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  1. Torrenting Ted Cruz's bisexual penis on The New Censorship: 'How Did Google Become The Internet's Censor and Master Manipulator?' (usnews.com) · · Score: 2

    I have always considered instant search to be completely and utterly useless.
    Negavites of Instant Search
    - Distracts you from what you are actually trying to type.
    - A partial "result" is not useful until you are done typing.
    - It can display subliminal bias (pull up death, fear, victim as you are searching 'Donald Trump's hat).
    - Often freezes your browser while pulling up your half typed results.
    - Undesired profanity (Try typing 'big black').
    Positives of Instant Search
    - Autocomplete feature on par with highend smartphones.
    - At times, displays multiple suggestions to save you time before you need to write the entire search query.

    I think the decision is clear.

  2. Watt a box this is! Most exciting!

  3. Re: What's the problem? on 154 Million Voter Records Exposed Due To Database Error (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    I think this can be seen as "the government" demonstrating why it's a terrible idea to have digital records online for something as sensitive as voter information.

  4. Do mod chips cost more than $55? Maybe $9 for soldering.

  5. Backwards Compatibility? on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    What of having that jack have multiple stripes and convert it into something backward compatible with an audio jack? You could put enough wires in there to be a USB port, accept data, and charging yet still support the good old headphones. I know credit card swipe devices which use the input, lets just put a ground, 2 gpio, 2 varying power, and an analog and see if we can get more devices to come out. THAT would be more along the lines of Apple ingenuity, take something which exists, and revolutionize it.

  6. Re: Quantity good, Grog rich! on 3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter's Nose (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    What can a Tweet swarm do anyway? That's like 500MB~ of free storage, most cloud services give away more. Can you make the Tweets hit an IP at the same time? No. Can you make them # a profile and force users to scroll a lot before they see their comments? Sure, what a menace. In the meantime as you said, Grog rich!

  7. So MSI (not that one) sent overclocked GPUs to reviewers whose job is to publish performance ratings. That's a lot like showing up with an RPG to a shooting competition and asking the judges, "Is this okay?". At what point did they think this would be an 'advantage'? It's not like getting the best dish in a restaurant because you're the critic, there is no incentive here. This must be an advertising campaign.

  8. Re: blah blah Steve Jobs blah blah on LeBron James Used A Steve Jobs Speech To Motivate The Cavs To Victory (bgr.com) · · Score: 2

    Believe in the ball, and throw y'self!

  9. Did anybody notice how AlphaGO's avatar changed in the last game? Was that also a decision made by the AI? ;)

  10. Re: Check'em on Microsoft Open-Sources 'Checked C,' A Safer C Version (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    C... why do you even variable bro?

  11. Re: Check'em on Microsoft Open-Sources 'Checked C,' A Safer C Version (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    No spaghetti in the code! Also after doing years of Java and checkstyle, dereferencing sounds weird. I mean I get it, it's the value from the memory, not the number to its start, but it just feels like "referring" to a null pointer doesn't it? Maybe it's just me. I'm referring to 50, ohh nothing there which fits the bill, I was dereferencing... maybe it's just the language, you don't delocate a gift box do you? You locate and pick it up. It's also delocated, okay I'm done with this.

  12. Re: So .. Security by Obscurity. on Is the 'Secret' Chip In Intel CPUs Really That Dangerous? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh but Intel programmers, much like casino software developers, never make mistakes.

  13. Re: Check'em on Microsoft Open-Sources 'Checked C,' A Safer C Version (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    *lol* First thing that popped into my mind was magic number warning for every pointer. "It says here you just added 4, and it worked?" Well yes, I just reserved that many bytes for that. "Why don't you first give that number a number in the memory, so you can call your numbers from that number?" *turns off magic number for pointers*

  14. Re: I Love You on Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Well at least the judge won't be bored. I suspect a closing statement which will end with THANKYOU.

  15. So does this mean we can make a new Voyager with infinite fuel, less cancer, and have it loop back around?

  16. -Hello computer!
    -Just use the keyboard

  17. Re:They TkRJeeeebs! on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you say that depends on the industry? You are absolutely right for example that if I'm trying to be the next Intel or Microsoft, I'm going to have a hard time. But if I want to be the next Angry Birds developer, the market isn't all that bad. Currently all the craze is in collecting and graphing data, weight loss app, gas saver app, you name it. That would be making your own job. 3D printers are coming down on the price where you could assemble 1000 units in your garage. There are always eBay stores of course. It's really not that bad in the US.

  18. Re:They TkRJeeeebs! on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Free market in the US is usually a race to the bottom. Party A makes product cheaper, while Party B even more so, until Party A and B stand to lose all profit, then they look to global opportunities (usually China says hello, or Ireland says I'm not taxing you), and viola market leaves the country. A parallel scenario is that Party A and B make a pact, set a fixed minimum price and stay in the US, while people start buying knock offs, again from China. So the real solution here is to set a human resources standard globally, but that's going to require the world to cooperate, for a nice cause... Nobody has the foresight to see how it would benefit everyone in a 100 years.

  19. Re:It is simple. on People Will Follow a Robot In an Emergency - Even If It's Wrong (gatech.edu) · · Score: 1

    Nah, the only fun someone could have in that scenario would be to pick the dorm room of your target, pick the exact time they are starting to shower (generally 45m of execution time). Disable the fire alarm in the dorm room, unlock the dorm room. Trigger the fire alarm for the entire building, and hack the guide robot to go to the bathroom of your target. Target exists shower, there stands a dual floppy light saber bot and 20 confused strangers.

  20. Yea! Encryption! Wohoo! on Judge Favors Apple In iPhone Unlocking Case In New York (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple's got unbreakable encryption and won over the FBI for the right to protect it. That's a historic moment, I am impressed. I might switch to Apple afterall.

  21. They TkRJeeeebs! on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Could it just simply be free market and lack of impressing the boss? Nobody is owed a job, go make your own job, or work with what's out there if you can't afford the risks.

  22. 19 Billion Oughta Cover It on President Obama Unveils $19 Billion Plan To Overhaul U.S. Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    Don't we need to invent replicators first? I hope we all end up as Star Trek predicted and not as Half-Life predicted :)

  23. He tried to sell publicly available information? Thank God he was an idiot.

  24. Re:From the QC Dept on AnonSec Attempts To Crash $222m Drone, Releases Secret Flight Videos (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I hope that thing is insured because 200+million bucks isn't [sic] lol.

  25. Re: Dear Harvard: The FBI is lying on Harvard: No, Crypto Isn't Making the FBI Go Dark · · Score: 1

    I am shocked. Wow, are you telling me you should never assume your secrets are safe? That should be written down as a principal somewhere.