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  1. Re:the most important feature on Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2 · · Score: 1

    Failing that, PowerShell has Invoke-WebRequest which can be aliased to look like wget. Now all we need is a permanent web address that is easy and quick to type that downloads both .. say http://save.me/

  2. Re:It's a pop-up on Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2 · · Score: 0

    Right, UAC all over again !

  3. Re: And, Microsoft has always done this ... on With the Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate the PC Market · · Score: 1

    They bought Bungie for Halo in 2000 already, lots of kids were running to BestBuy it

  4. Re:So do we end up with the ironic situation on China Bans Government Purchases of Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    He is probably still in charge, he simply outsourced his chair throwing to an .. oh, well.

  5. Re:So do we end up with the ironic situation on China Bans Government Purchases of Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Also, it would be against Geneva convention

  6. Achievement on Curiosity Rover May Have Brought Dozens of Microbes To Mars · · Score: 2

    First properly documented interplanetary flight sent by us, with biological specimens on board ! Pity we didnt measure the effect of zero-g or deep space radiation on these.

    Next up, amoebas and molluscs to mars ! With the current pace, maybe in next couple thousand years we'll send rhesus monkeys at some point.

  7. Re:Where is competition? on AT&T Buying DirecTV for $48.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    Of course we know that too much competition is just CONFUSING to an average american. Thats why everything is bound to converge around two "choices" of everything. Demolicans or republicrats, Lockheed or Boeing, AT&T or Verizon, Intel or AMD ..
    Its all free market, yes ?

  8. Explains itself.... occams razor. on Static Electricity Defies Simple Explanation · · Score: 0

    "It's pretty amazing to me that they count every electron on a particle," Shinbrot says. The tally showed that the beads start out with far too few trapped electrons to explain the static buildup,

    They probably did not count every electron, then.

  9. Re:Corporate directed not volunteer direct ... on Free Software Foundation Condemns Mozilla's Move To Support DRM In Firefox · · Score: 2

    They are effectively "browser distros" from the brief look - and we need more popular versions of them. And you missed IceWeasel, IceCat, Wyzo, SwiftFox ..

  10. Re:Electric. on Future of Cars: Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Or Electric? · · Score: 1

    Energy density of the fuel alone means nothing, energy density of the entire powertrain, end to end, does. Check the numbers and you'll find that they are pretty damn close due to inherent inefficiencies of internal combustion engines.

  11. Re: Simple answer on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 2

    Actually, I'm pretty sure the correct answer will be calculated and given to programmers by insurance companies.
    They have a very well defined and characterized value of human life - at different stages of life, too. And for situations like these the formulas will drive them. Hitting a Mercedes with a real estate agent in it will likely be more costlier than bumping a Yaris off the road.

  12. Re: Couldn't one core... on AMD Designing All-New CPU Cores For ARMv8, X86 · · Score: 1

    There are hardly any ARM CPUs or MCUs around that will ever get inserted in a socket. They are all mostly SMD chips.

  13. Re:I would think on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 1

    >> And much of is in still in use - embedded devices that last for 15+ years, for example.

    Nobody in their right mind uses OpenSSL in embedded projects. There are much better suited alternatives out there.

    The line between "embedded" or non-embedded systems is somewhere where you have an MMU to use or not.

  14. Re:Static analysis ? on How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? · · Score: 1

    Lame reply to self but, yeah, according to the most basic static analysis tools, it was broken in 2012
    http://www.viva64.com/en/b/018...
    and still broken in 2013
    http://www.viva64.com/en/b/025...

  15. Static analysis ? on How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? · · Score: 1

    In all this hoopla i havent bothered to look at the code in question yet, but im always slightly dismayed when i throw some popular open source stacks at commonly available but expensive static analysis tools like Coverity or Klocwork.
    There are plenty of companies running full open source stack servers with the licenses available - i wonder how often things like OpenSSL and other critical infrastructure pieces go through the best static analysis tools available ? And how much of it gets addressed.

  16. Re:Too easy on 44% of Twitter Users Have Never Tweeted · · Score: 1

    If my calculations are correct, there is a 50/50 chance of a twit being a twat.

  17. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are dozens of ways of obtaining indirect climate data, and they are already compiled into comprehensive databases. You would have to show more than one of them being substantially wrong to disprove the full reconstructions.
    These data sets are continuously reviewed, amended and further improved by thousands of people around the world.
    You want to call all of it "questionable data" - please publish your papers.

  18. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 4, Informative

    >> the proxies can not be independently verified

    The proxies are VERIFIED against each other, and over the time span that we DO have accurate instrumental records. Guess what, they match up, minus normal statistical uncertainty which is continuously further and further reduced by incorporating as many independent observations as possible. There are literally many dozens of methods of recovering climate data from human records and paleoclimate records.
    There is this whole field of science called statistics and data analysis, try looking into it some time.

  19. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 2

    >> with a proposed burden of proof that claims to immunize it against questioning or any part

    wtf are you on about ? Every historical data record is carefully examined and questioned, and compared to other data sources. Every discrepancy is investigated.
    Go ahead, and go question the things like CLIWOC, RECLAIM and ICOADS database, ships and farmers logs, alpine peatland records, ice cores, tree rings, pollen calibration, coral growth, sediments etc etc. Its being done by climate scientists and climate historians every single day.
    Maybe you ought to publish a paper or two about how its all wrong and not questioned ?

  20. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 2

    Thats not how it works, the reconstructed records are not simply and aggregate of all the proxy methods averaged or summed up, this is not 3rd grade math or Spreadsheets 101.

  21. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its called data reconstruction, and the existing large scale records factor use multiple proxy methods of records of reconstructing the temperature records.
    There are multiple indirect ( or proxy ) ways of obtaining temperature history, and all of these would have to be invalidated to prove the existing reconstructions wrong.
    The reconstruction models match with accurate instrument measurements that we have for a past hundred years or so.

    Educate yourself
    https://www.skepticalscience.c...

  22. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are dozens and dozens, multi-proxy reconstructions of temperature records.

    https://www.skepticalscience.c...
    https://www.skepticalscience.c...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

    Its called science.

  23. Re:Good for devs. on The New 'One Microsoft' Is Finally Poised For the Future · · Score: 1

    You realize COM is about the only solid thing about Windows ? It pretty much holds everything together, and there is no other code componentization approach out in there that is even slightly as capable or robust, that would be widely deployed.
    They thought .NET and managed stuff will replace COM - well it didn't, backtracking is happening rather quickly.

    Yes, COM is long in the tooth and would benefit from a major revision that is not backwards compatible over the binary interfaces, but the fundamental ideas of COM are solid. One binary component talking to other binary component through stable binary interfaces, regardless of the languages used, threading models on either sides etc.

  24. Re:Corporations are not people on Hewlett-Packard Admits To International Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes · · Score: 1

    GM is coming up with the same excuses. Nobody is accountable because the corporation went through bankruptcy. 13 people dead and many injured, and they are telling people to make their keychains lighter.

    Long time ago, different leadership, company cannot be held accountable, blah blah.

  25. Re:VR ! on Land Rover Demos "Transparent Hood" · · Score: 1

    Right, but how about someone who is driving with Augmented Reality , which this camera gizmo, proposed removal of side view mirrors that Tesla is championing etc effectively are ? Even rear backup cameras are effectively AR.
    I mean going full VR is just the next logical step ..