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  1. Re:Fragment too much... on Streaming TV May Never Again Be as Simple, or as Affordable, as It is Now (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    You monster.

  2. Re:Alternative to advertising? on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you don't want a process per tab?

  3. Re:Alternative to advertising? on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Solution: browsers should (a) default to pausing scripts on background sites, (b) allow you to throttle CPU usage per-site.

  4. Re:ML - it just worked! on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I've written multihundred LoC Scala programs at a go before, and when they compiled, they worked (and I was typing them in Scala IDE, so they compiled as soon as I was done typing, because it does the type-checking in real time). It's almost disappointing when you think of a lot of clever error messages for bugs that never materialize.

  5. Re:The problem is depth perception on Grand Theft Auto V Is Being Used To Help Teach Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They're almost certainly grabbing the depth buffer off the GPU in some fashion, or else this "developed a way to pull visual information from Grand Theft Auto V" wouldn't be very interesting.

  6. Re: Not inspiring at all on SpaceX Plans To Send Two People Around the Moon In 2018 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Filming for Avatar 7?

  7. Re:Not viable on Windows 10 on 94% of Microsoft Vulnerabilities Can Be Mitigated By Turning Off Admin Rights (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I've even had stuff where it asked me for admin credentials and then still failed.

  8. AFAICT, the MMU cache isn't exposed, it's just using the same cache hardware on-chip, and you can time how long it takes to access certain things to figure out what's currently mapped into the cache (there are orders of magnitude difference in speeds for main memory vs cache, so even if you have no idea what's *in* cache, you can figure out where it's from). Also, breaking ASLR tells you *where* to read, but it shouldn't be able to tell you what's there without additional exploits being available.

  9. Re:Translation Telephone on Latest Microsoft Skype Preview Adds Real-Time Voice Translation For Phone Calls (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    http://www.translationparty.co... takes 22 rounds to find a fixed point with just English and Japanese.

  10. http://www.apple.com/shop/prod... is what I used to run Migration Assistant in TDM between a 2008 MBP (with FireWire) and 2013 (with no FireWire). I don't do that much A/V stuff, but is there any reason to expect it wouldn't work for your use case?

  11. Re:Epic CEO: “Universal Windows Platform can on Microsoft Brings ChakraCore to Linux and OS X (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this looks like Microsoft is trying to get on the content store gravy train.

  12. Re:Glueing things together is how I teach OO desig on Overcoming Intuition In Programming (amasad.me) · · Score: 1

    Mmmmm, the "what will C++ do now?" quiz show is one of my favorites. here's a little gem showing off the bizarrities of EOF, peek, and ignore.

  13. Re:Nope on Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks · · Score: 1

    Thanks for beating me to this post.

  14. Re:"We want to make the best Mac in the world" on Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    Thankfully my professional grade MacBook Pro docks with my professional grade Thunderbolt Display in the location I most frequently use a network port and would otherwise be port limited, and the display has a dedicated ethernet port. Everywhere else, I have my dongle, and really, I've used it at most 10 times in 2 years.

  15. Re:Quicker on Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks · · Score: 1

    They may be medieval lunatics, but they seem pretty serious about enforcing a consistent (if deeply regressive) version of sharia, and in their eyes it's better to be a dhimmi than an apostate, and the reports I've read suggest they consider any Muslims who disagree with them to be apostates. I definitely wouldn't use the term "beneficence" to describe them (even relatively speaking).

  16. Re:Quicker on Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks · · Score: 1

    At least with Daesh, you're better off as a Christian or Jew, where you can get away with surrendering and paying taxes, than as a "moderate Muslim", where you're likely to be declared an apostate and murdered.

  17. Re:Buggy things on Ask Slashdot: Advanced KVM Switch? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I don't understand how it's possible that they're as bad as they are, on especially on the HID side. My CODE's media keys don't get sent through my KVM even though my crappy Logitech's do.

  18. Re:Loopholes in the experiments not the theory on 'Ingenious' Experiment Closes Loopholes In Quantum Theory · · Score: 1

    Proof is a word for mathematicians, not for statisticians.

  19. Re:Wow, end of an era. on Debian Drops SPARC Platform Support · · Score: 1

    Huh. It's been 4 years since I used a machine with that little RAM on a daily basis. These days 16GB is workable, but I still saturate it a couple times a week. All depends on workflow, I suppose.

  20. Re:Is it on the main download page? on Trojanized, Info-Stealing PuTTY Version Lurking Online · · Score: 1

    Heartbleed was a TLS protocol bug, not a crypto bug.

  21. Re:Is it on the main download page? on Trojanized, Info-Stealing PuTTY Version Lurking Online · · Score: 1

    No, but you're also an idiot for not knowing the difference between SSL and SSH ;)

  22. Re: Figures on iTunes Stops Working For Windows XP Users · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I don't have the new naming scheme internalized. It runs 10.10 just fine, which is Yosemite, and not Mavericks.

  23. Re: Figures on iTunes Stops Working For Windows XP Users · · Score: 1

    How fast Apple abandons which hardware, exactly? We're talking computers here, not phones. My 6 year old MBP still runs Mavericks fine, and I just sold it for $500, because it's still a damn nice computer for the majority of users (8GB of RAM, 240GB SSD, and a 15" screen).

  24. Re:A sane supreme court decision? on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between invasive and non-invasive probes. Finding molecules outside your car is non-invasive. Projecting an EMF beam into it is.

  25. Re:Youtube? on Pixar Releases Free Version of RenderMan · · Score: 1

    w.r.t. drone videos.