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  1. Re:North Pole or south pole on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    There are a series of spots near the south pole you can also be. Start by drawing a circle 1 mile circumference around the south pole. Start a mile outside it. also works with a circle 1/2 mile circumference or 1/3 mile or 1/4 mile and so on.

  2. one time pad on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 1

    Heaven forbid these politicians ever learn about the one time pad, they'll outlaw addition and subtraction too. Not to mention xor.

  3. 5 years? it was crap! on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I have had several keyboards for 20 years with no sign of deterioration. I don't know if you can still get em like that any more tho. One point is I never have liked the "silent" keyboards. I like a good clacky feedback one so I know when I have pressed a key or not.

  4. He want legal right to repeal math proofs? on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 2

    Perhaps he hasn't heard all about the one-time-pad?

  5. sports scholarships would bias this on Education Debate: Which Is More Important - Grit, Or Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    Did they compare their results to countries without sports scholarship programs. Grit might be more important in sports than in acedemic pursuits

  6. Saturn --- NOT! on Remote Vision Through a Virtual Reality Headset (Video) · · Score: 1

    The light speed delay to Saturn (from Earth) would make it silly to even try. Even a 1.5 second delay to the Moon disorents most people to unusability.

  7. uncany? on MIT's Cheetah Robot Runs Untethered · · Score: 1

    Somehow this robot doesn't seem as creepy as the "big dog" we have seen so much of.

  8. Are "self taught coders really better? on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Well, you do learn to code in colledge too. It may be not the style the employer wants, but people who learn coding outside of classrooms may not be all that much better in the long run. Of course there are exceptions on both sides.

  9. unix multics on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 2

    The guys who invented unix were trying to reinvent multics for small computers.

  10. lock-in codec on FLOSS Codecs Emerge Victorious In Wikimedia Vote · · Score: 1

    If you prefer to be locked in with with your propritetary software/codec/hardware, thats up to you, you can start your own wiki with your own rules.

  11. Re:It's been done on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    For the rigorous definitions software needs to work with it seems text is better. It might be just cuz I am used to text for software but outside of trivially simple programs, I'm sure I would rather work with text. I even think I can read and write text definitions FASTER than I could create diagrams. We used to try to use flowcharts to document and support development but they fell out of popularity for a reason I think. They were not as good.

  12. Re:Retroactively? on Disney's Titling Problem With Its Star Wars Movies · · Score: 1

    I thought it was there in the original too. I remember being let down before it even started that it was some sort of series. I don't know how these other people can be so certain it wasn't there, they could have missed it. Its not like they have a copy of the original screening to verify it.

  13. Retroactive? on Disney's Titling Problem With Its Star Wars Movies · · Score: 1
    "Lucas retroactively subtitled the first movie to be Episode IV."

    Did he really? Exactly when was this? I seem to remember the episode IV subtitle when I saw the first run in the theatre. Is my memory fooling me?

  14. bigger fear? on NSA Backdoors In Open Source and Open Standards: What Are the Odds? · · Score: 1

    I think a much bigger issue that I have not heard mentioned in these debates is how much access to bank and credit card records do these outfits get? It would seem if they pressure Google and Facebook to release records, they would do the same to the banks.

  15. Numerical Analysis on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    One math course particulaly comes back to me again and again when I am programming. It was called "Numerical Analysis" when I took it but might be called something different elsewhere/now. It involved analysing the errors inherent in computer arithmetic and calculations. Especially floating point inaccuracies and aproximations. Whenever people tell you to not use floating point it is usually because they don't understand this subject and don't know the techniques to work with it and avoid the problems.

  16. so they can forget their prototype devices there - on Apple Planning To Build Private Restaurant · · Score: 1

    And get them back without a huge blog leak and lawsuit.

  17. solve capcha api? on Crowdsourcing Makes an API For Human Intelligence · · Score: 1

    So this seem designed for breaking capchas. Are they going to try to restrict the OCR function or ???