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  1. Re:Wait, what ? on Want To Resell Your Ebooks? You'd Better Act Fast · · Score: 1

    German rulings do not apply to Europe or any part of Europe other than Germany.

    A German court ruling doesn't even apply to another case in the same German court, nor a Dutch ruling to another Dutch court. None of these countries are common law countries, which means precedence is non-binding. They do however _look_ at other court rulings and look at the arguments and conclusions, which you can do across any curistiction, so in most countries (since only very few are common law like the UK and US), looking at a ruling from another country is not that odd especially when the laws are the same or similar.

  2. Re:wtf forced on beta again? on Germany Scores First: Ends Verizon Contract Over NSA Concerns · · Score: 2

    It's easily disabled

    No it isn't. From mobile it is no longer possible to disable, it just redirects nobeta links to beta, and there is no login to beta, so no way of logging in and enforcing your settings. Yeah it is THAT broken.

  3. Re:How do they prevent the money from being tracke on Banking Fraud Campaign Steals 500k Euros In a Week · · Score: 1

    They don't. They need to buy something with the money or withdray them. The transfers can easily be undone and the money will return to where they were taken from unless they are fully out of the electronic system.

  4. Re:"Undead" doesn't mean vibrant, though. on Perl Is Undead · · Score: 1

    That and Python is not nearly as fast to use for oneliners. Perl is strongest as a shell replacement for writing powerful scripts, efficient scanning&parsing or a quick hack.

  5. In a court they don't have rules against lying, that is too ill defined; they have rules against intentionally misleading the court. Which is what happened here. Which is pergury.

  6. Re:Bundesnachrichtendienst on German Intel Agency Helped NSA Tap Fiber Optic Cables In Germany · · Score: 2

    Now try to say Federal Intelligence Service. In German they drop the spaces between nouns that form a new whole, but you have similar syntax in spoken English, you just put spaces between the nouns when you write them.

  7. Re:Display Port on 4K Monitors: Not Now, But Soon · · Score: 1

    This is more about HDMI being a broken standard to me. I just don't like DisplayPort because it's sort of Apple's thing.

    It is fortunately only the silly mini-displayport port that is Apple specific. I still have nightmares of trying to buy a displayport cable at a computer store and they send me to the horror that is the Apple section of the store, which was rows and rows of incompatible crap.

  8. Re:Arbitrage on High Frequency Trading and Finance's Race To Irrelevance · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Could always unwind it if something unforseen results.

    To play devil's advocate for a position I find distasteful, but haven't yet heard a totally valid takedown of: the neo-liberal set(republicans, libertarians, you know) argue that pragmatically speaking, regulatory laws don't get unwound.

    I consider myself insufficiently informed to either debunk or accept that argument, and lack a good tool to find out more.

    Sweden tried a transaction tax in the 90s, but they made the tax too high (1% if I remember correctly). The results were not good for the Swedish economy so they rolled the law back. So there you go, even socialist countries like Sweden can rollback socialist laws if they turn out bad.

  9. Re:Yet another C on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it hasn't had PHP/Perl style string injection before. That can get nasty. though I am sure this feature is compiletime only considering the "security" focus of the language. If not it could be a serious problem (think PHP SQL-injections).

  10. Re:Since when does Qt "work" with OS X? on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 4, Informative

    Take a simple one from Mac versus Windows: On the Mac, in a dialog box, the default button is always the right-most button. So you have a dialog box that says, "Are you sure you want to do this?" and the right-most button would say, "OK" and the button to the left of it would say, "Cancel." On Windows, the default "OK" button would be on the left with the "Cancel" button the right of it.

    Oh, stop trolling. You have obviously never used Qt, it will automatically fix the order of the dialog buttons for you. You can even launch the same application under GNOME and get one order, and under KDE and get another. It is controlled by the widget-style it uses. And it does more than that, it also matches the reading direction of the language you are using so that it reverses for Hebrew, Arabic or other right-to-left languages.

    There are things that you need to handle yourself in a crossplatform application, but that is not one of them.

  11. Re:Off-topic Maybe on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 1

    I was refering to Swift. Objective-C is just unused everywhere outside of Apple because it is a horrible language.

  12. Re:Swift on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 1

    More perl and ocaml. The syntax is ML like with a severe case of a double Perl and JavaScript infection.

    Who the hell references arguments with $1 and $2?

  13. Re:A new programming language on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 1

    Any idea how to download it without iTunes?

    You don't. That would break the whole idea of vendor lock-in, wouldn't it?

  14. Re:Off-topic Maybe on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do you think Swift is platform specific? I think it is will almost certainly not be; Apple will be more interested in getting the new language adopted rather than locking in people. Therefore at least the core language is very likely to be neutral. In fact, there is a pretty good chance it will be available through the llvm channels, and have a BSD license.

    Objective-C is not technically platform specific either, it just is in practice, because there is no room or reason for yet another wannabe C++-killer. There are already plenty of languages better than C++, another one wont make a difference, so Swift will be like Objective-C, Apple only.

  15. Re:but on Patent Troll Ordered To Pay For the Costs of Fighting a Bad Patent · · Score: 1

    Coffee hot enough to give 3rd degree burns to the genitals will probably get a lawsuit anywhere. That case gets trotted out as a negative example every time, but if you take the time to read up on it, it's the opposite.

    If by anywhere you mean the US, yes. It would still count as cold coffee in Europe, so no, no one is going to sue over coffee colder than normal.

  16. Re:but on Patent Troll Ordered To Pay For the Costs of Fighting a Bad Patent · · Score: 1

    Recommended by who? Coffee should be brewed at 90C and served fresh, which means close to 90C. If it is stored colder than that, it will still be served colder than freshly brewed coffee...

  17. Re:Blowing it out of proportion on German Court Rules That You Can't Keep Compromising Photos After a Break-Up · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell, only because the person taking them had shared them with someone else. His punishment for for violating her privacy is that he has to delete the private photos he has.

    This is not a general ruling but a specific ruling for this case. (also, last sentence in your link says it is not final)

  18. Re:Ridiculous on German Court Rules That You Can't Keep Compromising Photos After a Break-Up · · Score: 1

    I doubt he had to delete it. This smells of journalistic edging of the truth. If she withdraws consent then he is no longer allowed to distribute these photos or show them to anyone else. That is not the same as having to delete them, but certain media would certainly love to portray it that way, since it could harm their sources of compromising photos.

  19. Re:News for birds... on Kiwi Genetically Closer to Extinct Elephant Birds Than to the Emu · · Score: 2

    Why do you think they went extinct upon first contact with humans?

  20. Re:Very Bad Precedent on US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking · · Score: 1

    That opens the door to politically motivated prosecutions of civil servants who carried out a policy you just disagree with. Again, there are special crimes against humanity that everybody gets held responsible for, but do you really want to prosecute a worker-bee at the IRS because you disagree with an 'unjust' tax policy?

    Nonsense! We are not talking about if something is just or unjust, but whether it is criminal or not. If you perform a criminal act, you have performed a criminal act and will be treated as such. That you were acting under order does not change the criminal nature of your actions. At very best you can claim to have acted in good faith, but that will just give lenience, not change your guilt.

  21. Re:It's still NP. on Discrete Logarithm Problem Partly Solved -- Time To Drop Some Crypto Methods? · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is how I read it too. (posting to undo accidental wrong mod)

  22. Re:So in other words, it will be just like Firewir on Can Thunderbolt Survive USB SuperSpeed+? · · Score: 1

    I think you're talking about specific firewire host controller implementations rather than firewire in general. I imagine the same issue could happen with pcmcia or cardbus.

    It is a feature of the design, and the reason firewire is fast. It can access memory directly, that makes it fast, and that makes it a giant security hole.

    Funny thing. Thunderbolt has the same issue.

  23. Re:Faster javascript? How about less javascript! on WebKit Unifies JavaScript Compilation With LLVM Optimizer · · Score: 1

    What about canvas and WebGL?

    Spends 99% in painting.

  24. Re:Recycling on Is Carbon Fiber Going Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    Aluminum bikes have problems too. Pure aluminum has zero fatigue limit [wikipedia.org], which means that it WILL eventually crack. Zero fatigue limit means that even the smallest stress on an aluminum frame will cause it to fatigue. If you knocked on an aluminum frame with your fingernail enough times in the same spot, it would eventually fail.

    Which is why using aluminium for rims is a terrible good idea.

  25. Re:Agricultural subsidies is a big part of it. on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 2

    Europe does not subsidize corn production or corn sugar like the US does. Even coca cola here is made with real sugar. Some countries even have sugar taxes, but obesity rates are still going up. Something else is wrong too.