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  1. Re:Ummmm.... on Java Vs. Node.js: Epic Battle For Dev Mindshare · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Node.js is specifically for using javascript on the backend and has no real application on the front end- of course Javascript itself does though.
    Java has servlets, servers, web applets, and desktop applications.

    Both technologies can do both sides. Java is of course much more feature rich with more low-level operations.

    I don't think it's really a true apples to apples comparison - they both have their place. Some people like writing end-to-end java, some people like writing end-to-end javascript. But at this point in time, java on the web is kind of dwindling because it is a sledgehammer when all you need is a regular hammer in most cases and javascript end to end is on the rise but there's probably a plateau somewhere because javascript is only so performant and has some limitations. Most of us though I think use the more honed tools for the right jobs even if it means we can't use the same language end-to-end.

  2. Re:Upside Down? on Breakthrough In Face Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    following up to myself- I was thinking of 180 degree or 90 degree fixed rotations (summary talked about being upside down), but it looks like these types of systems use varying rotations which makes sense. eg: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...

  3. Re:Upside Down? on Breakthrough In Face Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I see why you couldn't do a rotate of an image in one clock cycle since it's a precomputed 1:1 mapping of source address to destination address with no math involved (eg not like doing keystone correction or other manipulations). I can't imagine that taking tens of milliseconds?

  4. Re:Upside Down? on Breakthrough In Face Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    do it in parallel in hardware. There are FPGA and ASIC solutions that can do hardware rotation, just send one through the rotate matrix into identical hardware. It costs twice as much, but in todays terms that still shouldn't be too bad.

  5. Impossible on Obama Says He's 'A Strong Believer In Strong Encryption' · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as strong encryption with a backdoor. That backdoor will be exploited.

    The solution really is allow whatever you want in transit but require companies to store the raw thing... which then leads to data breaches.. So just give up.

  6. Re:This has been going on for a while on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 3

    Correction, his ANPR/ALPR misread your plate and you came up with some kind of flag.

  7. Re:Downtime [Offtopic] on FBI Attempts To Prevent Disclosure of Stingray Use By Local Cops · · Score: 0

    Just so you know, very little changed after the purchase. It's basically a sub-company done its own way.

  8. When a court approves on Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications · · Score: 1

    If they'd been adhering to that for even unencrypted communications we might not have gotten so paranoid about it lately...

  9. I have to wonder if their essential decryption and interception of content couldn't be construed as a DMCA violation and wiretapping.

  10. Re:Bunch of knobs on Xbox Live and PlayStation Networks Downed By Apparent Attack · · Score: 1

    My last of us won't start up unless I turn the network off, but it's definitely affecting some other things.

  11. Re:Case insensitive file systems were a bug on Critical Git Security Vulnerability Announced · · Score: 1

    That was my favorite way of hiding things.

  12. Google Domains Free SSL on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 2

    If google starts their own CA and gives away DV SSL certs (all sorts, counting wildcard, multi-domain), then I'm on board more or less. SSL should be free.

  13. Re:Firmware on Is the Tesla Model S Pedal Placement A Safety Hazard? · · Score: 1

    FWIW I have a 2013 Dodge Avenger with a V6- by no means luxury. no hill hold and I'm on a hill every day that requires gas and brake at the same time- otherwise it rolls back even in drive.

  14. Re:Firmware on Is the Tesla Model S Pedal Placement A Safety Hazard? · · Score: 1

    Even automatics can roll back on enough of a hill.

  15. Firmware on Is the Tesla Model S Pedal Placement A Safety Hazard? · · Score: 1

    Can't make it so that double pedaling is automatically assumed brake-only since that would make hill starts impossible, but I don't see why it couldn't be programmed (since its throttle by wire anyway) to only allow double pedaling at a complete stop.

  16. Re:Wait, WTF? on FBI Has Tor Mail's Entire Email Database · · Score: 1

    Assume you have a PRNG or RNG. It outputs a stream of bytes. Then also assume that you can produce a bitmap image from a stream of bytes- it doesn't have to look like anything, but you can directly render a stream of bytes as an image. Ergo, run any RNG long enough and eventually (ok a long eventually) a picture of obama (or you, or anyone specific) having sex with an infant will materialize.

  17. Re:Tablet controller put me off... on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    wii mini is available easily

  18. Re:Here's the sad part on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 2

    dont tell that to my new employer. I was asked to join after working as a contractor from my old employer. I've been working since 1994.

  19. Re:Interpretation on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    I am disheartened to say that I have little doubt than in 10 years time someone will be getting charged with this and the supreme court will upload it.

  20. Re:You know For Mysql That is great on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    Exactly- the fact that pretty much one of the largest sites in the world is running mysql should tell you something good about mysql.

  21. Re:Commercial databases on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    I've done a number of Zend Framework projects, and while I've been pretty careful to use quoteInto and quoteIdentifier and try to use the zend db select objects and whatnot, there are some queries with joins and things that just can't be abstracted (yet, with ZF at least), so if I were to switch databases there's still a lot of things I'd have to rewrite on the larger projects.

  22. Re:Commercial databases on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 2

    if more hosts would offer PGsql, I would use it, but my clients options get limited otherwise.

  23. SGU Kenos on Nexus S To Serve As Brain For 3 Robots Aboard the ISS · · Score: 1

    Sounds quite a bit like a Keno from SGU.

  24. Re:which shows the USPTO is incompetent on More Oracle Patents Declared Invalid · · Score: 2

    #4 would make it tough on individual/small biz researchers.

  25. Re:I have a domain at GoDaddy on GoDaddy Sells To Investor Group · · Score: 2

    What a rip off. They change way more for the exact same thing last I checked.