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901.
by bcoates 13y ago
Both the JVM and a C compiler produce native machine code that is executed by the processor directly. Neither is an interpreter in the classic sense[1]. It doesn't matter what language they're written in -- you could write C compi
902.
by bcoates 13y ago
I don't think this is about convincing the "deniers" so much as curing misconceptions among the general public about how evolution works. You don't have to be arguing from bad faith or cynicism to hold some of the mistak
903.
by bcoates 13y ago
There aren't monkeys anymore, that's just a lie Big Nature Documentary is trying to push down our throats. Have you actually seen a monkey outside a carefully staged "exhibit" at a zoo? If you believe that, you probably
904.
by bcoates 13y ago
I'm not sure if he's using an esoteric definition of "national government", "English speaking", or "default", but if you consider the "Failing to make a payment on a US government issued bond as
905.
by bcoates 13y ago
Agreed, every time I've used a named pipe in a shellscript it's caused me nothing but pain. IIRC, they're guaranteed not to interleave write()s less than PIPE_BUF (4k?) but if your program is buffering internally it might not
906.
by bcoates 13y ago
The $1 Trillion coin thing was never a serious plan. Ex-Treasury official: "As a straightforward matter the Federal Reserve wouldn’t give Treasury a trillion dollars for that coin." That said, he's keeping with the party line
907.
by bcoates 13y ago
Unfortunately the way cookies, etc. work it's nontrivial for a browser to just visit a site that's offering a compromised certificate without undermining past and future security. A revoked certificate being offered doesn't h
908.
by bcoates 13y ago
If the connection was using a forward-secret key exchange (like DHE or ECDHE), then no. Unfortunately it's common not to and browsers don't do anything to warn people that they're using a low-security mode.
909.
by bcoates 13y ago
They'd have to go after GoDaddy to do that: $ curl http://crl.godaddy.com/gds1-64.crl | > openssl crl -text -noout -inform DER | > grep -A 6 2771FD5D73A8BB Serial Number: 2771FD5D73A8BB Revoca
910.
by bcoates 13y ago
I'm more worried that the Justice Alito is apparently unaware of the phenomenon of vaporware: There are games in which a player can take on the identity and reenact the killings carried out by the perpetrators of the murders at
911.
by bcoates 13y ago
That appears to be an accident handling the output of an isotope manufacturing reactor, not anything involving a power reactor. > I would argue that there needs to be a significant improvement before fission is publicly acceptable. I wou
912.
by bcoates 13y ago
The Windows backwards compatibility model includes a lot more than just old binaries continuing to run. To a substantial extent you can take code written for 16-bit windows and recompile it in 64-bit mode, intermixing it with code targeted
913.
by bcoates 13y ago
> Had the Windows 8 requirements included "no HDD", people would be saying "Wow, Windows 8 is fast!" That's really clever. I was very underwhelmed by Windows 8 but I was moving from an SSD-only Windows 7 system,
914.
by bcoates 13y ago
NFC seems like a solution in search of a problem to me. What does it accomplish that QR codes or any other optical scan technology doesn't?
915.
by bcoates 13y ago
The long multiplication algorithm has two nested inner loops, each reducing one of the inputs to digits (dividing and multiplying by fixed values), multiplying them with a lookup table, then performing add-with-carry against inner and outer
916.
by bcoates 13y ago
In 30+ years on this planet, I have never lived in anything that resembles the shotgun shack that is the "Home" icon. (To me, the canonical home is either a ranch or a brownstone, which look nothing like that) I think the kids wil
917.
by bcoates 13y ago
I would greatly prefer not to have a SSN as long as I wasn't the only one. That essay's factual assertions were disproven by later events in Colorado where a chaotic and mostly unplanned transition (which neglected to come up with
918.
by bcoates 13y ago
In other words, the U.S.A.'s national security interests bear little resemblance to those of Nazi Germany (I can't believe I have to type that). Fine, I'll concede the singular moral uniqueness of the government of Germany
919.
by bcoates 13y ago
Mostly because it's entirely pointless, technologically. Netflix isn't even a particularly good source of digital video for piracy; the free-love internet video sharers are going to rip from the higher-res, sooner-available, bette
920.
by bcoates 13y ago
The Stasi and the Gestapo were genuinely pursuing a national security mission. They also did more self-inflicted harm to Germany than the A-bomb did to Japan from the outside. He's not exaggerating the amount of damage an intelligenc
921.
by bcoates 13y ago
Here's the membership list of the W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List It would be great if anyone opposed to this would contact an organization on this list, ask them why they're endorsing and
922.
by bcoates 13y ago
At that point you've stopped even pretending to be a "security researcher"
923.
by bcoates 13y ago
Call your insurance company, if you're insured, then get on with your life. The cops don't have a time machine and they don't give a shit about you getting mugged or your stuff getting stolen. If you work hard enough you migh
924.
by bcoates 13y ago
Not really, you've leaked so much of the key that doing exhaustive search of possible OCR errors becomes trivial.
925.
by bcoates 13y ago
They already don't have access, they have to pay their half of the costs. We're talking about patent lawsuits here anyway, both parties are corporations so "poor" isn't really a meaningful concept.
926.
by bcoates 13y ago
Presumably in a loser-pays system you would be required to post a bond to sue if there was some question of your ability/willingness to pay. Besides, the ability to offload your legal exposure (as opposed to the risk for ordinary debts
927.
by bcoates 13y ago
Ugly personal site != nonfunctional commercial site.
928.
by bcoates 13y ago
Perhaps he's empathic enough to realize what it's like to have few choices, then have a well-meaning but paternalistic social reformer swoop in and take some of those choices away, pat you on the head, and drive off back to his ni
929.
by bcoates 13y ago
Are the small number of people depending on Mechanical Turk for real money actually capable of doing regular minimum wage labor? We already have broad exceptions to minimum wage laws that allow the marginally employable (seriously disabled,
930.
by bcoates 13y ago
I'm sure if you extorted a multi-millionaire Republican or Democrat or whatever with something they couldn't go to the police for, nothing at all bad would happen to you.

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