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  1. Re:Manager on New Microsoft CEO Vows To Shake Up Corporate Culture · · Score: 4, Funny

    He had me at "crease the fluidity". OMG... *swoon*.

  2. Re:Alternate use for this technology on DARPA Successfully Demonstrates Self-Guiding Bullets · · Score: 2

    Great way to bankrupt an enemy...

    Israel's defense budget, and a good chunk of Iron Dome in particular, is funded by the US taxpayer as a kickback scheme to funnel more money to US weaponry manufacturers. Israel only benefits when they have an excuse to fire their guns every once in a while since it keeps Congress from questioning why we give them so many billions in the name of "peace". 1984-style perpetual war is great for business.

  3. Re:That probably won't change... on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 1

    but even python 2.3 to python 2.6 can create worlds of headaches.

    That's because the 2.x series went through a significant amount of churn. Part of that is the steady flux in the standard libraries to fix bad design decisions and the rest is improvements to the core language including backports of 3.x features. Those early days are over and 3.x is intentionally designed to be more rational and consistent.

  4. Re:Correction...That you know of... on Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I prime all my drives with GNU shred since its PRNG is faster than /dev/random and good enough for creating background noise. I've considered writing a program that exhibits statistical anomalies such as Benford's law or randomized MPEG blocks for kicks. Or maybe even valid MPEG encoded noisy frames of Goatse zooming in repeatedly.

  5. Re:Scare tactics on Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 · · Score: 1

    That isn't necessary. The sheeple are already conned into believing that the bill of rights enumerates all rights of the people and the government has the power to regulate anything not on the list as well as some particulars of things that are listed.

  6. Re:Actual savings? on Renewable Energy Saves Fortune 100 Companies $1.1B Annually · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most huge commercial operations are using fluorescent lighting in their facilities. Switching to LED en masse would entail a loss.

  7. Re:Predictable outcome on Time Warner Cable Customers Beg Regulators To Block Sale To Comcast · · Score: 5, Funny

    You forgot:
    America! Fuck yeah!

  8. Retransmitting analog cell phone calls was made into a crime which is why Google is getting slapped over this. Multi-band radios used to be able to tune them in before analog became essentially obsolete. The difference, of course, is that WiFi APs *advertise* their presence on purpose rather than carry the presumption of privacy but we can't expect old people to understand technology.

  9. Re:Deleted on US National Archives Will Upload All Its Holdings To Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey but you can learn about all the Pokemon and Transformers trivia you could ever want to know.

  10. Re:Filter bubble on In 2012, Facebook Altered Content To Tweak Readers' Emotions · · Score: 1

    Rather than whine about being a guinea pig you could just not play their game. Every hour spent on Facebook is an hour of your life lost to more productive or enriching pursuits.

  11. Re:It is a trend on Apple Kills Aperture, Says New Photos App Will Replace It · · Score: 1

    Apple won't be happy until they've reimplemented MS Bob but with a little more style.

  12. Re:They where acting like the cable co / CATV on Bye Bye Aereo, For Now · · Score: 1

    because there was a company with a centrally-located antenna and a lot of people paid to access its signal over wires.

    Yes. That's what Community Access TV was originally developed for.

  13. Re:Another misconception bites the dust on Germany's Glut of Electricity Causing Prices To Plummet · · Score: 1

    And the uranium? Just blowin in the wind.

  14. Handspring 2.0 on The Military Is About To Get New Augmented Reality Spy Glasses · · Score: 2

    This is a solution in search of a problem.

  15. Don't use whole drive encryption on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    This is why whole drive encryption is bad. Even creating a "hidden volume" for plausible deniability is going to look suspicious if anyone bothers to ask who so much of the physical HD space is unused by a dummy OS with a curiously small amount of activity recorded in the system logs.

    A safer solution is to randomize new drives with GNU shred (faster PRNG than /dev/*random) and store critical info in smaller encrypted containers that hide amongst the noise. Disable swap or use encrypted swap (with random keys) and disable browser disk caching to eliminate saving sensitive transient data to disk. Use an OS that won't record potentially incriminating info in a registry such as USB device serial numbers.

    At that point it's much easier to deny the presence of encrypted data or, if forced to admit its presence, you can use the "I forgot" or "I can't regenerate the password" excuse which can't be done believably with a computer in regular use that has whole disk encryption.

  16. Re:Vijay Pandurangan arrested on Improperly Anonymized Logs Reveal Details of NYC Cab Trips · · Score: 1

    Hacking? This man is obviously a terrist fer'ner. Get him to Gitmo in a rendition wagon ASAP.

  17. Only have themselves to blame on Perl Is Undead · · Score: 1

    Betting the farm on Parrot and then waiting *years* to start implementing the Perl 6 spec is what killed it. Besides, around these parts we wait for Netcraft to confirm. We haven't succeeded in killing off the *BSDs yet have we?

  18. Re:makes no sense to me on Age Discrimination In the Tech Industry · · Score: 1

    despite the fact that anyone who had ever been in an IT project before knows that version control is not just a good idea.

    Please tell that to the older cowboy coder I have to deal with who refuses to use git more frequently than once a month and has a hissy fit if I check anything into the mainline branch that he's working on as it will mess up his "merges".

  19. Re:Sexist on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    Like Barbie says: "Math is hard"

  20. Re:I have a better idea on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    The answer is simple. Young men have figured out that the "everyone needs a degree" sales pitch is BS and are opting for other career options. That leaves an excess of women in the university system who are never planning to be the primary breadwinner after they get married and can afford to fritter away time getting a degree that will saddle them with a debt their mate can pay for.

  21. Re:What's the impact on Arithmetic Coding? on US Supreme Court Invalidates Patent For Being Software Patent · · Score: 1

    It's an algorithm describable through symbolic math. It shouldn't be patentable.

  22. Re:Bad design on Shawn Raymond's Tandem Bike is Shorter Than Yours (Video) · · Score: 1

    Bike Friday has been using essentially the same configuration on their foldables for quite some time without notable issues.

  23. Re:What "real cause"? on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 1

    Ford had a recall on Explorers a few years back in which a poorly installed cruise control attachment on the throttle cable that could snag and cause the throttle to stick open. Happened to my mother. The Escape has a similar issue. It isn't an unknown phenomenon.

  24. Re:Detect Sarcasm???? on US Secret Service Wants To Identify Snark · · Score: 1

    Read between the lines. They're getting too many false positives on their echecarniprism programs and want to filter out the noise to catch "likely" threats. Too many known unknowns you know.

  25. Invest with all the money I pay you scumbags on Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My Comcast bill is $57.99 for 10Mbps internet only. I just got a couple of "threat" letters saying that my "promotional" pricing is about to expire and I will pay even more for their lovely service. Never mind that my promotional pricing actually ended six months ago.

    They are already making money hand over fist off their customers. They should use that money to invest in their own infrastructure improvements.