Comment Re:please tell me this is out of the onion (Score 1) 372
PBS isn't known for having a sense of humor.
PBS isn't known for having a sense of humor.
I look forward to the calm, rational, and coherent discussion!
Yeah, exactly the sorts of discussions they NAZIS led before the confiscated all the GUNS, Obama-style!
640K ought to be enough for anybody!
So, they are acting like any other company when faced with the same market situation?
While that is true, what's different is those other companies generally get reamed when they pull a switch like that - Google, on the other hand, gets a free pass from lots of people.
We see it happen here on Slashdot all the time.
Read "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow
Please don't post these sorts of things anonymously, Cory.
For a moment I thought you said TALKING toilet paper... and it really weirded me out.
How was that a criticism? It was a straightforward statement of fact - something that wasn't mentioned in the summary.
It's a news story on their website talking about a preprint paper posted on Arxiv.
This submission is a lot less interesting than the title led me to believe.
Yes, I'm sure a few dollars a week is going to attract a coder to a project be isn't otherwise interested in.
The submitter needs to just face reality - if there were enough people interested in keeping icewm going, it would already be happening.
Slashdot's admins haven't done any work in several years.
They just want to see their grandkids
Oh, if you actually KNOW this already... then why haven't you called in WEEKS, mister too busy to talk to your own grandfather?!
M-5 got unplugged, again? Daystrom is really going to wig out this time...
Can an entire three-letter-agency get a corporate hard-on? 'Cause if they can, this gave our favorite one the biggest boner in the known universe.
On the contrary... more likely, either the NSA or the Chinese (or both!) will read this and say "Crap! They figured it out!"
If it's the NSA, we'll see some new laws passed soon giving them broad new secret vetoing power over publishing in scientific journals.
"One non-Tron downside: If you want to drive, you have to wear a scary-looking set of sensors on your skull so the car can constantly reads your brainwaves."
In other words - none of this will ever actually see the light of day.
If they got a very secure algorithm, weakened it in a hard to detect way which makes it easier for the NSA and nobody else then that would be perfectly fine to both use for government documents and to give out to other nations.
We've seen the level of "thought" that goes into these decisions. I doubt anyone with decision-making authority ever considered that weakening encryption so the NSA could get in more easily would also make it easier for criminals to get at the same information.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
