Comment Re:I have a easier answer... (Score 1) 322
And if the answer is "everyone gets equal financial support," then what prevents 1000 candidates from running?
And if the answer to that is "Nothing", have we really been harmed?
Comment Re:"apex predators" (Score 2) 258
...and that is why you don't call business an "ecosystem".
Comment Re:Egads! "build systems that reason" ??? (Score 1) 67
Wait in line? Hah! They'd just strip your name off, make an ACA healthcare exchange server out of it, and LOL at your insignificance.
Comment Re:Just so I'm clear... (Score 1) 79
Apparently not one ping only.
Comment Re:Intel (Score 1) 91
I'd happily throw money at Intel graphics, once (a) they actually do catch up to the Big Two (they are currently not even anywhere near anything close to something that so much as resembles half their performance or graphical feature set), (b) I can afford them, and (c) they stop considering soldering their new chips to the board, or make more chips with "Windows 8-only" features.
Buying someone's chip is taken by that someone as support for their policies. Those in (c) are two that I hope I never have to support, and I don't want to pay a "competitor" that's just aiming to out-monopolize the monopoly.
Comment Re:It just doesn't sound... (Score 1) 77
"While the book lacks much about his thoughts on the whole Spore thing (presumably due to various contractual agreements with EA), the book is still somewhat illuminating about Wright. 6/10"
Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 361
Won this war, and started this war.
Comment Re:As if Google cares about web standards (Score 1) 231
I'm with you...is Google even using valid HTML, or HTML5,* in the problem pages? Last I checked GOOG was great at breaking both.
*I did not repeat myself.
Comment Terrists (Score 3, Funny) 182
Good call! Wouldn't want those highly advanced scientists at al-Qaeda to reproduce it at the gene level or anything.
DNA Sequence Withheld From New Botulism Paper 182
New submitter rex.clts writes "In the IT security world, it is common practice to withhold specifics when announcing a newly discovered software vulnerability. The exact details regarding a buffer overflow or race condition are typically kept secret until a patch is available, to slow the proliferation of exploits against the hole. For the first time, this practice has been extended to medical publishing. A new form of Botulism has been identified, but its DNA sequence (the genetic code that makes up the toxin) has been withheld, until an antidote has been found. It seems that censorship in the name of "security" is spreading (with DHS involved this comes as no surprise.) Is this the right move?"
Comment Re:Props to all sticking it out and trying Qt out! (Score 1) 79
It's probably due in part to the whole KDE Free Qt thing. It keeps Qt free in the event Qt isn't...um...kept free. It's pretty nice.
Comment Re:Could be good. (Score 1) 274
You mean "only non-Slashdotters"? People here routinely (and rightly) swoon over ad and cookie blocking.
Comment Re:Netflix wants to DRM the web (Score 1) 93
Exactly. Besides, their move to cable misses the point of why people were cutting cable for Netflix in the first place.
(Cutting both, of course, would be better.)
Comment Re: "what is necessary to be done" (Score 1) 461
"...or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
Hasn't Clapper indeed adhered to, aided, and comforted enemies (i.e. the NSA) of the US?
Charge him with both.
Comment Re:Attack? (Score 1) 136
When I deleted the YouTube account (that I had linked to my non-tainted Google Account long before), it was partly because reloading the page didn't stop the Real Name harassment. Whether this was because cookies didn't save, or whether Google has changed this in the months since, doesn't really matter to me anymore. They wanted my business and didn't want my trust, and now have neither my trust nor my YouTube account.
