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  1. Editors are asleep again... on Toyota Forms 'Strategic Partnership' With Uber (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    namely where its going to get a fleet of cars to equip with its autonomous technology.

    namely where it's going to get a fleet of cars to equip with its autonomous technology.

    FTFY.

  2. No good deed... on Student Exposes Bad Police Encryption, Gets Suspended Sentence (podcrto.si) · · Score: 1

    ...goes unpunished.

  3. Nope. People do care about density, which [...]

    haha, you're cute.

    Go ask 50 random people on the street if they care about transistor density and report back to us.

  4. It gives me what my typical US>UK transfer rate is (70MBs) for most speedtest nodes in the USA [...]

    You're getting 70 Megabytes per second???

  5. Re:"The G part stands for GNU?" on Oracle V. Google Being Decided By Clueless Judge and Jury (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but are there really 12 programmers who don't all hate Oracle?

  6. Or if you were Commander Data, you could listen to 900 of them simultaneously and get through it in half a day. :)

  7. There sure are a lot... on CERN Releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider Data Into Open Access (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure are a lot of articles about the Large Hardon Collider lately.

  8. Re:OS X for software development on Apple Launches MacBook 2016 With Intel Skylake Processor, Longer Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Alt-tab was from Windows (but OS X has had it for over a decade), and how the hell do you not know that the Command-Z/X/C/V for text editing came from the original 1984 Macintosh? It only got changed to use Ctrl because Microsoft was too stupid to use the Alt key for Command (which is in the proper location), and used Alt for other keyboard functionality.

    FTFY.

  9. Later Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel.

    FTFY.

  10. Re:Except that China has flagrantly violated copyr on Apple Refused China Request For Source Code In Last Two Years: Lawyer (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    And they would sport names such as "Arple IF-one" to really, really, make you wince.

    What would really make me wince is: Aqqle iPhome 6 Prus

  11. Re:Why not change the behavior of rm? on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. There is no reason ever to "rm -rf /" the whole filesystem. If you want everything wiped, you reformat the disk and start over with a new filesystem on it. Not only is this safer, it's cleaner and faster.

  12. Re:manishs clearly has no idea... on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's stupid filesystem design, not stupid operating system design.

  13. Re:manishs clearly has no idea... on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone ever want to rm -rf /? Much better to reformat the disk and run mkfs.

  14. Re:Why more fuel than usual? on NASA's Kepler Enters Emergency Mode 75 Million Miles From Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What's a reaction wheel then? Some kind of gyro system?

  15. Ownership hasn't changed at all on Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used To Be (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    What has changed is that big media companies want you to adopt their sad, broken, version of non-ownership and believe that it is some new kind of ownership when in fact it is not ownership at all.

  16. iPad has a camera on TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right (geek.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it snaps a picture of the person, analyzes it with deep neural learning, and decides whether or not the person looks suspicious.

  17. Re:Suggestions anyone? on FBI Unlocks iPhone Without Apple's Help In San Bernadino Case (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    No, 4500. 4-digit PINs are those numbers between 1000 and 9999, inclusive. 9999-1000=8999. 8999/2 = 4499.5, rounded up to 4500.

    Nope. Leading zeros are allowed. 10,000 combinations.

  18. Re:Suggestions anyone? on FBI Unlocks iPhone Without Apple's Help In San Bernadino Case (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    It used a 4-digit PIN. If you're math-challenged, that's on average 5000 attempts to break it.

    FTFY.

  19. Re:Money Lust Before Sanity on Six Charged For Hacking Lottery Terminals To Spew Only Winning Tickets (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They probably did. They could probably have got away with it ... [snip]

    ...if it weren't for those meddling kids.

  20. Re:The guy was ripping off leftpad on How One Dev Broke Node and Thousands of Projects In 11 Lines of JavaScript (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Define "need".

    Need means required. Need means that you have to use a library in order to complete your project. Libraries are never required; you can always write your own, given enough time and effort.

    That is why libraries are a convenience: they save you time and effort. But they are not required; they are not needed.

  21. Re:The guy was ripping off leftpad on How One Dev Broke Node and Thousands of Projects In 11 Lines of JavaScript (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you are competent and not independently-wealthy, you need to.

    I do not think you understand what need to means.

    The GP is correct. If you are competent, you do not need to use libraries. Libraries are a convenience.

  22. Re:Tim Cook on iMessage Bug Allows Attackers to Decrypt Photos and Videos · · Score: 1

    Close the blast doors! Close the blast doors!

  23. Re:What the fuck? on What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look around at the field of garbage collection, there aren't many women there either but I don't hear you complaining about it.

    That's because writing garbage collectors is a man's job.

  24. Re:I guess it's easier... on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I can get 2000 calories a day in a few spoonfuls of sugar, or...

    No, you cannot.

    There are 16 calories in a tsp. of sugar; 48 in a tbsp. That's 125 tsp. or 42 tbsp.

    Neither of those is "a few" spoonfuls.

  25. Re:I can understand the point. on Stephen Wolfram: No Need To Teach With 'Toy Programming Languages' Like Scratch (wolfram.com) · · Score: 1

    This is brilliant. Love it!