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  1. Re:Fact vs. Fiction on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except your cited examples could all have negative consequences for neighbouring property. As the saying goes, your rights end where the other person's start so its not unreasonable that you should be required to submit to planning approval for certain things.

  2. Re:Zuckerberg the coward HELPS nazis on Facebook. on Vandals Deface Facebook's Hamburg Offices (google.com) · · Score: 1

    'Hate' is the only term you have for my right to exist, to my nation and my future. You can't imagine anything else but hate.

    I bet that sentence resonates strongly with sad angry losers who've failed at life and need somebody to blame other than themselves. Ironically it's not far removed from the kind of dribble that jihadist groups also use to recruit new members.

  3. Re:Zuckerberg the coward HELPS nazis on Facebook. on Vandals Deface Facebook's Hamburg Offices (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook has an extensive AUP. I don't see why they should have any problem whatsoever taking down any account which violates it. I assume they don't because the people who maintain the accounts are careful to avoid overtly violating it.

  4. It never seemed likely to work on Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    People want apps to use on their smart phones. Firefox OS was never going to get the apps and therefore it was doomed to fail regardless of what merits the OS may have had. And it's hard to see many of those either.

  5. Re:I don't really follow all these vr sets but... on HTC Delays Vive VR Launch Until April 2016 (htc.com) · · Score: 1
    I expect all VR headsets are waiting for screen tech to catch up - more DPIs, lower response rates etc. It's probably about where it needs to be to yield an acceptable image.

    But problems for VR are going to be much bigger than display tech. Once the wow factor wears off (extremely fast), VR is going to have to come up with compelling games people actually want to play and can play for an extended duration without puking their guts up, becoming disoriented, tripping over cables / tables / dogs or having enormous space to work with.

  6. Yes but you assume here that Trump has thought this through, is prepared to listen to reasonable argument, or defer to those who are experts in these matters.

    Unfortunately Trump shows all the signs of having narcissistic personality disorder. The world revolves around him, he is right, you are wrong, you are stupid, you are a cardboard cutout who only exists to bask in his wisdom and light. It doesn't matter if what he says is demonstrably wrong. He's right. It doesn't matter if what he says is offensive or outrageous. He's right. It doesn't matter that nothing he says bears cursory examination or stands against the slightest critical thought. He's still right. No matter what harebrained, fuckwitted notion has embedded itself in his head, it's right. He's right. You're wrong.

    The Republican party must be freaking the hell out at this point in time. If he wins the nomination they lose, if he doesn't he'll probably run independent and they'll lose. At this point they're probably hoping he pops a vein and drops dead before it comes to either of those outcomes.

  7. Re: Translation on Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC (dice.com) · · Score: 1
    PImpls are a pain to maintain. This pattern might serve a purpose where you have an interface into your code that you expect other people to cleanly use your header without suffering all the stuff your impl needs. The flipside is if your class changes a lot or isn't that big, you suddenly have twice as much code to maintain and twice as many method signatures to modify each time they change.

    I wouldn't go anywhere near this pattern for self contained code.

  8. Re: Translation on Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC (dice.com) · · Score: 2
    It works really well for portable source code and where everything you link to comes from the same compiler. It's not so good if you're trying to link to some dynamic or static lib which was produced for MSVC because memory management and exception handling are incompatible. Unfortunately this happens quite a bit on Windows. IDE support isn't particularly good by comparison to MSVC either, particularly interactive debugging.

    Clang for Windows is taking an approach which is somewhat bizarre but could potentially achieve better compatibility with MSVC - you drop the clang binaries on a system which already has Visual Studio and it compiles code against the same headers and libs. As such it already supports a lot of VC++ extensions, keywords and name mangling. You can even run Visual Studio and develop against clang from there and run MSBuild with clang.

    The flipside, is if you have MSVC installed (a perfectly good compiler suite) then why earth do you need Clang? I think Clang needs to be a standalone package, perhaps using the MingW headers, even if it is capable of using MSVC headers / libs if you have them installed. Then someone can choose what level of compatibility they want.

  9. A lot of negativity here on TAG Heuer Increasing Weekly Production To Meet Demand For Its Smartwatch (slashgear.com) · · Score: 5, Funny
    Don't you realise that these smart watches are hand made? Each CPU is painstakingly built by hand master craftsman one transistor at a time. The CPU is a soldered to a precision circuit board etched in gold and engraved with the individual maker's name. Horologists test the timing functionality of the device, placing miniature weights on quartz crystal to achieve the perfect clock frequency. The screen is painstakingly hand painted one pixel at a time with fine horse hair brushes. The metal case is formed by savants with the power of mind over matter. And finally the strap is hand-stitched and made from the hide of the last white rhino.

    So if you cynically thought Tag Heuer were just shoving some mass produced part from an Intel factory in Malaysia into a chunky metal case and pocketing the enormous markup then think again.

  10. Re:They can't lead in market numbers forever on Report Claims Microsoft Beat Apple in Online Tablet Sales for October (winbeta.org) · · Score: 0
    It's not reasonable and Apple know it. Having to send off your tablet for days is an inconvenience particularly since you might not get your original device back. And its expensive too. It's just a cynical way to get people to buy new tablets instead of servicing their old ones.

    The practice of sealing batteries into devices or rendering them inaccessible should be banned purely on environmental grounds.

  11. Re:Are all ten of them Java? on The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be in the "not the case except in TFA's main conclusions" sense of the word.

  12. Re:Are all ten of them Java? on The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2
    I expect that languages that allow (nay encourage) embedding SQL straight into the web template are the ones most vulnerable to attack.

    Java web apps would typically split the presentation, logic and storage from each other and the storage would be via Hibernate / OpenJPA. These impls would tend to be robust and prevent most forms of injection attack.

  13. Of course its not a hologram on Controversial Experiment Sees No Evidence That the Universe Is a Hologram (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It's a time cube. Everyone knows that.

  14. Re:Unsafe unbranded clones prone to combustion on 15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom (nationaltradingstandards.uk) · · Score: 2

    These devices also look perfect anyone wishing to increase their chance of suffering severe front or back skull trauma.

  15. Re:An even better design? on The Race To Create a Hyperloop Heats Up (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    And as an added bonus people come out the other side roasted to perfection.

  16. Re:LibreOffice on Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    LibreOffice already embeds chunks of Mozilla. Not sure what version / fork but it would probably turn into DLL hell until they sorted it out, or at least kept Thunderbird separate.

  17. Re:Middle click copy-paste missing on Enlightenment E20 Released With Full Wayland Support (enlightenment.org) · · Score: 2

    It's not considered an afterthought. It's considered a separate problem altogether that can be solved in numerous ways.

  18. Re:Politically incorrect fact on Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've used Edge on a tablet and it works as well as I would expect. It's certainly the best browser on Windows 10 with regard to properly supporting touch - bringing up the virtual keyboard in tablet mode etc. Chrome also has fairly good support but it's not quite to the same standard. Firefox lags behind both.

  19. Re:I don't get the purpose on Italy Invests 150 Million Euros In Surveillance, With Emphasis On PS4 Chats (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that would be self defeating too. It's better to not disclose what you're monitoring, or at least to plant comments in jihadist forums that mixes some good advice with some "safe" sites that you happen to be monitoring and let them at it. If you can monitor their chatter then you can infer what they're up to. If you scare them off then who knows what they're talking about or planning.

  20. I don't get the purpose on Italy Invests 150 Million Euros In Surveillance, With Emphasis On PS4 Chats (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming PS4 were monitored by intelligence agencies, then the people they're monitoring would just move somewhere else. It's not like there is any shortage of websites, email systems, games, forums and chatrooms situated all over the world that they could pick from.

  21. Re: Summary is so broken on Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2
    More likely, the console started off by reserving a conservative amount of memory and CPU. This was to futureproof itself for anything Sony had in mind by way of features etc. As the firmware matured and features were realised the surplus resources were unlocked and made available to applications and games.

    It happened for the PS3 and the PSP (which had higher clock rates unlocked) so it's not unprecedented.

  22. Re:the main legit use i can see on Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say that. The implication of what I said is people can see the truck. It's in their field of vision, moves predictably and is therefore avoidable. A large chunk of airframe falling out of the sky is not in their field of vision. It is not predictable or avoidable.

  23. Re:Wildly expensive on MST3K Kickstarter Poised To Break Kickstarter Record (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1

    Kickstarter takes 5% and credit cards take a few %. Hard to reconcile why the funds raised are ~$500k to the statement that an episode costs $250k.

  24. Re:Wildly expensive on MST3K Kickstarter Poised To Break Kickstarter Record (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt the licensing costs for showing excerpts from bad movies amounts to a major expense. I'm also sure that MST3K minimize the costs further by selling digital copies of the movie in question from the online store and splitting revenues with the rights holder.

  25. Re:Wildly expensive on MST3K Kickstarter Poised To Break Kickstarter Record (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1
    Except it isn't 250k per episode. The meter is on 4-6 episodes and the next level unlocks at 4,400,000. So currently it's $550,000 per episode. And even if it reached 5,500,000 then it would be $458,333 per episode.

    So I'm being reasonable in saying $500k. It's a very large sum of money for the show format.