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  1. Re:So will stacking us vertically on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    "Just a concept" is something lazy industrial designers say when somebody mentions big flaws in their designs.

    "Just a concept" should only apply to the color and shape of trivial decorations, not to design requirements or physical reality.

  2. Graphics on Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers · · Score: 1

    I've build Photoshop plug-ins and have gotten paid for it.
    2D graphics algorithm performance pretty much completely depends on relatively small inner loops.
    Minor improvements in the inner loop can have a major impact on performance.
    It's not uncommon manually optimizing the inner loop makes a 2D graphics algorithm several hundred times faster simply by reducing typecasting or doing subexpression elimination.

    I'm wondering how well this program optimizes code in other fields. How about optimizing an office application, a compiler or a browser?

  3. Re:Authentication is Not Encryption on Apple Drops Recovery Key From Two-Factor Authentication In New OS Versions · · Score: 1

    So if you set up some data to require a certain type of authentication and you can't authenticate, you should still have access to the data?

  4. Re:Statism vs. Libertarianism again on Hacking Team Breach Leaks Zero-Days, Renews Fight To Regulate Cyberweapons · · Score: 1

    So according to you, if you must be consistent than...
    Statists must support regulating security research, gun-ownership, gay marriage, abortion and everything else.
    Libertarianists must oppose regulating security research, gun-ownership, gay marriage, abortion and everything else.
    Or can people support regulating some things and oppose regulating other things?

  5. Screwing employers on Study: Women Less Likely To Be Shown Ads For High-paid Jobs On Google · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Employers typically pay for the number of profiles on a site, either directly or indirectly.
    CMU is screwing with employers by creating 17k fake profiles.

  6. Re:Falling on deaf ears on Crypto Experts Blast Gov't Backdoors For Encryption · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's because backdoors give private information to governments at the cost of instilling justified fear in it's citizens.
    It's a win-win situation as far as they're concerned.

  7. Re:This is shortsighted on The DARPA Robotics Challenge Was a Bust; Let's Try Again · · Score: 1

    There were robots in the competition that did just that.
    Walking wasn't a requirement.

  8. Re:GeoTrust signing keys on Hacking Team Hacked, Attackers Grab 400GB of Internal Data · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From the looks of it, this key seems to be used for signing Windows binaries, not for SSL certificates.
    Surely somebody more knowledgeable can confirm or deny this?

  9. Re:I've seen this movie on How To Design Robot Overlords For "Robot Overlords" · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't.
    Transformers has neither a plot nor cool special effects, this movie had atleast some things done well.
    But that's not exactly setting a high bar.

  10. I've seen this movie on How To Design Robot Overlords For "Robot Overlords" · · Score: 2

    I've seen this movie.
    Now that you've seen the special effects, you've seen ALL this movie has to offer.
    It's quite a juxtaposition seeing such good visuals next to such bad story and acting.

  11. religious intolerance on Trolls No Longer Welcome In New Zealand · · Score: 1

    Does "religious intolerance" include anything promoting religion?
    Because that is quite insulting to me as an atheïst.

    Or does this protection only apply to people who believe in deities?
    Do these people somehow deserve more protection?
    And if so, why?

  12. Re:causing serious emotional distress? on Trolls No Longer Welcome In New Zealand · · Score: 4, Funny

    I find your lack of faith disturbing... so I will sue you for emotional distress.

  13. Routing around on San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At a large scale, the internet was designed to route around individual problems such as this.
    Can't this same principle be applied on a smaller scale?

  14. Re:Too many words on Amazon's New SSL/TLS Implementation In 6,000 Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    30+ words? Bad. Restart if over 10 words.

  15. Re:Morons ... on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is that they could incur legal bills to other people by knowingly using an invalid argument? In what way would that be a good outcome unless you are a lawyer? Have you ever heard of the term "chilling effect"? "Hey there, domain owner, you can either sell us your domainname for $1 or we'll start a frivolous lawsuit using this ridiculous and knowingly invalid claim which will cost you atleast $2,000 to defend against".

  16. Re:Looks like a case of poor research on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not just prior use of a domain name, but prior use of the trademark:

    http://jdevadf.oracle.com/work...
    https://www.citrix.com/go/work...
    http://www.workbetterindia.com...

  17. Re:Morons ... on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hope the court punishes Office Space Solutions for trying to abuse the legal system.
    Merely tossing it will not prohibit them from trying again.

  18. Re:Not all programmers are web frontend devs on To Learn (Or Not Learn) JQuery · · Score: 1

    Some of us are, some of us aren't and some of us are both or even neither.
    This site is not "News for me, nothing else matter".

  19. Re:How stupid could someone be? on Malwarebytes Offers Pirates Its Premium Antimalware Product For Free · · Score: 1

    Generation algorithms for software license keys is fine.
    Simple generated keys stop casual sharing of licenses. Nothing stops dedicated hackers.
    Why invest time and money in a very expensive license key system when all you're doing is providing the hackers with a more interresting challenge.
    The problem here isn't generating keys, it's the relatively high chance of colission; it's badly generating keys.

  20. Re:Hardware Locking on Malwarebytes Offers Pirates Its Premium Antimalware Product For Free · · Score: 1

    Also, how well does your system stand up to NOP?

  21. Re:Hardware Locking on Malwarebytes Offers Pirates Its Premium Antimalware Product For Free · · Score: 1

    Can I move my license over to new hardware without having to rely on the software vendor's cooperation?

  22. Re:How is this news for nerds? on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    It's not.
    But it IS "stuff that's important".

  23. Re:"Win Prize" on Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If only I had sent in my concept of a condom that miraculously kills all those diseases and also HIV, cancer and the common cold, I would have won.

    There is nothing useful or nerdy here.
    Neither the product nor any of it's features are currently possible.
    There is no invention, no science, no ingenuity here, just an idea.

    Ideas are a dime a dozen, it's being able to implement those ideas that matters.

  24. Re:What? on Samsung Cripples Windows Update To Prevent Incompatible Drivers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does their warranty cover hacked laptop?

  25. Re:If you cannot answer your own question.. on Ask Slashdot: Is C++ the Right Tool For This Project? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it seems to me like you need to look more closely to what you mean/need by 'granularity' and perhaps change your mentality using familiar languages, and the solutions for problems in those areas.

    This.

    "Very high" is subjective. I've had programming tasks where every single byte of memory counted and was optimized for. But I've also had tasks where this meant I'd just have to keep memory usage down to a few MB; totally different interpretations of "very high granularity".

    Since you'll probably need to have a trade-off between memory and performance, which is more important? Can you spare a few KB to make your code run 2x faster? How about a few MB? Does code need to run as fast as possible or just fast enough to keep pace with the GUI?