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  1. What's to stop you encrypting your data and storing it somewhere on the internet instead of taking a physical copy through a checkpoint?

    If a terrorist wants to bomb a plane, he's going to need to smuggle a bomb past security, so checking people for bombs isn't exactly a stupid idea (whether the balance between safety, security, privacy, and theatrics is good is a whole different matter). But if he's got some "terrorist data" to move around, why would he physically carry it?

  2. Re:Bangs: Hair, Sex, and now? on Search Engine DuckDuckGo Removes 'Pirate' Site Bangs To Avoid Liability (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Bang is another name for the exclamation point.

    It'll always be a pling to me.

  3. The only condition was that the printer was connected to the Internet, used old firmware, and had "printing" ports left exposed online.

    The hack relies on using automated scripts to send print messages to printers that have IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) ports, LPD (Line Printer Daemon) ports, and port 9100 left open over the Internet.

    So in other words... he printed to printers.

  4. Re:"All debts, public and private." But if no debt on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure it's the same in the UK.

  5. Re:The Seas AREN'T Rising.. on Rising Seas Give Island Nation a Stark Choice: Relocate or Elevate (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    You should have another think about my admittedly facetious question.

    Not that you should need to, since others have already explained my point, and you've apparently avoided addressing it.

  6. Re:The Seas AREN'T Rising.. on Rising Seas Give Island Nation a Stark Choice: Relocate or Elevate (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can plainly see that the sea level rise since 1865 to the present day is approximately zero.

    Have you heard of "tides" at all?

  7. Re:"a number of inaccuracies" != "false" on After Initially Calling The New York Times' Report False, Facebook Confirms Most Claims Made in the Story (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    0 is a number.

  8. Re:The Biggest Danger on Controversial Spraying, Sun-Dimming Method Aims To Curb Global Warming (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The sun is already doing a great job of dimming itself [express.co.uk], thanks much. Maybe see how long that goes on for

    Oh, sure, wait and see. You know who else had a "wait and see" attitude? Jim Henson. And now we have wrong-sounding muppets.

  9. This is a foolish plan that is not viable and can have unintended consequences. It would be easier to build new nuclear reactors

    Didn't they say the same thing about those very nuclear reactors you're proposing to build when the idea was first mooted?

  10. How did they even test it? It is pretty astonishing. I mean, just look at how many tries it took SpaceX to get booster landing right.

  11. And the award for worst Unicode support goes to... on Apple Finally Signs A Big Deal With a Hollywood Movie Studio (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    .â.â.

    How many years is it now?

  12. Re:What about the other units? on The Future of the Kilo: a Weighty Matter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Too lazy to do dimensional analysis?
    *sigh*

    Jesus. I was just asking. No need to get snippy.

  13. Re:What about the other units? on The Future of the Kilo: a Weighty Matter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What you linked to says pretty much what the AC said:

    However, when an SI unit is spelled out in English, it is treated as a common noun and should always begin with a lower case letter

  14. Re:Why does this make it sound like on The Future of the Kilo: a Weighty Matter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you blathering on about?

  15. Re:What about the other units? on The Future of the Kilo: a Weighty Matter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    * candela depends on the definition of kg

    Does it? How?

    All of the other units are currently being considered for redefinition.

  16. Re: !14 is smaller than 93,884,313,611 on Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or, altenatively, you're an idiot.

    Not because you misunderstood, but because you didn't even consider that you might have misunderstood.

    14! is the total number of permutations, but each permutation contains 14 items, so you should be comparing the new lower bound - 93,884,313,611 - with 14 * 14!, which is 1,220,496,076,800.

  17. How do you know that if you don't even know "WTF" it is?

  18. It had better NOT function like that on Steam VR Introduces 'Motion Smoothing' So Low-End PCs Can Run Games More Smoothly (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It functions like Motion Smoothing for TV

    I hope not, because that will introduce additional lag. TV smoothing needs to know what the next frame is before it can smoothly transition to it. So sure, do it that way if you want make people even more motion sick...

    Hopefully what it will do instead is generate the first frame and immediately display it, and instead of rendering the next frame completely, it'll warp the first frame to approximate the geometry of the skipped frame. Pretty sure this was touted as a thing a while ago though.

  19. We've seen what they can do: they can still only get it almost, but not quite, perfect.

  20. Not bad, but not perfect on Someone Used a Deep Learning AI To Perfectly Insert Harrison Ford Into "Solo: A Star Wars Story" (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's far from perfect, and the bitrate on that video is abysmal. If he tried this on Blu-ray footage and kept the quality up, Harrison Ford's face would stick out like a sore... face.

  21. Re:It is not... what? on The Magic Leap Con (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    No, in TFA, it refers to the preceeding sentence, where it is claimed MagicLeap will be "huge." It does not refer to the part between the dashes because that's not how written English works.

  22. Re:It is not... what? on The Magic Leap Con (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's for dashes and parentheses as well, moron.

  23. Re:It is not... what? on The Magic Leap Con (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In the article, the quote refers to a preceeding sentence which has been removed in the summary.

    Quotes absolutely should be changed if you aren't going to include their original context.

  24. It is not... what? on The Magic Leap Con (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After spending two days at LEAPcon, I feel it is my duty -- in the name of instilling a modicum of sanity into an age where a company that has never actually sold a product to a consumer can be worth a billion dollars more than the entire GDP of Fiji -- to inform you that it is not.

    It is not what?

    See, this is what happens when you don't have anyone actually editing what gets submitted...

    (For anyone who cares the answer is: it is not going to be "huge")

  25. No it doesn't on New App Lets You 'Sue Anyone By Pressing a Button' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless it's in the same sense that a typewriter lets you "sue anyone" by pushing buttons:

    After that, Do Not Pay draws up documents specific to that legal area, and fills in the specific details. Just print it out, mail it to the courthouse