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Comment Flawed logic? (Score 0) 148

Does this mean 4.8 is flawed, or that you shouldn't use it? 'Not at all,' he concluded. 'You can certainly use 4.8,' provided you keep in mind the occasional bug in the system."

It reminds me of the [in]famous Windows 9x BSOD whenever I wanted to print some particular Word document. If I wanted it to print without throwing the BSOD, all I had to do was to remove the leading space at the begining of the header. The same document prints fine in Windows XP.

With this kind of logic, it just doesn't make sense!

Comment It could have been worse... (Score 2) 137

If the attackers had left a script behind to effectively re-partition or even reformat the compromised servers' hard-drives.

But what troubles me the most is the common American citizen's perception that we (as Americans), lie at the epitome of technology that works; after all, we have the "biggest and greatest" technology companies, right?

Comment Do they have hard proof evidence...? (Score 1) 130

...Or do they simply have circumstantial evidence? For, if the companies got into a pact via a "gentleman's agreement" - an agreement not written down on paper and not recorded in speech anywhere, potential employees will have a tough time proving their case.

Disclaimer: I support Google, Apple and their ilk.

Comment Worthless and inconclusive research, I'm afraid... (Score 4, Interesting) 382

And this is because this research doesn't answer the following question:

Can we be sure that even though psychosis manifested itself earlier in the subject population, it (psychosis), still maifested itself later in this particular group?

In otherwords, can we be sure that pot use in this specific group didn't delay psychosis even though on average, psychosis came earlier as compared to the other group?

I know of folks who use pot daily. They are now in their late 90s. One could argue that pot is responsible for their delayed psychosis if at all, no?

Comment Not true! (Score 1) 384

Sites like YouTube and the Huffington Post are leading the charge, requiring users to log in via Google+ and Facebook respectively in order to establish a real-world identity.

I still maintain my fake but according to facebook and Google+, "true identities" of myself. And guess what; it was very easy to get it set up.

Comment Now if the shoe was on the other foot... (Score 5, Insightful) 224

Just think about it for a sec...

If an Iranian or Russian version of Snowden had defected to the [mighty] USA, we would be trumpeting our "superior" system and way-of-life as compared to "those other nations."

We would be saying we're glad to be living here where ther's the "rule of law" yada yada yada...

But because he was one of us, our government is instead labeling him as a traitor. Sadly, a good number of Americans don't see the hipocrisy!!

Comment What a contradictory, fallacious statement!! (Score 1) 128

One of the reasons could be that Netflix still uses Microsoft's Silverlight which is not supported on Linux. (emphasis mine)

You would think this alone is the reason, but wait...there's more: -

However Linux users have managed to get it to work on their distros.

So, the same Linux that isn't supported can have Netflix run after all!!

Now openSUSE users can also run Netflix using Pipelight."

Ohh my mistake! This is Slashdot, right?

Comment Why not call it its actual name? (Score 2, Insightful) 199

"The Obamacare sign-up site was a classic example of managers saying 'not invented here' and doing everything wrong, as described in Poul-Henning Kamp's Center Wheel for Success, at ACM Queue."

I mean, you folks at Slashdot should have called it the Affordable Care Act website then reminded us that it's also known as Obamacare. But to call it what it isn't in the first sentence of introduction is [very] unfortunate!

Disclaimer: I am neiter Democrat nor Republican.

Comment They can release the info if they really want (Score 1) 37

However, telecom and tech firms are still barred from releasing data on national security requests from the FBI and U.S. intelligence services."

How about "leaking it" Snowden style via some "contractor?" Heck, if it hapned to the NSA, it can surely happen to some big corporation. No?

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