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  1. Re:Autists trying to script social interation? on Twitter Launches Trust and Safety Council To Help Put End To Trolling (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Also sometimes a personal insult is in order, especially when said person is acting like a dolt.

  2. Re:More nation-wrecking idiocy on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    It is gentler than a tree. My own experience was with a motorcycle but the ditch had snow in it, thus it was much softer to hit than most ditches in the world.

  3. Re:More nation-wrecking idiocy on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    Planting trees near roads sounds dangerous. Better to have wide ditch where your car will (relatively) gently stop in case you lose control of the car or have to avoid some obstacle on the road.

  4. Re: Money talks on Adblock Plus Maker Seeks Deal With Ad Industry Players (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    They really be more open on how much donations they are getting and how much the hosting actually costs. I really cannot support such projects that have vague donation'o'meter and I really can't judge if my money is spent running the infrastucture or to buy beers for the developers (which is just fine as long as I am told that part of my money is used this way).

  5. Re: Money talks on Adblock Plus Maker Seeks Deal With Ad Industry Players (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    I wonder how much they pay for hosting? You can get 4-8 core servers with 16GB RAM and 1-2TB storage with 100Mbps unlimited traffic from OVH for under 30euro/month. And often their Atom servers are just fine and are under 10euro/month with same 100Mbps unlimited traffic.

  6. Re:legalism is a crap philosophy. on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1

    I am not aware of any such European wide laws. Recording on any public place is ok, there might be issues if you publish said recordings and you can identify people from said clips (though often this is ok too), if you collect the register plate numbers, you might be creating a database that needs to be registered.

  7. Quite expensive plane tickets on US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how big that family was as they had to pay over 13000USD for their tickets. I can get from Europe to USA and back for around 500USD without any discounts.

  8. Re:Seems reasonable on Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Though if you live in a civilized country, the government wouldn't help you to enforce a contract if it is unreasonable. When you rent an apartment to someone, you cannot tell them how to use that property. They do have to compensate you if they damage it, but it is none of your business if they sublet it or give it their friend and allow her to live there for free.

  9. Re:Not that much better on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    I would just call to the helpdesk and let them figure it out :)

  10. Re: DRM Thwarted by Printscreen on DRM In JPEGs? (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that PNG supports CMYK but JPEG does support it.

  11. Re: What I wonder is... on AdBlock Plus Defends Ad Blocking, Applauds Marco Arment · · Score: 2

    but why should I waste my time to create my own list when I can start from a premade list and add my rules to that?

  12. Re:AdBlock+ = inferior & 'souled-out' vs. host on Study: Ad Blocker Use Jumps 41 Percent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ABP doesn't spam on forums...

  13. Re:100kb is too fat on 100kb of Unusual Code Protecting Nuclear, ATC and United Nations Systems · · Score: 1

    My servers still use IDE HDDs you insensitive clod!

  14. Re:Systemd and Gnome3 == no thanks on Ubuntu 15.04 Received Well By Linux Community · · Score: 1

    Isn't the correct command "sudo -s"?

  15. Re:Eat less than you burn on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    I've been on low carb diet for just under a year and lost 112lbs and haven't had to do anything else yet, just avoid sugars and carbs. Just get results from the lab and all the tests they took look fine, so the diet is fine that way too. I don't think there is anything that special about eating low carb, it just is fairly difficult to get too many calories per day without carbs.

  16. Re:Google Play store wants CCNs on Possible Twitch.tv Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Just installed an app from Google Play and didn't need to give credit card number.

  17. Re:Browsers on servers on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: 1

    You have servers with GUI?? Lynx is just fine for reading HTML over SSH, though proper server only has a serial terminal :)

  18. Re:Great... on Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG · · Score: 3, Informative

    JPEGs do support alpha channels, browsers just might not render them properly, but same goes with JPEGs with CMYK colorspace.

  19. Re:Difficulty Spectrum on Fixing the Pain of Programming · · Score: 1

    Thanks to stackoverflow and google, you don't have to do that anymore :)

  20. Re:Actual Experience Against "Responsible Disclosu on Heartbleed Sparks 'Responsible' Disclosure Debate · · Score: 1

    Webster was wrong, you never ever should exploit a system you don't own or are hired to pentest. If you find a security hole in a server and they don't respond, you should just go public with the exploit and most likely let someone else to hack the system for you.

  21. Re:This idea is really BS on NYU Group Says Its Scheme Makes Cracking Individual Passwords Impossible · · Score: 1

    Well that "root access to the server and read from memory" can be mitigated by using a HSM.

  22. Re:Disable player chat on Getting Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia Out of Gaming · · Score: 1

    Well, believing that "eating meat to be a moral wrong" doesn't make one carnophobic, just stupid.

  23. Re:The "false positives" thing really does matter on New Blood Test Offers Early Warning for Alzheimer's Onset · · Score: 1

    So that means 90% accurate tests will correctly identify 425 non-Alzheimers cases, miss 5 cases, detect 48 Alzheimers cases and give out 47 false-positives. So in this case when the test flags you, there is 50% chance that you are false-positive.

  24. Re:The "false positives" thing really does matter on New Blood Test Offers Early Warning for Alzheimer's Onset · · Score: 2

    Think about pregnancy tests. If it shows positive, you most likely are. If it's negative, there's chance you might still be pregnant.

    And your example is of a test that has false positives and false negatives.

    The OP is right in that the 90% accuracy is not very useful until we know how common Alzheimer's is in the population taking the test

    Good example of this was 99% accurate HIV test if it is applied to random sampling of all people. As HIV is so rare, if 100.000 people take the test, it will flag 1.000 as having HIV even when don't and correctly identify 10 real HIV cases and miss 1. (numbers pulled from memory and probably not accurate)

  25. Why sell mining rigs? on The Bitcoin Death Star: KnC Plans 10 Megawatt Data Center In Sweden · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This one puzzles me somewhat. If one can make money by mining with ASIC rigs, why would anyone sell or rent them, wouldn't they make more money by mining? If they make more money by selling or renting, then wouldn't that mean that mining is silly?