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

    And if you read the sidebar you'll see that its name changed to BP Amoco plc in 1998 and to BP plc in 2001.

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

    Calling it a British company is debatable, but more defensible than calling it "British Petroleum (BP)". British Petroleum isn't even its previous name.

  3. Re:I agree with all of the things. on Teaching Calculus To 5-Year-Olds · · Score: 1

    They had something similar for mathematics back when I was in primary school, except that rather than 10 booklets there were dozens of cards. The teacher would assign each pupil 10 cards, and then we could do them in the order we wanted (as long as no-one else was using the card we wanted). I loved it.

  4. Re:after all... on MtGox Sets Up Call Center For Worried Bitcoiners · · Score: 1

    If they do it right, they can even make a profit on the call centre and pay down some of their dollar/yen liabilities.

  5. Re:What surprises me... on The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World's Top Drug Lord · · Score: 1

    Because when people are pointing guns at your head, your first priority is going to be to reach into your pocket for your phone, and not to get your hands above your head...

  6. It seems that Tom Lehrer's advice "Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air" is still valid decades later...

  7. Re:Yes on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Once you account for all of the differences. I've lost many an hour trying to work out why a project would compile in VS but not with MSBuild from the command line.

  8. Re:Please Stop. on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    The ability to undo more than one change is the kind of hand-holding which is always beneficial.

  9. Re:Time for an ecologically sound cryptocurrency on Riecoin: A Cryptocurrency With a Scientific Proof of Work · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, Slashdot at its best: comments by people who haven't even read TFS.

  10. Re:Crucial information on German Domain Registrar Liable For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    I think trying to draw analogies between criminal offences and torts risks coming to unreasonable conclusions. The reasonable process here is for the music label to sue the site operators. Not only are they the ones who are (allegedly) actively infringing the label's rights, but taking down the domain name doesn't stop the site being accessed, so it doesn't fully accomplish the label's goal anyway.

  11. Re:LHC didn't destroy the Unvierse? on CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC · · Score: 1

    Full marks for coming up with a workable idea, but I'm afraid you've been beaten to the punch: they already send the particles around the loop a few times.

  12. Re:Editors? on The Bitcoin Death Star: KnC Plans 10 Megawatt Data Center In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Of course. You don't think that those summaries are promoted as is from the firehose, do you? Someone has to mangle them into a mixture of incomprehensibility and deception.

  13. Re:Bear in mind on Microsoft's IE Is the Most Targeted Application By Security Researchers · · Score: 1

    Private browsing is good, unless you want to have 2 or more private browsers open on the same site like e.g. two or more gmail accounts open simultaneously, which you can't do because the cookies are shared amongst them...

    The version of Chromium I use is the same. Is there a browser which supports multiple simultaneous private sessions?

  14. Re:Be Thankful on The Schizophrenic State of Software In 2014 · · Score: 1

    There weren't just three versions: ME was far from homogenous. Most people think that J2ME is synonymous with J2ME CLDC MIDP. I spent 3 months in 2005 writing a computer-assisted interviewing app for PocketPC in J2ME CDC PP, which is closer to a cutdown J2SE than to CLDC MIDP; although I try to make it clear on my CV, I have to be prepared to explain it when I go for interviews.

  15. Re:I feel you. on The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer · · Score: 1

    ...spend time with my SO...

    So you get home and log in to Stack Overflow, and you want us to believe that you're not passionate about programming?

  16. Re:Sounds good on Why We Need OpenStreetMap (Video) · · Score: 1

    I use OSM data with Locus Pro. (I now have the paid version, but I used the free one for a year or more). I don't use the navigation though, and I think that requires connection to some online service.

  17. Re:It's OK on Why We Need OpenStreetMap (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's not as good as Google Maps in the things Google Maps is really strong in, but it has different strengths. Take offline mapping: the Google Maps application on Android lets you store a few megabytes of map data for offline use. I have the full OpenStreetMap data for four countries stored for offline use with Locus Pro, taking up about 1.3GB on the SD card.

  18. Re:71 vs 79 seconds on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Oops, I left an ambiguous anaphor. Carlsen didn't seem entirely sure that the game had started. The clock hadn't, because no-one had touched it.

  19. Re:I'm a little surprised on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Blitz chess. There were only 150 seconds on the clock in total when the game started. But reporters either don't bother learning enough about their subject to communicate it, or prefer to misrepresent it.

  20. Re:71 vs 79 seconds on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Carlsen started with 30 seconds on the clock and finished with 18. Gates started when 120 and finished with 70. So 71 seconds would be by the chess clock. However, Gates made his first move without starting the clock, and Carlsen didn't seem entirely sure that it had started; the time from Gates making his first move to the checkmate is actually 86 seconds. I'm not sure where 79 seconds comes from.

  21. Re:We have one of those already. on CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Scoop.it to me.

  22. Re:All the news that matters on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    If they at least inspected your salt then they were better coordinated than customs at Houston when I went through there back in 2005. I told them that I'd been on farmland, but instead of disinfecting my shoes they x-rayed my suitcase.

  23. Re:classroom tools on Datawind Not Blowing Smoke: $38 Tablet Coming To the US · · Score: 1

    One of my lecturers set her own book as the text for her course, but handed out photocopies of the relevant chapters. Of course, I'm not sure whether her deal with the publisher allowed her to do that, and I didn't want to enquire too deeply...

  24. Re:But what system does he suggest instead? on Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today · · Score: 1

    He's long since retired: it was a comment on the challenges facing the generation after the generation after his.

  25. Re:kind of ruins the point....... on Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today · · Score: 0

    Except that he was a British researcher at a British university run on British academic lines, not US ones.