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  1. tests on Learning and Maintaining a Large Inherited Codebase? · · Score: 1

    You find out what it's supposed to do according to functional spec, and you write a test-suite against it. Two birds with one stone.

  2. Re:How bad could it be? on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    But then again - it was a joke. They tend to depend at least a little on good understanding.

  3. Re:How bad could it be? on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    Well, except for that little Vietnam thing. That was a bit stupid, in retrospect.

  4. Re:A Christian's take on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    Yes, and geology inescapably concludes that the earth is more than six thousand years old. As does astronomy and physics. And maths says that if you divide the circumference of a circle by its radius twice, you get a number that is a little bit larger than three. All of which is contradicted in the bible. So why focus on evolution ? There is plenty of 'controversial' theory about in academia.

  5. Simple, really on Experts Closing In On Google Attack Coders · · Score: 1

    I can only imagine two outcomes to this: the perpetrators are found, and are found to be _not_ (in the pockets of) the Chinese government, and they are found precisely because of this: I mean, we're talking about *Google*, the *US* and *China* man ! To hell with ordinary malware creators and spamhouses that no law enforcement ever seems to be able to nail, this is important !

    Or, they are (suspected to be) still of the Chinese government, in which case it likely dead-end somewhere.

    Both outcomes would make me kind of cynical, but that's just me.

  6. Re:Why redirect them? on Is Internet Explorer 6/7 Support Required Now? · · Score: 1

    For some people, wars never stop.

  7. Just pollin' on The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know I could Google it, but I'd much rather have an expression of US 'sentiment' if you will - perhaps things are different across the ocean. I don't see a market for this thing and it leaves me puzzled. My question is this: does anyone there actually own something that could be seen as a precursor to this machine ? Is every other person in the US walking around with an e-book reader, that they are ready to replace with an iPad or something ? I mean, the iPod was launched in an existing portable MP3-player market, the iPhone was launched in an existing (even crowded) mobile phone market. This makes me wonder, since I do not have anything that looks like an iPad already (I don't need it) - is there a widespread need for this product ? I mean, I have a netbook, but i wouldn't compare that - it is much more capable.

  8. Re:We're all mind readers on Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store · · Score: 1

    Couldn't you expose your filesystem as a block device to another USB host with proper locking ?

  9. Re:Right on "No Scan, No Fly" At Heathrow and Manchester · · Score: 1

    You groundfucker you.

  10. Re:Oh, no... on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    "Nobody ever though them this." Tsk tsk tsk.

  11. Re:Screw PHP, I write everything in C on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    So long as you can balance the blocking waits on your solid state calls with the sending of a TCP/IP data packet, that must be doable. I like to have an OS for that, though.

  12. Smacks of easy money on Obama Budget To Triple Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NEVER, EVER, in the US, forego oversight when it comes to things infratructural. It just doesn't work. There are too many people around that will see money and nothing else and who don't care who dies so long as it isn't them. It's a fine country, and an enormous economic catalyst, but some things can't be left to the market alone. This is one of them.

  13. Re:How do you know when it's decrypted? on Parallel Algorithm Leads To Crypto Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    That's very interesting. Are you sure you should be posting this ?

  14. Re:How do you know when it's decrypted? on Parallel Algorithm Leads To Crypto Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    You must be airforce.

  15. Stay classy, Australia. on Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So essentially, they wanted to throw the book at him and this was all they could find, and it happened to artificially fit the definition of a law that is really only randomly enforced. The guy may be a perv, but he did his time and this is no reason to put him away.

  16. Re:Living in fear on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 1

    'You are da bomb baby, and I'm going to totally blow you.' Well no, not /you/.

  17. Ethical line ? In movies ? on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 3, Informative

    "and that an ethical line needs to be drawn somewhere."

    Eh. No.

  18. That's just wrong on IE 0-Day Flaw Used In Chinese Attack · · Score: 1

    Why is the leaking of Google data dependent on a flaw in a browser ? That doesn't sound an awful lot like defensive, secure programming on Google's side to me.

  19. Re:Don't forget to... on TV Show Seeks Terminally Ill Volunteer for Mummification · · Score: 1

    Funny, mine is located lower still.. but hey - wasn't this an Asimov story ?

  20. Re:passive and whiny on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    I agree he's being too picky. Like all big-city slickers, he's acting like the poop from his town is the only one that don't stink, and also his preference for a university degree is too chauvinistic (if not hopelessly naive) - there are plenty of people that are fun and interesting to be with, even if they didn't go to college. The same goes for attractiveness (of the 'objective' variety, I mean) - hopelessly overrated in a partner.

  21. Isn't it real easy ? on Bell Labs Says Networks Can Be 1000 Times More Energy Efficient · · Score: 1

    If we're using too much power now, that means that we're not getting our bandwidth's worth - right ?

  22. What the hell on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 1

    Anybody posted the http://www.theonion.com/content/news/more_u_s_children_being_diagnosed - youthful tendency disorder link yet ?

  23. Re:Just because the math works doesn't mean it's t on The End Of Gravity As a Fundamental Force · · Score: 1

    They are good Car particles and bad Car particles - they cancel each other out when they collide, producing energy that the car runs on.

  24. Re:Meanwhile in Canada... on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 1

    Eh, the one doesn't really have anything to do with the other. What you're talking about is 128 bit AES, which is symmetric encryption, which is shifting, xoring, and otherwise the making of chaotic of a block of data (16 bytes, in this case). RSA asymmetric encryption/decryption is more like a calculation that you miss certain parts of and therefore can really only be performed one way. To put it another way: symmetric encryption sees a block of data as a bits to be pushed around, while asymmetric encryption sees a block of data as a number to perform a calculation on. A really big number. Strengths of keys in amount of bits are useless in a comparison of both algorithms.

  25. Re:Meanwhile in Canada... on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 1

    Wait. There are intel chips now that do AES ? Like VIA's padlock ? 256 bit AES ?