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  1. Re:errr. huh? on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    He's not nerdy enough.

  2. Re:errr. huh? on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 2

    Brillian minds speaking outside their realm of expertise don't impress me much. Google "Carl Sagan Kuwait Oil Fires" to see how wrong cosmologists can be when pontificating about the Earth.

  3. Re:someone explain for the ignorant on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    So therefore we should never ever use software?

    That in no way shape or form derives from what I wrote.

  4. Re:Wow on Microsoft's First Azure Hosted Service Is Powered By Linux · · Score: 1

    Horrible fscking grammar is what it is...

    Does this mean that Ubuntu is a guest OS on a cloud powered by Windows?

  5. Re:From the grave... on Resistant Bacterial Infection Outbreak At California Hospital · · Score: 0

    You're just too young to remember how Eeeeeeeeeevvvvvvviiiiiiillllll that RR was.

    And have no sense of humor, either.

  6. From the grave... on Resistant Bacterial Infection Outbreak At California Hospital · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ronald Reagan's cold dead hand stretches forth again to wreak havoc across the land!

  7. "what are the other explanations?" on Carnegie-Mellon Sends Hundreds of Acceptance Letters By Mistake · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Submitter can't be so dim that "human error" doesn't occur to him, can he?

    (Females in the 21st century are too sainted to make this kind of mistake...)

  8. That theory has been laid out on Could Fossils of Ancient Life From Earth Reside On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    Is it a theory or a hypothesis?

  9. Re:Black Hat 2014: A New Smartcard Hack .. on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    We seem to be pretty good to sticking to the budget

    You're better than us, then... things go off the rails when I don't watch.

  10. Re:Black Hat 2014: A New Smartcard Hack .. on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    My wife and I use debit cards that hit the same checking account for just about everything. I keep an eagle eye on it, though, so that we can stay in budget. (Kids are expensive.)

  11. Re:someone explain for the ignorant on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    just wondering how a crook could get a PIN

    Software is hackable.

  12. Re:Black Hat 2014: A New Smartcard Hack .. on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    once I confirmed they were nothing to do with me

    You have a computer and it's the second decade of the 21st century. How did you not see them?

  13. Re:someone explain for the ignorant on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    so if your account is compromised, you're assumed to be at fault.

    Even if C&P isn't secure. That's what I was afraid of.

  14. Re:someone explain for the ignorant on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 2

    One thing that I wonder about is the definition of "fraud".

    If C&P isn't as secure as banks say, can the bad guys steal people's money but the banks deny it, saying that C&P is secure?

  15. Re:someone explain for the ignorant on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    I received an updated CC from Bank Of America, and it's got a chip-looking thing, but didn't receive a PIN, and don't remember seeing anything where I had to request one.

  16. she will be able to use her mom's smartphone on Bill Gates On Educating the World · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Naturally not "he" and "dad".

  17. Re:If you don't authorize it, it can't divulge inf on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    The electronics won't appreciate the ventilation slits being covered. Why not make the Faraday cage out of mesh/screen?

  18. Re:If you don't authorize it, it can't divulge inf on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 0

    2. Wrap TV carefully, don't allow any gaps

    That's a joke, right?

  19. Re:Projector on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    143" HD screen for under $3k.

    Brand and model would help.

  20. Re:Consider the denominator on DEA Hands MuckRock a $1.4 Million Estimate For Responsive Documents · · Score: 0

    But, but, but... EFF!!!

  21. Re:The people who say that GNU gives devs freedom on RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el · · Score: 1

    I wish I could think of the right terms to google for the stories I've read about the situation. Hard to find in the piles of results that are just about debugging GCC.

    :)

    Indexing all human knowledge is great and all, but often worthless when natural language is so ambiguous and overlapping.

    I guess just keep it in the back of your mind and if you ever come across an article about the history of GCC debugging development, scan it for this information.

    Will do.

  22. Re:The people who say that GNU gives devs freedom on RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el · · Score: 1

    so they deliberately made the debugging output require hooks inside GCC

    While I agree that what RMS did was probably unwise (this is the third time I written it), Cafe Alpha said, "(make it) deliberately harder to understand than clang" and "obfuscate (the) code".

    I do not see where deliberately hooking debuggers to gcc does what CA claims it does.

  23. Re:DHT on Demonii Tracker Tops 30 Million Connected Peers · · Score: 2

    only metadata

    Famous last words...

  24. Re:The people who say that GNU gives devs freedom on RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el · · Score: 1

    Then in http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6934855&cid=49015413 you should have mentioned that.

    Changing the tune in the middle of the dance is a common debating tactic for the stupid and the losing.

  25. Re:The people who say that GNU gives devs freedom on RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el · · Score: 1

    He's taking useful features out ... Only a fanatic would not call that "making software worse"

    Ah, but that's not what you wrote in http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6934855&cid=49012347.
    Let me refresh your memory, FUD-monger: developers who've said that GCC has been made deliberately harder to understand than clang... Something about wanting to keep the wrong sort of developers out. Freedom to obfuscate your code isn't really freedom of information either.

    "Taking useful features out" may -- or may not -- be foolish and unwise, but it does not obfuscate the code, nor make it harder to understand.