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  1. Re:So a good match... on New Russian Fighter Not Up To Western Standards · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So long as your Air Force is made up of nothing but experienced pilots, you'll do fine then.

    One (of many) reasons that the US military sucks up so much money is that our pilots train continuously. In the C17, pilots do not reach the Aircraft Commander level until 4 or 5 *years* after putting on wings. Obviously, fighters have a different training program, but clearly huge amounts of continuous training are involved. So, yes, in practical terms, the operational Air Force is made up of almost nothing but experienced pilots.

  2. Confusing Summary on Spoiled Onions: Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays · · Score: 1

    So, they tested around 1000 tor exit nodes, but actually tested many more? 25 of those node might have been malicious or maybe just misconfigured?

    What?

  3. Re:As usual, the rich win. on Decision, EA: Judge Reverses Multimillion Dollar Award To Madden Dev · · Score: 1

    After reading the judge's ruling, I'm convinced it has more to do with the brand-new swimming pool in his backyard with an EA logo on the bottom than anything to do with the facts of the case...

    Your comment is meaningless since it has no connection to reality or any of that actual facts of the case.

    True, the judge may be "wrong". But you are suggesting a "payoff", which is extreamly unlikly.

  4. Re:Google Is Trembing on ChipSiP Smart Glass Specs Better Than Google Glass? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because you know, they haven't been doing anything to prepare the next version of Google Glass.

    Beyond that very good point, this company, do they have an actual product? Because, you know, anyone can write "specs". But have they actually built one yet?

  5. Re:Deliverance Theme For Slashdot Beta on Kentucky: Programming Language = Foreign Language · · Score: 1

    Quit forcing me to BETA pages, I'm sick of it.

    Log in if you want to avoid the BETA site.

  6. Re:Not if you work for the Commonwealth of Kentuck on Kentucky: Programming Language = Foreign Language · · Score: 1

    Technical salaries paid by the Commonwealth of Kentucky are approximately 40% below the regional market average.

    Not as bad as all that when considered within the context of the cost of living in Kentucky.

    For example, consider what $300,000 will buy you for a house in Kentucky (and many other Southern states) verses in Western Washington State where I live. I, Puget Sound, $300K will buy me a two bedroom "fixer-upper" next to a crack house.

  7. Re:According to the history page... on Schiller Says Apple Is the Last PC Maker From the Mac Era, Forgets About HP · · Score: 0

    It doesn't matter much what he was talking about because it was incorrect.

    A completely asinine statement.

  8. Re:IBM, Sun (as Oracle), DEC (as HP) are also arou on Schiller Says Apple Is the Last PC Maker From the Mac Era, Forgets About HP · · Score: 1

    I didn't see anything about a personal computer qualifier in the FA. Schiller said "computers".

    Wrong. If you go to the ORIGINAL SOURCE of the quote, a story at MacWorld, you find that Schiller is in fact talking about PCs:

    "Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone," said Philip Schiller, Appleâ(TM)s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, in an interview on Apple's Cupertino campus Thursday. "Weâ(TM)re the only one left. We're still doing it, and growing faster than the rest of the PC industry because of that willingness to reinvent ourselves over and over."

    That may or may not be an accurate opinon, none the less, the subject here is PCs.

  9. Re:According to the history page... on Schiller Says Apple Is the Last PC Maker From the Mac Era, Forgets About HP · · Score: 0

    Actually, according to their history page, HP coined the term "Personal Computer" in 1968 for a large programmable desktop calculator...

    But that's not what Philip Schiller is talking about.

  10. Re:IBM, Sun (as Oracle), DEC (as HP) are also arou on Schiller Says Apple Is the Last PC Maker From the Mac Era, Forgets About HP · · Score: 0

    IBM, Sun (as Oracle), DEC (as HP) are also around and they are still making computers...

    The Apple statement was about PCs HP markets PCs, but I don't think Sun does, and IBM sold off their PC/Laptop business to Lenovo, recently divesting themselves of their x86 server business as well.

  11. Woz must be turning in his grave.

    When did Woz die?

    I'm no Apple fan, the only Apple I've owned is an Apple 2 (that fired up just fine last time I plugged it in). But I would certainly take an Apple product over some piece-of-shit Dell or HP crapware. My current laptop is a Thinkpad...

  12. A troll is a troll. on Tesla Wins One Over Chinese Trademark Troll · · Score: 1

    And you are OK with Patent Trolls as well? Because it's the same mindset that drives both these "business models" - gain control of something you have no intention of using yourself except to extort money from some company that has a fat wallet.

    Classy.

  13. Re:Lincense wars in... on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 5, Informative

    Many people started moving away from the GPL with version 3.

  14. Re:sorry but.. on US Geneticist Discusses North Korea Trip With Dennis Rodman · · Score: 0

    So, you are saying he's interested in North Korea because it's the only place he can get away with human experimentation?

  15. Re:sorry but.. on US Geneticist Discusses North Korea Trip With Dennis Rodman · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..what is this doing on Slashdot?

    Is this the current Slashdot meme? Can't you find some subtile but helerious (in a geeky way) tie-in with Natalie Portman? Good grief, put some effort into it, man!

    But to answer your question, the man is not just a geneticist, but a statistical geneticist, so that qualifies for the minimum needed geek factor for a poorly edited Slashdot "story".

  16. Meh... on US Geneticist Discusses North Korea Trip With Dennis Rodman · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The write-up tends to make him look like a celebrity whore. Much like Kim Jong Un

  17. Re:Is this a cuteness thing? on 200 Dolphins Await Slaughter In Japan's Taiji Cove · · Score: 1

    So is it ok to eat dogs? ...

    [No] Because they don't taste as good ...

    And you know this from personal experience? Millions of people in non-Western locations who could afford other types of meat do in fact eat dog. And insects, too. You like sea urchins? Personally, think it's disgusting, along with oysters, but sea urchin is huge with the sushi crowd... I've had dog in several *very good* restaurants in certain countries I've been to for work, it's not my cup of tea because of the Western Squeamish Factor of eating things like that, but I wouldn't say it didn't taste good

  18. Re:Get rid of Samzenpus on RSA Boycot Group Sets Up Rival Conference · · Score: 1

    No, it was like that in the original submission.

    So what? Editors are supposed to "edit".

  19. Re:Nice to be at the top of the food chain on 200 Dolphins Await Slaughter In Japan's Taiji Cove · · Score: 1

    Cows and especially pigs are highly intelligent animals.

    Pigs, yes. Cows, no.

    But really, the discussion of the morality of eating animals is a slippery slope to veganism. If you like flesh for dinner, you just have to get over it. Obviously (for Westerners, at least), primates are out. But there's a long distance between primates and cows. And I wonder why it's OK to eat pork but not dolphin, pigs are possibly the smartest "farm animal", known to be quite intelligent.

    By the way, horse meat is delicious. In the 70's, due to certain economic factors effecting feed prices, beef became very expensive. Around Portland, where I grew up, there were several butcher shops (a type of business that has become near extinct) that sold various cuts of horse steaks "for your pets", that's not what most people bought these steaks for.

    Maybe I'm just immoral, but I'll a slab of venison, beef, or horse any day. Any day and any time is a good day and time to fire up the grill.

  20. Re:Hey - NSFW on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In Canada that actually should be rather easy.

    1. What's NSFW about the Twitter page? A guy with an open shirt?
    2. It's after 9pm PST on the MLK weekend. Where do you work?
    3. What are you doing surfing Slashdot at work for anyway?

  21. Perhaps... on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This assumes that 20,000$ worth of bitcoins can be converted to real money.

  22. Re:Pro tip. on Building An Uncensorable Course Guide At Yale · · Score: 0

    Do this kinda shit after you graduate, not before.

    I noticed that everywhere you go, you leave a sticky yellow snail trail...

  23. Re:what makes it uncensorable? on Building An Uncensorable Course Guide At Yale · · Score: 1

    The "censorship" claim is made to get people riled up. This is not about censorship, but about copyright, which is a completely different issue.

    Exactly, which is why Haufler's browser extension should be fine - though he will likely have to modify it on a regular basis to compensate when Yale alters their web site in attempts to foil him.

  24. Re:Not sure that's what they need... on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    Actually, girls and boys (at least heterosexual ones) have the same promiscuity rates.

    The OP is talking about masturbation not "promiscuity" - unless you are in the Bible Belt where they are the same thing.

  25. Re:Something in deep in a loop in the graphics sys on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    ...of the Windows NT kernel that hasn't changed since the 1990s?

    Because we know there's nothing like that in the Linux kernel...