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  1. You do know it's against the law in most states to stop your car on the highway except to avoid an accident or when required to do so by a police officer.

    Then there are millions of criminals out on the road at least twice every weekday in every major city everywhere....

  2. Re:I don't know why it stops here on FBI Has Sights On Larger Battle Over Encryption After Apple Feud (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, that little electrostatic bag really has multiple good uses.

  3. Re:Pay no attention to insider skeptics. on 15-Year-Old Boy Discovers Long-Lost Ancient Mayan City Using Constellations And Google (nzherald.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    He didn't find a city he found a corn field. Hardly boat rocking.

    Alfred Wegener found a corn field? I'm interested, that wasn't in the stuff I read!

  4. Re:Pay no attention to insider skeptics. on 15-Year-Old Boy Discovers Long-Lost Ancient Mayan City Using Constellations And Google (nzherald.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    I found that interesting, and read through more of his work. He was only wrong in polflucht, as the mechanism wasn't strong enough. However, he was right on almost every other aspect, and the science community railed against their boat being rocked by the truth. This happened to Einstein and every other scientist that makes a truly groundbreaking discovery that upends a lot of lifework, as only a few can write off their life's work as a mistake and move on.

  5. Considering that 4K monitors still aren't common, you've still got at least another year to go.

    There's plenty of 4K "monitors" available, but 4K HDR quality monitors are just starting to show up as of last month. Sony has one but they don't make their own panels anyways so I'll get better quality from someone that doesn't actively hate their customers.

  6. Re:Employees are now training their replacements. on Newspaper Chain CEO 'Pleased' To Announce IT Plan, Then Fires Tech Staff (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Two choices, cancel the layoff or go down in flames.

    If I am reading you correctly I think that this is probably the time. Technologists don't need to picket. ...It should only take about 12 days of downtime for any business to be completely on it's knees and willing to negotiate with those who have worked hard to make that business function. 14 days and they will be offering pay rises for you to stay.

    You think that would be the way it works. It doesn't. Watching the CEOs face as they realized they rolled the wrong dice as you walk out the door?... definitely worth the few weeks severance that might have been offered after training the replacements.

  7. you'll note that "cool" and "quiet" were 2 requirements at 4K HDR. I doubt the 260x will meet either of those requirements running near 80C under full load. 4K isn't exactly going to be a low load situation. I'd even prefer a fanless GPU if possible.

  8. I'd just like a low power quiet 4K HDR card for regular work at a $200 price point. :)

  9. Re:surprised it took so long on Streaming Surpasses CD Sales At Warner Music (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I rip all my discs, and still occasionally, when the artist actually puts together a complete disc, buy one. Why? Because the quality is far better than any streaming service. Oh, and *owning* my music is far better than an ongoing payment system leaching money from your wallet every month.

  10. Re:You will own nothing on Streaming Surpasses CD Sales At Warner Music (ft.com) · · Score: 2

    besides, streaming limits you to whatever "they" want you to hear. I likely want to hear something else.

  11. Re:You will own nothing on Streaming Surpasses CD Sales At Warner Music (ft.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    None of my old CDs work anymore.

    What did you do with them? Use them as coasters? Play frisbee with them? I have disks dating back to at least 1986 that still play fine. One suffered disk rot and likely won't rip anymore (took quite a long time and a few attempts to fully rip a quality rip years ago), and a couple that have scratches when loaned but still play.

  12. Re:Yes. on 'Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously' (vellumatlanta.com) · · Score: 1

    Regarding Calendar, Google has done a lot of work to make their calendaring solution incompatible with iCal standards. Then again, so has MS, Apple, and probably everyone else.

  13. Re:Remind us what java and python are written in on Huge Number Of Sites Imperiled By Critical Image-Processing Vulnerability (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Java is written in... wait for it.... Java.

    The JVM, OTOH.....

  14. Re:Double-standard on 'Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously' (vellumatlanta.com) · · Score: 2

    iTunes allows for keeping your music as is or moving it to the Library. So there are at least 2 workflows....

  15. Re:Yes. on 'Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously' (vellumatlanta.com) · · Score: 1

    Or Google (mail & calendaring) or any other large software company, for that matter.

  16. Re:Yes. on 'Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously' (vellumatlanta.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not theft if you agree to give something away. Always always keep backups of your stuff.

  17. Re:It can't be said too many times on 'Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously' (vellumatlanta.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not an edge case wrt to music, given the large large catalog of remixes and mashups people have locally, along with multiple releases over time of any popular song or even bootleg recordings. In fact, for large collections, I'd say the edge case would be the simple matches that Apple Music appears to have done, as any large collection is bound to have oddities in it.

  18. Re:A non-issue on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    or that people have finally understood that pseudo-random code is deterministic and fail to see how to address it.

    or, perhaps, I could have added a time stamp seed in the original post. I still would have had some of the remaining posts to address the time aspects, never mind how to remove all aspects of deterministic behavior, even within the generation of random numbers. Making non-deterministic randoms is relatively trivial in multi-threaded multi-cored systems under load, it just performs poorly.

  19. Re:A non-issue on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Read the rest of the posts. We already covered it. For all intents and purposes, we can create effectively random input. Gaming it with special conditions to make it not random is like saying we'll only watch the coin flip from a determined point in a known flip sequence retroactively.

  20. Re:Free = without charge or user-improvable? on No One Should Have To Use Proprietary Software To Communicate With Their Government (fsf.org) · · Score: 1

    Evince version 3.18.2 and Okular: 0.24.2 [...] I was able to fill the forms

    not only to fill in the form but also submit the form through the PDF reader. I wonder whether there's a way to test submission.

    Sure - print and mail.

  21. Re:A non-issue on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    but there is effectively a unique seed for the domain in question. Time is ever increasing, and by using time as a seed, Math.random() is effectively for the purposes being discussed here random as it should not be repeatable on a single machine running a single thread utilizing Math.random(). Can the results be duplicated? Of course. Can we determine what the list of numbers will be? Certainly. Can we state what they will be without knowing the seed? The chances are exceedingly small. Should we use some permutation of the time, such as reversing the digits and use them as the initial half, or using a second source and slip it into the first, while increasing the potential for duplicate seeds, the ability to determine the sequence will be vanishingly small so as to make winning the lottery a certainty by comparison. There are all sorts of ways to make the pseudo random code less deterministic to the point that for all intents and purposes it is random enough as to be indistinguishable from something truly random, if anything like that exists.

  22. Re:A non-issue on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    That was kind of the point - by choosing a potentially random seed (effectively) the net result is not deterministic.

  23. Re:A non-issue on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Does it? If I seed it with time (seconds, ms, ns or permutations) I can be pretty sure that 2 runs will never return the same values, likely with more than 99.999% guarantees.

  24. Re:A non-issue on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Math.random()

  25. or the fed's pass a national sales tax

    That is the only option, and should be done, with no exclusions. Imports get taxed at least twice. Solves numerous issues and seriously streamlines all tax codes.