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  1. Re:Doesn't sound likely on How Tech Ate the Media and Our Minds (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Depending on how you define the terms, you'd (apparently) be wrong. Id define "on average" in this case to be "more than half".

    http://www.rferl.org/a/report-...

  2. Re:Paint me a picture... on Touch Bar MacBook Pros Are Being Banned From Bar Exams Over Predictive Text (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems a VM would be even better at bypassing the system. [obligatory lawyer slam] I suppose if they could figure that out, they wouldn't be taking the bar exam.

  3. Re:I can see this as an environmental disaster on Gas Delivery Startups Want to Fill Up Your Car Anywhere, But It Might Not Be Legal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, one of the purposes of the catalytic converter is to eliminate the latter and (at least here in the US), all gas stations do reclaim the fumes from the pump.

  4. Re:An NDA works and makes for Target to sue on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 1

    In many states NDAs are easily, and legally, ignored. I do agree that if you cannot trust someone, do not hire them.

    You may be confusing non-disclosure with non-compete. The latter are rarely enforceable.

  5. Martin Gardner book(s) on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 2

    Almost anything written by Martin Gardner should be approachable by a math-favoring 10-year-old. Anything from puzzle books to essays about famous mathematicians.

  6. Check your local library on Ask Slashdot: State-of-the-Art In Amateur Book Scanning? · · Score: 1

    Before building something yourself, make sure you don't have access to better equipment locally. The main library here in Cleveland has what they call a Preservation Lab that has library-grade equipment available for public use.

    http://cpl.org/clevdpl/

  7. I would expect better rolling to amplify the natural bias of a die. The point of the towers is to eliminate any bias introduced by the person rolling the die.

  8. Actually, there are dice that are made to extremely tight precision - they're used in casinos, and they're exceptionally fair (by law).

    I have yet to find a casino using d20s though.

  9. Can't recommend this enough on Ask Slashdot: Worthwhile Security Training Courses? · · Score: 1

    http://www.aspectsecurity.com/...

    I've taken this class. Can't recommend it strongly enough.

  10. Re:If I had to pick just one on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    That shows what you know! SlackWare had this feature back in the days of 386SX vs DX.

  11. Re:COMAPRISON REQUIRED on Tallying the Mistakes and Malfunctions of Robot Surgeons · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even more importantly, how does it compare to similar-risk patients by the same set of doctors. Is robotic surgery used more with high-risk patients? Are the doctors using it competent at non-robotic surgery?

  12. Re:You dont' need another language to do this. on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 1

    I've seen this argument before. Hmm. where was that. Oh yeah! Java. And Pascal before it. and Ada before that.

  13. Re:The source of troubles is usually in humans on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 1

    I can't say I ever expected to see someone refer to "Ada[,] Pascal, C and Fortran" as "the latest fad language". Those were all old-hat when I got into this game 30 years ago.

  14. Re:Wait... on Yes, You Can Blame Your Pointy-Haired Boss On the Peter Principle · · Score: 1

    That would be closer to the Dilbert Principle. Something along the lines of "promote idiots to middle-management where they can do the least harm."

  15. Re:XOR encyption is uncrackable as long as... on Popular Android Package Uses Just XOR -- and That's Not the Worst Part · · Score: 4, Informative

    And it's generated from a quality source of entropy.

  16. Re:So eBay would survive on eBay To Spin Off PayPal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd think the reverse is more likely, eBay going down in flames and PayPal surviving. PayPal has diversified and isn't nearly as reliant on eBay while eBay competition has grown and they've lost their original focus.

  17. Re:The protruding lens was a mistake on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 2

    It really runs contrary to Apple's design sensibility, but I guess we're seeing the first evidence of what happens to Apple without Jobs.

    No the polka-dot hole case for the 5c was the first (overwhelming) evidence of what happens (this time) to Apple without Jobs.

  18. Re:Numeric equality in PHP on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    In PHP, 1 === 1.0 and 1 === '1' are both false, and 1 == 1.0 and 1 == '1' are both true. What operator should the programmer use if he wants 1 to equal 1.0 but not '1', where integer numbers are equal to float numbers but strings aren't equal to either?

    Since (almost) no computer actually stores 1.0; your request is, at best, naive.

  19. Re:Emulate on Full Review of the Color TI-84 Plus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    emulate on an emulator. On your smartphone. Free and better.

    And not allowed in the classroom settings that these things are mainly used. Too easy to switch to notes/google/more powerful apps.

  20. Re:Not again on The Chaos Within Sudoku - a Richter Scale of Difficulty · · Score: 1

    No. No there is not.

  21. Re:Loop Around the Moon on Did an Unnamed MIT Student Save Apollo 13? · · Score: 1

    This would be the same mid-twentieth-century South that landed several vessels on the moon and brought them home?

  22. Re:A little thing called trust on Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On? · · Score: 1

    Um, biometric authentication fails badly when used for remote, non-controlled devices. All it really is then is a long, awkward, very-hard-to-remember password. If I intercept it, I've still got a perfectly usable copy. Biometrics has a place on controlled hardware. For general computing, it is nothing but smoke and mirrors.

    How do you know my browser is passing your server an actual retina scan and not a saved value I copied from Bob's PC via my quasi-key-logger attached to Bob's USB eye-scanner?

  23. Re:[gets popcorn] on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Governments fall on Romanian Prime Minister Accused of Plagiarism · · Score: 2

    The phrase might make more sense if you read it as his "administration might fall". That's closer terminology from an American perspective.

  25. Re:Cooling issues.. on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I don't think all of that will prevent death. Maybe delay it. Prevention is pretty much out-the-window.

    Or, are you trolling?