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  1. Re:Too slow? on Schneier: We Don't Need SHA-3 · · Score: 2

    It's not at the scale of 70 years. Brute forcing a 128-bit space would take at best millions of years and require that most of the planet mass be converted to energy.

  2. Re:Always with the jabs on iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours · · Score: 1

    The reason why most devices are stuck at 2.2 or 2.3 is that the manufacturer decided not to support newer Android versions on these devices.
    The only option people have is to manually install community images, which requires rooting the phone and is tedious.

  3. Re:Too much for anything I'd do. on NTT and Partners Show 1 Petabit/Sec Transfer Over 50km of Fiber · · Score: 1

    That a website reporting news is based in America does not mean that the repercussions of said news would be limited to the USA, or even that the events depicted happened or will develop in the US.

    Only in Japan for example did a mad scientist manage to make a time machine out of a phone and a microwave.

  4. Re:Too much for anything I'd do. on NTT and Partners Show 1 Petabit/Sec Transfer Over 50km of Fiber · · Score: 1

    Why "every American home"?
    US-centrism much?

  5. Re:Uninstall? on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as "right" or "wrong".
    There is what the law allows and what the law does not allow.

    The law does not allow killing, but it does allow making as many Amazon accounts as you like.

  6. Re:Always with the jabs on iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours · · Score: 1

    Most Android devices do not get OTA updates.

  7. Who has the remaining -3.9% on iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours · · Score: 1

    Seriously, can't editors even add up percents?

  8. Re:Uninstall? on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 1

    This a stupid comparison. There is nothing illegal about this.

  9. Re:Three cheers for Mozilla on Mozilla OS Looking Grown Up On Its Own Developer Phone · · Score: 1

    Yes, at first they tried to evade all taxes, but couldn't, which is why they were forced to create a corporation in the end.

  10. Re:Uninstall? on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 0

    There is no such thing as abusing.
    There is what the system allows, and what it doesn't.

    If they allowed things they did not mean to, it's their fault, not mine.

  11. Re:Uninstall? on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 0

    What exactly is dishonest about making use of the system?

  12. Re:Uninstall? on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 0

    Have you actually done this yourself?

    Yes.
    Exactly same name, same address, different email address.

  13. Re:How is it "negative" to want Firefox improved? on Mozilla OS Looking Grown Up On Its Own Developer Phone · · Score: 0

    Firefox is a product that many millions of people actually used on a daily basis.

    Fixed that for you.
    Most Firefox users already moved to Chrome.

  14. Re:Three cheers for Mozilla on Mozilla OS Looking Grown Up On Its Own Developer Phone · · Score: 1

    You realize the point of a foundation is to remove taxes?
    The foundation exists because of financial reasons beneficial to mozilla corporation, not to "promote the web" or whatever.

  15. Re:Uninstall? on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 0

    You realize paying for a prime membership is useless, since you can have 3 months for free with a a new account?
    Just keep making new accounts every 3 months.

  16. State of US universities appalling on How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    When I saw that in US universities, students are actually taught to use Windows, Visual Studio, and to program in C#, I was shocked at how influential Microsoft was in the US, and how bad the situation was.
    Doing this is a terrible idea, reliance on a IDE means they don't understand how the compilation tool chain works, and they get stuck using this sub-par software, which, to top things off, is also proprietary and restricted to Microsoft platforms.

    No wonder Inda and China are better, American students are not taught software engineering, they're taught how to be code monkeys.

  17. Isn't kickstarter one large scam itself?

  18. Re:hahaha on The Rise of Paid Wikipedia Consulting · · Score: 1

    Pokémon are part of popular culture.
    Would you prefer an encyclopedia that ignores popular culture and only talks about science and classics?

  19. Re:Wrong question on Are Commercial Games Finally Going To Make It To Linux? · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but I don't understand the point of your post.

  20. Re:have you seen it? on The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    It's not a matter of "should" or "should not". It's a matter of what the law allows, and laws are arbitrary.

    I personally prefer the concept that all speed is protected, but others might disagree. I don't pretend either "should" be.

  21. Re:have you seen it? on The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    Free speech means allowing everything, even videos that are designed to incite violence or riots.

    I believe that's a US-only thing, a lot of European countries have laws outlawing promoting violence or racial hate.

  22. Networking in games not designed on How Indie Devs Made an 1,800-Player Action Game Mod In Their Spare Time · · Score: 1

    I'll tell you why networking in video games sucks so much, is so easy to hack and scales so badly: it's simply not designed. The proper approach would be to think what should be the responsibilities of the client and what should be that of the server, then design an adequate protocol and write the server-side algorithms with scalability in mind. For example finding all players within one region is logarithmic in nature, and not sending information to clients that shouldn't have it is common sense, but don't expect any server to do that.

    That's just not how networking works in video games. They just write the full system as if it were a single application and use an automatic serialization layer to send over whatever they need. It ends up being inefficient spaghetti. When they need to make it more efficient, they just spend money making their networking layer faster instead of fixing the core of the problem.

  23. Re:How was this done? on How Indie Devs Made an 1,800-Player Action Game Mod In Their Spare Time · · Score: 1

    You simply replace a dll by another one that provides the same interface but a different implementation.

  24. Re:Wrong question on Are Commercial Games Finally Going To Make It To Linux? · · Score: 2

    Any savvy person knows to get a networked printer, which also happens to make most driver issues irrelevant, as it will use a relatively standard networking printing protocol.

  25. Re:But why does FF run worse under desktop Linux? on Firefox OS: Disruptive By Aiming Low · · Score: 1

    It just means that they disregard Linux completely and make all their design choices for Windows, even if those choices cripple the Linux version.

    The funny thing is that Chrome, which was originally Windows-only, runs better on Linux than Firefox, which was multi-platform from its inception.