bryanp - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Well someone has to do it (Score 1) 347

by jdavidb on Thursday February 26, 2015 @11:54PM (#49144329) Attached to: The Programmers Who Want To Get Rid of Software Estimates

Business can't plan or talk to customers or have any strategy whatsoever without at least some estimate...that's just the real world. If devs don't give estimates, managers have to make estimates. If managers don't make estimates, business makes estimates. You want devs to do the estimating.

I just don't want the boss to be disrespectful to me when the estimate is not accurate. Get us some estimation training or something. Don't give me a lecture. I'm too old for lectures.

Comment Re:Not surprised (Score 3, Insightful) 311

by jdavidb on Thursday February 26, 2015 @12:21AM (#49134239) Attached to: Reddit Imposes Ban On Sexual Content Posted Without Permission

Reddit shouldn't be doing this because it tends to violate an innate human right and because it will destroy Reddit

That's Reddit's choice to make, though, right? Just use some other forum.

Comment Fappening? (Score 1) 311

by jdavidb on Thursday February 26, 2015 @12:13AM (#49134203) Attached to: Reddit Imposes Ban On Sexual Content Posted Without Permission

It also comes in the wake of last year's Fappening

Can we get a definition of that for old farts with a UNIX beard like me? I know there was a massive hack and sale of celebrity nude photos for Bitcoin or something. Is that what this refers to? What's a Fappening?

Yeah, I'm gonna Google it, but the editors could add a parenthetical explanation, or a link to Wikipedia, or something. I remember when Slashdot used to use built in links to everything2 - I wish they had transitioned over to Wikipedia so the clueless like me could be more easily informed.

Comment Re:I use GnuPG (Score 1) 309

by rthille on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:36PM (#49129521) Attached to: Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course

Ha ha ha, your key is on "your" website. That isn't even running https. So how would anyone know that "your" key really is your key?

Comment Re:gpg (Score 0) 309

by rthille on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:01PM (#49129039) Attached to: Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course

For most people (windows users), their computers are so insecure as to make the idea of their private key being secure laughable.

Comment Re:Same error, repeated (Score 1) 309

by rthille on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @01:59PM (#49129023) Attached to: Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course

Side note, but DKIM was never intended to stop spam, it was only intended to stop joe-jobbing and reputation theft by preventing people from forging who the email was from.

Comment Re:Also, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? & Bu (Score 1) 224

by jdavidb on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:34PM (#49113981) Attached to: 100 Years of Chemical Weapons

We love this one, too, although it's got some pro-communist roots we don't personally agree with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJS-M4ov5EY

Comment Re:Also, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? & Bu (Score 1) 224

by jdavidb on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:29PM (#49113937) Attached to: 100 Years of Chemical Weapons

Awesome links. One thing I saw on that NPR article that I didn't know was that Peter, Paul, and Mary's version of Blowin in the Wind became the fastest-selling single in Warner Brothers' history.

Comment Re:Also, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? & Bu (Score 1) 224

by jdavidb on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:20PM (#49113881) Attached to: 100 Years of Chemical Weapons

Yes, that's another one we play for them, with a wonderful message. Thanks for posting it.

Comment How long? (Score -1, Offtopic) 224

by jdavidb on Monday February 23, 2015 @02:32PM (#49113447) Attached to: 100 Years of Chemical Weapons

There's a reason I play this song to my kids a lot:

How many roads must a man walk down

Before they call him a man?

How many seas must a white dove sail

Before she sleeps in the sand?

How many times must the cannonballs fly

Before they're forever banned?

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind

The answer is blowing in the wind.

How many years must a mountain exist

Before it is washed to the sea?

How many years can some people exist

Before they're allowed to be free?

How many times can a man turn his head

and pretend that he just doesn't see?

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind

The answer is blowing in the wind.

How many times must a man look up

Before he can see the sky?

How many ears must one man have

Before he can hear people cry?

How many deaths will it take till he knows

That too many people have died?

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind

The answer is blowing in the wind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI

Comment Re:Aggression (Score 1) 532

by jdavidb on Saturday February 21, 2015 @09:59PM (#49103087) Attached to: Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression

Very good point. I heartily agree.

Comment Re:Aggression (Score 1) 532

by jdavidb on Saturday February 21, 2015 @06:25PM (#49102409) Attached to: Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression

He is British. To him allowing people to suffer from poor health when society can afford to treat them is aggressive libertarianism. Universal healthcare is actually the less aggressive, middle of the road option in Europe.

Great, by the same logic, we can outlaw abortion.

Comment Re:Yes, "aggression" is not well-defined. (Score 1) 532

by jdavidb on Friday February 20, 2015 @08:06PM (#49098043) Attached to: Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression

I think Hawking meant humanity's willingness to use violence and/or deadly force to get what one wants instead of reason and persuasion.

And yet I would suppose he supports the use of force against me if I'm not persuaded that paying my taxes is justified.

Comment Aggression (Score 2, Insightful) 532

by jdavidb on Friday February 20, 2015 @03:39PM (#49096209) Attached to: Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression

I see on Wikipedia that he supports funding universal healthcare by aggressive government action, though, as well as government aggression towards activities that are perceived to promote climate change. It's a shame he's not more rigorously consistent about this.

Comment Re:I'm a strong believer in good deadbolts (Score 2) 220

by jdavidb on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @10:26PM (#49077789) Attached to: Obama Says He's 'A Strong Believer In Strong Encryption'

Yet I want you to give me a copy of the key and trust that it wont fall into the wrong hands or be used illegally against me. See how stupid that sounds Obama?

No, this will never be seen by governing officials. They want you to believe government will never do anything wrong, at least as long as you pick the right people in office. If anything wrong happens, it's because you didn't do the right thing in the last election.

It's basically a religious faith with no evidence.

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