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  1. Re:I'm careful about using the term "Evil" on Ransomware Expected To Hit 'Lifesaving' Medical Devices In 2016 (forrester.com) · · Score: 1

    Dear God! What is that thing?

  2. almost there on Julia Programming Language Receives $600k Donation · · Score: 1

    As a physicist, I do a lot of numerical programming. I like julia, but it isn't quite useful to me yet. The problem is that it takes too long to run something the first time you run it in a session, and there's no way to save a compiled binary so I have to take the hit each time I run it. In particular, loading libraries takes too long. Maybe this boost will help it get there.

  3. Re:Snake oil on UK May Blacklist Homeopathy (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Still easy to find snake oil for sale.
    http://www.baroness.co/dr-dere...

  4. Re:Eh. on UK May Blacklist Homeopathy (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But there is no truth in their advertising.

  5. Open source doesn't mean free.

  6. Re:George Orwell lacked vision on UK Gov't Can Demand Backdoors, Give Prison Sentences For Disclosing Them (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And this is why we need samurai control laws and mandatory background checks on samurai.

  7. Re:We're at war... and we're losing on Ransomware Found Targeting Linux Servers, MySQL, Git, Other Development Files (drweb.com) · · Score: 1

    You do have a choice though. You can use BSD.

  8. Re:I have no debt and a hefty savings account on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have the money already, then why bother even paying by credit card? You can just use a debit card.

    Is this because they offer you miles? This just hurts the merchants.

  9. Re:Threaten to use a debit card on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt that your small purchase is going to attract the attention of a worker with a high enough rank to care about your situation.

  10. Re:I have no debt and a hefty savings account on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    I figure the people who are likely to be deadbeats are also likely to have positive bank account balances with the same bank, so even though they aren't making money for the credit card department, the bank is still profiting off them since the bank lends the deadbeats' money to someone else. So it makes sense for the bank to keep these deadbeats happy.

  11. Re:I have no debt and a hefty savings account on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Never say never. The cardholder loses money if the customer never pays the credit card debt.

  12. airborne improvised explosive devices on 'Game of Drones' -- a Live War Game About Drone Combat Strategy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    We need to come up with a new name for these airborne improvised explosive devices.
    May I suggest Modular Independent Sacrificial Seeking Impact Lethal Explosive

  13. Re:Simple counter-measure on The Rise of Political Doxing (schneier.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't that I'm ashamed of fucking a goat. The problem is that other people will be outraged.

  14. Re:Not programming semantics, but the coder on Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    That's why a reasonable forum will show:
    'Dick tastes great! Post below if you agree.'
    Edited 1 time on 2 Nov 2015 at 15:20 UTC

  15. Re:Why should they? on US Law Can't Keep Up With Technology -- and Why That's a Good Thing (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds naive. So in 200 years when we've got intelligent flying robot hypercars, they will be limited to ~80 mph, though they can operate safely at 700mph. You either have to change the numbers or declare that the airspace is not a "highway" as mentioned in the old laws. Either way, the laws haven't kept up.

    The only way laws can keep up with technology is if they are written so vaguely that every detail needs to be re-interpreted by a judge. Might as well not even have laws then, and just have a general principle: don't be a jackass. And the village elder will determine if your action constitutes jackassery.

  16. Re:let them start their own on All Editors Quit Top Linguistics Journal To Protest Elsevier's Pricing (insidehighered.com) · · Score: 1

    As insiders, they probably know the real cost of all this stuff.

  17. Re:Logic on China Ends One-Child Policy · · Score: 1

    At some point overpopulation is a problem. What that point is, is a matter of discussion.

  18. Re:A rose by any other name on Investigating the Complexity of Academic Writing (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course in science, most of the terminology didn't exist in the last millennium. It would not be any easier to understand if it used Germanic roots. See Poul Anderson's Uncleftish Beholding for an essay on Atomic Theory written in Germanic English.

  19. Re:Reading is hard! on Investigating the Complexity of Academic Writing (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Is high-falootin' one word or two?

  20. Re:Screw academic writing... on Investigating the Complexity of Academic Writing (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    It's only plagiarism if you don't cite your sources.

  21. Re:Not quite in the public domain, I think on Lawsuit Claims Buck Rogers Is In the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    That's only if it has been revised. If it's just reprinted in a collection, without modification, then there is nothing new to copyright.

  22. I thought my cigar tasted kind of plasticky.

  23. old is the new new on InFocus's New Kangaroo: a Screenless $99 Windows 10 Portable PC (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no short supply of small form factor PCs. What about the Raspberry pi, that /. loves to talk about?

  24. Re:It's just maglev. on Functioning Hoverboard Unveiled (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you would need an order of magnitude or more power to get enough force at that distance.

  25. Re:DOE report says fusion is likely uneconomical on The Bizarre Reactor Scientists Hope Will Save Fusion Research (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Storage is not an insurmountable problem. We already have ways of storing energy, and we can improve them.