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Why would you intentionally leave in potential vulnerabilities, if you hypothetically have the option to release bug free code and boast about it.
Re:How to generate random terrain on Sunday February 10, 2013 @12:01PM (#5196924)
By "set of stairs" do you mean a simple vertical line that cuts trough all of terrain?
Re:How to generate random terrain on Sunday February 10, 2013 @11:10AM (#5196758)
Interesting, i thought minecraft had more complicated algorithms.

Does anyone have any examples on a more specific 2d terrain generation (side-scroller).

Re:I made $200K and PayPal locked my account on Friday February 08, 2013 @09:01PM (#5191202)
I was always wondering, if PayPal locks a 200k$ account, where does that money go?
Re:I made $200K and PayPal locked my account on Friday February 08, 2013 @08:50PM (#5191169)
Were you lying about being an american student?
Re:Worlds Collide: Valve And JJ Abrams Working On Movie on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @02:49PM (#5178391)
The whole movie in... First Person Perspective!

or even better;

The whole movie is a first person game and every viewer has a mouse and keyboard, every move from everyone is integrated/averaged together and this moves the character on the movie screen.

Re:Dyson Unveils New 'Wet and Dry' AirBlade Faucet on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @02:19PM (#5172618)
They have to make it quieter first. There is no way i could use anything so loud with roommates sleeping in the next room.

I think towel is still better for home usage as it wipes any remaining soap/stain off your skin in hard to reach places, and after a while you can always wash it in a washing machine.

Re:Mega has launched on Saturday January 19, 2013 @04:59PM (#5084946)
Now it says Infinity:NaN:NaN regarding the estimated time to download. :)

And the file is just 4KB.

Re:Mega has launched on Saturday January 19, 2013 @03:32PM (#5084647)
This statement makes no sense whatsoever.
Re:Carmen Ortiz Strikes Out on Saturday January 19, 2013 @03:05PM (#5084567)
Important part:

Prosecutors Ortiz and Stephen Heymann turned to a standard trick while pursuing the case, mounting a total of thirteen felony counts against Swartz and arguing that his college prank aimed at “liberating” a collection of academic articles with little commercial value was a serious crime. Although each of these counts bordered on the preposterous, Ortiz and Heymann clearly reckoned that at least one or two would stick during the jury-room bargaining process. More to the point, they assumed that the risk of their success even on bogus charges would be enough to pressure Swartz into accepting a guilty plea on all the counts in exchange for a reduced sentence — which is what they offered him. The process was fundamentally corrupt and shameful. But observers of the American criminal-justice system also know that it was a common one.

Re:Sophie In North Korea on Saturday January 19, 2013 @03:00PM (#5084547)
I kinda liked it; Even if you skip something the story is written in a way so it doesn't matter too much.
Re:Mega has launched on Saturday January 19, 2013 @02:28PM (#5084443)
What illegal products are you talking about?
Re:Mega has launched on Saturday January 19, 2013 @02:01PM (#5084335)
Piece is the keyword here.
Re:Mega has launched on Saturday January 19, 2013 @01:49PM (#5084285)
The user's javascript that encrypted the file can also make a hash send it to mega, and then they check if they already have that.

EDIT: They never get to see your key or what is in the file.

Re:Mega has launched on Saturday January 19, 2013 @01:44PM (#5084257)
It says, Temporarily unavailable
Re:Under the Hood with the SpaceX Merlin Engine on Monday January 14, 2013 @10:07AM (#5054871)
I think it's interesting that the engine is so small, are all engines of that caliber that size or is this one special?
Re:Doom3 Gangnam Style in WebGL on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @10:34AM (#5031964)
Shadows are kinda blocky. And some weapons would be nice.
Re:Doom3 Gangnam Style in WebGL on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @10:31AM (#5031945)
You can Walk around with WASD.
Re:Probability Theory — A Primer on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @01:09AM (#5030444)
Quality stuff right here.
Re:Show HN: Demiba - Get the most out of YouTube music on Monday January 07, 2013 @09:49AM (#5021159)
Really nice design, but i got this from all the videos i tried to watch (i tried about 10 songs)

This video contains content from [COMPANY]. It is restricted from playback on certain sites.

ps. i got one song working :)

Re:Infographic: the cost of bugs on Monday January 07, 2013 @09:41AM (#5021122)
Useless information with some nice design.
Re:Nvidia plans a Tegra 4-based portable gaming device on Monday January 07, 2013 @09:37AM (#5021107)
Looks silly to me, like an oversized controller with a mini tablet stuck on top. I don't see how that is portable, unless "portable" doesn't mean you can put it into a pocket anymore.

I guess it's a nice prototype but this won't make it to the shelves in this form.

Nice idea, now how to make it not attract to much attention but still obvious enough for the thief to notice it over your other stuff.
Re:How My Start-Up Failed on Friday January 04, 2013 @10:50PM (#5011481)
Condoms near any sharp object like keys seems a very bad idea to me, great story though.
Re:Elite video game reboot hits funding target on Thursday January 03, 2013 @01:25PM (#5003718)
I was always wondering how do you do that in real life?
I hope in the future every person will have a personal A4 sized device capable of displaying text and pictures of every format from any source.
How did you find that? My google search for the link [0] showed no cached link/button.

[0]: http://codetheory.in/game-physics-basics-and-implementation-...

Re:Average age of StackExchange users for each tag on Saturday December 29, 2012 @06:28AM (#4981808)
That mostly younger generation uses Stack Overflow and thus age-over-languages cannot be extracted from the data analysis. We are just learning statistics and probability and i think this happens if the sample data is incorrect or not diverse enough.

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