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  1. Re:I don't care what language you use. on Microsoft Program Manager Mistakenly Tweets Office 365 Will Be Rewritten in JavaScript (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    For large scale applications you need strong static and static code analysis. You don't get that from javascript.

  2. Just slept for five months on New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up To Prepare For Historic Flyby of Distant Object (space.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    And its twelve years old.

    Yep, becoming a teenager.

  3. Damn tourists, driving on the wrong side of the road.

  4. Gnome is too buggy on Canonical Shares Desktop Plans For Ubuntu 18.10 (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 2

    After the gnome team made such a big deal of their fresh start with gnome 3, I was surprised years later that gnome was still full of bugs. I used it for a few weeks after ubuntu ditched unity, then changed to xfce. I didn't see anything in the article about fixing bugs . Its all about new features, so I won't be going back to gnome.

  5. Is there energy to be had here? on First Measurement of Distribution of Pressure Inside a Proton (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is Subnuclear fission a possibility?

  6. Re:Broken mailers on Encrypted Email Has a Major, Divisive Flaw (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    Okay but what if it has to execute javascript which was embedded in the email message. A lot of html pages won't render without js tweaking them these days. And the JS is going to grab the plaintext and phone home.

    Personally I would paste the ascii armoured encrypted text into an external PGP application to decrypt.

  7. The battery is in South Australia which is notoriously flat. The nearest significant hydro power would be 1000km to the east and even there it may be short of water some of the time.

  8. Re:Mac OS and macOS? on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And did the line endings change between < 10.0.0 and >= 10.0.0?

  9. Mac OS and macOS? on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wow. How are they different?

  10. Re:How can it not be safer? on Sorry Elon Musk, There's No Clear Evidence Autopilot Saves Lives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardly, do Tesla require any training at all to use their autopilot?

  11. Re:How can it not be safer? on Sorry Elon Musk, There's No Clear Evidence Autopilot Saves Lives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    more or less does what the feature it's named after does for airplanes

    But without the extensive training given to aircrew who operate autopilots. In most cases the autopilot is operated by a person who's job it is to fly the aircraft properly.

  12. Re:How can it not be safer? on Sorry Elon Musk, There's No Clear Evidence Autopilot Saves Lives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Its human nature to be less attentive when automation is doing part of the job for you.

  13. Re:Gravity at 100km is only 3% less that sea level on Blue Origin Launches Its First Test Flight of 2018 (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Though their platform overall is far better than the scales composites one, which will never fly above 100km. This launcher could be extended to fly to orbit.

  14. Re: Yeah, dinasaurs on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah but the parts which were surveyed were absolutely pristine. Its just rock and dust. The material returned was examined in depth. If metallic or plastic components had been left on or crashed into the moon in the distant past, there would be fragments gardened into the surface. Its a bit like how Roman lead smelting can be detected in Antarctic ice cores, and how every beach on our planet had crap from ships scattered on it.

    There is nothing like that on the moon and I just think we were the first to get there and the first to fly around our solar system.

  15. Re: Yeah, dinasaurs on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The moon is not in a stable orbit when you're talking about geologic time.

    Yeah but think how pristine the lunar surface was, and how any debris on or close to the moon will spread. The only garbage on the lunar surface is ours. The moon is a filter which has been capturing and displaying loose items from space close to its orbit as long as it has existed.

    The cleanliness of the moon suggests strongly that nobody was in high Earth orbit before us, either if they were from Earth, or from outside the solar system.

  16. Re:data pkan instead of sms plan? on Google Is 'Pausing' Work On Allo In Favor 'Chat,' An RCS-Based Messaging Standard (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I had to pay to read your post on my desktop. Whats the difference?

  17. Linux runs 96% of servers on the internet:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  18. It can tell the driver to take over

    Thats what I mean.

  19. Re:Except they do on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Android needs a permission called record audio under the control of an app or something similar. Maybe a permission prompt for recording audio at all which expires quickly.

  20. Re:"We do, while you are taking a video" on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay but does facebook use google to select their advertisments? These are FB ads we are talking about.

  21. Re:"We do, while you are taking a video" on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    and use that to make the service better

    Literally anything Zuckerberg wants it to mean.

  22. If the autopilot is unsafe around barriers like that, it should refuse to operate around those barriers. If it can't be made to recognize those situations, it should not be used at all.

  23. Case in point: even if javascript running on a browser can't get the MAC address, a native application certainly can and FB could fund a simple game which snatches that information and sends it back, to be correlated with an account ID.

  24. There is such a thing as a shadow profile. It is a shame that Zuckerberg denies its existence.

    I saw it right there on my sister's FB account. A shadow profile with my name on it.

  25. Re:Why not? COBOL is still around on Can Ruby Survive Another 25 Years? (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    There is even an object-oriented version these days.

    I thought that was called Java?