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  1. Re:Dearest engineers... on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 1

    And the people that authorize the funding for it, and the people that manage the engineers and direct them what to do, and the people that deploy the drones themselves, ... It is never just one person.

  2. Re:Overreach on The SEC Is About To Make Crowdfunding More Expensive · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think you are over reacting. This basically has nothing to do with kickstarter or kickstarter like funding efforts unless they are selling parts of the company. Most kickstarters I've ever seen are selling a product (and sometimes not even that), not securities (shares of their company).

  3. Re:Not cans on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    That's different. A vendor has a cash drawer and sorts on insert. A machine has the benefit of scale, where someone comes by and takes ALL the money to the bank, and then puts in RACKS of 1$ coins. Also, sometimes governments has used this system to push new coinage.

  4. Re:After the next attack? on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 1

    I'm having a hard time agreeing with this. If I was an EC against the USA, which one of my goals would be met by having a stronger clandestine arm of the federal government?

    A Terrorist wants mayhem, and destruction, and fear, not 1984. I'll check back tomorrow to see what you've come up with.

  5. Re: "Slashmirrored" on Kernel DBus Now Boots With Systemd On Fedora · · Score: 1

    haha, where is my +1 troll mod?

  6. Re: Ruby is a great language on Ruby 2.1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Also, for my linux admin work, this ssh gem (http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org/) is awesome.

  7. Re: Ruby is a great language on Ruby 2.1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I can't speak to upgrading; I've been using ruby 1.9 the entire time. But, you are wrong, IMO, about documentation. First things I looked up in a modern scripting language, the data structures, and os interactions, were awesome. Take a look at these, and then, you can even click on them to see their c header!

    http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/String.html
    http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/Hash.html
    http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/Array.html

    http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/Dir.html
    http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/File.html

  8. Re:Qt Creator on Developing Games On and For Linux/SteamOS · · Score: 1

    I know this is always the trade off for IDE's that do everything. But last time I used eclipse on a c++ project I:
      spent 40 min figuring out how to install the c++ extensions, then actually doing so
      spent more time just searching threw menus to figure out how to get into debug more

    Basically, Eclpse is useful if you already know eclipse. Because QT Creator is explicity for c++, it all makes sense for someone developing a c++ project. While I found eclipse confusing...until I tried to use it on a java project w/ maven build, then it was amazing.

  9. Re:Next job? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't hurt to have other job opportunities you're pursuing in mind. If you can have an offer in hand, then that's even better because you're negotiating from a position of power.

    This should not be your first method. This is fighting fire with fire. It is an asshole move to walk in for the first time, ask for a raise, while simultaneously implying you will quit if you don't get one.

  10. Re:Invisible unicorns in a garage on "Perfect" Electron Roundness Bruises Supersymmetry · · Score: 1

    Godel's Incompleteness Theorem basically proved otherwise.

  11. Re:Up to 3Mbps on Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? · · Score: 1

    I totally understand that they say "up to 5Mbs" on my consumer plan. But I use internet at all hours of the day, and can tell you I average above that at all times. So, while I have no legal retribution if they don't fulfill that (other than to just leave), I haven't had a problem with shared lines in the suburbs since Road Runner.

  12. Re:Dune on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    Have you seen DS9?

  13. Re:Want to protect young minds ? on UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn · · Score: 1

    ...people shooting people, stories about murder...

    So, the daily news?
    USA today this week: "30 mass killings, 137 victims: A typical year"

  14. Re:What will Cameron do then? on UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn · · Score: 1

    hahahahahaha
    Truth.

  15. Re:No it isn't on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 1

    Yep, evacuating the school and calling the cops is the appropriate response.

    One of the parents claimed these "pranks" were ignored, implying that because the terrorists have won, it isn't cool anymore to call in a bomb threat.

  16. Re:Really? on Want To Fight Allergies? Get a Dirty Dog · · Score: 1

    So by not living in a hyper clean environment as kids and by developing a proper immune system that is capable of fighting off allergies

    You should never say it like this. Your body does not "fight off allergies". Allergies are when your body is fighting something it shouldn't.

    The theory here is that when your immune system isn't educated correctly, it doesn't know what it should and should not go to war over. So, perhaps there are proteins/bacteria human children need to be subjected to before a certain again...or they grow up broken.

  17. Re:supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    Unless:
        he doesn't need the extra nutrition because he eats a balenced diet (which is part of the point of this entire discussion)
        And like the nice solid crunch iceburg gives.

    I prefer "butter lettuce", but most grocery stores around me don't carry it.

  18. Re:You poor baby on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1

    While Second Life (aka Life v2.0 ) has a bunch of fancy features, I hear the nostalgia of Life (v1.0) is still worth a good turn.

  19. Re:Best way to force an upgrade on Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines · · Score: 1

    hardware fails eventually

    Not since Iaas

    If my car...

    Really? lol

    Microsoft should continue to fix their dangerous defects

    Dangerous? not really.

    dangerously irresponsible.

    XP's life time has been extended far beyond what MS originally promised. In the OS world they deserve a a Purple Heart. If a company needed support on an OS, longer than the one MS promised ahead of time, they should have negotiated that directly, or chosen another platform to develop on.

    As a Linux reference, see how this is quite explicit: https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata/
    Note: at 13 years, Rhel and windows xp have the same EOL support time.

  20. Re:I'm fedup with this on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 2

    They were asking for that joke ( fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp ). Well, you have to name it something I guess.

  21. Re:Good thing on Next-Gen Windshield Wipers To Be Based On Jet Fighter "Forcefield" Tech · · Score: 1

    Didn't his entire life fall apart as he fought it in courts for years...

  22. the truth on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    This may be a simplistic view but as part of my concervative christian upbringing, I was taught to tell the truth. I think it should always be ok to tell the truth (certainly shouldn't have to flee the country for doing so). I realize that is at odds with the classified system, but, I also thing the classified system has over stepped it's bounds.

    I understand that in engineering the exact specs needs to be classified ( how far away we can detect something, how accurate our guns are, exact mechnism for breaking a code...), but unless it immediatly endagers lives, you should be able to talk about what the US does.

    If it was that much of a problem, the knowledge of what the NSA was doing, then we shouldn't have been doing it. Of course the NSA wanted that information, I want to bang the chick in the cubical next to me. But, I couldn't look my wife in the eye next day, and tell her what I had been doing, so- I leave my wedding ring on, and do an honest job.

  23. Re:Pre-Roasted Coffee on Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee · · Score: 1

    The founding belief being that coffee being a chemically active substance after it is roasted makes it theoretically impossible to store roasted coffee and retain the original flavor since it can't be stored at absolute zero.

    That is too simplistic of an explaination, because by that logic, no food could every be stored and retain the original flavor, ever. I'd love to see some analysis on how stable the flavenoids (-is that even the right word?) are in roasted coffee, vs our ability to taste the difference.

    This is similiar to, I can up the resolution on my screen to 1 Terrapixel per square in., but, if my shitty human eyes can't perceieve the difference, does it really make a difference?

  24. Re:Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    ... I doubt that removal of guns will change much, because the underlying problem will still be there. We'll have mass knifings, mass strangulations (an 18 inch zip tie is all it takes!), etc. instead.

    I call bullshit. With a modern gun, and minimal training, I can kill dozens before you can physically even get to me to take the gun away. That is not true with zip ties and knives.

  25. Re: red v blue on Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US · · Score: 1

    Well, it isn't. There are religions that call blood tranfusions a sin, but, well, I'm not convinced. We live in a world were simply declaring something immoral doesn't make Obama an asshole. Please provide a pursausive argument for why contraception, the most liberating device made since the car is immoral. The fact is that young poor women get their lives derailed completely by pregnancy and contraception can keep them at their job ( and in school ) and so off welfare.

      It is in the US society's best interest to keep them on a productive path and off government money.

    If that woman believes it is wrong to use contraception than that is her choice. I consider it basic heathcare and so does most of America. You declaring it immoral and removing it from basic health care is removing that choice from poor women across the country. I find that immoral, and bad for America.