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Re:AirConsole – Your browser is the game console, your smartphone is t...
on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:28AM (#10169956)
It works smoothly and without much lag. The phone GUI is well executed.
Re:Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness
on Thursday September 03, 2015 @04:32PM (#10167367)
This is explains a lot about the stature of elite marathoners: less volume per square area.
Re:Teen Boy Will Be Charged as Adult for Having Naked Pics of a Minor:...
on Thursday September 03, 2015 @02:56PM (#10166847)
He is the perpetrator and the victim in this case...apparently.
Re:Tech’s Enduring Great-Man Myth
on Thursday September 03, 2015 @02:54PM (#10166836)
He is succeeding where others are dropping like flies (looking at you, Solyndra).
Re:My Brother's Keeper
on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @04:13PM (#10161636)
You just can't wrap your head around it otherwise. The logical struggle at understanding the illogical.
Re:Court: Feds Can't Just Grab Someone's Laptop at the Border
on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @10:52AM (#10116905)
I agree. The government is terrible about doing first and then asking the courts for forgiveness, er, permission,
Fashion shows for the latest designer genes
Re:Morgan Stanley: Tesla is ready to 'dominate' the auto industry
on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @02:39PM (#10081237)
It really sounds like MS is trying to justify their ownership/outlook on $TSLA. How many more times do they have to write this before it becomes true?
Re:The Toddler at Y Combinator
on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @02:06PM (#10080975)
Whatever it takes for success. And pg is a genuinely nice fellow.
Re:US Patent 9085897: Space elevator
on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @08:33AM (#10078814)
They used to. Patent models were required from 1790 to 1880.
Re:The Teflon Toxin
on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @08:57AM (#10047432)
Ford Motor Company Management 101
Re:“Stop reverse engineering our code”
on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @08:58AM (#10040614)
Re:“Stop reverse engineering our code”
on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @08:57AM (#10040611)
Re:How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
on Monday August 10, 2015 @09:28AM (#10034408)
Go home, yuppies.
The last few paragraphs bring it home: hacking is being subverted as a tool of the establishment and no longer, in common use, means working against the establishment.
Re:The New Science of Sentencing
on Friday August 07, 2015 @04:02PM (#10024654)
I thought Minority Report was just a movie...
Re:A conversation with Google’s in-house philosopher
on Friday August 07, 2015 @04:00PM (#10024646)
Don't be too evil
Re:On rump kernels and the Rumprun unikernel
on Friday August 07, 2015 @12:39PM (#10023418)
Yes, the rump (of the) kernel.
Re:On rump kernels and the Rumprun unikernel
on Friday August 07, 2015 @11:58AM (#10023188)
"An anykernel can be instantiated into units which virtualize the bare minimum support functionality for kernel drivers. We call these virtualized kernel instances
rump kernels since they retain only a part of the original kernel."
Page 33, http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2012/isbn9789526049175/isbn9789526049...
Re:Change Data Capture: The Magic Wand We Forgot
on Friday August 07, 2015 @11:54AM (#10023174)
Essentially, one database to rule them all?
Re:NSA tried Stuxnet cyber-attack on North Korea five years ago but fa...
on Friday August 07, 2015 @11:48AM (#10023137)
Exactly, it's just another card in the deck to play as needed.
Re:Russia Just Hacked into the Pentagon’s Email System
on Friday August 07, 2015 @11:46AM (#10023125)
Russia Just Found a Neglected Weakness of the Pentagon's Nonclassified Email System
Re:Programming excuses
on Friday August 07, 2015 @11:34AM (#10023043)
What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?
Re:Why Ice Delays Recovery
on Friday August 07, 2015 @11:28AM (#10022998)
Yes, increased blood flow is integral to recovery. Ice slows that down. However, icing is not categorically bad. 10 minutes in an ice bath does wonders at helping to dispatch the lactic acid accumulated during a long event.
Re:Do Open Source Software Developers Listen to Their Users?
on Friday August 07, 2015 @11:20AM (#10022937)
Unless it is directly related to functionality, no.
Re:Design Documentaries
on Friday August 07, 2015 @09:46AM (#10022400)
I counted the ones that I had seen. Then counted the ones I hadn't.
Re:Hacker Turns Secure Computers into Secret-Spewing Radios
on Friday August 07, 2015 @09:43AM (#10022384)
Mind-blowingly outside the box. Network isolation is not enough. Wow.
Re:What We Got Wrong About Self-Management: Embracing Natural Hierarchy
on Friday August 07, 2015 @09:29AM (#10022294)
I think they lost sight of the fact that mentorship != management. Increased mentorship would have made their flat concept a more tenable solution.
Re:An Oakland shooting reveals how cops snoop on cell phones
on Friday August 07, 2015 @09:13AM (#10022217)
Let unconstitutionally acquired exidence stand?
No, let's not let the abuses of a government stand, as we should also go after its agents.
Re:Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life
on Friday August 07, 2015 @09:02AM (#10022174)
Remember, risk of death still sits at 100%.
Re:3-D Printer Firms Fall Flat, as Buyers Wait for New Models
on Friday August 07, 2015 @08:59AM (#10022167)
The charade is up: 3D printers are not the design panacea they were claimed to be.