After all, he says he doesn't use a web browser.

Are you stupid or trolling? You must be a weapons-grade imbecile to not care about nuclear weapons. You seriously think that a device that can fit in the trunk of a car or on the nosecone of a missile, capable of can vaporizing a major metropolitan area in an instant, is not a big deal? That might be the dumbest thing I've ever read on slashdot in the last 15 years and that is saying something.

So by your logic because nuclear war hasn't happened yet, it never will? That's... impressively illogical and dangerous.

If you are over the age of 40 and look at actuarial tables, global warming might or might not impact your life greatly. But if you give a crap about those who are younger than you then there is a very real probability it will impact younger folks in very tangible and serious ways. Within my lifetime glaciers have hugely receded, the Arctic ice cap has shrunken to historic lows, etc. If you think those events (regardless of whether caused by man or not) are not having an effect on global climate and weather right now then you either ignorant or have an agenda.

The apostrophe in e'mail is a roadblock you stumble over in confusion.

It's so much easier to scan and pronounce "e-mail" and the meaning remains clear.

There is no such thing as absolute safety, just as there is no such thing as absolute freedom. The closest you can get to that is to live alone on an abandoned island ir in an abandoned mine. And even then, Mother Nature is a b*tch. The whole "one or the other" argument is just a false dichotomy, acerbated by people who are motivated to present unrealistic arguments to further their own agendas or beliefs.

Just more proof that in many cases xml sucks.

Not any more ...

Guess Cisco doesn't expect people to use Voice-over-Internet-Protocol phones over the Internet.

In keeping with Ithe common practice in the computer field (18N for internationalization, etc)., electronic mail should be written e9mail. :-). Or for the really lazy, e12l.

Bye-bye is valid english. Would you want to write that as b'bye? It's bad enough that jerks changed sci-fi to syfy. (and you wouldn't want to call it s'fi, would you?)

In the case of a swatting, they're going to get an answer. Either when they phone, or when they take out the megaphones and start trying to get the attention of anyone inside.

If it's for real, then the first step should be to attempt negotiations with the perp. Make the perp realize that the hostage is way more valuable alive than dead.

I want the repo to stay where it is, so he has to live with the unintended consequences. However, putting this on the front page was "feeding the troll". The guy wrote this with the express purpose of getting people to react negatively, to get more publicity for his other projects.

As to my sig, I put it there in response to a few trolls who repeatedly tried to embarrass me for what I am. Nothing more, nothing less. Not to get a negative reaction. Not to get publicity for anything I'm doing. If trolls are going to repeatedly out me, might as well embrace it :-)

As I wrote, different things are appropriate in different settings. Slashdot isn't exactly noted for being the epitome of social grace, any more than the Nasty Show or reddit is. If he had written that in his journal, nobody would give a darn. And really, nobody should in this case either. As I said, if you're going to make jokes, at least TRY to make them funny.

It's one thing to put slacker comments in source code that's not going to be seen in public, and quite another to stick it in a public repository for the express purpose of getting an emotional reaction from people. The latter is called trolling.

This is especially true in the current case, because that is, by the authors' own admission, the reason he did it - to get attention. The so-called "project" doesn't actually DO anything.

Some tech writers have made this point already, and I probably won't get it out as clearly as they have, but the problem with smartwatches and our perception of them is that we're thinking about them in the here and now, and not in the future. Microsoft (well, Ballmer) famously laughed at the iPhone as too expensive and useless before it took off and crushed the Microsoft Mobile business into dust. He was thinking of the here and now, and not the future.

Interesting.

I think there's a difference though. When the iPhone came out it had this tremendous aura of Cool about it. I say that as someone who is in no way an Apple fan. I think just about everyone (or everyone who didn't have a vested interest in a competing product) could see that.

This is where Apple's so-called fanboys can be used to bootstrap a tech shift that would've taken much longer otherwise. When enough people start wearing these watches, they'll start to have more applications.

The thing is, I don't get that "Cool" vibe from these watches at all. I mean if the bootstrapping effect takes off then that's great, but I'll be surprised if they have the impetus needed to carry the change. Maybe I'm just not part of the target audience :)