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  1. Re:I have an idea for the style guide on Why Microsoft Developers Need a Style Guide · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you failed to notice that emacs can do all those things as well. (I don't know about vi, it probably also can.)

    Anyway, if your IDE can make better decisions than you can, the language you are writting on needs too many decisions. If some piece of software can make decisions about it, decide it on the compiler, and stop nagging the programers.

  2. Re:You can't negotiate WRONG on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 1

    if the company doesn't want to renegotiate the contract then the OP is free to go to another job.

    There, FIFY.

  3. Re:TALK to them on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 1

    If he is any good, he will get another job, and live you now (in the near future), also, he'll not be motivated, and maybe his productivity and work quality will go down if you refuse.

    Compare that with a happy person, that likes working for you, but may, or may not live you in a few years.

    What kind of person chooses the former? (I was going to say a sociopat, but no, sociopats are interested in increasing their own gain.)

  4. Re:Huh? on Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home? · · Score: 1

    Order your folders by year. And separate on different folders what must live for 1, 5, or 10 years (it will be already separated if you order your documents by subject). Now all the trouble of discarding the unneded paper means only going into your cabinet, and discarding the contents of a few folders.

  5. Re:ScanSnap on Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home? · · Score: 1

    And the best part is that you are currently rated +3 (nothing - just underrated), while the GP with practical advice is stuck at 0.

    I can't blame you or the mods, since I share this feeling. But well, it makes no sense.

  6. Re:Remember - GUNs don't kill People... on Bad Guys Use Open Source, Too · · Score: 1

    Well, if you ever see a gnu hurd comming your way, run away! As fast as you can!

  7. Re:Have you ever tried to switch from GoDaddy?? on Wikipedia Hasn't Forgiven GoDaddy · · Score: 1

    There was, but it was deemed not relevant, and erased.

  8. Re:To be fair... on Wikipedia Hasn't Forgiven GoDaddy · · Score: 1

    Why would anybody use GD for hosting?

  9. Re:To be fair... on Wikipedia Hasn't Forgiven GoDaddy · · Score: 1

    When two or more people met, everything they do is political. There is no possible modern meaning different from that.

    But, of course, that also puts in a ridiculous light the people complaining that Wikipedia is being political. Of course it is. Choosing GD was also a political move, ditto for deciding to host pages.

    Now, of course, that assumes we need one more reason for ridicularizing people that complain that NGOs are acting in a political way. I would disagree here.

  10. Re:To be fair... on Wikipedia Hasn't Forgiven GoDaddy · · Score: 1

    You don't own a business do you?

    That "I don't want your money, because you already demonstrated that if I start to work contrary to your interest you'll stop giving me your money" is ridiculous. If you want a hint, when you start a business don't act contrary to your clients' interest. They don't like it.

  11. Re:forgivness on Wikipedia Hasn't Forgiven GoDaddy · · Score: 1

    True, but public opinion isn't changed by the fact that 0.2% of the vote went to Generic Third Party #17. Not even a little bit.

    I understand that US elections are doomed by that one turn only thing... But even then you are looking at things in an inverted way. It is the pool that must change because of public opinion, not the other way around.

    By the way, are your elections for Congress also not representative? Because that is the most important vote you have (yeah, even at the US).

  12. Re:SOPA isn't the only reason GoDaddy sucks on Wikipedia Hasn't Forgiven GoDaddy · · Score: 2

    the only thing it eventually led to is a blog posting by the CEO calling Guantanamo Bay an "important asset" to protect Americans

    Thus GD does support waterboarding. I was expecting that to be FUD.

  13. Re:A better question may be on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    You can do that with Debian for half a decade already.

  14. A better question may be on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And what will Linux do that Windows 8 doesn't when Win8 finally gets on the market?

    Or maybe:

    When will people start to care about paying for low quality products when hight quality ones are free?

  15. I've heard that before... on Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM · · Score: 1

    It's hard to under-emphasize just how huge a change that is.

    I've heard that phrase before, from MS. Last times they've said that, they couldn't release and the product flopped.

    When is their release date again?

  16. Re:Blame Napster on File Sharing In the Post MegaUpload Era · · Score: 2

    Things never happened this way, why do you think the ones in-the-know will start behaving like that now?

    People will create new channels, only the in-the-know will use them at first. But they'll pass the secret to their friends, and that will be welcome, since those friends will bring new stuff. Then suddenly, by the power of exponential growth, the channel will be big, and lawyers will take notice. Just before that new channels will be created, and just a few will be in-the know...

    That is how it has even been, there is no reason for that to change now.

  17. Re:Why? on No More SSL Revocation Checking For Chrome · · Score: 1

    Treat it like plain text http in every way. Do the cookie go through http?

  18. Re:If only... on Nouveau Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Achieves OpenCL Support · · Score: 1

    I really do not know how much the community contributed to the open source drivers. But at least AMD got some market share in exchange for doing that work. And if they open source their programmable interface you can bet they'll get some more market.

  19. Re:What if... on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    Of course, if there have been a murder, and some encrypted file is the only evidence the police has against their suspect, investigators aren't making any effort at all. Is there any body to be found, or was the dead person a game character?

  20. Re:Is this experiment about gravity or electricity on Water Droplets In Orbit On the International Space Station · · Score: 1

    Of course electricity can make things orbit. Anything that pushes stuff toghether can make things orbit.

    Also, if that something pushes with a force that doesn't change with the 1/r^2 that gravity and electricity do, you can create some quite interesting orbits. Try a string sometime.

  21. Re:All about energy on Water Droplets In Orbit On the International Space Station · · Score: 1

    Earth's scape velocity is 10.735 km/s at the Equator. A 100kg men (an obese one) would need 5,8e9 J for reaching that speed, or a bit less than 171 liters of gasoline. (Isn't Wikipedia great? There is a XKCD about that.)

    Of course, if you ever intent to get there by a rocket, that need will increase a lot (except if it is nuclear). Also, if you intent to actualy use gasoline on your rocket, you can already forget it.

  22. Re:It's called a "trusted middlemen" on Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack · · Score: 1

    A user sending important data for somebody that he shouldn't trust does not make a man-in-the-middle. At most, if you assume malicious intent, it can be a social engineering atack.

  23. Re:It's called a "trusted middlemen" on Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack · · Score: 1

    Well, if you use Facebook, you do trust them.

  24. Re:It's called a "trusted middlemen" on Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack · · Score: 1

    It means that they are not just any kind of middleman, but a trusted one. Have you take even a glance on the meaning of the word "trusted"? Your ISP isn't a trusted middleman for your email services if you encript it, but it is if you don't encrypt.

  25. Re:Remember on Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack · · Score: 1

    Slashdot just surprized me last week with a better crop of ads :) I even clicked on them... The first time in several years.

    Anyway, it is quite obvious that /. and Facebook are ad supported. Do you think there is somebody that doesn't know that already?