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  1. What I'd like to see is more extensive than that: If you log in to a website in tab A, then tab B has no access to that (especially cookies) unless tab B is created off tab A (e.g. Open in New Window), or explicitly authorised.

  2. Do you write:

    void foo()
    {
    String result;
    if (...)
    result = a;
    else (...)
    result = b;
    else (...)
    result = c;
    return result;
    }

    or

    void foo()
    {
    String result;
    if (...)
    return a;
    else (...)
    return b;
    else (...)
    return c;
    }

    Both are common, but compile to different code. Do you code to 'a procedure should live on a page'? How about 'a procedure should have a purpose'? Return errors or throw exceptions? Return values or modified arguments? Kitchen sink constructors? Getters & setters or fluent builders? There's seven variables without stopping to think, dividing coders 128 ways, and I'm sure you could find another dozen or so, taking it to one-in-a-million level. There's no need to obfuscate...

  3. Re:sigh... on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    When you prop up companies and banks that "are too big to fail" it's not really a free market.

    It's not really capitalism. The government has interfered in the ownership model, not in the price setting for goods and services.

  4. Re: Not a bubble on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    In fact, the sweet corn market where I live has a bubble every damned year - supply peaks in spring/summer and everyone is selling corn cheap then ... supply plummets and the price goes up

    That's not a bubble, it's a glut; a bubble involves speculation.

  5. Re: But the press has stopped talking about it... on Health Advisor: Ebola Still Spreading, Worst Outbreak We've Ever Seen · · Score: 1

    The Republicans only pwn a single news channel.

    FTFY.

  6. Use a Relay on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 1

    Get another email account externally, and configure your email server to send all your outgoing email via that account (using POP3/SMTP authentication). Comcast might already provide an email account/server you can use like that...

  7. Interested in amassing wealth on Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? · · Score: 1

    I expect that most of those poor famous artists and scientists were interested in amassing sufficient wealth, but were unsuccessful; very few people choose to be poor.

  8. Been there, done that. on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 2

    Microsoft are simply copying what Apple does. IBM and others are doing it too.

    They're all hoping that they can get the tax law changed so that they can repatriate the profits without paying the current tax rate.

  9. Re:I know you're trying to be funny, but... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How else do you make the trains run on time...?

    You adjust the timetable to match reality. The trains aren't any faster, but the timetable no longer lies.

  10. Re: Hosting Platform on The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly · · Score: 2

    Yes, Facebook is the hosting platform, just as email once existed within computers and didn't travel between them. We don't yet have a Social Media Transport Protocol that allows peering between providers, but one day we will, and Facebook will follow AOL & CompuServe to the big walled garden in the sky. But, IMHO, that day is not in the near future.

  11. Segregated funds on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    If you're a bank or finance company, borrowing and lending on your own account, then yes, customer funds are liabilities. But stockbrokers, lawyers, accountants, et al. keep their customers' funds in a segregated trust account, and Mt.Gox and all the other exchanges should be following this model.

  12. Another low-tech purification tool on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 1
  13. Analogy vs Model on Experiments Reveal That Deformed Rubber Sheet Is Not Like Spacetime · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. A rubber sheet is a flawed *model* for the shape of spacetime; as an *analogy*, it's still reasonable...

  14. Re: Old Thinking Kills New Ideas? on Telefonica To Shut Down VoIP Provider Jajah On January 31, 2014 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Presumably the latter -- they paid $200M for it in 2009. (Ouch.)

  15. Re: Database Transactions on What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? · · Score: 2

    ... are too specific. The concept of an Atomic Operation is important; database transactions are just a domain-specific example.

  16. Recursion on What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? · · Score: 1

    In the list of concepts, along with OO, closures & functions, recursion is essential knowledge. If in doubt, see this post.

  17. Re: AF447 on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1
  18. $141 in economic output per dollar invested on Genomics Impact On US Economy Approaches $1 Trillion · · Score: 1
    If the returns are really as great as they want you to believe (*), then private industry will be rushing in. The federal seed money has done its job and no more is needed. Voila!

    (*) Except that the numbers they've published are gross, and it's the net that counts.

  19. Apple's Press Releases on Apple To Launch Largest Stock Repurchasing Plan In History · · Score: 1
  20. The wrong people on Geeks On a Plane Proposed To Solve Global Tech Skills Crisis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    CEOs and VCs are not necessarily the people who have ideas, and if they do, they *already* have the means to express them. I'd rather see 100 respected, talented, peer-voted if necessary, folks on the panel: *true* technocrats, true innovators, not financial folks; people with ideas, sometimes wacky ideas, rather than folks money; the people who turn down a promotion to management because it would take them away from the detailed problem-solving.

  21. Re: How would you know? on Gov't Report: Laser Pointers Produce Too Much Energy, Pose Risk For the Careless · · Score: 1

    So, you only receive a brief flash from the laser, and only have a few rods and cones ablated by the coherent pulse from the laser. That one-second blast has only damaged 0.01% of your vision. Ten years down the line, when half your vision is gone, why would you associate the loss with a laser?

  22. Re: No problem on Spy Drones Used To Hunt Down Christopher Dorner · · Score: 1

    That'll be why there's a $1M reward -- cheaper to pay that than pay damages for all the innocent people they shoot by mistake...

  23. Circuit Breakers on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    Instead of re-inventing the wheel, use the same mechanism that stock markets use: if the price moves too much in a short period of time, a circuit breaker cuts in and suspends trading. It both stops the market getting skewed and signals that there's a problem.

  24. Raven thief on Cockatoo Manufactures, Uses Tools · · Score: 1
  25. A Thinkpad? (Re: Put your money...) on Linus Torvalds Advocates For 2560x1600 Standard Laptop Displays · · Score: 1

    Some Thinkpads have the QWERTY section full-sized (e.g. my T420). Arrow keys are below right shift, and Home, End, etc., are above Backspace, so it's not perfect, but it's better than most...