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901.
by Herring 17y ago
I think you're supposed to pretend there's some subtle & insightful comment that he couldn't just say, eg "people like happy endings".
902.
by Herring 17y ago
Yeah cryptography is hard for users.. I was wondering why companies (eg google) don't use https everywhere.
903.
by Herring 17y ago
Why isn't everyone encrypting everything?
904.
by Herring 17y ago
It seems like we went through this in the 90s with wmv/quicktime/etc. I can't recall why it failed & I'm not sure why it should be better this time around.
905.
by Herring 17y ago
It occurs to me that the author & I are sort of making the same point: checking a bunch of points gives you a degree of confidence in the general case. I think the only way to settle it is to quantify it.
906.
by Herring 17y ago
Proofs are hard. False positives in programs are very unlikely. It's usually a matter of verifying a few examples by hand because it's really hard to have isolated false positives.
907.
by Herring 17y ago
I'm sure the whole tech scene hopes so, but there are some important differences this time around. I only know enough about law to realize it's extremely complex.
908.
by Herring 17y ago
> We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Looks like someone's still a bit touchy about microsoft. http://en.wikipedia
909.
by Herring 17y ago
I'm not even sure it's possible. Much of electronic stuff is fundamentally difficult to secure, eg pgp.
910.
by Herring 17y ago
The highest level of abstraction is lying on a beach while robots do all the work.
911.
by Herring 17y ago
Use readability.
912.
by Herring 17y ago
source control, debugging, bug trackers, etc? But they probably don't need the full engineering toolkit..
913.
by Herring 17y ago
Well then they wouldn't get into an accident & you wouldn't hear about them. Look, things are different in the aggregate. You only hear about special results, so it doesn't make sense to wonder why they're special.
914.
by Herring 17y ago
>Biggest Bomb in the Cosmos Doesn't beat a gamma ray burst. We can see those clear from the other side of the universe.
915.
by Herring 17y ago
Stop reading the articles, nobody does. Slashdot isn't about content, it's about discussion & humor. Yes, virginia, humor
916.
by Herring 17y ago
Yeah CS theory & practice are often quite different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_analysis
917.
by Herring 17y ago
Hang on. If (s)he hates remembering passwords, why not slap on something biometric on top of the normal login process?
918.
by Herring 17y ago
Well it's not the first time I've heard that. A few people posting video reviews (earlier when they got to handle it) also commented on the speed.
919.
by Herring 17y ago
That's kind of a red herring, because Murdoch wants his stuff to be copied by google regardless of how that argument is resolved.
920.
by Herring 17y ago
There's no argument, it's just propaganda. He wants google to pay to link to news corp. Tarnishing google's reputation is his only leverage.
921.
by Herring 17y ago
A bit, yeah. But the pixels are still really off. I don't even know why, I just see they're wrong.
922.
by Herring 17y ago
You have to make it really obvious. >Some people even thought it was funny when the fairy character, who normally offers players helpful advice, instead told them they were playing a modified game. I found that hilarious.
923.
by Herring 17y ago
It's sort of a tautology. If innovation happens in a mature section, it creates something different so it's happening in a different field. If no innovation happens, well then it's still the same field. Next year he could be talking about t
924.
by Herring 17y ago
Wow, no kidding. And I'm certain items are missing from the beginning of the list. I know they're still saved somewhere, because I can't upmod those articles.
925.
by Herring 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=288021
926.
by Herring 17y ago
And if they try anything, I'll be talking to my bank's fraud department within the hour.
927.
by Herring 17y ago
I'm hopeful google borrows a few ideas for their next features. Sorry, I'm not giving anyone my password. Next time release it as a firefox plugin, or something client-side.
928.
by Herring 17y ago
good reddit discussion a while back. http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/b1w3n/markets_are... " TLDR: Markets aren't efficient "
929.
by Herring 17y ago
> IMHO one of the greatest, and most misguided straw men we have as a society is the boogeyman that is the lazy, stupid citizen. It's a leftover from puritan/calvinist times. Success was a sign that you have God's approval. You might e
930.
by Herring 17y ago
> Most of the critics of Searle's argument fail to respond directly to his points. This is actually not all that surprising in that most of the critics are scientists and Searle's argument is philosophical, but it means that doing a po

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