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  1. Already done! on Algorithm Solves Rubik's Cubes of Any Size · · Score: 1

    If one can solve the 3x3, 4x4 and 5,5 it's relatively simple to solve any sized cube by splitting it into overlapping subcubes and expanding the algorithms. The only real thing, is time, it takes a lot of it.

  2. Re:The obvious question on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 1

    He didn't even do that, he combined two separate opensource engine making one better engine. As long as he follows the licence terms for the engines, there is nothing wrong with what was done. Now if the licence said there must be attribution then there is a problem.

  3. Re:My guess on Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics · · Score: 1

    Personally the only thing I trust is the code on the server that was written by me. But if I let that code accept connections from elsewhere, then it's untrusted.

  4. Konqueror on Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics · · Score: 1

    What if I use konqueror as my webrowser?

  5. Re:Frequency purity on White Space Radio To Be Tested In Cambridge · · Score: 1

    Okay, say good bye to all your wifi, you do know that the 2.45 GHz band is a ham primary band. 2, Ofcom was the first to ditch licence fees. Low power morse, or multi frequencies modes are still in use and are great for low power, one can bust through most interference without the need of major power.

  6. Re:Cool... when no encryption. on Native Apps Are Dead, Long Live Native Apps · · Score: 1

    On another point, on the web most of it should just be making the url's start with HTTPs and let the browser do the work. I recommend letting well written standards do it for you.

  7. Re:Cool... when no encryption. on Native Apps Are Dead, Long Live Native Apps · · Score: 1

    Hell, JavaME is/was (well, luckily it's almost dead now) horrid when it comes to actually supporting any real algorithm. It's left to the phone manufacturers decision which to support.

  8. Look at all the angles first! on Native Apps Are Dead, Long Live Native Apps · · Score: 1

    There are security issues making the webbrowser able to do all stuff as a native code. There is no way to protect against malicious code on a website in such cases, this is the current argument in the security world about webgl. Javascript and such has very tight restrictions on what it can do.

    Purely native code can run as the coder wishes, with full access to the hardware, if one doesn't need that then go ahead.

    One last thing, Javascript and the like are relatively horrible languages to code in, just cause a developer can code in it doesn't mean he/she likes coding in it.

    Finally where did bytecode go, between native and web it's supposed to be a compromise for this kind of situation?

  9. Re:They are doing it wrong. on No Additional Firefox 4 Security Updates · · Score: 1

    It auto updated 4.0 to 5.0 here. The only time it won't is if there is same filesystem permissions in place that means it can't as is frequently the case if installed by a package manager on a linux distro.

  10. Re:Dear Slashdot Mozilla Users on No Additional Firefox 4 Security Updates · · Score: 1

    only the version number check embedded in the meta file.

  11. It's all in the numbering! on No Additional Firefox 4 Security Updates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Firefox 5 is more like Firefox 4.1 in truth, the only thing this rapid release crap has done is confused everyone with thinking what is actually a minor update is a major break lots of extensions update.

  12. Haven't we had this for years? on Robots Draw Faces and Doodle For London Gallery Goers · · Score: 1

    A camera, an edge detection algorithm and a printer.

  13. Re:Did he test it? on Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector · · Score: 1

    Luckily one technically needs to make the uranium/plutonium a critical mass to actually produce a chain fusion reaction, this is usually done by explosives that compact it when the bomb is triggered. Still, I'm a little worried about the nasty effects it could have it it does find a bomb, fundamentally this is we'll attempt to trigger a reaction and see if it does react. This means if I say, had a tungsten reflector sphere with a small hole in it and enough mass, we would a supercriticallity event when they try to test it this way (aka, boom).

  14. Re:No kidding on Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector · · Score: 2

    The fusion reactor is an neutron emitter is all, not a sustainable power supply that generates more energy than is needed to contain it. It's the second of these that's difficult, even the Sun's containment isn't too great, and at that mass, it has gravity doing a large amount of the work. We need to hold our fusion of levels needed to produce energy in strong magnetic fields to hold it together and not let it melt the reactor. The electromagnets needed to produce such magnetic fields use a lot of energy (until the more recent designs, more than the fusion reaction generates).

  15. Re: or, Turkey cracks down on dissidents on Turkish Police Nab 32 Suspects Tied To Anonymous · · Score: 1

    More likely as arresting domestic anon associates is only likely to aggravate foreign anon associates into carrying out even more attacks.

  16. Re:Yeah, right.. on Australian-Built Hoverbike Prepares For Takeoff · · Score: 1

    The reason for the tethers and the 3 feet max, is cause he needs to get it checked by the aviation authority of his state for airworthiness to be able to go further, something which takes a while to cut through the red tape.

  17. Re:No Surprise on Canadian IP Lobbyists Caught Faking Counterfeit Data · · Score: 1

    As long as they don't outlaw the export of radar detectors to other states, only outlaw use on public ways (and possibly sale within the state and import). Then the factory can keep making them anyway.

  18. Re:Comparative Memory Usage on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: 1

    yeah, I have 8GB to use, but even on that I'm tending to prefer firefox 4 over chrome. Also, don't you hate how chrome bunches them up past the favicon so one doesn't know what they are?

  19. Really? on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: 1

    Once one has more than a small number of tabs, firefox 4 is much better than chrome on my systems.

  20. Re:because the redisigned daleks look stupid on Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    Upturned dustbin with a sink plunger stuck on the front?

  21. Re:You don't understand what CS is on Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? · · Score: 1

    An abacus is a computing devices, there are algorithms to use with it.

  22. Re:You don't understand what CS is on Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? · · Score: 1

    He said it was the mathematics of computing devices, this is very true, even in the days of pascal and babbage.

  23. Re:You don't understand what CS is on Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? · · Score: 1

    I first started to learn programming in primary school (first 6-7 years of school in the UK), it was called logo, and we had these robots called turtles that worked in much the same way. As I said in another comment, computer science starts at intro to programming.

  24. Re:You don't understand what CS is on Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with the export to csv option?

  25. Re:You don't understand what CS is on Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? · · Score: 1

    Typing: public class Hello{public static void main(String[] args[]){System.out.println("Hello World!");}} would be far more relevant than anything in a word processing class, ooh, I can change font :).