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  1. Re:Ummmm ... duh? on Modern Cockpits: Harder To Invade But Easier To Lock Up · · Score: 1

    Of course, now when the pilot has to take a leak there is one less cabin crew, which I'm sure you can construct a scenario in which that's not a good idea.

    The solution is right there in the summary: have a flight-attendant lurk in the cockpit.

    I'm baffled that this wasn't mandatory. As others have mentioned: what if he passed-out, or had a heart-attack? It's painfully obvious there should never be just one crew-member locked in the cockpit.

  2. Re: Centralized on GitHub! LOL! on Github Under JS-Based "Greatfire" DDoS Attack, Allegedly From Chinese Government · · Score: 3, Informative

    With Git, you have a full copy of the repo just by virtue of having "checked out" a copy.

    Quick nitpick: that would be a clone, not a checkout.

    For the non-git-users among us:

    git clone: copy that repository to my local file-system. (All branches are copied across. This is normally over ssh or https.)

    git checkout: give me the specified branch. (Doesn't require use of the network.)

    git fetch: update the local store of the repository to reflect the current state of the repository on the server.

  3. Re:Money matters on Australia Passes Mandatory Data Retention Law · · Score: 1

    I take it then that you personally are undertaking serious tax-evasion, right? Otherwise you'd just be an armchair critic who doesn't put his money where his mouth is.

  4. Re:Not a bank? on PayPal To Pay $7.7 Million For Sanctions Violations · · Score: 4, Informative

    They don't engage in fractional-reserve banking.

    Whether PayPal are legally a bank, depends on the country. iirc they are a bank in Australia.

  5. Re:Paypal better pick what it wants to be... on PayPal To Pay $7.7 Million For Sanctions Violations · · Score: 1

    They can randomly freeze your account and prevent you getting access to 600,000 Euros of your money, though, if you make the mistake of trusting them with large sums.

  6. Re:it could have been an accident on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    Or use a weapon that fires a burst, and load two rounds.

  7. Re:it could have been an accident on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    Does that explain why the plane took a dive?

  8. Re:Symmetric mouse on What Makes the Perfect Gaming Mouse? · · Score: 1

    I assume "DPI" was intended (that mouse is 2500DPI).

  9. Re:my experience: on Developers and the Fear of Apple · · Score: 2

    If things get bad enough there's an actual 'revolt' against the platform, that would be something.

    Apple want people to develop for iOS, after all.

    Am I right in thinking the iPhone market-share is decreasing?

  10. Re:Genius on Uber To Turn Into a Big Data Company By Selling Location Data · · Score: 1

    What's the solution to this? Have every company promise to behave? Decentralisation would work, but that's likely to be at odds with the business interest.

  11. Re:Youtube? Your Questions Answered on Pixar Releases Free Version of RenderMan · · Score: 1

    Google has announced they have developed an AI program that detects the use of drone footage with 99% accuracy.

    The pedant in me must know: you're referring to false-negatives, right?

  12. Re:Last week I tried to write a Win8.1 universal a on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 SDK · · Score: 1

    Well, we're really discussing dropping platforms, not specific products. It doesn't inconvenience many developers that they've stopped working on Encarta or the Flight Simulator series.

  13. Re:Nothing new on Gaming On Linux With Newest AMD Catalyst Driver Remains Slow · · Score: 1

    nVidia support is basically perfect, with the exception of the open-source issue.

    Don't forget their dire OpenCL support.

  14. Re:What's REALLY interesting is on Gaming On Linux With Newest AMD Catalyst Driver Remains Slow · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the approach Valve took when porting Source.

  15. Re:Too but it bluntly on Gaming On Linux With Newest AMD Catalyst Driver Remains Slow · · Score: 1

    This is true, though I suspect it's not as bad if you use the C++ wrapper. More importantly, CUDA's tooling is far superior. But it's still Nvidia-only.

  16. Re:Congratualtion Sherlock on Excess Time Indoors May Explain Rising Myopia Rates · · Score: 1

    Well, I can't argue with that logic.

  17. Re:Congratualtion Sherlock on Excess Time Indoors May Explain Rising Myopia Rates · · Score: 2
  18. Re:My own private cloud on How 'The Cloud' Eats Away at Your Online Privacy (Video) · · Score: 1

    Neat. I don't think it has a word-processor though.

  19. Re:Canada is the US 51st state on Defending Privacy Doesn't Pay: Canadian Court Lets Copyright Troll Off the Hook · · Score: 1

    This article says Canada's healthcare is only slightly better than the USA's, but scores them much better on 'Cost-related problems'.

    Surprised to see Australia score so badly on Cost-Related Problems.

  20. Re:Forking the human species? on Scientists: It's Time To Resolve the Ethics of Editing Human Genome · · Score: 1

    The ethics will get interesting when we start to see lines of humanity modified to fit extreme environments

    Or, far more likely, to be stronger, prettier, smarter.

  21. Re:Same reason as... on Why Is the Grand Theft Auto CEO Also Chairman of the ESRB? · · Score: 1

    At least when titans of industry in the U.S. become the head of the regulatory agencies that oversee their former companies, they actually have to leave those companies.

  22. I imagine this will be standard in the next generation of display connectors.

    I don't think it's being mandated in DisplayPort 1.3 though, for whatever reason.

  23. A good summary. Here is Nvidia's overview of G-SYNC.

  24. Re: Like the 100 mpg carburetor on This App Lets You Piggyback Facebook's Free Internet To Access Any Site · · Score: 1

    Well ok, but you've not made a convincing case, you've just restated your opinion.

  25. Re:so, the key to amnesty... on Microsoft Offers Pirates Amnesty and Free Windows 10 Upgrades · · Score: 1

    Nay, it is heresy! Long live vim! :q! the heretic!

    As a child with a GameBoy once told his younger sibling: this console ain't big enough for the two of us.