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Re:Texas Uses More Energy Than Any Other State on Thursday August 03, 2017 @05:58PM (#14924324)
Wow, Texas is using more energy than the state of China?
Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:45PM (#14921862)
> Most paper ballets are counted by machine so they could easily be tampered with at the count […]

Do you have a source for that statement? In Germany, ballots are counted by people making tally marks on paper.

wtf :D
From the article:

> […] the press release has been removed and they are not responding when asked if they still plan to release the source code and take the abstract of their final paper to the conference in Kassel, Germany.

Edit: That does not mean that this story is not complete horseshit.

His position is ‘that either position or momentum are “as yet undetermined”’. That means that the ‘uncertainty’ is not due to our ability to measure things, but ‘rather […] a statement about the actual reality about what variables (hidden or not) are stored by each particle’. :)
Except… WhatsApp definitely gets a copy of your address book: https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/general/20971813 “During this entire process, only phone numbers are sent to WhatsApp for lookup, securely, over an encrypted connection.”
No, I do not think that you are understanding him correctly. What makes you think that?
Re:Aristotle, “On Trolling” on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @09:03AM (#11666836)
I wonder, is there a correlation between the telegraph.co.uk article and your comment?
Re:Why the German language has so many great words on Sunday March 13, 2016 @07:16AM (#11277250)
Sorry, in Latin every adjective can also be used as a noun. So “studens” (“studierend”) can also mean “Studierende(r)”.

Edit: The point is, Latin “studens” also has the concurrency aspect to it, just as German “Studierender”. If you say “studens ambulat”, it means “He/she is taking a walk, while studying.”

Re:Why the German language has so many great words on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:55AM (#11272859)
“Student” comes from Latin “studens”, which grammatically is exactly the same as “studierend” (Partizip I in German / Present Active Participle in Latin). The difference in meaning is random.
Re:Why the German language has so many great words on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:37AM (#11272800)
> Well, the important difference is that German has actually simple, clean rules for spelling in those cases.

In German, there are the “Fugenlaute”, sounds that are inserted between the words that a compound is made of. And it is not always clear, what these sounds should be.

Some examples:

* “Schaden(s)ersatz” (compensation for damages) – some put an “s” between “Schaden” (damage) and “ersatz” (substitute), some don’t. * In the German constitution the word “verfassungsgebend” appears, but some would call it “verfassunggebend”.

There are even words that have a different meaning depending on the “Fugenlaute”:

* “Landsmann” / “Landmann” (Land = country / land; Mann = man): “Landsmann” is a man from the same country; a “Landmann” is a peasant or farmer.

There really aren’t “rules” that apply.

There is a lengthy article in the German Wikipedia about this topic: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugenlaut

Re:Why the German language has so many great words on Saturday March 12, 2016 @07:27AM (#11272575)
The German word for “staple” is »Tacker«, which is onomatopoeic.

If you wanted to say that two cars crashed, you could use:

»Zwei Autos (prallten|krachten) gegeneinander.«

Both »prallen« and »krachen« are onomatopoeic.

Onomatopoeia is common in German as well.

Re:The Website That Got Me Expelled on Saturday September 05, 2015 @07:20PM (#10176348)
Especially because employees have to work for someone who tells them what to do.
Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time on Thursday September 03, 2015 @02:44PM (#10166784)
Since they did not create a wormhole: Doesn’t this submission’s title go against the guidelines?

> […] please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

One of the companies might be Wind River (Intel). The description in the announcement fits that forum post quite accurately: https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3713
Re:The Taos Operating System (1991) on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @02:47PM (#9807573)
Ah, sorry. I did not know that reposts are explicitly allowed even in this timeframe.
Re:The Taos Operating System (1991) on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @01:08PM (#9806801)
Repost of the article that you already posted 15 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9802379
Re:Unix Client-Server Program Interface (1996) on Monday June 29, 2015 @03:30PM (#9800338)
There’s a Debian package for an implementation of the “tcpclient” program: `apt-get install ucspi-tcp-ipv6`. You can also find TLS-enabled versions of the client here: https://github.com/SuperScript/ucspi-ssl (see the links).
Re:UBlock Origin on Monday June 15, 2015 @05:49PM (#9722337)
> And then there's the removal of other developer's attribution. Which he thankfully stopped after everything blew up. Or his personal site which initially gave the impression that he was the sole creator of uBlock.

https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/commit/6850fa0a262b87...

> Can you remove me as collaborator of the project please? Thanks.

> @chrisaljoudi Remove me too from collaborators, please.

They asked for it.

Re:Let's Encrypt Overview on Friday June 12, 2015 @02:28PM (#9707690)
You’re right, I did not think this through…
Re:Let's Encrypt Overview on Friday June 12, 2015 @02:21PM (#9707658)
I guess that’s why they will probably not use HTTP for the verification. Why would they? The client already generated a certificate and sent it to Let’s Encrypt, they can already use TLS.
Re:Lojban on Saturday May 30, 2015 @12:51PM (#9630745)
Actually Mandarin is the most “popular” language in the world, not English.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...

But what does that have to do with your source code being closed?
Re:Sbase – Suckless unix tools on Friday April 03, 2015 @07:51AM (#9315339)
The sbase page on suckless.org is here:

http://core.suckless.org/sbase

> 9base is a port of various original Plan 9 tools for Unix, based on plan9port.

While sbase is supposed to be POSIX-compliant.