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Comment Re:Sequels not that bad (Score 1) 640

Yea! One of the things I loved about the first movie was that it was flawless about the logic. There was an absolutely logic explanation to why we see people jumping between impossible building gaps, and disappear in phone bots.
That was completely ruined at the end of the second movie with the telekinetic stuff, so unless they justify that with some-kind of a multilevel depth of matrixes, the next movies can't be nothing more than entertainment to me .

Comment Re:Repeat after me (Score 1) 371

so i suppose saying "correlation is not causation" is of value if the average slashdot reader is a 12 year old. but otherwise,

It is when you continue try to make a relation between who uses that phrase and the dumbness of who uses that phrase out of context. Since you are continually making a "correlation with causation", I'm pointing the irony of your comments. See that I'm not saying you are ironic, I'm pointing the irony of your comments.

To reach the value of an argument you can't attack the people who uses that argument as a way of reaching the real value of the argument. That's not being honest. You have to discuss the argument itself.

other than conveniently labelling yourself for everyone else's sake as the idiot in the room

Based on your last phrase, perhaps it's too much to ask for you to discuss arguments rather than attacking people who use them.

Comment Re:Repeat after me (Score 1, Insightful) 371

"Correlation is not equal to causation" is what an unintelligent person says when they wish to sound intelligent. it's something they once heard they thought was clever, and they think that by aping this simpleminded thought they are adding something to the conversation, when they are just generating useless noise

an intelligent person would actually be looking at the merits or lack thereof of the correlation, and talking about if causation is implied or not

Perhaps, but even considering true that most people who use that phrase are unintelligent wishing to sound intelligent, It doesn't mean that all people using that phrase are unintelligent and using the phrase out of context. To support what I'm saying: "correlation is not causation"

Comment Re:How much was he paid (Score 1) 120

I would take it a step further. You are inherently installing malware when using jailbreak/rooting tools. The fact that you are intentionally using and benefiting from the malware doesn't mean it isn't malware.

I believe you are wrong. The mere fact that you are intentionally using ( inherently informed consent), disqualifies jailbreak/rooting as malware.

From wikipedia: "Malware (also: scumware), short for malicious software, is software designed to secretly access a computer system without the owner's informed consent. "

Open Source

Grad Student Looking To Contribute To Open Source 283

An anonymous reader writes "I'm an Applied Math grad student who knows a bit of Mathematics and a bit of programming. C++ is my first programming language — I am decent at it. I wish to start contributing to a numerical library with two purposes — contribute to open source and develop my C++ skills at the same time. I looked at the Boost libraries and joined the developer list. However, I have no idea on how to start contributing. I'm not an expert in template programming, having written only toy programs to understand that concept. I've used some of the OOP constructs like inheritance,but only for very small projects. Do you have any tips on how to get started on contribution? Are there any other emerging numerical libraries to which I can contribute? Are there any other avenues where I can contribute to open source and improve programming skills?"
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Exec: Open Means Incompetent (techdirt.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The President of Microsoft Latin America, in criticizing the Brazilian government for its support of open source software claimed that declaring something open is how you "mask incompetence." That seems especially funny coming from Microsoft, who has used "closed" to mask incompetence for years. I thought "open" meant that people could find and fix (or ignore) incompetence, whereas closed meant you were stuck with the incompetence.

Comment Re:Who knew! (Score 5, Interesting) 156

What a surprise, encryption has flaws!

RTFA. It's not about flaws in encryption. It's about "ASP.NET's implementation of AES has a bug in the way that it deals with errors when the encrypted data in a cookie has been modified"
So it's the ASP.NET AES implementation that has flaws. The problem seems to be that the errors reveal enough information about how to decrypt the data.

Comment Re:uhhh (Score 1) 545

I think it's a good idea for them to change the passwords

I think that too. But perhaps a better approach would be to contact people first asking permission, don't you think. Perhaps they didn't do that because it's a little more expensive than just running a script to automatically change default passwords to cover their asses.

Every time someone did a disconnect they had to send back equipment or pay a fee for not returning it

IANAL, Even if that is true, the router is rented, so it belongs while he pays his connection. In my country and I think in most countries, a landlord can't enter in any of his rented houses without consent of the people who live there. By your way of thinking Verizon could enter your network even if you protected it, just because they own the router.

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Not native English speaker, so don't break my balls.

Wine

Wine 1.2 Released 427

David Gerard writes "Stuck with that one Windows app you can't get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9 is well-supported and DirectX 10 is getting better. Packages should hit the distros over the weekend, or you can get the source now."

Comment Re:not unusual (Score 1) 258

So, without an industry that is strong in copyright, the country has no major incentives to be a strong proponent of copyright.

So, without an industry to fill the pockets of politicians, the country has no major incentives to uphold totally insane laws.

Comment Re:Do we really want him writing code? (Score 5, Insightful) 293

I agree with you about the shitty code out there. I simply can't agree with anything else you've wrote.
Why do you assume that only people with Computer Science background should be writing code? Your post also just assume that because he is a security guard, that he just should write code that would never see the light of the day. That's plain stupid you know.
The submitter already told me two thing with his article. First is that he truly loves programming, and second is that he is able to self study any language without the need of a course where he could ask many questions about issues he didn't understood.
That's more than I find in many people with a computer related education. Your computer science background can teatch you important concepts, and the right way to do things. It can be a valuable and important background. It can't teach you how to be creative with your algorithms, and how to be smart enough to write complex programs.

Comment Re:One more point for Microsoft? (Score 1) 277

From the help:

* Windows XP with SP2 or a later version
        * Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
        * Windows Imaging Component
        * 250 MB or more of hard disk space
        * A 1.0-gigahertz (GHz) processor (2.8 GHz or faster is recommended)
        * 256 MB of system memory (1 GB is recommended)
        * A 32-MB video card (256 MB is recommended) that supports Microsoft DirectX 9, with 3D hardware acceleration enabled
        * A high-speed or broadband Internet connection

I have moonlight(linux silverlight implemented with mono) installed, and looking by the requirement specifications I guess you are wrong.

Also - a lot of Bing Maps is beta or just freshly out of Beta. I'm using their API on web sites where I am asked to integrate a map as it just really works better IMHO.

Also by the obvious specs above I guess they will never support Linux, so I guess I will never know how much better it works unless I buy their OS.
I have a rule of thumb here. I don't buy proprietary software to browse the web. I'm probably crazy.

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