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  1. Re:Not a suprise on CNBC Just Collected Your Password and Shared It With Marketers (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Having recently made a random password generator (http://random.toyls.com/), I ended up concluding nothing that tries to help users with passwords can guarentee they are not spied upon.

    There's either server code that generates code or javascript that generates it client-side (my solution). In the first case, the server knows the codes before sending them to the user, in the second case, there has to be javascript running, which could basically track everything the user does. (either AJAX, cookies or local storage for later retrieval). And than there's the possibility of third party javascript, either included on the page or provided through browser extensions, which are completely out of control. I make some effort to try and block these javascripts access on my site, but there's really nothing that could stop a determined hacker using a browser extension.

  2. Re:Side mounted sensor on a monitor/projection scr on Microsoft Finally Ships $8,999 Surface Hub (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Specifying, designing, building and (for a large part) testing are one-off costs.
    Supporting it are the on-going costs. I wonder if they're much higher than the costs involved with support of a specialty third party product.

  3. Re:Side mounted sensor on a monitor/projection scr on Microsoft Finally Ships $8,999 Surface Hub (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking about a product, I'm talking about installing a single screen with touch.

  4. Re:Side mounted sensor on a monitor/projection scr on Microsoft Finally Ships $8,999 Surface Hub (eweek.com) · · Score: 2

    55" fully integrated: $9000

    Really good 55" screen: $1000
    Touch sensor: $200
    Software: $200 (Mostly Win10 license)
    Vesa-mountable i7 PC: $1000
    Mounting material: $100
    Budget for hired team to make just one of these work: ~$6500

  5. Re:Universal Service on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you believe there is nothing in between fascism and capitalism?

  6. Re:Universal Service on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does that mean the $100 million DSL lines will be property of the taxpayers, and AT&T will merely provide the labor without getting any ownership?

    Or does AT&T want us to buy their cake, eat most of it and rent the remaining crumbs back to us at a profit?

  7. Re: How is this not win/win on 33,000 Sign Online Petition Promoting Guns At Republican Convention (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter, since the conservatives will be carrying guns too, and according to them, carrying a gun protects you from harm.

  8. Re:Better question on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    Nuclear energy is perfectly safe and clean, as long as the plants are run correctly.

    The problem is that many of these plants are run by managers who believe minor deviations are acceptable if it means more profit.

  9. Re:Bit of a fail on Amazon's Raspberry Pi Guide Lets Coders Build An Echo (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    With only 256megs of ram, it is hard to do much with it.

    Back before your were born, around 1995, 256MB was not only enough to run Windows 95 with PhotoShop smoothly; it would have been considered an excessive amount of memory.

  10. No wonder they're not doing well, if they have to pay 40 people who aren't even working.

  11. Re:Let's make some educated guesses. on Company Behind Badlock Disclosure Says Pre-Patch Hype Is Good Marketing (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    Trickle down economics:
    Small government, because otherwise a lot of money is wasted on people who are not me.
    Big corporate, because otherwise a lot of money is wasted on people who are not me.

  12. No high speed trading on 'Flash Crash' Trader Navinder Sarao Faces US Extradition · · Score: 1

    Why does the ability to trade at this speed even exist, apart from letting traders make profits over the backs of companies the stock market is supposed to fund?

    This guy placed high-speed order that he had no intent to keep.
    How is this different from regular high-speed traders place order stock without any intent to keep any of it?

  13. Re:Low price point? on OLO, World's First Portable 3D Printer Prints On Top Of Smartphones (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like at night, while you are sleeping?

  14. Re:Lots of handwavium on this.... on OLO, World's First Portable 3D Printer Prints On Top Of Smartphones (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    chatroulette

    Does that even still exist?

  15. The point is not whether one is faster, the point is that the little snippet provided by the GP does nothing in itself, therefore it is missing significant code.
    We're not seeing the part that actually does something with the i and/or len variables. It's as likely as not that the direction of the loop makes a difference to what is inside the loop.
    Simply optimizing the loop construct like this, without acknowledging what happens inside the loop, is a reliable way to shoot yourself in the foot.

  16. Because iterating backwards is the same as forwards?

  17. Re:Improper assertion of trademark? on How One Dev Broke Node and Thousands of Projects In 11 Lines of JavaScript (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    This begs a question; is NPM (or a package manager in general) legally responsible for the hosted content?

  18. Just one more reason to hate dumbshit "hip" project names instead of actual descriptive names.

  19. Re:So what? on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think 99% is an underestimation.
    Unless they can make it trivially easy to migrate, they're dead in the water.
    And even then, they need to offer significant and measurable advantages to justify end-user migration.
    Wake me up when it runs Apache, MySQL and PHP or some other complete web stack.

  20. Re:500 dates? on Amazon Employees Launch Matchmaking Startup For Coworkers (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Goldman's gone on more than 500 dates in the past three years

    Her experience ... helps her quickly assess an online profile of a potential partner

    Apparently it doesn't.

  21. Re: Yes it's too much on Is $699 Too Much For a 13.3-inch Android E-ink Reader? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there are a few people who'd like a 0.2" e-reader.
    But, like a 13.3" e-reader, the market may be too small to make it a viable (and thus actively supported) product.

  22. You should watch Toy Story 1 again and be surprised by how dramatically graphics, both realtime and cinematic, have improved.

  23. Work/study? on NY Bill Would Provide Tax Credit For Open Source Contributors · · Score: 1

    I don't know about US tax laws, but aren't there some tax laws regarding work- or study-related costs like the situation the vast majority of open source developers is in. I don't know any FOSS developer who isn't either an IT worker or an IT student.

  24. Re:Startup? LOL on Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up For Sale In Robotics Retreat (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    43... don't you see how close DMOZ is to being the answer to life the universe and everything?

  25. Re:Startup? LOL on Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up For Sale In Robotics Retreat (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    They're only 17 years old; not even adult yet.