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  1. Re:Hardware Access on Android Lollipop Can Be Hacked With Very Long Password · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if you have hardware access to a device you own it. Nothing new to see.

    A system that lets you bypass the password easily is a system with plenty of remote vulnerabilities.
    People weren't thinking about security while they were programming.

  2. Re:not enough rich people, unless you mean teacher on The Answer To the High Cost of College: 42% Cut In Tuition · · Score: 1

    How high are you planning on raising property taxes?

  3. Re:Not the only factor? on Apple's 16GB IPhone 6S Is a Serious Strategic Mistake · · Score: 1

    This is not restricting the consumer, it's restricting the programmers
    The consumer has choices. They can get better devices if they want.

  4. Re:Why x86? on iPad Mini-Style Specs, On the Cheap, In Android-Based ASUS ZenPad S 8.0 · · Score: 1

    So? The instruction decoder makes up such a tiny part of a modern CPU that the instruction set is largely irrelevant in terms of efficiency.

    Because it's an ugly architecture. There's more to ISA than efficiency. If we can get rid of the x86 architecture, the world will be a better place (and Intel thinks so, too, as long as they can control the new architecture).

    Not that ARM is particularly beautiful, it has accumulated cruft from decades, too. But at least it has a few more registers to work with.

  5. Re:not enough rich people, unless you mean teacher on The Answer To the High Cost of College: 42% Cut In Tuition · · Score: 3, Interesting

    2010 wealth distribution: ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

    Note that is wealth, not income, so changing the tax rates will get almost none of that.

  6. Re: They cynic in me on The Answer To the High Cost of College: 42% Cut In Tuition · · Score: 1

    The people who paid full freight were subsidizing those that paid the average price.

    The third sentence of the summary says, "There were fewer than a dozen people paying full price."

  7. Re:Hackers on The Air Traffic Control Tower of the Future Doesn't Include Humans · · Score: 1

    Seems like that would make it vulnerable to malicious hackers

    It doesn't need to be.....it doesn't even need to be connected to the internet.

  8. Re:now it needs to play other computers to impress on Neural Network Chess Computer Abandons Brute Force For "Human" Approach · · Score: 1

    in your earlier post, you stated quite clearly that the learning process isn't understood. There's plenty more about the brain that's not understood. If you'd like an introduction to the topic, I can give you some book recommendations, but your rage is rather entertaining.

    Shall I try to enrage you some more? Did you know there are over 50 types of neuron in the retina alone?

  9. Re:We have a Yes! on Are Non-Technical Certifications Worth Earning? · · Score: 1

    Ask for it ahead of time and save yourself some trouble.

    Sure, if that works for you, go for it.

    Otherwise you're just aggravating people who have assumed the financial compensation was finalized.

    Ask for it before they do paperwork, before you leave the negotiating meeting.

  10. Re:We have a Yes! on Are Non-Technical Certifications Worth Earning? · · Score: 1

    They can still pull the offer genius.

    Very unlikely unless you're a lousy negotiator, giving them some kind of ultimatum or something.

    If you were worth a signing bonus, you'd have been offered it or asked for it ahead of time.

    Companies often have things like signing bonuses available, but don't offer them because they didn't need to.

  11. Re: Never on Are Non-Technical Certifications Worth Earning? · · Score: 1

    You are oversimplifying this. Project management is not one skill. It is a collection of skills, techniques, adherence to certain processes and best practices.

    Apparently PMP doesn't include reading comprehension, because you're attacking straw-men. Go back and read what I wrote, and see if you can come up with a more coherent response.

  12. Re:We have a Yes! on Are Non-Technical Certifications Worth Earning? · · Score: 1

    This is patently terrible advice and will make your negotiations that much harder.

    You didn't understand, man. The negotiations for salary, etc are already over. There are no more negotiations to make harder. This is just, "oh, one more thing....."

    Otherwise they will hate you

    Who will hate you? I've never had anyone hate me for asking for a signing bonus. They hate me when I quit a year after getting hired.

  13. Re:This looks fishy on US Navy Limits Use of Whale-Harming Sonar · · Score: 0

    It might as well say, "Judge compels Navy to stop using whale-harming sonar," because it was the result of a lawsuit that the Navy made this change. My understanding is that not every type of sonar is damaging to whales, just some types.

    This change has been coming for several years now, it's not really a surprise.

  14. Re:We have a Yes! on Are Non-Technical Certifications Worth Earning? · · Score: 1

    BTW, any time you are negotiating salary for a job, ask for a signing bonus. Ask for it after you come to an agreement on salary. At that point, sit silently for a bit, not smiling, then after thinking, ask something like, "It would make things so much easier if I could get a signing bonus. Can you help me with that?"

  15. Re: Never on Are Non-Technical Certifications Worth Earning? · · Score: 1

    Most of your post is trying to explain why PMP is important. You do it by saying, "the person will have to learn X, the person will have to learn Y, the person will have to know Z." In other words, to show that the certification has value, you also show that a person can learn something by getting the cert.

    Of course there are people who already have the skill.....should they get the certification? Usually those people already know if the cert is worth getting or not. They don't ask that question. Furthermore, for those people, a certification is not hard to get, spend a few hours taking the test, a few hundred dollars, no big deal, if they have to.

  16. Never on Are Non-Technical Certifications Worth Earning? · · Score: 1

    Certifications are NEVER worth getting unless you learn something from them.
    If you don't learn anything from them, it's a worthless cert, and you don't want to work for a company that respects it.

    If you disagree with me, and think a cert is worth getting for 'respect' or something instead of learning, then you will probably like working for that kind of company.

  17. "Immediately report suspicious behavior" on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Irving Independent School District in Irving, Texas sent an email to parents about the incident asking students to: "immediately report any suspicious items and / or suspicious behavior."

    "Hello, Office? I'd like to report that the principle is acting more moronic than normal....I think he's a replicant."

  18. Re:Sociopaths on Facebook Is Building an 'Empathy Button' · · Score: 1

    *like*

  19. Re:The enabling technology, itself, is ridiculous. on Bug In iOS, OS X Allows AirDrop To Write Files Anywhere On File System · · Score: 0

    I think AirDrop defaults to contacts only, so that should mitigate most of the severity of this

    Melissa virus only spread through contacts.

  20. Re:Nothing to worry about on UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows · · Score: 1

    Poorly considered diplomacy? Like invading another country to conquer it?

  21. Re:like GnuChess on Neural Network Chess Computer Abandons Brute Force For "Human" Approach · · Score: 1

    Computers are unable to understand positions. Take the final setup mentioned here - http://scienceblogs.com/evolut...

    That's a good example. You don't really explain what it mean to 'understand' a position though. I consider "understand" to merely mean "recognize which branches are prunable."

  22. Re:now it needs to play other computers to impress on Neural Network Chess Computer Abandons Brute Force For "Human" Approach · · Score: 1

    Come on guy... you know you are wholly ignorant on the subject, so why are you acting like some fucking knowledgeable person about it? You do know that its wrong to do that, right? Its not just wrong, its dishonest. That makes you a dishonest fuck.

    Oooh, insults, you sound so intelligent when you insult me.

    Maybe because a neural network, for a fact, matches the human brain. This is well understood.

    No it's not lol. They match some aspects of neurons, but not all of them. We don't even entirely understand what neurons do. It's unlikely we even know all the different types of neurons that exist.

    Getting back to the chess-playing neural network in this story..........it is a specific, chess-playing neural network. As a result, it clearly belongs in the subset of weak-AI. Neural networks in general may match a human brain (something we don't know, which you so elegantly try to cover up with insults), but this particular one clearly doesn't.

  23. Re:Nothing to worry about on UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows · · Score: 1

    The thing Ukraine conspiratorialists like you don't understand is that the US (and the west generally) don't really care about Ukraine. They wouldn't go to all that effort to do asassinations and secret support. If Putin wants Ukraine, he can take it, and the west will mumble some vague complaints, just like happened with Crimea.

  24. But does it really matter when Youtube automatically censors so much?

  25. Re:now it needs to play other computers to impress on Neural Network Chess Computer Abandons Brute Force For "Human" Approach · · Score: 1

    This is weak AI, not strong AI.