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  1. Re:It's probably not the best experience of your l on Feces-Filled Capsules Treat Bacterial Infection · · Score: 1

    Hershey "chocolate" is made from vomit rather than feces. And this is not a joke; at the time I assumed I got a badly spoiled piece.

  2. Re: Trolls are bad people on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 2

    which fork to use during which course during a fancy dinner

    Whichever fork does the job. Any smart person will realize using fork X only for dish Y is an old fad.

  3. Not only in Midgard on Europeans Came From Three Ancestry Groupings · · Score: 1

    We know that warlike once-nomadic Aesir mingled with settled farmer Vanir.

    Which speaks heaps about their worshippers.

  4. Re:Simple set of pipelined utilties! on Torvalds: No Opinion On Systemd · · Score: 1

    It's not rebranding -- it'd be like calling your home an El-Gaz because you got central heating from El-Gaz.

    The kernel is just one of many components -- and not even an irreplaceable one (Debian kfreebsd for example).

  5. Re:Simple set of pipelined utilties! on Torvalds: No Opinion On Systemd · · Score: 1

    No, the distinction is important, although for not Stallman's reasons. We need different names for the kernel (Linux) vs kernel+bionic (Android) vs kernel+mostly-GNU (GNU/Linux) vs some embedded stuff.

  6. Re:America Cannot Compete on New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    As usually, it's "intellectual property" that's a problem. Stop treating licensing as goods/work, and the ability to shift profits goes away.

  7. Re:Sink or Swim time. on Digia Spins Off Qt As Subsidiary · · Score: 1

    It's so needed after GTK went to the crapper.

  8. Re:Double-edged sword on Software Patents Are Crumbling, Thanks To the Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    No, innovation is usually good. Without it, we'd never move forward, including having gotten to where we are now. It's just that you need to weed good innovation from bad.

  9. Re:Double-edged sword on Software Patents Are Crumbling, Thanks To the Supreme Court · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, GNOME3 is a counterexample. I wish Microsoft held a patent on obnoxious tabletized UIs.

  10. Re:Good decision? on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 2

    You mean, they're usually without a real strategy?

  11. Re:It should be on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It boggles me why, on the left side of the pond, you have people with multiple DUI convictions who still get permits to drive on selected routes.

    Here in Poland, quite a few people push for the first DUI mean losing the driving license for life. I'd say that's overkill, but 5 years or so of absolute driving ban for a DUI would be just right. It's a kind of a murder attempt, after all.

  12. Re:Or so they say... on Feds Say NSA "Bogeyman" Did Not Find Silk Road's Servers · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if they are lying through their teeth when they say that. Because they claim it to be true, we can use that as further justification that the NSA's mass-surveillance hasn't done squat.

    Because they're busy using that surveillance spying on political and business opponents. Come on, citizen, you don't want to take resources away from that to put then to unimportant stuff like catching criminals and preventing terrorism, do you? Heck, if we caught terrorists before they strike, the terror would be gone and this would risk pulling resources away public support from the surveillance!

  13. Buck feta on Some Core I7 5960X + X99 Motherboards Mysteriously Burning Up · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why in the blazes the inter-Slashdot link leads to the Beta travesty? If I, due to some mental malady, would prefer Beta, I'd set it as my default.

    Why does even Dice keep Beta afloat after it failed? I seriously hope the plans to make it the main -- and only -- interface are gone. Oh well, there's still Soylent...

  14. Re:What's all the fuss about? on LLVM 3.5 Brings C++1y Improvements, Unified 64-bit ARM Backend · · Score: 2

    With compilers, what counts is the speed of compiled code rather than compilation speed, and here clang loses by quite a bit.

    Compilation speed really matters only in rapid compile-debug cycles, but there clang, despite winning on compile speed, is hindered by producing worse debug info.

  15. Re:There are several problems with this on Google Serves Old Search Page To Old Browsers · · Score: 1

    Just install the "Classic Theme Restorer" add-on and Firefox is as usable as it was before.

  16. Re:Why a hardcoded list? on Mozilla To Support Public Key Pinning In Firefox 32 · · Score: 2

    The .cn TLD is can be MITMed by the Chinese government, yes. That's why you need to host your chinese-dissident page in a TLD of any country that hates China (ie, almost any of them). Same for a site that reveals wrongdoings of the NSA. Any point other than ICANN can be avoided by simply chosing a different TLD, and ICANN itself can be secured by pinning TLD keys.

    This goes in sharp contrast with the CA cartel model, where you need to trust the sum (rather than alternative) of 400+ entities, some of which are known to be actively engaged in MITM, like CNNIC or Etisalat.

  17. Re:Why a hardcoded list? on Mozilla To Support Public Key Pinning In Firefox 32 · · Score: 2

    Uhm no, you can't MITM DNSSEC, you can't do anything except a denial of service unless you control one of three entities:

    • ICANN
    • that particular TLD
    • the registrar your victim uses

    That is, unless someone is stupid enough to trust some external DNS server, but no reasonable DNSSEC client would use a dumb stub resolver this way.

  18. Re:News to be filed under "duh..." on Multipath TCP Introduces Security Blind Spot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For me, some extra resiliency against snooping is a bonus rather than a "critical vulnerability".

  19. Re:Wait for it... on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Hmm yeah.. if this was reliable information, we'd have heard more by now.

  20. Re:Wait for it... on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    It was in the news a couple days ago, reporting a first sighting of 300-400 men in plain (green) uniforms of Russian army. Without distinctions, same as in Crimea.

  21. Re:Ah. on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    One mr. Osipovich would have a word with you.

  22. Re:Wait for it... on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 4, Informative

    The "rebels" are in a good part active-duty Russian army and special forces personnel with no distinctions, so I wouldn't claim "very little training".

  23. Re:Shocked I am! Shocked! on LibreSSL PRNG Vulnerability Patched · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In this case, the same seed was provided. Two copies of the same PRNG are supposed to provide exact same output, I don't see any issue here.

  24. Re:The Valley trade: Less taxes, more H1Bs... on Rand Paul and Silicon Valley's Shifting Political Climate · · Score: 1

    longer, better patents and copyrights

    Isn't "longer" and "better" a contradiction here?

  25. Re:Congratulations? on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 5, Funny

    He went extinct for your sins.