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  1. Re:It will probably tighten up standards... on Could the Volkswagen Cheating Scandal Improve Emissions Standards? (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 2

    Where's the "MOOO" guy when he'd actually be on-topic?

  2. Re:Also in the news on 15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Amex used to let you generate a one-shot CC number for any given transaction.
    It was called "Private Payments".

    I wish they still had it.

  3. There ain't no sanity clause!!! on In Turnabout, SunTrust Removes Contentious Severance Clause (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Stated Intent Means Virtually Nothing on In Turnabout, SunTrust Removes Contentious Severance Clause (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    As Darl McBride said, "Contracts are what you use against people that you have a relationship with."

  5. Re:I've been waiting for this! on Quantum Theory Experiment Said to Prove "Spooky" Interactions (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Said armada will, due to a scaling error, be promptly eaten by a small dog.

  6. Re:Bad Habits? on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I did that on a different project (thought it was for supporting documentation... see my other comment on this story)

  7. Re:Bad Habits? on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    I once saw source code for a library, written in Ada that had the following "feature".

    Since Ada code is "self documenting", each routine had a block comment documenting said routine. The block comment was LITERALLY a copy of the routine, commented out...

    e.g.:


    -- procedure body f is
    -- begin
    --TEXT_IO.PUT_STRING('Hello world');
    --TEXT_IO.PUT_LINE;
    -- end f;
    procedure body f is
    begin
    TEXT_IO.PUT_STRING('Hello world');
    TEXT_IO.PUT_LINE;
    end f;

  8. Re:Documentation on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I was once loaned to a project... About 50K lines of UYK-20 assembly code.

    Somebody had specified the pseudo-code (PDL) as a deliverable. They had a team of 5 guys reverse engineering the assembly and trying to write PDL.

    I got brought in to automate the process if possible. We wound up generating a ton of PDL that read something like:

    SET THE CONTENTS OF REGISTER 2 TO THE CONTENTS OF REGISTER 1

    and so forth. On the other hand, all block comments, etc... in the source were preserved. It wound up generating a 3 foot tall stack of fan-fold, but the Army was happy.

  9. Re:Longest Time Gazing At Navel While Being Americ on Space-Time: Scott Kelly Breaks Time-Aloft Record For US Astronauts (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    She's already been there? I thought she was just going one of these days....

  10. Re:Not new. on Learning To Fly, With a Full-Size Cockpit Simulator · · Score: 1

    Lucky you. Kanye West... the rapper. Her boyfriend. A total ass.

  11. Re:Not new. on Learning To Fly, With a Full-Size Cockpit Simulator · · Score: 1

    Well,let's see... Kardashian's asses.... Kanye looks to be about 200 pounds or so, does that count?

  12. Re:Sometimes companies deserve it on Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns (scottandscottllp.com) · · Score: 3

    The spirit of Darl McBride lives on....

    "Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with."

  13. Not if you need to suspend code on Ask Slashdot: Is it Practical To Replace C With Rust? · · Score: 1

    If your code has to suspend itself for a specified period of time, then I would not recommend using Rust. Remember...

    Rust never sleeps.

  14. Re:Ban isp from forcing you to rent there hardware on Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy it. I own my U-Verse router. I disabled the Wifi on it, and the Uverse router only connects to my WiFi router.

  15. Re:Firmware is not software on Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Just a minor nitpick. The PROMs with the UV erasure window were EPROMs (Erasable Programmable ROM).

    EEPROMs could be erased with voltage on a pin (Electronically Erasable Programmable ROM). EEPROM were the forerunners of flash.

  16. Re:Once the A/C's get tired of pop-culture referen on Terahertz Radiation To Enable Portable Particle Accelerators (www.desy.de) · · Score: 1

    Someone may need to re-study his basic physics.

    F = ma, not mv.

  17. International incident. Act of war.

  18. Re:Irrelevant on Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA · · Score: 1

    Truman. Maybe -- and ONLY maybe -- Ike.

  19. Re:Democrats, not the "Electoral System" on Electoral System That Lessig Hopes To Reform Is Keeping Him Out of the Debate (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Like you said, the two 'parties' are not public entities, they are private groups

    If they are private groups, then why do my tax dollars fund their internal popularity contests (aka primary elections)?

    If they ae private groups, then let them pay for their own elections.

  20. Re:Take advantage of it; copyleft on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    Aren't they cute when they're naive?

    Laws are to be used by the $BIGCORPS against ordinary people, not the other way around.

  21. Re:Cultural? on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The car claims it won't start if AdBlue is not refilled.

    So, since the AdBlue is the urea, then all I would wind up needing -- in theory -- is the software "upgrade"?

  22. Re:Cultural? on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Is the urea injection the "AdBlue" stuff? If so, my 2015 TDI has it.

  23. Re:morse code on How To Make Messages Easy For an Alien Race To Understand (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:As a HW designer, I really dislike the idea... on ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Then don't use GPL code as your firmware.