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  1. Re:Underlying cause? on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 1

    Hardly - maybe they caught one guy in - was it San Diego - to give money to some far away organization labeled as well, offensive/dangerous in some way (don't recall all details).

    Ironically the former head of the NSA was a person that was giving large sums of money to the Provisional IRA not long after they attempted to blow up Maggie Thatcher.

  2. Re:ISIS Caliphate on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 1

    It's possible that like in Bouganville they are led by real military (in this case Jordon, Iraq, Syria) that disagree with whoever used to give them orders. It's too early to tell especially since it's looking like they are lining up on a religious divide (one that puts them firmly on the side of Iran) and they get mass defections to them if everything goes even more pear shaped.

  3. Re:You're joking right? on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    You fail to grasp that there is a middle ground between these 2 extremes.

    You fail to grasp that I'm merely pointing out your extreme of sweetness, light and daddy will buy you a gang of slaves is fucking offensive.

  4. Re:You're joking right? on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    Just because it is hard for workers, doesn't mean the labor market is lopsided. It is hard for employers too

    Of course it does - it means we are seeing many examples of the unscrupulous exploiting the situation where people will accept not only worse treatment but also empty promises, as cases at your local courthouse will show. The large number of "commission only" scams that fail to pay a commission is one of the many symptoms you are ignoring. There's also plenty of people doing unpaid overtime to keep thier current job - hence the article we are commenting on in the first place!


    Meanwhile I still find it amusing that you are still attempting the evasion and petty bullying of the "reading comprehension" line that must have won you some schoolyard arguments in the apparently very recent past against people with low self esteem. Give it up, nobody gives a shit about your spelling bee scores here.

  5. Re:You're joking right? on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    Still whining about how some cruel person is expecting you to take responsibility for what you write? You poor oppressed little boy.

  6. A question is a question on Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center' For Governments To Review Source Code · · Score: 1
    The AC gave a good answer without the childish "kick the puppy" bullshit you two exhibited of making sure you showed you got some insults in on somebody from a different field who was asking a question about this one. Perhaps you should learn from that AC.

    No, its not "just like that", theyre two entirely different things. WEP was a cipher

    I was giving an example of a name that became inappropriate and reading between the lines beyond that is a fools game.

  7. Re:You're joking right? on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    How long are you going to keep on whining about how you are not a bad boy and just misunderstood?
    You've been caught out with ridiculous bullshit - not a lopsided market? Tell that to girls staying in a job where they are being sexually harrassed because there's no other jobs they can find. Unless you've led a very sheltered life or are utterly clueless you would have seen that and more over the last few years, so don't pretend it isn't there - that's being dishonest.

  8. Re:How do you know there is no rebar? on Chinese Company '3D-Prints' 10 Buildings In One Day · · Score: 1

    Well it appears that these are like the tilt-slab prefabricated slabs (complete with reinforcing) but with a range of different shapes and sizes for the slabs - presumably also with reinforcing. I doubt they would survive the trip to building sites without reinforcing.

  9. After 2008, Greek crisis etc what damage will this on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 2

    After 2008, Greek crisis etc what damage will this do to their reputation?

  10. You're joking right? on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    "Well if the job market is so terrible (for employees) and never getting better, then the obvious thing to do is to exploit that and become an employer. You can hire people for essentially nothing, and rake in huge profits for doing very little work."

    Are you going to start this whole naive authoritarian bullshit all over again with a "take one sentence from someone's argument and ignore the rest" like you did before? Who is this audience you think you are playing to and why would they bother to read your drivel this far down? Lay off the ego stroking mass debate bullshit and start taking responsibility for what you preach to others, because you are making us all look like clueless and heartless pieces of shit.

  11. Re:Obviously the post I replied to in the 1st plac on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    Funny how you are now taking that line after your "take one sentence from someone's argument and ignore the rest" comment.
    You know perfectly well what it was so stop trying to weasel out of it just because you do not want to admit you posted something so utterly stupid and insulting to just about everyone who's worked for more than a week in their lives.

  12. Obviously the post I replied to in the 1st place on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    Obviously the post I replied to in the first place.

  13. Re:How do you know there is no rebar? on Chinese Company '3D-Prints' 10 Buildings In One Day · · Score: 1

    Obviously a citation for your assertion that no rebar is being used - as given in by the question I've put in as the subject. To me it appears to be a groundless and somewhat ridiculous guess that defies common sense so I suggest you do something to show otherwise.

  14. How do you know there is no rebar? on Chinese Company '3D-Prints' 10 Buildings In One Day · · Score: 1

    Citation please.

  15. Re: Is it safe? on Chinese Company '3D-Prints' 10 Buildings In One Day · · Score: 2

    Actually, what I had in mind was smaller buildings that don't need rebar,

    I wouldn't be comfortable even making a concrete driveway without reinforcing.

    I'd be willing to bet with these things there's bits of rebar standing up and linking the different layers.

    and tackling the problem of concrete hardening

    Pretty well understood chemically for the last century with a lot of variations for different conditions.

    This thing sounds like a more flexible version of the sort of thing used to make concrete beams offsite before trucking in to construction sites and it's just got the "3D printer" label because that's what's cool this year (although I've thought 3D printers were cool since the 1990s :) ).

  16. Re:Well, this sounds brilliant... on Philips Ethernet-Powered Lighting Transmits Data To Mobile Devices Via Light · · Score: 1

    Researchers are getting gigabit speed in the shade and faster with direct line of sight. I don't know what sort of speed can be reliably achieved with multiple inputs and outputs but it's looking like finished products are going to be much faster than consumer WiFi at a similar cost.

  17. Why not document their current format? on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 1

    Who needs time travel? I really do not get why you decided to get sarcastic and pretend to be stupid in reply to a post about documented versus undocumented file formats.
    So what would I have them do? It would be nice if they would properly document their file formats (like those SEGD files from 1972), but since they won't for business reasons we have to work around it or avoid outputting in those formats.

    What we currently have documented from them is a mostly useless XML wrapper around various undocumented formats. Since their internal processes are unable to retain compatibility between versions very well that means users have to do format shifting and partial rewrites to do things with old files on new versions of the software. A workaround is not to bother and keep legacy systems around to output to other file formats (eg. PDF) that can be used in more recent computer system environments.

  18. Re:Meanwhile... on Renewable Energy Saves Fortune 100 Companies $1.1B Annually · · Score: 2

    Energy Prices in Brisbane Australia range around the $0.27/kwh

    Yet the wholesale price at the generators is close to the lowest in the world. A fake competition "market" made up of local monopolies in the middle is fucking everyone over in that situation and driving people to solar to get away from the price gouging.

  19. Re:Details Please? on Renewable Energy Saves Fortune 100 Companies $1.1B Annually · · Score: 2

    However for some others price gouging by their local electricity monopoly provides a financial payback for solar over time in as little as two years in some places. That's trumps all you've written above in those places even though it's an artificial distortion of the market. That's also why those Chinese panel makers are making a fortune selling to those people, a fortune that could have gone to the US companies that developed the technology if they hadn't been discouraged for ideological reasons.

  20. Re:Lauch cheaper than the film Gravity . . . ? on India Launches Five Foreign Satellites · · Score: 2

    Sounds like a good comparison. One star vehicle launched in a place with an unreliable power grid compared with another.

  21. Re:Is it true, or is it another lie. on India Launches Five Foreign Satellites · · Score: 1

    Are you really making that joke in the land of Enron and a cast of thousands?

  22. Re:Great for India on India Launches Five Foreign Satellites · · Score: 1

    They still had to study the work of others who pioneered it,

    So? NASA and the US military wasn't shy about using Australian technology in scramjets recently because it's not a pissing contest of "must be invented here". It's about getting stuff done.
    I could use a far more obvious example of where US rocketry "still had to study the work of others who pioneered it" but some would consider it a Godwin.

  23. Re:Who thinks up these names? on Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center' For Governments To Review Source Code · · Score: 1

    Now that's a very useful answer unlike the sniping from cbhacking and LordLimecat.

  24. More likely people in marketing on Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center' For Governments To Review Source Code · · Score: 1

    People who get paid to study cryptography come up with the name.

    Just like with "wired equivalent privacy" that we laugh at now? I'd say both have the stench of marketing and excessive hubris.

  25. Isn't it obvious? on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 2

    With regexes typically more comments than code just like anything tricky to understand instantly in any language. With the rest just as needed for understanding.
    Consider the Carmack transform in C. Can you work out what it's there to approximate instantly based on that line of code without being told? It's things like that and very complex regexes that need the implications listed while the hundreds of lines around them probably don't.