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  1. Re:Just in time to phase it out on Newegg Beats Patent Troll Over SSL and RC4 Encryption · · Score: 1
    That patent would already exist, the patent troll would have to make theirs:

    A method to send something from something via something after applying something so that someone can unapplying something to read the something on something on a computer.

  2. Just in time to phase it out on Newegg Beats Patent Troll Over SSL and RC4 Encryption · · Score: 2

    Sure is nice that we can freely use this form of encryption that should never be used anymore.

  3. Re:Never buy Nvidia on The Android L Update For Nvidia Shield Portable Removes Features · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, I got burned by this way back with their Tegra 2 chips. Never buying another nVidia mobile chip again.

  4. Re:Really so hard? on Secret Service Agents Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Amazingly enough, people that go through with these mass shootings post their plans to social media more often than not. It sounds crazy, but you have to be a little crazy to want to do shoot up a kindergarten or assassinate the president in the first place. The problem is of course the noise level. We had the same problem after Columbine when suddenly all of those teenagers weren't just sullen outcasts, they were potential madmen. Correlation is not causation.

  5. Re:Not clickbait. on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 1

    Sexism absent from the tech industry? Where have you been seeing those claims? Because there are a lot of articles, many of which have appeared on Slashdot, talking about exactly the opposite.

  6. Re:we only hear about the failed attempts on Ex-Lottery Worker Convicted of Programming System To Win $14M · · Score: 1

    He wouldn't transfer it into his personal bank account. He would set up a LLC who's sole purpose in life is to distribute the winnings, half of which happen to go to the original guy. As long as he doesn't suddenly start trying to live like MC Hammer and trigger an IRS audit he'll probably get away with it.

    This guy was caught because he was an idiot.

  7. Re:nothing new under the sun on Affair Site Hackers Threaten Release of All User Data Unless It Closes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Another article I read on this had quotes from the AM CEO saying that he knew who did it and was looking at the guy's profile during the interview. We will see what comes of this.

  8. Re:Perfect summary of Perl from Larry himself on Larry Wall On Perl 6, Language Design, and Getting Kids To Code · · Score: 1

    One can argue that Perl is more featureful in its implicit behaviors that are massively confusing to people who don't them. In C you generally have to be pretty explicit with what you're doing, but in Perl you can leave out some of the details and let the interpreter figure them out for you. This is the first area where newcomers get lost. Much of the "crazy punctuation" ends up being helpful once you spend a couple of minutes understanding the basics of the language, clearly denoting which tokens are variables and what kind of access the coder wants. Complex data structures are far far less ugly now than they were in the early days of Perl 5 too, and a normal human being can actually make them without trying a thousand different combinations of dereferencing operators to figure out exactly which one they need. I wouldn't call them "good" or fun to use, but it's not like pounding nails through your dick anymore.

  9. Re:Bummer on Mini Ice Age: Nothing To Worry About · · Score: 1

    We're also cooking everything else we share the planet with. It's not just humanity that suffers, it's everything on the planet.

  10. Bummer on Mini Ice Age: Nothing To Worry About · · Score: 1

    I was hoping the solar minimum would give us a little breathing room to get CO2 emissions under control before we cook the planet.

  11. Re: Wow on Does Elon Musk's Hyperloop Make More Sense On Mars? · · Score: 1

    Is the wind resistance from an atmosphere 0.6% as dense as Earth's a major problem? It seems to me that you wouldn't need the tunnel at all, saving considerably on building costs. Or if you need the tunnel it is only to keep the dust from piling up on the tracks and doesn't have to be depressurized.

  12. Wouldn't take that bet on What Will Happen When Cascadia Subduction Zone Slips · · Score: 2

    They are saying there is a 1 in 3 chance that California will experience an earthquake sometime in the next 50 years? Doesn't California suffer Earthquakes on a regular basis? I thought maybe they were talking about major quakes, but the summary immediately goes on to talk about the odds of a major quake.

  13. Re:important definition: maximum speed. on Supersonic Jet Could Fly NYC To London In 3 Hours · · Score: 1

    Is 3 less hours in the air worth $10,000 to you? Fuel prices aren't going to drop back down to 1960s levels without some sort of major energy revolution, and drag still goes up with the square of your speed. One also has to consider how much CO2 they release when they take a flight, and if they're willing to release an order of magnitude more to save 3 hours of their life.

  14. Re:Concorde on Supersonic Jet Could Fly NYC To London In 3 Hours · · Score: 1

    Back when I looked into flying via Concorde (this was obviously several years ago), the price difference was closer to 10x. $1,200 for the traditional flight from NYC to LHR, $12,000 for the Concorde. That sort of difference made it hard to justify.

  15. Re:Concorde 2.0 on Supersonic Jet Could Fly NYC To London In 3 Hours · · Score: 1

    That assumes a tail chase scenario. If the Fighter launches from a base in front of the jet then the top speed doesn't matter as much, and it is definitely slower than a AMRAAM.

  16. Re:Concorde 2.0 on Supersonic Jet Could Fly NYC To London In 3 Hours · · Score: 1

    When you say it would be "worth the money" that is certainly true of some people, but the honest truth about the Concorde is that seats on it were out of most people's price range. IIRC ticket prices ran from $7500 to $15000 depending on the vagaries of airline ticket pricing. Compare that to a traditional flight at $1,500 and you really have to ask yourself if 5 hours of your time is worth $10,000 or not.

  17. Re:Concorde 2.0 on Supersonic Jet Could Fly NYC To London In 3 Hours · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much those tickets would cost? That would be one hell of an expensive tunnel, just judging from the construction costs of the far more modest Chunnel.

  18. Re:Concorde 2.0 on Supersonic Jet Could Fly NYC To London In 3 Hours · · Score: 1

    From what I understand the problem wasn't Sonic Booms over the ocean at FL600, it's the Sonic Booms when you're flying over NYC or Boston at FL100 during takeoff/landing.

  19. Re: Why do this? on NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns · · Score: 1

    Those are all contributing factors, but a city council that seems openly hostile to automobiles can't be discounted. Policies like the 4 way red significantly slow down traffic and contribute to the gridlock problem.

  20. Re:My solution on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're joking, but the Greeks have to give away a ton of assets for this deal. It's hard to see where they're going to get the sums necessary without looking at the antiquities.

    This is clearly a bad deal and frankly it seems like most of the people at the table know it is a joke. Did you see the deadlines in the article? They're giving themselves basically until the end of the week to completely turn their economy around, for the mere promise that the rest of the EU will consider extending the repayment period of the debts. They aren't even considering debt forgiveness.

    IMHO, the correct solution for Greece, painful as it would definitely be, is an exit from the Eurozone and a return to a national currency. The Eurozone has fundamental structural problems that are going to put Greece back in the hotseat in a few years even with this deal. Combined monetary policy with independent fiscal policy is not a sustainable model. It's like giving your irresponsible uncle your credit card on his promise that he will pay you back for everything he charges, even though he has defaulted on every loan he has ever had and is currently tens of thousands of euros in the hole and doesn't have a job.

    It also doesn't allow your currency to fluctuate with your economy, which puts a stranglehold on your economy when you have a recession.

    Sadly, a unified fiscal policy is politically impossible in the current EU. It would give up way too much sovereignty and be political suicide in most countries. You're talking about the EU itself collecting taxes and spending them on infrastructure. Foreign governments gaining oversight over national governments, an especially worrisome situation when the national government is breathtakingly corrupt. There is no chance you would get even a simple majority of countries to agree, much less the supermajority that would no doubt be required.

  21. Re:Has it been hacked yet? on ELIoT, Distributed Programming For the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Even better: the whole thing appears to be a hack.

  22. Re: Why do this? on NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns · · Score: 2

    It's almost impossible to drive across London though. New York City traffic is not great, but you at least get where you need to go.

  23. Re:Helping a full third of all citizens? on Running a Town Over Twitter · · Score: 1

    Most town websites I've seen are fairly unidirectional. They are for disseminating information out, not for communicating with town officials. Sure they usually have an email address, if you can find the email for the right person in the town.

    I guess the advantage of Twitter is that nobody can go on long rambling tirades like they can with email. It enforces brevity.

  24. Re:Holy Hardware Batman on NVIDIA Hopes To Sell More Chips By Bringing AI Programming To the Masses · · Score: 1

    I'm a little dubious of calling this a consumer technology if they're recommending a $8k build to run it.

  25. Re:Helping a full third of all citizens? on Running a Town Over Twitter · · Score: 1

    That's probably a lot more than the number of people in a normal town who have the time and means to go down to City Hall during business hours to get something done.