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  1. Re:$1b corps on Apple's Spotty Record of Giving Back To the Tech Industry · · Score: 1

    Here you go, the source for it, found in five seconds on Google:

    http://www.opensource.apple.co...

    You could have checked yourself if what you were going to say was actually true, but I guess that just wasn't a priority.

  2. Re:Why would I work for free to make Apple rich? on Apple's Spotty Record of Giving Back To the Tech Industry · · Score: 1

    They actually created clang from scratch and open-sourced it.

  3. Re:$1b corps on Apple's Spotty Record of Giving Back To the Tech Industry · · Score: 1

    Apple has deprecated OpenSSL on OS X a long time ago, and provide their own replacements.

  4. Re:And the attempt to duplicate their efforts resu on Commenters To Dropbox CEO: Houston, We Have a Problem · · Score: 2

    Or show up on someone else's doorstep. Close enough, right?

  5. Re:For the Swarm! on The Graffiti Drone · · Score: 1

    That definition seems to exclude anyone who paints on a canvas to hang in a gallery too.

    Pretty much all art is made for others to look at. How you do that varies. Painting it on the side of a building is just one of many ways, that happens to be illegal most of the time. But legality has nothing to do with art.

  6. Re:Surely on Double Take: Condoleezza Rice As Dropbox's Newest Board Member · · Score: 4, Informative

    Of course there are:

    http://www.drop-dropbox.com/

  7. Re:Surely on Double Take: Condoleezza Rice As Dropbox's Newest Board Member · · Score: 0

    I'm just going to sit here and wait for everyone who spoke up in defense of Eich to now defend Rice, too.

    I'm sure they'll be here any minute now.

  8. Re:Hoax? on Skydiver's Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor · · Score: 2

    Because as we all know, HN users are experts at meteorites. They are also not at all interested in trying to convince people of how smart they are by calling others wrong.

  9. Re:Who cares? on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1

    What.

  10. Re:Who cares? on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1

    So if the average person could think critically for themselves, gays wouldn't want to marry?

  11. Re:Are programmers really this naive? on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 1

    I guess you just missed the parts like,

    And everyone “got it.” It was a reality-kinda-sorta-thing. Sponsors would be there. Mountain Dew would be there. Dramatic tension was likely unavoidable on some level, and the prizes would be dumb. If anything it was just poor planning, and maybe some questionable brand integration.

    Or,

    The contracting was expected. The prizing, branding, sponsors and cinema of the whole thing fell in line with what they thought might happen.

  12. Re:Are programmers really this naive? on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 1

    So you didn't actually read the articles about this at all?

  13. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    The warming trend has not "paused for the last 18 years". That is a lie you have been told.

  14. Re:WOW! on Linux 3.14 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    Well, no. It does not.

  15. Re:What if on Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Difficulty rises until they all get about 5% of all bitcoins and the previous people get their share of the remaining 50%.

  16. Re:raytracing coins on Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    No. Proof of work has to be hard to do, easy to check. With raytracing both are essentially equal.

  17. Re:Trademark Violation on Tor Project: Fake Tor App Has Been In Apple's App Store For Months · · Score: 2

    Wait, so we like trademark law in this thread? Because I just came from another thread where trademark law was literally Hitler, and I forgot to change.

  18. Re:Crypto-coin advocates = anarchists or libertari on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    I don't think I have much of a problem with others deciding for me that hired killers are bad for me.

  19. Re:Crypto-coin advocates = anarchists or libertari on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    Yes, hired killers are only illegal, certainly not bad.

  20. Re:What we've learned from Bitcoin on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 2

    Bitcoin has grown immensely in the last year.

    Yet volatility is just as high as ever.

    People keep saying that more users and more value will drive down volatility, but this is only ever wishful thinking. Reality does not bear this claim out.

  21. Re:Crypto-coin advocates = anarchists or libertari on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    I literally can not think of a single way that making sure bad things are only available to a few is better than bad things being available to everybody!

  22. Re:Is that so? on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    That's what he said, you know.

  23. Re:Lol, sure on CanSecWest Presenter Self-Censors Risky Critical Infrastructure Talk · · Score: 1

    That's presuming that NO ONE in the public at large works for a power company. Which, as we all know, is nonsense.

    You realise you can actually inform the power company without informing the public at large?

    However, that's not the point - putting a vulnerability out in the open forces the people who use those systems to fix them ASAP, rather than just ignoring the problem until after someone exploits it.

    The problem is, you can't just fix these things instantly. This isn't like your web browser, as I said. You don't just push out a quick bug fix and install it. These things run terrible ancient legacy code that you don't even know if anyone knows any more. Fixing them can be a very long process. During all that time, you'll be vulnerable, and can't do anything about it.

  24. Re:Lol, sure on CanSecWest Presenter Self-Censors Risky Critical Infrastructure Talk · · Score: 1

    No, that was not the general "you". It was the specific you. What are you going to do with this knowledge? You can not act on it in any useful way.

  25. Re:Resin lenses ? on Stanford Bioengineer Develops a 50-cent Paper Microscope · · Score: 1

    Of course. Check your closest piece of optical equipment and see if it brags about being aspherical. In that case, it probably contains resin lens elements.