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  1. Re:News for nerds. on How Do You Handle Your Keys? · · Score: 1

    I use something like this to carry 16 keys around. (I could do with 7 or 8, but I don't bother. And you would not like to be on the receiving end of a punch brought with a fist holding the keys ;-) ) Separated into 3 groups by rings. I hang the carabiner (is that the right word?) on the strap on the trousers under which goes the belt. Above the front pocket on the right side. The keys thus do not lay in the pocket, but rather hang in the top part of it. Easy to grab or put back. They do not damage the pocket, and also do not hang visibly out. I use this over 20 years already. The garage keys are separate, they are either at home if I don't use the car, or in the ash-tray (I'm a non-smoker) in the car when I'm out. The car key is also separate, because a big bunch of keys hanging from ignition tends to scratch the dashboard.

  2. More research needed on Open Source vs. Wall Street Bonuses · · Score: 5, Funny

    New studies reveal that beyond a certain threshold, large financial rewards can actually become a drag on performance in the workplace.

    I'm willing to offer myself as a test subject to verify this hypothesis.

  3. Re:From what I've heard, it really is that bad... on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    especially given the majority of the flight time was well above the ash cloud

    That was my 1st idea too when I heard about the problem - why don't they fly above just like they fly above storm clouds? A few days later I heard that the cloud is reaching heights up to 30 on some places even 50 kilometers. That is much more than normal air traffic. I don't think that flying above was an option.

  4. Re:Damn it, Dick! on The World's First Full Face Transplant · · Score: 1

    This was always my reaction to Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. Every week for 12 years, one of her closest friends would get knocked off, and she would have to step in and solve the murder.

    She must be the most successful serial killer of all times because every time she moves somewhere a murder happens shortly after that. And she gets away with it too. Coincidence? I think not.

    I'm also surprised that there are still some people alive in Midsomer.

  5. Re:Come to Verizon! on Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down" · · Score: 1

    Unlimited broadband means you will get broadband speeds all the time. In OZ, broadband is apparently defined as anything faster than dialup...

    You lucky bastard. Over here "unlimited" means "you can use it all 24 hours a day 7 days a week (provided there is not an outage)". The speed however ... is not so unlimited.

    Yes, that's for real.

  6. Re:Strange on An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen · · Score: 1

    Where is "gibberish" mod when you need it?

  7. Re:undocumented commands I've seen: on XKCD Deploys Command Line Interface · · Score: 1
    You can also do Ctrl-D for logout

    guest@xkcd:/$ logout
    Bye.

    Also the key Alt is recognized, but no idea what it can be combined with. Pressing Ctrl followed by Alt shows Alt-Ctrl in the left bottom corner, but adding Delete does nothing.

  8. Re:pthread == malloc == bugs on Multicore Requires OS Rework, Windows Expert Says · · Score: 1

    Now in C++ I write vector, or in Python I use a_list = [] and POOF! I don't need to keep track of ANY details.

    I'm afraid that you are wrong

    The SGI implementation of STL is thread-safe only in the sense that simultaneous accesses to distinct containers are safe, and simultaneous read accesses to to shared containers are safe. If multiple threads access a single container, and at least one thread may potentially write, then the user is responsible for ensuring mutual exclusion between the threads during the container accesses.

  9. Re:Microsoft on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 1

    If you are running Windows, you are already implicitly agreeing to trust MS, so why not trust their AV program?

    In fact another view is "running one MS product - Windows" is a necessary evil and I'm not going to extend the amount of untrustworthy (due MS past performance) software on my system by running another product from MS - MSE. Also if MS has the knowledge to secure the system, then they should do it in the OS. Not as another layer on the top.

    Not that I have any huge experience with MSE or other AV products. Just thinking aloud.

  10. Re:Email is like Postcards.... on 11th Circuit Eliminates 4th Amend. In E-mail · · Score: 1

    No, it's very trivial. Your definition of trivial is flawed.

    If you are standing next to the system through which the SMTP traffic flows you don't see any e-mailed text. When you find a postcard laying on the sidewalk there is 50% chance that you can read the message. And there is non-zero probablity that you can wait a bit until the wind flips it over. You don't even have to touch it. Just because you know how to use a packet sniffer does not mean that the message is there in plain view. You skipped steps such as logging into the system and opening the packet sniffer or finding where the MTA stores the messages until the next hop.

    With x-ray glasses you could see the message in a snail mail envelope too. How is tearing apart a paper envelope not trivial using your definition of trivial?

  11. Re:Why? on NHTSA Has No Software Engineers To Analyze Toyota · · Score: 1

    What's more, you couldn't tinker with the car yourself any more and have to send them to expensive specialist mechanics.

    While that is a disadvantage from your(customer) point of view, it is an advantage for the producer and the specialist mechanics.

  12. Re:WiFi on New Method for Random Number Generation Developed · · Score: 1

    "That's the problem with randomness: you never really know."

  13. Re:Kids Today on "Logan's Run" Syndrome In Programming · · Score: 1

    Why, when I was your age, we had to chisel bluestone megaliths using only hand tools, and then haul those four-ton stones into a circular pattern, just to calculate date() ...!

    Did it involve any virgins too?

  14. Re:No Joke on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    "we should have a revolution and get rid the the US Constitution and especially the First Amendment!"

    Hold on. That sounds like legislators of South Carolina are advocating restricting of US Constitution! I think you can see who is the 1st organization that should receive "a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison". Or did they register?

  15. Re:I have a solution on Keep SSH Sessions Active, Or Reconnect? · · Score: 1

    Go outside.

    Don't. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

  16. Re:your router is yelling and you dont even know i on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    Pretty much every manufacturer sets the default power output levels to FUCKING LOUD. This means that I can get a clean signal from your router 100m away.

    Not every place builds houses from wood and paper. Over here they are made of steel reinforced concrete and I'm lucky if I get better than "Very low" signal strength between 2 places 10 meters apart within one flat. On the other hand it can be the crappy WiFi router supplied by my ISP.

  17. Re:Tabs vs. Spaces on Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting · · Score: 1

    http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=tabs&word2=spaces

    Spaces win.

  18. Re:Good Ones, Who know NON-SEQUENTIAL on 75% of Linux Code Now Written By Paid Developers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    WNT+: initially 1-4 lead + 20

    When you say that, you omitted all developers working for Intel, AMD, ATI, nVidia, 3com, Boradcom, ... that work on drivers. I would not be surprised if most of the 4000 developers of Linux knew only a few modules required for development of their favorite device driver.

  19. Re:Password strength vs. how often you change it on Analysis of 32 Million Breached Passwords · · Score: 1

    Now my wife, she seems to cling to passwords like lost children. I'm working on her.

    Me too.

  20. Re:Editors and Debuggers on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You mean GDB? What "new things" could be added?

    For sure I can imagine a few things:

    • GUI where I can drag and drop an expression from source code to watch window, or easily expand a structure in watch window, or switch between threads, or set commands on breakpoints, ...
    • edit&continue
    • remembering display expressions when going into the same functions twice, automatically save/load breakpoints on exit/startup
    • ...

    Yeah, GDB can do a lot. But GDB alone is not enough for efficient debugging.

  21. Quanta Plus on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 1

    Quanta Plus is widely recognized as the most advanced free software web development environment.

    But it did not survive very well the move from KDE3 to KDE4. The project had 1 or 2 developers, I think, and they did amazing work. However currently the project web pages are outdated, point to each other in circles and the project does not move (or so it seems from my perspective). IMHO, Quanta Plus is in the top position in badly-needed-FOSS-apps-list.

  22. Re:WHY does this NEVER hapen to me? on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    Why was the pilot allowed to take off. How is that even his decission? Its mad I tell you.

    According to press conference: the guilty policeman - cynologist - did not have authority to stop the flight. That has only his superior who was informed only 2 days later.

  23. Re:Why? on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    According to press conference, the samples were planted *after* detector checkpoint. The intent was purely let the dog walk across the luggage and see if it can find the samples.

  24. Re:Seriously? on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    I'm just watching press conference with the police chief. He claims that there were two samples used during the exercise - one scent sample (a piece of textile fabric with scent) and one real piece of plastic explosive with mass of something over 10 grams. That is reportedly a common practice around the world.

  25. What privacy? on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 4, Informative

    My country has a bill that puts limits on handling of my personal data. It was passed because the EU demands that. But it also demands that my bank passes info about my money transactions to USA. It would be pretty difficult to live without bank account and legally impossible to run a business without bank account. My privacy is screwed and I can't even vote to change that - short of convincing EU to challenge US.

    We had stories about US demandingdata about air travelers before. Well, you don't have to travel by air. You can use cash and not wire transfers. You can live without internet if you don't want ISP to log who/when you talk to. You can have your privacy - if you live back in the woods. Thanks God, the war on terrorism works so well.