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  1. Re:National level? on Bill Confirming Property Rights For Asteroid Miners Passes the Senate (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    " outside your jurisdiction."

    It doesn't actually cover anyone outside of the US borders. You have to get back to the US for any property rights to be recognized.

  2. Re:The problem is using operators for other things on Symbolic vs. Mnemonic Relational Operators: Is "GT" Greater Than ">"? · · Score: 1

    All of these words keep using the same letters over and over again.

  3. Re:The US will start smaller on In Ireland, All RC and Drones Over 1kg To Be Registered (suasnews.com) · · Score: 2

    You need a gun to shoot down unregistered drones.

  4. Re:Internet on China, Russia Try To Hack Australia's Upcoming Submarine Plans · · Score: 1

    Who says it can actually be reached from the internet?

  5. Re:It isn't just Comcast passwords ... on Comcast Resets Nearly 200,000 Passwords After Customer List Goes On Sale (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    "It is unacceptable for comcast to say: old customer, not important; they should not have reused their password - so not our fault. "

    Which is why probably why Comcast did not say that: "However, playing the better safe than sorry card, Comcast will assume the passwords on the matching accounts are valid and force a reset."

    With all of the veritably bad actions that Comcast is taking, there's no need to make stuff up.

  6. Re:i5, same thing? on AMD Sued Over Allegedly Misleading Bulldozer Core Count · · Score: 1

    In this thread, it's not Intel's confusion that I am worried about ;-)

  7. Re:i5, same thing? on AMD Sued Over Allegedly Misleading Bulldozer Core Count · · Score: 3, Informative

    i3, i5, and i7 represent "good", "better", and "best" respectively. That's it. A *particular* SKU with an i5 mark may have 4 physical cores, but 4 physical cores is not a requirement to receive the mark.
    For example, this i5 has 4 physical cores: http://ark.intel.com/products/... while this i5 has 2 physical cores http://ark.intel.com/products/...

  8. Re:Usually the case on Badly-Coded Ransomware Locks User Files and Throws Away Encryption Key (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is why we can't have nice hostages.

  9. "if the cable can't do it then fail gracefully"

    But how do you know that the cable can't do it? I submit that melting does not satisfy the "fail gracefully" condition.

  10. "what's at best an oppressive theocracy from obtaining nuclear weapons"

    The Guardian Council is opposed to nuclear weapons. It was the secular authorities that were pursuing their development.

    The only value nuclear weapons have for Iran are a) to prevent the USA from pre-emptively invading, and b) to trade away in a diplomatic deal. The latter did not even require actual weapons to have been developed.

    There is no plausible way in which Iran represents a threat to the USA. The only people that the post-revolutionary Iran has used their military offensively against are the Taliban (remember them?), and defensively they fought against the USA-backed Iraq.

  11. The entire point of the exercise was to find out the attributes of the *cable*.

  12. You want to put a USB Host Controler in every *cable*?

  13. The resistors are in the cable.

  14. "the thing that it's plugged into, not the cable."

    The thing that it is plugged into *is* the cable.

  15. Re:There's some other things they should focus on! on Apple Wages Battle To Keep App Store Malware-Free (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The only part which the App Store cannot do is selecting specific devices. Any enabled device will download the new app and devices not enabled will not download it.

  16. Re:There's some other things they should focus on! on Apple Wages Battle To Keep App Store Malware-Free (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    "You have to use iTunes to download an app"
    It looks like that because the App Store is not a website and the interface is in iTunes, but downloading to the device does not require connecting the device to the computer with iTunes in any way.

  17. Re:Remember Trump and Sanders on Full Text of Trans-Pacific Partnership Released (Officially, This Time) (mfat.govt.nz) · · Score: 1

    The key word is "ceremonially". As the treaty had not even been ratified by the Senate by that time, the ceremonial signing meant nothing. As the verye article you link to states "Bush, who had worked to "fast track" the signing prior to the end of his term, ran out of time and had to pass the required ratification and signing of the implementation law to incoming president Bill Clinton."

    While Clinton did not originate NAFTA, he fully supported it: "NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good-paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement."

  18. I think that I have stepped in Poe's Law once again.

    My point that since Linus is in fact " a self-appointed minimod with the power to ban you without recourse" and Linux is in fact successful then this is a relevant counterexample to your claim.

  19. Re:Simple counter-measure on The Rise of Political Doxing (schneier.com) · · Score: 1

    "Why do I care about how people I don't know behave?"

    Because it's unlikely that the lynching will be conducted by your friends.

  20. Re:so... on Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    It's radio... no one else is listening either.

  21. "When access to the community depends on the mercy of a self-appointed minimod with the power to ban you without recourse"

    This is why Linux never went anywhere.

  22. Re:Why is this even an issue? on Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? · · Score: 1

    Clearly, GO is an language where you really need to be abusive.

  23. Re:GOOD. He's doing his job on Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    As you note, that requires an ordinarily mild-mannered man. However, you fail to note that in this context all we have is Linus.

  24. Re:Simple counter-measure on The Rise of Political Doxing (schneier.com) · · Score: 1

    " don't be ashamed of anything you do"

    Whether or not *you* are ashamed of what you do does not necessarily affect how *other people* behave.

  25. Re:Have they improved Vim emulation? on Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements (blog.atom.io) · · Score: 1

    Except the early terminals weren't even 8-bit. Only 6 bits were needed for upper-case only ASCII.