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  1. Re:What are the chances on Electric Fork Simulates a Salty Flavor By Shocking Your Tongue (med.news.am) · · Score: 1

    Oh get over it - you're both being autistic!

    Not that that's saying much on /.

  2. Re:Updated Policy: on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    To fix Unicode, you have to abolish it. And replace it with 16-bit characters. All schemes that try to do compression on numbers are bound to fail (I'm looking at you, BER). It's just too cumbersome.

  3. Re:Interesting impacts of Yellowstone supervolcano on Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions Even Bigger Than Originally Thought (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it not possible to 'ease' Yellowstone a little bit, by harvesting its heat? It would be a double whammy: free energy and less risk of an eruption. (Remember - I said 'ease', not 'neutralize').

  4. My god, man, stop. You've lost. Be a man and give up already.

  5. Re:Chain of custody? on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    15000 USD, including plane tickets, hotel costs and other travel expenses? These guys are doing it for free.

  6. Re:It is not a justification for more surveillance on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    What an enormous load of bollocks. Cars do not conspire to kill us. The 'kill-rate' of cars is a function of safety-measures and stupidity-statistics. The kill-rate of terrorists, on the other hand, without throwing everything that you have at it, is potentially infinite (or, the amount of people on the planet).

  7. Re: Sweden gets what they deserve on Unprecedented DDoS Attack At Swedish Government, Media Outlets (www.dn.se) · · Score: 0

    He didn't reveal the classified information to unauthorized persons (he is one).

    Assange had need-to-know on the American classified data? That seems unlikely...

  8. Re:Work-around FTL? on German Scientists Successfully Teleport Classical Information (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    So, the latency is terrible, but the throughput - wow!

  9. Re:Let me get this straight on German Scientists Successfully Teleport Classical Information (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    So, if I may see if I understand your post well enough:
    - there is causality
    - there is the speed of light
    - but they're not necessarily connected, that is to say:
    - if the sun explodes, we experience most of the effects 8 minutes later (speed of light and causality in one), but:
    - if you transfer information between two points instantly using quantum entanglement, you experience causality, but not the speed of light.

  10. Re:The end of Hertz? on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    People in sales are usually held to targets. Don't make your target = no bonus. Don't make your target twice = get packing.

  11. Re:Efficiency on Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters · · Score: 3, Funny

    They want to put it in your mobile phone! Have a solar panel on the one side, your house fuse box on the other, and your phone in the middle! That's why they wanted the highest energy density per volume!

  12. Re:A Basset Hound Can Dogfight on It Turns Out the F-35 Can Dogfight (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Under what conditions would they consider the program a failure?...

    You assume that a fighter is an end-product. That updates don't happen and that circumstances don't change. So, why it *that* the question?

  13. Re:So biased it would curdle milk at 100 yards on Kremlin Falls For Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just Russian trolls: there are swaths of people active online in the Western world to whom everything that their own government does, or related governments do, is part of an enormous conspiracy theory. You see it in the evolution theory discussions, and in MH17: someone has cooked up a theory alternative to what they've been told by the MSM, so it must be right. It's the right wing version of 'down with us'.

  14. I kind-of agree with Shamir on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Aside from physical security breaching (that is, shaving off the chips): if Apple can't do it, they should say so. However, if Apple can do it (and it looks like they can), then they should do it (and then build an even stronger phone).

    So millions of people bought phones that were secure only to a certain level - well tough, that's just how it is. Purposeful breaking of security is a must when it comes to designing security. Plus, millions of people don't expect to have an ultimately secure phone either - they want to protect their phones from theft, mostly. If that. Not from prying federal eyes. And the phones were never marketed that way either.

    You have a duty to inform yourself as a consumer. Buying an iPhone is not a universal human right and if you want your phone to be secure from prying federal eyes, you should pay for what that takes. Apparently this one can be pried open with certain, simple, measures, and therefore it *should* be pried open.

  15. Re:Will she pardon here self and him once she gets on Justice Dept. Grants Immunity To Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    "beyond classified"? Pray tell, what's that?

  16. It's the swing of the pendulum on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    The mathless people want their place back. Too long have they suffered those 'engineers' taking all the well-paid jobs. Too long since those 'engineers' were simply irritating people confined to the basements of fortune-500 companies.

  17. "such as how exactly the molecular signals get shuttled to the command center, which generally has tight security, are unclear."

    This write-up simply *has* to have its own honorary place in the top-so-many of bad write-ups.

  18. If it really happened the way it was described on Israeli Troops Who Relied On Waze Blundered Into Deadly Palestinian Firefight (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Those guys certainly weren't the sharpest pencils in the box.

  19. Re:FUCK airlines on Airbus Patents Adjustable Seats, In-Seat Storage For Aircarft (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Why did you take the train? There's flights going from Rotterdam to Barca. Better airport too.

  20. Re:China is pretty much a shithead on Norway Becomes First NATO Country To Accuse China of Stealing Military Secrets (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Norway builds cryptos, radios, subs, guns and oilrigs.

  21. Re:Fuck you and your "safe space" on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    ?? One was about UC San Diego, who defunded a student paper because they had a satirical article criticizing safe spaces.

  22. Re:IBM already does it on Linux's Open Mainframe Project Announces Areas of Focus (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right. I was thinking of USS.

  23. IBM already does it on Linux's Open Mainframe Project Announces Areas of Focus (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They have Linux partitions on their OS/390 mainframes. It's been a while since I last touched it (must have been 12 years ago or so?), and it was behaving quite odd at the time (not many utilities, strange idea of what root constituted, and that horrible, horrible shell), but still... the idea is a bit older than today.

  24. I had the same thing on Linux Virtual Ethernet Bug Delivers Corrupt TCP/IP Data (vijayp.ca) · · Score: 1

    It turned out to be the fault of the VM and functionality offloading. See here: http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

  25. Re:Have they checked systemd? on PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots 40 Bugs In the FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 1

    No, this IS the correct forum to publish your perverse sexual fantasies - have you never read a GNAA post? Or that one about the poopeater?