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  1. Re:Biodegradeable on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    Tesco bags don't even need to be left in the sun. Use one to hold a few things together, put it in your loft for storage, and when you try to take it down it will have broken down into 5 to 8 millimetre fragments which seem to carry an electric charge, judging by the way they stick to things.

  2. Re:Easy to ACTUALLY solve on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    I don't have mod points, but I found this interesting. Here in Spain they charge for bags in the chain supermarkets, but in the "Chinese shops" (budget independent supermarkets mainly run by Chinese immigrants) and take-away shops they give you bags for free. A cheap bag in the chain supermarkets is only 2c, and the impression I get is that most people just pay it, although they do also sell reusable bags for 1€.

  3. Re:3DES on Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed · · Score: 1

    I should have quoted the part I was replying to:

    DES was only broken by exhaustive search.

  4. Re:3DES on Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed · · Score: 1

    DES is broken without brute force (although it's also brute-forceable). It's more resistant to differential cryptanalysis than if the S-boxes had been random, but differential cryptanalysis is still better than brute force against it, and so is linear cryptanalysis.

  5. Re:Here is a thought.. on HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    I bet that the requirements document for that data storage centre was considerably shorter than the requirements for healthcare.gov, and there was probably more input from the people tasked with building it into how long it would take and what was a reasonable deadline.

  6. Re:Bloat vs Flexibility on A MathML Progress Report: More Light Than Shadow · · Score: 1

    You could say the same for video.

  7. Re:Ideas vs. Implementation on Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders · · Score: 1

    I think you've missed GP's point. Do you have evidence that those three were specifically ideas which came from Larry and Sergey?

  8. Re:Well duh on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 1

    The cunning approach would be to make it check for only the easiest to forge markers. E.g. if you make it ignore ultraviolet and just look for the yellow Eurion rings it will accept valid notes and any note which is a reasonable copy.

  9. Re:Currency Validators? on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 1

    One of the three supermarkets I regularly shop in in Spain uses them. The device is separate from the cash register, and they definitely test notes as low as 20€. I'm not sure whether they also test 10s.

  10. Re:Bad summary on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like a honeypot set up by US immigration, but maybe I'm just too cynical.

  11. Re:Rose-tinted view indeed on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 3, Informative

    The direct quote in the summary talks about doubts over

    whether the NHS can continue to provide free health care for all patients

    The title says

    British NHS may soon no longer offer free care

    The person who transformed the first into the second has serious problems with either English or logic. "We may have to charge some patients" isn't the same as "We may have to charge all patients".

    Your reference to "discontinuing free care" is ambiguous, but without qualifiers is easier to interpret along the lines of the title rather than of reality.

  12. Re:Learn the lesson on David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files · · Score: 1

    No, the phrase is "I refer you to the reply given in Arkell vs Pressdram".

  13. Re:Old news on How To Develop Unmaintainable Software · · Score: 1

    I'm mean, you'd think anyone starting a major project today would use version control, that shouldn't even be a question, right? Right?!

    And then you come across "modern" frameworks which can't be version controlled without database dump scripts.

  14. Summary or cliffhanger? on Support For NASA Spending Depends On Perception of Size of Space Agency Budget · · Score: 1

    And if you want to know the results, you'll have to RTFA. Submitter must be new here.

  15. Re:Reference Newspapers on Inside the Guardian and the Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    If you're going to mention the Canard Enchainé in France you might also want to mention Private Eye in the UK.

  16. Re:Erm, ok... on Inside the Guardian and the Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    I think we can agree that "Planes Flown Into World Trade Center" is news, and "Area Man Posts Cat Video" is not

    Sadly, Yahoo! (or the wire services they syndicate) seem to disagree on the latter. The bulk of the "Oddly Enough" section is at the level of "area man posts cat video", when it used to be interesting but unusual actual events.

  17. Re:Healthcare.gov problems are real on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 1

    This is early sign-up for insurance to cover treatment from January, so you're going to have to really stretch it to "already ascribe actual, real, deaths to their failure".

  18. Re:Regular Expressions on What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? · · Score: 2

    When did this discussion become about getting kids interested in programming? The overall context seems to be about things which professional programmers would do well to know.

  19. Re:And, one MORE time... on What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    The military isn't required by your constitution. Rather it's permitted, with an explicit requirement that its funding should need continual reauthorisation.

    The Congress shall have power ... to raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years

    The navy would seem to escape that restriction by virtue of being separately listed without it; presumably because a ship could be at sea for longer than that.

  20. Re:We lost a good one here. on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    I would expect someone who was serious about writing an autobiography to research it. Memory is fallible.

  21. Re:It would be nice to see a map on Wealth In Africa Mapped Using Mobile Phone Data · · Score: 2

    I don't think the editor (or the submitter, if they wrote the headline) saw a map. If they had, they might realise that Côte d'Ivoire is a fairly small part of Africa. I'm fairly sure they wouldn't think "Wealth in America mapped using mobile phone data" is a suitable headline for an article which only looks at data from Manhattan.

  22. Re:Commendable on President of Brazil Lashes Out At NSA Espionage Programs In Speech To UN · · Score: 1

    Roussef doesn't give a crap what the NSA knows

    Seriously? Ordinary people don't like being told "Your phone is being tapped". High-level politicians have even more reason to not like it: they have enemies with resources and motive to do them harm. She might dislike economic espionage only at an intellectual level, but her strong reaction is provoked by learning that her personal communications were intercepted.

  23. Re:destined to on Crowdfunding Platform For Drupal Development Launches · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To add to the delusion, check those figures. 970000 * 0.5% * 0.5% = 24.25, so their figures check out only if employing someone costs no more than their salary. Reality check: it costs between 50% and 100% more. They also assume that two dozen developers won't need any management. And frankly they would be better off employing 6 technical writers to document the system.

  24. Re:So stop using corks on Molecule In Corked Wine Plugs Up Your Nose · · Score: 1

    There's essentially no flow of air through a bottle neck either except when you're pouring.

  25. Re:Java modern? on Java 8 Developer Preview Released · · Score: 1

    The lead developer on Java generics was Neal Gafter, not Martin Odersky.