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  1. Re:Plot twist: on NASA To Make Announcement About First Mission To Touch Sun (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    11am where you live is likely to be night where I live. Maybe they are launching from a space center near me?

  2. If the Ringworld is precessing fast enough to cause these occultations, its not going to be good for the occupants.

  3. Scrith on Could Giant Alien Structures Be Dimming a Far Away Star? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well does it block 40% of all neutrinos?

  4. No really, do you read all the code and then compile it yourself?

    Thats what I would do if I had a particular need for security. But its really hard to do. Software I control on top of a kernel I don't control is no real help to me. I am seriously thinking about a micro controller solution.

  5. Re: It has its uses on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    But with two or three promise implementations, and now you have multiple versions of each control structure.

  6. Re: What good is satellite tracking... on Malaysia Air Is First Airline to Track Fleet With Satellites (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if the crew can still pull the circuit breaker for the transponder.

  7. Anything which works at the OS level has threads because it can spawn processes. The JVM has threads because it can't (easily) spawn processes, but many implementations use processes for JVM threads. JS, with lambda expressions and even driven programming claims to be threaded but is not. Its just callbacks where you have no control over when the calls are going to be made (usually in a rush when your main call ends).

    Like it or not, our applications require threading. Your indexer has to keep running while your user presses buttons. That sort of thing.

  8. Re:Pointers Aren't Nesesary In Arduino on 'Pragmatic Programmer' Author Andy Hunt Loves Arduino, Hates JavaScript (bestprogrammingbooks.com) · · Score: 1

    AVR stuff is just looping around, reading and writing bits and bytes. Fair enough. Elsewhere In C I would use pointers for linked lists. Hard to get stuff done without dynamically allocated data structures.

  9. Yeah I got caught by something similar. An int set to None is False. Changed that variable to be a list and a corner case where I passed an empty list was treated as False where I expected it to be True. I as in the habit of treating None as False and it bit when I changed the type of my data.

  10. Its single threaded, despite what node.js developers will tell you.

  11. Re:Chain of custody much? on Former Sysadmin Accused of Planting 'Time Bomb' In Company's Database (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    But the user account logged in after his employment ended. Then bad stuff happened. That might be enough.

  12. Re:Don't upgrade your LTS install to it... on Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus', Featuring Unity, Now Available To Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Putting it on a spare laptop as I speak. If it goes well I will try it on my main machine.

  13. For me, canonical have decided to spend less on development and hope their revenue is now more than their outgoings. I like unity too. Maybe it will remain as an optional shell for gnome.

  14. Re:Naming of Ships on Electric Car Ferries Enter Service In Norway (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yeah I find myself reacting to the idea as well.

  15. Re:I want an electric skydiving plane on JetBlue and Boeing Are Betting Big On Electric Jet Startup 'Zunem Aero' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Short duty cycle aircraft are horrible on combustion engines. They get hot climbing under load. They drop their load and coast to the ground. Engine temperature drops sharply once it hits altitude, and thermal expansion kills engine components. Its the same issue with glider tugs.

    Electric components will get hot as well but they don't use as much solid metal so they may fair better under this type of use.

  16. Re:1/2 the size of a Cessna, but 3x the passengers on JetBlue and Boeing Are Betting Big On Electric Jet Startup 'Zunem Aero' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Consider a Boeing 777 as long as the 172. More of the fuselage is used for seating. Trim problems all over the place of course.

  17. Add to that fire risk.

    Yeah fires are a problem on aircraft right now.

  18. Re:Big bad auto companies are corporations on Utah Supreme Court Ruling Bars Direct Sales of Teslas Through a Subsidiary (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And with the Trump presidency, the Republicans have shifted back to the left of the Democrats.

  19. Re:How much does a Utah legislator cost? on Utah Supreme Court Ruling Bars Direct Sales of Teslas Through a Subsidiary (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Similarly Israeli politics are dominated by orthodox Jews, who are a minority, but better organised, IMHO.

  20. Its a UAV project, outside on Google X Worked An Older Employee Until He Was Hospitalized, Then Laid Him Off (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    So what are google supposed to do? They bought it from these guys but those same people decided to go into the UAV business. Its their choice to continue working for google.

    I am over 50 myself. I suppose most /. members are these days.

  21. And who will do the auditing? I know places like this. The IT manager is king and nobody knows what he does.

  22. In a professional environment yes, but in some places the sysadmin would be most of the IT department, leaving nobody to shut down remote access. Many places these days rely on cloud services for B2B and retail. Shut down the internet and you stop the business. You could shut down remote VPN access but who is to say he hasn't got his own version of a daemon running somewhere?

  23. Realistically you can't keep him out. He could have created a fallback account to use.

  24. Everything should be running in VMs,

    I am a VMS fan myself but I wouldn't recommend using it on a new project in this day and age. HP don't support it well enough.

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

    With or without artificial energy input?