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901.
by saulrh 15y ago
Definitely true; the same goes for nearly every idea in history. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
902.
by saulrh 15y ago
"The risk is, it turns into a one-witness trial," The solution is to hire a jury of expert witnesses. That should have happened a long time ago, in fact; letting a judge or jury make decisions about a specialist subject if they don't
903.
by saulrh 15y ago
Unfortunately, they do so rather poorly, and they do it as a 40-minute video interview. They also don't provide any useful or meaningful refutations. Things they have yet to demonstrate: Animation in a remotely current version of the en
904.
Euclideon (Infinite Detail) Responds to Notch(hardocp.com)
3 points by saulrh 15y ago|1 comments
905.
by saulrh 15y ago
This is exactly like a DDoS attack. I don't take this to mean that email spam is hacking, though - I take it to mean that a DDoS is not . Snail mail campaigns can't get you prosecuted. Telephone complaint campaigns can't get you prosecuted
906.
by saulrh 15y ago
It's even worse than that - "The Problem in a Nutshell" hasn't been edited since 2000. http://www.openpatents.org/nutshell.php
907.
by saulrh 15y ago
Scientists do something similar, in that they have to log absolutely everything they do and publish the important parts. Biologists and psychologists are even more on the hook, since they have to demonstrate compliance with experimental eth
908.
by saulrh 15y ago
Agreed. This whole mess has been nothing but a demonstration of how awesome our technology is; homemade fallout counters are just one manifestation. For me, the very most important statistic is simple: zero deaths from radiation.
909.
by saulrh 15y ago
"largest untapped deposit" Emphasis mine. This is still an awesome find, but it would be better if these deposits were also large in absolute terms. Is there any chance someone has found better details?
910.
by saulrh 15y ago
Just to make this clear - there is no such thing as "too high for a geiger counter to read". There is "too high for the geiger counter in my hand to read", just as with any other instrument, but all they have to do to get a better reading i
911.
by saulrh 15y ago
This poll would be more useful if the "No" answer were also split into ad-supported/not, as that would let us determine whether working for an ad-supported company makes you less likely to block ads.
912.
by saulrh 15y ago
I'll say the same thing now as I said last time these guys released a video: I'll believe it when I see them make a single blade of grass move, or when they place a single dynamic light source and cast a single dynamic shadow. Until then, t
913.
by saulrh 15y ago
Not really a tip for your dotfile, but learn about all of Emacs's autocompletion variations. There are something like five of them, ranging from basic M-/ to CEDET's context-and-semantics-sensitive code completion tool.
914.
by saulrh 15y ago
Well, that's annoying. Now everybody is going to assume that all of the evildoers have been caught and that everything is safe. How long do we think it's going to take for corporations to start relaxing their security?
915.
by saulrh 15y ago
I used to have the same problem, but it turns out that you can tell compiz to hide the title bar. Takes a tiny bit of getting used to (Alt is your friend), but it's pretty nice otherwise. http://jaket.is-a-geek.com/blog/linux/remove-titleb
916.
by saulrh 15y ago
The closest equivalent to a voluntary, publicized DDoS is a sit-in. While those do lead to arrests, they don't lead to wholesale confiscation of (expensive!) property, and even the organizers don't get more than a few months in jail. Furt
917.
by saulrh 15y ago
It's not just that technology advances; patents eventually expire. The problem is that the electronics industry advances an order of magnitude faster . A patent in the farm-tractor industry takes two years to start making money and is stil
918.
by saulrh 15y ago
Windows Vista and Ubuntu, by contrast, added much more robust implementations of ASLR years earlier. I don't pay much attention to security, but I would be surprised if this were the only feature that OSX is years behind on. I can
919.
by saulrh 15y ago
I don't imagine that any of the harm they've inflicted will offset the dozens of major corporations that are finally getting their security together.
920.
by saulrh 15y ago
Well, a lot of them can approximate "the" answer to within an arbitrarily and provably small amount, so it's definitions. For example, there is a polynomial-time approximation for euclidean TSP that produces a solution with length at most (
921.
Did Microsoft steal the Kinect?(hackaday.com)
6 points by saulrh 15y ago|1 comments
922.
by saulrh 15y ago
Every time I see a grammatical argument like this, my first thought is that parentheses, or another way to precisely denote grouping and logical association, would instantly obviate the practice being discussed.
923.
by saulrh 15y ago
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/07/09/general-as-japan-e... No damage reported, nuke plants are safe, officials estimate one-meter tsunami.
924.
by saulrh 15y ago
I didn't go from one to the other; I should have made that more clear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#Rape_...
925.
by saulrh 15y ago
I was simply being annoyed at an unbacked statement like that, especially given the topic. We always seem to forget that being a woman is, in fact, bloody dangerous. Something like one in five American women experiences a rape. We aren't di
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3d printer in minecraft(rockpapershotgun.com)
1 points by saulrh 15y ago|0 comments
927.
by saulrh 15y ago
In fact, my educated guess is that far more women die from car accidents than from crazy murderers. That's true. However, if I'm doing my math right, the statistics for rape and sexual assault are an entirely different story. The U
928.
by saulrh 15y ago
I'll put in another plug for Robotics and Intelligent Machines @ Georgia Tech; that's where I am now. http://robotics.gatech.edu/
929.
by saulrh 15y ago
The very nature of the crypto transaction renders it impossible to trace and prove a completed transaction in interstate commerce. Not only is he a douchebag, he doesn't understand the technology he's dealing with. Verifying and
930.
by saulrh 15y ago
See also http://dxr.mozilla.org/clang/ , http://dxr.mozilla.org/clang/clang/include/clang/AST/Recursi... , and http://quetzalcoatal.blogspot.com/2011/07/dxr-alpha-2-releas... for some more information and a demo. DXR does a bunch of sta

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