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  1. Re:who cares? on A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs · · Score: 3, Informative

    What specifically makes SQLlite not a "standalone" database?

    The 'server' is embedded in the application, which means one instance per app instance. A true standalone RDBMS runs (a minimum of) one instance that multiple (instances of) apps query.

  2. Re:End-to-end on Google Speeding Up New Encryption Project After Latest Snowden Leaks · · Score: 2

    I'll surrender my geek card at the door.

  3. Re:End-to-end on Google Speeding Up New Encryption Project After Latest Snowden Leaks · · Score: 2

    You're thinking of Dennis Ritchie's example of how to do it, which was written purely to make a point.

  4. Re:Much like Gold on Bitcoin Kiosks Coming To 5 Canadian Cities · · Score: 1

    Other than jewelry gold has very limited uses, almost exclusively in obscure sensitive electronics.

    Like smartphones, PCs and high-quality A/V cables?

  5. Re:Why did this tech ever make it out of the lab on Windows 8's Picture Passwords Weaker Than Users Might Hope · · Score: 1

    Not everyone requires enterprise-grade security. Sometimes all you need is enough to deter people, and these 'picture passwords' fit that requirement nicely.

  6. Re:GIGO on Windows 8's Picture Passwords Weaker Than Users Might Hope · · Score: 1

    Allow me to be the first - it boots up really quickly ;)

  7. Re:Sorry.. on Xbox One Set To Launch On November 22 · · Score: 1

    Ah, a lovely warm fire to start the day with :)

  8. Re:This how google will get out responsibility for on New Smartphone Tech To Alert Pedestrians: 'You Are About To Be Hit By a Car' · · Score: 1

    Spoken like someone who has no clue what he's talking about. Why should a driver be held responsible for a cyclist running a red? Especially if he has no time to react (a very real possibility). And don't say the driver should slow down, as that can easily create more problems than it solves; it can even be dangerous to slow down depending on conditions and traffic flow.

  9. Re:This how google will get out responsibility for on New Smartphone Tech To Alert Pedestrians: 'You Are About To Be Hit By a Car' · · Score: 1

    In the Netherlands it is always the car-driver's fault if he hits a pedestrian or a cyclist.

    Even if the cyclist runs a red light?

  10. Re:Sorry.. on Xbox One Set To Launch On November 22 · · Score: 1

    Show proof you need PSN+ to stream Netflix on PS4. Otherwise, obvious troll is obvious.

  11. Re:Not really on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    The 70mph figure seems to be nonsense, as it would be much slower than the usual maximum speed limits.

    70mph = 112.7km/h, so it's in the ballpark.

  12. Re: Not really on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    Who said the speed limit was 55mph?

    EU trucks are limited to 56mph (95kph), even on motorways. Unless otherwise posted, cars are limited to 60mph (70mph on dual carriageways).

  13. Re:Numbering .. on Nintendo Announces 2DS Handheld — Plays 3DS Games In 2-D · · Score: 1

    Apart from that one of course

  14. Re:so... on Un-Un-Pentium On Your Periodic Table of the Elements? · · Score: 1

    That kinda goes with my point, insofar as governments think privatising will solve the economy issues, whereas it actually locks the wealth away in the upper echelons, instead of spreading it more evenly among the population.

  15. Re:Summary wtf on Scientists Create 'Fastest Man-Made Spinning Object' · · Score: 1

    What rpm does it need to run to extract that apostrophe?

    600,000,001

  16. Re: Idiocracy on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 1

    I thought that lawyers didn't sleep because if they stop swimming they will drown.

    That's a myth. In reality, there is no known way to kill a lawyer. Even if you could, they're like the hydra - kill one, and two more will take its place.

  17. Re:Numbering .. on Nintendo Announces 2DS Handheld — Plays 3DS Games In 2-D · · Score: 1

    Pure coincidence, especially as the previous Nexus phones didn't use a number in the name.

  18. Re:actually, no on New Zealand Bans Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Poor quality material is-superset-of material generated by a paid shill with a purpose to misinform you.

    FTFY

  19. Re:so... on Un-Un-Pentium On Your Periodic Table of the Elements? · · Score: 1

    Then give them jobs doing science! Or regulate the banks to stop them pulling the kind of shit that flushes economies down the porcelain throne. Or both!

  20. Re:so... on Un-Un-Pentium On Your Periodic Table of the Elements? · · Score: 1

    That's actually exactly what austerity means.

    No, austerity means 'we don't know how to fix the economy so we're gonna ignore the problem and hope it goes away by itself'.

  21. Re: Good on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    That 'whoosh' is so loud, I thought it was a sonic boom.

  22. Re:Too bad the folks in Fukishima can't eat fish.. on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant To Close In 2014 · · Score: 1

    How many fish species migrate hundreds or thousands of miles? Genuine query.

  23. Re:Too bad the folks in Fukishima can't eat fish.. on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant To Close In 2014 · · Score: 2

    They can still eat fish - they just get it from somewhere else.

  24. Re:so... on Un-Un-Pentium On Your Periodic Table of the Elements? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when do we need a specific reason to do science? You never know what you'll find out once you've done the research.

    Since we started implementing austerity measures.

    Just because the banks lost all our money down the back of the sofa doesn't mean we shouldn't do science.

  25. Re:Car salesmen on Death of the Car Salesman? BMW Makes AI App To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Even a cracked windscreen gets you pulled over, let alone missing bodywork.

    It seems you unfortunately suffer from the delusion that UK police actually patrol the nation's highways, instead of filling out endless reams of paperwork, or holding random people for nine hours by abusing anti-terror legislation.