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  1. Re:FUCK OFF DICE on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    That's just simply not true. At all. Why do you think that?

  2. Re:FUCK OFF DICE on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: -1

    But that's not how it works in real life. You've severely over-simplified everything to the point of removing any relevance. And where do you get this "forcing morals" business from? TFA had nothing about that at all.

  3. Re:Why? on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 0

    You're kinda like a sea-lion!

  4. Re:Maybe it's just who we are... on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    This happens when they're studying at university, and when they're doing internships, and when they're working. It's not an incident at one mismanaged company, it's something of a steady background noise. And that is why it's a problem.

  5. Re: FUCK OFF DICE on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    There is not a lack of jobs in STEM. IT, for example, is on the immigration skills shortage list in many countries. They're not "stealing our jerbs!"

  6. Re:FUCK OFF DICE on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: -1, Troll

    Replace things like "SJW" and "political correctness" with "respect for other people", and try thinking about it that way. Not throwing ridiculous insults at people who want to make things more open and accessible.

  7. Re:How about more offensive public mailing lists? on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 2

    How about we not push people away who might have a lot of merit?

  8. Re:Next time it'll be cash on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    You don't get to review before approving it? Here the amount shows on the machine, you select the account, and enter your PIN. There's no circumstance where they can modify the amount without you seeing it. Also, we don't do tips, though I have sometimes (maybe more touristy places) seen the machine ask if I wanted to add one.

  9. Re:Use cash. on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 0

    Cash sucks, and if you're overseas, keeping it on hand can be tricky.

    Not having a chip-and-pin card is the fault of your banks though, they should have got with the program when the rest of the world did.

    Also, the one time the Dutch ticket inspectors check is when you decided they're not going to check on this trip. The other time is when you're touristing and have about 20 old tickets in your wallet that you have to sort through to find the right one.

  10. Re:This is why you call your bank before tourism on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    I didn't read it that way. I read it as the newegg orders were in the same day as each other, and that's what triggered it. Not connected to the actual breach.

  11. Re:"with a 2048 bit RSA key" on Patreon Hacked, Personal Data Accessed · · Score: 1

    They used bcrypt, according to the article.

    "Encrypted" is often said when "hashed" is what is meant.

    You don't have private keys for hashing passwords.

    It's safest to assume that your password is compromised and act accordingly, but I doubt that it'll actually happen. bcrypt is a pain to brute-force.

  12. Re:Uh? on Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit · · Score: 5, Funny

    It doesn't come with a GUI, so if you want a working display, you need Linux.

    I don't think anyone has ever said those words before.

  13. Re:Of course, this is natural. on Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be · · Score: 1

    No. Freedom units are clearly metric units.

    http://object.cato.org/sites/c...

  14. Re:Of course, this is natural. on Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be · · Score: 1

    Other than the road signs, lumber sizes (2x4s, etc.) and gun calibers

    Even then, I hear the 9mm is pretty popular over there.

  15. Re:Switching on LibreOffice Turns Five · · Score: 1

    OpenOffice has a long standing, long reported, outstanding security vulnerability that no one seems to actually care to fix:

    http://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/...

  16. Re:Arnoldisation of Google on Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web · · Score: 1

    Swiss. It says that in the article.

  17. Re:Binary Page Delivery on Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web · · Score: 1

    This isn't insightful, it's just wrong. We already have binary page delivery if the browser and server agree to support gzip or whatever. It's just one more thing like that.

  18. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on "Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs · · Score: 1

    There was absolutely no vertical or horizontal size change in the terminal when I changed mine over.

  19. Re:Here's the article on "Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs · · Score: 1

    I switched it over and noticed a small change, the one I mostly noticed was that tails of some letters were different. Overall it was very similar though.

  20. Re:Browsers should have EnableVideo code on A Farewell To Flash · · Score: 1

    Firefox has a config option to force HTML5 video not to autoplay, and the flashblocker I use also has options to block them in the same manner.

  21. Re:bookmarks? on Multiple Vulnerabilities Exposed In Pocket · · Score: 1

    No problems here. Get a better mobile device.

    No. That's a terrible answer with no thought behind it at all. Some people like their phone with a 3 inch screen. PDFs are not a format for display in all manner of layouts. You're just being silly.

    Because I don't trust third party services. That lack of trust is obviously well-founded. I prefer to use fewer of them as a result.

    Most people don't care. Also, most people aren't so technically inclined to build every service they might want from the ground up, or want the hassle of going through and manually moving files between things. If you're not the target market, fine. But don't try to apply your own perspectives onto everyone else.

  22. Re:Security 101 on Multiple Vulnerabilities Exposed In Pocket · · Score: 1

    The idea is that this works across devices etc. You can read on the web or in an app or whatever. It's hard to do that without some kind of service.

    If it just saved things locally, then it would be a lot less useful.

  23. Re:Oh hell no ... on Google Announces a Router: OnHub · · Score: 1

    Well, my phone does as it uses that to improve AGPS.

  24. Re:Oh hell no ... on Google Announces a Router: OnHub · · Score: 1

    OnHub gathers information about your wireless environment. Your OnHub scans for other routers in the area and collects their MAC addresses and network names.

    Of course it does that. My openwrt router does that, my phone does that, and my laptop does that.

    This is part of how wifi works.

  25. Re:bookmarks? on Multiple Vulnerabilities Exposed In Pocket · · Score: 1

    PDFs are not good for reading on mobile devices, not even counting the extra effort to get it there. And why would you expend that effort when you could ... not?

    I'm all for decreasing reliance on closed services, and I think Firefox building this in isn't a move consistent with their principles, but pocket is quite useful and functional tool.