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  1. Re:Werner Von Braun said on SpaceX's First Falcon Heavy Launch Will Now Take Place In 2018 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not correct, in numbers, if not in talent, the soviets captured more rocket scientists than the americans.
    But unlike the americans the rocket scientiests were allowed to work on rockets right away.
    Werner von Braun and others were kept silent out of work and joined the american rocket orograms relatively late.
    Hence the russians had the first sattelite up and the first man in space.
    Bottom line both big space programs were: German. The russian even more than the US one.

  2. Actually I don't believe that Mylar (I knew what it is) is blocking radio signals.
    A device put into a bag deep enough might not be able to receive GPS signals, but sending to home base (aka a mobile phone connecting to a tower) is most certainly not blocked by a bag made from polyester ...

  3. You can not agree to stuff in a contract that is illegal.
    Well, you can agree, but the agreement is void.

  4. Re:ho boy, a redundant system at 10x the cost on Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    To the idea, that you put your own car on a public transport, and disembark somewhere in the same city to use your car for the last few yards, only an american can come.
    And you even think: that makes sense?

  5. Re:You all need to read the FAQ from the Boring Co on Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Elevated tracks can be close to noise less.

  6. Re:Did the right thing... on An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo (nejm.org) · · Score: 1

    Who would be "the other party" of that "binding comtract"?

  7. Re:Did the cool-aid taste good? on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's harder to make embedded IFrame tracking bugs work with HTTPS.
    Sorry, that is not really plausible.

    What has HTTP/HTTPS to do with HTML?

  8. Re:Well, don't do that! on Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Sigh ... as soon as we do either fork or use pthreads, the rest will be in C/C++ and not in Java.
    So, we don't need any mapping from C to Java ... that would be pointless.

    Anyway, I only was nitpicking anyway as you glorified that Java has no "job control" and implied C had.

    Perhaps you want to look at a shell (e.g. Bash) or a true batch language like JCL to understand "job control".

    However: I would not know why you want to close the files of the parent. That does not make sense to me. The beauty of fork etc. is that the child inherits the file descriptors and can write to the same files (e.g. stdout) as the parent does without interfering.

    And then again: if you want to close them, you simply close them ... no idea what your problem is.

  9. Re:One of these things... on 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And perhaps in the rise of Mentats.

  10. Re:Wait what? on DNA Analysis Finds That Yetis Are Actually Bears (popsci.com) · · Score: 2

    Rainhold Messner, a famous german mountain climber already speculated in the early 1990/ that Yeti are likely big bears.
    However you simplify it to much. Yeti supposedly live in the Himalaya, and the amount of bears there is so low, ordinary people never see one in their life. Probably they often don't know that there are bears living around.
    Yeti/bear signtings are super rare, and usually people don't survive it ... so it is a bit to simple to accuse them of ignorrance.

  11. Re:There's a reason we don't train Cats on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    They aren't "difficult" to train; they can't be trained because they're rather stupid.
    Youtube disagrees with you ...

  12. Re:There's a reason we don't train Cats on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    Some cats are solitairy, some arent.
    Lions, and against popular believe, house cats, aren't.

  13. Not a good example.
    SQLlite, as any data base, can be tested 100% automatically.
    To log on with no passwd as root, you first have to come to the idea that this might even be possible.
    On the other hand you can easy automate that the passwd file (or shadow passwords) have a password for root.
    I actually never came to the idea to log on as root via the gui. But I never needed to.

  14. Re:Well, don't do that! on Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Then your previous posts make no sense, as you can call all those functions from Java as well.
    Which you probably know :)

    Your explanations here make no sense either, of course you could use pthreads easily, however e thread would be in C/C++, which likely makes not much sense in a JVM.

    JVMs are just C/C++, of course they can fork ... why not? Does it make sense? No idea.

  15. Re:500 charges is not enough on Samsung Develops 'Graphene Ball' Battery With 5x Faster Charging Speed (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU has 2year warranty by law since decades.
    I live in Germany, as long as I can remember it never was less than two years.

  16. Sorry to disagree, if your system has a 'deactivated root sccount' and if you still can log on to it, is probably the least thing anyone is considering to test. Especially in a regression test.

    When and how and why did such a vulnarability got introduced? How often do you want your test(er) to click the unlock button?

  17. Re:"Enter" key? on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You ar an idiot ...
    My external keyboard has separated return and enter keys.
    My 13" MacBook Air has a RETURN key and pressing it together with "FN" it produces ENTER.

    Facepalm ...

  18. Re:Can Anyone Here Reproduce This? on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Of course it works via screen sharing.
    How should the log on system know that you are doing it via a shared screen and not via the console?

  19. Re:Am i missing something here? on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What you want to have as prompt you usually configure in your .bashrc file or what ever shell you use.
    While # is traditionally used for root and $ for user accounts, you can set it to anything you want.

  20. Re:Am i missing something here? on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why so complicated :D
    Just do "sudo bash"

    But well, obviously I simply do a "su -"

  21. Re:Am i missing something here? on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A disabled account in unix has as password a * (but it still allows SSH login, provided the keys are distributed)
    Having an empty password field is completely allowed.

  22. Re:Coastal cities on cliffs on Could Collapsing Antarctic Glaciers Raise Sea Levels Sooner Than Expected? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I assumed you in deed wanted to convert basalt into limestone.
    As we found out now: you can only convert 10% of it (at best).

    So your whole thread about converting basalt into limestone was rather pointless.

  23. Re:Well, don't do that! on Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't want to nitpick ...

    I guess you mean the Posix multithreading API? That has no job control and does not work on processes.
    Then again, via JNI or JNA I can use any C library in Java ... so if I was brain dead I could use the POSIX Multithreading library.

    However multithreading in Java is so easy that it is basically the leader in the industry for multi threaded software.

  24. Perhaps as a total amount, but not as a percentage of its previous output or per capita output.
    Facepalm.

    Newspapers are not trustworthy anyway, I rather would google for an official report ;D