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  1. Doesn't matter. AES is not going to fall to a few ASIC chips in the first place. Doesn't matter how many the NSA builds, and they wouldn't waste their money on that in the first place.

  2. Re:Patents. on LGPL H.265 Codec Implementation Available; Encoding To Come Later · · Score: 2

    h.264 is massively patented, and it is huge success. JPEG2000 was a failure because it wasn't actually good enough to be worth dealing with the patents for, unlike h.264.

  3. Re:Las Vegas too on Building Melts Car · · Score: 2

    What kinds of idiots are designing these things?

    Rafael Vinoly, apparently.

  4. Re:So... on The Golden Gate Barrage: New Ideas To Counter Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    The Arctic is floating, so a melt will not affect sea levels. Greenland is not, though, so it does have an effect. Same goes for the Antarctic, and much more so because it is huge.

  5. Re:In need of more relays on Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August · · Score: 1

    No, I mean that all Tor exit nodes can spy on you. And anybody can run an exit node, not just the NSA. Private companies can do so too and collect data on you.

  6. Re:In need of more relays on Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August · · Score: 1

    And by using Tor carelessly, you open yourself up to more spying of that kind, too.

  7. Re:In need of more relays on Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August · · Score: 2

    I'm sure the NSA will be happy to provide some.

    People need to remember that if you access the regular internet through Tor, and don't very carefully make sure to encrypt everything, you are actually opening yourself up to more spying.

  8. Re:Numbering .. on Nintendo Announces 2DS Handheld — Plays 3DS Games In 2-D · · Score: 1

    Since you have three data points, the correct model is clearly a parabolic function, which gives us the next Nintendo handheld as the -2DS.

  9. Re:If you have nothing to hide... on Info Leak Wars To Get Messier · · Score: 1

    I have made no "earlier point".

  10. Re:If you have nothing to hide... on Info Leak Wars To Get Messier · · Score: 2

    The point was that such a family could be known of by a friendly government, who then has their information leaked. The effort to redact information from leaks before publishing them is to prevent that kind of thing from happening, because nobody wants that.

  11. Re:The Romans found out about lead on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    I doubt you would have the time to shit yourself in that situation. You'd be too busy getting vaporized in a gigantic explosion.

  12. Re:Easier technology to circumvent captcha on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have never seen any evidence whatsoever that this actually happens.

    It has been suggested many times that it could be done, but not once have I seen anyone point to it actually happening in the wild.

  13. Re:You know what this reminds me of? on Samsung Offered StackOverflow Users $500 For "Organic" Publicity · · Score: 1

    Who? What? Look, Abbot and Costello, I ain't got time for you to put two muffins on forks and pretend they're dancin' feet.

  14. Re:Doesn't matter much on Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts · · Score: 1

    It is not. That is the exact kind of argument you were making.

  15. Re:Doesn't matter much on Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts · · Score: 1

    Do you also believe it is impossible to predict that a flipped coin will come up heads 50% of the time, because it is impossible to predict what it will come up as on a single flip?

  16. Re:Have these people never heard of IEEE754???? on Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts · · Score: 0

    If rounding error moves the time from 2 pm to 3 pm, then the errors in your input data will probably switch it between raining at all, and sunshine. You are already past the point where your model can predict anything at all.

  17. Re:Multi-Monitor Support in 2013?!? on Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you are aware, but Microsoft is not developing those drivers.

  18. Re:They never fixed it so far on English High Court Bans Publication of 0-Day Threat To Auto Immobilizers · · Score: 1

    I am sure that loss of one sale will hurt them really bad.

  19. Re:Doesn't matter much on Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts · · Score: 1

    Those tiny rounding errors are causing different forecasts.

    So are the measurement errors, and to a much higher degree. The roundoff errors just don't matter.

    How accurate and reliable can these forecasts be in reality then?

    Once they reach the point where errors have accumulated to this degree, not at all. Everybody knows that.

  20. Re:Have these people never heard of IEEE754???? on Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When floating point roundoff errors grow big enough to affect the outcome of the simulation, you have long since reached the point where you are not predicting anything useful any longer. It is not exactly a problem if the results differ at that point.

  21. Re:Multi-Monitor Support in 2013?!? on Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux? · · Score: 1

    Somehow, manufacturers keep their Windows driver code entirely closed, yet still manage to support multiple monitors.

  22. Re:Once again... on Copyright Drama Reaches 3D Printing World · · Score: 2

    The legal system has been able to handle this for many decades before 3D printers were ever created. It's not like 3D printers are the first machines to ever create objects from a digital description.

  23. Re:3 2 1 Takedown on VLC For iOS Returns On July 19, Rewritten and Fully Open-Sourced · · Score: 1

    One of the VLC devs requested to have it removed because of licensing.

  24. Re:Declared underweight? on Container Ship Breaks In Two, Sinks · · Score: 2

    Almost as many container as are lost all over the world in an entire year get lost in one incident, and your conclusion is that that is not much?

  25. Re:40 per cent? on Google Updates Maps, Makes First Stable Chrome Release Using WebKit Fork · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, either you are silly or your dictionary is, because mine says pretty clearly, "percent also per cent".

    You wouldn't have lied just now, and not actually looked it up in the dictionary, would you?