Comment Re:Use computers instead? (Score 1) 247
16-bit number mod 20 (plus 1) for a d20.
That would not be fair unless the range of the counter is a multiple of 20.
Comment Re:Always seemed redundant to me. (Score 2) 267
Same for me.
I cannot understand why Tree Style Tab is not the default. It is obviously much better than the default way to organize tabs.
Comment Re:Who would receive this money? (Score 1) 312
never mess with a large university that has a law school as they are just as vicious as a large corporation, if not more formidable.
Of course they are just as vicious as a large corporation. That's because they are a large corporation.
Comment Re:Backdoor Discovered Into Seagate NAS Drives (Score 1) 121
If it is incompetence, then it is criminal incompetence. Someone should be jailed for this.
Comment Re:Knowledge (Score 1) 1037
What is the difference?
Comment Re:Answer: No. (Score 1) 404
True, but once you get up to speed, they can give you almost a baby each month. Assuming no twins, you could get 9 babies in 17 months, and if you keep going, 52 in 50 months.
Err, I mean 52 in 60 months.
Comment Re:Answer: No. (Score 1) 404
True, but once you get up to speed, they can give you almost a baby each month. Assuming no twins, you could get 9 babies in 17 months, and if you keep going, 52 in 50 months.
Submission + - Lavabit forced to shut down
clorkster writes:
I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.
No doubt this has much to do with Snowden's use of the provider
Comment Spain is caving (Score 3, Interesting) 310
Actually I'm pissed off because Spain got off the list :-(
Comment Re:Attacking the soul of France... (Score 1) 402
It is certainly true that some people Simply Aren't Interested in ye olde western enlightenment values
This is looking less and less like "some", and more and more like "most".
You both are talking about Sarko and his friends, right?
Submission + - U.S. pressured Spain to approve the Sinde law (elpais.com)
An anonymous reader writes: We discussed recently the Spanish Website Blocking Law. It seems that such legislation was enacted in Spain in spite of the opposition of the general population, likely to comply with the wishes of the United States (original in Spanish). It seems that Washington threatened to take measures against Spain, like putting it back in their piracy black list.
Comment Re:More slashcrap (Score 4, Insightful) 65
You may be Spanish, but don't seem to know shit about what you are talking about. There is no much fearmongering in the linked articles. The point of the law is precisely to bypass the due process that you claim that exists in Spain.
Thanks to this law, any copyright holder can ask to have a website closed without having to prove before a judge that there is an actual copyright infringement. There is a judge involved somehow, but he does not get to judge the case before closing the site (as was the case until now). This law opens the gates for American style corporate censorship (like when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement decides that a web site should have its DNS stolen because Warner Bros or Universal say that it hosts "illegal" content).
And the change in government has very little to do with this law. Both PP and PSOE agree with it. Both voted for it.
Comment Re:Which side were the Greens on? (Score 2) 88
However, the guy is a member of the green party. If he thinks that linking to something is the same as publishing it, I would not want him near any position of power. Hence, I would only consider voting for the greens if they expelled him from the party (and if I were German).
Comment Re:What did you expect? (Score 5, Insightful) 427
Yay for living in Europe, where the spirit of the law still counts for something.
I am European, but I am sick of reading claims like this one in Slashdot and elsewere. It makes no sense to pretend that we are better than the Americans, or that our laws are more fair or that our politicians are better. In most areas we are almost as bad as the states (and copyright is one of them), while in other areas we are even worse.
And we both (Americans and Europeans) are seeing our laws changing continuously for the worse, and we will end up with a very similar set of laws in the end: those that are good for the people in power (i.e.: the corporations).
You think "the spirit of the law" counts for something in Europe? Do you trust those currently in power in your country to uphold it? Do you think the European Comission cares about "the spirit" of anything?
Comment Undoing wrong moderation - do not read (Score 1) 254
This comment is to undo a wrong moderation. Slashdot interface sucks.
