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  1. ... will just have to adapt.

  2. Lesson learned on iPhone X Purchase Leads To Police, Battering Ram, and Handcuffs (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 2

    Never open the door for the police.

  3. Re:This is crazy on iPhone X Purchase Leads To Police, Battering Ram, and Handcuffs (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    several thousand dollars of property theft

    That is probably over the minimum limit for grand theft. So, a felony charge right there. And many police departments realize that chasing a single theft (even smaller) often leads them to larger rings of criminals. And greater recoveries of stolen property. All of which look better on the 5 o'clock news.

  4. Re:You can patent Math? on Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem Been Solved? (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 1

    No.

    But this appears to be an implementation of something like Interval Arithmetic inside of a math co-processor. Previous implementations have been in math libraries.

  5. Well duh. Round earth has been demonstrated by incontrovertible photographic evidence.

  6. Re:Maple isn't the only syrup on No More Pancake Syrup? Climate Change Could Bring an End To Sugar Maples (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Delete this! Eh.

  7. Brazzers account on A Photo Accidentally Revealed a Password For Hawaii's Emergency Agency (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    n/t

  8. Detroit area on Meteor Lights Up Southern Michigan (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    It was a direct hit from the looks of the subsequent aerial photography.

  9. That problem has already been solved.

  10. It is for men.

  11. Some DMs are probably being watched, subject to the delivery of a National Security Letter. Some Twitter employees probably do have access to message contents in order to set this up. Although I'd imagine that they just pipe them straight to the applicable TLA that requested them most of the time.

    claims made by conservative activist group Project Veritas

    If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. And it's your side that keeps renewing these surveillance acts anyway. So why are you surprised?

  12. Re:Me, I guess. on Google's Museum App Finds Your Fine Art Doppelganger (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I've given up looking in mirrors.

  13. Re:Thanks, Google - but I call shenanigans on Google's Museum App Finds Your Fine Art Doppelganger (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    You think that's bad? Google sent me back a picture of Muhammad.

  14. Only 40 vehicles? on Ford is Throwing $11 Billion at Its Electric Car Problem (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    n/t

  15. Re:No problem on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    California could just have their law makers tarred and feathered too.

    You'll just have to wait in line. There are others ahead of you.

  16. Re:Coventry on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    So, that means it's a legal problem. Not technical.

  17. Re:Open source has changed the world on 20 Years Later, Has Open Source Changed the World? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? We ran an enterprise critical web app on two Sun 'pizza boxes' that we had obtained as surplus. Running Apache (started with NCSA, but that was about end of life by the time we came along). Our IT management had already drank the Microsoft Kool-Aide. We could have gotten $250,000 budget for a new Compaq NT server. Want to run Unix? Go dig through the scrap pile behind the building. The Windows folks actually tried porting our app to a high end NT server. And it collapsed miserably. The pizza boxes just ran on.

  18. Re:Open source has changed the world on 20 Years Later, Has Open Source Changed the World? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    None of them

    We've told you a million times: Stop exaggerating!

  19. Re:Open source has changed the world on 20 Years Later, Has Open Source Changed the World? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    only because you seem to have an irrational hatred for it.

    Which really started when I administrated several *NIX systems and watched our Intranet web logs as the Code Red worm practically collapsed Boeing's IT infrastructure. Us UNIX admins would scrape the logs for IP addresses of infected machines probing around and forward them to our computing security folks. See schadenfreude.

  20. But, but ... on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 1

    ... I received a valid message from Colonel Panic.

  21. Al? on AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is this Al guy everyone is speaking of?

  22. Coventry on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you know they can't locate you? I listen to our local police investigations units on my scanner. And they can track a suspect ('s phone) to a particular location in a parking lot in real time. I suspect that they are letting a few innocent people die so as not to reveal their capabilities to the general public and criminals.

    If this was 1945, Churchill would be complaining to the Nazis about how their uncrackable Enigma was a security threat.

  23. Ban exchanges at home? on Cryptocurrency Traders in South Korea Face Fines For Virtual Accounts (yonhapnews.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    There are other currencies for which BTC can be exchanged*. And an unnamed account hosted on a server 'somewhere' will be pretty difficult to tie back to a South Korean national. So, good luck with this.

    *The US dollar comes to mind. Probably the world's most liquid and negotiable currency. So I doubt many South Koreans will have problems loading up dollar denominated prepaid cards from BTC and using them at home. In fact, who do you think whispers in the foreign banking communities ears about how something or other is evil? And needs to be outlawed (thus creating a cost to using their home currencies) while ours remains freely available for shuffling funds around.

  24. No problem on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    California can just outlaw air conditioning.

  25. We knew what to do with the waste. Reprocessing spent fuel isn't difficult. But hippies got upset and cried a little. So we stopped it and let the spent fuel pile up on site.