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  1. Overcomplicated on Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding · · Score: 1

    Why not just a warning light and/or sound for the driver? Having it directly control the speed is both extra cost and extra risk.

  2. Complexity Bites Bytes on Flash-Based Vulnerability Lingers On Many Websites, Three Years Later · · Score: 0

    Fat Client = Fat Holes. Fat luck fixing em all.

  3. Re:I recently had a dream on Jupiter Destroyed 'Super-Earths' In Our Early Solar System · · Score: 1

    Is your name T-Rex?

  4. Penalty 374.42.7a on Jupiter Destroyed 'Super-Earths' In Our Early Solar System · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jupiter and Saturn shall be sentenced to death for deviating from the approved Stellar System Standards, which has resulted in the formation of humans and other pestilences.

  5. Re:One-sided relationship on Chinese CA Issues Certificates To Impersonate Google · · Score: 1

    but do you expect us to use the US wouldn't use spying for commercial advantage if they had a chance?

    Guilty until proven innocent?

    These two are exactly the same. Claiming otherwise is just exceptionalism.

    Sorry, I don't see it that way. I expect all nations to spy for political and military reasons and I don't blame them for doing it. But the gov't spying for commercial advantage of non-military products is a different issue.

    From another perspective, if a nation is caught cheating, they have no right to ask for open-trade status. If a gov't does commercial spying, they forfeit their claim on open-trade. Thus, you can view it as a trade-off choice rather than a "sin".

  6. Re:One-sided relationship on Chinese CA Issues Certificates To Impersonate Google · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking about spying, but of interfering with commerce.

  7. Re: One-sided relationship on Chinese CA Issues Certificates To Impersonate Google · · Score: 1

    Amen! The lobbyists and "campaign contributors" slipped in lopsided trade slice by slice starting around the mid 1960's. Polls of citizens consistently showed voters ambivalent about lopsided trade. It's being blindsided in slow motion.

  8. Re:Common sense on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 2

    Eat well. Exercise

    "Eat, drink, and be merry" is somehow more catchy, though.

  9. Re:eliminate extra sugar on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    Calories generally come from one of these three: carbohydrates, fats/oils, and protein. If one eats less carbs overall, then they have to increase the other two (to feel satiated).

    Increasing protein is out for reasons already given. That leaves only fats/oils to increase.

    Your calorie "math" seems off.

  10. One-sided relationship on Chinese CA Issues Certificates To Impersonate Google · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Please explain why we offer nearly tariff-free trade with such a prick country? They bleep with US entertainment companies, networking companies, search companies, etc. etc.

  11. Re:eliminate extra sugar on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 2

    All simple carbohydrates, chips, white bread, wheat tortillas, fried potatoes are an issue

    Hogwash! I used to eat more whole-grains, nuts, and protein, but had to cut back due to kidney stones such that I had to go back to "starchy" foods. My weight changed NONE: still plump.

    But again, every body is different. Extrapolation of one experience needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Pun intended.

  12. Re:eliminate extra sugar on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    I did it by eliminating extra sugar.

    I cut way down on sugar, and it made absolutely zero difference on my weight. It may have other benefits, but not weight.

    Then again, everybody is different. What works for your body may not work for another.

    There probably is no magic bullet, other than working your sweaty ass off on a farm or building pyramids (or a machine that simulates such), which is what we are evolved to be doing. The only chubby people used to the royal families, which is like 0.00001% of the population, not enough for evolution to "care" about.

    Diets are like software engineering fads: promise a Grand New Way of doing things, but in the end there is no substitute for experience, skill, patience, listening to users, and discipline. "Have you tried the new Node-Jay-Ass diet?"

    I would note that the guy who dies at 65 with a Bic Mac in hand appears to be happier than the guy who dies at 82 on a treadmill sweating his bloody ass off.

  13. Re:A better model for Dynamic Typing on Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices · · Score: 1

    The summary does mention JavaScript. And Php still has the problem for equality operators (greater than, equal, etc.). Then again, ColdFusion didn't quite settle equality comparing either.

  14. I wanna refund on Bring On the Boring Robots · · Score: 0

    "No, Sir, I shall not suck your dick."

  15. Not By Choice on Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices · · Score: 1

    JavaScript has enjoyed a dramatic renaissance as it has been transformed from a browser scripting tool...to a substantial client-side programming language

    This is mostly because there are few practical alternatives on the client side. You can't have the user install say Python on the client side if you want to use Python. It's the QWERTY of programming languages: you are stuck with it because everybody else is also stuck with it. They are not going to fudge their browser just for your particular site.

    While JavaScript may be fine for a light-duty glue language, it sucks big juicy ones for large interconnected libraries, such as GUI engines. A strong-typed language is much better suited for large libraries.

    It's backwards to load an entire GUI engine just for one app. It's almost as bad as DLL-Hell. Time to rethink web GUI standards (or lack of).

  16. A better model for Dynamic Typing on Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices · · Score: 1

    weakly-typed variables are a bit aggravating

    A lot of that can be alleviated simply by having a language that does not overload operators across types, such as "+" for addition and concatenation, and by having optionally type-validated parameters.

    ColdFusion may suck in other ways, but it got these two things mostly right. Witness the function parameter (argument) declaration definition:

    <cfargument
        name="string"
        default="default value"
        displayname="descriptive name"
        hint="extended description"
        required="yes|no"
        type="data type">

    Example code:

    <cfArgument name="amount" type="numeric" required="yes">
    <cfArgument name="deadline" type="date" required="false" default="12/31/2015">

    You don't have to declare type and required status if you don't want to, but the feature is there IF you want tighter typing. (There is no compiler to check up-front, it's still dynamic, but I imagine a "lint" like warning system could be built that can spot suspicious type usage before a run.)

    Note that ColdFusion has no (detectable) type "tag", and validation is done by parsing, or what resembles parsing. It perhaps may use tags under the hood for performance reasons, but they are not visible to programmers. (Thus, a clone interpreter without tags would produce the same result, ignoring performance.)

    That simplifies things in my opinion. It's "WYSIWYG" typing. Tag-based typing is trickier to manage in my opinion. I much prefer tag-free (including my mattress). ColdFusion thought dynamic typing through.

  17. Re:jobs for all these new trainees to fill? on Obama To Announce $240M In New Pledges For STEM Education · · Score: 1

    We can't place the number of graduates we currently have into even remotely well paying, long term, jobs.

    I believe the prez is making one or more of these mistakes:

    1. Mistaking spot shortages for general shortages.

    2. He's been bamboozled by visa & outsource lobbyists.

    3. He has to blame sluggish wages on something, and lack of STEM workers makes a good scapegoat excuse because it's complicated to verify and has lots of caveats, making plenty of political wiggle room if he needs to walk it back.

    I don't have enough info yet to make a good guess selection from these 3. I suspect a combo. Your speculation is welcome...

  18. Re:I choose MS SQL Server [Backups] on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    Is your rudeness necessary? It solves nothing.

    It hasn't worked for us, and others have reported similar on forums. There are round-about work-arounds, but they have a lot of layers and dependencies. Not worth risk to save a buck.

    Note I am talking about automatic periodic backups, not one-time manual backups.

    (My apologies if this message shows up twice. The first didn't appear for some reason after submitting. I can't rule out Mondayitus.)

  19. Re:I thought we were over the whole SQL thing on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, you invented the File System!

  20. Re:I choose MS SQL Server [Backups] on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    Is your rudeness necessary? I helps nothing.

    Well, it hasn't worked for us, and I've found others complaining about it on the Internet also. There are work-arounds, but they are hokey and assume certain permission access levels.

    Note that I am talking about automatic periodic backups, not one-time manual runs.

  21. Re:I thought we were over the whole SQL thing on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    That should be NodeJSONXML. Keep up!

  22. Re:I choose MS SQL Server [Backups] on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: 1

    The Express edition does not have those features. It's why it's free.

  23. Special Interests at Work on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 2

    Farmers have strong lobbying power in California. It's one of the reasons why they get water subsidies to grow water-intensive crops.

  24. Re:Reflex on MRIs Show Our Brains Shutting Down When We See Security Prompts · · Score: 1

    That's where they use their spells on you.

  25. Re:I can't be the only one wondering on How To Encode 2.05 Bits Per Photon, By Using Twisted Light · · Score: 1

    Dwarfs