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  1. Re:Why did they not roll this out anyway? on Shuttleworth: Apple Will Merge Mac and iPhone · · Score: 2

    Linux never has had a really good presence in the marketplace (exception:android). I have been debating installing it on my phone, but I don't really have money to replace it if I brick it.
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install

  2. Re:Java's problem isn't verbosity on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    The problem is that there are some old functions in that language that should never have been added, and many of the developers of php apps don't know enough to avoid them. PHP can be a decent language if you have self control.

    http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.goto.php
    http://php.net/manual/en/function.extract.php
    http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php
    http://php.net/manual/en/function.eval.php
    Also, have they added multithreading yet?

  3. Re:Java already had closures on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    If conciseness is more important than structure, you could use you could use Groovy:

    ["here","is","a", "list", "of", "strings"].collect{it+".txt"}
    Result: [here.txt, is.txt, a.txt, list.txt, of.txt, strings.txt]

    ["Dochere","is","Doca", "list", "of", "strings"].collect{ it + (it.startsWith("Doc") ? ".txt" : '' )}
    Result: [Dochere.txt, is, Doca.txt, list, of, strings]

    That compiles down to a jar you can use from Java.

  4. The NSA does.

  5. Re:Wake me up... on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The great part about Java is that there are so many libraries for it.

    http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/primitives/UnsignedInteger.html

  6. Re:Rather early to call the site a failure, isn't on Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's true, and a very good point. I don't work with HIPAA-covered data, but could they use something like amazon's government cloud?

  7. Re:Rather early to call the site a failure, isn't on Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far · · Score: 2

    It's called 'The Cloud', you can buy additional instances that first month and get rid of them when you no longer need them.

  8. Forced to use Delphi? Really?

  9. Can't analyse all their 'adversaries' on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 2

    Save yourself some trouble and stop spying on your own people then.

  10. Re:How do you break into the industry? on Ask Author David Craddock About the Development of Diablo, Warcraft · · Score: 1

    This a problem that I have had too.
    Make a simple game that you can actually complete in a short amount of time, and polish the crap out of it. Be able to finish it.
    A well put together Zelda clone with a new tactic, a town, one random dungeon and a webpage with downloads will be a lot more impressive to prospective employer than an MMO that will require thousands of hours of artist's time.

  11. Re:Unnamed on Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own · · Score: 2

    No, Taco Bell employees have name tags with their first name on it. We want to stay unnamed.

  12. Re:A computer that works like the human brain? on The Human Brain Project Kicks Off · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It will just be replaced by a human in 5 years. They take less power and will work for less than 10 billion euros.

  13. Re:Conversion? on The Human Brain Project Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    Whoops, billion.

  14. Conversion? on The Human Brain Project Kicks Off · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think that conversion ratio is wrong. $13.57 USD

  15. Quite a bit of hardware on Steam Machine Prototypes Use Intel CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs · · Score: 2

    Isn't the Titan like a thousand USD? That's going to produce noticeably higher resolution than can be displayed on a 1080p tv at max settings on the most demanding games currently available. Are they future proofing for 3d 4k tvs with high refresh rates?

  16. Re:DIY Data Mining on Data Mining Reveals the Emotional Differences In Emails From Men and Women · · Score: 1

    Its probably generated with some semi-supervised learning. You pass in a set of a few hundred emails of each type, it looks for words that are common to them that don't appear in other emails, and goes with that.

  17. Re:Probably wont get better on How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them · · Score: 1

    Yes. Yes I do.

  18. Probably wont get better on How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them · · Score: 0

    "I can't stress enough that it would be far less painful for the OEMs to just stop this nonsense"
    Ever buy a hard drive? Was it really as many gigabytes as it was advertised? These things tend not to get any better once a precedent has been set, even if it is wrong.

  19. Re:Eugenics, but on a computer! on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 1

    Eugenics is the theory and practice of improving the genetic quality of the human population. In the 20th century we didn't have genetically altered humans, so the only way to do it was to make some humans not reproduce, either by sterilization or murder. Now we are adding a new scientific option, but the end result is the same, only living humans that we consider 'perfect'. Humans need diversity, in the future there may be good reasons to keep about populations with traits we don't agree with now.

  20. Eugenics, but on a computer! on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 0

    Francis Galton came up with this idea over a hundred years ago. It wasn't a good idea then, it still isn't.

  21. Re:I saw this in a movie once. on Asian Giant Hornets Kill 42 People In China, Injure Over 1,500 · · Score: 1

    *Assuming the radiation washes your way.

  22. I saw this in a movie once. on Asian Giant Hornets Kill 42 People In China, Injure Over 1,500 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Badgers eat hornets. We will ship you a box of angry badgers for to expose to giantism causing Fukashima radiation. If I have learned anything from my childhood, its that the solution to giant monsters is more giant monsters.

  23. Re:When did on Mars Orbiter Spies Comet ISON · · Score: 1

    NASA is 97% furlowed. They probably got rid of their conversion guy. Your lucky you didn't get that in rubber duckies.

  24. Re:Security is possible, but you must focus. on Former NSA Honcho Calls Corporate IT Security "Appalling" · · Score: 1

    If you don't stick to your goals when attacked, then you have lost.

    This is a really important thing for co-author of the USA Patriot Act to hear.

  25. Re:Why yes! on Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe · · Score: 2

    I prefer to plug in random firewire cables that i find hanging out of walls.