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  1. Re:More technical discussion on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    I believe this is discussed in link #3 above. Cogently.

  2. More technical discussion on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 5, Informative

    From Bruce Schneier Here and here.

    Also a nice call to arms here.
    "I have resisted saying this up to now, and I am saddened to say it, but the US has proved to be an unethical steward of the internet. The UK is no better."

  3. Re:style on Does Coding Style Matter? · · Score: 2

    Your coworkers, however, might.

    ftfy

  4. Re:do we still have mainframes? on Will the Desktop PC Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    Most people like trucks. They are more useful.

    That must be why "most people" drive trucks nowadays.

  5. Re:BS artsy spin included on When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide · · Score: 1

    At least he didn't throw in 50 cent words in describing his projects.

    Yes, he did. He used 'ontology' twice (as noun then an adjective), both times incorrectly (or nonsensically).

  6. Re:Detailed replica, not crude device. on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 1

    (sorry -correction, not "the bomb," but both bombs. That is little boy and fat man).

  7. Detailed replica, not crude device. on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 1

    There's some misunderstanding here in these comments. I have his book and what he actually does is document painstaking research into the exact specs on all the bomb's parts down to the diameter of fasteners, etc. He didn't just create a template for a crude uranium-based device. The New Yorker published an interesting article about him in 2008.

  8. Re:just wait till he hears about case insensitivit on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1

    HFS+ is available Case-sensitive. Check Disk Utility app. Of course, you might encounter some problems with sloppily written third-party apps......

  9. Re:Optical drive still not optional on New Apple MacBook Pro Reviewed · · Score: 1

    It took me an hour to replace the optical drive in my MBP with an SSD. Mainly that was because the screws are so tiny I had to use tweezers for the ones that fell back in. But if the optical drive bugs you, it's not all that hard to remove it and replace it with something more useful.

    http://remiel.info/post/1601242301/making-the-leap-to-ssd-on-a-macbook

  10. app is kinda crappy on US Says Plane Finder App Threatens Security · · Score: 2, Informative

    I live in a flight path to LGA, planes go over every five or ten minutes and often *blink* the apartment with their shadows. Which is kinda neat. But I think there's a misapprehension about this app. I t doesn't receive ADS transmissions, it relies on (some group of users other than app users) to submit the data to a db. Planes fly over my apartment every five or ten minutes. I've had this app open for an hour and none of the overflying planes were reflected in the UI.

    Of course, if they were, I'da downed them with a SAM, which I never felt the need to do when they are flying over til now.

  11. Re:They had to name it ping, didn't they? on Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV · · Score: 1

    Almost every non-cl-using employee I've met in the web business uses ping as a synonym for 'contact', but often specifically contact over the internet, though IM or email or whatever and has for a couple or three years at least. I've always figured it was probably cl-using employees using it in a similar sense, which they do, and have as long as I remember, and being overheard. This made it sound 'hip', in a geeky kind of hip. This means it's our own fault.

  12. Re:The internet is the only thread... on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    I almost made a fool out of myself by contradicting this, but you're right. Turns out arpanet lore on this subject is mistaken.

    Now I'll have to find some other way to make a fool of myself. This shouldn't be too hard.

  13. Re:Isn't it obvious on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 1

    I don't think quoting a Senator who is reviled by just about everyone, regardless of party affiliation, is indicative of the general consensus in this country.

    It's germane (if accurate, which I can't verify) because he is the main sponsor of the legislation in question.

  14. Re:Some Typoes on Deformable Liquid Mirrors For Adaptive Optics · · Score: 1

    That's "Typos"

  15. Re:Again.... on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mother Theresa who took 1.4m stolen dollars from Charles Keating? Mother Theresa gave a hell of a fuck about money, mainly by fetishizing the suffering of those without it....

    Read up.

    Otherwise I agree.

  16. teardown my ass on Apple A4 Processor Teardown · · Score: 2, Funny

    tfa:

    With further analysis, including chip-level reverse engineering, we may be able to identify whether innovations such as Intrinsity’s patented cell libraries were used to optimize the critical paths in the ARM core itself.

    IOW, "It looks kinda neat, wonder what's inside!"

  17. Re:This is a random comment. on New Method for Random Number Generation Developed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Radiolab, yes. Episode called Stochasticity.

  18. Re:Postmodernism applying to the internet? on Is Web 2.0 the Advent of the Post-Modern Internet? · · Score: 1

    Since I cant mod this AC up, having already posted an inferior rebuttal, I'm gonna just note the characterization of "postmodernism" proffered by my chosen reference, the late Lyotard, which I think was a pretty good embodiment. Can't find the book just now, but roughly, for him, postmodernism meant a "suspicion of metaneratives." That is, the unspoken stories underlying assertions. What the fuck that has to do with DHTML I haven't the slightest.

  19. Oh, criminy. on Is Web 2.0 the Advent of the Post-Modern Internet? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    As we watch the advent of the Post-Modern Internet embodied in the Web 2.0 movement, we will see its effects reverberate throughout society.


    What, oh, what will society do without a back button? This is possibly the most vapid article I've read in months. The analogy is weak and no attempt is made to develop it. The author has little comprehension of what the term "postmodernism" ever meant, even if it ever meant anything, apologies Jean-François Lyotard. Doesn't Zonk have something better to do with his time besides posting this kind of tripe? Oh, wait. I must be new here.
  20. If only I could visualise it... on UBC Engineers Reach Mileage Of Over 3000 MPG · · Score: 1

    equivalent of Vancouver to Halifax on a gallon (3.79 liters) of gas...

    Ah! Now it's clear as day.

    Halifax is in Texas, right?

  21. Re:More bullshit google praise on Google Earth v4 Released - Linux Support at Last · · Score: 1

    "excellent," duh. I wish I wish I wish slashdot's overhaul included a comment editing page.

  22. More bullshit google praise on Google Earth v4 Released - Linux Support at Last · · Score: 1

    This is escellent news. I have a windows computer, of course, so I can see how fucked up my webpages are in ie and also, yes, for halflife2, which I'm playing again just now. But it is so frustrating to find some software which would me useful and discover it's windows only. Usually if you complain, you'll get a recommondation to "write it yourself," but the software in question is closed source. So I find it especially commendable of google that they release a linux version of some flagship software. Good for them. And me.

  23. Re:$1500-$2000? on High performance FFT on GPUs · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA? Or just look at the pretty diagrams.
    They're running against dual-processor systems (Opteron and Xeon).

  24. Re:Oh boy, here we go.... on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? · · Score: 1

    Not Republican software. Idiot software, coward.

  25. Re:Oh boy, here we go.... on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? · · Score: 1

    Wrong.
    http://fundrace.org/neighbors.php?type=name&lname= gates&fname=william&search=Search+by+Name

    Full contrubution to Bush, none elsewhere.

    I'm surprised you're surprised. Have you ever used his company's products?