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  1. Re:Not likley on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    If you write about "inappropriate sexual relations with his water bottle", you imply that there also exist appropriate sexual relations with water bottles. So you are revealed as a pervert. ;-)

  2. Re:Bragging about torture on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 1

    If your constitution really says that, it needs a revision badly. Killing humans should be unconstitutional, no matter whether that human is American or not.

  3. Re:Bragging about torture on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 1

    That's why slavery is still legal, right?

    Yes. The only requirement is that you outsource it to another country.

  4. Re:worst grammar mistake they could make on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 1

    Maybe they did, he knows it, but wanted to create a plausible deniability as grammar mistake.

  5. Re:But can you trust xavier2dc? on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 2, Funny

    OK, but how do I compile xavier2dc? Is the source even available?

  6. Re:It's only metadata on Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    "borrow"

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    LENT money to Greece. LENT.

    You cannot "borrow something to someone". Back to primary school with you, and this time stay there until you can actually speak, read and write English at an acceptable level.

    I've got news for you: There are people whose native language is not English. Which foreign language do you speak?

  7. Yeah, for observing hidden variables, an NSA-like observer suffices. ;-)

  8. Re:EU voted in encryption bypass .. on Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    But how on earth should she have ever guessed that those backdoors will actually be used?

  9. Re:it is now obvious on Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Or they're performing the BASIC function

    BASIC? Maybe they should upgrade to a more modern language.

  10. Re:This is what NSA should be doing. on Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone · · Score: 2

    Things can change quickly and we might not be allies forever.

    Especially if you continue to piss off your allies.

  11. Re:It's only metadata on Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Not really. The banks who had borrowed money to Greece got their money back. With interest, indeed.

  12. Re:Shocking on Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    >I think the NSA has has/had completely lost sight of the most important thing in politics: Don't piss off your friends.
    You are actually naïve enough to believe that Germany has no intelligence gathering in the United States or even in other EU member states? What a laugh.

    There are no friends in international politics, my dear child.

    I strongly doubt Germany is tapping Obama's phone.

    Note that the German government was downplaying the whole thing as long as only ordinary citizens were concerned. The politicians (no matter what country) don't really care about ordinary citizens, they just have to pretend. However it's a completely different matter if they themselves are the target.

  13. Re:Still a sequence of rule? on NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    What about taking the list of rules and automatically compiling it into a decision tree?

  14. Re:"Deprecate"? on NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    It means to advise against its use, usually because it is superseded by something better. It does not mean to replace or remove it. Although it is common to deprecate something some time before removing it in order to give people a chance to adapt, you can both deprecate without removing afterwards, and remove without deprecating beforehand.

  15. Re:Cat got your tongue? Cat got your tongue? on NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel · · Score: 3, Funny

    JUST MAKE a DECENT FUCKING GUI with DOCUMENTATION.

    I don't think fucking needs a new GUI. The current touch-based interface works just fine. Most people don't need any documentation for it, but if you really need it, I think there's a lot of third-party stuff explaining every fucking detail. There are even videos demonstrating its use, look under "porn".

  16. Re:Bah on NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Testing is for wimps. Real men can take the flames from the users when the update doesn't work. ;-)

  17. Re:this is a big mistake on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 1

    Regarding the three stop codons as identical function is like considering two of the three codons to be 'junk'.

    Nice try to weasel out. "Junk DNA" is a term with fixed meaning. Also, regarding the three stop codons as being functionally identical means to mean two of them to be redundant, not "junk" (which two of the three would be the junk?). Given the similarity of the three stop codons, I'd guess the redundancy provides some protection against mutations.

    I disproved the notion that 'synonymous' codons were interchangeable, in 1990, just about the time 'bioinformatics' was being coined. What I disproved was the basis for Anfinsen's Nobel Prize.

    The work you did in 1990 was the basis for Anfinsen's Nobel Prize in 1972? Yeah, sure. I guess you also invented the time machine?

    But nice try.

    Also, if you were working in the field, you'd for sure know what "junk DNA" means.

  18. Re:Why is this special on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 1

    If you managed to change the instruction set of your computer's CPU, I'm sure it would be Slashdot-worthy.

  19. Re:this is a big mistake on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should have at least read and understood the summary before posting. This is not about junk DNA.

  20. Re:Welcome back to 10 years ago on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 1

    Actually it's very widespread, as the mitochondria in every cell use a slightly different genetic code than the cell itself. So it's spread to every single cell.

  21. Re:this is amazing on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 1

    the growth culture contains things required for the transcription that aren't encoded in the organisms dna?
    that would be less scary and interesting.

    Unless they additionally added genetic code to produce the extra amino acid (which I don't believe we'd currently be able to, but then, I'm no geneticist), from my understanding that's exactly what they did.

  22. Re:$$ for software on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    I didn't see anyone claim that it is hard to learn. But that something is easy to learn does not mean that it is a good work environment.

    I'm sure Microsoft Bob was also quite easy to learn.

  23. Re:Of course... on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    Slavery and liberty?

    The total opposite of slavery (all of what you do is decided by others, there's no freedom) is not liberty, but lawlessness (all of what you do is decided by yourself, you are not restricted by any rule or law). Liberty is the healthy middle between slavery and lawlessness.

  24. Re:Has Slashdot ... on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    Since you are speaking about "the" thread, you must be talking about the one your post is in. Which you just started, and which at the time your post appeared had only that one post. So I conclude that your post is the most bizarre and weirdly disturbing post you've ever seen. ;-)

  25. Re:Even a Tea Party can be right occsionally on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    Transferring copyright for example to GNU [gnu.org] is mandatory when contributing, gives the project the flexibility to relicense in case an upgrade is in order (like GPLv2->GPLv3) and avoids having to hunt down all individual contributors in case a change in license is required.

    However the copyright transfer contract you sign with GNU explicitly restricts GNU from relicensing to non-free licenses. Does the Canonical contract also guarantee that?