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  1. Re:Can we please have that here in California? on UK: New Drivers Caught Using a Phone Will Lose Their License (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    if they hadn't been texting they probably would have noticed they were moving.

  2. some "grown up" deleted half of S3.

  3. $ gcc -Wwrite-strings -Werror a.c
    a.c: In function ‘main’:
    a.c:3:12: error: initialization discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
        char *s = "hello world";
                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
    cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

  4. Re: Doing it wrong? on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    if you're running out of stack on a 64-bit machine, then your OS's addressing scheme sucks.

    "8.1 exabytes should be enough for anyone" -- Bill Gates

  5. sabotage on Pentagon Successfully Tests Micro-Drone Swarm (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    yeah, but if you play classical music at them really loud, they all explode.

  6. Re:Better options these days on Minecraft Has Now Sold Over 25 Million Copies on PC and Mac (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    if Minecraft's gotten boring, try a few of these:
    - get to the credits in 20 minutes in survival on hard.
    - finish an adventure map (like Diversity 1/2, Drobnovian Knights, Terra Restore)
    - finish a CTM map by vechs, amlup or hilecio
    - complete an HQM skyblock rebuild modpack (like Agrarian Skies, Project Ozone 1/2)
    - complete an HQM story modpack (like Crash Landing, Material Energy^3/4, BlastOff)

  7. Enginners on Next Big Thing From Elon Musk? It Could Be 'Boring' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The London yellow pages used to have an entry "Boring, see: engineers"

  8. Re:If you can touch it, you can own it on Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access On Some Linux Systems (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    > I can think of a number of other ways to get a root shell

    ok, i'll bite. how?

  9. solar? on Crushable Runway Technology Saved Mike Pence's Plane (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "Crushable Freaking Runways!"

  10. Re:Uh..... the price tag?! on Microsoft Announces Ultra-Thin, Pixel-Dense Surface Studio Touchscreen PC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    plus $2,800 for the touch/digitizing display.

  11. linux is set to conquer the desktop on OMGUbuntu: 'Why Use Linux?' Answered in 3 Short Words (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    for all those who need "themes and widgets and CSS and extensions and blingy little desktop trinkets".

    for those that need excel. not so much...

  12. Re:Lots of cheap housing in US, just not in San Fr on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    nonsense. would you expect to be able to afford an appartment in Beverly Hills, or the upper west side? or how about renting a room at the Connaught?

    why not? because those places are fucking expensive.

    guess what? San Francisco is fucking expensive too. want somewhere cheap to live? find somewhere else.

    or sleep in your own shit on the streets in San Francisco and shoot heroin all day long.

  13. no video? on New AI Is Capable of Beating Humans At Doom (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    this is a video game, after all...

  14. Re: don't get your hope up on No Man's Sky Under Investigation For False Advertising (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    You would if the trailer was full of amazing stuff that wasn't in the feature.

  15. Re:Probes AND Humans on SpaceX Tests Its Raptor Engine For Future Mars Flights (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    that's cheating. they brought the rocks back with them.

  16. Re:Facebook on Moving Beyond Flash: the Yahoo HTML5 Video Player (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    this is because Facebook is an ad network - you & your friends are the product. Facebook sells your eyes to their customers, and if their customers want to show you flash pre-rolls and interstitials, then that's exactly what Facebook will use. Money talks.

  17. Re:Yahoo is ... the story? on Moving Beyond Flash: the Yahoo HTML5 Video Player (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    > The big players moved to HTML5 ages ago.

    define "ages ago".

    firefox only started supporting html5 netflix in 12/2015.

  18. Re:lolwut? on Moving Beyond Flash: the Yahoo HTML5 Video Player (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    pop quiz: calculate the buffering time for a 90minute 15Mbps stream if you're on a 1Mbps connection.

  19. Re:lolwut? on Moving Beyond Flash: the Yahoo HTML5 Video Player (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    right, but you know who might need that?

    one of the largest ad networks on the planet? or maybe the 4th most popular video web site, with approximate 125M monthly visitors?

    besides. the claim that you don't need a feature doesn't mean that your solution is significant. you didn't address any of the other things that you "solution" completely fails to address.

    you're just digging yourself deeper into the hole here. your first post showed you clearly don't know what the fuck you're talking about. and you're not making it any better for yourself.

  20. Re:lolwut? on Moving Beyond Flash: the Yahoo HTML5 Video Player (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    it's job security because if they took your advice and assumed they were smarter than everyone else and just went with what they thought would work... they would have failed abysmally. they would be assigned to cleaning the toilets while someone who knew what they were talking about was put in charge of actually doing it right.

  21. Re:lolwut? on Moving Beyond Flash: the Yahoo HTML5 Video Player (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Was typing ... really that hard?

    yeah, that's fine if you want your video to work only sometimes, on some devices. and if you don't need pre-rolls, or interstitials, or playlists, or analytics, or you don't care about handling full-screen correctly, or adaptive bitrate.

    pop quiz: which versions of firefox support h.264? which protocol suports bitrate streaming on google chrome on windows? on iPad?

  22. Re: Aaaaand Krebs thrashes more people on Krebs Is Back Online Thanks To Google's Project Shield (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google could solve this in a day by flagging its search results page with a "your ISP is supporting cybercrime" warning.

  23. Having a Canadian on stage... on Apple's Response To Diversity Criticism: 'We Had a Canadian' Onstage at iPhone 7 Event (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, that takes courage.

  24. Re:It's not what I call a scripting language. on Microsoft PowerShell Goes Open Source and Lands On Linux and Mac (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    also, what in the world does 'grep' stand for?

    (i know)

  25. Re:It's not what I call a scripting language. on Microsoft PowerShell Goes Open Source and Lands On Linux and Mac (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    PS C:\> Get-Alias sls

    CommandType Name
    ----------- ----
    Alias sls -> Select-String

    (modulo whitespace mangling)