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  1. Re:lead balloon on AllSeen Alliance Wants To Open-Source the 'Internet of Things' · · Score: 1

    it's no less (or more) secure than using your smartphone for anything else.

    While your point is well made, I have to say that you chose a very unfortunate example for comparison.

  2. Re:PHP / Quanta on KDE Releases KDevelop 4.6 · · Score: 1

    I used to love ActiveState Komodo IDE for PHP, back in version 6. They did some redesign for V7+ that just killed performance, though. 'What does performance have to do with IDEs', one may ask. Massive input lag, and the like. It's that bad.

    Sad, too. It was great.

  3. Don't forget antithesists, who believe in arguing about everything.

    We do not!

    Whoops, time's up.

  4. Re:Hard to take CM privacy concerns seriously on CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption · · Score: 1

    That's not what the mailing list said. And no, the current offerings don't come even close to pdroid, or "enough", for that matter. It's pitiful theater at best.

  5. Hard to take CM privacy concerns seriously on CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Even before the buyout, the CM team refused patches to basically integrate pdroid into the mod, for fear of "angering developers." So even if something like this works, all the bad guys have to do is hit up the app market for the data it's sucking up anyway.

  6. Re:Locked down tighter than a CEO's wallet on The Quest To Build Xbox One and PS4 Emulators · · Score: 2

    FSVO "usable" depending on what game and how popular it is. (Disclaimer: This information is ~ 1.5 years old. YMMV)

    The big problem with PCSX2 is that it was written with only two threads, and then cpu growth went horizontal (more cores) instead of keeping vertical (faster cores), so if it's not a popular game that gets its own tweaks (Final Fantasy anything, Persona, etc) you can be using a major beefy box that could run Skyrim on "ultra" while running a Xubuntu VM, and you're still going to have a bad time trying to play the original Ratchet and Clank.

    Of course, rewriting the thing would be a massive undertaking, so I kind of gave up on watching it. Sad, really, considering the awesome library of PS2 games out there.

  7. Re:They are scared on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    You still maintain weight if you take in less calories than you're burning.

    And how, exactly, do you determine that with any accuracy? Sure, you've got the BMR formula that's essentially worked from averages, but we don't come born with a gauge that tells us what we've burned, or that when we drop caloric intake 33%, whether our body is thriving, or has dropped its BMR by 30% to compensate.

    And no, I'm not being snarky here. This is exactly the problem I've run into recently. I changed my diet and dropped my caloric intake, sharply. According to the smug "calories in < calories out, simple as that" philosophy, I should have been melting weight off like a mo-fo. Instead, I just felt like I had to sleep for 13 hours a day - and I don't mean I felt lazy. I mean I came home from a normal work day feeling like I did when I used to do a 24-hours straight crunch session.

     

  8. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    Protein (and it takes more calories to burn protein than any other calorie)

    Is this right? I seem to remember (admittedly, this was nearly 20 years ago now) that fat and protein were about equal, and that carbs burned much easier. IIRC, the ratio was about 4:9:9.

  9. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    It is funny how for every fad diet there are tons of people who say it worked for them. That seems to be proof right there that whatever it is that works must be common to all of the diets.

    There are also tons of people who say it didn't. Of course, the response from the proponents of the diet in question (be it Atkins, South Beach, Banana Splits, whatever) is just like Agile development: if it didn't work, you didn't do it right.

    I wouldn't say that's 'proof' that there needs to be a common factor, so much as evidence that there's quite a bit of variation in individual metabolisms.

  10. Re:A fine example of the problem on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    No. Calories in, calories burned, calories stored, calories "lost" (to excretion). Human metabolism is not a closed system. Biology.

  11. Re:FSVO "about" on Two Supermassive Black Holes About To Embrace · · Score: 2

    I've never been able to wrap my brain around it, probably because of the aforementioned "absolutist" mindset.

    I can see how an event being outside of any real sphere of effect makes it irrelevant to us for 3.8 billion years, but saying it didn't happen until it's been observed happening just sounds like an internet troll to me.

  12. Re:FSVO "about" on Two Supermassive Black Holes About To Embrace · · Score: 1

    That's rather solipsistic, isn't it?

  13. Re:B'OH! on Ask Slashdot: Application Security Non-existent, Boss Doesn't Care. What To Do? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He said CC and he meant it. Part of the logic (he even said it explicitly) is that the boss sees "Oh crap, now all these other people in the company know what's going on, and will be watching to see what I do about it."

  14. Re:Man invents new Security Camera! on R2-D2: Mall Cop · · Score: 1

    Until a third grader eats his pop tart in the wrong sequence of bites.

  15. Re:More Fun To Tip Than Cows on R2-D2: Mall Cop · · Score: 1

    I'd be content with a very satisfying "thump."

  16. Re:ZeroCoin on RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    That's where the "up to" comes in. ;)

  17. Re:ZeroCoin on RMS Calls For "Truly Anonymous" Payment Alternative To Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    To alter the old aphorism:

    Sane, personable, capable: Select up to two.

  18. Re:Sniff test on Encrypted Social Network Vies For Disgruntled Facebook Users · · Score: 1

    However there is nothing about this that changes the fact that you still have expenses such as those that I have listed.

    Nothing but fact was even relevant. I didn't say anything about your personal views or charitable donations. I said that the implication in your original post, that it's inevitable because of "laws of economics" mean that every "free" service is going to find some way to be monetized -- probably abusively -- is flawed.

    The end is likely correct, that they will be, but that's not because of laws of economics, but because of a pervasive culture of greed. For some reason, we can't seem to come to terms with letting something exist without slapping dollar signs all over it.

  19. Re:"potentially unwanted programs" on Bitcoin Miners Bundled With PUPs In Legitimate Applications Backed By EULA · · Score: 1

    Run Minecraft!

  20. Re:Incorrect on Bitcoin Miners Bundled With PUPs In Legitimate Applications Backed By EULA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think you underestimate the time needed to generate a bitcoin.

  21. Re:Sniff test on Encrypted Social Network Vies For Disgruntled Facebook Users · · Score: 1

    You can't operate an expense without a source of income. The laws of economics require that you have income to cover expenses.

    Your reasoning disregards altruism as a concept. Nothing says that the source of income and the expense have to be the same thing.

  22. Re:broken record on Washington Post: Assange 'Unlikely To Be Prosecuted In US' · · Score: 1

    You're right. I did choose the wrong word. I did, in fact, mean "immunity." Thank you.

    Except you missed one large set of people who are often granted immunity: people offering testimony or evidence against bigger offenders. It's hardly a stretch to fit him into that pigeonhole.

  23. Re:'trust' on Washington Post: Assange 'Unlikely To Be Prosecuted In US' · · Score: 1

    Which suggests that accountability may be more important, but openness is more fundamental (since it's a necessary precondition for accountability).

  24. Re:So why don't they have proportional # of bathro on Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Better question: Why does my office have one male bathroom and one female bathroom (very small company), when they're both single-occupancy?

  25. Re:And? on Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Apparently, their cultures do not divert women from these jobs the way Western or American culture does.

    I think that's a big assumption. It could equally be that Western/American culture lets females get more for less, in terms of success, so few of them bother to put in the work to make their bones. Or it could be that women are more sensitive to cultural trends that have nothing to do with gender - the devaluing of intellectual pursuits in men AND women, e.g. There are a lot of unknowns here.