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  1. Re:I know you're trying to be funny, but... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    Making your argument reductio ad absurdum doesn't make your argument.

  2. Re:Strawman argument on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You position holds true when dealing with a small child.

    If some smears his own feces on a wall and they are:
    - 2 years old; you scold them gently and clean them up first, then the wall.
    - 20 years old; yeah... not so much. If a little abuse is all you get you're probably lucky.

    You've asserted several times that people may not be abusive, and other people have run with some kind of silly argument that Linus isn't, but neither your assertion nor their tangent makes you right.

  3. Re:Customer service? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I take 50+ flights a year at the moment, so I'm already being boarded first anyway. I've always got the window seat too just so I can get on early and get sorted out and not have to get up for late entries and toilet breaks, and I'm broad shouldered enough that the refreshment cart whacks me every time it goes past. Aisle means you get off 10 seconds earlier after standing in the aisle for 2-10 minutes, but at too high a cost :P

    I'm happy with my luggage with or "forward" of me, but if it's as little as 2 rows behind you, you have to wait for the entire plane to disembark before people will be polite enough to let you get your bag, they're all in a mad rush to go wait at the luggage carousel. As you say, the stuff I need is with me under the seat.

  4. Re:Customer service? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    Costs me zero to have 2 checked bags on my preferred airline. It's not because I'm cheap, it's because you don't actually fly.

    If any of you wise wise people did as much flying as I do you'd probably have spent 2 days trying to get your checked bags back and understand the wisdom of having enough clothes in your carry-on to survive for a few days without your checked luggage.

  5. Re:Customer service? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    Putting cameras and laptops in the overhead bin is an *awesome* way to get them destroyed by people dumping heavy bags on top of them, or balancing them on other bags so they smash into the head of the nearest passenger when the bins are opened. But yeah, "stretch out", lol, as if you can.

  6. Re:Customer service? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    And again, "Can't fit under a seat" isn't "oversized".

  7. Re:Customer service? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    "Can't fit under the seat" isn't "oversized".

  8. Re:Customer service? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TBH, the only reason I want to get on first is to make sure I can put my one bag in the overhead luggage, instead of getting on late and having to explain to a bunch of yahoos that their purse/satchel/gift/other trash belongs under the seat in front of them and not overhead blocking a bag that doesn't fit under the seat.

  9. Re:Pft on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, but she has a game "close to launch". Google her name -> Giant Spacekat -> Revolution60.

  10. Re:ring ring on Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I immediately thought this too, but you try ringing one of these corporations and see how far you get.

  11. Re:Electric card on People Who Claim To Worry About Climate Change Don't Cut Energy Use · · Score: 1

    Most of the AGW discussion I see here (and elsewhere) considers nuclear to be even worse than AGW

    Eh? My experience doesn't match yours at all. Do you have some kind of meta filter on?

  12. Re:It's not just the refund on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 1

    it doesn't matter if you pirate anymore (because pirates can't do IAPs and can be put in a disadvantage).

    You might wanna have a look at Minion Rush.. either people on the top of the high score charts are *regularly* forking out $1000 to run up massive scores, or they're using a hack to get them tokens/bananas.

    I've seen a lot of games that can "restore" purchases, but that's a lot different to confirming your current in-game balance as accurate every time you start the game.

  13. Re:Creative can suck it. on Ode To Sound Blaster: Are Discrete Audio Cards Still Worth the Investment? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It was this for me: http://gizmodo.com/373748/crea...

    They had a weak point about the donations, but what they were really pissed about was not being able to force Vista users to buy a new sound card...

  14. Re:OMG, not my tooth brushing!!! on Coddled, Surveilled, and Monetized: How Modern Houses Can Watch You · · Score: 1

    I hate this Facebook straw man.

    Just because a bunch of teenagers and housewives don't care about their privacy doesn't give the government/corporations carte blanche to monitor everything I do at all times.

  15. Re:Lacking details on 15-Year-Old Developing a 3D Printer 10x Faster Than Anything On the Market · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that video was enough to wipe this company from my buy list for all time.

  16. Re:meanwhile in the rest of the world on FAA's Ruling On Smartphones During Takeoff Has Had Little Impact · · Score: 1

    BTW, the actual 2001 report from NASA on PED's admits that all the evidence is purely anecdotal and the ONLY thing that attempts to lend the data any credibility is pilot flying hours:

    http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/n...

    Even though ASRS PED events are anecdotal there is one category of the database that provides
    supporting credibility to these events--pilot flight hours. The total mean flight time of 10,790
    hours from Table 1 indicates that pilots reporting PED events are very experienced. In order to
    gain some appreciation of what constitutes a very experienced pilot it is helpful to consider the
    significance 10,790 hours converted to years of aviation experience. In today's market a typical
    recruiting company's hiring minimums are 3300 military hours or 5300 civilian hours for a
    position with a major airline. Once hired a pilot could then acquire approximately 700 to 800
    hours annually. If, for example, a military pilot with 3300 hours starts flying with a major airline
    averaging 700 hours a year it would take that person about 11 years to reach 10,790 hours.
    Finally, if it took 10 years, a conservative estimate, for that pilot to accumulate the initial 3300
    hours then 10,790 hours would have taken 20 years to accumulate. That amount of time is
    indicative of a very experienced pilot.

    So flying hours makes one an electrical engineer? That's some pretty piss-poor science.

  17. Re:wifi on FAA's Ruling On Smartphones During Takeoff Has Had Little Impact · · Score: 2

    Are you living on the planet of the Chromebooks? I have a LOT of media on my tablet/phone/notebook that I can watch/listen/read without any kind of network connection....

  18. Re:meanwhile in the rest of the world on FAA's Ruling On Smartphones During Takeoff Has Had Little Impact · · Score: 1

    Except that there's no proof that it was PEDs, just a general suspicion that they couldn't work anything else out so it must be that.

    I will bet you a gonad that the Malaysian flight had nothing to do with PEDs.

  19. Re:Somebody has to do it on Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center' For Governments To Review Source Code · · Score: 1

    First thing I thought of too. It's only a 30 year old problem :)

  20. Re: Data Security Officer on Improperly Anonymized Logs Reveal Details of NYC Cab Trips · · Score: 1

    I don't have a sample of the full dataset, or really the time to get/assess it fully :) If I was going to hazard a guess, your method would be closely related to timestamps on the data?

    I think your assertion is quite possible, but it involves a lot more work and third party data sources to correlate back to otherwise properly anonymised IDs than the fairly pedestrian realisation for a 100% result in the source article.

    Regarding work, short answer is probably; DevOps in a company that spends a lot of time thinking about security ;p

  21. Re: Data Security Officer on Improperly Anonymized Logs Reveal Details of NYC Cab Trips · · Score: 1

    Your point holds if say, the cab driver's home address is listed as one of the data points, since that's personally identifying.

    So if you're saying the point that "you can't convert a OTP back to the original data" is moot, then you're arguing a different position to everyone else in the conversation. The original article was entirely about being able to reverse the hashing algorithm.

  22. Re: Data Security Officer on Improperly Anonymized Logs Reveal Details of NYC Cab Trips · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no. You're wrong, though entertaining.

    Tiny Key Space: Bob, Alice, Claire
    Anonymised Key List: A, B, C

    Resultant Data:
    A travelled between points X and Y
    B travelled between points P and Q
    C travelled between points Q and Y
    A travelled between points Y and Q
    C travelled between points Y and Q
    A travelled between points Q and P

    I maintained the hash table in memory long enough to know which person is which so that you can determine A travelled from X to Y to Q to P, B from P to Q, and C from Q to Y and return. But there is not enough data to know who A, B, or C are. And no, A != Alice, B != Bob, C !=Claire.

    The original OTP proponents point is that you can't recreate the algorithm to convert from Name to Hash, and since this is anonymisation and NOT password management, you don't need to. /hands you back the shovel

  23. Re:Beta is illogical on Leonard Nimoy: Smoking Is Illogical · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, NRT sounds a better long term strategy then.

    I only discovered I was capable of quitting because the government started to get stupid about the amount of tax they wanted to punish 15-20% of the community with since it's a nice elastic market and they could pretend it was a health initiative.

    As an aside; however, they've finally managed to find the elastic point for a lot of people, either quitting or buying chop-chop. They upped the tax 25% in 2010 and got a 19% increase in revenues, then put it up again and got a 19% reduction in revenues. I'll bet you dollars to donuts that wasn't 30% of the smokers quitting...

  24. Re:Beta is illogical on Leonard Nimoy: Smoking Is Illogical · · Score: 1

    The drama is most people who give up with an "aid" fall back to smoking within the first six months.

    You definitely get a benefit from switching from cigarettes to ecigs, but you're not quit, and if you did quit it would be just as bad as from cigarettes. I've seen similar reports of people that had their doctors tell them they should consider their nicotine replacement therapy life-long medication.

    I didn't use any aids this attempt purely on the basis that I've found they're replacement and have no effect on the eventual cessation at the end of their use, so I got that hellscape out of the way immediately instead of in a few months time.

    I wasn't nearly as cranky as I thought I would be, I'm usually crankier on the aids... and 12 months in I don't feel like a smoker any more, albeit I still occasionally want one, but it's mostly when the topic is discussed like now ;)

    If it helps at all.. what I found was that the craving for nicotine had replaced all other cravings, so when I was tired I'd think I wanted a smoke, and when I was really tired I'd chain smoke. I think most smokers would resemble that remark... the food/drink triggers are more subtle, but the "it's late, I really need a smoke, so I guess I'll go to the store at 2am" shit is really obvious.

  25. Re:Beta is awesome in a way. on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 2

    I can do that w/o being on the beta... or is that the joke?