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  1. Re:In case you wondered... on Access Codes For United Cockpit Doors Accidentally Posted Online (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It is 0000

    Actually, it's 12345.

  2. I suppose I'm a hopeless old fogey on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because I still use Firefox.

  3. Re:MS Office runs fine on Apple (nt) on 'Don't Tell People To Turn Off Windows Update, Just Don't' (troyhunt.com) · · Score: 2

    But how do you get NT to run on an Apple?

  4. The internet (which is not the web, the web is built on top of the internet) *is* "decentralized". It was built that way.

  5. Where can i haz this Shodan-"Program"??

    You can't, you pathetic creature of meat and bone.

  6. Not only would a laptop packed with explosives still bring down a plane while in the cargo hold, but anything else at least the approximate size of a laptop would do as well. So are they planning to ban anything laptop-sized or larger?

  7. Re:All he needs... on The Intelligent Intersection Could Banish Traffic Lights Forever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They do say that it's for autonomous vehicles...

    On the contrary, they specifically state that they haven't been able to test it with autonomous vehicles. Yes, this will work a treat with autonomous vehicles; this sort of advantage has been foreseen as long as the consequences of autonomous vehicles has been seriously considered. But until we have 80 to 90 percent coverage with autonomous vehicles, it ain't gonna fly.

  8. All he needs... on The Intelligent Intersection Could Banish Traffic Lights Forever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...is way to make drivers drive at the mandated speeds. Which, of course, they won't do; you only have to look at how speed limits are obeyed to know that.

  9. We want to be in a walled garden, as long as it's a good walled garden. No thank you.

  10. The point is, that wasn't specified, but infinite speed was. So sacrificing memory to gain speed makes no sense.

  11. Re:I guess I will be showing my age here... on Managers Should Start Texting Job Candidates, Says Study (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    But for my first real job I was invited to the interview (and physical exam) by telegram.

    So why did Mr. Edison decide to hire you?

  12. Re:Slashdot on China Makes Quantum Leap In Developing Quantum Computer (scmp.com) · · Score: 2

    Scott Bakula could not be reached for comment.

  13. Re:They'll keep wasting billions on mobile... on Microsoft's Nadella Says Company Will Make More Phones, But They Won't Look Like Today's Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Xbox is one of their few successes at this independent of Windows

    "Success" only in the sense that it wasn't an outright failure. Xbox never "took over the market" like Microsoft's more Windows-centric conquests. The Playstation 2 massively outsold the original Xbox, which only just edged out the GameCube. The Playstation 3 was neck and neck with the Xbox 360, both of which got outsold by the Wii. The Xbox One has lost decisively to the Playstation 4 and has been outsold by the Wii U.

  14. Re:Future Windows phone... on Microsoft's Nadella Says Company Will Make More Phones, But They Won't Look Like Today's Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Natively". You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  15. Because the best way to educate people... on Microsoft Unveils Windows 10 S, an Education Edition Limited To Windows Store Apps (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    ...is to severely lock down what they can do!

  16. Re:Great way to start an encyclopedia... on China is Recruiting 20,000 People To Write Its Own Wikipedia (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I for one am very excited to read their pages on Tibet and Falun Gong.

    There won't be any. Because those things don't exist. That's what the Memory Hole is for.

  17. Re:thereÃ(TM)s simply no foolproof way to kil on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Ovid didn't need unicode, and neither did Shakespeare.

    They didn't need computers either. So obviously you should stop using yours.

  18. Re:thereÃ(TM)s simply no foolproof way to kil on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but to me, 174 Petawatts of untapped energy seems like it should be able to power the planet.

    1.21 Gigawatts should be enough for anybody!

  19. Unless you're writing machine code, "executable" does mean "interpreted". The only way a computer can execute something that is not its own machine code is to interpret it. If you can type a high-level program into a computer and have it run in an unchanged form, then the computer must be interpreting it.

  20. I think for purpose of this argument, most people would be willing to consider the preprocessor as part of the compiler. It's not like you would consider writing and compiling C code without it, except in very exceptional circumstances.

  21. Octal is for people who don't have sixteen fingers.

  22. No. The weasel word there is "high-level". "High-level" by definition is at least 3rd generation, because that's when the concept of a high-level languages was developed. 1st generation was machine code, and 2nd generation was assembler. FORTRAN was the first of the 3rd generation languages.

  23. Really? on Neowin: Microsoft's Windows Phone Business 'Is Dead' (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Was it ever alive?

  24. Re:Why isn't the API secured? on Massive Tinder Photo Scrape Has Users Upset (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The upshot is you are sending data that can be interpreted by a machine that is totally under the recipient's control. Expecting to be able to keep access to that data restricted for the recipient is foolish at best. There is no way to secure it, I don't care what your API does. You can't encrypt against access if you're going to giving away the keys.

  25. Surprise, surprise... on Massive Tinder Photo Scrape Has Users Upset (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Putting photos out where anybody can see them means putting photos out where anybody can see them.