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  1. Re:Don't be so far to believe! on Billboard Advertising Banned Products In Russia Hides If It Recognizes Cops · · Score: 1

    If you it actually was forbidden to sell food, you would not see this story. The Russian government does not fuck around. You may be able to bend laws in central Russia, but not Moscow.

    But I can see that the store may have some trouble, since the perception that buying EU food is impossible may well be wide spread. This add campaign basically is clever advertising and a bit of critique of the situation.

  2. Re:Republicans and their unhealthy space obscessio on Robotic Space Plane Launches In Mystery Mission This Week · · Score: 1

    Examples that NASA has something to do with (maybe not directly): the microwave, 0-G ball pen, tennis shes, freeze dried ice cream.

  3. Re:Won't save most of the 4000 lives on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    Then again the car will not be able to stop on the spot. it needs to actually slow down with it's breaks. Event the situation where something falls of the back of a pickup truck; whatever falls needs to slow down by friction. The only situation that GP has anything useful is the kid that runs onto the street a short distance away. This situation physics dictates that there is not solution, if you consider stopping distance only. But an autonomous system, as a driver can also swerve to avoid the obstacle. The reduction in response time, may actually save the life of the person running in front of the truck. Then again this exact situation is one of the hardest to handle, since an obstacle coming perpendicularly towards the vehicle may still stop before the paths intersect.

  4. Re:Yeah, disappointing on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    Except that MRA is not about male supremacy. It is a movement aimed to address issues, where people get the raw end, purely for being male. (divorce law, rape: guilty until proven innocent, criminal justice biases) Most MRA's are egalitarian.

    So in this case the duck does not quack like a duck. This guy is a male supremist, different story.

  5. Re:Pretty sure the heat death of the universe will on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 1

    I am not sure. I think C will even survive that...

  6. Re: lesson 1 on Amtrak Train Derails In Philadelphia · · Score: 1

    Wosh!

  7. Re:Developers! Developers! Developers! on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1

    And THAT is the reason why I install msys on windows machines, just to be able to use bash.

  8. Re:I'm offended by the elitist 1% Mesa teapot on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    This made my day, thank you!

  9. Re:Inept, or the plan? on Pirate Bay Blockade Censors CloudFlare Customers · · Score: 1

    Spiked wedding ring? Tonfa of eternal devotion? Rolling pin?

  10. Re:But why? on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ok, fine, I will bite.

    Now let's say the university alters their courses to be more attractive to women. But the jobs that engineers will not change. You may want to change them, but if they want them to actually achieve something useful, they really can't change. It's like asking painters to be more like actors, so actors can also enter the field of painters; this will not create more painters, since the skill of painting, remains the skill of painting.

    "more societally meaningful" ?! And I don't get it either. My job does not get more societally meaningful; if I don't do my job (Software Engineer, Industrial Automation), you don't get any power to your home, don't drive a car, don't get air condition in the mall and many more things. Sure I am only a small cog in that bigger scheme of things, but without engineers modern society would not exist.

    I would like more women in engineering; many of the colleagues I like to work with are women. And talking with them, the content of their work is not what is holding them back. In some cases it may be social or cultural and in other cases just "math is hard".

    On that note, I demand more male nurses!

  11. Re:Inept, or the plan? on Pirate Bay Blockade Censors CloudFlare Customers · · Score: 1

    How do you expect to operators of companies to know all the laws for all the countries?! And it does not hold up with "non internet" applications of the law. Say for example I operate a mail delivery store for marital arts weapons. In my country all weapons that I sell are legal and I apply the law properly as in my country (e.g. age restrictions). Now you want to import something, say a training shuriken, into your country, but there it is illegal. It your responsibility as the importer of the goods to comply with your countries laws and regulations. Why the hell should that be different on the internet?!

  12. Re:Render farm? on Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage · · Score: 1

    Actually I like to point to Star Citizen. The cinematic and trailers for that game are at the same level of graphical fidelity than the highest in game settings. The issue is that, first you probably can't afford the system that renders this smoothly, second the game absolutely feels differently. Game play is restricted by the input space and thus is almost always clunky; the more realistic the graphics, the more jarring the disconnect feels.

  13. Re: Andrew "bunnie" Huang argues that Moore's Law on Fifty Years of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    Yes, but where is the difference to CPUs? Many little breakthroughs in technology, most of them you don't see.

  14. Re: Andrew "bunnie" Huang argues that Moore's Law on Fifty Years of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    I don't know, switching from aluminium and titanium to composite materials is, such as carbon fibers is a real big deal in aviation. But this is something that you don't see and thus don't recognize. Would you know that the A350 and 787 are almost entirely made of plastic?

    I agree that Moore's Law is slowing, but i doubt that we will see a slowdown in innovation. We have already seen a shift from more powerful to smaller and more energy efficient. The number of applications that need raw power are getting less and less and move into the realm of "good enough". Even in data centers you are start to see power improvement as we can do the same thing with less hardware and power consumption.

    I think the next big hurdle will be network connectivity. More bandwidth, less latency.

  15. Re:Physics on The International Space Station (Finally) Gets an Espresso Machine · · Score: 1

    I would not consider 70 - 80C (158-176 F) "close to boiling point". The remainder is correct, an espresso machine works primarily on pressure. That is why it makes RRRRR Pffff sound when the presure valve releases.

    (Didn't the Italians already bring a converted nespresso machine to the ISS?)

  16. Re:Nice, so where's the processor to match? on Sharp Announces 4K Smartphone Display · · Score: 1

    I think the comment for VR headsets is spot on. Granted there are more smartphones than VR headsets, but on smartphones few will be ready to take the price hike the display will cause. I think they are targeting high end smart phones and VR headsets. Basically for people with too much disposable income...

  17. Re:More false information on Biometrics Are Making Espionage Harder · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but the Texas' DMV has my right thumb print. Granted that one is 15 years old, but more biometrics are collected than you think; especially in the US. Maybe THAT is the problem, US spooks can't operate properly because the US collected key biometrics and now other countries have the data. Other countries don't have the problem, since they did not collect the data in the first place...

  18. Re:Achievements on Ask Slashdot: How Serious Is Hacking In Mobile Games? · · Score: 1

    +1

    Achievement unlocked: Completed the hamster wheel.

  19. Re:First, manhole covers are not always round on The Key To Interviewing At Google · · Score: 1

    But the battery of questions I got where nearly as useless to real work, even though they where actual programming questions. When I interviewed with Google I had around 7 years of work experience designing and implementing software for industrial automation with some focus on compiler constitution. Almost all questions where CS 101 questions, like "How do you implement quicksort?". Although basic knowledge of fundamental algorithms is required for the the work, actual problems are almost always of architectural nature or "we need a solution yesterday".

    The fact that some Google recruiter was showed interest in me was nice and the entire experience was enlightening, but I was not very impressed with the entire process. Their offices sure are nicer than the one I am currently sitting in...

  20. Re:Sensors wrong on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    Like in that German Wings flight?

  21. Re:If you don't control it it's compromised. on Ask Slashdot: How Serious Is Hacking In Mobile Games? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would simply take the same approach you should take with PC games. If it's single player, don't bother. You are wasting resources, resources you can use to make your game just a little more awesome. (more awesome == more sales) Wit multiplayer games, the key point is the server. The server should not trust clients and use heuristics to detect suspicious behavior. Then give administrators the means to moderate their users. (Or a vote system.) Bad behavior is a real issue with multiplayer games, but that is not limited to cheating.

    But since we are talking about mobile games; are users cheating you on the premium currency? Treat is like any other piracy, ignore it and try to win users by making the cooler more awesome game. Maybe communicate that you are an independent developer and need the money to make games.

  22. Re:Sensors wrong on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    But that is exactly the issue at hand. Sure we can automate the plane, but it still needs to interface with air traffic control. The next thing you know a air traffic controller crashes a plane into a mountain for some psychotic reason.

  23. Re:How can foreigners be charged under US law? on Obama Authorizes Penalties For Foreign Cyber Attackers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Although I will concede that jurisdiction is a muddled concept with IT systems, but the following is true: They attack and/or penetrate IT systems that are located on US soil. Under international conventions, this is a crime. This is no different that when I throw a rock across the US/Canada border and damage your car, did the crime happen in the US or Canada? But even in China and North Korea there are laws against damaging IT systems and I am quite sure that they don't have exclusions for US IT systems. Now either they are private citizens and thus it is a criminal act and they are criminals or this is a government sanctioned act and they are soldiers and this is an act of war (i.e. not a crime).

  24. Re:Russians on Obama Authorizes Penalties For Foreign Cyber Attackers · · Score: 1

    In the case of the Ukraine, the US could probably care less. Neither the populace, note the leading casts cared about it. There is little to gain for the US, no use to squabble about one military port in the Black Sea. (Big deal to the Russians.) But the Europeans saw the situation differently and pressured the US to put their wight behind it. The primary reason for Russia's actions was Ukraine's move closer to the EU and NATO, which directly threatened their precious Black Sea port. (No use to "own" a port that will be overrun/destroyed within the first minutes of fighting.)

  25. Re:How can foreigners be charged under US law? on Obama Authorizes Penalties For Foreign Cyber Attackers · · Score: 1

    They also have a de facto right to kidnap you from the streets of your home country.

    They do not have the right; but that does not prevent them of doing it. Actors of the state penetrating into a different country and taking hostage citizens of said county (probably any other) is an act of war. Yes, technically most espionage is an act of war.