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  1. Re:Learning Golf While Young on In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Golf is simply "flog" spelled backwards.

  2. I want to know... on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 1

    What's the tag for the NSA guy charged with putting holes back in? I'd like to follow how he's doing it.

    Seriously, it took 2 years to find the big one after it was committed. How much vetting have each of these 250 commits undergone? Who's watching the watchers?

  3. Re:Wanted on Detroit: America's Next Tech Boomtown · · Score: 1

    Crime rate per capita. Your objection is moot.

  4. Re:Nothing new - Always had tech jobs on Detroit: America's Next Tech Boomtown · · Score: 2

    Top two cities with the highest density of engineers are Huntsville Alabama and Palm Bay/Melbourne Florida for what should be obvious reasons.

    ...the ability to live off the government.

  5. Re:Wanted on Detroit: America's Next Tech Boomtown · · Score: 1

    That's like saying the valley can't attract tech workers because of Oakland (well, except that Detroit actually has less crime than Oakland).

  6. Re:Leaked by codenomicon on How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gloat? About what? This only provides proof of the benefits of open source - a significant flaw was discovered, which is exactly the claimed advantage - the more eyes, the better.

    Anyone who would claim that proprietary software is somehow more secure is making a huge leap - there are only a few eyes, if any, looking for unreported issues - so there may be even more serious issues which have existed for much longer, which only a few bad guys know about. If MS or anyone else thinks that their proprietary SSL implementation has no security breaches, let them put a guarantee with full financial liability behind that thought.

  7. Re:What time zone is the 10:20 PM? on The Best Way To Watch the "Blood Moon" Tonight · · Score: 1

    No. Times for astronomical events are very often given in UTC, to avoid exactly the confusion which is occurring here. In any case, the time zone should always be specified to avoid ambiguity.

  8. Re:Funny on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seems to me that it's Gnome Foundation which is acting like a sexist dirtbag. They're driving/funding sexist "outreach" programs which are well beyond the scope of their formal charter, in which they disingenuously claim to be "a Meritocracy."

  9. Re:No. on Fire Risk From Panasonic Batteries In Sony Vaio Laptops · · Score: 1

    There is nothing in the article to indicate the batteries are defective, that's entirely conjecture by the submitter.

    It could well be that the Sony charging circuits are defective and causing perfectly good batteries to overheat.

  10. Re:I expect... on The Graffiti Drone · · Score: 1

    Although it varies by state, in general pepper spray may be used wherever use of physical force is. Protecting property from damage usually falls into that category.

  11. Re:To the point... on 'weev' Conviction Vacated · · Score: 2
    How can an AC be expected to actually read the ruling they're commenting on, which specifically addresses his complaint?

    There was no evidence at trial that Auernheimerâ(TM)s actions evinced any contact with New Jersey, much less contact that was âoesubstantial.â The Government has not cited, and we have not found, any case where the locus of the effects, standing by itself, was sufficient to confer constitutionally sound venue./blockquote)

  12. To the point... on 'weev' Conviction Vacated · · Score: 5, Informative

    Spitler was in San Francisco, California and Auernheimer was in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The servers that they accessed were physically located in Dallas, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia. Although no evidence was presented regarding the location of the Gawker reporter, it is undisputed that he was not in New Jersey.

    He was indicted and tried in NJ, despite none of the involved parties being located there.

  13. Re:Ability to design and write software... on Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code · · Score: 2

    "Zuckericanneverrmemberthespelling"

    It's Zucker of Borg. You will be assimilated.

    HTH! HAND!

  14. I expect... on The Graffiti Drone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He's not going to complain when the police drones provide a counterpoint by dousing him with pepper spray, right?

  15. Re:The earth IS at the center... on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 1

    Nope. You're wrong. Stop trying to create a straw man, because you're failing miserably.

  16. Re:The earth IS at the center... on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 1

    The barycenter of the Earth/Sun system is inside Sol, and the barycenter of the Earth/Moon system is inside the earth.

    I haven't heard any claims about orbiting the center of either the Sun or Earth.

  17. Re:It would be inequal to provide equal rewards on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    They already have equal opportunity, which is all that matters.

  18. The earth IS at the center... on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 1

    Einstein taught us that no point of reference is special. It's perfectly legitimate to state that everything goes around the earth. It does make the movements of everything else very complex though, since they then don't follow Keplerian orbits. It also breaks some of Newton's laws (like inertia, since other planets sometimes reverse course).

    But, fixing all of that is just a matter of using different math and creating different physical laws. The accepted convention of the Earth orbiting the Sun is simply the one which we've found to have the simplest math and laws.

  19. Re:This is Fantastic! on Rover Curiosity Discovers Australia-Shaped Rock On Mars · · Score: 1

    That stone looks more like a horseshoe crab than Australia.

  20. Re:Yes, yes it is. on Apple: Dumb As a Patent Trolling Fox On iPhone Prior Art? · · Score: 1

    "The trackball layout on the early Powerbooks was an obvious requirement of using a GUI."

    Nope. Look at the Mac Portable, which had the keyboard down near the edge, and a trackball to the side.

    "I remember using a similar touchscreen and keyboard setup...mid-80s"

    Touchscreen in the mid-80's? Even if so, how does that relate to the positioning of a keyboard and trackball/trackpad? (Fairlight? You talkin' 'bout a musical keyboard???)

  21. Re:Yes, yes it is. on Apple: Dumb As a Patent Trolling Fox On iPhone Prior Art? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Apple, and several others, have managed to blatantly hijack the patent system"

    Not defending their current practice (slide to unlock and pinch zoom clearly have prior art), but it comes from their past experience.

    One obvious example is the keyboard/trackpad layout of all modern laptops. It was Apple on their PowerBooks who pushed the keyboard toward the screen, making room for palmrests and pointing devices below. Prior to that, everyone was putting keyboards tight against the lower edge. They didn't patent it, and the rest of the industry quickly followed.

  22. Re:Yet again C bites us in the ass on OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks · · Score: 1

    MS-BASIC, FTW!

  23. Re:Is it not obvious? They have dirt on him! on Why No Executive Order To Stop NSA Metadata Collection? · · Score: 1

    J. Edgar, redux, but with a tinfoil hat.

  24. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    The article starts out by showing 2 graphs presented as "closely mirroring." They both trend upward, but they're quite different. Religious affiliation even stays flat while Internet usage more than doubles over about a 7 year period.

    The linked article mentions correlation/causation, but makes no compelling argument for causation, just a weak rationalization.

    And no, I'm not saying correlation implies non-causation, so stop with the straw man.

  25. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 0

    ITYM "The non-thinker," with regard to this researcher.

    The Internet causes a loss of faith in exactly the same way the loss of pirates has caused global warming.

    Correlation is not causation.