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  1. Re:Why? on CSS To Get Support For Trigonometry Functions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Writing games.

  2. Heatbleed wasn't even a buffer overflow. It was a buffer over read.

  3. And the solution? on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Rewrite the everything in their favorite/cool 2018 language, instead of using using the newer features of C++ which are designed to mitigate these problems.

  4. It all depends on what the defintion of "sell" is. on Mozilla Is Reportedly Going To Sell VPN Subscriptions Within Firefox (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    I could see it actually be a net benefit if the Ad was a simple button in the configuration settings or privacy settings called "Get Private VPN" that loaded their partner page. That would be useful: A lot of people may have heard about what a VPN is but don't know exactly how to get it or set it up and if they have that menu opened up they can probably follow instructions to use it.

    However, with Mozilla's track record, it will be some popup on the address bar that will show up every time you visit an unencrypted http site or one with a weak cypher or cert problem or financial site.

    In summary, use Palemoon.

  5. Re: Why do I use Firefox Again? on Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader From Firefox (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    curses based reader that I used everyday: https://codezen.org/canto-ng/

  6. How to crack the Google interview process. on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Go in black face!

  7. The bottom line here is they can admit dumb legacy and rich kids without having to sacrifice their average SAT score.

    Unless you have secure funding lined up, you're probably not getting in without SAT/ACT scores.

  8. Re:Horseshit on 5 Years on, US Government Still Counting Snowden Leak Costs (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Mod this up plz.

  9. Now that's what I call a LIFE HACK.

  10. Re:Most didn't want to be pidgeonholed as nerds. on People Were Asked To Name Women Tech Leaders. They Said 'Alexa' and 'Siri' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    This is how the goal posts are going to shift: even when women are pushed into "STEM" at higher rates it won't be good enough because they'll be mostly asian and white and therefore not oppressed enough.

  11. Re:Do they really think that's clever? on Facebook Rolls Out Job Posts To Become the Blue-Collar LinkedIn (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought Craigslist was the Craigslist for the working poor?

  12. Removable Battery, MicroSD card, and Waterproofing. If it doesn't have those, I'm not buying it. I don't want an iPhone. I'll gladly sidegrade to a chinese phone that does those at half the price if you won't give those to me.

  13. Re:"Why Intel gave it the mind-numbingly boring na on When F00F Bug Hit 20 Years Ago, Intel Reacted the Same Way (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    It was called f00f because that was the actual machine code for the illegal instruction.

  14. Nice excuse to force all your customers to install a binary blob on their cpus. Should we be surprised when this obfuscates access to their management engine.

  15. to get the most out of your iphone hook it up to a car battery

  16. He should add "programmer" to his LARP resume

  17. And these clowns want to take our "legacy" BIOS on Intel: We've Found Severe Bugs in Secretive Management Engine, Affecting Millions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.templeos.org/ToPuni...

    Heed Terry the Terrible's Edict!!!

    Brian Richardson directly challenged authority of King 11/18/17. Gets a beating for stupidity. 11/18/17 NIST at 17:20 hours

  18. NCLB on The Disappearing American Grad Student (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    US students just aren't globally competitive for those spots. Their whole education has been dumbed down, and by the time they finish a STEM undergrad their GPAs are too low to apply to grad school.

    This is just a consequence of 15 years of No Child Left Behind. The pipeline was sabotaged. Instead of 15%-25% of a graduating class that can actually handle college level classes, they've all infantalized nincompoops who have no more ambition in life than to netflix and chill and tell people they're triggered.

  19. Re:Use two factor authentication! on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Most school record keeping is done on systems similar to those still used in finance: ageing mainframes running the same COBOL they have for the past 40+ years. Attempts at modernizing this are money-pits that don't work any better. Emulating the old hardware is the most cost-efficient solution.

  20. Apple makes it a point to hire women. Women are bad at math. This shouldn't surprise anyone.

  21. Re:Screw that, I'm using i3 on GNOME 3.26 Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    agree. have a config that makes the keypad numbers different virtual desktops and use those on my right side monitor and the numbers on the top of the keyboard as the displays for my left monitor.

  22. https://codezen.org/canto-ng/ console based rss reader with vi-like bindings.

  23. Re:Lower prices, at first. on Amazon Just Made Shopping at Whole Foods Cheaper (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Lean beef is $2.99 at my costco. Still have a long way to go before I'd consider those prices "Low".

  24. Please don't tell me you're using some piece of shit millennial editor built on top of a web browser that dims the lights opening up grocery_list.txt.

  25. Thanks for the insight, apple shill #239392.