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  1. Re:Short Sighted on Programmers: It's OK To Grow Up · · Score: 1

    This. Though that three months sounds exeedingly generous to me. It takes very little time to get up to speed enough to start working with a new fad/language/API/SDK, especially if you are willing to bare your ignorance by asking questions where needed.

  2. Re:Preposterous on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 1

    Because the whole point of a "correct horse battery staple" password is to make a password you can remember simply as a story. It is counterproductive to add in foreign words (to the extent that makes a story harder) or other rules like how to represent accented characters or what punctuation to put between words.

  3. Re:Preposterous on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 1

    zxcvbn rates that as 78 bits of entropy; 72 without the ~.

    But if everyone starts using some foreign words or terms with accented characters transliterated, it becomes just another part of a cracker's dictionary, and not much better than "The boy causes rain." (59 bits, still an excellent password).

  4. What is "late-term"? on Ask Slashdot: Joining a Startup As an Older Programmer? · · Score: 1

    What is "late-term" in this context?

    Number of employees is not a particularly relevant measure (except perhaps of how much money the investors are willing to throw away). How long since the first employee was hired? How many employees were there a year ago?

  5. Re:Yikes on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 3, Informative

    The concept is that the market is supposed to be for investing. Investing implies certain loss of liquidity (no idea what you mean by loss of value). That said, see my response.

  6. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's no need to set a minimum time; what is needed is a minimum tax or fee. It could be .01% and still completely put a stop to abusive trading.

  7. Re:Bullshit on Researchers Find Problems With Rules of Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    No, the point of the difficulty is to make attacks, err, difficult. Nothing to do with creating of bitcoins. If you are misunderstanding things this grievously, sit back and let other people talk for a while.

  8. Somebody please tell me... on Facebook Introduces Hack: Statically Typed PHP · · Score: 0

    Somebody please tell me this is an elaborate April fool's joke that someone noticed the groundwork for early?

  9. Re:Sarcastically Typed on Facebook Introduces Hack: Statically Typed PHP · · Score: 2
  10. Re:Indeed on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    Yes. I thought that went without saying, under the "privatize the gains, socialize the losses"/expenses rubric.

  11. Indeed on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This: "Maybe cities just don't have the right mix of amenities, price, space, parking, and other factors to make them better places to put certain businesses."

    The Director of Sustainability demonstrates the ludicrous line of thought that puts stadiums downtown.

  12. A workaround for what? on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Reading the actual email they sent, it sounds to me like they provide a (javascript) API for doing what "VieraApp" is instead doing with a direct ajax call (and jQuery vs XMLHttpRequest is not the issue; it's not using their wrapper that is the issue).

  13. Re:Illegal. on Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, bullshit. I bet you use a half a dozen services that quite legally reserve the right to change the terms, give you notice, and interpret your continuing to use the service as acceptance.

    Doesn't make it right, just legal.

  14. Re:Terrifying on Regex Golf, xkcd, and Peter Norvig · · Score: 1

    No, actually it is far from terrifying. Just some brute force generation and application of simple, short, regex fragments. No "AI-like", no "algorithms going to fly".

  15. Eddie on Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers · · Score: 1

    Eddie's in the space-time continuum.

  16. Re:Non-denial denial on RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_United_States#PC_era :
    "Legal challenges by Peter Junger and other civil libertarians and privacy advocates, the widespread availability of encryption software outside the U.S., and the perception by many companies that adverse publicity about weak encryption was limiting their sales and the growth of e-commerce, led to a series of relaxations in US export controls, culminating in 1996 in President Bill Clinton signing the Executive order 13026[7] transferring the commercial encryption from the Munition List to the Commerce Control List. "

  17. Re:Target??? on Target Has Major Credit Card Breach · · Score: 1
  18. Naughty, naughty... on Target Has Major Credit Card Breach · · Score: 1

    Naughty, naughty, Amazon

  19. Re:Kids these days... on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 2

    What is this "pay phone" you mention?

  20. Re:So he was clever enough ... on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 1

    You think they couldn't get a warrant based on TOR activity at the 8:30am time of the emails and a 9am test? I think you are likely wrong.

  21. Re:So he was clever enough ... on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 2

    Because there are other, innocent people interrogated as he was. And it would be better for them if the police didn't think harsh interrogation produces confessions.

  22. Re:Of course, he'll have affluenza on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 1

    Depends where you live.

  23. Re:"because it originated from the wireless networ on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 2

    The PDF says he signed a waiver of Miranda rights.

  24. Re:In the kitchen on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 2

    Yes. Or perhaps only one (in the relevant time frame).

    In terms of a deterrent, I'm not sure 5 years of jail is going to sound any more scary than just expulsion; the penalties here seem out of line.

  25. I thought at first... on Psychologists Strike a Blow For Reproducibility · · Score: 1

    I thought at first it was saying 36 groups each tried to reproduce the results of 13 experiments, and all 36 were successful with 10 of 13 (though not necessarily the same ten), successfully reproducing the results of a reproducibility meta-experiment.