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  1. Re:From a fan of bash... on C Beats Java As Number One Language According To TIOBE Index · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I think it also has a lot to do with how much reference is needed for a particular language. Bash, perl and PHP are all odd ducks. Searching for things about them are more indicative of how messed up their syntax is, rather than a measure of their usage.

  2. Re:Glare of death on Now You Can Control Any Win 8 Kit With Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    Or if you show the lenovo a one fingered salute.

  3. Re:Just pay the son on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 1

    I continue to pay them until they stop asking for money, especially if the victim is dead. I mean, they just killed someone for money, what are the odds they won't do it again?

  4. Re:Why should I have trusted these people? on Turkish Registrar Enabled Phishing Attacks Against Google · · Score: 1

    I think that's the wrong line of thought which isn't very productive. I think the correct observation is that the end user isn't given an importunity to select what level of trust they want to have in which CA's by default.

    It would make more sense upon instillation of a browser/os/whatever to select how trustworthy you want to be, with the following selections:

    Trust most popular CA's.
    Trust most Trusted CA's
    Trust regionally trusted CA's
    Trust all CA's that are globally trusted ( the default right now)

  5. Re:I've had the opposite experience.... on Adobe and Apple Didn't Unit Test For "Forward Date" Bugs. Do You? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's happened to me. Shouldn't that just work, though. I mean unless you've invented time travel, why wouldn't you accept a cert that's before its validity period? Is there a vulnerability use case that I'm not aware of?

  6. Re:The real question is on Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    Id like a plain gnu/Linux on my phone.

  7. Re:Many of us welcome true mobile computing... on Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    they just announced it. From what I understand, it will be ready to try in a year or so.

  8. Re:When you vote them out of office? on Patent Troll Targeting Users of Scanners; Wants $1000/Employee · · Score: 1

    I love the naive assumption that what we have is the worst possible outcome, and by choosing people at random we'll automatically arrive at a different result.

  9. Re:First Time on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    Except that's not even close to being true. The two largest expenditures are Military and Social Security. Not subsidies to green energy, PBS, or any other favorite target of the math challenged.

  10. Re:Fiscal Cliff? on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    Yeah it would be exactly like that, if the government had as little power over the economy as a middle class family. But of course it has much more power than that, so its options are greater than that of the family.

    Creating shitty analogies never solved any problem.

  11. Re:Ubuntu vs Android on Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what is the difference between a tablet and a fully fledged PC? My first response would be that it could run raw linux apps without re-codoing them significantly.

  12. Re:Ug... a modest fee to create more space junk... on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Microsatellite? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely! While I support doing things just to learn and have fun. You really shouldn't launch junk into orbit just because its cool. It messes with things that are actually doing stuff.

    Its the equivalent of running seti@home on a heavily loaded production server: stupid.

  13. Re:nuclear "green" energy on Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    I really don't understand people who care that much about the appearance of wind turbines. We need power, and those are a good sources in many places. A round here, they've put the wind farms in existing farmland. No deforestation, just extra energy. The nuclear power plant nearby is actually more visible from a greater distance somehow. Maybe geology?

  14. Re:R; apt-get install r-base on Ask Slashdot: Replacing a TI-84 With Software On a Linux Box? · · Score: 2

    Professional support? What kind of a developer needs professional support for an open sourced language? Hire-able instructors?

  15. Re:I think you missd a word on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 1

    I would argue, but a response like the one you posted is so absurdly confident in its own correctness that it doesn't leave room for sensible debate.

  16. Re:I think you missd a word on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think that its a bit simplistic to exclude it. Some events do actually have multiple causes. The real world is complex, and rarely aligns with a fox news soundbite.

  17. Re:With Regard to Microsoft? I Have One Bit of Adv on Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS · · Score: 1

    Hey! Some of us just like kicking things that can't kick back. Its oddly cathartic in a way.

  18. Re:Pay Decrease? on Python Creator Guido van Rossum Leaves Google For Dropbox · · Score: 1

    No one can really answer that except for Guido and/or dropbox. I think my favorite job I've ever had paid the least. If I was comfortable enough finacially, I'd go back to it.

  19. Re:Pay Decrease? on Python Creator Guido van Rossum Leaves Google For Dropbox · · Score: 1

    Money isn't everything to everyone. If you were being paid $500.00 per hour to shovel out a barn, wouldn't you take a job that offered something more fun like programing with python even if it paid $490.00 per hour?

  20. Re:Two words: on Advertising May Soon Follow You From One Device To the Next · · Score: 1

    I'm just saying that the system being devised by this ex google engineer isn't really that spooky for most people ( who I think are like me) that already don't mind being tracked. I mean its kind of scary,but I think I'm adjusting to a world where real privacy as we used to think of it doesn't really exist. Between google and amazon, they know where I go, do, see and what I buy. So far those companies have done a good job not sharing that in a publically accesible way. Facebook, on the other hand, has in the past. Which is why I don't share anything meaning ful there.

  21. Product A is evil, it will give you herpes. your wife. Therefore, instead of product A, I recommend product B which will only kill your first born child.

    Why choose between two bad solutions instead of trying to find a good solution?

  22. Inorder for any currency to be viable, you must have two parties willing to agree on the exchange medium. Increasing the number of people willing to use it as an exchange medium increases its utility as a currency.

  23. Well, I'm not a sucker. Therefore, I will not use bitcoin. It seems to me that a plan that requires more suckers to sign up in order for it to be viable is not a good plan. Sounds like a scheme resembling ancient monuments of some kind. Possibly ziggurat...

  24. Re:Two words: on Advertising May Soon Follow You From One Device To the Next · · Score: 1

    Does it matter? I'm logged in to google almost 24/7 on all devices. I think Google has a pretty good idea its me when serving up its ads. Almost all tech ads, very few video games, pharmecutical or fashion products.

  25. Lots of places. on Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? · · Score: 1

    Any where there is an industry that needs to be computerised, but isn't one where massive gains in computing power would improve the bottome line: any kind of insurance, Retail POS systems, Accounting systems, ect. In some places you'll have web front end connected to a back end java system that queues and proxies the request back to the mainframe which runs a virtualized instance of an older mainframe that sends a file to a different older mainframe system that generates a print out in a back office where some guy takes it and manually faxes it to a different branch for processing.