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  1. This ends with one robot fist smashed completely through the cockpit of a rival and raspberry jam leaking everywhere.

    There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry.
    Lone Starr!

  2. You should have look at his screenshot more closely, the hint was in the title: d8PTVnL

  3. Re: What's happening? on Mitsubishi: We've Been Cheating On Fuel Tests For 25 years (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    At [~$10k] the battery would be an option, not standard equipment.

    More likely, a lease.

  4. Re:what about macbook pro on Apple Launches MacBook 2016 With Intel Skylake Processor, Longer Battery Life · · Score: 4, Informative

    Semi related: how do you make a clickable link?

    Like in HTML: <a href="http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac">MacRumors</a>
    Which gives:
    MacRumors
    I don't know if there's a list of "allowed HTML tags and entities" anywhere anymore. BTW, I used <quote> for quoting you.

  5. Except the Chinese, but that's normal, right?

    If the Russians and Israelis don't also own these systems, it surely isn't normal?

    However, it might be normal that you didn't notice the Russians :)
    However, the Israeli Reality Distortion Field might have convinced you that their access to these systems was legit as if they were part of the five eyes :)

  6. Try `ls .*`. You'll find that "." matches, but more importantly, ".." matches too. So, if you have the rights on the parent directory, `rm.rf .*` == `rm -rf ..`
    `rm -f .*` works just fine for non-directories, but you need to take care of directories separately.
    `rm -rf .[A-Za-z_0-9]*` will likely do the job, but if you've funny characters in second position, delete them specifically afterwards.

  7. Re:I hope the patented this on Website Attempts To Generate Every Possible Patentable Invention (allpriorart.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope they patented this, it is an invention

    But there's prior art.
    Of course, this time, it is "on a computer", which as we all know means that it is completely novel.

  8. Re:FBI hack should not be made public on FBI Telling Congress How It Hacked iPhone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple isn't willing to play ball with the FBI.. so why should the FBI help Apple out here?

    Because Apple helps to fund the FBI, the FBI doesn't help to fund Apple.

    I bet they have a shit load of ipads and iphones.

    Did they pay for them ?
    I guess most of them are in a locked state :)

  9. Re:manishs is not doing the needful on Patent That Cost Microsoft Millions Gets Invalidated (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was an idiotic submitter

    Wrong.
    Remember: the original submission is always a click away, under the "You may like to read:" section.
    It's not rare that "editors" actually damage the original submission.

  10. Re:This is just some bullshit news release on Facebook's Messenger Bot Store Could Be Most Important Launch Since App Store (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Can someone tell me, in English, what any of this means?

    It seems to be Web 2.0 Clippy.

    It looks like you're arranging a dinner. Would you like help? [x] Get help with booking a restaurant.

  11. Re:And they wonder why I use an adblocker.... on Malvertising Campaign Hits MSN, NY Times, BBC, AOL · · Score: 0

    Maybe we should stop calling these plugins "ad blockers", because it's not what they are, as none of them is able to block self-hosted ads.
    These plugins actually are blocking backdoors to third-party websites. That these third-party websites happen to be advertising networks is just a coincidence.

  12. Greedy WaPo sucks ! on DC Metro Closes For Emergency Safety Inspection (nbcwashington.com) · · Score: 0

    "You only have two remaining free articles for this month"
    Yet I didn't notice a single free article, they were plastered with ads anyway.
    (I don't have an ad blocker installed on the work computer, I guess I should install one)

  13. Re:Bizarre paragraph in the linked article on Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Another way to see it is to look at the pattern formed by a completed sequence.

    For Alice, it is T* H+ T.
    For Bob, it is T* H (T+ H)* H.

  14. Re:Bizarre paragraph in the linked article on Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    The AC intuitive explanation is correct, and you can calculate it by drawing the tree.
    After 4 rolls, I get that Alice probability to succeed is 11/16 (1/4 for HT, 1/8 for HHT and THT, 1/16 for HHHT, THHT and TTHT), while Bob probability to succeed is 8/16 (1/4 for HH, 1/8 for THH, 1/16 for HTHH and TTHH)

  15. Will they apply their system to themselves ? on What Airbnb's Blockchain Authentication Proposal Means For Online Privacy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The proposal marks a potentially revolutionary step for e-commerce sites and peer opinion platforms looking to identify and filter out damaging reviews planted by competitors and trolls, or self-promoting posts which can mislead consumers.

    Preliminary tests at Airbnb have shown that the system was filtering out Airbnb itself. Technical teams are currently trying to fix this issue, but so far their attempts have been unsuccessful.

  16. Re:At least my pin 8068 is safe on How Common Is Your PIN? (datagenetics.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've never seen anyone needing a cheat-sheet to enter their PIN around here. So, it appears that the French population at large is able to remember a 4-digit number.
    I'm sorry to hear that the average American is unable to do that.

    By the way, the way it's done, they give you your credit card at the counter or in the mail, and send you your PIN in a separate mail, your banker never knows the PIN either. The mail with the PIN contain safety instructions: memorize it, keep it confidential, never store it along the card, and, apparently, people are able to follow these instructions. The PIN is permanent, so when the card expire, by default the next card will have the same PIN. It's only if your card has been stolen or otherwise compromised that they will issue you a new PIN.

  17. Re:Windows CE on Windows RT Could Make a Comeback · · Score: 2

    What's different between Windows RT and Windows CE ?

    I would say that WinCE is designed to run native applications (like iOS), while WinRT is designed to run .net bytecode on CLR (like Android running Java bytecode on Dalvik.

  18. That's the same kind of "error" that frequently causes white police officers to kill black boys. "Honest mistakes".

  19. What's the purpose ? on Mars Rover Code Used For Cyber-Espionage Malware · · Score: 2

    What are you trying to tell us ?

    That open source software is terrorism, with weapons so advanced that they're also used by federal agencies ?

    Or that these projects' licences should have been GPL, so that it would have prevented the malware authors to spread their software without publishing their source code, and we all would have our personal rovers now thanks to all of that NASA code ?

  20. Re:Pulling an Elop on Microsoft To Acquire Xamarin (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Looks like Miguel de Icaza has officially become part of Microsoft.

    Yep. This being Slashdot, I expected this story's title to be "Miguel de Icaza at long last a Microsoft employee".

    Maybe he can pull a Elop and get Windows 11 to use Gnome as its desktop environment.

    Not going to happen. I'm not sure he was involved even in GNOME2.He's been fully devoted to .Net since the start of this millennium.

  21. Re:Will a Litre be Redefined? on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I thought it was a stupid conversion mistake, but investigating on the topic :

    One litre of liquid water has a mass of almost exactly one kilogram, due to the gram being defined in 1795 as one cubic centimetre of water at the temperature of melting ice.

    So, originally as I wrote.

    From 1901 to 1964, the litre was defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water at maximum density and standard pressure. The kilogram was in turn specified as the mass of a platinum/iridium cylinder held at Sèvres in France and was intended to be of the same mass as the 1 litre of water referred to above. It was subsequently discovered that the cylinder was around 28 parts per million too large and thus, during this time, a litre was about 1.000028 dm3.

    Oops. Not too bad, given that at that time the metre was wrong too:

    it was later determined that the first prototype metre bar was short by about 200 micrometres because of miscalculation of the flattening of the Earth, making the prototype about 0.02% shorter than the original proposed definition of the metre.

    And all is fine again:

    In 1964, the definition relating the litre to mass was abandoned in favour of the current one.

    The litre [...] is an SI accepted metric system unit of volume equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1,000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 1/1,000 cubic metre.

    Sources:
    Litre
    Metre

  22. Re:Will a Litre be Redefined? on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    Isn't a litre 1kg of pure water at normal room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure, so presumably that will change if the definition of 1kg changes?
    I don't know why they don't switch a litre to being 1000cc.

    By definition, 1 litre is 1 dm^3, which is exactly 1000 cc (1 cc = 1 cm^3), units of volume are derived from length, not mass.
    And about 1 litre of pure water having a mass of 1kg at 1 atm, yes, but not at room temperature, at 4C instead, and it was the initial definition of a kg.

  23. Re:Interesting findings; and related... on The Heat Is On: Climate Change Causes Birds To Hatch Early (australiangeographic.com.au) · · Score: 1

    There's this comic in French. References are also in French, from a cycle of conferences about the climate before COP21.

    Basically, bird communities are moving North with the climate warming, about 100km in 20years, which means they're not moving as fast as the climate is warming (they should have moved 250km North). But the whole food chain should move North and/or adapt to the temperature. Plants and invertebrate adapt immediately (basically, a target temperature is the trigger for spring), but laying eggs happens 40 days before hatching, so they have to make a bet. If eggs hatch at the wrong time, chicks are going to starve (too early because the food is not here yet, and too late is not explained, but from the study it's not happening). Temperature fluctuations also aren't helping.

  24. Re:Can you *know* something you don't even believe on Americans' Evolution Knowledge Isn't That Bad, If You Ask About Elephants (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Just so you "know", Pfhorrest definition of "knowing" is "willing to believe against all evidence".

  25. Re:Religion is poison on Americans' Evolution Knowledge Isn't That Bad, If You Ask About Elephants (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I haven't seen many 'society of atheists' running soup kitchens, or micro finance banks, or free surgery ships, or child sponsorship programs, or crisis counseling centers, or refugee support programs.

    That's because atheism is not a religion. If you cared, I'm sure you would find no lack of secular associations doing that.
    As an example, in France, we have Les Restaurants du Coeur.