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  1. Re:You mean 75% fewer cores, fewer connects, no RA on There's A Cluster of 750 Raspberry Pi's at Los Alamos National Lab (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 0

    Or you could use a single Xeon Phi, emulate the 750 Raspberry Pi's and the networking and still consume less power with more performance for a lower price.

  2. Re:More Than Half of GitHub Is Duplicate Code, Res on More Than Half of GitHub Is Duplicate Code, Researchers Find (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Richard Chirgwin, writing for The Register :

    Given that code sharing is a big part of the GitHub mission, it should come at no surprise that the platform stores a lot of duplicated code: 70 per cent, a study has found. An international team of eight researchers didn't set out to measure GitHub duplication. Their original aim was to try and define the "granularity" of copying -- that is, how much files changed between different clones -- but along the way, they turned up a "staggering rate of file-level duplication" that made them change direction. Presented at this year's OOPSLA (part of the late-October Association of Computing Machinery) SPLASH conference in Vancouver, the University of California at Irvine-led research found that out of 428 million files on GitHub, only 85 million are unique. Before readers say "so what?", the reason for this study was to improve other researchers' work. Anybody studying software using GitHub probably seeks random samples, and the authors of this study argued duplication needs to be taken into account.

  3. Re:Super Secure on Devs Working To Stop Go Math Error Bugging Crypto Software (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    14389 is a prime with uneven digits in even positions

  4. Block all traffic except HTTP

    As a bonus, if HTTPS is blocked then lawful intercepting will be much easier.

  5. Re:Super Secure on Devs Working To Stop Go Math Error Bugging Crypto Software (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Like the code to my luggage! 1231!
    It was 1234 but someone told me prime numbers are more secure so I changed it.

  6. or.... on Uber Hackers May Have Been Russian (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Uber hackers sold your accounts to Russians.

  7. Re:Not a problem on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone can code, you just need to teach it in schools!

  8. Re:They can use Acrobat forms on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You know you can name cells in Excel too and use those names in formulas?

  9. Excel isn't the problem on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    It's your employees using the hammer that is Excel to turn all their problems into nails.

    They don't know any better and you don't pay your IT department enough to build the right tools for the job. Stop treating IT as an expense and treat it as the asset it is supposed to be.

  10. Re:So on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's basically been completely removed?

  11. Re:Turkeys AND Chickens on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Buy your beef from New Zealand, we don't have huge corn fields. They're fed grass.

  12. Re:Well ... on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Much like dogs and horses ... and sheep and cows and pigs and cats
    And everything else you find on a farm.

  13. Re:That's how we're going to bring the dinosaurs b on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Or it's been lost from their genes.

    Personally I think we should start with the teeth and big clawed hands.
    Maybe start with fast running flightless birds.
    Next step, velociraptors!

  14. Re:Fake news on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not proof of natural evolution, it's proof of the efficacy of selective breeding.

    Basically the same thing except natural selection is replaced with the decisions of a breeder.

  15. Better stop eating turkey then on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    They're all GMO's

  16. Build a huge gleaming white shop in the middle of the Bronx full of shiny white things that nobody in the neighbourhood can afford.
    That'll go down well.

  17. Re: We aren't using Rust enough. on Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? · · Score: 1

    But how does it compare to Mongodb?

  18. Re:I'm sure top brass loves things like this on Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People's Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Until you get investigated for insider trading

  19. Re:They paid off criminals? on Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People's Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose that worked then, The criminals did keep quiet, probably sold the data quietly.

    It was an outside firm Uber brought in for an audit who found it out.

  20. They paid off criminals? on Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People's Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure, you can trust them to delete the data they stole.
    They won't just take your hush money and sell the data anyway.

  21. Don't you just need to update a language compiler to support the OS's system call structure for the language to be supported?
    Or are they providing a runtime library to provide the appleOS API's and calling conventions so Apple's compiler/IDE can be used without modification?

  22. Fine... Scam makes some people rich by taking money from "investors"

  23. Re:Huh? on Deep Learning Is Eating Software (petewarden.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an Australian reference.
    A New Zealand reference would involve sheep or Kiwi's

  24. Ponzi scheme makes some people rich by taking money from "investors"
    More news at 11.

  25. Re:Add CBC, BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN to the list on Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Since they started making their own laws by buying legislation?