genghisjahn - Slashdot User

Comment Re:off from left field with a tin foil hat (Score 1) 254

by genghisjahn on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @02:11PM (#45271601) Attached to: The Pentagon May Retire "Yoda," Its 92-Year-Old Futurist

If it turns out he's a replicant, then yes, retired would be the correct word.

Comment Re:What people have to realize is that... (Score 1) 314

by genghisjahn on Thursday October 24, 2013 @01:51PM (#45226169) Attached to: Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux

I fondly remember the month of the Amiga desktop.

Comment Do you have anything without fraud in it? (Score 1) 390

by genghisjahn on Monday October 21, 2013 @01:28PM (#45190767) Attached to: Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service

Well, there's substantive fraudulent frolicking fraud sorbet. That hasn't got much fraud in it.

Comment Re:well... (Score 1) 142

by genghisjahn on Friday October 18, 2013 @03:01PM (#45168069) Attached to: No, the Earth (almost Certainly) Won't Be Hit By an Asteroid In 2032

I think your comment just undid your undoing of the aforementioned mod.

Comment Go (aka Golang) if you come from a C background (Score 1) 465

by genghisjahn on Thursday October 17, 2013 @01:42PM (#45154967) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing?

http://golang.org/ You won't regret it.

Comment Re:Gamestop already rip off customers (Score 2) 395

by genghisjahn on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @10:52AM (#43794085) Attached to: Xbox One: No Always-Online Requirement, But Needs To Phone Home

Sell the game yourself, there are a number of ways to do it. If you don't like going through the process of collecting payment, packaging the game and shipping it yourself, well, that's what you are paying GameStop for, not having to deal with the aggravation.

Comment Re:As someone who has to deal with HIPAA Requireme (Score 1) 130

by genghisjahn on Thursday May 02, 2013 @03:01PM (#43612683) Attached to: IBM Researchers Open Source Homomorphic Crypto Library

None of the big players except Amazon's EC2 and Microsoft's Azure:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/07/25/security-privacy-amp-compliance-update-microsoft-offers-customers-and-partners-a-hipaa-business-associate-agreement-baa-for-windows-azure.aspx
http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/09/amazon-cloud-earns-fisma-government-security-accreditation/

Comment Still others commented about it on facebook.... (Score 1) 41

by genghisjahn on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @06:12PM (#43097959) Attached to: Facebook Details the Software Engineering Behind Graph Search

...and still others replied to those comments.

Comment Re:One can't be 100% transparent (Score 2) 266

by genghisjahn on Friday February 08, 2013 @01:22PM (#42834105) Attached to: The Paradox of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks

So, due to the nature of their work, Wikileaks needs to keep some things secret. Governments can't follow the same rationale?

Comment Re:Visual Studio (Score 2) 187

by genghisjahn on Friday September 21, 2012 @02:33PM (#41413765) Attached to: How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8

Plus, no version of Visual Studio is 64bit.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2516436/visual-studio-64-bit

Comment You got a job... (Score 1) 293

by genghisjahn on Thursday September 13, 2012 @02:06PM (#41326009) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: When Is It a Good Idea To Incorporate?

....reading about mobile app development?

Comment Not reading /. (Score 1) 239

by genghisjahn on Friday June 29, 2012 @02:24PM (#40497091) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Defines Good Developer Culture?

Do I need to tell you I'm joking?

Comment Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein (Score 2) 726

by genghisjahn on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @02:52PM (#40388651) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids?

It's great for kids. About a young boy and his father who emigrate to a terra-formed Ganymede.

Comment Re:Really slashdot? (Score 2) 91

by genghisjahn on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @01:22PM (#40007179) Attached to: Student Makes Real-Life Portal Turret

If we quit putting cool proof of concepts on slashdot, there wouldn't be much content besides apple/google/microsoft bashing. And he didn't post a critique. It's just name calling.

Comment Re:Really slashdot? (Score 1) 91

by genghisjahn on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @12:37PM (#40006661) Attached to: Student Makes Real-Life Portal Turret

What have you built? Throw up some youtube videos. I'm ready to be impressed with your above-idiot abilities.

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