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  1. for the poor souls who don't want to go to the article, it's supposed to be 2^10

  2. Re:First ever?? on First Ever Plane With No Moving Parts Takes Flight (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ehm no. the article mentions pulse jets for example, click on them, and the article about pulsejets mentions how they can be made with few or even no moving parts.

  3. Prisoners dilemma on Consumers' Privacy Concerns Not Backed By Their Actions (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    For me, things like privacy online feel like a prisoners dilemma.
    If everybody works together and refuses services like that, it's best for everybody. But there are people who don't care, and then get the benefit of said services despite the invisible privacy issues.
    And then the cascade starts, more and more people will want to accept since they also want to reap the benefit etc...

    For me it doesn't indicate that the people don't care or want to do anything about it, but that it's practically impossible as a society to act properly on it. Everything will start with some people accepting everything, and if it's something good, the slippery slope starts and it'll leave the rest of society the choice of accepting the bads or being left behind on this nice new thing. And acting as if the choice to not participate is obvious.... i completely disagree (and how it is now pretty much proves that point).

  4. Re:Future Acts? on Samsung Won't Be Forced To Update Old Smartphones (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm really puzzled by that wording to
    i'll have to see if i can find the original ruling somewhere, maybe it's clearer there, but it indeed sounds odd O_o

  5. Re:Back to basics on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Teach 'Best Practices' For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and the library is guaranteed bug free and optimized for your needs -_-

    If like above, it's literally a few lines of code, just write them, if a bug is ever found in them fix it (i'd prefer having to fix an error in those couple of lines of code (and then adding a test making sure it never happens again), over losing hours when something is going wrong in the library and that being a lot harder to do something about/work around it)

    Using a library is always a trade off.

  6. Re:errrr no on eBay Is Dumping PayPal For Dutch Rival Adyen (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Then try it if you don't want to have a paypal account.
    Recently i bought something off a site that only had paypal as paying option, i no longer have an account (nor do i wish to).
    However, the link i got only let me pay if i'd create an account... after realizing there was this "sign-up" mention in the url, i tried removing that part/replacing it with something obvious, and only then i could just pay with my CC without first having to create an account.
    Not sure why/how often that shit happens, but when paypal even makes it possible to have such links, the sooner they get replaced, the better.

  7. probably, it's the paradox of being tolerant, you can only be tolerant if you're intolerant of intolerance :)

  8. Re:Fuck no on Could VR Field Trips Replace the Real Thing? (theindychannel.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it's for big and well known things, fuck yes indeed
    - most of those museums/sights/... are completely overrun by tourist, tourist shops, .... completely ruining the experience
    - and even if you get a nice look at it, you can't stand there for a few minutes enjoying it since there are hundreds of people waiting behind you...
    - and just the ecological sense of going somewhere for seeing something like that etc...
    - and indeed, all the practical shit that comes along with it

    give me a decent virtual tour of any big monument/museum/... over going there! i might actually enjoy just being able to look at an important work for more than a few minutes, not be tired of a stupid travel to get there, not be bothered by tons of other people also wanting to see it and having to make photographs with their flash on, etc... etc... etc...

    now if it's for a nice relaxing vacation on some remote place just enjoying the fresh air and sitting in a tent, i doubt VR will replace that XD.

  9. Re:How serious is this? How exploitable is it? on WPA2 Security Flaw Puts Almost Every Wi-Fi Device at Risk of Hijack, Eavesdropping (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    it's an attack on the client machine, not on the access point.
    it means that any unpatched device connected to a wifi network with WPA2 encryption can expect the same security as being connected to an unsecured wifi (anyone can eavesdrop your communication, or could inject stuff, ...).
    how easy it is to do, don't know yet, but it seems to be a feasible attack to carry out.

  10. Re:They're gonna be great... on Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    what we do however already know is that even if all cars in a dense city would be electric, it'd still be too polluting as a significant part of the polluting particles in the air are from the tires of the cars...
    who's going to invent us some clean tires? :)

  11. like any other weed, grass will be removed

  12. Re:I dont get it. on Sony Ships Its Last Ever PlayStation 3 In Japan (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    and i haven't played the latest trackmania, but i assume it's still in there: even without split screen, the hot seat mode can be fun if you're both equal in skill.
    One player sets a time, and then the other player has to race until he/she beats that time, and so it goes on, until one of the 2 players runs out of time (you both get say 5 minutes in total).

  13. Re:I dont get it. on Sony Ships Its Last Ever PlayStation 3 In Japan (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    you're really not getting the point of trackmania if you were expecting collissions XD
    it's indeed different in that way from other racegames, but allows for very intense races in a completely different way :). rather than frustrating eachother by trying to push eachother off the road (which would be too nasty in trackmania, the tracks are simply not made for that), and ofcourse the trolls who just want to ruin the game for everybod, it becomes a tense race knowing that winning or losing is all up to you. and if you're both good, it'll be going for those few hundreths of a second you can get faster on that specific track :).
    very intense imo, and also great for multiplayer :). it of course more relies on equal skill as you can't just screw the other player by breaking late and ramming them off the course.
    if there is a skill gap, tracks with some luck factor in them can also be great fun.

  14. seriously, did you bother to look?
    i'm from europe, and when the original zero came out, i got 2 from the second batch that arrived at pihut & pimoroni (both UK retailers selling them at 4£, about 6$, so pretty much the advertised price (do mind that that is including tax).
    After this announcement i checked pihut, and this pi zero with wifi is right now available there at 9.6£. also e very correct price (as again it includes tax).

    And since atm the UK is still part of the EU, and they ship to the EU at reasonable prices, that's atm still the EU covered right now at announcement at the advertised prices.

    so i really don't get what you're bitching about... you indeed can't find it in every electronics shop at that price, but if you did a bit of effort it shouldn't be that hard to find shops that do sell it at that price.

  15. Re:bitwise math on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    i'm always wondering: wouldn't a modern compiler also catch that and do it for you?
    so you just end up making more complex code to read just to manually do an optimization the compiler would do for you anyway.

  16. Re:Better idea on Amazon Showcases Twitch With a Massive Free Videogame (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying we should play pokemon go?

  17. Re:Pass on those four on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Care to clarify? as a C# developer, coming into contact with the java world always does feel like going back to 10+ years ago.

  18. Re:Linux supported Kaby Lake features in March on Why Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Zen Will Only Be Optimized On Windows 10 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Has multimonitor support in linux ever been decent? i've always been a windows user, and when 10-15 years ago i was playing around with linux a bit, my first issue was up to date display drivers (i had a pretty bleeding edge graphics card back then). But after that was resolved, multimonitor support was abysmal compared to windows >__. I was really frustrated by the poor support of something so basic)

  19. Re:That's the whole point! on Woman Wins $10,000 Lawsuit Against Microsoft Over Windows 10 Upgrades (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    but the user can still reasonably expect their pc to work as intended afterwards, which was not always the case with Windows 10...

    I've heard of family who updated, and afterwards their laptop wouldn't even boot....

  20. Re:Which one to laugh at more? on Samsung: Don't install Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure, let's just continue junking perfectly working hardware after a couple of years, i'm sure nature will be able to handle it (and those poor chinese workers that'll end up having to "recycle" it too)

  21. the Belgian government is a bit at war with Facebook atm. They started an lawsuit against facebook since it was also tracking non users via its plugins everywhere, which of course is not allowed. In return you now can't see any facebook page anymore from a belgian ip address unless you are logged in.
    So this is another step in the fight of the governement against the privacy breaches of facebook.

    Privacy is taken serious here :).

  22. Maybe not for us, but for most people....

  23. Why not just buy arduino clones?? on Brazilian Devs Launch Tiny $1 STEM-Oriented Microcontroller Board On Indiegogo (hackerboards.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The pro mini's are about 1.25$ atm, arduini nanos with usb port are 1.75$, and the cheapest stm32 boards (which also have arduino ported to them) are about 2$ (and far more powerful than an arduino nano).

    What the hell is this project possibly thinking of being able to add to that (except for high shipping costs, since i doubt that unlike the chinese prices i quoted above, i doubt theirs will include shipping).

  24. Re: Surely a fundamental human rights breach? on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Brussels has effectively enacted curfew and everybody is fine with it"
    as a belgian i must say this is the first i heard about that
    probably right after the bombings there was some kind of curfew for a short period when they were still hunting down some suspects, but life is just returning to normal, as you would expect.

  25. Re:No, it will on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    what makes you think this request will be coming from the WAN side, and going to the WAN interface???
    it's your browser on your LAN that will call the LAN ip address of the modem. So what the hell is the router going to do about it????