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Re:Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world
on Sunday September 15, 2013 @12:33PM (#6389503)
Except he's enabled WEP because it's "more convenient" for him. It's still a strong signal that he doesn't want outsiders on the network.
A better door analogy is replacing the deadbolt with a slightly crappier one that unlocks whenever you're in bluetooth range (for "convenience"). Just because the system is "easily broken into" doesn't mean that you're not "breaking and entering" when you break the security and enter the house.
Re:The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’...
on Saturday August 24, 2013 @04:18AM (#6268077)
The number of shares in an option grant is not necessarily the number of shares in a stock grant. You're assuming the choice is "5,000 options [for a single share]" or "5,000 shares." That's ridiculous. Clearly the shares are worth strictly more. But that's (typically) not the comparison.
Re:An IBM XT with 4.77MHz can display color video
on Saturday August 24, 2013 @04:07AM (#6268057)
A capacitor meter to test capacitors that are soldered onto an PCB?
Re:Chess CAPTCHA
on Sunday March 10, 2013 @03:21PM (#5353087)
That's, uh, not a checkmate. Kxb1
Re:The Hardest Test I Ever Gave (C++)
on Monday February 11, 2013 @02:50AM (#5199840)
This is crap.
1e: this is undefined behavior (-Wsequence-point) x can be literally anything.
3. a typical mistake that the compiler both warns about and that anyone who has taken a course on C should be able to immediately recognize
bonus 1. void main(int)???
Re:The $5000 Compression Challenge
on Friday October 05, 2012 @04:41PM (#4618596)
Re:What hackers don’t know about business
on Monday August 06, 2012 @11:50PM (#4348624)
a complexity theory error: "Just as you can reduce all NP hard problems to 3-SAT..."
you can reduce all NP problems to 3-SAT because 3-SAT is NP complete. you cannot reduce all NP hard problems to 3-SAT. for example, all problems in NP reduce to SUCCINCT-SAT, an NEXP-complete (and therefore NP-hard) set. good luck reducing SUCCINCT-SAT to 3-SAT (despite how little progress in separation of classes we've made, the time hierarchy theorem still indicates this is impossible)
Re:Elevator Dispatch Algorithms
on Monday August 06, 2012 @11:44PM (#4348608)
SimTower was /actually/ just built around an elevator simulator. "You guessed right," she said. "Sim Tower was built around a real elevator simulation program we bought from a Japanese guy." http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2150/the_designers_not...
Re:C++ name hiding puzzle
on Monday May 14, 2012 @10:17AM (#3971145)
Yeah, in fact, it's already there:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4146499/why-does-a-virtua...
Re:ZTE Backdoor
on Sunday May 13, 2012 @09:05PM (#3968955)
I don't understand why there is so much xenophobia about this exploit. A government backdoor would be far more capable and sophisticated than this. Occam's razor applies here: an suid debug binary was left in the production image by accident.
Re:ZTE Backdoor
on Sunday May 13, 2012 @09:03PM (#3968953)
A discovered backdoor is a vulnerability. You fix the vulnerability.
Re:ZTE Backdoor
on Sunday May 13, 2012 @09:03PM (#3968951)
It's not remotely accessible and really seems more like a debug tool.
Your tinfoil hat might be defective.
Re:Is aging a disease?
on Sunday May 13, 2012 @01:35PM (#3967614)
What is this an argument for? Sure, this argues against a literal interpretation of the truth of the Bible, as somebody has lived more than 120 years.
If I start another religious cult and claim that humans won't live for more than 130 years, am I suddenly more valid?
What exactly is your point here?