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  1. frist on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Frist!

  2. Re:Chalk Up Another Victory... on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    But PC culture *is* ruining everything.

    Face it, mainframes are dead. PCs are the future.

  3. Re:Chalk Up Another Victory... on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How dare you undermine my couponing disorder!

  4. Re:Chalk Up Another Victory... on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone? You mean the entire former cast of "Jersey Shore" right?

  5. Re:Chalk Up Another Victory... on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If you actually read the parent, he mentioned that while real-life representation of pink may not be high, drawing/clipart is. And then parent spent his/her entire post explaining why.

    Go ahead, use your favorite search engine to look up images of real life cupcakes, then look up drawings / clip art / cartoon / etc. cupcakes. Notice the huge spike in representation of pink frosting.

    In fact, you've "proved" his final point head-on.

  6. Re:Chalk Up Another Victory... on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, so used bing,

    There's your problem.

  7. Re:Whatever on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So change the damn icon! Don't nuke the feature! Show a picture of an pedometer rolling or something.

  8. Re:Whatever on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Comes from the northern end of a southbound horse? What's that, dust?

  9. Re:Whatever on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So lets remove nutrition facts from labels of food, because seeing the number of calories on food might shame people into eating less/smarter!

    Come on, this is NOT a trigger condition. This is not like showing local needle exchanges automatically which might trigger a drug addict.

  10. Re: Whatever on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It is subtle in that it changes slightly the way you "lead-in" to the following sound whilst itself generally not having a direct sound. English speakers commonly relate this to an "h", which is close.

    To quote a source:

    The j sound is what is known as a voiceless velar fricative, which means that it is formed by forcing air through the slightly constricted back part of the mouth. It's kind of a scraping or raspy sound from the back of the mouth. If you've learned German, you may know it as the ch sound of Kirche. You may hear it sometimes in English in the word "loch" when given a Scottish accent or as the initial sound of "Hanukkah" with a Hebrew accent.

    One way you might think of the sound is as an extended "k." Instead of sounding out the "k" in an explosive fashion, try lengthening the sound.

    The sound of the j varies with region. In some areas, the j sounds almost like a soft "k," and in some places it sounds very close to the "h" sound in words such as "hot" or "hero," although perhaps aspirated a bit more strongly.

    If you give the j the sound of the English "h," as many English-speaking Spanish students do, you will be understood, but keep in mind that is only approximate.

  11. Re: Whatever on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You can also say Hanukkah like "han new kuh" and you'll be understood, but it's not correct. It should sound like you're winding-up a spit, and many spell it with a "ch" instead of a "h" using latin characters to further drive this point.

  12. The font changes are interesting but...... until other browsers support it, who in their right mind is going to design a chrome-only website? Maybe some kind of feature test could support this optimization, but then you'd have divergent code paths and that gets messy too. This is why it's better to work on updating STANDARDS instead of just adding one-off features... else it's internet explorer all over again.

  13. Re:The Cloud is your enemy. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Paypal is a big player here.

  14. Re:The Cloud is your enemy. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    that isn't going to happen in an environment where people believe that security has no ROI.

    Yup. Security has always been reactionary in most environments I've been in

  15. Re:The Cloud is your enemy. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    I just wanted to expand on that last point. Sometimes you should think about using an external database. Consider if your project will ever serve multiple requests at once, or run from multiple machines where synchronization/atomicy of the data is required. You'll save yourself a lot of redesign later by using an external database (which makes easy writing atomic and is by nature synchronized across systems). You'll save a lot of redesign / maintenance time later, and increase your ability to scale even internal tasks. Yes, there are ways to synchronize data across systems, and if it's read-only even something simple like NFS and a flat file would work. But they're needlessly extra-complicated and fragile.

    I think far too many folks in IT are obsessed with the constant paradigm that "it needs to be done yesterday" and rush into quick hacks, which if you consider a business as operating in quarter-year segments, spending an extra few hours at the get-go making sure that you think about both immediate and near-future requirements can save a lot of time overall.

  16. Re:The Cloud is your enemy. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    because nobody is going to care if a cat video is slow due to bad provisioning.

    You mean to suggest that waiting 4 seconds to see Why Fido isn't Allowed Catnip anymore is acceptable??? Blasphemy!

  17. I am disagreeing with the person to whom I am replying's assertion that I have poor reading comprehension. My point on its own is completely true, so really the only question here is my ability to understand the parent's post, which my previous reply showed was not very legible. I'll admit that I did not inspect wpa_supplicant's code, nor do I trust without doing so the general terms used by a researcher. I'm not really sure why this has garnered so much attention, or why I'm even continuing to reply, but this will be the last.

  18. Maybe he meant that, maybe he didn't.

    difference between setting something to NULL vs setting it to zero

    "vs" does not mean "in addition to"

    the value shouldn've been zeroed out

    Since "should've" isn't a word I know of, I'm assuming the typo was omission of the "t" not the addition of the "n".

    Parent DOES say "and" later in that sentence, so as I read it he/she is +2 for meaning "instead of", +1 for meaning "in addition to", and +100 for just in general not forming a coherent statement.

  19. Re: Why install any? on Ask Slashdot: Should Users Uninstall Kaspersky's Antivirus Software? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    If I'm not mistaken, in comes in powder form. You add it to milk. You can eat it, and in fact you must explicitly modify/create a derivative of the original (probably a violation of some DMCA provision) to drink it.

  20. Re:Why install any? on Ask Slashdot: Should Users Uninstall Kaspersky's Antivirus Software? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that includes literally every single website, right? Including this one.

    I did get a pop-under ON THIS SITE a few days ago (running on Linux) where a voice told me my windows system was scanned and a serious flaw was found, and I had to update flash in order to secure myself. I closed all browser windows, but the voice kept going for a few seconds. I chalked that up to buffering though.

  21. The Real Story: Kapersky antivirus is able to flag NSA spyware/malware and does not forcibly contain the whitelist of NSA software like American antivirus software.

  22. Re:MitM are not newsworthy on WPA2 Security Flaw Puts Almost Every Wi-Fi Device at Risk of Hijack, Eavesdropping (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why pay the troll to use his/her bridge when you can just step over the creek?

  23. Setting a pointer to NULL would still leave the old key in memory, defeating the purpose of zeroing the key...

  24. Re: Can be taken out by EMP on Dubai Police Get Hoverbikes (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    FCC title 47 part 15 regulation states:

    interference must be accepted that may be caused by the operation of an authorized radio station, by another intentional or unintentional radiator, by industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) equipment, or by an incidental radiator.

    So shielding against EMP is illegal. They've been planning this for decades! Pearl Harbor all over again!

  25. My laptop does this ALL THE TIME, and I hate it. It just clicks randomly without me even touching it. I assume it has something to do with static electricity..