Comment: Re:How do we generate the power? (Score 5, Interesting) 525
Within the next 10 years or so I am sure you will see many more solar powered homes.
That's what they said 10 years ago. Just sayin...
As I look through my window right now, I can see 16 homes.
6 of those have got solar panels on their roofs generating electricity (2 have also got solar water heating).
10 years ago none of them had any solar.
Just sayin'...
Comment: Citation provided. (Score 4, Funny) 45
China is the largest investor in renewable energy of any country in the world.[citation needed]
China is the largest investor in renewable energy of any country in the world.[1]
[1] http://hardware.slashdot.org 2 Jan 2012.
Comment: Re:Or.. (Score 1) 344
Comment: Re:Soon? (Score 1) 312
Comment: Re:Running out! The End! erm, again... (Score 0) 376
Comment: Running out! The End! erm, again... (Score -1, Troll) 376
Comment: Re:Wait... (Score 1) 178
> it was apparently 20%
I don't know about you, but I find that worrisome.
Not worriesome, because there is zero data to confirm whether those passwords were anything like valid or not, thus no conclusions can be drawn whatsoever other than 20% of people figured out how to get a free bar of chocolate.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Comment: I sincerely hope ALL US authortities do the same.. (Score 2) 372
Comment: Re:Wait... (Score 1) 178
Too lazy to google, but I seem to recall something in the last months about a similar thing, where people were offered a bar of chocolate or something in exchange for their password.
First, it was over 2 years ago.
Second it was apparently 20% of people gave their passwords in exchange for chocolate.
http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/04/chocolate-owns-your-passwords/
However, the key thing is - the survey had absolutely zero way of confirming whether the passwords were genuine or not.
You know what? Some random in the street offers me a bar of chocolate in exchange for my password, I'll gladly trade; I end up with a free bar of chocolate, they end up with a garbage string of characters which isn't my password to anything at all. Seems I would be included in that 20%, but my security would have remained uncompromised and I'd be better off to the tune of 1 bar of chocolate.
which all just goes to show that the survey was crap, the results equally so.
Comment: Re:Pointer typedefs (Score 1) 394
That const doesn't do what you think it does.
It never does.
Fundamental rules of programming -
- Constants aren't.
- Variables won't.
Comment: Indifference towards real life? (Score 4, Insightful) 779
That sounds exactly like someone who is indifferent toward real life.
So get off your high horse and join the real world.
And startby turning over those of your priests who are paedos to the lawful authorities and stop protecting, supporting, defending and hiding the paedos.
Comment: Worth it! (Score 0, Troll) 264
For the good of music and of mankind as a whole, let's hope he succeeds!
Comment: Re:Already here (Score 0, Flamebait) 482
Comment: Re:Already here (Score 4, Funny) 482
He came to some prototypes we were working on, and proudly showed off his Tech Skillz to the assembled masses by announcing that "Here's where we assemble our prototypes using printed PCB circuit boards".
I kid you not