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  1. Re:This is silly on Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes · · Score: 1

    Or the inventor of the loom, er, robot.

  2. Re:Wrong distance away on Two Exocomet Families Found Around Baby Star System · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry to follow up on my own post, but 64 million light years would be many galaxies away, not just across the Milky Way. My bad.

    Yep, we're talking nine chevrons here.

  3. Re:No. on Will Fiber-To-the-Home Create a New Digital Divide? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't worry! Service providers usually aim for the lowest common denominator to maximize their market, so a divide means you won't have haves and have-nots. Just have-nots.

  4. Sounds great, but... on The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone · · Score: 1

    Interactive live tiles could shine here, turning the click-fest we have now into a modern (no pun intended) take on the original Macintosh control panel.
    By replacing dumb menus with interactive gadgets you could shave a click or two off most setting changes, so the user doesn't get lost in nested screen after nested screen.

    Unfortunately, Microsoft's "modern" design guide seems to be a manifesto on how to make the user as lost as possible, so I'm not getting my hopes up.

  5. Re:More changes I don't want ... on Google Announces Inbox, a New Take On Email Organization · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, I don't understand. Did you mean you'll snooze it ?

  6. Re:Why 40 millions? on Software Glitch Caused 911 Outage For 11 Million People · · Score: 1

    I think I found the offending code:

    static unsigned int counter[640] // ought to be enough

    ...

    void countcall() {
        int i;
        for (i = 0; counter[i] = 65535; i++) {} // skip the ones we filled up
        counter[i]++;
    }

  7. Re:Solar powered drones on Internet Broadband Through High-altitude Drones · · Score: 3, Funny

    The zombie drones attack.

  8. Re:I'm betting on balloons on Internet Broadband Through High-altitude Drones · · Score: 1
  9. Yay, targeted advertising! on Your Online TV Watching Can Now Be Tracked Across Devices · · Score: 2

    Now when I watch a thing, I'll get ads telling me to watch the thing I watched.

  10. Re:Recognition on 'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand · · Score: 4, Funny

    The correct word is "bungle". A bungle of idiots.

    Coincidentally, the same collective noun is used for managers. Microsoft seems to have both in great abundance, as well as a muddle of analysts and a quandary of advisors.

  11. Re:Unlikely on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 2

    Unlikely...or it may provide insight into Fortinet's hiring practices.

  12. Re:Why? on China Staging a Nationwide Attack On iCloud and Microsoft Accounts · · Score: 2

    Communism went bankrupt a long time ago. All that's left is the brand name.

  13. Re:(some) cars are gadgets now on Tesla Teardown Reveals Driver-facing Electronics Built By iPhone 6 Suppliers · · Score: 2

    Tell you what... let's wait till the self-driving model comes out, and then you can complain about not playing the latest games on the instrument cluster.

  14. Not just Aquaman on Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Frankly...beyond Superman and Batman, DC doesn't have much—at least that anyone has heard of and/or cares about. Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern do at least have some following, but they haven't aged well and I'm not sure they can translate to film nearly as well as, say, Iron Man.

    IMHO, they'd be better off finding some more offbeat superheroes from their back catalog (a la Guardians of the Galaxy) or biting the bullet and inventing some new ones.

    Still, Marvel has done an amazing job of refurbishing characters like Captain America and Thor, so maybe DC can do the same.

  15. Re:As it is designed to do on Data From Windows 10 Feedback Tool Exposes Problem Areas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sheesh, can't you even read the summary? This isn't just a software release working as designed. This is a Microsoft software release working as designed!

  16. Yep. on Data From Windows 10 Feedback Tool Exposes Problem Areas · · Score: 1

    Only 36% of installations are occurring inside a virtual machine. 68% of Windows 10 Technical Preview users are launching more than seven apps per day, with somewhere around 25% of testers using Windows 10 as their daily driver

    Those are indeed problems.

  17. Re:Details would be nice on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 1
  18. Amazing if it works on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 1

    If it's not impossibly heavy and doesn't produce fissile waste it could be used in all sorts of large vehicles, both commercial and military.

    But plenty of fusion reactor designs have worked in theory; making them work in practice, though...

  19. Vera on VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better · · Score: 1

    When you can't rip off a name in English, do it in Latin!

    But hey; at least it's better than CipherShed. My days of not taking FOSS names seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

    stealth joke alert

  20. Re:IDWISOTT on More Details On The 3rd-Party Apps That Led to Snapchat Leaks · · Score: 1

    I mistakenly thought the API was public; it would be nice if certain clueless news sites (and the author of TFS) would point out this is a reverse-engineered interface.

    It might as well be public, though, considering how long ago it was discovered and how many apps/services/libraries are using it. Snapchat is supposed to be in the business of privacy; if they won't give full effort to protecting their users they deserve this fiasco.

  21. IDWISOTT on More Details On The 3rd-Party Apps That Led to Snapchat Leaks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ars Technica identifies the culprit as SnapSaved, which...secretly saved [users'] images on a SnapSaved server

    In related news: Mysterious Twitter-related injuries traced to users of popular addon service TweetAndWeHitYouWithASpanner.com

    (and why in god's name does a service like SnapChat have an API?)

  22. Re:almost. on What Will It Take To Run a 2-Hour Marathon? · · Score: 1

    Was he or was he not a marathon runner?

  23. Re:Have the solutions converged? on Supercomputing Upgrade Produces High-Resolution Storm Forecasts · · Score: 4, Interesting

    TFA ironically begins with the quote '"I don’t think we will ever have enough [computing power] to satisfy us,” says researcher.'

    The summary is vague, and the article not much better, and neither say anything about whether the 'new model' is matching observations any better than the old.

    It would be nice if they could at least clarify if the sole pair of comparison images are even the same forecast, because the new model shows not only more detail but a completely different prediction.

    Come on kids, this isn't a network news sound bite. This is the Internet, and you're a tech news site. Would it kill you to go past the press release?

    Maybe I'm just bitter about this because I live in mountains where a coin is a more accurate forecasting tool than the weather service.

  24. Woo! on Supercomputing Upgrade Produces High-Resolution Storm Forecasts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now they can be wrong in hi-def!

  25. Only problem is the 32 bit part on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 2

    Keeping software requirements low is a good thing, and there isn't really any justification for making a basic desktop OS require good hardware if all people want to do is the same stuff they were doing ten years ago. If they wanted to weed out underpowered PCs, they should mandate an improved version of the Windows Experience Index be advertised alongside PCs with simple numbers for office and gaming performance, and maybe energy efficiency.

    On the other hand, it's long past time to put 32 bit out to pasture, at least on the desktop. Remember, this OS will probably still be supported in the mid-2020s. I'm not going to want to maintain a 32 bit legacy codebase when PCs are coming with 256GB of ram standard.