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  1. Re: I have two problems with this article. on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 2

    It is impossible to "synchronize" time between gravity wells because time ticks at different rates.

    No, it doesn't.

    It is observed differently.

    Keeping the observations in sync is easy, you base your ticks so they synchronize with ticks of a stationary object in free space. So if you happen to be near a black hole, your clock has to 'tick' much much faster to stay 'in sync' with the pacemaker. Its trivial to synchronize clocks since time is an arbitrary measurement.

  2. Re:This ex-Swatch guy doesn't have a clue on Swatch Co-Inventor Predicts Apple Will Bring an 'Ice Age' To Swiss Watch Market · · Score: 1, Informative

    The Apple watch presents no threat to such Swiss watches, any more than a Tesla
    car presents a threat to Porsche.

    Heh, so you don't understand at all how much of a threat Tesla can be to Porsche then, eh? The roadster has some serious clout. Performance wise, ignoring battery life, its a serious contender worthy of debating. Luxury feel? It beats Porsche.

    I say this as a Porsche fan who isn't particularly a fan of electric cars. If they get batteries down to 5 minute charge cycles so I can charge in roughly the same time as a fill up, Tesla will probably sell me my next car.

  3. Re:A few embedded strings and timestamps? on New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware · · Score: 1

    XKEYCODE can be found in a very large OSS software package and was there before the NSA even imagined using the letters for themselves.

  4. Re:A few embedded strings and timestamps? on New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware · · Score: 1

    ... Unless it was put there on purpose, to mislead you into thinking ... it was the NSA.

    Seriously, this takes 0 work to make it appear to be the NSA, a 5 minute script could do this to anything, based on the minute level of detail you seem to think is sufficient.

  5. Quality vs Quantity on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 0

    Yes, 1,000 games is a good thing. Sadly, 985 of them suck ass, which makes this a meaningless statistic.

    This is not a Linux problem mind you (nor is anything in this post related to Linux, so cool down fanboys), its a Steam problem. Or just problem in general when you lower the barrier to entry for creating something that can be sold. The Apple AppStore suffers from this same problem as well.

    I'm all for making it easier for quality craftsmen to get into the trade, but for every 1 quality craftsmen, you get 2500 that shouldn't be doing it.

    Steam Early Access only compounds the problem because you end up being able to purchase a lot more really shitty games that are no where near ready for any sort of public viewing.

    So great, 1000 games, woohoo ... Not going to get you any switchers due to shear level of crap quality. Steam on OS X is worse still because it doesn't fucking run on case sensitive file systems! WHAT THE FUCK ... You can do it for Linux but not OS X ... AGAIN ... W T F

  6. Re:Enlighten me please on Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch · · Score: 0

    Which is more than enough to check your email and send word docs around, which is what 99.999% of the population does.

  7. Re:Syntax and typo errors compile on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So basically, you don't understand C, so its bad? Is that what you're saying? I'm asking because none of your examples are even mildly difficult concepts.

    You seem to have difficulty accepting the syntax for function pointers for one obvious one.

    You also don't seem to understand that a pointer and a reference are the same thing, and the array thing your referring to, is also your misunderstanding, its also passing a pointer ... because you don't pass an array ON THE STACK, you pass a reference/pointer to the array.

    Your comment about argument mismatches being a problem is easy to solve, don't use a retarded compiler, done. Now the compiler doesn't let you fuck it up. If you make a Java, C++, pascal, or .NET compiler retarded and let it ignore obviously bad code, it'll fuck up too.

    Everything in your post is just shear ignorance of the language and its syntax. You didn't even post anything about the actual difficult parts of C. You just made yourself look ... simple and uneducated, not C look bad.

  8. Re:Thunderbolt on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have 2 generic servers in my closet that use Thunderbolt to talk to big ass arrays of disks. Nothing Apple related about them.

    And USB 3 does not do everything I use Thunderbolt for on my Mac, including ferry USB3 over the same wire as video. I come home (or go to the office) and plug in my laptop with single cable and instantly my displays, USB3 devices, audio and networking all work ... without eating a ridiculous amount of CPU power as required by USB.

    Dear god, do not drop Thunderbolt support based on the silly musings of a bunch of people buying the cheapest crap hardware they can possibly buy and then being pissy they don't have the same functionality. Fortunately Apple doesn't generally listen to a bunch of whiners on slashdot.

  9. Re:Seriously? on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    If you read the article, you'll find that the article is in fact NOT about anything like 1984. Its about properly mounting EXISTING CCTV camera's so they are useful. As in, mount them in such a way to get images of the faces of the people breaking into your house, not just shots of the top of their head which are useless to everyone.

    The problem is that you think slashdot articles aren't sensationalist crap, when in fact they are by default and only become useful after people actually pay attention to the story rather than the nut job lying summary.

  10. Re:Mailing list sounds like a bunch of Whiners.... on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Chrome is by definition, spyware.

    It does everything in its power to relay information about your activities back to Google, right down to what you click and when, if you allow it.

    Most of these 'features' require you to opt-in, but some just happen right out of the box.

    If you don't realize that the entire existence of Chrome and Chromium is to get information about you, you're an idiot with your head in the sand.

  11. Re:Google Chrome is fast moving... on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Chrome decided to use a recent feature THAT THE CHROME DEVS SUBMITTED TO THE KERNEL ... and isn't in any distribution that matters ... nor will it be for some time to come.

    The issue is that unless your running a dev/unstable branch, you aren't going to have this kernel feature and you're not going to have it in stable/LTS versions ever ...

    The application dropped support for production kernels ... because it wants a patch that isn't yet in production kernels.

    Googles foot ... they just shot a hole in it, fuck'em.

  12. Re:What's TSYNC ? on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: 0

    He dislikes Chrome BECAUSE it IS SPYWARE in the strictest sense of the word. It does everything it can to relay your habits back to Google's servers. Some of that you can turn off, some of it you can't, but that doesn't change the fact that it is spyware.

    I'm off the opinion Google can fork-off simply because they were able to survive without TSYNC and make it 'safe' but suddenly they can't and they refuse to deal with older kernels. Fork Google, this ridiculous bullshit of constantly having to update just because they can't be bothered to do real software development life cycles for user software. Fork'em right in the ear.

    I don't use firefox because they want to update 10 times a month, I don't use Chrome now for the same sort of reasons. Chrome managed to make it not noticeable longer than firefox since the Chrome UI doesn't change daily like Firefox but none the less, too many problems have resulted due to Chrome constant releases that its no longer supported in my organization.

  13. Re:...or a publicity stunt on GSM/GPS Tracking Device Found On Activist's Car At Circumvention Tech Festival · · Score: 2

    Yea, the device is a pretty amature build. Way too large for any TLA organizations, and the build sounds pretty fragile.

    I'm fairly certain I could do better with arduino shields from radio shack.

  14. Re:Well done, smart guy on How Activists Tried To Destroy GPS With Axes · · Score: 0

    So we killed 650,000 innocent people and handed over Iraq to ISIS. Good work, Bushie! (BTW, there were no WMDs.)

    Innocent? We have different definitions of the word if you think your number is accurate.

    Bush didn't had Iraq over to ISIS,Obama did, after people like you got all pissy that we were still there helping them to move on after hundreds of years of being run by evil leaders.

    Saddam regularly and publicly did everything he could to make the world believe he had WMDs, mostly because that was the only thing he could do to keep Iran from over running him, so there was pretty solid reason to believe he actually did have them.

    But hey, don't let your ignorance cloud your ignorance, go right ahead with your head up your ass about the way all that really worked

    You have some fucked up mental block that prevents you from see the world as it actually is rather than the way your told it is by the politicians YOU happened to believe in.

  15. Re:May not have to worry about taxes on Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? · · Score: 1

    Your friend was an idiot, not have an SSN doesn't make you exempt, it makes you illegal.

  16. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? · · Score: 0

    Uhm, Greencard carriers are bound by pretty much the exact same tax requirements if you earn money in the US, so the tax headache is the same ... you have to pay your taxes.

    Deal with it or stop earning US money, freeloader.

  17. Re:Easier to support than OpenGL 4.x on Valve Developed an Open-Source Intel Vulkan GPU Driver For Linux · · Score: 1

    Break backwards compat? They called that OpenGL 4.0 already anyway.

  18. Re:Neat, where's HL3? on Valve Developed an Open-Source Intel Vulkan GPU Driver For Linux · · Score: 1

    Did you do that on purpose? ;)

    Yes, because you're making the point for him.

    You linked to a story about things that can't actually be bought. Its got pictures of prototypes, but you can't go BUY a SteamBox or a Steam controller can you?

    You can not actually buy anything in that article, nothing. The article is little more than a press release for Valve.

  19. Re:Neat, where's HL3? on Valve Developed an Open-Source Intel Vulkan GPU Driver For Linux · · Score: 1

    WTF are you smoking?

    They're selling custom made PCs as a console, the didn't do jack shit other than design a controller to go with it, and the controller looks kind of lame too.

    Didn't write the OS

    They have essentially 1 title the make as far as games go, and then they sell some mods other people built for it.

    So basically, you think that piggy backing on the work of Microsoft, Sony, AMD, Intel, nVidia, and all the other game developers and the groundwork laid by all these people ... that Valve is doing it all by themselves?

    Vulkan isn't their work either, they are writing a driver ... Does that mean the Mesa team is a console maker? What about Linus? Perhaps RMS because some of the people involved use Emacs?

    Where is the SDK for SteamOS that valve created? Whats that? They didn't make one other than an API library for access Steam?

    SteamBox's are nothing like an actual console, its kind of retarded to even compare them beyond 'they both can run games'

    And to be clear ... WHERE IS THE STEAM BOX? Its not like you can buy it or anything related to it, can you?

  20. Re:Two things on Facebook Rant Lands US Man In UAE Jail · · Score: 1

    She shouldn't have went there, that would have been her mistake and when you enter that country you are going to have to deal with their laws, your a moron if you don't realize how stupid it is to travel to a country without checking up on how they behave.

    What fucking hole have you been living in to not know the Middle East is full of HIGHLY a oppressive KINGDOMS a

    For fucks sake, people need to take personal responsibility for their choices and actions. Americans going to the Middle East are just fucking stupid unless they happen to have the power of the military WITH THEM.

  21. Re:When in Rome on Facebook Rant Lands US Man In UAE Jail · · Score: 0

    When that law applied to him ... He was in the jurisdiction the law applied to.

    They didn't drag him from his Russian home to the U.S. and then go after him.

    And unless he deleted all instances of the copyright violation he was STILL violating copyright law.

  22. Re:Two things on Facebook Rant Lands US Man In UAE Jail · · Score: 0

    We really need a clear International consensu that governments do NOT have extra-territorial jurisdiction.

    No.

    You do not get to go to some Asian country to rape little kids because its legal there, then come back to the states and live your normal life. Sorry senator, we've already said no to that idea. You don't get to go to Europe and get stoned off your ass and come home to no worries.

    People get by with it because they don't make it obvious and in full public view.

    When I'm in New York state, I have to abide by NYS laws, not New Jerseys.

    Wrong.

    You don't get in trouble in New Jersey if you don't go to new Jersey and make it obvious you did something entirely against their laws. New Jersey will still arrest you if they find out you did something horrible elsewhere even if it wasn't technically illegal in that other jurisdiction.

    If you don't like the laws of New Jersey, DON'T GO TO NEW JERSEY.

    This guy is, frankly, a fucking moron for working pretty much anywhere in the middle east. And more than that, he's a fucking moron for posting it all over a VERY PUBLIC website and then being shocked when he found out when he got home. He's an idiot in multiple ways.

  23. Re:SDK is lackluster on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 2

    Trying to get a stack trace from an Unhandled exception? Nope can't do that. Want to find out what OS build you are on?

    You're kidding right?

    Neither of these things take more than a single standard method call to get an object filled with all the data you would expect.

    Are you sure you're talking about the same thing as the rest of us?

  24. Regulated backends on Deutsche Telecom Calls For Google and Facebook To Be Regulated Like Telcos · · Score: 1

    Google is a customer of the teleco I work for. They are effectively regulated because we are regulated. I presume Facebook is no different.

    Slow your roll there guys, your not going to make Google any more regulated than your customers are ...

  25. Re:Zebra on Linux and Multiple Internet Uplinks: a New Tool · · Score: 1

    Oh hell, this story is nothing more than a slashvertisement for some guys new pet project, the first commit is barely 2 weeks old.

    Could you people use google and a cloupon before you reinvent the wheel using a shitty scripting language, please.