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  1. Re:And? on Apple Begins Storing Chinese User Data On Servers In China · · Score: 1

    To me there is a significant difference between somthing affecting all stored dasta and only affecting data accessed after a specific date.

  2. Not necessary on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 1

    Show your kids new not strongly censored for death bodies and an few living rooms hit by a bomb, and let them draw their own conclusions.

    And give them some war games with an ambivalent story (e.g. DUNE/C&C) and let them play all sides and let them write down how the stated facts differ between the personal advisors of each party.

    Should help them more in understanding wars.

  3. And? on Apple Begins Storing Chinese User Data On Servers In China · · Score: 2

    Seems reasonable to me. Actually reduced the needed data transport. The great firewall is in place for the data transfers to the outside world. I am sure the cn gvmnt has to possibility to targeted intercept, as has the america, german, russian or british governments.

    Given what we learned in the recent years, placing data and encyption keys in two different legislations (chinese and america) is the most straighforward way to protect against legal interception.

  4. Re:https is useless on Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text · · Score: 1

    They dont have to hand over the keys. Just get another certificate from another vendor using fake identities.

  5. How about: on Ask Slashdot: Should You Invest In Documentation, Or UX? · · Score: 1

    Both?

  6. A $25 Million program depends on a single person not getting in an accident, not having physical (36 is not so young in that aspect) or psycological problems, or (in this case) not getting pregnant and keeping prepared and waiting for a decade between the spaceflights. And then the question is if this person was the right person?

    Having a big project depending on a single person is absolutely stupid.

  7. Instead of working on their design they should work on gettign updates out quickly, easily, and not ship the phone loaded with crapware.

  8. Re:IQ of 197? on Is "Scorpion" Really a Genius? · · Score: 1

    you are right.

    the error function is the cumulative normal distribution, besides a factor and an offset. i got the factor wrong (see the other answer to my post).

  9. Re:IQ of 197? on Is "Scorpion" Really a Genius? · · Score: 1

    hey, thanks for spotting the error!

    wish I could moderate the answer up.

  10. IQ of 197? on Is "Scorpion" Really a Genius? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The standard deviation of IQ seems to be 15

    octave:16> erfc((197-100)/15)
    ans = 5.9493e-20

    That means only a fraction of 5*10^-20 of total humankind would exceed his intelligence.

    Let me make a few remarks:
    -That would mean humankind could exists in it current size for another 10^11 years without finding a second one like him
    -Normal itelligence tests dont resolve in that region. It's pretty impossible to design a tests which ca resolve between 100 and 140 and at the same time distinct between 180 and 190. i am not sure if designing a test between 190 and 197

    -The most likely other option is that the distribution of measured IQs is heavy tailed (instead of normal). In that case, the IQ measurement needs to be corrected for that.

    I wish that journalists would turn their brain on and not off at every number they cite

  11. Its good on Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology · · Score: 1

    as long as US and China have technological balance, they will behave reasonably, since no side will have exagerated fear.

  12. Re:"Anything more than a runtime and a language" on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 2

    And it has stagnated because it conquered everything up ato a realistc marke penetration for a single platform.

  13. If you dont want to offer flatrates. on Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" · · Score: 1

    Then dont offer flatrates. I am perfectly fine with paying per GB. But i am not fine with paying for a flatrate, and when i hit an (conditions undisclosed or changing) limit, the providers decides (based on his calculation what a GB *should* cost) to do weird shit with my packets.

    That being said, I believe everybody would be better off without flatrates. The people who need much less transfer than the provider includes in the flatrate calculation, and the providers, since the people would really have incentives to reduce data (and peak) usage.

    I would also appeciate a "slow flatrate" + "high speed metered" model where the *user* can select which protocols he wants to slow down and which are important. (O, i understand. That woudl get in the way of asking for the fees for quicker transport from the provider).

  14. Re:Nerd Blackface on Big Bang Actors To Earn $1M Per Episode · · Score: 1

    As long as enough money to live a decent life arrives on my account for doing nerdish things related to physics, programming and engineering, i dont mind that at all.

     

  15. Re:It wasn't his fault on Senior RIKEN Scientist Involved In Stem Cell Scandal Commits Suicide · · Score: 2

    Even if it was not his fault, it was his responsibility. If you accept a senior-author position on a paper, then you have responsibility for the scientific integrity. You also accept the impact factor very willingly.

    That does by no way mean that your career should be completely over after one mistake happening under your supervision.Let alone that, a society in which one mistake after a very sucessful and long scientific career pressures a man to kill himself should strongly question its own standards in dealing with mistakes.

    I worked for four years in Japan in research and there are two different versions which i would perfectly believe:

    a) He did what every good Japanese boss does: Stand to your employees. This is something which is not wlle understood by westeners, but if an institution/group is under attack from the outside then the highest rank defends. That means, if you are a postdoc, and somebody tried to attack your students, you will take the hits. Likewise, if you are a group leader and postdoc messes up, you will defend him/her. So he defended his student, and fell.

    b) He did something which bad Japanese scientists do: tell their employees how the data has to be interpreted and let them work the data until it looks fine (while convincing yourself that everything is allright). I have seen that happen before (usually they would not fake the data but misinterpret it in way that it hurts.). Now it would have come out;.

  16. Re:Not a bad deal on San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Dismantling Will Cost $4.4 Billion, Take 20 Years · · Score: 1

    4.4e9/((30.0*8400*2e9/2)/1000) = 0.01746031746031746

    So i arrive at roughly 1-1.7cent/kwh for dismantling. which is not extremely bad but it's far from nothing

    And just because the plant itself does not create emissions it does not mean that it is "emission free".

  17. Re:Well at least they saved the children! on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 1

    Well. I mean, if you read the terms and conditions of gmail before you clock accept, it should become pretty clear that they have the right to do pretty much everything they want with your data. To me using gmail is less like doing something in your provate flat but more like posting something on the marketplace.

  18. editors is use: on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    scite/notepad++: scintilla based, leightweight

    vi: for editing system files (i like the fact that it usually takes 2 keystrokes to do harm.

    the editor integrated in eclipse in order to edit java and xml

    formerly i used emacs when doing development, but now i prefer full IDEs

  19. Re:XP Mode on Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus · · Score: 1

    yes.the point is: ms supports running windows 3.1 apps by providing the virtual machine in a standard os of ms.

    that's a devotion to a platform (the previous post complained about ms letting developers stand in the rain).

  20. Re:It's a funny world on Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus · · Score: 1

    What? I mean, Nokia announced the death of symbian well in advance (5 years before i stopped using symbian). And remind me - how long could you execute binaries built for Windows 3.1 on the current windows? Oh - allright if it is a 32 bit version of Windows 7/8 then it still may work....

  21. Re:It's a funny world on Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus · · Score: 1

    Ironically this disturbed me very much in the beginning. But the desktop still is there.

  22. Re:It's a funny world on Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, actually i bought OS/2 instead of windoes 3.1/windows 95. In 1993.

    You forgot NT 4.0 and NT 3.51

    I did not reject windows. I did just not see any reason to switch from linux in the last 20 years and pay for a newly installed computer. I think XP is OK - were are cheap used licenses around.

    I find windows 8.1 similar enough and all the features which are mandatory for me are embedded, and the price point of the tablets seems ok.

  23. It's a funny world on Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am a Unix/Linux user since 1995. I used Symbian and i liked it, and i have several android devices (first was the galazy tab). Now Microsoft killed Nokia. Nokia killed Symbian.

    I am looking for a new tablet/PC currently. I tested some Windows 8.1 Tablets (Lenovo and others), and i have to say (besides the colored rectangles on the start screen): Well done
    by leaving many things unchanged. For the first time in about 20 years i consider buying a microsoft OS on an new computer (for personal use).

  24. What an article! on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    I would be very pleased if the people posting 3 line articles to slashdot would take the time to follow the thread on the mailing list long enough to understand what its all about. It's informative and you learn something about the world.

    Beforehand i did not knwo about the red zone, and it sounds like something which i would like to turn off by default, but i more or less understand it's meaning in optimizing the performance of an ABI.

    If you follow the thread, it deems only to happen an specific optimization settings Everybody knows that at high optimization settings the assembly output of you compiler may differ significantly from how it looked before, should look, is expected to look like, or even is specified to look like.

    I hope that they isolated a test case from this issue.

    I hope that more conservative distros compile the kernel using more conservative settings and more conservative compilers.

  25. "Free" mentality on Popular Android Apps Full of Bugs: Researchers Blame Recycling of Code · · Score: 1

    yeah. as long as the custoemers dont even care about any security, but about a shiny interface and are not willing to pay, focusing on the interface and not on the security of the app seems like a reasonable economic decision to me.