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  1. Re:Several languages on Ask Slashdot: Books for a Comp Sci Graduate Student? · · Score: 1

    Computer science isn't about those practical things a developer does.

    Compiler theory, computability theory, language design, OS design, that's more the grist for the grad compsci brain-mill

  2. Re:Nuclear? on UN: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple To Save Climate · · Score: 1

    the way Gore lives is as a wealthy man, the 1%. He is the wingnut, asking us to sacrifice the benefits of our energy-driven civilization to live like peasants.

  3. Re:Fermi paradox on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 2

    one tenth lightspeed is not slow at all, and in fact more likely to get a vessel destroyed as contact with the smallest pebble would be disaster. And Von Neumon starships have even more obstacles to their existence than life itself; it's one thing to have a creature with muscles and digestive system, another for a machine with a fusion motor in its butt needing tons of helium-3 or deuterium

  4. Re:My guess is that we are fairly unique... on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 1

    we did 1.7 billion years of unicellular life, then 2.1 billion multicellular.....maybe even with moon and tilt the tendency is to unicellular life.

  5. Re:Lets make some easy money! on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 1

    wrong, they are working already. They've been working for years. They have been getting funding for years. They have proven projects that benefit everyone. They are merely asking for more donations: http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

    what is wrong with that, they have long track record of success.

  6. Re:What will be next: LibreSystemd? on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 1

    OpenBSD already has your LibreSystemd, it's called the BSD rc script system. it fucking works, bitches.

  7. Re:Or.. on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 1

    like the OpenBSD's team's openssh isn't ported to other OS? like every single commit of the fixes their are making on openssl aren't on globally public web servers? oh wait, they are... you must be totally full of shit

  8. Re:Or.. on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 1

    you seem to be ignorant of fact openssl didn't want to take the fixes or to be instructed on how to properly implement code. this was done out of frustration the openssl's teams lack of willingness to do things correctly or be corrected

  9. Re:Graphic design geniuses too on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 1

    suck on this thermometer: http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

  10. Re:Awesome! on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 1

    yes, the team has proven themselves cleaning up BSD and many other projects. they have creds and accomplishments in that field

  11. Re:Model M Keyboard FTW on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    the 24 function key ones are on ebay all the time, and you could even use the new ps/2 Unicomp ones with adapter. just look up "ps/2 to AT adapter" on ebay or computer hardware site (adapters going the other way exist too if you have AT keyboard you like and want to use with newer ps/2 port)

  12. Re:1 Trillion on Heartbleed Pricetag To Top $500 Million? · · Score: 1

    no, a single case doesn't prove what is the norm. those of us who follow the forums of major open source projects see the many eyeballs doing great things all the time. and now many eyeballs are being focused on openssl, the world will benefit.

  13. Re:It's not about the money on Skilled Manual Labor Critical To US STEM Dominance · · Score: 5, Insightful

    no pride? Fitting three foot diameter stainless pipes that will take 2,000 psi and 900 degree superheated steam can't be a source of pride? making skyscraper can't? doing asbestos abatement on a power plant safely and properly can't? rebuilding and replacing a pump the size of a house can't? nonsense, I've worked with those people, they take huge pride in their work and are very much valued and sought for in industry.

  14. Re:WelderS? on Skilled Manual Labor Critical To US STEM Dominance · · Score: 2

    you are wrong, I've done construction scheduling for years and the skilled trade workers (also pipefitters, abatement insulators) can make that. But you'd be following big construction or plant outages, and working long days in project pinch times. but that's not a starting wage either, mastery of skill is required

  15. Re:Am I reading this right on Asteroid Impacts Bigger Risk Than Thought · · Score: 1

    hah, mega not meta.

  16. Re:Am I reading this right on Asteroid Impacts Bigger Risk Than Thought · · Score: 1

    no, these energies we're talking about are PUNY compared to those that make disasterous tsnunamis, like the 2011 one 480 METAtons of energy

  17. Re:Venus isn't Earth's "twin" really at all. on Venus' Crust Heals Too Fast For Plate Tectonics · · Score: 2

    you are mistaken, the composition of Venus rock from surface on down is nearly identical to Earth.

  18. Re:Internet of things on The Internet of Things and Humans · · Score: 1

    why, what identifiable disease has been caused by this? the only identifiable cause of rising cancer rates is longer lifespan in world's population.

  19. Re:1 Trillion on Heartbleed Pricetag To Top $500 Million? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Point out to your brother in law that weak closed source software has killed people, destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of spacecraft, caused blackouts, loss of continental long distance service, etc. etc.

  20. Re:Model M Keyboard FTW on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 2

    mine is the 122 key model (24 function keys, 2x12). weighs over 8 lbs. The coiled cable is thicker than what the old analog phone receivers used to have

  21. Re:Commodore Amiga 3000T on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    My Radio Shack Micronta 22-203A 30,000 ohm/volt analog multimeter I received at age 12. It ss still working fine and is accurate. If component ever has problem it has schematic and troubleshooting instructions. I'm over half a century old.

  22. Re:Internet of things on The Internet of Things and Humans · · Score: 2

    Even without the surveillance it is a turnoff because of the unnecessary liberal use of digital electronics in lieu of simple time-proven mechanisms rendering previously robust products more fragile and shorter-lived.

  23. Re:#lot? on The Internet of Things and Humans · · Score: 0

    some kind of twitter twat babble? Sad because the author's picture shows he should be much too old and mature to bother with such rubbish

  24. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1

    no fabrication, I say something does not exist. I say that which does not exist is used as basis for junk science such as this paper. The non-sequiturs are between your ears, logic fails you.

  25. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1

    you are confused, "nothing to back it up". the complete lack of records with precision of tenth of a degree C are the proof, the fabricated charts of such from even 120 years ago are the proof