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  1. Re: NUKEM!! NUKEM NOW!! on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    Do we want keep being attacked for ever? Yes, a lot of civilians would die. They already are on both sides. If you eliminate the problem complete, it won't come back. We just need to grow some balls and do it.

    do you realize that the number and virulence of armed groups has been increasing steadily since 2002?
    there is no way you could possibly 'win' this 'war' throwing more fire at the fire. even the military know that.
    and there is no way homeland security can actually protect its citizens. that's utter nonsense.

    so citizen everywhere will be paying the price for someone's war and power games. my guess is that this has already been accounted for, and your little patriotic civilian life is equally expendable and on the line as any other. good luck with your crusade.

  2. Re: NUKEM!! NUKEM NOW!! on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    In my point of view, drone strikes are serious crimes just like terrorist attacks but the two things should be kept apart and not one can justify the other.

    moot point since the other part hasn't the tech to respond with drones. bottom line is: you screw with people, they will respond with whatever they can respond with.

    it's now a plague very difficult to deal with, but 'we' created it in the first place. that's not justification, it's just understanding cause and effect and why things happen. maybe there's other solutions besides sending in drones, and maybe we could learn from the past to not make the future even worse. sadly, i doubt it.

  3. Re: Leave no H1-B behind! on More Tech, STEM Workers Voluntarily Quitting Their Jobs (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Alas, here in the UK a lie on your CV/resume once found out, can result in a criminal conviction for fraud.

    a cv is pure marketing, everyone knows that. if company pr isn't held to the same standard then that's nonsense, i wonder if there was a single one you couldn't sue to oblivion after just the first week on the job.

  4. deep space missions to destinations including the moon, Mars, and asteroids

    someone tell them they won't find mars or the moon in deep space, quick!

  5. Re:Can't have been too good a hacker on Ukrainian Hacker Who Targeted Brian Krebs Extradited To US (go.com) · · Score: 1

    To find out whether the intrusion detection and logging mechanisms are doing their job well. If I can get in and out without the IDs and logs showing it, we have a problem. The primary problem is of course that I got in, but at least as big a problem is if this goes undetected!

    fair enough.

  6. Re:Can't have been too good a hacker on Ukrainian Hacker Who Targeted Brian Krebs Extradited To US (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Or he felt too secure sitting in a country half a planet away.

    ukraine is as puppet state as it gets right now.

    Like my boss once said, having a police record is no recommendation in this biz. Yes, it means that you did something. But it also means that you were either too sloppy, to crappy or too arrogant to cover your tracks well.

    why is covering your tracks a desirable skill for your job?

  7. Re:Linux is Dying on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    small correction, make that 1199.999.999. i was baptized and registered as catholic w/o consent or anybody ever asking me. didn't even bother to opt out ...

  8. Re: If that's how Pokemon Int'l treats its fans... on A Broke Fan Owes $5,400 For Pokemon-Themed Party Posters · · Score: 1

    Lawyers and lawmakers disagree with you and since they have money and power and you obviously do not, I'd say you're wrong and your opinion irrelevant.

    i'd say he is right and his opinion is irrelevant (vs the global brainwash promoted by the intellectual property mafia)

  9. Re:This was not a screw-up on US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital · · Score: 1

    not after having been made aware of their coordinates and location several times. Someone ordered this strike, believing there were "terrorists" treated at that facility, knowing very well it was a hospital and what the result would be, and giving no damn about it because they can get away with it. This is worse than all the other killings commited by U.S forces abroad, and people and governments must take a stand, or killings and murders like these will just continue.

    unless there's concrete evidence there is no point in attributing to malice what can be explained by mere incompetence. once you unleash the dogs this shit is bound to happen. and unleashed they are, for decades now.

    us strikes killing innocents is nothing new, it's routine. the news flash here is that it's western innocents.

  10. Re:Genuine Quality on Office 2016 Proving Unstable With Apple's El Capitan · · Score: 1

    about things that work everywhere

    And by everywhere you mean "on computers running Microsoft Windows."

    ok, 'almost' everywhere.

    it's surprises me that apple, the pinnacle of supercool software (tm), lacks it's own office productivity toolset and needs to resort to ms office, it doesn't surprise me that much that it doesn't work but what's quite hilarious is that the proposed (in this tread) alternative is libreoffice. as roy zimmerman put it: 'sometimes satire writes itself'.

    my prayers and best wishes for those poor mistreated mac users

  11. Re:Evolution is key on Are Enterprise Architects the "Miltons" of Their Organizations? · · Score: 1

    If you actually think that, then I really hope that you never design a UI that normal people have to use.

    why so harsh? he probably picked that up in some 'enterprise architecture 2.0' manual while looking for concepts for some flashy presentation, and it worked there, and nobody ever told him it was utter bs.

  12. Re:It will break the Internet!!?!?!?!?! on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Did you even bother to read the rest of the summary? This actually causes real potential issues if someone stores copyrighted information in a URL-shortener's database. Because in that case, it ISN'T just a link to information - it is the information itself.

    no, copyright is causing issues.

    So, yes, this sort of thing can potentially open ISPs and hosting companies up to all sorts of unexpected liability. If upheld that way, when the courts get involved, it could, in fact, break the internet.

    this very same technique has been used for ages in several tools to store and propagate user data.

    if abused it could break url shortener services for a short while (*), which aren't essential at all. i actually never liked them, i want to know where i'm clicking to.

    (*) i guess i would take any service just minutes to impose size limits.

  13. Re:Article is bullshit on Android Lollipop Can Be Hacked With Very Long Password · · Score: 1

    (pssst. it's dalvik, actually)

  14. or not on An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    back in the day you got your software from the same vendor, possibly even the hardware. when something went wrong, be it some service stopping, some communication link dropping or some tape getting stuck, the vendor took responsibility, and you paid just one or a couple of hefty bills.

    then came the revolution of decentralization. it was supposed to be cheaper and more efficient. since then when something went wrong chances were you wouldn't even know who to call from a constellation of providers of apps, middleware, drivers, services, components and whatnot, each of which dependent on it's own chain of providers, so you could have to live with the problem for a looooong time before it was even known who's problem it was, all this in exchange of a hefty collection of smaller bills which totals considerably more.

    turns out it wasn't more efficient and cheap at all, just more convenient and profitable for the industry.

    now it's about going totally cloud-nuts? yeah, what could possibly go wrong ...

  15. Re:Fix? how? on How Artificial Intelligence Can Fight Air Pollution In China · · Score: 1

    So, prediction fixes air pollution how exactly? it's not like factories are going to shut down for any reason.

    not fix, fight. i guess the strategy is to sell useless expensive data analysis to china until they are broke and have to shut down the factories. voilà.

  16. Re:That's great and all... on "Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs · · Score: 1

    probably a nice font, but unfortunately the nice web decided to ignore my browsers's zoom function. so to the authors, get back to me when you get the basics on accessibility right. thanks but no thanks ....

  17. Re:wtf? on City of Munich Struggling With Basic Linux Functionality · · Score: 1

    Reading the text you quote, it seems 'no root' is the problem here.

    actually 'no root' is a solution :-) no adequate IT support would the problem there! :)

    anyway, i'm not at all comfortable with having public servant's communication dependent on skype. granted, i can't quite wrap my head around the idea of using proprietary software for any public matter, it simply fails to comply with the most basic accountability requirements. money should go into developing open source communication software and providing open infrastructure instead of paying licenses to corporations for uncontrollable software.

  18. wtf? on City of Munich Struggling With Basic Linux Functionality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unter anderem können keinerlei Programme
    (Textbearbeitungsprogramme, Skype, Office, etc.) selbst nach installiert werden, welches
    einen normalen Gebrauch verhindert

    no text processing? no skype? wtf? LiMux must be the worst distro ever.

    or it could be that this is the worst fud ever.

  19. Re:Free alternatives? on Former Employees Accuse Kaspersky Lab of Faking Malware · · Score: 2

    There don't seem to be very many good free alternatives other than microsoft's default package.

    at risk of stating the obvious ... er ... linux? :)

    I've wondered if it's possible for me to make my own security system, but I've never given it a good amount of thought.

    it's possible. it's also hard. start giving it some good amount of thought and stop making yourself a target by using the 'default package'. it will be easier from there ...

  20. Re:Showed too much of his hand on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 2

    Except that the most powerful man in the world doesn't usually resign, even in a democracy.

    the most powerful man in the world eats presidents for breakfast.

  21. Re:Showed too much of his hand on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Actually could work. "If you give me this, I'll leave" If not you probably have to put up with "four more years!"

    sadly if that 'this' is of any value congressmen would have to put up with it an indeterminate number of years. they are greedy, not that stupid.

  22. Re:Seems simple enough to reverse this strategy on Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' · · Score: 1

    In either case the takedown notices are invalid and abuse of process.

    in either case columbia will get away with it and anyone affected will have to struggle to get their content back online. the price of being (irrelevant) part of the media crap fest, i guess.

  23. Re:Enough on Certifi-gate: Another Huge Android Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    agreed
    Watergate was a hotel, thats no reason to have the -gate suffix to mean a scandal

    agreed, 'scandalon' means a stumbling block, that's no reason to use it to refer to human moral misery.

  24. Re:It's the big problem with space games on Using Math To Tune a Video Game's Economy · · Score: 1

    Depends what you're trying to do. It works for the developer of Eve, CCP Games. It works for the players who have fun and get goods when and where they need them.

    please feel free to see my other reply: http://games.slashdot.org/comm...

    In fact, I wager you don't have any actual experience with a market since otherwise you wouldn't make such a dumb claim.

    dunno what you mean with "actual experience with a market". if you mean i lack a degree in some pseudoscience then yes.

  25. Re:It's the big problem with space games on Using Math To Tune a Video Game's Economy · · Score: 1

    I'm not really sure what you mean

    sort of a pun. free markets don't actually exist, it's a fallacy. all
    markets are controlled in subtle (and not so subtle) ways.

    because of that there's no real balance, inequality inevitably grows
    and they need a periodical correction or even 'reset' which is usualy
    a rather violent event. in that sense i say "they don't work", and the
    "invisible hand" idea is just delusion.

    I'm not sure how you can claim that the notion of the invisible hand
    doesn't work in games when there's a particularly good example of it
    working well. I can't think of any game I've played that as an
    entirely AI-driven economy that's come anywhere close to creating the
    same kind of experience you can get from EVE.

    eve's economy is not completely player driven. basic resources are
    always available and affordable regardless of player actions, thus
    speculative behaviour has no effect at all on the system, which is
    closely monitored and corrections introduced as necessary, even
    automatically. as a simulation it's not even a valid metaphor, just a
    spinning wheel with players jumping on an off. every time a player
    quits billions of isk just vanish, but the wheel just keeps
    spinning. probably just a handfull players were there from the start
    and all their actions become even more irrelevant. prices of some
    items go up and down. so what? that's not a model for an economy, it's
    more like an animated aquarium. not that i don't like it, i do play
    eve, but it's just a game.