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  1. Re:Things are starting to turn around on OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks · · Score: 1
    Schooling time

    I am disappointed at the quality of open source software - especially pieces as famous and fundamental as OpenSSL, and I agree, that open source's claimed advantage of there being "thousands of eyeballs" verifying its correctness is overblown.

    I cant decide - am I looking at an intentional misrepresentation, or a facepalm-worthy senior moment? Linus' Law had nothing to do with verifying code. From Wikipedia,

    The law states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"; or more formally: "Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone."

  2. Re:What could go wrong? on California Bill Proposes Mandatory Kill-Switch On Phones and Tablets · · Score: 1
    gstoddart wrote,

    Yeah, yeah, offtopic because I didn't say 'fuck beta' ... I'm just tired of the nerd rage, it gets old after a while.

    As long as beta is on the table, nerd anger is appropriate.

  3. Re:Patrons on Who's Writing Linux These Days? · · Score: 2

    No, there isn't a saying.
    The tradition in law is that the existence of an exception may be used to infer a rule - e.g. "No Parking: 4pm - 6pm" means that parking IS permitted at other times. Mr. Torvalds may be considered unusual, but his efforts are not part of (or exception to) any rule I can think of, except maybe "being polite and rude consistently gest things done in the long term"

  4. Where did the AC lie? on UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source · · Score: 1

    Putting a name behind it should have no influence on the validity of the case being made. Most people can't tell BS from truth on this topic, but they can usually spot a personal attack, like the one I'm going to make on you because you're advocating polluted discourse. So fuck you, you fucking fuck.

    There, I stooped to your level for a moment. I'm not proud, but you can't call me on it without dissing your own worthless argument. Now, back to rational discussion: Where did the AC lie?

  5. Re:Get Ready on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    Opportunity - one free with any internet connection, two if you ever leave your house.

  6. Re:Never pick a fight with people who on Google Faces Off Against Intellectual Ventures In Landmark Patent Trial · · Score: 2

    Where is the "+1, Sad" moderation when you need it?

  7. Re:Tiny little airbags like the polystyrene foam? on Building a Better Bike Helmet Out of Paper · · Score: 1

    Your guess is far wide of the mark. The styrofoam in conventional bicycle helmets is designed to collapse once. While the size may not change much, the crush absorption is gone. It is for this reason they are discarded after an impact.

  8. Re:Command Line Not Necessary on How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No. Argument ad homenium is not needed.

    It's got nothing to do with the arrogance or competence of the builders. GUIs tend to suck at automation because of the assumption that each interface, when presented, shall be manipulated by a human. This assumption is a reasonable one, and destroys automation before you start - the best you can hope for is applying the presented default after a timeout period, which makes for exceptionally slow progress. Automation that needs constant human intervention is (and I'll be kind here) not automation.

  9. Re:Answer your own question, Slashdot! on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    I see no hypocrisy - the page was never intended to be static text with no records outside of access.log. Javascript is not presented as a bad idea, but a frequently used piledriver where paperweights normally suffice. The claw hammer on that page seems appropriate.

  10. Re:Arbitrary? on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Driving down a particular road at a particular time does not constitute probable cause.

    Go home and get some sleep. Come back when you''re ready to play.

  11. Re:In exchange for privacy? WHA? on Swarm Mobile's Offer: Free Wi-Fi In Exchange For Some Privacy · · Score: 1

    If ever you have a future need to step out from the herd and speak against the elite in favour of justice or truth (or anything at all that said future elite don't like), that tracking provides myraid opportunities for your voice to be discredited if you show signs of getting any significant traction.
    The thought police don't have to send helicopters. You have given them the remote controls for your suicide belt.

  12. Re:very understandable on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    You're full of shit.
    Most medicines are generally prescribed for one condition, so the pharmacist doesn't have to be any kind of clever to make a good guess what condition you've been diagnosed with. But it's still a guess. If your doctor is actually doing this, though, report them to the local college of physicians.

  13. Re:Yes. on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    Forbidding people from signing contracts that both parties deem as mutually beneficial is wrong and destructive to the economy. After all, it is not the CEO's who own corporations, but the shareholders. As such, it is the shareholders who ultimately decide upon the pay of the CEO. If the owners of a company decide that it is in the company's best interest to entice the top executives with $x, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Contrary to popular belief, the only way this is possible in the long run, is if the executive actually brings that worth to the corporation. These sorts of laws will *not* bring up the wage of the workers just so that the executives can be paid more; after all, the most an employee can be paid without the company losing money is the discounted marginal value product that he or she brings to the company.

    There's another way this is possible in the long run - don't pay the rank and file members what they're worth.

    This is easy because the negotiating process between a corporation and a potential staffer is rarely an exchange between equals. The rank and file are most often absolutely not in a position to negotiate a fair wage or salary.

  14. No, they weren't. on Seattle PD Mum On Tracking By Its New Wi-Fi Mesh Network · · Score: 1

    But now they're thinking about it. Thanks a lot, The Stranger.

  15. Re:He IS offering evidence on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 1

    Rogers (Republican, chair of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) and Rupersberger (democrat, member of same) have made such claims publicly.
    You need to keep your facts straight if you want them to go to prison. Just because nobody took the assertions seriously doesn't mean they didn't say such a thing.

  16. Re:Not internet on Network Scientists Discover the 'Dark Corners' of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Further, social networks all have a backlog where previous posts can be viewed (particularly true with FB), thus a person still "transmits" a given piece of information indefinitely as other people view their wall going back far in time. Thus it is always possible for a "dark corner" of the "internet" to always catch up by seeing a piece of information in that way instead of only real-time.

    You're so funny. Just try going back a week on facebook. I'll wait while you restart your browser a few times, waiting for the thrashing to stop. Oh, just pull the plug, it'll be faster.

    Endless scrolling - the penultimate "fuck you" to a web page viewer. Tumblr does it too,* making a walk down memory lane potentially depend upon how much RAM you have.

    * some users disable it, but it is the default that most go with.

  17. Re:just a technical problem at the NSA on Facebook Isn't Accepting New Posts, Likes, Comments... · · Score: 1

    It's run by the CIA. The NSA only monitors it.

  18. Re:Outrage doesn't do shit on Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't There More Public Outrage About NSA Revelations? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Your nation already looks destroyed. Despite rampant criminality and indiscipline in the administration, the DoJ is deliberately remaining toothless on the matter, the judiciary is issuing no orders to rectify its oversight being ignored, and the legislators are largely following sponsor^Wparty lines instead of constituent wishes when drafting and voting on legislation. A revolution at this point could only create a nation.

  19. Re your sig on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 1

    "If you punish ordinary opposing views in debate you aren't committed to free speech. Prove me wrong."
    Badly reasoned rhetoric deserves to be shut down. If it's presented as clear and cogent philosophy, a side dish of embarrasment is heartwarming.

  20. Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    Yet we have growing economic uncertainty and a shrinking middle class coincident with a period of unprecedented per capita productive capacity. Why is this so? The sound-bite answer is "concentration of wealth". The complete answer is incredibly complex [ snip ]

    I disagree. The complete answer is, entrenched Capitalists want it that way. People who have concentrated wealth shall support any policy that maintains inequality, AND be able to put their money where their mouth is. Confusion arises only because they never openly mouth their actual motivations.

  21. Re:Every redesign has haters... on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely true, but in this case each thing hated is backed up by at least one cogent post outlining the nature of the redesign's basic UI failures. Making content harder to discern (indenting of threads is de minimis) was what caught my eye. At first, I believed they'd thrown away threading.
    Fixed-width text areas? That was a face palm in the 90s. This feels like a college course test - "Fix this website where the developers committed each of the ten fatal web design mistakes we discussed in class.
    I've tried to find something to like about it, but there's nothing there.

  22. Wasted Effort on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Don't fucking lie to us. There is no way we believe the UI fail that this beta is was "shaped by feedback from community members". The comment system may not be enough to keep us if you keep on in this direction. Did you fire all your competent UI people and hire their grandchildren?

  23. This is gonna be awesome! on No Upper Bound On Phone Record Collection, Says NSA · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've never seen a civil war up close before.

  24. Re:The more moderated, the less honest on Comments About Comments · · Score: 1

    I don't feel like being restricted from speaking my mind just because I tried to mod up someone's post.

    Just because it seems odd to you doesn't mean there's no sense to it, or even that you can't have a useful system with such a feature. Analogy: here in Canada, people who serve on a jury are normally explicitly forbidden discussing their deliberations (outside of the jury room), ever. See Section 6.2.

  25. Re:Software Quality On The Decline on Devs Flay Microsoft For Withholding Windows 8.1 RTM · · Score: 1

    Why shouldn't 3rd party devs do this? MS has been doing it for forever.