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  1. Re:Similar language, describing different things on Code Is Not Literature · · Score: 1

    I usually leave links to youtube like this one:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    (Not rick roll)

    Might not help, but at least the programmer knows that the guy who wrote this is sorry (and that he is aware of how bad that piece of code is).

  2. Re:Creepy on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually that's incorrect.

    What you need to do is say: "Lawyer".

    Every time they ask you a question, respond with lawyer - you will have a really strong case against them if one isn't provided.

  3. Re:Not the sun on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    You probably should care about those averages.

    And it's actually not the increase in temperatures where people live that are going to be the problem. All the fun starts out over the ocean, having warmer air over the ocean means the air can carry a lot more water and a heck of a lot more energetic and that means more fun during the hurricane season, with stuff like Katrina, Sandy et. al. becoming the norm rather than the extreme.

    Imagine a hurricane like the one that passed the Philippines last year going through a place people care about, like New York or Washington D. C. - that hurricane was outside the scale, the reason being that the Simpson et. al. concluded that anything above ground wouldn't last more than 5 minutes in a "Cat. 6" hurricane. Now imagine a hurricane outside of the scale, once a year going up through the east coast; those are the consequences of fairly small increases in global average temperatures.

    Trust me, you definitely want to start caring, because we are in the middle of a shit storm and still arguing rather than acting.

  4. Re:Not the sun on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    Good thing we have so many earths laying about to experiment on.

    And time, don't forget that, lots of time, worst case predictions don't have us completely fucked for the next couple of decades, and with best case predictions we are looking at more than a hundred years, so no point in fixing anything now.

    Part of me thinks we probably should be happy that the sun has decided to not do it's shit - just imagine how bad it would be with a couple of more degrees across the globe...

  5. Re:similar on Nagios-Plugins Web Site Taken Over By Nagios · · Score: 2

    It's quite a mess they have made, they expect us (the users) to just accept a new team under same name.

    Well fuck that. Hope package maintainers are on top of this and make sure users are forced to make a choice of which plugin distribution to use.

  6. Re:Different Servers Make It Possible on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't need to be scrambled, it only needs to be rendered in the exact same way as legitimate content on the page, and come from the exact same source as legitimate content on the page.

    And that sir is the crux of the matter. I don't block ads because I don't want to see them, I block them because content providers are too fucking lazy to make sure the ads aren't malware, to make sure the ads are loading in proper time.

    If you host your ads yourself, they won't be blocked.

  7. Re:It ALWAYS already worked without it. on Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Yeah, never knew the function original poster talked about, way more intuitive to find the place you want and just type your search in the search bar.

  8. Re:If avg temperatures rise then it is global warm on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    Since you are still arguing for calling it global warming, you will have lost all arguments. Warming has a very specific meaning for Joe Average, remember he is not as smart as you (in this area), so when you go off in pedantic mode, you have lost.

  9. Re:Um... on Experiments Reveal That Deformed Rubber Sheet Is Not Like Spacetime · · Score: 2

    The good thing about the rubber sheet analogy is it makes sense for Joe average - your example is obscure and makes no sense, it doesn't provide a readily understandable visual experience to give the viewer an idea of what's going on.

  10. Re:Cue the climate change deniers ... on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Show us where we can correct those idiots - Global waming is such a stupid word to use, because people who wants to argue with you will focus on that single word.

    Doesn't matter if you had a billion scientists saying something different, there is a single word that the other person can attach to and argue against, which means you will have lost.

    Global climate change is a much better wording - you can even add a small star "due to global temperature average climbing".

  11. Re:Grasping at Straws on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 2

    You sir, are in denial.

    Take a deep breath, go read what you wrote again. You came with no counter arguments, no reasonable statements to prove the parent wrong, you went full bat-shit crazy because of the words "all of them".

    A reasonable argumenter would provide counter points, e.g. links to glaciers that are growing (articles, there should be a few); a reasonable person would probably consent to the fact that a lot of glaciers are shrinking - yet you went full cat-crazy lady and worst part is you believe you made a different statement.

  12. Re:Grasping at Straws on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 3, Insightful

    God I love how you guys (both sides) goes totally ballistic about some minor detail of a post. No point in trying to deduce what someone said, if there is the smallest amount of unfactual commentary or the slightest error, they will be bombed back to kingdom come.

  13. Re:If it is worth watching it is worth paying, per on Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality · · Score: 1

    At what point do you forgive someone?

    Are you still holding a grudge against Germany for the WW2? Or the US for slavery? Or what about most clothing companies for abusing child labor in the 80s and 90s? Or their continued abuse of cheap labor in India and China? Sony fucked up once and haven't done that again, a fiasco that probably didn't even affect you, yet you wear clothes, probably eat meat and drive a car - all of which are doing more physical harm in a day than what Sonys rootkit ever did.

  14. Re:Kill all startups on The Case For a Global, Compulsory Bug Bounty · · Score: 2

    Yeah, heres an idea, create a company, get insurance, create bug riddled code, get someone else to turn them in and profit...

    This makes about as much sense as having firefighters paid on accord.

  15. Re:Immigration on Google Is Building a Way To Launch Chrome Apps Without Installation · · Score: 1

    Hey sorry for the late reply :-)

    If you are a talented programmer, it's fairly easy to get a job - green cards can be a bit of pain since there are requirements to minimum wage, however, in programming, those requirements should be no problem.

  16. Re:Coffee Joulies in a mug on Engineering the Perfect Coffee Mug · · Score: 1

    Well I'm not good at them fancy maths, but for $40 I can get a mug or $60 I can get them beans...

    Now the beans might work for more than one mug, however, generally I only drink one cup of coffee at a time, so to me the mug seems to make more sense.

  17. Re:The Nordic "bend over and take" countries on Pirate Bay Founder Warg Being Held in Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    Get off your fucking high horse and learn to read!

    He isn't arrested over some stupid copyright case, the guy is charged with breaking into the Danish Police central servers *and* one of the biggest Danish banks.

    The guy is probably looking at some serious time for this.

  18. Re:Solitary Confinement on Pirate Bay Founder Warg Being Held in Solitary Confinement · · Score: 0

    To be fair, the guy is charged with hacking into the police central servers, he is and should be considered a threat to national security (including terrorism).

  19. Re:Still becomes a brick. on Google Is Building a Way To Launch Chrome Apps Without Installation · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yeah, my 4G subscription is $40 a month, includes 10GB of data, unlimited voice, SMS and MMS and two sim cards (one for the phone, one for the laptop).

    (Disclaimer, I live in socialist Denmark)

  20. Re:Isn't Tor compromised? on Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself Using Tor · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but I don't think you understand how TOR hidden services work (to be fair, Wikipedia is downright useless here) :-)

    https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en - they do a much better introduction than I could ever hope to do ;)

  21. Re: It makes sense and it doesn't on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 1

    Which is why we use the assignments, we don't care about cover letter or CV, solve one of the assignments and send that, then you are good to go (explicitly mentioned). So far we have received a ton of applicants, who 1. haven't done the assignment, 2. haven't even bothered reading the offer; they are going straight to the bin. (Pro tip, if you can't fulfill something in an job offer, remember to at least write why you can't).

  22. Re:Isn't Tor compromised? on Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself Using Tor · · Score: 4, Informative

    You really should read up on technologies before making statements like that.

    The Pedo busts were not attacking exit nodes, it was an attack on the hidden services within the network, there is no mim attack on hidden services, as no one knows who is talking to who. What the FBI did was compromising the servers hosting the material, serving malware that send a single request out outside the TOR network.

    Regarding 2; this only works if your software is perfect, which it won't be. The Pedo bust was abusing a known bug in Firefox 17, which had been fixed for quite a long time, it only takes a single bug in the stack to inject some data, that can be collected at some point later - Even if you only allow data through TOR and using SSL, there is nothing preventing FBI sending enough data about your local network, to help identifying you. (For instance, a quick wifi-scan gives you enough information to place my system somewhere in Denmark, using WIFI databases, like the stuff google collected with street view, you can probably pinpoint it even further)

    While forcing SSL is a nice idea, generally, it wont work; as you said, people are doing mixed content - on top of that, it only takes a single compromised request to a CDN like jQuery, to have your system thoroughly compromised, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCNZJ_7f0Hk (While they are compromising anonymous proxies, the attack will work just as well on TOR)

  23. Re:It makes sense and it doesn't on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 2

    We are currently hiring, instead of listing specific requirements our posting includes 3 assignments matching the kind of work the worker would end up doing (3 different languages and domains). Want to work for us, show us your skill, we are tired of receiving hundreds of "I'm the best certified programmer".

    So far it's been a nice way of weeding out the crowd.

  24. Re:FTFY on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 2

    The problem with Polish workforce is they are getting expensive, the new kids on the block are Romanian, Macedonian, Ukrainian. Although same applies - and on top of them being down right brilliant, they have a work mentality that trumps most westerners.

  25. Re:They can get someone younger for much less pay. on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 2

    Half? Not even close. We are currently hiring, we prefer local work force, someone who shows up each day, someone we can talk to. Local salary is in the $80.000 range. However, if we are looking for someone working remotely, they are up against quite qualified eastern block workers, whom clock in at $12.000-15.000.

    If I have to deal with remote workers, I'd go for the cheaper option.