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  1. Re:Market forces at work... on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1

    In the US it isn't so bad because there is just the FDA, but even in Europe it takes much longer and you have to convince many different agencies that it is safe.

    Do not worry with that. Aspartame was approved in Europe just because the FDA believed it was fine (despite the studies on it being of really poor quality)

  2. Re:Why wouldn't the people support them? on Google Maps Used To Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 1

    I'll take "stupid" people voting for liberty over "lazy" people voting for a living any day.

    Here is an opportunity to use my favorite Henri Lacordaire's quote:

    Between the strong and the weak, between the rich and the poor, between master and servant, it is freedom which oppresses and the law that liberates

  3. software architecture on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 1

    TFA does not seems to address software architecture. It is harder to contribute bad code to software that has good design.

  4. Incitation on The Case For a Government Bug Bounty Program · · Score: 1

    If I understand correctly, this is about government doing bug bounty programs for vendors that do not? That looks like an incitation for vendors to not do it, since government will. Except of course if we introduce a tax on vendors that do not have bug bounty programs.

  5. Re:Kind of a biased group? on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    For conventional cars, do we take into account the pollution needed to extract, process and transport the oil they burn?

  6. Cell differentiation on Gene Therapy May Protect Against Flu · · Score: 1

    I though antibody production was lymphocyte B cell job. TFA suggests that any type of cell will produce antibodies by just pushing the appropriate DNA. Is it that simple? Why do we have differentiated lymphocyte B cell then?

  7. Cheating on Pitcher-Turned-Law Student On Cheating In Baseball · · Score: 1

    I am not familiar with this game, and I fail to understand what cheat TFA is about. To cheat, you must break a rule. What is the broken rule?

  8. ISS on Mars Explorers Face Huge Radiation Problem · · Score: 1

    We have people staying in space at the ISS for months. How is it different from being in a spaceship moving to mars?

  9. Also good report from Brian Krebs on Could Bitcoin Go Legit? · · Score: 1

    There is also an interesting report from Krebs on Security, about how underground web actors talk about moving to new digital currencies.

  10. What is in a name? on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    dao means knife in Chinese, but why the name? Is it because it is cutting edge?

  11. Just a hundred of atoms on Moore's Law Fails At NAND Flash Node · · Score: 1

    Silicon atom covalance radix is 0.11 nm, which means that at 19 nm, tracks are a large of around a hundred of atoms. Obviously we are not going to shrink a lot further.

  12. TFA point? on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 1

    I have readen TFA and could not say what its point is. It seems just void thinking to me.

  13. what is the third party software? on Drupal.org User Accounts Compromised · · Score: 1

    They blame a third party software but fail to name it...

  14. Re:If only SSO ... on Drupal.org User Accounts Compromised · · Score: 2

    No, there is no central place in federated single sign-on . In order to compromise all accounts, you would need to compromise aill identity providers.

  15. Informatique pour tous on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    I came to programming through France's government Informatique pour tous plan, which installed computers in all schools in 1985.

    The plan was called a failure by analysts, but it was a success for me.

  16. worldwilde governments ODF commitments? on Aussie Government Proposes OpenDocument As the Standard Format · · Score: 1

    We have several governments around the world that more or less decided to standardize on ODF. Is there somewhere on the web an overview of decisions and advancements of this kind of projects?

  17. Re:Used hard disks on Multiple Studies Show Used Electronics Exports To Third World Mostly Good · · Score: 1

    I do not erase hard disks, I destroy them. But for the average user it is difficult to avoid data leak

    First they must know that there is data retained. Application behavior are not always obvious on this front.

    Second, they must know what procedure is reliable: removing a file does not really remove data. Formatting the disk may still leave a lot of data behind

    And third, they may completely miss the point in some situation. It is easy to discard a printer without thinking that it contains a hard disk with printed jobs retained in it

  18. Re:Does this actually work? on Xbox One: Cloud Will Quadruple the Power, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    if Microsoft is building three times the CPU in their datacenters every time they build a PC, why not just throw that power into the box itself?

    Because all players do not play at the same time, therefore they can avoid installing power for 4 time all sold Xbox.

  19. Legalize burning coporations assets on US Entertainment Industry To Congress: Make It Legal For Us To Deploy Rootkits · · Score: 1

    I would like a legislation that allows me to burn a corporation assets when I am not satisfied with product quality or customer support. Do you think I have a chance if I ask government?

  20. Used hard disks on Multiple Studies Show Used Electronics Exports To Third World Mostly Good · · Score: 1

    We also export used hard disks, filled with personal data that may be recycled for fun and profit in third world nation that cannot afford Facebook-style or NSA-style data collection.

  21. Re:Generational gap on Eric Schmidt: Teens' Mistakes Will Never Go Away · · Score: 1

    Kids of today will simply grow up to hold the attitude that literally everyone has made mistakes in their past

    That assume that everyone is equal on the mistake front, something that may be true, or false, I do not really know.

    I especially wonder if mistake done and exposed are the sames among social classes. In other words, when a recruiter reject an applicant for a mistake posted on Facebook, does it reinforce social inequity or not?

    We know kids from wealthy classes get a social wealth from their parent, which makes them more able to behave in the way teachers or recruiters expect. We may see the same pattern here.

  22. Re:But it's java on Java Developer Says He Built, Launched Basic Open Source Office Suite In 30 Days · · Score: 1

    So on top of the limited functionality mentioned it is going to be about 10 times heavier than anything written in C and 10 times slower..

    I would mod that up if I had points...

  23. digital currencies, money exchanges on LibertyReserve.com Shuttered, Founder Arrested In Spain · · Score: 1

    There seems to be a vocal crowd obsessed with bitcoin, but there are many other digital currencies out of there. Anyone has a decent list? Wikipedia only list a few, and LibertyReserve is not among them. It is not listed as digital money exchanger either.

  24. Airbus on European Commission Launches $12 Billion Chip Support Campaign · · Score: 1

    I am not sure that Airbus could be created with today's EU treaties. State were a lot involved, something that today's EU fight like hell. And the EU cannot act instead of member states because it does not have their financial strength.

    Some would want to change that by having member states giving more money to the EU, but since the EU is totally antidemocratic and since EU leaders are not responsible at all before tax payers, I would prefer that problem to be fixed by reverting to the previous situation where member states were allowed as industrial investors. Airbus and Ariane demonstrated the approach works quite well.

  25. Not a cryptography weakness on Researcher Unlocks Galaxy S4 Bootloader For AT&T, Verizon Phones · · Score: 2

    The summary seems wrong, the researcher did not exploit a cryptography weakness. I understand he managed to have its custom kernel loaded at specific memory address, overwriting a bootloader function.