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  1. Re:Tedious != Difficult on Data Mining the Web Reveals What Makes Puzzles Hard For Humans · · Score: 2

    I read it the other way if applied to video games. A sequence of steps is a linear game and boring and not really a game as much as a movie with grind. Parallel steps are sandbox, open world.

  2. Re:Google's Firing of a Recruiter Made Jobs Smile( on Apple, Google Go On Trial For Wage Fixing On May 27 · · Score: 1

    Only Steve Jobs can send evil smileys ;)

    Though if you know him and his email style, you know he never sends smileys except out of glee.

  3. Re:Tesla on Is the Tesla Model S Pedal Placement A Safety Hazard? · · Score: 1

    No a manual can not change gears without pressing the clutch and you can not start the engine without either pressing the clutch or have it in neutral.

    Secondly in a manual, the car will if you release all pedals slow down (using engine braking) until the engine stalls and shuts off.

  4. Re:Tesla on Is the Tesla Model S Pedal Placement A Safety Hazard? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Getting behind the wheel of an automatic and putting it into gear and it starts moving is scary! Cars are designed to go to a halt without active user input, but for some reason automatics has mindblowingly retarded defaults that makes them move unless you floor the brake! Automatics are just scary scary things of EPIC UI FAIL!

  5. Re: I dont get it on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No the grand parent remember wrong as well. The two options was independence or join russia. Remain in Ukraine was not an option which is why 40% of the population (tartars and ukranians) boycutted the election. Fortunately their boycut was made up for by 120% voter turnout in the capital.

  6. Re: approximately the resolution of an adult eye @ on Oppo's New Phone Hits 538 PPI · · Score: 1

    If you look a black and white print, there is no dithering and 600dpi is still clearly better than 300dpi. Try looking at printed text for instance. There is no visual improvement at 1200dpi or higher though, that only matters for dithering as you say.

  7. Re:So... on Famous Breast Cancer Gene Could Affect Brain Growth · · Score: 1

    On the plus side, in men it will stop breast cancer and give us small brains. I think women gets the most out this mutation.

  8. Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    Ask google which day is the first day of the week ;)

    It all depends on which culture answers.

  9. Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    Depends on what definition you use. Here spring is traditionally thought to start on the 1st of March, always using three full calender months for each season.

    Also with 16C outside, it is practically a cold summer already.

  10. Re:Out of step with reality on Hungarian Law Says Photogs Must Ask Permission To Take Pictures · · Score: 1

    Not unless you use a hidden camera. If you use a visible camera and no one objects, you can assume their implicit permission. Hidden camera though, yes, that would be illegal, so would google glass on most European beaches.

  11. Re:The country is already out of step with Europe on Hungarian Law Says Photogs Must Ask Permission To Take Pictures · · Score: 1

    This is getting in line with the rest of Europe as it gives the same privacy rights that most European countries have. This is nothing new or spectacular, it is common legal status in many countries and doesn't cause nearly the amount of trouble Anglo-saxon privacy haters think.

  12. Re:Well.. on Hungarian Law Says Photogs Must Ask Permission To Take Pictures · · Score: 1

    No these laws are the similar to those of many European countries. Google has had to pay fines over the street maps, and blur all faces and license plates, but it is perfectly possible as it has been done for many countries.

  13. Re:Apple not "seeking" $40 per device on Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents · · Score: 1

    The title and summary are clearly slanted by how it describes the case as Apple demanding $40 per Samsung device, then uses that claim to say Apple "is asking for obscenely high patent royalties". If you read the rest of the summary carefully (no, I didn't read the article!), what is happening is an Apple expert witness will be presenting evidence that the patents in use by Samsung are worth (by his judgement) $40 per device.

    Being an expert witness for Apple he is payed by Apple, so that what Apple payed him to say.

  14. Re:Which is why I use OpenDNS, or Google, or on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 1

    It is local address. He just trolled you. Kind of like saying you are using 127.0.0.2

  15. Re:Gentlemen, start your CryEngines. on Crytek Ports CRYENGINE To Linux Support Ahead of Steam Machines Launch · · Score: 1

    How big of a crybaby do you need to be to need a cryengine to automate if for you?

    Also a cryengine with steam? Isn't that a big dangerous for your face?

  16. Re:Makes sense on Valve Open Sources Their DirectX To OpenGL Layer · · Score: 4, Informative

    A limited subset, as in every PC game that still supports WinXP. Which is practically all of them.

  17. Re:5? on UK and Germany To Collaborate On 5G · · Score: 4, Insightful

    4G is LTE. What some carriers in the US did was sell HSDPA as 4G, but in Europe that has mostly been advertised as 3.5G.

  18. Re:So, instead of protests *for* better regulation on Exploding Oil Tank Cars: Why Trains Go Boom · · Score: 1

    So, instead of protests *for* better regulation and better technical equipment, all we'll see are protests *against* oil.

    Try reading the comments before commenting on the comments. There is not such thing here. The only ones being irrational here are you preemptively defensive oil shills. Please wait with being defensive only someone attacks your position.

  19. Re:Normal. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    An encrypted channel is by definition private communication. This is a third party eavesdroping on an EXPLICITLY private conversion between two other people. You can not sign this right away. They can block all encrypted channels if they want (no private conversions), but they can not allow private conversions and then secretly eavesdrop on them.

  20. Re:Normal. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    A domain cert is not a root cert. Note however if they use it to break SSL they are in volation of most EU privacy laws. Employers can not even read employees emails, even if they are on a central company email server and their official company email. So no, it doesn't matter who owns the network, everyone is entitled to privacy and you can not sign it away.

  21. Re:Normal. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    I am not asking you to break the law or go against explit commands, I am asking you to admit is wrong and protest it. If everyone just accept wrongdoings everyone else will think this is acceptable.

  22. Re:Normal. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1, Informative

    Just because it is normal doesn't mean it is legal, and if it is legal it doesn't mean it is right or ethical. In most European countries this would be very illegal.

  23. Re:Root CA is Only for Your School's Apps on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 2

    Yes, but if they have proxy or intelligent firewall, they can rewrite or redirect all connections to something using one of their own certificates derived from their own root instead of the original.

    This is why root CAs are "BAAAAD" as you put it. They can intercept everything.

  24. Re:True on Ars Technica Reviews Leaked Windows 8.1 Update · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is probably because he is trying to defend himself instead of Microsoft, which means he needs to defend his previous defences of Windows 8.

    Funny stuff.

  25. Re:not necessarily a problem on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 2

    Those uses would only require a normal CA, a root CA is only needed if you intend to spy on all SSL traffic.