User: voights

Re:Also explores security issues

On: Dragons, Nuclear Weapons, and Game of Thrones (thebulletin.org)

What? Maybe a failure of a mission is just that.

libass

On: Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com)

Please, nobody tell them about libass!

My solution

On: Clever Hack Fakes A Sleep Timer For Google Home (vortex.com)

mplayer SOME_ALBUM/* & sleep $((30*60)) ; kill $!

Re:No biggie

On: Samsung Stops Airing Galaxy Note 7 Commercials, Preps Early Launch of Galaxy S8 (sammobile.com)

Hahaha, nope. They permanently integrated the battery into the phone and it came back to bite them. Bittersweet irony.

Submitter can't math

On: Pebble Lays Off 25% of Its Staff, Smartwatch Bubble Set To Burst? (computerworld.com)

Wouldn't that necessarily take it down to 120 people from 160?

Re:Anonymous?

On: US Army Developing Encrypted Radar Waveform (thestack.com)

If a spread spectrum signal is below the noise floor, there's no way of telling that it's even there unless you know the pattern.

Re: Non Issue

On: As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? (nationalgeographic.com)

That would be 0.4 inch/year, not 4 inches/year...

Swimming pools? Cycling races?

On: Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans (arstechnica.com)

Can I get a car analogy, please?

Re:Nail, meet coffin

On: Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' (itnews.com.au)

Part of the FCC code is that you can't create devices that prevent interference by other devices...

That's a misinterpretation.

Re:Not this shit again...

On: French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability'

Sure, but GP mentioned "high powered fluxing fields" so I assumed he was working with high-power intentional radiators. Which makes GP's comment irrelevant, I suppose.

Re:Not this shit again...

On: French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability'

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

Re:NOT "network timekeeping", just timekeeping

On: Internet of Things Endangered By Inaccurate Network Time, Says NIST

GPS has excellent precision. There is almost literally nothing better than GPS timekeeping.

Re:It is all fun and games...

On: You Can Now Clone Samsung's Gear VR and Test Your Virtual Reality Apps

There is no legal backing for "owning" USB VIDs/PIDs. You're not allowed to use the USB-compatible logo unless you abide by the USB-IF's rules, but that's it.

Re:UTF-8

On: NetHack Development Team Polls Community For Advice On Unicode

Oh, really? Name one. (;

Re:How much benefit?

On: Red Hat Engineer Improves Math Performance of Glibc

Wrong. Normal floating point functions (exp/log/etc) need to fallback to using multiple precision calculations to ensure that the result is perfectly accurate. Much works is done to avoid this having to happen often, but sometimes it is necessary.

El psy congroo

On: CERN Releases LHC Data

This is just a ploy by SERN to divert our attention away from their clandestine plans to take over the world.

Re:Economic risk

On: How Argonne National Lab Will Make Electric Cars Cheaper

It isn't by electronegativity, though. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

Re:Doing what you like

On: Why Money Doesn't Motivate File-Sharers

Extremely relevant story - http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm