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  1. Re:Easily gamed? on New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible · · Score: 1

    If I let go of an object from my hand, and it doesn't accelerate towards the ground, then it will never hit the ground. That seems unlikely.

  2. Re:A paradox? on No "Ungoogleable" In Swedish Lexicon, Thanks to Google · · Score: 1

    It seems pretty strange that the Swedish Language Council wanted "ogooglebar" to mean "something that can't be found in *any* search engine"

    As far as I'm concerned, if I say something is "un-google-able" then I mean "I can't find it in Google"

    For example, the search term ||= is ungoogleable, but is it ogooglebar?

  3. Re:Misleading lead on Can You Do the Regular Expression Crossword? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I just figured out you're talking about the missing '.' which is of course a mistake in the description

  4. Re:Misleading lead on Can You Do the Regular Expression Crossword? · · Score: 1

    I must have missed the day that 0 stopped being part of the set of "any number"

  5. Re:ObBetteridge on Can You Do the Regular Expression Crossword? · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming since most of the clues begin and end with .* that they're all intended to be anchored to the start and end of the word. So that particular clue matches an 8 character string consisting only of (zero or more) Rs followed by (zero or more) Ds followed by (zero or more) Ms. I don't think you'll find anything in the word list completely matching that

  6. Re:Pthhhhttpppt on All Ruby On Rails Versions Suffer SQL Injection Flaw · · Score: 2

    Right, but the HMAC session key is used to encrypt user sessions. Change the key, and all the old sessions become invalid. Your suggestion is akin to saying, after someone stops working at your company, every user of the company's website should get logged out.

  7. Re:this flaw only applies if you use authlogic on All Ruby On Rails Versions Suffer SQL Injection Flaw · · Score: 1

    Seems like you are mistaken. The very next sentence after the block you quoted says:

    There are other exploitable scenarios, but it really depends on what your app is doing. Since it is impossible to prove that something isn’t insecure, you should take the vulnerability seriously and upgrade anyway even if you think you aren’t affected.

  8. Re:After 42 yrs programming I say... on Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? · · Score: 5, Funny

    (I know, I know, it means you must be a PHP developer)

  9. Re:After 42 yrs programming I say... on Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? · · Score: 2

    What if you have one coder using project_cost and another using projectDeadline, and this lack of consistency is continued across the whole set of functions and variables in the project?

  10. Re:Hmm on Sir Patrick Moore Dies Aged 89 · · Score: 1

    He was also a member of the Flat Earth Society. It's shocking what beliefs he got away with as a scientist

  11. Re:Fermat's Last Exploit on Researcher Claims To Have Chrome Zero-Day, Google Says "Prove It" · · Score: 1

    some operating systems

    FTFY

  12. Re:No wonder it sucks! on James Bond Film Skyfall Inspired By Stuxnet Virus · · Score: 1

    Easy solution: Don't go and see it!

  13. Re:Great in demos, but... on LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000 · · Score: 1

    Does the definition of 20/20 vision really mix imperial and metric units?

  14. Re:Sigh. on QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks · · Score: 1

    > You know Diebold (of the easily hacked voting machines scandal) still makes ABM banking machines, right?

    They make Automatic Banking Machine Banking Machines? They're even more redundant than I thought!

  15. Re:Why is it legal at all? on Judge Rejects Settlement In Facebook Sponsored Stories Case · · Score: 2

    If you've never heard of something, why did you say you Like it on Facebook?

  16. Re:NBC did a great job on The Olympic Live Stream: Observations, Recommendations, Predictions · · Score: 1

    2 *billion* people worldwide watched Usain Bolt win the Mens 100m gold medal live. But none of them did it via an American TV network.

  17. Re:And, best of all... on Microsoft To PC and Tablet Makers: You're Not Our Future · · Score: 1

    You'd think, wouldn't you! Let's find out!

    If you wanted to, you could go to Google and run a search for MySpamPC. But you wouldn't find anything useful because I just made it up.

    Hmm, guess not.

  18. Re:The article is written by a fucktard. on Why Smart People Are Stupid · · Score: 1

    I understand why many people might divide by half

    I don't. Dividing by a half is the same as doubling. Maybe those people were dividing by 2 (or dividing in half)?

  19. Re:Options? on A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" · · Score: 1

    Personally I say I have "fewer" of things I can have a few of, and "less" of things I can have a little of.

  20. Re:Redundant on Google Applies For Dot-LOL Domain · · Score: 1

    But search.google, mail.google, news.google and code.google isn't redundant. It's maybe *pointless* when users are used to mail.google.com and news.google.com, especially when they still haven't gotten rid of the redundant `www.` from their main URL

  21. Re:Ensured? on Five EU Countries Taken To Court For Failing To Implement Cookie Law · · Score: 1
  22. Ensured? on Five EU Countries Taken To Court For Failing To Implement Cookie Law · · Score: 3, Informative

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.

    On a more helpful note I think "assured" was what you were looking for.

  23. Re:As long as... on What Would a Post-Email World Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Wave is about as centralised as XMPP was when there was only one XMPP server to connect to.

  24. Re:imho on Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings · · Score: 2

    We've got a front end dev in our web shop with rendering patches accepted into Gecko. It's a rare sight, and it takes the right kind of developer, but it's not unheard of

  25. Re:Why would it need studies? on TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap · · Score: 4, Interesting

    TomTom itself will direct you to a point about half a mile away from my house (in the middle of a large town) if you put my postcode into some of its GPS devices.

    That's caused problems both for friends and takeaway delivery drivers :(