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  1. Re:Discrimination is discrimination on Google Hosts Special Demo Day For Female Entrepreneurs (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Needing to stay later or work weekends just means stuff is being done incorrectly. The worst code is created after hours.

  2. I wish they allowed you to continuously auto-play. They have a limit on how many episodes right now. Many times we have Netflix on just for background noise as I read books or the wife does her thing. Instead, we need to either use Hulu or actually turn on the TV.

  3. Re:Should have everyone do it at the same time on NY Attorney General Wants Public To Report Broadband Speeds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Broadband is not inherently shared and there are different levels of sharing. While I share a physical line, I have dedicated bandwidth because my ISP does not oversubscribe to the trunk.

  4. Re:Incoming Priority URL on VZ, CC, and TWC on NY Attorney General Wants Public To Report Broadband Speeds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You should measure your connection speed using a single stream, not many. You also have the issue that Torrent data comes in over many peering links, which hides the slow links.

  5. Re:We losing billions to bad scripts, don't need m on WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms · · Score: 1

    How do default settings in the host OS protect you from SQL injection or any other command injection attacks found in poorly written code?

  6. Re:What is a shortage? on WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms · · Score: 1

    You can't price starting wages high because the signal to noise ratio is too horrible. Everyone will apply for the high paying job. Try placing an ad for $150k/year just to find out your new hire is only worth $50k after the 2 year learning curve and a $200k+ loss. Start them low and raise them quickly as they show promise.

  7. Re:Isn't this the responsibility of the OS? on AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If your solution to multi-threading is spinning up more processes, or even threads, you're doing it wrong. The ideal case for a high throughput system is about 2-4 threads per core. Assuming a quad core cpu, about 16 threads. If you have a web server that is using more than 16 threads to serve hundreds of thousands of requests per second, you get your geek card revoked.

  8. Re:Next thing to be exploited on AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Security in layer. Passwords and private keys don't prevent exploitation, they just make it harder. You can always break a password or key, they're just more difficult.

  9. Re:Not a major bug on AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume that's why they also have stack gap entropy, which is also about 40bits. It's still going to be messy. At least for HardenedBSD, they'd randomized pretty much everything with between 30 and 40bits of entropy. If you make an attack that assumes any addresses at all, it will need to bruteforce the entropy.

  10. Re:Untestable? on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Maybe we're reaching a point in science where we can no longer make small incremental and testable steps, but instead need to make giant leaps to get out of a local maximum. Those giant leaps may require philosophy because our current scientific method requires too much validation before proceeding, and progress is slowing.

  11. Re:Bullshit and Religion and Self Deception on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    He is still correct. We assume that assumption is true because science requires it, not because the Universe requires it. Our only way to prove causality must work is with a tool that requires causality to work. That's called a selection bias. Same issue with math. How can we prove math is correct? With more math. In the end, all of science is really just philosophy, but much less so than most philosophy.

  12. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Dark Matter has never been directly observed

    Neither have atoms or subatomic particles. What's your point?

  13. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Aether was something some people made up and tried to make science fit it. Dark Matter is something that we're currently observe. Dark Energy, well, when a galaxy is moving away from your 2.5x the speed of light, either Relativity the First Law of Thermodynamics are both wrong, or Dark Energy exist.

  14. Re:Trust the philosopher, my foot! on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    All science started out as philosophy and many major breakthroughs in science were philosophy for decades or centuries before technology got to the point to be validate the philosophy into theory.

  15. Re:Not a major bug on AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    A good implementation of ASLR can add upwards of 40bits of entropy. An average, the application would need to suffer through 549,755,813,888 segfaults before finding the correct address. If you find a process spawning 1,000,000 copies of itself per second, you may want to kill it.

  16. Re:The pod has been pressurized to minimize the G on The Race To Create a Hyperloop Heats Up (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    More Oxygen is not always a good thing. You only want to inhale a certain number of moles of Oxygen per kg of body mass. As you increase the pressure, the moles goes up, which means you need to reduce the percentage, which means to mess with the ratio, which creates another bunch of problems.

  17. Re:So we found Dark Matter ? on Astronomers Spot Baby Galaxies Cradled In Dark Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Dark Matter is a fact with 9 sigmas of confidence. We just don't know what it is.

  18. Re:Something I haven't heard yet. on Astronomers Spot Baby Galaxies Cradled In Dark Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Blocking gravity waves is akin to blocking gravity itself.

  19. Re:Dark Matter? on Astronomers Spot Baby Galaxies Cradled In Dark Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I've heard it described that if you have a 1 light-year long piece of solid lead and sent a neutrino down it, it would have only a 50% chance to interact with the lead.

  20. Re:absence of evidence on Controversial Experiment Sees No Evidence That the Universe Is a Hologram (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    But according to quantum physics, improbable things can still happen.

  21. Re:Blow up the world! on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Volcanos do this all of the time. This reminds me of people saying particle accelerators could create dangerous backholes, when much much higher energy particles slam our atmosphere all of the time.

  22. My CDMA smart phone with 1 bar of signal sounds just fine.

  23. Re:Structural differences only on The Brains of Men and Women Aren't Really That Different, Study Finds (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Tell that to teachers. They've been trying to treat boys lite girls for a while now, and it's creating issues with boy's ability to learn.

  24. Re:This is not in the least surprising on The Brains of Men and Women Aren't Really That Different, Study Finds (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Gestational testosterone levels are the best indicator, even when you filter out the sexes. Male with low testosterone, very likely to be feminine. Female with high testosterone, very likely to be masculine. Not just how one acts, but what one finds interesting.

  25. Re:Firssd? on SSDs Approaching Price Parity With HDDs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Never is impossible. Given enough time, anything can happen.