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  1. Re:i wish the story weren't bs on TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ah yes... meta-analysis. You can't take that junk seriously. It is double rounding nonsense. Statistical analysis casts out anomalous data (data that seems to be erroneous for some reason or another), and the criteria of determining what data is anomalous is an exercise of the person doing the analysis. Now you are doing analysis on those analyses, casting out more data. One more step removed than should be comfortable for anybody to take seriously

  2. Re:No 4k numbers? on AMD Continues To Pressure NVIDIA With Lower Cost Radeon R9 270 and BF4 Bundle · · Score: 1

    If you are springing for multiple 4k monitors, I don't see why you would be going for a value video card

  3. Re:Perfectly Safe on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 2

    This is the same misdirection that MADD uses in statistics about drunk driving. You'll notice "accidents involving alcohol" instead of "accidents involving someone intoxicated". The former can (and is used) to fluff statistics by incorporating people, say, on their way to a bar, taking home cooking wine, etc.

  4. Re:Calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Sucrose, not fructose

  5. Re:OS Design failure on Porn-Surfing Execs Infecting Corporate Networks With Malware · · Score: 1

    How well is that going to work for your file browser? If it is sandboxed/chrooted to its own folder structure, there isn't much to browse, is there? Ok, so open it up a bit, you say? Share it with the folders of app x, y, and z? But app x shares folders with app a, b, and c! And app y shares folders with d, e, and f...

  6. Re:Solution on Porn-Surfing Execs Infecting Corporate Networks With Malware · · Score: 1

    Where is that server going to come from? Thin air? Where is the time going to come from to implement that? Your free time. How about when it doesn't work so well and there is a sales meeting in 3 minutes?

  7. Re:packages on Slackware Linux 14.1 Released · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You were a slackware user and you used packages? Either you are/were a filty casual, or you were of the very few who depended on such.

    Installing things on slackware was/is almost always 'tar xvjpf source.tar.gz && cd source && ./configure && make && make install', aside from the initial system install, of course

  8. Re:Why is the archive worth preserving? on Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire · · Score: 1

    A very good use is digging up old articles/binaries from microsoft.com. Those assholes love to just delete whole eras and technology from existence. While that may be fine for most moving forward, when you need to support, say, a CNC machine that runs on a Windows 95 controller, using MS Agent 1.0 via J++ 1.1, the only way to access any resources anymore is the wayback machine

  9. Reset? on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    What system is there no way to reset the passwords? I'm having a hard time thinking of an OS/Embedded device that doesn't have a password reset mechanism or a means to overwrite the previous password with a boot disk

  10. Re:The Wild West on Bitcoin Protocol Vulnerability Could Lead To a Collapse · · Score: 1

    A few months? Try a few days

  11. Re:UltraVNC Single Click on Ask Slashdot: Easy, Open Source Desktop-Sharing Software? · · Score: 1

    System modal dialog boxes, or UAC prompts now output to console 0. It won't be the same as the one the user is currently logged into

  12. Conspiracy theory on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1, Insightful

    DHS wants more funding, so they told this man "You do this or we kill everyone you know in the slowest, most painful way that no one will ever hear about"

  13. Re:When will the sheep look up on NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters · · Score: 1

    Voting still feeds into the system that needs to be terminated. When you are advocating "You have the power to vote for something different to lead the mob", you ignore the fact you are still playing the mobs game.

  14. Re:Physicists know on Most Sensitive Detector Yet Fails To Find Any Signs of Dark Matter · · Score: 2

    However relativity is not infallible

    EVERY SINGLE TIME someone says they have broken relativity, even with "proof", it is later shown to be wrong.

  15. Re:blah blah blah on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If our government isn't going to effective, then isn't it up to us to put a stop to people like that? And by stop, I mean, put them to death. Extremist view, ya, but honestly, I'm getting sick of the bullshit in this country.

    So grab a gun and do it

  16. Re:Problem of selection on ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures · · Score: 1

    Follow the money trail and I'm certain you will find some congressperson's pockets getting lined with money by the company that got the contract

  17. Re:Maths on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 1

    I know I have long time between commits because I'm sure as hell not committing anything that doesn't even compile. Also, when I am in the middle of writing code for bullet point X and it is not done to the point that it will page fault with a null pointer exception (as an example), I'm not committing that either. I certainly don't look forward to the verbal shit storm that inevitably follows when I would commit such code and someone tries to actually use it. You get a commit when I have finished exactly one task.

  18. Re:Still half-assed C++11 support on Visual Studio 2013 Released · · Score: 1

    Because modern C++ developers want C++ to work like javascript

  19. Re:Obvious question on Sleep Is the Ultimate Brainwasher · · Score: 1

    Took until day 5? At 24 hours I'm seeing and hearing things, as well as the earth constantly shifting underneath me. At 36 hours I could be locked up.

  20. Re:Incorrect and irresponsible headline on Linux RNG May Be Insecure After All · · Score: 1

    Also, any measurement that they use to know the state will change the state

  21. Re:A hack is not just a hack on Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine · · Score: 2

    Ok, firstly the "You don't know what you are talking about, go back to school and learn something" retort makes your argument almost ignore worthy. It shows you have very little to stand on and a personal attack is always an indicator of insecurity.

    With that, IF the SSL cert is stolen, then the system itself is compromised, which the attacker would use it instead of setting up their own. Secondly, having SSL won't make anything LESS secure, but it MIGHT make things even just a little bit harder for the attacker. Thirdly, no one said rely solely on that. It is simply a link in a security chain, which IS good security practice.

    Just because "Once a person was able to sneak a gun into a courtroom" may have occurred is absolutely a terrible reason not abolish checking for them.

  22. Re:A hack is not just a hack on Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine · · Score: 0

    SSL certs would have battled against this. They cert wouldn't match when visiting the spoofed site.

  23. Re:I'm surprised this didn't catch on sooner. on A Teletherapy Startup Removes Barriers To Mental Health Care · · Score: 1

    But is IS a lack of skills. Coping skills. These are the very things you go to a therapist to learn, is it not?

  24. Re:I'm surprised this didn't catch on sooner. on A Teletherapy Startup Removes Barriers To Mental Health Care · · Score: 1

    Because a lot of the benefit of therapy is making you leave the house and actually interact with the outside world. This just reenforces those with problems doing so to stay agoraphobic and not develop skills to deal with externalities

  25. Re:A Possible Cause of Deflation on DOJ Hasn't Actually Found Silk Road Founder's Bitcoin Yet · · Score: 1

    Put differently, the relative scarcity of the currency would mean that the price of goods and services in that currency would decrease Negative. Like gold, if a chunk went missing forever, the demand vs supply would increase, hence making existing supply more valuable.