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  1. Those satellites all crashed after 49.7 days on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows 95, suuuuuuure .....

  2. Re:Barbie will be used ... on Barbie Will Be Used To Teach Kids To Code (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what I was thinking. This is not about coding. It's about Barbie everywhere. This is just subsidized free advertisement.

  3. Re:This is sort of fair actually. on Salon Magazine Mines Monero On Your Computer If You Use an Ad Blocker (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    except my laptop suddenly goes all sandstorm like Darude and then shuts down because the processor reached critical temperature...because I'm reading a website !!!

  4. It's easier! on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Any language like Python or Javascript comes with tons of libraries. I also grew up in the C64 and did some easy BASIC programming. Opening and reading a text file? no clue. Doing that with Python? open( "blah.txt","w").
    There's also this thing called the internet now. It's been around for the public for almost 25 years. If you want to learn how to program, just google it.
    Try learning BASIC with a reference book and no internet and see what happens when you want to do something different than reading in some input and printing "Hello World".

  5. This!
    It's Supply and Demand and many people are in the market for a house in those areas. If you give all the people a 5,000$ break, housing prices will just climb by 5,000$ (and probably rent as well).

  6. Re:KDE Plasma? on The Most Popular Linux Desktop Programs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Most popular App on windows...explorer.exe !!!!

  7. Re:I refuse on The Quest To Find the Longest-Serving Programmer (tnmoc.org) · · Score: 1

    I just saw Annie Hall last night :)

  8. Re:What a diverse team means to me on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Your example is not one of a diverse team though. You both were probably skilled enough to come up with a good technical solution. It's just that you were better at C at that time and he was really good at bit-level operations.
    The article here suggests something completely different though.
    I don't know if you'd be as happy being paired with a major in psychology for your linking loader assignment.

  9. the point of the doomsday machine on Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH? Ambassador de Sadesky: It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.

  10. Re:Correlation / causation? on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing. I'm sure the leaders at the Large Hadron Collider will have a pretty high IQ. Probable much higher than your average bank president.
    I'm sure most people there have high IQs over 120 and wouldn't be too happy having an 'average smart' 120 IQ leader who 'doesn't get it'.
    Same for plenty of specialized engineering jobs.

  11. Re:Median annual wage? on Google Starts Certificate Program To Fill Empty IT Jobs (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They didn't say "entry-level" when reporting wages. Those are median wages for "computer network support specialist" and "computer user support specialist". So not "my first job on User Support" wages.

  12. Re:Why did it take 40 minutes to correct? on Fake 'Inbound Missile' Alert Sent To Every Cellphone in Hawaii (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Saw a documentary about the border of North Korea with China. It's basically a river. From China you can see houses close to the river bank on the other side. Those are all high ranking officers of the North Korean Army. That way when the shit hits the fan, they're the first to flee to China.

  13. Re:Funny, when they choose to drop the tests. on More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies (theconversation.com) · · Score: 2

    This is exactly why they changed the admission process at Yale, Harvard and Princeton in the 1920s.
    At first, there was an entrance exam.
    Turned out the Jews seemed to be very good at them, up to the point where 1/4th of the new students were Jewish.
    The solution was to change the admission process into one where "character" and such were also important. Enter the interviews and recommendation letters.
    Result was a drop of 10% of Jewish students.

  14. In other news, shaving with Gillette makes you look like David Beckham and using Axe Deodorant will have attractive women chase you in the streets.

  15. Re:Meh on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So was Spaceballs.

  16. It's not really about religion but about culture. Western Europe has a Christian culture. Most people do not believe in some bearded old dude in the sky. But everyone finds it normal to have churches, to have funerals and weddings a certain way. Everyone is used to the Christian holidays of Christmas, Easter, different Ascension holidays and such.
    It's very pervasive, even as a non-believer. Same applies to other cultures. Even if you take away their beliefs, their culture will still be very different. So yes they still represent Muslims culture, even if they don't really believe.

  17. This really sounds like an experiment where the outcome is heavily steered.
    Thinking rationally, a child will already spend much more time checking out the different toys when there are many. I mean, 16 toys, that takes awhile to browse through. With fixed time, it's pretty obvious that a child will play more with one of the 4 toys than 16 toys.
    Also, nothing was said about the environment. Was the child brought in a new environment like a clean room where he encountered the toys for this first time, hence pushing him to explore?
    Also, what is the definition of "Quality of Playtime"? The child making up elaborate stories and role-play? This all sounds very subjective.

  18. yet we should we worried about AI? on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 2

    They are integrating human brains in rats, but we should be scared of AI?

  19. 1/3 of millennials don't have 1,000$ to invest.
    Also, with 1,000$ you can take a gamble. Would you invest 100,000$ in bitcoins if that was all the money you had to invest?

  20. Re:Isn't owning stocks basically worthless? on Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They'd Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Same with Junk Bonds. Many are just groupings of loans to big companies and have survived 2 crashes. They pay monthly dividends as well. If hedged correctly over different industries they are relatively safe. But of course they can also default (but so can every company).

  21. Re:I've been hearing the same argument since 2011. on The Bitcoin Bubble (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because he was shorting. In the case of owning BTC, you better not be too late when selling.
    OTOH, it's the same with every stock. The difference with a bubble is that it crashes hard.

  22. Re:Reasons not to use cryptocurrency on Someone 'Accidentally' Locked Away $300M Worth of Other People's Ethereum Funds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost a week? That powers my apartment for 2 months! BTC doesn't seem to be the only thing that is incredibly wasteful.

  23. Re:I know how the Lord of the Rings TV series ends on Amazon (and Netflix) Pursue a 'Lord of The Rings' TV Series (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    LOTR TV series will stretch the last goodbye and farewells at the end of the story for the whole last season of 22 episodes.

  24. The difference, at least in Belgium, is that they are churning out much more PhDs since the 2000s. 2016 sees a 70% increase vs 2005, and it has been increasing since the 90s. It has doubled in 15 years. That's because Universities get more funding based on more PhDs.
    The same article says that only 20% of these can stay in academics, which means postdoc stuff, and if you're very good and/or lucky tenure and/or prof.

  25. imagine the possibilities ... on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    They could have mined tons of bitcoins instead with that computing power.