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  1. Re:Hackers on The Hackers Who Recovered NASA's Lost Lunar Photos · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've never heard Samuel L. Jackson say that, although I have heard him say, "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?"

  2. Re:"marg"? on The Science Behind Powdered Alcohol · · Score: 1

    It's an abbreviation for "margarine", which is a butter substitute. I don't know what it has to do with powdered alcohol, though.

  3. Re:de Raadt on OpenBSD Team Cleaning Up OpenSSL · · Score: 2

    Clearly the person who wrote the RFC understood that answering a heartbeat request with a size different than its payload was a potential problem since the behavior was specified.

    The person who wrote the RFC also wrote the buggy code, so it may not be quite so clear.

  4. Re:Let the pandering begin! on Is Crimea In Russia? Internet Companies Have Different Answers · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that the governments in Beijing and Taipei agree that there is only one China, which includes the territory effectively governed by Beijing and the territory effectively governed by Taipei. The point of disagreement is which of them is the lawful government of the whole thing.

  5. Re:I don't think so... on Can Web-Based Protests Be a Force for Change? · · Score: 2, Informative

    movement with real impact ... shut down before it accomplished anything

    I think I spy an oxymoron.

  6. Re:Latency of each range request on Google Chrome 34 Is Out: Responsive Images, Supervised Users · · Score: 1

    The browser picks size X. A simple implementation would hard-code a single X; a more advanced implementation would combine experimental evidence about the statistical properties of PJPEGs, the measured latency, the decode progress...

  7. Re:It's not just the implementation on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If your job is to process a formally defined struct, you are not going to review the struct in an attempt to change the standard.

    The developer who wrote this code also wrote the spec, as part of his PhD research. To me the more worrying aspect of this whole affair is that OpenSSL accepted into the trunk an extension which at the time hadn't even reached "Proposed standard" status (and still doesn't seem to have progressed beyond it).

  8. Re:TCP slow start on Google Chrome 34 Is Out: Responsive Images, Supervised Users · · Score: 1

    I don't think it needs to know in advance: the decode is probably faster than the network transfer, so it can request it in batches of size X, decode each batch while the next one is being transferred, and at worse fetch just under 2 batches more than it needs.

  9. Re:TCP slow start on Google Chrome 34 Is Out: Responsive Images, Supervised Users · · Score: 1

    Should be possible to do it with range requests, surely? But it's a chicken-and-egg problem, because there's no point adding the overhead of testing whether the server supports ranges until PJPEG is more widespread, and the current status quo doesn't seem to motivate many people to use PJPEG.

  10. Re:Why not upgrade to Chromebooks? on UK Government Pays Microsoft £5.5M For Extended Support of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Bear in mind that the article is about a 1 year extended support contract. They still have to migrate away to something, this is just a delaying tactic.

  11. Re:Dear UK gov, please move to Linux/FOSS on UK Government Pays Microsoft £5.5M For Extended Support of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    What's that got to do with it? You can install .Net 4 on XP, but it isn't fully compliant with the spec. For a start, it doesn't provide all of the documented cryptography primitives.

  12. Re:Okay, but... on Hacker Holds Key To Free Flights · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Which airlines do you fly with? I mainly fly Ryanair or EasyJet, and they don't assign seats unless you pay. (I'm not sure, but I half suspect it's a ploy to make people get to the gate early so that they can be at the front of the queue). It's a while since I flew Air Nostrum, so I can't remember how they do it.

  13. Re:Okay, but... on Hacker Holds Key To Free Flights · · Score: 1

    I don't think you're familiar with European budget airlines. You can choose your seat when booking if you're willing to pay extra. Maybe a dozen people per flight have reserved seats, and the rest work on the basis of first come, first served.

  14. Re:This article is awful on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 1

    I'm no longer in the world in indie game development, but I didn't understand it all, and some of what I did understand what complete tosh. "Everyone knows everyone"?! Nonsense.

  15. Externally commissioned product? on The Inside Story of Gmail On Its Tenth Anniversary · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure they created it for Google, not for TIME.com.

  16. Re:this will certainly lead to a cure for cancer. on Adaptation From Flash Boys Offers Inside Look at High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 2

    You missed one: to quote Jeff Hammerbacher,

    The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads

  17. Re:Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 5, Informative

    Her PhD is in philosophy. However, she is an associate editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, so we should all still be pretty worried.

  18. Re:Criticality of JigSaw on Java 8 Officially Released · · Score: 1
  19. Re:A Javascript Engine in the JVM!? on Java 8 Officially Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    "New" is an important qualifier in the summary, because Java has had a Javascript engine since version 6, which included Rhino.

  20. Re:We need a US base in the Ukraine on Russian Army Spetsnaz Units Arrested Operating In Ukraine · · Score: 1

    If the Wikipedia description of presidential vetoes is accurate, the checks and balances are as reasonable as in most Western democracies, and in particular they parallel the USA in requiring a supermajority of the legislature to overturn the veto. (As a point of comparison, the last president of the USA not to veto a bill was Garfield, and the last full-term president not to use a veto was Fillmore).

  21. Re:Harald Bluetooth, he dead on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Good museum of Viking ships there, which they'd found sunk in the harbor.

    And for anyone based in London who thinks that sounds cool, they've loaned one of them to the British Museum for their current exhibition about the Vikings.

  22. Re:Makers and takers on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Direct payments to individuals" would seem to include your pay during those 40 years too. It's obvious to me that the wording is chosen to be deceptive.

  23. Re:You have all the education you need, don't both on Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS? · · Score: 1

    But ultimately, they are separate for a reason. Otherwise, CS would just be another area of mathematics rather than a subject in its own right.

    That's how it started. The first CS degree was Cambridge's Dip.Comp.Sci., taught out of the Mathematical Laboratory. I think that the best way to see CS is as an interdisciplinary subject which sits between pure maths, engineering, and psychology.

  24. Re:British company? on BP Finds Way To Bypass US Crude Export Ban · · Score: 1

    I suppose that for consistency you always refer to Nintendo as Marafuku and AOL as Quantum Computer Services?

  25. Re:so they got an anti-abortion judge on BPAS Appeals £200,000 Fine Over Hacked Website · · Score: 1

    UK salaries aren't that high: it's more like the annual salary of about five professionals, and it seems to be about three times their annual "governance" spending according to the summary of their accounts on the Charity Commission website (although since they apparently have the equivalent of 354 full-time employees they must be filing the bulk of their wage bill under "charitable activities"). Perhaps more pertinently, it's about 1% of annual turnover, which is not an unreasonable level to pitch a fine which can't be treated as a cost of "doing business" badly.