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  1. s/(like)(.*)(know)/$3$2$1/; on Lobster, a New Game Programming Language, Now Available As Open Source · · Score: 1

    ... and therein lies our problem.

  2. Re:It is all software, really on Sony's PS4 To Have Less Stringent DRM Than Microsoft's Xbox One · · Score: 1

    XBox None!

  3. Pillar of the earth? Or fifth column? on The Trajectory of Television: A Big History of the Small Screen. · · Score: 1

    ... TV has taken over social interaction. Inside and outside the family. Time was when we interacted and learnt social mores and life skills from entities who could respond to us. TV cannot. While I am sure Ralph Nader and similar outliers exist, TV has become what human nature and the bandwidth/cable access monopolies always destined it to be... manipulative and shallow programming, beholden to advertising interests engorged by the unnatural hold it has over our life.

    Bread and circuses. We got one, one more to go...

  4. Re:Eric Schultz on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 0

    "I completely agree that that is a just and honorable way to act in accordance with the original author's probable intent. But it also amounts to you publicly announcing that you are committing copyright infringement. Without an explicit license you have absolutely ZERO legal right to do *anything* with anyone else's code. As such I hope you're not using such code for anything important."

    Did I just commit copyright infringement?

  5. Re:Juveniles get different sentences to adults. on Steubenville Hacker Faces Longer Prison Sentence Than the Rapists · · Score: 1

    That is quite literally, correct :)

  6. New meme: Microsoft Xbox None on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 1

    I got an Xbox None

  7. Re:Postapocoliptic Nightmare on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1

    Yet script kiddies should not be allowed to randomly cut/paste kernel code fragments, compile it, and sell the binary as "Linux"?

  8. Re:It's still under investigation on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1

    ...sift the wheat from the chaff?

  9. Is it the Chinese or... on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 1

    ...The Cylon bootstrap process ?

  10. Re:Apache? no. on Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed · · Score: 1

    Or the ones that contribute code under those licenses. like me.

  11. Re:Heh on AMD Launches New Mobile APU Lineup, Kabini Gets Tested · · Score: 1

    No, rather the AMD launch *was* the XBox One announcement

  12. Re:Apache? no. on Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed · · Score: 1

    Some developers like liberal copyright licenses too.

  13. Two suggestions.... on Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? · · Score: 1

    You're just a bit too much a programmer, and a tad too sharp an entrepreneur.

    Become somewhat more a manager and factor in some 'fat' -- both in the invoices you charge your customers, and in the time you allocate your contractors. Remember, crap happens. If it doesn't, and your contractors manage to deliver bug free code ahead of time, give them a 'performance' or 'quality' bonus (i.e. payment for the full time allocated). Do not chase profit maximisation like big shops do. They have adequate manpower buffers to beat you at your own game.

    Alternatively, hire someone skilled --- but don't be cheap. Remember, if you chase cost reduction like the small shops, your employee obtains the hunger (he already has the skills) to beat you at your own game.

  14. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    Or cutback on the custom that you give that corporation

  15. Re:Oracle Java UPDATER is the reason for this on Massive Amount of Malware Targets Older Java Flaws · · Score: 1

    Hehehehe

  16. Re:He's right on Saudi Arabian Telecom Pitches to Moxie Marlinspike · · Score: 1

    No, they'd be something akin to a wiretap warrant issued by (mostly) just judges following (mostly) just laws.

    They do have significant terror issues and want to be able to do these intercepts...

    The problem is their track record on human rights. Being ruled by just laws is a human right. It's upto Moxie. But have you considered the implications of moxie revealing this man's name. Think about it Mr. ..? Mr. Anonymous Coward.

    And btw, your govt. is *able* to intercept communications. Including this. But I think you mean intercept all comms

  17. Re:He's right on Saudi Arabian Telecom Pitches to Moxie Marlinspike · · Score: 2

    Actually, let me reverse my own comment... (having read up on Saudi Arabia's human right's record).

    The issue is the Saudi's can target terror with these MITM tools -- true. But they also have a track record targeting basic human rights (free press, faith).

    Moxie is well within his rights turning down the job. However, its best he did not reveal the name of the Saudi gent (who still seems sincere).

  18. He's right on Saudi Arabian Telecom Pitches to Moxie Marlinspike · · Score: 0

    The Saudi bloke seems to have said nothing wrong... and he is sincere. Which is more than you can say about Moxie -- who's protecting "privacy" by revealing one side of a private conversation.

  19. Re: Well of course. on Amazon Buys Sunlight Readable Color Display Company Liquavista · · Score: 1

    Now that's an idea for an AI bot in a game.

    "Stop son! I see you're trying to open a document with embedded demons. Would you like to scan this portal for malware first,..."

  20. Re:350ppm on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 2

    Um, we're killing off plant cover, while increasing CO2. So there IS a problem.

    HOWEVER, I fail to see how being fixated on a single source of CO2 measurements (Mauna Loa) is helping the issue.

    I was on the island which houses the Mauna Loa observatory last month. There has been a recent (since the last 2-3 years) rise in emissions from volcanoes some miles adjacent to the observatory (so much so, there is an issue with 'vog' -- volcanic smog -- on the island).

    Now, I've read about techniques the observatory uses to sidestep that issue, but ...

    What is the *global* (not just Mauna-Loa) CO2 average? Is it rising precipitously? How fast? Its hard to get a straight answer for these questions from Google.

  21. Re:This is called dumping on China's Allwinner Outsold Intel, Qualcomm In Tablet Processors In 2012 · · Score: 1

    True. Lots of European and American companies also agree.

  22. Mod UP! on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Look For In a Prosthetic Hand? · · Score: 1

    I second this -- there is nothing that can give her the full functionality of hands or feet. But if that can be avoided by a horde of Slashdotters googling for alternatives to this medicine, that'd be better.

  23. As far as possible, Do NOT work for companies that do this.

    In fact try to *not* have a mobile at all... (Its possible). Try to keep your work to daytime, non-weekend hours only.

  24. Re:Particular diet. on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hannibal... is that you?

  25. Re:Stop on Localized (Visual) Programming Language For Kids? · · Score: 1

    > > Stop pushing your line of work down her throat.
    > Agreed. The last thing the STEM field needs is an influx of people thinking our careers require no self-sacrifice and aptitude.

    Self-sacrifice and even an 'aptitude' towards most things, can be developed by parents in the vast majority of children. E.g., the Polgar and Williams sisters.

    What GP really needs is to stop pushing _his_ ideology down the parent's throat.