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Comment: Re:It doesn't sound like you're current. (Score 1) 507

Why do you need to know all of them? In my niche focussing on web based stuff I need a fairly broad set of skills but nowhere near that broad.
I only tick a few of them but the skills I use every day go from DRBD, OCFS2, MySQL low level stuff all the way through to Wordpress and jQuery.
Each one I need to know quite thoroughly and I make a point of staying current with all of them plus keeping an eye out for anything new that could help.

And good luck knowing Android 4.1 for 5 years.

Comment: Re:BUYING SLASHDOT ACCOUNTS (Score 1, Interesting) 1049

by cheater512 (#43757281) Attached to: 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made

a) Its not possible to have a negative proof. Case in point, prove that I don't own a invisible pink unicorn.
Its not actually possible.

b) This study shows consensus however that still doesn't mean anything in science.
There isn't a hypothesis that 97% of scientists agree on, it is purely American Idol style popularity contest of the idea.

Comment: Re:Why? (Score 4, Insightful) 546

by cheater512 (#43737417) Attached to: A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale

Next you'll be petitioning against adding rifling to barrels.

Now I know its not the same but the point of shooting is to hit the target accurately.
You want accuracy and not blind luck so you add rifling to the barrel.
This is just another feature which improves accuracy.

If your point isn't accuracy then sure do whatever you want. You could do it with one arm tied behind your back just as a challenge.

Comment: Re:Yep (Score 1, Troll) 691

by cheater512 (#43707303) Attached to: "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals

And everything seems fine just now doesn't it.

Major temperature changes in the past (over 8 degrees hotter) gave us what we have today.
Morale of the story, planet gets hotter, planet gets colder. Everything else sorts its self out.

I'm not advocating pollution, its just the 'sky is falling' people are completely off the mark.

Comment: Re:Ever thought it might be a good idea? (Score 1) 193

by cheater512 (#43660673) Attached to: Using YouTube For File Storage

With the power of XOR, I can take a PDF of the Bible and some gibberish and turn it in to a movie.

Now the gibberish clearly isn't a valid movie, and while yes it becomes one when combining with the Bible you could combine it with the Qu'ran and get something in the public domain.

The movie industry clearly doesn't own the Bible or the Qu'ran so they are clear.
And the nature of mathematics is that doing arbitrary operations on some data can change it in to anything.
You clearly can't have a blanket copyright over everything that could potentially be a movie.

Either the movie industry can copyright provably random gibberish that they did not create or they can't.

More are taken in by hope than by cunning. -- Vauvenargues

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