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  1. Re:Cheaper on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps the airport taxes are lower for transit than source and destination
      In cheap flights most of the price goes to the airports

  2. Re:Cheaper on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 2

    It must be an American thing. In Europe you pay per leg of the travel and you can fly one way between all major airports for 50$.

  3. Re:Negotiation tactic nonsense; real reason buried on Apple Pay For the UK · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I think you missed the story yesterday about Apple being part of the group of companies defying DoNotTrack. Tracking might not be their primary business at the moment, but it is certainly something they are doing and something they are willing to take PR hits to protect.

    I would trust most UK banks over Apple any day.

  4. Re:And walking around with it ... on Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    But what about the 2nd Amendment?

    The right to bear arms includes swords as well as guns. Swords were more common when the constitution was written.

    Doesn't mean you can carry it drawn. There is a huge difference between waving a drawn sword around and having a large knife in your belt.

    Still, I guess the safest is to avoid doing it, especially while being black.

  5. Re:Hands and feet on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 1

    Outside with warm blankets and an insulated baby carriage. I personally guess this is something that made a lot more sense 20 years ago, when it was more likely people would be smoking in doors. My sister has baby and the baby alarm even have a temperature report, when the general air is -3C outside the temperature in the baby carriage is still 5-10C and that is not even counting the blankets and warm clothes the baby is wearing when sleeping there.

  6. Re:Yes brown fat will help you on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 1

    A completely sedentary person may burn 2000 kcal/day. An hour of exercise can increase that to 2500 kcal. That's significant enough. Of course, it doesn't mean that you can eat 3000 kcal/day. Strenuous of exercise, like weightlifting, can also increase metabolism for up to 48 hours after the actual exercise.

    Of course you can eat 3000kal/day, you can also eat 4000 if your metabolism is fully functional it will not store excess fat unless you are stressed. Eating and exercise is not enough to explain the obesity epidemic, it is just the only two things worth talking about to stop it, as the we do not have enough information about the factors that influence the metabolism.

  7. Re:Bogus algorithm on The World of YouTube Bubble Sort Algorithm Dancing · · Score: 1

    It's usually mentioned in CS courses because the first stage in introducing these classes is "think about sorting some numbers - how do you go about doing it", and generally Bubble Sort is the first formalisation that falls out of that. The fact that Selection Sort is the one that you think of is neither here nor there - most students come up with something looking like bubble sort.

    Most people get to insertion sort or bucket sort first, since those are the ones that arise naturally from sorting playing cards in respectively your hand or the whole deck on the table.

  8. Re:Parent comment shows exactly what's wrong with on NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development · · Score: 2

    Well, you don't have to figth it. It will autoconfigure just fine after moving the cables. All you need to do is wait the 500ms it takes to do a new DHCP request and get the same IP adress again. If that is too long, you should probably be using a static configuration in the first place.

  9. Portfolio on Using Your Open-Source Contributions To Land a Full-Time Job · · Score: 1

    Treat is a developer's portfolio, collect things you have done and present them as documentations of your skills (or skillz depending on how hacky they are).

  10. Re:And how many were terrorists? Oh, right, zero. on TSA Has Record-Breaking Haul In 2014: Guns, Cannons, and Swords · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If someone had a gun on September 11, 2001 perhaps the history would be different. In Soviet Russia all pilots were armed, and rightly so.

    I travel and every day I see pocket knifes, souvenir knifes being stolen at the checkpoints. The other day my credit card size stainless steel multi-tool (ruler, screwdriver, wrench and a 2 centimeter cutting edge) has been confiscated because it had a less than one inch "blade". Yikes.

    Every single day passengers bring bottles of whiskey and other alcohol in the glass bottles, which is essentially a ceramic blade/knife, if the bottle is broken. Heck, you can buy alcohol in the airplane.

    I have interviewed several airport security directors and directors supplying security solutions. All of them, in private, agreed that this is a security theater.

    No it wouldn't. It wasn't a problem to fight against the hobby knives unarmed either, no one expected the hijackers to be suicide terrorist, and the only thing that would make a difference is hind-sight.

  11. Re:Copenhagen interpretation != less complicated on Quantum Physics Just Got Less Complicated · · Score: 1

    I know what exponential means. Why would you defend his nonsense statement is beyond me.

    I didn't. I attacked your nonsense ;)

  12. Re:Copenhagen interpretation != less complicated on Quantum Physics Just Got Less Complicated · · Score: 1

    requires exponential resources to simulate

    WTF is an exponential resource?

    Exponential refers to the amount of resources, not the type. It basically means it takes e^n resources to simulate. While the GP left n unspecified, lets assume it is either particles or wave functions.

  13. Re:a riveting diplomatic exchange no doubt.. on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 1

    Hey thanks for not making a huge deal out of castros death

    I think I'm missing part of this joke, because Castro isn't dead...

    Castro died several years back but got replaced by another Castro, though this new one isn't the Castro people refer to when they refer to Castro.

  14. Re:Does Denmark... on Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography · · Score: 1

    Oh, so Denmark is going to pull a Putin and cut off whatever sections of Greenland it wants for itself?

    ??? There is no plans for anything. Besides Greenland already is Danish and under Danish military rule, someone would need to invade it for there to be any conflict.

    The North-West of Greenland was almost lost in the 70s because no one lived there and there was no military presence, as uninhabitet land Norway tried to lay claim to it, that was only stopped by adding a miltary presence there, so the only reason North-West Greenland is still considered part of the policial entity Greenland is because Danish military is there, if it wasn't it would be part of another country.

  15. Re:Does Denmark... on Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography · · Score: 1

    ... honestly think that they can keep Greenland under their thumb for that long? Greenland already doesn't want to be part of Denmark - 75% voted for independence in a nonbinding referrendum in 2008 with a 72% turnout. The wealthier they become and the greater the percentage of the wealth that Denmark siphons away, the more they're going to want it. If Greenland and its EEZ start raking in trillions of dollars annually (which is the sort of mineral wealth up for grabs), how low in the single-digits do you think the popularity of remaining part of Denmark will be? For every trillion of GDP that'd be nearly $17M per capita, at Greenland's current population.

    Is Denmark going to force Greenland to stay with them by the gun?

    The part of Greenland inhabited by greenlanders can secede all they want. It is the large uninhabitet area that has all the resources, and the only ones living there are Danish scientists and military.

  16. Re:It's about who's doing the coercion on Judge Rules Drug Maker Cannot Halt Sales of Alzheimer's Medicine · · Score: 0

    Libertarian philosophy as I understand it is about coercion.

    No, it is about mental illness. A "libertarian" is an American, who doesn't know what liberal means, and thinks he is not one because he is right leaning. Also he is mentally insane and thinks gold has a more fixed price than dollars.

  17. Re:Blockade Euro Disney on French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber · · Score: 2

    I believe a blockade of Euro Disney is the standard French response to any turmoil in the country.

    You could remove 'Euro Disney' (in general or from your sentence) and it would still be true. The blocades are part of the French charm, possibly the part that makes you not want to live there.

  18. Re:Why are taxi drivers all so horrible? on French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber · · Score: 1

    NYC, , Paris, Berlin, , LA, , Rome, , Chicago, San Francisco.

    I narrowed your list down but in most of the cities you list, English isn't actually the official language

    Actually, English is not the official language in ANY of the cities listed.

    For the unaware, the USA has no official language.

    HEH!.. Well, NO, that would be stupid. The USA has a mandate for laws being written in English.

  19. Re:Sounds like they should ban the cabbies on French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber · · Score: 5, Informative

    That shouldn't be hard -- obstructing traffic is against the law. They can just arrest the cabbies after they refuse to move when requested and have their cabs towed.

    It is like you don't even know France..

    I suspect you don't. Obstructing traffic is against the law, but also a thing that happens routinely as a part of demonstations. Usually it is farmers though.

  20. Re:Head on No More Foamy Beer, Thanks To Magnets · · Score: 1

    Apart from the minor fact that it's basically been boiled.

    It has been boiled, that is how beer is made. The yeast comes in later.

  21. Re:Here come the certificate flaw deniers....... on New Destover Malware Signed By Stolen Sony Certificate · · Score: 1

    I work for a small company that signs its code - pretty much required if you want to install in any enterprise these days.

    Its a certificate chain - we purchase a cert from a provider such as Verisign. They request basic proof of identity - business registration, contact number etc. They create a cert for us signed by them. Their cert is signed by Microsoft.

    We sign our app with our cert - anyone accessing the binary signed by us can verify it hasn't been alterated and our cert was signed by Verisign, which was signed by Microsoft.

    Note that all this provides is proof that the exe was created by us. It in no way guareentees that we aren't distributing our own malware etc. But what it does provide is a way of tracing a exe back to the signer.

    Not if verisign or microsoft was compromised and new fake certificates was signed with the compromised master keys. Like the case with Sony here.

  22. Re:Don't foget on NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written · · Score: 1

    and then there was Diablo 1. Very much a rogue game but with graphics!

    No. It had random dungeon layout, but not random encounters or plots.

  23. Re:A question I hope someone can answer on POODLE Flaw Returns, This Time Hitting TLS Protocol · · Score: 1

    For those of us who are stuck using older browsers (FireFox v10 or IE6), even with SSL disabled and only TLS 1.0 enabled, will this be a problem?

    As I said, stuck. I won't appreciate replies saying to upgrade my browser.

    Yes, in fact it is ONLY you who are affected. This was discovered in old versions of NSS, which means old Firefox and Chromium versions.

  24. Re:Good grief. on British 'Porn Filter' Blocks Access To Chaos Computer Club · · Score: 1

    So the banker molestation murder cults get away with their crimes. Not sure if a good or bad thing.

    I bet if you had some quiet reflection and thought carefully about it, you could figure out whether or not child molestation & murder is a good or bad thing.

    Unless you are somewhere down the sociopathy spectrum, in which case you might not.

    Note I didn't include the part about children. Read what you comment on before commenting.

  25. Re:Good grief. on British 'Porn Filter' Blocks Access To Chaos Computer Club · · Score: 1

    Except for the bankers and child molestation murder cults among the elite. Nobody's watching them, apparently.

    So the banker molestation murder cults get away with their crimes. Not sure if a good or bad thing.