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  1. Re:His name gives it away on UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No Islamic country has invaded any other countries recently, but the US and Israel do it regularly.

    That may be true if you carefully pick your definitions of "invaded" and "recently", but some would call Saudi Arabia's ongoing intervention in Yemen an invasion.

    Israeli groups were the first real "terrorist" perpetrators with the bombing of the King David Hotel.

    Don't be ridiculous. That was predated by decades by (to pick two examples) Vladimir Ilych "the purpose of terrorism is to terrorise" Lenin and cronies, and a small event now called the First World War which was kickstarted by a terrorist attack.

  2. Re:Unusual way to be offended on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't believe you would spoil Die Hard like that. Have you no pity, no compassion, no feeling for your fellow man/woman/small furry creature from Alpha Centauri?

  3. Re:John Carpenter's The Thing on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    I've never seen any of the film adaptions, but I read the novella when I was a teenager and it's the only book that's ever given me nightmares.

  4. Re:It's called market demographics. on Embarrassing Ex-Employee Complaint Against Snapchat Unsealed (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, GDP per capita is not the most important metric in this context. None of these messaging apps make their money by charging $100 per user: they work by making small amounts of money from millions of people. Spain is in the top third of the OECD by population, and the l10n has quite a lot of overlap with some other large markets.

  5. As a side-effect? I know that Newton wrote more about theology than about science, but the only link I've previously heard people make between his theology and his science is that he is responsible for the traditional rainbow having seven colours for numerological reasons. What's the connection between his theology and differential calculus?

  6. Re:Why is this even on Slashdot? on 'Grammar Vigilante' Secretly Corrects Bristol Street Signs (irishtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that it isn't. That's orthography, not grammar.

  7. Re:One broken, forever broken on What The CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    From Development Tradecraft DOs and DON'Ts:

    DO provide a means to completely "uninstall"/"remove" implants, function hooks, injected threads, dropped files, registry keys, services, forked processes, etc whenever possible. Explicitly document (even if the documentation is "There is no uninstall for this ") the procedures, permissions required and side effects of removal.

    They want to avoid their toys falling into the wrong hands (i.e. anti-malware companies), so they don't want them sitting around for ever on the targetted machines.

  8. I also connected mine to a camera, but rather than for a photobooth it was to control my Nikon D40 from my phone, using wifi to talk to the Pi and USB from the Pi to the camera. It functions both as a remote trigger and as a way to quickly preview photos on a higher resolution screen than the one built into the camera.

  9. If we're going to do that, it should be along side of the foreign language requirement.

    Even if we take a strictly utilitarian point of view, learning to program should be alongside learning a foreign language, because programmers ought to learn to write localisable UIs and the more exposure they have to other languages the better they'll understand what that means.

  10. Re:Neither software nor engineering on Software Engineers Are the Heroes of New Computer History Museum Exhibit (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    A regular CS degree may not be the same as a SE degree, but some of them are accredited for receiving the title of "real engineer". For example, the British Computer Society accredits various CS degrees for the Chartered Engineer qualification, and since that's homologised across the EU there must be similar accreditation in other European countries.

  11. If someone grabs your phone, it's probably got your fingerprints all over it.

  12. Re:Why not a survey? on Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    Your memory sounds about right. For what it's worth, Dedekind constructed the real numbers starting from the empty set in the late 1850s, so that aspect of it has a lot of history. Knuth's book presented Conway's construction of the surreal numbers, which extend the real numbers with true infinities and infinitesimals.

  13. Re:The value of Knuth's volumes... on Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    The doubling was for bugs in TeX. Errata for TAoCP stayed at a fixed price, and he has written hundreds. If those had doubled each time, he'd be bankrupt.

  14. Re:Simple TOS Violations on Advertising Company AppNexus Bans Breitbart News Over Hate Speech (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by "early Internet"? Even the early Web was almost entirely non-commercial and unencumbered by ToS.

  15. Re:Asdflkjsfksljf editors on Super Mario 'Speed Runners' Are Setting New World Records (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Leaving aside the racism in that comment, why change the word order but not the bigger problem of the choice of words? A record-setting attempt may be more likely than not to be abandoned, but a record-setting campaign is surely a campaign which sets a record, and it can't do that if it isn't completed.

  16. Re:Is "game after game" grammatical? on Super Mario 'Speed Runners' Are Setting New World Records (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    That was how I read it first time. It didn't help that there was a line break immediately after "in game".

  17. Re:The guy must have no life.. on Spanish Police Arrest Their First Ever eBook Pirate (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    According to the Spanish news articles I read about it a couple of days ago, he was making money from it. They didn't specify how: I assume he had ads on the download pages.

  18. Insufficient cushioning on The Moon's Gravitational Pull Can Trigger Major Earthquakes, Says Study (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Given that the article does not say tidal forces CAUSE quakes, this cushioning is completely unnecessary.

    Given that the title under which the article was posted to /. is "The moon's gravitational pull can trigger major earthquakes, says study", the cushioning was not only necessary but inadequate.

  19. Re:I call bull shit on Raspberry Pi Passes 10M Sales Mark (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The ZX Spectrum sold 5 million. I think that was probably the previous winner in this category.

  20. Re:LATIN INNOVATION on IFA 2016 Award Winners (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it was the language, and I'm disappointed that Latin still doesn't seem to have a word for microblogging.

  21. Re:Except for the one that doesn't on Password Strength Meters on Websites Are Doing a Terrible Job (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean, "use some client-side port"? The original zxcvbn is written in JavaScript. It's already usable client-side without porting.

  22. Re:All the worlds's a stage on Almost Half Of All TSA Employees Have Been Cited For Misconduct (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Shit, all these terror morons have to do is come up with a viable scheme and millions of air traveling passengers have to be subjected extra security for the sake of feeling safe.

    Nonsense. There's no need for the scheme to be viable. The liquid limit you mentioned proves that.

  23. Re:So this is Russia answer to the ,, on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Either it deploys from orbit, in which case the missile has to survive reentry, while not a huge problem there is a problem that it'll be effectively blind while doing so. making it a really easy target for interception.

    So? ICBMs also have to go through reentry. And the B stands for ballistic: they're not intended to do complicated dodging. Is there any reason why MIRVs wouldn't be as successful an anti-interception strategy for orbitally launched missiles as for submarine-launched ones?

  24. Re:Yet another example of EU overreach on European Union's First Cybersecurity Law Gets Green Light (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you don't know that in the British parliament members from different parties are elected, and then those people select the prime minister?

    Nonsense. In the British parliament members from different parties are elected, and then the monarch invites someone who she thinks can command the support of a majority of them to be PM.