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  1. Re:It's Open Source at least... on China's Government Unveils 'China Operating System' To Great Skepticism · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if 1989 counts as "ancient history" but it's a valid point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989#Death_toll

  2. Re:Private enterprise to the rescue on Thousands of Gas Leaks Discovered Under Streets of Washington DC · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting unregulated energy companies? craaazy. Pure profit unregulated oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear? oh god we would not survive a decade before being poisoned or blown up.

  3. Re:People must be free on Cartels Are Using Firetruck-Sized Drillers To Make Drug Pipelines · · Score: 1

    Who would protect your property rights then? If not the government then i'm guessing yourself. If that is so, who decides the appropriate response to a violation of an individuals property rights?

  4. Re:Overreach on The SEC Is About To Make Crowdfunding More Expensive · · Score: 1

    It is a bit more than that. The proposed rules also set limits to what is allowed. Last i read it was a $1mil max that can be raised by crowdfunding within a 12 month period. Any more would have to be done via traditional means. That rule alone vastly changes what crowdfunding can accomplish. There is also a limit to how much a citizen can fund based on their annual income. Last i saw it was a max of $2k funding for anyone making less than $100k yearly.

    You'd have to read the proposal to get more. Very little of the proposal is dedicated to ensuring "investors" are more informed. Most of the emphasis is placed on putting limits on what crowdfunding can do so that it cannot compete with traditional fund-raising methods. That and making the fundee's financials a lot more transparent. It greatly increased the overhead costs for small crowdfunding projects. You'd probably spend more on paperwork than the total cost of your project. That is a big sign about what the proposed rules are trying to accomplish.

  5. Re:Dear Nvidia... on Intel Releases 5,000 Pages of Open-Source Haswell Documentation · · Score: 2

    That's a trap. The mobo comes with integrated intel, yes. But in most cases the end user also has a discrete card. You can guess which one is actually used.

  6. Re:It's true! on Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users · · Score: 1

    She should probably visit a healthcare professional.

  7. Re: Node.js on Is Ruby Dying? · · Score: 1

    You paint with a very wide brush. Front-end development is still relatively new. Anyone who has been developing for a decade IS a back-end developer. If you have been keeping with the times then it means you started doing more and more front-end work (aka Javascript). Now there is so much on the front-end that it actually has to be organized properly and cared for. Javascript is no longer just a copy & paste language. Bad developers write bad code. The language is immaterial.

  8. Re:He's not "conceited". He's absolutely correct! on Is Ruby Dying? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bad language or not, it is already used heavily on the client-side. Using it server-side allows you to make use of the same objects without having to maintain things like validation logic in two languages. It also means that if you are using Karma or something similar for testing that you only need one testing framework. Otherwise you'd need two testing frameworks running. Switching gears from one language to the next isn't hard but going from strongly typed to dynamic often results in developers trying to strongly type their javascript or writing it in such a way that it becomes too rigid. Tests should be governing everything anyways, especially if it is TDD.

    My company is using C# on the back-end and javascript on the front. I write php+javascript at home though (and have experienced a life-time of derision from "professional" developers for it). I still write C/C++ for linux and embedded projects. Too many developers have decided their language is the best and everything else is horrible. When really, every language is covered in warts. Every language has (had) growing pains. Have you ever wondered why if your language is the best it is rarely used in all situations? That's because it's not the best tool for every job.

    Your kind is nothing new. Anyone who has a passion for programming runs into people with your attitude and just shrugs. It is almost like dealing with a form of bigotry.

  9. Re:Node.js on Is Ruby Dying? · · Score: 1

    lol, like you don't do that for C#? The language does not make the programmer.

  10. Re:Right On on Snowden Says His Mission Is Accomplished · · Score: 1

    Maybe if the President responded to this then Snowden would be home: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD

  11. Re:They have a good reason on Upload a Spoof Video, Go To Jail (In Dubai) · · Score: 2

    Kuwait was like that. The entire workforce was foreigners. BestBuys,Starbucks, and mansions in the middle of the desert. I saw several totaled luxury SUVs sitting on the side of highways. Guessing there was a wreck and instead of getting it repaired or dealing with it they just bought another. Not knocking them, just my observations.

  12. Re:Jailbreakingg on The iOS 7 Jailbreak Fiasco · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say that is anything new. Downloading and installing software from a shady site onto a computing device has been going on for decades.

  13. Re:That's funny on The iOS 7 Jailbreak Fiasco · · Score: 1

    Saying your friend had an Android is about as useful as saying your friend had a smartphone. Name a brand and a model and readers will actually pay your critique some attention.

  14. Re:Here's the missing video on Japanese SCHAFT Takes the Gold at DARPA Robot Challenge · · Score: 2

    That was great! I tried watching the full competition videos and it was just too painful. Watching a robot stare at a door for minutes at a time and moving so slow it could just be entropy.

  15. Re:No dude... on Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows · · Score: 1

    I think you're way off. The private sector did all the colluding by itself. US medical bills are just crazy. Sky high prescription prices because "the market" can pay it. Lol, they'll pay it or be in agony.

  16. Re:No. on Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You could always just build a cpu from scratch? http://www.homebrewcpu.com/

  17. Re:Firmware on How a MacBook Camera Can Spy Without Lighting Up · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure that's not how the FBI does it : )

  18. Re:Nethack on The Geekiest Game Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    May i ask your bay12 forum name?

  19. Re: And this is news? on NSA Able To Crack A5/1 Cellphone Crypto · · Score: 2

    I really have enjoyed the document by document approach. Especially when they are related. Document reveals X and implies Y. NSA says we can legally do X but we would never do Y. Two weeks later a new document that explains how they accomplish Y and they've been doing it for a decade. It is truly amusing!

  20. Re:Human Spirit be dammed on NASA Will Send Seeds to the Moon In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, i forgot my childhood lesson of "don't disturb the dust on airless moons and planets".

    But seriously, there is a difference between polluting the Earth and polluting the Moon. Not only is there nothing alive on the Moon. There will never be anything living on the moon unless humans put it there. If you are saying "The purity of the Moon must be kept!" then your principles are not something the majority of people would ever be interested in. I would rather see a giant corporate Disney theme park on the moon with Starbuck's coffee bulbs littering the moon-scape than a Moon that we cannot reach and left "pure".

  21. Re:If the material is mobilized in dust, on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    Spot on. You can brush beta-emitting particles off your hands and be fine. If you inhaled those same particles, you are boned.

  22. Re:and who is at fault when there is no driver in on Nissan Leaf Prototype Becomes First Autonomous Car On Japanese Highways · · Score: 1

    If you are in a no-fault State then it wouldn't matter. Just keep paying your insurance bill : )

  23. Re:Human Spirit be dammed on NASA Will Send Seeds to the Moon In 2015 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm sorry, is there some delicate ecosystem of dust on the moon that we should protect?

  24. Re:This is why on Property Managers Use DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders · · Score: 1

    Even since rescuing a cat i have not seen a spider or crawling insect in the house. Flying ones will occasionally show up but disappear quickly. Very efficient bug vacuum.

  25. Re:Need more mental health centers not prisons on A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime · · Score: 1

    Ah, you must have missed the rest of my post. Apologies : )
    If anyone is seen by someone even capable of diagnosing schizophrenia and it didn't take three referrals and several months of persistence on the patient's part then everyone would call bullshit.
    Which appears to be the exact response to Brandon's "diagnosis".