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  1. It doesn't matter on Ask Slashdot: Learning Dart Development? · · Score: 1

    "You are not defined by your chosen software stack: I recently asked via Twitter what young engineers wanted to know about careers. Many asked how to know what programming language or stack to study. It doesn’t matter. There you go."

  2. Re:Who cares? on Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior · · Score: 1

    fbcdn.net
    sorry. typo.

  3. Re:Who cares? on Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior · · Score: 1

    fbcd.net needs to be added there as well.

  4. Who cares? on Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior · · Score: 1

    They don't need cookies anyway. There are a lot of other ways to track you without a cookie. As long as we download all those "like" buttons from the webpages we visit they get to track us. The cookie would just make the tracking a little bit easier.

  5. Apple lost in Dutch court, not the opposite on Dutch Court Says Android 2.3 Violates Apple Patents · · Score: 5, Informative

    No matter what alarmists will tell you, net result is:

            Samsung can continue to sell current Galaxy phones and must provide a trivial change to the picture gallery in the next 7 weeks.
            Samsung can continue to sell the Gaöaxy Tab.
            Apple has LOST all design and copyright related claims.
            Apple has LOST the infringement claim on one patent and the court deemed a third patent broken anyway.

    http://jan.wildeboer.net/2011/08/samsung-v-apple-in-nl-happy-selling-samsung/ [cache]

  6. Blocking with DNS does not work on Argentina Censors Over a Million Blogs · · Score: 1

    A fake DNS record, or a NX domain for leakymails.blogspot.com would be easily circumvented simply by using opendns, the google dns, or any other DNS server out there.
    Firewalling the IP is much more secure.
    Sure, one could use a proxy, tor or an SSH tunnel to some box outside of the firewall, but that's much more work.
    Not that I think that censoring sites is a good idea, just discussing the technical details.

  7. Re:Interactivity with jQuery? on Flash-to-HTML5 Translator: Smart But Not Pretty · · Score: 1

    I thought jQuery was for distributing operations over the DOM using a CSS-like element selection syntax.

    it's not. it's a JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions.

  8. Re:Sigh on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Consider on Auditors Question TSA's Tech Spending, Security Solutions · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Sad ... on Apache Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Most people do not use this project" when everyone doing Android development indirectly uses it.

    Google should pay up for J2ME if they want to use Java on Android, or invent their own language (they should use Go on android if they don't want to pay for a Java license).
    And exactly as the parent sad, This has nothing to do with Apache's wonderful libraries.

  11. Re:Speak for yourself on Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    so it don't help them none other than counting webpage popularity, which don't bother me.

    you are wrong

  12. Re:Speak for yourself on Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    that only blocks cookies. the like button is on fackebooks server, which gets the hit and tracks you anyway.

  13. Re:Welcome to hell on An Illustrated Version Control Timeline · · Score: 1

    very easy :)
    you have to thinker a bit if you want to have multiple projects with one installation, but nothing that takes more than ½ an hour.

  14. Re:Welcome to hell on An Illustrated Version Control Timeline · · Score: 1

    Our .NET devs like it. I prefer the more simple trac+svn (I do small Java projects with my team).
    Why do you hate TFS?

  15. Re:Suicide? The end of java. on Oracle To Monetize Java VM · · Score: 1

    Note that Microsoft heavily licences java to use in C#

    [citation needed]

  16. Re:hmm on Microsoft Outlines Windows Phone 7 Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    wha? they can only take away app store stuff - not everything.

    Who sad that? If they can remove an app from your phone, what makes you think they are limited at that?

  17. Re:Now, "Google Maps Live!" on Boeing Gets $89M To Build Drone That Can Fly For 5 Years Straight · · Score: 1

    I think they already have them. Or something very similar.

  18. Re:Inflation on Apple Exec Stashed $150,000 In Shoe Boxes · · Score: 1

    Depends. If inflation goes down, i.e. becomes negative, as shown in your graph too, you win.
    Some say inflation will be negative in the years to come in the USA.

  19. Re:Opinions are a crime now? on Tor Developer Detained At US Border, Pressed On Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    America is at war. I think America pissed off a lot of countries, and it gives me the impression that it is scared and full of fear.
    I am European, and went to a trip to Las Vegas last year to have some fun. When I landed in Chicago we (all EU citizens who landed there) had our fingerprints taken, and they took a picture of all passengers. I think it's crazy. What does your government want to accomplish doing so? If you come to the EU you just land, (sometimes you don't even) get you passport checked and you are done.

    BTW, I really enjoyed my stay, Las Vegas is a great place to have fun, get drunk and play poker, an most American people there where really nice.

  20. Re:Question on Adobe Putting PDF Reader In a Sandbox · · Score: 1

    Adding extra crap is the reason that it has so many security flaws.

    Just because you think it's crap doesn't mean it's useless.

  21. Mocking DuckDuck Go on Google Offers Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    Looks like google is just mocking DuckDuckGo.
    But the use of SSL on google does not offer you privacy: google still knows who you are and what you searched for.

  22. Re:Jasig CAS - OpenSSO Alternative on Oracle Shuttering OpenSSO · · Score: 1

    Why not use Jasig CAS instead?

    CAS somehow forces an architecture on you. Other IAM proveders like OpenSSO do not, integrating with what you have without forcing you to adapt to what they propose.

  23. Re:"Perfect"??? on Researchers Claim "Effectively Perfect" Spam Blocking Discovery · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a final solution: ...

    Your post advocates a
    (x) technical ( ) legislative (x) market-based ( ) vigilante

    approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)

    ( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
    (x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
    ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
    ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
    ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
    (x) Users of email will not put up with it
    ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
    ( ) The police will not put up with it
    ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
    (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
    (x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
    ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
    (x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

    Specifically, your plan fails to account for

    ( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
    (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
    ( ) Open relays in foreign countries
    ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
    ( ) Asshats
    (x) Jurisdictional problems
    (x) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
    ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
    ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
    ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
    ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
    ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
    ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
    (x) Extreme profitability of spam
    ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
    ( ) Technically illiterate politicians
    ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
    ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
    ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
    ( ) Outlook

    and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

    (x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
    ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
    ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
    ( ) Blacklists suck
    ( ) Whitelists suck
    ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
    ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
    ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
    (x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
    (x) Sending email should be free
    ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
    ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
    ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
    ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
    ( ) I don't want the government reading my email
    ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

    Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

    (X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
    ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
    ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!

  24. Re:Large Hardon Collider could corrupt civilisatio on Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All · · Score: 1

    i love how you comment was modded +5: Offtopic. This is slashdot :)

  25. Re:Tear down on France Tells Its Citizens To Abandon IE, Others Disagree · · Score: 4, Funny

    The main thing to keep in mind is that these attacks go beyond Internet Explorer and that simply switching browsers is not an adequate defense.

    This is completely absurd FUD.

    It's not. What they say is exactly correct: hat these attacks go beyond Internet Explorer and that simply switching browsers is not an adequate defense.
    FF has flaws too. An adequate defense would be to install McAfee© VirusScan Plus, McAfee© Total Protection, McAfee© Online Backup, McAfee© SiteAdvisor Plus and McAfee© Anti-Theft File Protection.
    There! *NOW* you are protected!