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  1. Re:Seriously, but seriously on 21 Million German Bank Accounts For Sale · · Score: 1

    It would probably take the average bank about 5 seconds to notice someone is doing a mass withdrawal from their accounts and another 5 seconds to reverse it.

    Considering banks take an entire business day sometimes more to transfer funds to another bank and you'll realize why the details are sold so cheap, it's HARD to get money out of a bank and even if you did manage to get a sizable money out it would probably be relatively easy to trace and you'd be a high priority target for international agencies.

  2. Re:Audio requred by law on Audio CAPTCHAs Cracked; ReCAPTCHA Remains Strong · · Score: 1

    Stopped the same way all other law offenses are dealt with. If a policeman notices your camara doesn't make the "click" noise he can haul your ass into jail : P

  3. Re:Insane on Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought it was generally proven that porn lowers the overall rape rate which should in theory mean that child porn(without real children) should lower the child rape rate.

  4. Re:Negative headlines sell better on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 1

    If you want the serious answers, you could, I don't know, maybe read the studies?

  5. Negative headlines sell better on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No one is interested in reading positive news like the fact the vaccine isn't actually harmful so there's no money in printing it.

  6. Re:Probably true on Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If people don't want to be crawled by google they can just get a robots.txt

  7. Charge more? on Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 0

    If they think google is getting their bandwidth too cheap why aren't they just charging more?

  8. Re:A valuable skill on What Programming Language For Linux Development? · · Score: 1

    Isn't using system specific system call libraries technically equivalent with rewriting everything for each system?

  9. Re:A valuable skill on What Programming Language For Linux Development? · · Score: 1

    as long as you're not making any system calls?

  10. Re:Don't buy the game. on Spore the Most Pirated Game of 2008 · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how not touching the game would be a clear message, the publisher would still be able to find a million excuses for why the game didn't sell well.

  11. Re:Why would the Algorithm break? on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you're writing an algorithm in a programming language you're doing it wrong.

  12. Re:Question on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 1

    Well ye, I was only mentioning recursive calls because the specific algorithm was recursive.

  13. Re:Why would the Algorithm break? on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 1

    I thought that implementing a recursive algorithm in C was begging for the program to eat your entire memory.

    Anyhow, I think the point is that it's much easier to write parallel code in a functional language since everything is a function and each function should be independent enough to run in it's own thread.

  14. Re:Question on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 1

    In theory creating a new thread each time shouldn't be horribly inefficient, if it is then it's the operating systems fault.

  15. Re:Convince your boss. on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, the problem is that no matter how much you bash an algorithm with a functional language you can't magically make a sequential task into a parallel one.

  16. Re:Question on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The way it should work is that if you're implementing a pararell algorithm like merge sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_sort it should just go and get a new processor core each time you make a recursive call.

  17. Re:Why would the Algorithm break? on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 1

    There is nothing that prevents you from implementing sequential algorithms in a functional language.

  18. Why would the Algorithm break? on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't see why an algorithm would break just because you're changing language type, the whole point of an algorithm is that it's programming language independent.

  19. Re:Solution: driving w/ phone = lose your license on Study Confirms Mobile Phones Distract Drivers · · Score: 1

    The general idea is to save lives by removing people that can't drive safely from the road.

  20. Re:What BitTorrent REALLY needs on BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense" · · Score: 1

    When I last used Azureus they were working on an algorithm that created a virtual map based on pings and were meant to prioritize low ping seeds.

    The idea being that low ping usually means that the other computer is on the same or a close network.

  21. Re:Where where? on BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense" · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not sure, bouncing stones could be pretty painful.

  22. Re:no on PC Grand Theft Auto IV Features SecuROM DRM · · Score: 1

    You're making the false assumption that the poster has any principles.

  23. Re:Frame rate on 18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD · · Score: 1

    What would you suggest is better then "sample-and-hold"? The only other option I can think of is "Sample-then-black" and I can't see any advantage with that whatsoever.

    I suspect the majority of the extra effect you notice is psychological, you want it to be better and because of that you see it as much better.

  24. Re:Frame rate on 18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD · · Score: 1

    I agree, I could barely tell any difference between 24 and 60 FPS during the game.

  25. Re:65 Celcius melting point of skin? on Surgeons Weld Wounds Shut With Surgical Laser · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you ever burnt yourself on the stove or something? Then you'd know that skin melts.

    65C is way, way, waaaaay above the temperature you'd want in a warm bath and while the air temperature is 110C in a sauna your skin never reaches that temperature, if you stayed in the sauna long enough your skin would melt though(I think you'd die first)