9/11. He will say ANYTHING. The concept of "truth" just doesn't occur to him. He relies on people like you who simply don't have any ability to process information. God help us.