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  1. Re:Stop on Derek Khanna Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    >During the labor unrest of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, businessmen hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions, to supply guards to keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, and sometimes to recruit goon squads to intimidate workers.

    Great example ...

  2. Re:LOL proprieturds on Punkbuster Service Goes Down, Hundreds of Online Game Servers Affected · · Score: 2

    Looks like it was last updated in '09, what's the over/under on that not being current with the production code?

  3. Re:Yup, they've not been in a state of war since 4 on Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The point is a declaration of war and a state of war IS an anachronism to the point that summary execution during wartime isn't done because there is no war time anymore, there are extended military actions under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, usually, but not always, accompanied by a UN Security Council Resolution. So just like declaration of war is an anachronism, so is summary execution during wartime is an anachronism.

    Trying to use a semantics argument against a legal framework argument by saying that semantics don't matter, except in the case where the semantics say you get to feel justified by ending another human beings life (a fellow American citizen, no less) is also completely irrational and held only by clueless, non-worldly people who can't muster the energy and attention span to actually understand consequences.

  4. Re:Another difference between XP and Vista on Maybe With Help From Google and Adobe, Microsoft Can Kill Windows XP · · Score: 1

    MS has been frequently under 30 a share since about 2002, and besides a dividend payout of about 2.5% (which didn't start until 2003 after their last 2:1 split, and was much less than 2.5%, though the dividend is growing every quarter), there has been really no growth of the stock, which means investing in Microsoft is barely fighting inflation off. The share price might not be in decline but there has been no reason to invest in them since the 90's, except to buy it up in '09, along with every other company that had a real product and could reasonably survive the crash.

  5. Re:React positively? on NASA's Bolden Speaks On Future Mars Mission, Chinese Moon Landing · · Score: 1

    Well we could, yeah... but what for? Other than bragging rights and planting the flag?

    Mining for Helium-3 for the also underfunded, and therefor non-existent, fusion projects.

    A smaller gravity well launchpad for said robotic probes.

    The technological breakthroughs that would come with trying to sustain life long term in a harsh unforgiving environment.

  6. Re:Better yet. on Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That sounds scalable. /sarcasm

    The big thing all these leaks really proves is that there are too many secrets and the US govt's clearance and need to know mechanisms are wholly broken. Some info really does need to be secret, but instead of vetting everything its just way easier to sweep it all under the its a secret rug and call it a day.

    Just another pentagon project to treat the symptoms and totally disregard the main cause.

  7. Re:Considering the source... on Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education · · Score: 1

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

    Perhaps one of Carnegie’s most successful marketing moves was to change the spelling of his last name from “Carnagey” to Carnegie, at a time when Andrew Carnegie (unrelated) was a widely revered and recognized name.

    One hundred years later and I still fall for this marketing ploy. Color me embarrassed ...

  8. Re:Considering the source... on Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education · · Score: 1

    Probably because he's a smart guy that made more money than he knows what to do with and is trying to save is legacy Dale Carnegie style by educating himself on many of man kinds most daunting challenges and attempting to solve them. But don't let that stop you from hating on him for bundling IE with Windows 95 almost 20 years ago or whatever somesuch you need to still hate on the guy for.

  9. Re:Our Future on Gamer Keeps Civilization II Game Going for 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Yes, the future of slashdot stories are links to reddit comments. Truly a frightening visage.

  10. Re:Hashes list link on LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online · · Score: 1

    The forum text before it was blown away

    From reddit:

    http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/unt92/russian_hackers_claim_to_have_65m_linkedin/

    "dwdm"

    Guys need you help again.

    [2] link to hash

    it's about 118Mb.

    "M@LIK"

    Alright, looks like no one wants to help here...

    100 449 found

    6 358 928 left

    Can't upload left due to poor internet connection, use my founds as a dict instead.

    More will be here soon! Already hit 15k more.

    "charlie"

    30077 new

    "M@LIK"

    +163 267 found : [3] http://www.mediafire.com/?bq8bd5iojp50zci

    6 165 604 left (After importing all charlies' founds)

    "CyberLord"

    Hi guys

    Where is last left list ? Anybody,Would you mind adding the left list please

    POLIMO

    Ok here my stuff !

    236 578 Cracked one ( propably more to come if i have time...)

    cracked pass come from the start post, cause no left....

    The join file is on pass format ( no hashe:pass cause i use JTR & on heavy file is taking to much time to past, so feel free to load my pass & past them)

    Here the patern i find :

    *linkedin *

    *link *

    "alotdv"

    55120 found after all

    left : [4] http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?n307hutksjstow3

  11. Re:Java dropped by the same amount on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 2

    Python was ahead of C# , what's listed in the summary is the 2008 index, the 2012 index has C# about three and a half points ahead of python.

    Ruby is a hype machine, you can tell by the huge spikes and valleys when you see its popularity graphed out individually over the years. It's seemed to have relegated itself now to about a point and a half now.

    http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Ruby.html

  12. Gaming the system on Pay Less If You're a Nice Person: Valve's Freemium Model For DOTA 2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real jerks will make sure they game whatever reporting tool there is in order to make other people look like jerks.

  13. Re:Yes and? You always have been on NASA Unveils Greenest Federal Building In the Nation · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Watts aren't a unit of energy. on Power-Saving Web Pages: Real Or Myth? · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying whether it is a worthy consideration or not, I just had a problem with their "It's anyone's guess". All things being equal, you can certainly calculate it at scale too, but if you're in the "it's worthy thing to do" camp you also have to be honest about all things being equal (time spent reading web pages, time spent on computers making web pages conform to usability/marketing/business and energy guidelines, etc...).

  15. Re:Watts aren't a unit of energy. on Power-Saving Web Pages: Real Or Myth? · · Score: 2

    the difference is just 17.7W and 3.8W for CRT and LCD respectively. What that adds up to over the course of a year, for every second you spend doing a search on Google is anyone's guess.

    That was my favorite part. I'm guessing they just hooked up a some kind of Kill-A-Watt given that:

    PCSTATS has an electronic power meter which can actually measure the amount of energy it takes a monitor (LCD and CRT) to display any given website, we've actually got a valid set of criteria to look at.

    Never mind the nomenclature, there is cost forecasting on those devices, and given a few basic parameters you could figure out the cost per year searching Blackle rather than Google on the back of a napkin, so its not "anyone's guess".

    price_per_killowatt_hour: $0.10
    hours_searching_google_per_day: 2 hrs
    watts_saved: 17.7

    hours_searching_google_per_year = hours_searching_google_per_day * 365
    kilowatthours_saved_per_year = hours_searching_google_per_year * (watts_saved / 1000)
    price_saved_per_year = kilowatthours_saved_per_year * price_per_killowatt_hour

    Which comes out a little over a buck twenty five for a CRT and more than a quarter per year on an LCD using those parameters for one person.

  16. Re:Nice! But confused about writeup: on Mechanical CPU Clock · · Score: 1

    Your optimization kind of ruined the 'its a CPU' aspect, don't you think? It looks more like a clock inspired by how CPU's work now.

  17. Re:Canada Here I Come on Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Where's the cash grab tie in? on Gawker Media To Require Commenters' Facebook, Twitter, Or Google Logins · · Score: 2

    It's unbelievable how far I had to scroll down to find this. Handing off your authentication to another more established entity is a growing trend. I don't remember seeing so much vile when OpenID showed up, but apparently its bad if Gawker uses it, and only wants to use it with the most established entities in the industry. IMHO, it speaks of a pretty good risk assessment after having such a huge security breach.

  19. Re:wait... on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 2

    Many laws are not drafted by legislators, they are drafted by various third parties with various agendas pushing any number of special interests made up of people with inside knowledge on how 'the process' works including former legislators and staffers. They are all introduced by current legislators with ties to those groups (Chambers of commerce, political action committees, other membership based organizations, etc...) though.

  20. Re:Good on SFPD Breathalyzer Mistake Puts Hundreds of DUI Convictions In Doubt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Especially things involving Drunk Driving which are routinely based on emotional appeals rather than real evidence and metrics.

  21. Re:Emulator download? on Try Your Programming Skills In Space: DARPA Satellite Programming Challenge · · Score: 1

    If I can only access the simulator online, and I can only copy paste my C code into a flash window "IDE", then this sounds pretty dead in the water already. No thanks.

  22. Emulator download? on Try Your Programming Skills In Space: DARPA Satellite Programming Challenge · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is there a SPHEREs emulator that you can plug the C code into? I tried reading some of the links and they included tutorials in basic math, physics, and programming, details on the API, and suggestions to download MS Visual C++ Express for coding in C, but I couldn't find where I would plug C code into running this in an emulated or simulated environment for testing. With all of these basics outlined I would have figured there would be an executable or library somewhere to download.

  23. Re:Sane choice on Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language · · Score: 1

    Kids in college are still kids, in my mind at least ;)

  24. Re:Sane choice on Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language · · Score: 1

    As easy as it is to do sockets and threading in Java, there is still concurrency problems and other non-trivially things that aren't solved by the JVM's overlay. And there are still overlay's in C with POSIX that still put a lot of the backend work on the OS.

    What I am applying to the whole concept was agreeing with the OP and disagreeing with the GP that you can teach a language that allows threading in an intro course without having to understand all of the concepts surrounding threading, you do still get to sink your teeth into a lot of the other challenging aspects (or maybe not, haven't touched Java that much since ... i dunno .. 1.2 maybe?), but its plenty possible and has been done.

  25. Re:Sane choice on Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well this is going to fuck up a previously up modded comment here, but I had threading and sockets in my Intro to Java course freshman year of college and am very glad I did. Not sure what is so complex about type casting in a statically typed language, its fairly necessary. You don't fully understand them there either, but that only comes with experience anyway.

    On the other hand it was an advanced intro course, and I already spent a lot of time screwing around in Q-Basic in high school, in which had done none of those things. But the non-advanced intro class still had threading and sockets and what not, they just waited until the second semester to introduce them.