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  1. Re:Common knowledge on C++ the Clear Winner In Google's Language Performance Tests · · Score: 1

    Are you me in another life? I'll just link to this when I make the same exact statements (down to years professionally developing && the languages - which admittedly is linked to the previous).

  2. Re:This? on Is This the Golden Age of Hacking? · · Score: 1

    20 turns by default - Civ III. Hey, you asked :)

  3. Re:Hacking vs Cracking on Is This the Golden Age of Hacking? · · Score: 1

    As others have said, proponents of this should give up convincing "the mainstream". The word will eventually swing somewhere else after this as well. Repeatedly performing the same action and expecting a different action is just gay. I think that's how the quote went ...

  4. Re:I think they might need to offer more money on Metasploit Launches Exploit Bounty Program · · Score: 1

    Not california or new england. But, would work in the south.

  5. Re:Crypto background on Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    I don't remember, I just watched MST3K back then .. and now to i guess :).

  6. Re:Dead polar bears on Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    What about the kittens, the public wants to know?

  7. Re:Will it have sharks with friggin' lasers??? on Steve Jobs: the Comic Book · · Score: 1

    Or maybe Lex Luther. Or a hairless Fu Manchu. But, yes ... the artist did capture his evilness quite well.

  8. Re:WeinerGate on Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords · · Score: 1

    Well, just as long my account: asdf@asdf.com is still safe.

  9. Re:Shouldn't that be platform neutral? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Support In Universities? · · Score: 1

    Another story where lynx saves the day!

  10. Re:Define "foreign"? non-IMF on International Monetary Fund Hit By Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    Poor people/countries (e.g. countries that don't own significant shares in IMF's banking system or ones that don't take their "advice"). Fuck em' and fuck their "let the free hand reign" bullshit. All the free market means is free money for those that already have it.

  11. Re:What's good for the goose on US Funding Stealth Internets to Circumvent Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    Related; currently, DoD contractors are working on troposphere type comms equipment (again). Its just an adjunct to SATCOM. But, one benefit is the difficulty of man in the middle attacks (so, getting the trans/recv align perfectly matters to for bandwidth).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_scatter

  12. Re:Does trademark derivation affect ownership? on Google Sued Over Chromebook Name · · Score: 1

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    OMG! What happened to swillden?!? I bet he was going to say something related to inside knowledge he has, e.g: I'm Currently Consulting for Google's "First Born" Project. The reason I mention that name is because I'

  13. Superman Anyone? on Google Sued Over Chromebook Name · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the Superman rights/trademark issue. Where he has to be trademarked in every domain (comics, movies, clothing, toys, etc...). PC machines vs OS. And yes, sometimes it creates stupid scenarios such as this. A nd, with Superman, sounds like DC/WB have their hands full now (well, the specific issue at hand has been going on a while). Possible scenarios are say the original creators controlling his looks, DC controlling the name. From a forum (so salt and all that):

    *The blue and white, electrically-powered Superman of the 1990s was created for precisely this reason. In case the families won the rights to the intellectual property of Superman, they would have to change Superman's look and powers. So the electrical Superman was created as a back-up in case this happened, because DC would still own his name but not his image.

    *The names Superman and Superboy, or the Superman costume have never been used in the Smallville TV series.

    *Superboy was killed off in Infinite Crisis, and Superboy Prime was re-named Superman Prime. This happened at a time when a ruling against DC made it look like they would lose the Superboy copyright.

    posted: bigbadbruce on: http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/web/thread.jspa?threadID=2000245076&start=34

    News:
    http://www.movieweb.com/news/man-of-steel-legal-issues-could-split-superman-franchise-in-two
    http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/05/28/what%E2%80%99s-in-the-marc-toberoff-%E2%80%93-superman-stolen-document/

  14. Re:Huh on Google Sued Over Chromebook Name · · Score: 1

    As others pointed out, you have to trademark in each industry. Still, in this case it's pretty stupid.

  15. Re:Palin is a Genius to her Fans on State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' · · Score: 0

    But she will be even more easy to control/manipulate behind the scenes than previous idiots. THEY love idiotic attention whores, and she is the perfect yes man.

  16. You need to work some flash in there (with random public comments on, of course) and you'll be set.

  17. Psych Anal - Palin & Friends on State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' · · Score: 1

    So the mom/dad finally forced the obnoxious kid to give you the lollipop that was legally yours to begin with. Printing is them licking (or worse) that lollipop before handing it over.

  18. Re:Not anti-intellectualism on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 1

    Sort of reaffirms my belief, I would hire you based what you'd said more than specific language experience (which can be taught). However, domain experience is still important (unfortunately, sometimes treated as the only important aspect). It can get down right silly .. sort of like this real ad posting, with the game - e.g. search term - cut out:

    Requirements: [...snip...] Candidate should be proficient with C++ programming, DLL development and have direct [Obscure Game] programming skills. Candidate should be a knowledgeable scripter in [Obscure Game] and other COTS game engines. Experience with the implementation of simulation algorithms is also required and experience with [Even more Obscure and New API to Obscure Game] is preferred.

    I found it when searching for info on that API in the posting. Along with other requirements, that's probably only a handful of people that even KNOW of the API. [Hell, it was even in my home town. Which could be why google served it up to me.] I've noticed it's already be revised somewhat. It just shows the disconnect between HR and the technical minded people that would work with this new recruit.

  19. Re:I know it may sound insensitive on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    >> My university uses the silly initials+serial number scheme to create email addresses

    Your serial number is "2"? Wow, you are old. You must have gotten on slashdot back in 1000s day just to see what these youngsters were doing.

  20. Re:Delete it on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    Damnit, I was so curious, now I know things like "'razorgrind', a combination of grindcore with death metal, stoner rock and metalcore" .. I think that was written in Latin. Man wikipedia, why does so much "music" count as notable? A myspace page != notable. And, of course, I learned a new Portuguese word.

    Lift me up o' great skycrane
    Like a statue upon dome
    I will preach freedom
    Leading the criminals home

    ### if you find connections in that *cough* poem with what I wrote above, well .. I'm sorry you are as insane as me.

  21. Re:More clueless RMSery on Stallman: eBooks Are Attacking Our Freedoms · · Score: 1

    Face it, by even being on slashdot, you are the not the average Kindle user. That is also the problem with Stallman, most people that will even hear him out, probably know a way to circumvent the whole "ecosystem" to begin with. Stallman wants to be talking to the Mom's and Grandpa's of the world; but they think RMS is something only a EE would be interested in (and they are right on all counts).

  22. Re:Come on, guys on Facebook Facial Recognition Raises New Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Religion/atheism/etc is just another categorical mechanism to separate the masses (sometimes with injection attacks) so that they don't form a solid, defensible, and viable alternative. Typical divide and conquer. Who is our next enemy? It's not Nazi, Commusnist, Drugs, but Terrorists now? Who is it? Bow before the Almighty Corp, they will help guide you. And if inclined, will trickle our riches down to you.

    The devil is real; usually you can tell by the (R) or (D) next to their name :).

    I somehow resisted going full Godwin.

  23. Re:Ooh! Ooh! on Man Tries to Patent His "Godly Powers" · · Score: 1

    +1

  24. Re:Ooh! Ooh! on Man Tries to Patent His "Godly Powers" · · Score: 1

    Your argument to him is to ... read the Bible? Are you sure you're on the right site? One has to accept (and this is from other humans now) that the Bible is the Word (or allegorical story or drug induced vision or spiced up genealogy record) of God for them to even care about what the Bible says what happened in the 3 days. Could it just be that a Jewish offshoot cult was into numerology too (along with the 12,40, etc)? Maybe the answer isn't in your book, but how people have acted as groups through out all of history.

  25. Re:Come on, guys on Facebook Facial Recognition Raises New Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    So, he sounds like every other CEO then? And yes, God damn him .what-ever God he/she/it/tree/puma may be. Yes, even atheists (is there adeists?). Turns out, one of God's persona's is a big George Carlin fan (and others of his ilk), and well .. let say just he gets to bring the chops.