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  1. An admin can still override authentication. Whats needs is to bring the new admin in before you sack the old one. He removes admin privileges from the guy being sacked. That, or isolate the system from the outside world for a while but in this day and age that may be impossible from a business perspective.

  2. Re:Disjunction between headline and text on This is Why Australia Hasn't Had a Recession in Over 25 Years (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    IMHO Canada is more dependent on energy resources than Australia. We can grow more of our own food and we don't have to import food to survive. Our climate allows food production all year round, and our tropical areas are very productive.

  3. Re:So, they've reached the end of the alphabet on Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' Final Beta Now Available For Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    ubuntu 12.04 apache conf (or whatever) works perfectly. At lest its obvious what is new and what is old, with numbers.

  4. Re:So, they've reached the end of the alphabet on Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' Final Beta Now Available For Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would be fine with numbers. 18.04, 18.10, so on.

  5. Fortran fan on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 1

    We were coding in Pascal but the boss only knew Fortran so we were limited to data structures available in that language.

  6. I doubt anybody will touch Stranger or The Number or the Beast but I have my hopes for Friday.

  7. Re:Its bit the young ones you have to worry about on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? · · Score: 1

    ^not

  8. Its bit the young ones you have to worry about on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? · · Score: 0

    Its the old programmers who haven't learned a thing in 20 years, and who will never change.

  9. Re:Web browser within WebAssembly on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    This was HotJava from 20 years ago.

  10. Re:Looks good to me on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    "ADD" instruction implicitly adds the top two numbers on the stack

    Maybe I should look at compiling Forth to WebAssembly.

  11. Re:Package management? on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    No I mean all the libraries like boost which have to be shipped with a webapp just to get angular.js to work. The web approach of copying source code from all over the place is leading to terribly brittle systems,

  12. Re:Maybe in the long term on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Where I work, the run of the mill web developers basically know js and php. So if they drop js I know what they will use.

  13. Package management? on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    If we can get rid of the current source code soup in web apps, that would be a good thing.

  14. Re:"Finding LRO was relatively easy" on NASA Finds Lunar Spacecraft That Vanished 8 Years Ago (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I am surprised that a lunar orbit was stable enough for that to work. The moon is lumpy with old impactors, and some orbits are stable for a month or two at best.

  15. Re:Backscatter on New Technique Turns Random Objects Into FM Radio Stations (thestack.com) · · Score: 1
  16. Backscatter on New Technique Turns Random Objects Into FM Radio Stations (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing new about Backscatter. Its how primary radars work.

  17. Come on give CVS a go!

  18. Re:How are they supposed to know on Google Renames Messenger To Android Messages as the Company Pushes RCS (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the phone doesn't have that number anymore?

    The phone should identify itself both by the IMEI and the phone number(s).

  19. Re:Recursion is dead! on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    char *a = NULL;
    a = malloc(something);
    if (a) free(a);

    and so on.

  20. The whole point of recursion is to use the stack. If not some sort of while loop is probably called for.

  21. Re:Kernels should only be in assembler on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Well yeah the complex stuff should be in user land, as with Minix. But C is just an assembler language. There can't be may things you need to do in a kernel which can't be done in C.

  22. Re:Recursion is dead! on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    How is goto return better than just return?

  23. Re:Needs Compressed Download on 16 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Thanks I'll check back in a couple of days ;)

  24. Re:Needs Compressed Download on 16 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Do us all a favor. Tar, bzip2, and torrent.

  25. Re:Needs Compressed Download on 16 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    wget FTW

    http compresses anyway.