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  1. Re:ahhhh advertising, my good friend! on PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots 40 Bugs In the FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 1

    I used to do the same, but now I let it go. I just tab-indent everything and many times things don't line up visually, but I've grown used to it. Makes it easy to quickly format merged or other code snipits.

  2. Re:ahhhh advertising, my good friend! on PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots 40 Bugs In the FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure they will scan open source code for free, especially if easily accessible like on github.

  3. Re:Anonymous submitter, yet... on Astronomers No Longer Need To Avoid the "Zone of Avoidance" · · Score: 1

    I agree, I didn't mind the Medium.com articles - yes, they pushed the envelope of current browsers with fancy CSS transitions and large bandwidth images - but the articles were informative and pretty.

    I also agree that submitters should engage in the discussion, but to be fair, Medium.com had it's own discussion. Of course /. is a much better forum, but it didn't bother me that much. It seems no different to me if some random AC had posted the links to StartsWithABang articles.

    Even with Bennett's articles, it wasn't that hard to skim the summary/submitter and ignore the thread. I don't understand the angst here against certain submissions that do provide discussion relevant to the article, and I've been reading since before the Jon Katz days. Obviously paid shills should be called out, but in this case the article content wasn't selling anything. (Maybe it was "selling views" but one does not have to RTFA.)

  4. Re:Tempest protocol on Stealing Keys From a Laptop In Another Room — and Offline · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that Julian Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy and using varying forms of encryption and probably decent attempts at shielding EM leaks, is probably pwned?

    If so, why did the UK authorites waste $18m monitoring him in person? Or was $17m spent on setting up Van Eck phreaking, while $1m was spent on humans, donuts and coffee.

  5. Re:Did they spin when they landed? on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Good thing they went with Acme. The Diebold version only works with Republican candidates.

  6. Re:Did they spin when they landed? on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Both conventions have them, but DNC has a much larger percentage:

    As of February 13, 2008 one analysis found that the 2008 Democratic National Convention would have 794 superdelegates. The exact number has changed several times because of events.

    In the Republican Party, as in the Democratic Party, members of the party’s national committee automatically become delegates without being pledged to any candidate. In 2008, there are 123 members of the Republican National Committee among the total of 2,380 delegates to the 2008 Republican National Convention. There are three RNC delegates (the national committeeman, national committeewoman, and state party chair) for each state.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    The entire "party" system seems silly to me. Both party's committees wield too much control. But like coin tosses, they both like their odds in a two-candidate primary election (vs waterfall/runoff/etc/etc that could better interpret the popular vote but allow many candidates to compete).

  7. Re: Ahh the old argument on Why James Hansen Is Wrong About Nuclear Power (thinkprogress.org) · · Score: 1

    Even if a nuclear waste depot was ~250 miles or however near DC, it would stifle the NIMBY argument and give fission a boost.

    Unlikely to happen, but can we please keep RTGs for space exploration?

  8. Re: Who decided what and when? on Google Claims a TOS Violation On RouteBuilder For Using the Map API (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Right, like American track and field and countless others. All the more reason to use Open Street Map.

  9. Re: Love PostgreSQL on PostgreSQL 9.5 Released · · Score: 1

    And back in the day, that was sound advice, but if you want to use DB specific features, like in TFA, then you cannot and should not use an abstraction library.

  10. Re: Love PostgreSQL on PostgreSQL 9.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Totally agree, you cannot use an abstraction/db-agnostic layer if you want specific functionality like in TFA!

  11. Re: I feel like I'm missing something here... on After Years of Serving X11, X.Org Stands To Lose Its One-Letter Domain (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    It's only possible for the current registrar to renew the domain over EPP. However, .org domains auto renew at the registry, so the registrar must send an explicit DomainDelete command within the renewal grace period (about 30 days after expiration). Most likely if the registrant fails to renew within that period, they will sell/auction the domain instead of deleting it.

  12. Re: SAFe on The Sad Graph of Software Death (tinyletter.com) · · Score: 1

    Agree that a proper implementation of Agile - meaning a balanced approach where the product owner and business plan the backlog (thus supporting all user requests), and the dev team agrees on how much work they will do in a given sprint. Both sides must be empowered: the biz to prioritize items and developers to decide which of those will be completed in the next few weeks. Of course the team needs to give demos and have retrospectives, all with business support.

    Agile done right implicitly solves the article's problem, but half-assed Agile sucks for everyone.

  13. Re: NULL is there. Use it! on Epoch Time Bug Causes Facebook To Congratulate Users On 46 Years of Friendship (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    NULL should never be zero. If you treat null's as zero's it is just as bad as "default 0" and then using it in a date calculation.

  14. Re: Apple should NOT leave China on China Passes Law Requiring Tech Firms To Hand Over Encryption Keys (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, this "code" runs on the phone where the keys reside. If Apple doesn't store the keys on its servers and you don't store the keys on your phone, how can anyone use the keys?

  15. Re:Title is Misleading on Core Bitcoin Devs Leave Project, Create New Currency Called Decred (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the information. Your comment is what the summary should have contained.

  16. Re:Apple should NOT leave China on China Passes Law Requiring Tech Firms To Hand Over Encryption Keys (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems trivial to:

    if (region == china) {
        uploadKeychain(...);
    }

  17. This is just like in Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem. Except when the system became fragile, the noise was mixed with the signal so most communications became worthless.

  18. Re:In other news... on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Except MS Office requires different licenses for different versions. If the 2013 version included 2007 (supported by Crossover) that would be great, but if $giant-corp buys 2013 licenses, they definitely won't re-buy a 2007 license + crossover license just for the handful of Linux users.

    My original point was hell freezing over when Microsoft releases Office for Linux - then the corporate purchase works on any OS: Windows, OSX, Linux.

  19. Re:In other news... on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    For business use, it must support the latest version, which it does not: https://www.codeweavers.com/co...

  20. Re:In other news... on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be when MS Office runs on a linux desktop. (Which many workplaces would love.)

  21. Some of us were hit by the shot of the short chair!

  22. Re:Lets run arbitrary code on Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, I don't see how any of this needs root at all.

  23. Re: Irony overload on Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Which is also easy to automate on the server side... It's just a header value you stick on every response. If you are cert-pinning on the client side then you might want another mechanism to help out, perhaps the DANE protocol.

  24. Re: The cries of a dying business on Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it depends on your client _and_ server.

    I use Thunderbird to connect to Exchange, I do not store a local index, but it's fast - faster than Outlook and my inbox is > 20k messages but 30k messages, and 5 GB size.

    The anecdotes above are only for search and sort on headers (to/from/size/attachments/subject/date), not full message content. With a full-index server-side of Dovecot, it's super-fast to search bodies, but otherwise it can be slow with that much email, especially on Exchange.

    Have you tried to bulk-delete with Outlook? Good luck deleting more than 100 messages at a time. A quick filter and shift+delete of 2k messages is instantaneous, with Tbird connected to Exchange over IMAPS.

  25. Re: The cries of a dying business on Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Try roundcube for self hosted webmail.