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  1. Re:Wait, what? on Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    This is like saying "grep is useless because nobody's completely redesigned in in the last few months!"

    maybe you missed this

  2. Re:Sort of one sided isn't it? on New Zealand Three-Strikes Law To Be Tested · · Score: 1
    So you're claiming copyright over all gradients? Yeah, ok :-/

    Once you figure that most gradients are subsets of others, there is a shockingly small number of useful ones.

    In that case the merger doctrine will be a problem for you.

  3. Re:Sort of one sided isn't it? on New Zealand Three-Strikes Law To Be Tested · · Score: 1

    Nearly every modern web site includes images that derive from my early work with 24 bit images.

    link or it didn't happen.

  4. Re:That's about the size of it on New Zealand Three-Strikes Law To Be Tested · · Score: 2

    and pushed through on the back of legislation for assisting those affected by the Christchurch earthquake

    link? there are no riders in NZ..

  5. double take.. on Device Sniffs Out Signs of Life After Disasters · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Device Snuffs Out Life Signs After Disasters

  6. Re:I've been saying it for years. on Ruby On Rails SQL Injection Flaw Has Serious Real-Life Consequences · · Score: 1
  7. Re:As an Australian can you give me some insight? on Former GOP Staffer Derek Khanna Speaks On Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Yes, IRV sucks. You want MMP, used in Germany and New Zealand.

  8. Re:The Problem on Former GOP Staffer Derek Khanna Speaks On Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Isn't that sort of problem?

    No, the problem is that you don't have proportional representation.

  9. Re:I've been saying it for years. on Ruby On Rails SQL Injection Flaw Has Serious Real-Life Consequences · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This vector that's been described doesn't work unless the attacker has the HMAC that's signing the session cookie.

    That was last week. This time attackers can bypass authentication systems, inject arbitrary SQL, inject and execute arbitrary code, or perform a DoS attack. Please try to keep up.

  10. Re:I've been saying it for years. on Ruby On Rails SQL Injection Flaw Has Serious Real-Life Consequences · · Score: 1

    That was last week. This time it's ARBITRARY CODE EXECUTION without conditions. Please try to keep up.

  11. Re:Overraction on Ruby On Rails SQL Injection Flaw Has Serious Real-Life Consequences · · Score: 1

    you have to know the "secret" key used for the cookie data

    That was last week. This time there are no conditions.

  12. link or it didn't happen on Teenager Makes Discovery About Galaxy Distribution · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It has been long thought that dwarf galaxies orbiting Andromeda galaxy (M31), or any other galaxy for that matter, are distributed more or less randomly around the host galaxy.

    [citation needed]

    The planets orbit the sun near the ecliptic plane, so if you were to make an assumption about the distribution of galaxies why would you assume galaxies are distributed randomly?

  13. Re:You don't on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "I'm the best coder here"

    no, but "you're the best coder here but it would help if you wrote code the rest of us can understand" might work.

  14. Re:I'm an atheist, and I agree with this law on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 1

    would you want freedon of expression to rule the day?

    yes

  15. Re:No point supporting i386 anyway on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 1

    How did they do things like file locking and multi-processor synchronization on earlier architectures, without an instruction like that?

    XCHG

  16. Re:Americans to cops: on Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    No, they're sleeping with their biographers.

  17. Re:You disgust me. on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    1948

    Which would be after the mass coerced immigration and ethnic cleansing. How about 1947?

  18. Re:Job Performance on CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair · · Score: 1

    citation needed

    [1]

  19. Re:Wake me up when they find a second earth on Super-Earth Discovered In Star's Habitable Zone · · Score: 0

    Is this good enough?

  20. Re:Right on on Richard Stallman: Limit the Effect of Software Patents · · Score: 1

    I consider myself a strict constitutionalist

    That'd be more convincing if you'd spelled "strict constructionist" correctly.

  21. Re:Capability Based Security on Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" · · Score: 1

    Capability Based Security can make our systems secure.

    ENOPATCH

  22. I put on my robe and wizard hat.

  23. Re:Seriously? on Thanks For the Logos; Help Us Choose a Winner · · Score: 1

    I couldn't possibly pick a best one.

    Have you considered voting third-party?

  24. Re:While I don't agree with China's censorship... on Telling the Truth In Today's China · · Score: 1

    China's focus is more of an "internal harmony" approach, whereby maintaing social order is a higher priority than things such as freedom of the press.

    "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- JFK

  25. Re:Socialist agenda on full display tonite on Third 2012 US Presidential Debate Tonight: Discuss Here · · Score: 2

    I'll be voting Gary Johnson.

    If you're going to vote third-party you could at least vote for electoral reform.