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  1. Re:Are we devolving back to hieroglyphics? on Inside 'Emojigeddon': The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's see, there's these: http://www.say-it-in-english.c...

    There's this diatribe as well https://www.grammarly.com/blog...

    Its not that uncommon. Through, Though and Cough is an excellent sampling.

  2. Re:And people want to bring this bullshit to /.?! on Inside 'Emojigeddon': The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I fully support all Unicode emojis being printed as their description instead of by pictogram.

  3. Re: Why in the heck should a file server need 2M l on Interview With Python Creator Guido Van Rossum (techrocket.com) · · Score: 1

    So you've never seen Python code I take it, because there's no similarity between the languages. Effectively none.

    One needs braces and semicolons, the other uses space, one allows in-line regex, the other doesn't, the one can have RSA implemented like this:

    #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
    $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
    lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)

    The other looks like this:
    #!/usr/bin/python
    from sys import*
    from string import*
    a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!='-',a);d='-d'in a;e,n=atol(p,16),atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d
    while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce(
    lambda x,y:(x>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1)))

    Even super-short highly optimized Python with semicolons for whitespace removal looks nothing like perl.

    All due credit to http://www.cypherspace.org/rsa... for sources.

  4. Re:Might want to open source on Google May Adopt Apple's Swift Programming Language For Android, Says Report (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    How is the open talk false because something isn't open?

  5. Unsigned int would be awfully nice ...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  6. Re:Easy to take the tech workers on Canadian Startup Uses Trump to Lure Tech Workers (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't tend to punish people for being hard working members of our communities up here ... and you shouldn't either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Re:And the problem is??? on PHP, Python and Google Go Fail To Detect Revoked TLS Certificates (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    There have been good stories about this, like here: http://news.netcraft.com/archi...

  8. Re:Call for mass-forking of Android on Stagefright 2.0 Vulnerabilities Affect 1 Billion Android Devices · · Score: 1

    And yet everyone who posts that fails to realize how different everyone else's view of a 'perfect' OS is. Fragmentation means we don't all have to be the same.

  9. Hangouts on Ask Slashdot: Simple, Cross-Platform Video Messaging? · · Score: 1

    Hangouts works on every platform I've tried it on, has Chrome apps on many platforms, native on others. It supports group video/voice chat as well.

  10. Re: Sure you can. on Ask Slashdot: Can You Disable Windows 10's Privacy-Invading Features? · · Score: 1

    There is no car, there are Escorts and Fusions and Cavaliers and all sorts of versions of cars; way too confusing for your average customer.

    And yet we buy them, because they all basically do the same thing.

    Its really quite astounding to me that people think the unified iPhone / Windows approach to computing is better than the everyone-pick-what-suits-you method like vehicles, houses, etc.

  11. Re:Head/desk... on Poor, Homegrown Encryption Threatens Open Smart Grid Protocol · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming the MPAA spent good money creating their stupid protocols too; from the Content Scramble System to HDCP.

  12. Re: Homegrown on Poor, Homegrown Encryption Threatens Open Smart Grid Protocol · · Score: 1

    Spoken out of true ignorance.

    Obscurity doesn't work for *any* form of security; someone will figure it out and then it will be broken.

    Good security can be published and peer reviewed and is *still* secure.

    The only thing that should be obscure is your encryption key.

  13. Re: Homegrown on Poor, Homegrown Encryption Threatens Open Smart Grid Protocol · · Score: 1

    QFT ... that's all.

    And I'm not just talking about creating new ciphers. Even when I go to them with novel requirements that seem to demand some sort of new construction using existing algorithms and techniques, the very first thing they do is go to the literature to see what has been done, how long it's been in use, how widely it's been reviewed and analyzed, etc. The less knowledgeable (like me, frankly, though I'm getting better) tend to start by cooking up some new scheme. Real experts avoid that if at all possible, and if they have to do something new they look really hard at how they can prove its security by reducing it to known constructions.

    I reiterate: No one who knows what they're doing creates new crypto for production work.

  14. Water resistance ... on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as 'water proof' -- everything is simply water resistant up to a certain level, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

  15. Re: Waiting for the killer app ... on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    What we really need is IPv8, based on IPv4 with a larger address pool and no other irrational changes to the protocol. IPv6 simply adds too much complexity to the system.

  16. Re: Waiting for the killer app ... on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of IPv6 addresses being assigned aren't routable anyway -- do you really think those random local addresses you gave on your LAN at home can be globally routed from anywhere? Sure, if you get an assignment from your ISP, but do you really want your home alarm system, clock radio and fridge globally routable in the first place?

  17. Re: Waiting for the killer app ... on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    Why do you believe IPv6 routing is faster than IPv4?

  18. Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    Don't confuse people with the facts -- money spent on their own pet subject is legit, and money spent against it is wrong of course.

  19. Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    You might want to consider understanding the language you use before making a point in it ... that's not what fairer sex means.

  20. Re:Know what's worse? Cleartext. on Researchers Find Same RSA Encryption Key Used 28,000 Times · · Score: 1

    That's nonsense.

    Weak encryption is *worse* than no encryption because it gives people a false sense of security they shouldn't have. It makes them feel safe to say or do things they wouldn't do if they realized how bad the encryption they're using really is.

  21. Re:Write-only code. on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing -- I've even used kernel code to explain certain C techniques to new programmers.

  22. Re:I should think so! on Blu-Ray Players Hackable Via Malicious Discs · · Score: 1

    I have the same comment about nearly every networked camera system ever.

  23. Re:Linux distros on Wayland 1.7.0 Marks an Important Release · · Score: 1

    That's a flood-length post? How much do you suck at typing exactly?

    Those 174 words took me no longer than 2 minutes to write; maybe you should do something more productive than troll.

  24. Re:Seagate on Nvidia Faces Suit Over GTX970 Performance Claims · · Score: 1

    Actually they have 16 GiB of RAM; its a number very close to a billion but based on powers of 2 instead of 10.

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

    Words have meanings, and so do prefixes; the metric numbering system was usurped (stupidly) to mean something it didn't mean.

  25. Re:It's worse than just 0.5 GB of slow memory on Nvidia Faces Suit Over GTX970 Performance Claims · · Score: 1

    One wonders if disabling that last 500MB of RAM would in fact improve performance.