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  1. Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... on TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades · · Score: 1

    No. Ordinary citizens sat on their ass while a select few did the right thing and stopped him from getting much done.

    And to be clear, his bomb was a dud to begin with. Perhaps because of those citizens he was unable to fix/detonate it.

  2. Re:Technophobia on He Fixed 300,000+ Machines - America's Oldest Typewriter Repairman Dies At 96 · · Score: 1

    Uhm, less than 6 months ago ... he was still doing it.

    Adjusting the hammers doesn't stop forensic teams from figuring it out, it doesn't change the impression at the low level, just the visibility to the human eye.

  3. Re:ROCK STAR DEVELOPER NON-EXISTANT on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Rock Star' Developers a Necessity? · · Score: 1

    For reference, he's referring to Cordell Jackson. Subjective the top 10 list he's referring to may be, there is absolutely no doubt she was a pioneer at the top of her field.

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

  4. Re:I'm sorry. on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    So when you're composing an email, do you do it on two machines at once? How about when you login? Do you type each character of your username and password on two different machines?

    You're an idiot.

  5. Re:NSA tinfoil hat time! on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    Right, because he would suddenly not see it this second time around, but magically they wouldn't try it originally.

  6. Re:why this news? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    Any company that desperate for a patch can get it from the subsystem maintainer that has it already anyway. No code was lost, and he hasn't been the primary source of code in years, he just curates it. I use just only due to conversation context, its no small task.

  7. Re:why this news? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    Well, if you are a lush, that could certainly be a reason your mouse died. How many drinks have you spilled on it?

  8. Re:Pathetic on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    And that is still nothing like Time Machine.

    TimeMachine is not just a copy of your latest files, its snapshots of your machine. Let it 0 byte a bunch of files, just go find the last snapshot before they were 0 bytes and restore.

  9. Re:You trust Torvalds after this? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    You need to learn about ZFS, as it does protect against raid card failure (you don't use one), filesystem corruption (multiple levels of checksuming AND verification), rm -rf (hourly snapshots)

    What else do you have?

  10. Re:New definition of "Accessibility" on The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services · · Score: 1

    You do realize that when you started copying files around on the volume that you already have full access right?

    Why would you bother with replacing magnify.exe when when you have complete access to the system without needing any passwords at all?

    When someone has direct physical access to your 'hardware' (virtual or otherwise), you can't stop them from getting at it.

    Doesn't matter if its a machine at your colocation datacenter or a VM 'in the cloud'.

  11. Re:Vulnerable? on The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services · · Score: 2

    Too bad it applies just as equally to Linux and every other OS.

    They have 'physical access' to the machine. You've lost already, regardless of OS. They don't need your passwords.

  12. Re:Just one question on FreeBSD Removes GCC From Default Base System · · Score: 0, Troll

    Clang is faster
    Clang produces faster code

    Really?

    Yes, well known and accepted. The craptastic GCC developers have been hurting its improvements for years. They have serious control freak issues and as such, GCC has fallen well behind the curve. This isn't a new topic of discussion.

    Clang has better support for C++11 than gcc

    They had almost equal support for C++11 when I check earlier this year.

    Almost ... is not the same, and which parts are important.

    Clang's code base is much less convoluted than gcc's, and easier to work on
    Clang's code base is more modular, which allows you to easily use separate stages of the compiler in other tools

    I think that depends on the reader.

    Only if you're a fanboy. GCC is well known to be an ugly ass code base for multiple reasons. This is an OLD discussion.

    The real question is actually, why are so many people stubbornly sticking to gcc when clang has surpassed it in pretty much every way.

    Because it's a good compiler. Both gcc and clang are good compilers. They didn't stop developing gcc just because clang came around and started to make progress.

    GCC hasn't been a 'good' compiler unless you're only metric is 'its GPL'. clang still has a long way to go though, both are shit compared to commercial compilers, many of which make gcc and clang look absolutely pathetic in almost every way. Hell, the MS compiler is light years more advanced than GCC when it comes to the code it produces.

    You're just a fanboy.

  13. Re:Dock your tablet on Intel's Haswell Chips Pushing Windows RT Into Oblivion · · Score: 1

    but we have secure WiFi where I work

    I doubt that, ignorance is bliss though, isn't it? Unless you're using IPSec, your wifi isn't secure, you just don't know it.

  14. Re:Revision Control? on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Synchronize Projects Between Shared Drive and PCs? · · Score: 1

    Heh, thats a good one. I'm typically an ass about that sort of thing, I think the xkcd approach is far better now that I actually think about the process.

  15. Re:OwnCloud is pretty good on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Synchronize Projects Between Shared Drive and PCs? · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

    All I've seen in your issue tracker is a half attempt at an excuse, not an actual reason. And that only applies to Linux, (and again, I've yet to see an example of the behavior you're claiming).

    If you find such behavior, that would be a bug you should report and log in your issue tracker so users know they can upgrade to a patched kernel without the issue.

    Windows most certainly will tell you EVERY SINGLE CHANGED FILE individually, without missing a one.

    I've not had personal experience with OSX, but I'm fairly certain that apps I use do not scan the 40k files in my watched directory looking for changes, I'd notice that I'd think.

  16. Seriously, learn to use it.

    Problem solved.

    Yes, SAMBA supports it.

    Right click on the share, tell it to keep offline files or whatever. Then your users just use the Z drive regardless of when and where. When not connected the share, the cached copy works, when connected to the share, you're editing/locking the share's files.

    Conflicts can happen, and you will be warned when they do. If thats a problem, you need a proper CVS (concurrent versioning system, not the actual CVS software specifically) I'd suggest cvsnt or subversion myself as they are simple to use for basic stuff. GIT is too techie for all but the most distributed of distributed geeks.

  17. Re:you have the source on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Note: I'm not saying it should be changed, just that the "change it yourself" line is ridiculously impractical for even people capable of coding the change properly. And worse for those who can't. Maintaining your own kernel tree over time is most certainly non-trivial by most peoples standards.

  18. Re:you have the source on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That's the most obnoxious open source cop out there is.

  19. Printed case != printable device. on Tricorder Project Releases Prototype Open Source 3D Printable Spectrometer · · Score: 2

    Its not even close. You can't print the electronics or sensors with any printer that matters to us normal people. If you own a 3d printer high enough quality to even approach the basic circuit boards, you probably have FAR better ways to produce the circuit boards and are smart enough to know its cheaper to buy the sensors than try to print it.

    This is rather stupid, a clip on sensor and phone app makes FAR more sense. The phone is already full of sensors. Accelerometers, Gyros, light sensors, relatively decent resolution cameras, maybe remove the ir filter from one of the cams on devices that have 2 and you're already well beyond this thing.

    For fucks sake, it needs some electronics to go with it, all of which will cost you more than $20 themselves.

    Shitty slashvertisements suck ass. At least vet them enough to make it not boned headed ideas by someone who doesn't know what they are doing or enough about the field to use cheaper readily available components.

  20. Re:Stupidity != sexism on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    If its so degrading, women can choose not to participate.

    Some women seem to enjoy the attention showing their tits gets them, more power to them, thats THEIR CHOICE.

    Who the fuck are you (mainstream feminist view) to say its degrading?

    Sexuality empowers many women over men.

  21. Re:Sexist, or just stupid? on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    No one cares when women stare at men. Only women care when men stare at them.

    The sexiest part is you saying

    of the female body

    Sexism doesn't just apply to women, the fact that you think it does shows the problem is in you.

  22. Can we please just ban feminists from tech conferences?

    No. There is nothing wrong with feminists. Extremists on the other hand, need to go, regardless of their cause.

    My wife is a feminist. She's a vet who works in a male dominated field thats composed of mostly women! She works on being treated equal. She has no problem standing around with her male coworker and telling titty jokes.

    My sister-in-law is a feminist. She's fucking nut job that thinks because I don't dress my boy in pink that I'm an evil father for promoting gender stereotypes. (one example). She has several gay male friends, no female friends, and can't understand why she's single. She's such a liberal nut job that even her ultra-liberal professor friends tell her to back off on a regular basis. She's actually threatened to report my wife for sexual harassment at her job ... and she's not even a customer! She's just heard us talking about it.

    I love my wife, I'd love to find my sister-in-law someone to give her a good deep dicking to shut her the fuck up.

    You can be a feminist without being a nut job cunt.

  23. Re:Congratulations on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    Let's face reality here - all humans are clearly members of one race. Racism is the *delusion* to the contrary. Apparently it is a delusion you have yet to free yourself from.

    Agreed! Though I also agree with the post you are replying to. As long as people have differences, there will be fear, prejudice, hate and suffering. Doesn't make it okay, but it is what it is.

    We do need to set our own minds free first. I am unable. I am better than my parents. I hope my child is better than me. If I succeed, at least I left the world better off than when I started. While my parents were 'more prejudice' than I am, I think they also tried to raise me not to be as bad as they were, so I feel they succeeded to some extent as well.

  24. Re:Congratulations on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    They aren't 'African Americans' unless they were born in Africa and emigrated to the US.

    Black American citizen are JUST THAT AND NOTHING MORE. They are Americans. The African shit has to go. If you're going to be so fucking pedantic, the entire human fucking race came from Africa as best we know, so we're ALL African Americans in the US.

    You're racist and just don't realize it.

  25. Re:Typical hypocrisy of the politically correct. on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    So because you think its bigotry and childish, its okay. But on the other hand I think your behavior is hypocritical, ignorant and childish ... so I'm an asshole?

    You're the kind of person who bitches about people being open minded while telling everyone else they are assholes for what they believe. To ignorant to see that you're doing EXACTLY what you claim is so wrong, and when someone else pointed it out, you jump up and scream and shout that its wrong.

    Look in the mirror, start making the change there (to steal a paraphrased line from MJ)