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  1. Re:My heart bleeds for them. on Australian iPhone and iPad Users Waylaid By Ransomware · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple is built on older versions of OpenSSL - this looks like it might be because they weren't quick enough to adapt, and someone snuck in under the radar. Lets hope they get it sorted quickly!

    Apple deprecated the use of OpenSSL in 2011, and the version shipped with OS X was never updated to the versions which introduced Heartbleed. Strike 1!

    OpenSSL has never been used in iOS. Strike 2!

    Apple also was not using affected versions in any of its online/cloud services. Strike 3!

    You're out! Your post was ridiculously bad even by /. standards!

  2. Re:Paper trail on Bug In DOS-Based Voting Machines Disrupts Belgian Election · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why mess with electronic voting?

    SHINY! OOH OOH SHINY! That's why ;-)

  3. more test subjects on Human "Suspended Animation" Trials To Start This Month · · Score: 1

    I think I know where they can find 535 more test subjects ;-)

  4. Re:Comment from a Chemist on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    The purpose is to curry favor with corn farmers and related people and industries in key states for politicians.

    The original purpose of E10 was to oxygenate the fuel and reduce CO, soot, and certain hydrocarbons, in direct response to problems with smog in many cities. The only purpose of E15 is to curry favor with corn farmers and related people and industries in key states for politicians. Just google "ethanol oxygenated fuel" for plenty of informative references.

  5. Re:Agree with "dream on" on Ph.Ds From MIT, Berkeley, and a Few Others Dominate Top School's CS Faculties · · Score: 1

    ...PhD really does imply PiledHigherAndDumber...

    Uhm, no. The old joke is that PhD stands for "Piled Higher and Deeper", as in the depth of pile of bullshit. What a pathetic AC, criticizing PhD's but unable to even get the classic joke about them correct ;-)

  6. I also think the CIO's point is valid, and fear that whatever percentage of CS professors received their training from MIT may still lack a college education, as I do. (Certainly MIT does not offer a college education, instead diverting people into excellent technical training.)

    You have absolutely no fucking clue what you're talking about, none.

  7. Most of my peers worked their *asses* off to make ends meet.

    Not to mention the few who were so determined to do it no matter what, that they lived in the student center. God, I had money difficulties, but at least not that bad.

  8. Wow, you are really an arrogant fool. First, MIT has never been a "legacy" school. The vast majority of students there get significant financial aid because their middle- and working-class families cannot afford the full price. (The Ivies have also been moving away from admitting the sons of sons of sons, and focusing more exclusively on merit.) Second, you obviously have no idea how much work it takes, how competitive and hard-working students have to be, just to get into these top tier schools, much less stay in them and graduate. So your bullshit about spoiled kids is just laughable--I've hired from these schools, and what I got was highly-motivated, smart, hard-working employees.

    ...I beat 88% of their programmers worldwide...

    Which probably translates to an ability to beat 0% of CS students at MIT. Seriously. The majority graduate in the top 1% of their high-school class. And 25% of this year's incoming freshman had perfect math SAT scores. (Of course that doesn't prove what they'll do in the real world...)

    So I'm one of the best programmers anyone could hope to hire.

    I've known plenty of people like you in my career, and I sure as hell hope to not hire anyone like you.

  9. Re:So the conclusion is... on Ph.Ds From MIT, Berkeley, and a Few Others Dominate Top School's CS Faculties · · Score: 1

    ...if you want a low paying job in your field after you graduate, get your doctorate from one of the best schools in the country.

    Wow. As someone else posted, these are certainly not low-paying jobs. And that's just the salary. I take you have absolutely no clue how much some of these guys can demand for consulting gigs???

  10. Re:Comment from a Chemist on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    Using ethanol isn't for getting better mileage, it's for reducing carbon footprint...

    This is incorrect. The purpose is for adding more oxygen into the blend, reducing emission of partial-combustion products.

  11. Re:Get 10% less fuel economy with E10... on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    I firmly believe that E10 is a total scam. Anecdotally, doing pure highway driving, I get 8-10% less fuel economy with E10 than E0 (pure gasoline), so what's the point?

    FYI, many many lab tests on "E10" samples from the pump have found 15% ethanol to be very common in "E10", with ethanol sometimes approaching 20%. In other words, somebody in the chain of production and distribution cheats. (Now, imagine what it will be like when 15% is the "allowed" amount...)

  12. Re:ok if your car is new on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also, a fuel drying additive is a good idea if you have any ethanol, because that stuff collects water like mad.

    You do know what fuel-drying solutions are made of, right???

    Keeping the water in solution reduces fuel tank corrosion.

    Which is exactly what ethanol does...

  13. if you're illiterate, don't try to be clever on After Knocked-Down Damages Claim, Apple Again Seeks to Ban Some Samsung Phones · · Score: 0, Troll

    Last week's decision in favor of Apple hints that the jury didn't think the company deserved the entire $2.2 billion it was seeking, awarding (a mere) $120 million, instead.

    The jury decision does not "hint" any such thing. It states as a finding of fact in a court of law. Dipshit.

  14. Re:Wear leveling on New Middleware Promises Dramatically Higher Speeds, Lower Power Draw For SSDs · · Score: 2

    Per how big data areas is wear leveling performed in an SSD? Maybe not for each 4kB block...

    IIRC the erase/write block size is typically 128KB.

  15. there's some dishonesty at the base of this on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    Execution is not humane, no matter how you do it. If you cannot accept that, then you should oppose execution. Conversely, if you support execution, you should accept that it is cruel no matter how it is done.

  16. Re:What would help? Doing their jobs on Yelp Reviews Help NYC Health Department Find and Close Dirty Restaurants · · Score: 1

    The "progressive" states in the northeast aren't progressive at all, they're backwards places with third-world infrastructure and worse corruption than Mexico. If you want "progressive", the best you'll find in the USA is the pacific northwest.

    Although those states were included in the ones that I was calling out for hiding health ratings, Colorado and California are also on the list.

  17. Re:What would help? Doing their jobs on Yelp Reviews Help NYC Health Department Find and Close Dirty Restaurants · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dude, chill. "Subsequent" in this case obviously means subsequent to finding the bad Yelp review, not subsequent to to a prior inspection.

    Anyway, as to your suggestion: of all places, Alabama, where I grew up, has for several decades now required that the report be posted prominently near the entrance, such that you see it before you're seated or you can order. (Not only that, the inspector writes the grade across the whole thing with a fat marker in 6" high digits.) And I believe that it does make a significant difference. I was shocked to move out that state (with a well-deserved bad reputation for poor consumer-protection laws) and discover that in many other more "progressive" states the results of health inspections are hidden away.

  18. Re:Kawasaki disease on Mysterious Disease May Be Carried by the Wind · · Score: 1

    The Czech's in the male

    I'm a frayed knot!

  19. Re:The real issue is with EULAs in general. on California Bill Would Safeguard Consumers' Rights To Criticize Firms Online · · Score: 1

    Rather than allowing EULAs written by companies, we should just have standard EULAs, for common types of products, and declare all other EULAs nonbinding.

    We should not have EULAs at all. The notion of a one-way non-negotiated "contract" which supersedes the relevant consumer protection, defamation, etc laws is complete bullshit.

  20. Re:Kawasaki disease on Mysterious Disease May Be Carried by the Wind · · Score: 1

    Travels by motorcycle.

    Abscess makes the fart go "Honda"! (Trust me, you don't want to hear the 5 minutes of rambling which leads to that punchline...)

  21. 2.25 MHz, sort of on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but if you're wondering, it took about 1,000 clock cycles per instruction...

  22. I doubt it weighted THAT much on Biggest Dinosaur Yet Discovered · · Score: 1

    It wasn't fat, it was big-boned!

  23. Re:Amen, brother Amen! on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 2

    Hallelujah! Trying to select text and it grabs the whole word, or worse, some programs grab the whole word plus a space. Why do I want trailing spaces with everything I paste?

    I'm not going to name names, but I recently saw something worse than that: copy a few words of text, paste, and it inserts A FUCKING LEADING LINE BREAK! Argh! If I wanted the text on the next line, then I would fucking put it there!!!

  24. Re:Electric. on Future of Cars: Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Or Electric? · · Score: 1

    Your figure of less than 30% overall is probably right though, because engines spend most of their time operating quite a way from their peak efficiency.

    See the other responses to me; simply put, I was wrong. I was pretty sure that I remembered 25% - 42% as the theoretical maximum range for the compression ratios in actual ICEs, with 42% being diesel and gasoline topping out at 35%, but I cannot find the sources where I thought I had read that, and have been pointed to a source which pretty authoritatively contradicts that.

  25. Re:Electric. on Future of Cars: Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Or Electric? · · Score: 1

    A 50% efficiency is pretty amazing and testament to over a century of dogged, steady improvement. We're approaching the theoretical maximum efficiency of the ICE.

    I thought the theoretical maximum was around 45% or less--I guess I was mistaken about that. (My prior message talking about 35%, I meant to say "gasoline" but left that important word out.)