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  1. Re:Uphill both ways on Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper? · · Score: 1

    Next those spoiled brats'll expect to have access to stack overflow before they can answer their questions.

    Well, that'll weed out the ones stupid enough to use it.

  2. I've never used Facebook, but that's a deal that just might get me to join if I thought I could trust Facebook to honor it. Unfortunately for Facebook, I don't have that trust.

  3. Re: If you haven't seen... on Animation Legend Isao Takahata, Co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Dies at 82 (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, Monkey Punch wrote the original manga. The first TV season may have been directed by Miyazaki, but it stayed pretty close to Monkey Punch's vision. I won't say Miyazaki had no influence, but it was only in Castle that Miyazaki got to do what he really wanted to do.

  4. Re: If you haven't seen... on Animation Legend Isao Takahata, Co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Dies at 82 (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And then there's "Lupin III;" enough said.

    Actually, no, it's not enough said; you need to add "Castle of Cagliostro", the movie in which Miyazaki made Lupin III his own. The other Lupin III works are, well, considerably different. Monkey Punch (the actual creator of Lupin III) has a rather crude sense of humor.

  5. Re:And people would buy them? on Stan Lee's Stolen Blood Was Used To Sign Marvel Comic Books (tmz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right, and oddly they manage to get it done in about 1/20th the amount of prose.

    That would be because a text novel is using *only* the prose to tell the story, so it needs more. In a graphic novel, it's only part of the medium, so not as much is needed.

  6. So, in other words on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the great brain robbery?

  7. Re:Pay Teachers First on Schools Won't Like How Difficult the New iPad Is To Repair (ifixit.com) · · Score: 1

    But more than that, you have to teach them relevant life skills. Cursive handwriting is less important that keyboard skills now.

    So they need iPads...which don't have a keyboard. Uh...

  8. Re:Beaten, abused & filmed by Victorian Police on Facebook Blames a 'Bug' For Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Victorian police? Isn't it a little late to be complaining about police abuse from 1900?

  9. Re:The moon landings were better on The 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" · · Score: 3

    Okay, then, forget Nixon. How could anybody create this conspiracy when it could be exposed by, forget the Soviet Union, anybody with a decent ham radio setup or a hobbyist telescope?

  10. Isn't it obvious? on Mark Zuckerberg: Tim Cook is 'Extremely Glib' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Zuckerberg cares about YOU, not the money--that's why he's a multi-billionaire!

  11. Microsoft announces... on Microsoft Is 'Demoting' Windows for the Cloud, Says CNN (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ..."We've found a way to make you pay again for Windows every month!"

  12. Re:i bet a reasonably secured Linux distro on Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're worried about security, OpenBSD would probably be better. Theo's pretty fanatical about it.

  13. That depends. If the URL is a 400 character long alphabet soup then it's already nearly as obfuscated.

    But generally you can see the domain, which is the important part. Granted, there are ways to obscure even that in long URLs, but just because there are other ways to obscure a domain doesn't make this one good.

  14. Re:Obama sold NASA out to the Russians on James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The Shuttle Fleet, has been aging, and becoming harder to maintain.

    Uh, they aren't maintaining the Shuttles any more. They were retired in 2011.

  15. That triggered a virtual safety car (VSC). The VSC is a fairly new concept: while active, the drivers have to slow down, they cannot overtake, and they must not go below minimum times for each circuit sector. Failure to follow the rules will result in penalties. This is all done to preserve the race state while giving safety marshals time to clear debris or vehicles off the track.

    So, how is this different from a yellow caution flag?

  16. Re:So Chinese buying Chinese on Foxconn Announces Purchase of Belkin, Wemo, and Linksys (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oops, the Qing actually annexed Formosa/Taiwan in 1683. Sorry about that.

  17. Re:So Chinese buying Chinese on Foxconn Announces Purchase of Belkin, Wemo, and Linksys (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're thinking of Hong Kong; Taiwan/Formosa's statehood is complex, but it's essentially been an autonomous nation since 1912

    Well, no, not really. It was autonomous until the Qing dynasty annexed it in the 19th century. It was ceded to Japan in 1895, who ruled it as a colony until 1945. It was then given to the then ruling government of China, the Republic of China (which was indeed founded in 1912 with the fall of the Qing). When the ROC was defeated by the communists in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the ROC government fled to Taiwan where the communists couldn't get at them. For a long time, both the ROC and the communists claimed to be the legitimate government of all China and thus Taiwan was not classified as an independent nation; both sides agreed it was part of China. They just disagreed on who was the rightful rulers of China. Technically this is still the case, but in fact the ROC has not been terribly interested in claiming back China in decades. However, the communists react very violently to any suggestion that Taiwan establish itself as a independent country because they figure that as long as the argument is over who controls China they can't lose; Taiwan must eventually become theirs. Independence is a fight they could conceivably lose if they let the fight move to that ground.

  18. Re:Quite possible ... on Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And if Apple/Google/Microsoft/etc don't have your passcode? There's lots of high quality encryption out there, freely available, for which the keys never leave your control.

  19. Re:You get what you pay for? on Sex Workers Say Porn On Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The big, immediate issue with Google is political. Doesn't mean there aren't any possible technical issues If you think Google Drive is 100% bulletproof, you're fooling yourself, because nothing is 100% bulletproof. Especially not anything offered for free.

  20. Re:You get what you pay for? on Sex Workers Say Porn On Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they start banning VeraCrypt containers, then I've got a real problem.

    And it might happen. After all, they can't tell what your encrypted content is--it could be anything. Maybe they'll decide they just better play it safe...

  21. If you really need what Facebook does, there's no alternative, because Facebook can do what it does not because of what it is, but because so many people already use it, and nobody else has even a fraction of Facebook's user base.

  22. Re:Instead of sugars or alcohol, test for roughies on Researchers Test Tooth-Mounted Sensor-Enabled Chips (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought "roughies" must be the opposite of "smoothies".

  23. Sorry,
    that is not remotely plausible.

    You, of course, have the research to back this up. The OP had citations for his figures. Do you have anything?

  24. No, Facebook did not make any mistakes, because Facebook is a faceless abstraction. People at Facebook made mistakes (or more likely, knew exactly what they were doing and how much money it would make them). So who exactly were those people, Mark?

  25. 3.2 sec is correctly responding when something unexpected happens. It includes your time to analyze what's going on and the time to decide on a course of action. Perhaps this is not, strictly speaking, "reaction" time, but it's still going to count when something unexpected pops up in the road.

    3.2sec reaction time would yield in about 90m driving distance

    Yes. Yes, it does. Something to keep in mind when driving, and a damn good reason why you should never tailgate.