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  1. Re:Good on 2K, Australia's Last AAA Studio, Closes Its Doors · · Score: 2

    I dunno, that game sounds kind of incredible. I'd probably buy it.

  2. Re:Protected class? on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming that the suit really means "against white people" (race is a protected class), and we just got a bad summary, as usual.

  3. Re:"Close" Only Counts on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    They certainly haven't.

  4. Re:The Republicans don't think us peons... on Why "Designed For Security" Is a Dubious Designation · · Score: 1

    Greenwow posts as themself fairly regularly.

  5. Re:Too early for criticism. on New York State Spent Millions On Program For Startups That Created 76 Jobs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is lowering business taxes not also a race to the bottom?

    (Totally agree with you on infrastructure, though).

  6. Re:So how long before on Autonomous Cars and the Centralization of Driving · · Score: 1

    Without freedom to travel the free exchange of ideas will be reduced, and all other wonderful things mentioned in 1984.

    Hi, you must be new around here. See, you're posting on this thing that we like to call "The Internet" - a fantastical new device that lends you exchange your wonderful ideas with anyone, nigh instantaneously. It'll be seen by people all 'round the globe! No longer do you have to drive to Hong Kong to sell them your new book (love the cover btw), but rather, you can simply work it into barely-relevant comments in a desperate attempt to sell a third copy.

  7. Re:Freenet on BitTorrent Launches Beta of Torrent-Based Browser Project Maelstrom · · Score: 2

    I'm excited for when they'll be able to focus their efforts on the javascript implementation - imagine transparently serving all the heavy-weight media assets for your site in a p2p fashion, without the user having to do anything besides click "Play" on the video.

    And if you're not excited at that level; imagine being able to run an imageboard and use only a fraction of the bandwidth you currently do.

    It's already pretty impressive, but the demos & writeup are certainly not user friendly at this point.

  8. Re:MSE Support on Firefox 37 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not the programming language, "Ruby characters": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... - annotations for East Asian languages that show how to pronounce a particular word.

  9. Re: So What on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 1

    Yes, there was this little thing called "The Great Depression" going on in 1930. Wasn't exactly a fun time, or so my great-grandparents told me.

  10. Re:Chrome OS is a joke on Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now · · Score: 2

    I asserted that "an obsolete video format knowing that nobody uses DivX or considers it a viable codec any more" plays just fine, and it does. :)

  11. Re:Chrome OS is a joke on Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now · · Score: 2

    burden of proof is on the person who made the assertion ("chromeos pants heavily when you watch a 1080p MKV on it"). :)

  12. Re:Chrome OS is a joke on Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now · · Score: 1

    Nah, then you'll come back at me with "oh no, I meant the SuperSecretUltra H264 profile, the "High 10" profile isn't good enough for the real modern world. What's with only using ASCII characters in the subtitles - everyone knows that the cost of supporting UTF-8's extended character set is essential for everyone's laptop and also going to magically kill your computer's performance."

    If you cared at all about actual real life rather than FUD, it'd be easy to link me one.

  13. Re:Chrome OS is a joke on Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now · · Score: 1

    Link me a test file to play, and I'll play it and let you know how it goes.

  14. Re:Chrome OS is a joke on Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now · · Score: 1

    I downloaded it, and played it off my chromebook's SSD. If I had wanted, I could have thrown it on an external hard drive or USB stick.

  15. Re:Why not restrict all ads to GIFs or JPGs? on How Malvertising Abuses Real-Time Bidding On Ad Networks · · Score: 1

    Because flash/javascript ads pay way more.

  16. Re:Chrome OS is a joke on Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now · · Score: 3, Informative

    No? Watching http://trailers.divx.com/divx_... just fine on my Acer C720; CPU hasn't bumped over over 40%.

  17. Not a huge change. on Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now · · Score: 3, Informative

    Honestly, the most noticeable change was that the font changed on the tabs and URL bar.

  18. Re: Isn't Government wonderful? on UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE · · Score: 1

    AC believes that taxes are inherently evil, gets nodded up.

  19. Re:stupidly weak on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1

    The argument above was "dictionary words are bad because of dictionary attack."

    Guess what? If you happen to pick 5 3-letter words by chance, that's 15 characters, which is 1.6 * 10^21 possible combinations. If you're trying a brute-force attack, it's even worse than the dictionary attack, which is still unfeasible.

    Yeah, line-noise is going to be harder to check through than a restricted set. But good luck committing "Xm2fHi0`IU@r0:$" to memory as easily as "bye flo ice oaf jim"

    Y'all learn something about information theory before you try to talk about passwords again, okay?

  20. Re:nice try but waste of legal fees on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 1

    I'd rather see their head removed from their neck.

  21. Re:Github is scary for critical code on Github Under JS-Based "Greatfire" DDoS Attack, Allegedly From Chinese Government · · Score: 2

    If you're that paranoid about an outage for an hour or two; mirror it on bitbucket, gitorious, gitlab, amazon S3, a local server, etc, etc, etc.

    It's trivial to do these sorts of mirrors, precisely because git's a DVCS.

  22. Re:stupidly weak on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 2

    No.

    There are 10 digits, there are (in this list) 7.7k dictionary words.

    If you tell a hacker "my password is 5 digits" - they have 10^5 keys to test, or 100000.
    If you tell them "my password is 5 words" they have 7700^5 keys to test, or 2.7 * 10^19 - which is more than twice as hard to crack as an 19-digit password, which again is 10 trillion times as hard as your 5 digit password.

    It's just math, people. You don't have to rely on hand-rules like "dictionary words are bad."

  23. Re:Memorizing site-unique passwords isn't possible on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 2

    I wish that we could trust central ID systems, where we could create an account on a forum site with a unique user ID and then link that user ID to a central authentication database so that our central credentials give us acces via that unique user ID, but I just don't trust the authentication databases. I'm already leery enough of Active Directory that I don't use work passwords anywhere else to begin with, but companies providing such a service don't necessarily know what they're doing, and they're probably too willin to hand over information for what sites people would need authentication to as well.

    You mean OAuth?

  24. Re: $1000 for a genome? on The One Thousand Genes You Could Live Without · · Score: 1

    Yes - Illuminas HiSeq X machine (family) is one of the machines marketed as this. Please note that this is the projected internal per-genome cost of a dedicated sequencing facility - before any customer markup is applied, and only if you have the high quantity of data required to get your money's worth.

  25. Re:homeowner fail on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was expecting this to be a homeowner fail, but:

    Q: Why Didn’t you check this before you moved?
    A: Oh, but I did. Having broadband of some kind was an absolute requirement for our new home. Before we even made an offer, I placed two separate phone calls; one to Comcast Business, and one to Xfinity. Both sales agents told me that service was available at the address. The Comcast Business agent even told me that a previous resident had already had service. So I believed them.