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  1. Re:Enterprise Java Version on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 0

    A good example of Java being fat and leading to unproductive use of coding time.

  2. Tandem on Supercomputers' Growing Resilience Problems · · Score: 1

    Distributed fault tolerance. Diifficult to scale large and keep supercomputer performance. But still room for improvement.

  3. Re:Age of Earth is Mystery, assumptions are used on Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee · · Score: 1
    But it is definitely more than 6000 years old.

    Link

    These wingnuts are just looking for a reason to convince themselves that they are relevant to the darkside in an attempt to cut funding even more for NASA and other programs.

    They will likely never be re-elected.

  4. cross-platform exploits on Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months · · Score: 1

    I must nominate flash. Java next. Avoid those and you have a better chance. Add common sense and your odds are improved. Toss in firefox with noscript, and adblock, and you should be in good shape. At that point, it will not really matter if you get rooted, you should be able to re-install/recover your non-NONFREE OS quickly. Basically you really only need to worry about DPI and BIOS/UEFI based rootkits/backdoors. If you are still concerned, then pull the plug and get off the net.

  5. Rush will be all over this tomorrow on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1

    Today it was that Obama suppressed the vote. Tomorrow it will be that Nate Silver suppressed the vote. Soon after, it will be that it was all conspiracy. Hopefully he then will attack the banks for making him waste 300 million.

  6. s/voter/voting/ on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    You are not the one creating the fraud. The fraud is being thrown at you.

  7. Not yet on Con Ed Says NYC Datacenters Should Get Power Saturday · · Score: 1

    Having power there maybe in 36 hours would lead to the subway maybe running Wednesday at best. You need power to pump the water out and time to clean and repair.

  8. Must muscle in on ARM, Microsoft Collaborating On 64-bit Windows Version · · Score: 1

    Totally to be expected days after the AMD annoucement.

  9. Clearly it was an open access point on WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney · · Score: 1

    Put yourself in the carriers position. You are under a DDOS attack and you still want to deliver the packet. So you attempt to route around the damage.

  10. Re:Giving aid and comfort to the enemy on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 2
    Interesting timing then.

    Link

    Assange mocks Obama via video at U.N. event

    UNITED NATIONS | Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:24pm EDT (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking via a choppy video feed from his virtual house arrest in London, lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for supporting freedom of speech in the Middle East while simultaneously "persecuting" his organization for leaking diplomatic cables.

  11. Re:Naivity, paranoia, the military, and us. on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 1
    Just remember that Assange was not the leaker. And Manning was not the only alleged leaker.

    If no one ever leaked anything to wikileaks in the first place, then Assange would not be in this mess.

  12. 2000 years ago - Cato the Younger on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 1
    Link

    Nothing has changed.

  13. imprisoned indefinitely without trial on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He already is.

  14. Up to Congress to change the law on Motorola Seeks Ban On Macs, iPads, and iPhones · · Score: 2

    All Obama can do is encourage Congress to get off their lazy asses and pay attention.

  15. All of Windows could be sandboxed on New IE Zero-Day Being Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 1

    True, true. And simple also. Just have all the routers do DPI on the traffic, and if it is from a Windows machine, then just drop the packet.

  16. Re:Google is evil on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    I was leaning towards well thought-out bullshit, exactly what I would expect from Mr. Balmer.

  17. Re:Mounting evidence - of hype. on Why Cell Phone Bans Don't Work · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but you have been misinformed. Just talking on a phone is a major distraction because the brain space-time shifts away from driving to the conversation that is not within the vehicle. Conversation *within* the vehicle is already a distraction, but when it is a conversation *outside* of the vehicle, the brain does not cope. The brain *tries* to place itself in a location (with the other side of the conversation) that it physically can not possibly be. I know what I see. I have seen drivers stop at green lights. I have seen drivers already stopped at a red light, then proceed into the intersection (light still red), and get double T-boned. They never signal (one hand is tied up), they never yield because they can not pay attention to the flow of traffic. They cut over at the last possible moment to exit because they are oblivious to their actual location. If you really believe it is no different than just plain driving, well, I guess you don't talk on a cell phone while driving. If you do, you may become a statistic some day.

  18. Not Java or c++ ? on Report Cites Highest IT Job Growth In 4 Years · · Score: 1

    Maybe that is the problem with using c#. The good devs don't want to die on the microsoft vine.

  19. Re:Try this nasty Sudoku on The Chaos Within Sudoku - a Richter Scale of Difficulty · · Score: 1

    Got it. I misread what you were saying. Basically, you are doing two simultaneous guesses. Cool, will look for this more often.

  20. Re:Try this nasty Sudoku on The Chaos Within Sudoku - a Richter Scale of Difficulty · · Score: 1
    Sorry, s/techniques will not work/techniques will not always work/

    Unique rectangles and variants are actually a very powerful technique. But, they are not enough for really nasty puzzles. There are too many possibilities to keep track of.

  21. Try this nasty Sudoku on The Chaos Within Sudoku - a Richter Scale of Difficulty · · Score: 2
    I am guessing you are referring to unique rectangles and variants.

    You probably have never seen enough really nasty puzzles to realize that those techniques will not work.

    Here is a valid, single solution Sudoku that using your technique may result in your insanity.

    .318....7
    ........9
    ....6..2.
    46...1...
    ..3.7...6
    1..2....8
    .2...59..
    ..5.3....
    .....2.4.

    .318....7........9....6..2.46...1.....3.7...61..2....8.2...59....5.3.........2.4.

    Good luck.

  22. Ad revenue on Twitter Launches Political Index · · Score: 1

    That is all it is about.

  23. Still a loss even without the writeoff on Microsoft Posts First Quarterly Loss Ever · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The point is that Microsoft lost money even if you disregard the writeoff.

  24. Re:What? on Could Google Fiber Save Network Neutrality? · · Score: 1

    If you don't like it, stay of Gnet and stop wasting my bandwidth!

  25. The real story on US ISPs Continue To Support DNSChanger Redirection Servers · · Score: 1

    The ISPs did not have dedicated servers for DNSChanger, they have been filtering your DNS traffic all along.