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  1. Europe Afraid. on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    The writer of the article seems more afraid than most Americans. I understand people's desire to delegitimize American democracy. It makes it hard to scare your own people if the Big Bad is a democracy run by reasonable people. No the Devil needs to be crazy, paranoid, ignorant, and corrupt. They need Americans to be oppressed, afraid, and waiting for Europe to save them.

  2. Privacy Irony on Spooked By His Sci Fi, FBI Looked Into Asimov As Possible Communist Tipster · · Score: 1

    Was this requested by his decendents? Or can anyone request FBI files on random people. Seems wierd that random info that FBI collects on people would be in the public interest.

  3. Re:Non Tweeters on As IPO Nears, Do Twitter's Active User Claims Add Up? · · Score: 1

    No its like counting the number of unique ids in Slashdot comments to determine Slashdot's readership. Or counting the comments on Youtube vidoes to determine how many people use Youtube. His analaysis applied to Youtube might result in "The number of views Youtube reports on video's is fake. There are not enough comments on the them."

  4. Non Tweeters on As IPO Nears, Do Twitter's Active User Claims Add Up? · · Score: 0

    Second, and more important, you need to accept Twitter's contention that 40% of its active users never Tweet (either literally or not within the past month).

    Si Dawson can't see the people who just use Twitter as an RSS feed. These people are likely Twitters most active users. People who check their phone everyday to see what so and so is doing.

  5. Re:The numbers on Researchers Use Computer-Generated 10-Year-Old Girl To Catch Online Predators · · Score: 1

    Suggests we could do more to manage the problem of child molestation than just crime and punishment. In that vein, maybe we can drop the disgust and stigma long enough to figure out something that works better?

    Impossible to drop disgust and stigma. Your better off asking that the sun not rise in the east. If parents can't get justice(execution or imprisonment) through judicial system your going to have lynchings and mob justice.

  6. Re:Or maybe the young folks just hate meetings? on 20-Somethings Think It's OK To Text and Answer Calls In Business Meetings · · Score: 1

    I have worked on plenty of complex projects. It is not desirable for everyone to be on the same page. That is too much information. It is nothing but a distraction. Being on the same page doesn't scale period. Many managers use big omnibus meetings to save themselves time at the expense of the people attending. The chairperson will start the meeting by summarizing some other meeting that they attend. Then they will go around the room asking for status. So you sit through 45 minutes of other people bitching about problems and giving excuses so you can give your status. At the end of the meeting they will then give a summery of another meeting they attended. Then a third of the room will rush off to another room for another meeting. If you look at their calendar you will see nothing but meetings.

  7. Re:Or maybe the young folks just hate meetings? on 20-Somethings Think It's OK To Text and Answer Calls In Business Meetings · · Score: 2

    goals, assignments, tasks, and progress are all things can occur 1 on 1. I assume your not talking about chairperson in a 1 on 1 meeting. Typically the only meetings I find valuable are the following: question/answer sessions with an expert, code reviews, and "no one leaves till the problem is fixed"

  8. Re:Why on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    Not hooey. The idea is that people transfer files with USB between the air gapped machine and network connected machines. You can get your malware on both by spreading the virus to USB drives. Using this technique the air gapped machine is connected to the network.

  9. Re:Why on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    Read it and now it makes sense. Target computer is not connected to network. Target computer and bridge computer are infected. target and bridge send each other packets using sound. bridge sends packets over network to attacker.

  10. Why on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    Why would two computers infected with malware need to communicate this way? Couldn't they just use the net? Is this malware spread with thumb drives?

  11. Get Back To Work on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    Get Back To Work

  12. Re:Don't be assholes Sony! on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: -1

    lol no one can use Linux untill Sony gives it back. They took Linux and put it in a box. Untill they give it back servers will have to run on windows. Android will use Unix kernal. OPEN UP THE BOX SONY!!!!

  13. Software is reviewed on Does Software Need a Siskel and Ebert? · · Score: 2

    All kinds of places review Games and Apps.
    If your a professional there are long articles written about each upgrade for your tool suite.
    There are lots of long articles about each change to Facebook, Yahoo, and Google.
    So what is left? I don't use that much software outside of work and play. Tax software?

  14. Re:Make your mind up on State Technology Taxes Face Stiff Resistance · · Score: 1

    The federations of states has become less and less popular as people stopped identifying themselves as belonging to a state. Mobility and migration has made the states meaningless. People identify more with sports teams than they do with state goverements. I spent my childhood in OH, college in KY, and now work in IL. I have family in IN, KY, FL, TN, and TX. State law only covers a fraction of the places I care about.

  15. Re:wtf on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1

    Its common enough that Toyota was mirroring thousands of global variables to prevent bit flipping from causing errors. It is common enough that mirroring is part of coding standards used by the automotive industry. It is common enough that they started using error detecting and correcting (EDAC) RAM in 2008. And it is a fact that the memory location controlling the throttle wasn't mirrored. That the data structures controlling tasks were not mirrored.

  16. Drone-Mounted Laser Weapons on Drone-Mounted Laser Weapons Are On the Way · · Score: 1

    lol I read that as lasers with drones mounted on them. As in my lasers has 3 drones mounted on it.

  17. Re:wtf on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1

    He describes the vehicle tests they did starting at page 73 of the transcript pdf. The test involved them causing a bit flip that caused the task to die. He doesn't reproduce a stack overflow that causes a bit flip that causes the task to die.

  18. Re:wtf on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1
    No wait something did happend to keep it out of the media.

    Barr Group's testimony led to a billion-dollar economic-loss settlement by Toyota last December. Because of that settlement, the details of their analysis were not made public until the trial in Oklahoma

  19. Re:wtf on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1

    I don't know what to say to that. The PDF is his testimony that he gave in the court case they just won. It goes into a lot of detail about the vehicle tests. No jury is going to award 3 million if there wasn't this kind of test. You need to remember that Toyota recalled millions of vehicles. It didn't just replace floor mats in that recall. It included a brake override. A brake override system, which cuts engine power if both the accelerator and brake are detected as pressed, will be installed. It paid out a billion is damages to car owners.

  20. No Source Code For OS on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1
    They had memory parity in most of there own code.

    So one example we've already talked about is the internal data structures within the operating system. They missed it because they never looked at the operating system. They got this operating system in binary from their chip supplier and they never looked inside it to see what was in there.

    The implementation of OS they used was not compliant with OS interface specification.

  21. Re:wtf on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1

    Its page 73 of the pdf. I suppose some pages were redacted.

  22. Re:wtf on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1
    Page 91 of the testimony. 1

    8 I know that because we simulated it in the code room
    9 using the Green Hill simulator that Toyota used. And we
    10 also simulated it in the vehicle, in multiple vehicles,
    11 Camrys.

  23. Re:wtf on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 4, Informative

    Vehicle tests confirmed that one particular dead task would result in loss of throttle control, and that the driver might have to fully remove their foot from the brake during an unintended acceleration event before being able to end the unwanted acceleration.

    The jury could confirm there was a defect because they were able to reproduce it with a physical car. They could confirm the code quality was poor because it 1) It didn't follow the required code standards: MISRA C, 2) The cyclomatic complexity was too high 3) Toyota didn't track bugs.

  24. Re:Testing and feature prioritization? on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1

    Kentucky doensn't have the budget to be an open check to 55 corporations.

  25. Re:Not all republicans are republitards on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1
    "yellow dog" democrat is a democrat who always votes democrat even if the canidate is a "yellow dog" Not a racial ephithet.

    "A fellow once advertised that he had made a discovery by which he could make a new man out of an old one, and have enough of the stuff left to make a little yellow dog. Just such a discovery has Gen. Jackson's popularity been to you [Democrats]. You not only twice made President of him out of it, but you have had enough of the stuff left to make Presidents of several comparatively small men since; and it is your chief reliance now to make still another."

    -- A. Lincoln
    They would vote for a literal yellow dog. Blue is the color used by news outlets for democrats. Red is used for republicans. coal is not a color. It is a resource mined in easteren kentucky.