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  1. Re:Great potential on Auto-threading Compiler Could Restore Moore's Law Gains · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Imagine you have a for-loop that calls the method 'hop' on every object 'bunny' in the list:

    for every bunny in list {
    bunny.hop()
    }

    And if the original intent is to make the bunnies hop in sequence like performing "the wave", making a new thread for each hop might produce a visual effect of them all hopping at once if the sleep occurred in the hop() function instead of the for loop calling the hops.

  2. Teach programmers on Auto-threading Compiler Could Restore Moore's Law Gains · · Score: 2

    The holy grail of parallel processing is teaching programmers how to handle parallel processing (and what domains can benefit and where).

  3. Re:I am having a vision of the future... on Researchers Create New Cheap, Shatterproof, Plastic Light Bulbs · · Score: 1

    That said, I never could understand my mom's dad, who was dead set against getting indoor plumbing. Even after my uncle built a bathroom, Grandpa still went out in the snow to the outhose.

    After decades of going outside to poop, you want him to start pooping inside the house? You don't poop in the house!

  4. Re:This is like skipping vaccines on Just Say No To College · · Score: 1

    The big reason people stop taking medications is side effects. "OMG, I have constant headaches, stomach cramps, numb tongue, and flatulence. I'd be happy to risk one little [seizure/depression/psychotic episode] just to feel normal again for a week or two." Then they do it again and again until a bad event happens because in the short term, they feel so much better.

  5. Well, I for one... on Just Say No To College · · Score: 1

    ...welcome the chance to be an overlord to the new underclass of skilled workers. Without a degree (maybe even diploma), they will have to start from the bottom and fight their way up, leaving hundreds of less lucky but equally skilled workers at the bottom too. And if they think "the bottom" is unpaid intern, they're in for a surprise. They might have to pay for the experience (those education dollars have to be sucked up somewhere).

  6. Re:the whole concept of property on Should Inventions Be Automatically Owned By Your Employer? · · Score: 1

    You should really talk to some toddlers. "No mine!"

  7. Reeducation on Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation? · · Score: 1

    Hey, as long as it's not a camp, it's better than what some people expect.

  8. Re:maybe they should release it as a game on One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's usually the other way around. The lights are timed for 5-10 miles over the speed limit, and cops use it as a constant stream of speeders for ticketing.

  9. Noooooo! on One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators · · Score: 1

    Elevator pseudocode is the heart of many a CS course. And CS courses were promised to be devoid of practical application.

  10. Why does it matter if/when Apple knew? on Apple Claims Ignorance of Jury Foreman's Previous Tangle With Samsung · · Score: 0

    Shouldn't there be a (mis/re)trial regardless?

  11. Re:This this not evolution on Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    ...fitness for an environment. The environment changed when we started industrializing and getting better medicine.

  12. Everything I know about management on DOE Wants 5X Improvement In Batteries In 5 Years · · Score: 2

    When you had to deliver the goods very, very quickly, you needed to put the best scientists next to the best engineers across disciplines to get very focused,

    Everything I know about management, I learned from X-Com (UFO)

  13. Re:Bios flashed spyware? on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The main way that rootkits survive a total hard disk format is because they're running at the time - any decent rootkit is more than able to stop a simple format from removing it simply by intercepting any parts of the format which target it, and returning OK signals. [...] if the FBI or PC store simply formatted it through, say, re-formatting the drive by running the Windows setup disk, then a kernel level rootkit would happily stay in-tact in this manner.

    If they used the Windows setup disk to nuke the drive, how did the rootkit get on the DVD? How did the rootkit stay running after a reboot? You're almost on the right track, but BIOS/EFI infection is the answer you're looking for (or HDD firmware). The rootkit has to be running before any OS boots up. Even a boot-sector virus won't survive a disk-wipe, so there had to be a re-infection method.

  14. This just in: on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: 4, Funny

    All newly sold computers in the United States will actually be pre-owned by FBI agents' family members. Full story at eleven.

  15. Re:Cruel and unusual on Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    wealth =/= income
    Inventory tax is a tax based on wealth.

  16. Re:It's not an object... on Staples To Offer 3D Printing Services · · Score: 2

    What object that is normally made of paper is worth the expense and trouble of setting up an expensive machine, the internet, finding the right file, waiting for the process, then going to pick it up?

    Ooh, wait! I just thought of it! Money.

  17. Re:It's not an object... on Staples To Offer 3D Printing Services · · Score: 1

    Specialized 3D-shaped post-it blocks. That's all I can think of.

  18. Re:Why is this bad? on New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games · · Score: 0

    Because this is like Apple giving Apple ][ computers to schools or Microsoft giving them free Office suites. Even closer: it's like selling pretty slave collars in a Goodwill store. It seems like charity, but it's just a way to get people to be happy about being enslaved.

  19. Re:Better Be Some Goddamn Extraordinary Evidence on Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon · · Score: 1

    [Home schooling] is child abuse and shitty for the children, especially when they grow up. But the parents for home schooling (which there arent many for a reason and in the minority for a reason) will never accept it. Its for pretentious parents that want to defy whats normal because they think they know whats best despite something working for thousands of years.

    Thousands? Try barely hundreds. The current American public school system isn't even 100, and the home schoolers look a lot better each passing day.

  20. Re:Why would that be the first step? on Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon · · Score: 1

    Presumably to make sure that the moon base would be safe from enemy nukes (no thermal shockwave).

  21. Re:Hmm. $50 on Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version · · Score: 1

    Except that you'd still do the above steps because no IT guy worth his salt uses an OS that came with the box (unless it's MacOS; there's no difference between pre-installed and self-installed there)

  22. Re:This is ridiculos on Critic Cites Revenge of the Sith As "Generation's Greatest Work of Art · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that RotS, when examined without the rest of the series, makes no sense.

  23. Re:Honestly... on Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost · · Score: 2

    Dragstrip countdown lights; much easier to see.

  24. Re:And a normal locksmith will also charge on Hotel Keycard Lock Hack Gets Real In Texas · · Score: 1
    Bumping a lock is a little noisy too, even if you use a rubber mallet. If you try to bump several doors in a hotel hallway, someone's going to notice.

    From time to time, I need to open a lock. I examine the lock, think a bit, poke through my big pile of keys, and usually come up with a match.

    That is not going to be a fast process like with these keycards. In fact, picking the lock is faster than your method.

  25. Re:And a normal locksmith will also charge on Hotel Keycard Lock Hack Gets Real In Texas · · Score: 1

    A zipgun leaves obvious clues, and can draw attention. Lock picks take time, and you don't look like you're using an ordinary key while using them. With this method, presumably it takes little time to cycle through numbers, and if someone sees you in the hallway, it looks no different than a keycard (with a cable running up your jacket sleeve that few would notice). The ease of use combined with the lessened chance of getting caught makes this a story. Of course it's less effective than using a maid's key.