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by metric10 12y ago
It could also just pull over on to the shoulder and activate the hazard lights. It'll probably also sound an alarm in the cabin.
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by metric10 12y ago
If you're so tired that you drift out of your lane then you are beyond the point of when you should have stopped. In such a case, I would rather share the road with Tesla's auto-pilot. I'm sure the press is going to sensatio
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by metric10 12y ago
I'm not aware of a non-PC compatible that had an 80486. In any event, real mode can address up to 1MB of memory, with 640KB available to programs. But I do think you are right. If all he had was DOS and QBASIC, he had no way to go i
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by metric10 12y ago
I think "script kiddy" is overly harsh. Script kiddies can't program, they just run other people's "scripts." He clearly had some aptitude, he just didn't have the books or the right environment to learn
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by metric10 12y ago
That seemed odd to me as well. On the other hand, he was programming in QBASIC and text mode (from what I saw in the screen shots). Nothing he did probably required a lot of memory, and since he never had access to new software, it was pr
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by metric10 12y ago
The plane was manufactured by Boeing, a US company. See http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/foreign.aspx
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by metric10 13y ago
Kind of like Al Gore on Apple's board?
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by metric10 13y ago
Umm...they can? Do you have any examples of this? All this time, has it just been that Windows security vulnerabilities have been found on the second Monday of every month?
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by metric10 13y ago
Consider that this fix doesn't just remove the goto, it enables code that previously wasn't being run or tested. They need to verify that it works and doesn't segfault, otherwise important services (like the update system it
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by metric10 13y ago
While I agree with the characterization of Heaven's Gate as a parasite or virus, I disagree that this is a means of "survival." Suicide cults are an ancient phenomenon, and a key to their success (I think) is ignorance. I ho
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by metric10 13y ago
The double licensing is problem, but this would work nicely with a BYOD policy. You could use your own computer anywhere, but corporate data is still stored in a secure location.
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by metric10 13y ago
For extremely small values of "usable"... I attended Google I/O this year and received a Pixel. It's a really nice piece of hardware, but as a developer it's worthless. I saw Google presenters using a lot of Macs
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by metric10 13y ago
I'm aware of the distinction, but from the article: "With the possibility of an American federal government shutdown looming next week as the result of the debt-ceiling crisis ..." Not a "continuing resolution" or &
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by metric10 13y ago
To translate, "shut down" means subsist on tax revenue alone and not issue anymore debt. For 2012 that was $2.5 trillion for the year. I realize it would be a disaster to go cold turkey like that, but I also don't buy the n
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by metric10 13y ago
Let me guess, you're a Republican? The OP made a perfectly legitimate observation. People should be skeptical of anyone trying to prove a point by showing a graph. Thanks for posting a link to the actual science.
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by metric10 13y ago
And how do you know the "independent" organization that comes up with the next encryption standard wasn't covertly influenced or controlled by a hostile entity[1]? Public scrutiny and peer review are the best defenses, and th
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by metric10 13y ago
Given the technology of the era, how else where people supposed to gain access to it? And so what if they made a profit doing it, so long as other companies or individuals had the right to distribute it also. In the end more copies would
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by metric10 14y ago
Sure. The NASA Outreach Program. Teaching our kids how to design, build, and operate spaceships. Without it they're all going into liberal arts. Sorry, but I have a feeling education and science will survive the Sequestocalypse just fine
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by metric10 15y ago
OS/2's big problem was it needed 8MB of RAM to run acceptably. 4MB (the stated minimum requirement) was just enough to boot it up and, maybe, run one very light weight application (with the HD thrashing trying to swap memory in and out).
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by metric10 15y ago
No, OS/2 2.0 and later could run any number of DOS and Windows 3.1 applications at once. I'm not sure about the 1.x series. You're probably remembering Windows 9x's feature of being able to automatically reboot into MS-DOS for running gam