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Re:G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft on Monday January 04, 2016 @01:26PM (#10837375)
Yeah, but they usually don't originate from the same location. So instead of matching destination, now you have to match destination and departure location.
Re:Tesla's $35k Model 3 Sedan to Start Production in 2 Years on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @05:44PM (#10162102)
Yeah, >Model 3, our smaller and lower cost sedan will start production in about 2 years. -- Elon Musk
This is different. China(ese government) has a much, much stronger incentive and political resolution to reinforce their Internet speech control than crackdown a couple of bitcoin miners.
> I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing.

Can the author reach the US by whatever mean and apply for political asylum? That 'fear that they will suffer persecution due to: ... Political opinion'[0] seems legit.

[0] http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum

Re:China Moves to Devalue Yuan on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @02:24PM (#10043289)
First of all, that comment is mixed with a bit of rant. But seriously, the issue is so much more than mere access to Facebook. The connection to GitHub, Google Code, or anything via ssh or HTTPS in general is slow, flaky and frustrating. This poses a cost on acquiring latest news and technology, collaborating and deploying. AS for the walled garden, there's a Chinese saying of 闭门造车, which says if you build a cart with a closed door without any exchange of ideas, you can't make much progress. (Though that's not what the phrase originally meant, but the meaning when the phrase evolved)
Re:China Moves to Devalue Yuan on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @03:41AM (#10039574)
As long as the government doesn't allow unobstructed access to foreign websites that aren't even remotely related to politics I don't see that transition any time soon. </rant>
Re:Nvidia Digits DevBox on Sunday August 09, 2015 @03:35PM (#10031276)
The difference is between "given this particular hardware and OS setup, the driver will work correctly, guaranteed." vs. "on your (discontinued) Sony laptop with a strange hardware interface running the beta Slackware release the driver will probably work"
I'll take a shot. If I understand it correctly, basically components have dependencies. For example, A depends on B and B depends on C, etc. If you have A depends on B... and somehow along the path you have a cycle, eg. E depends on A, you have a problem because in order to install A, you need to install B, C,... E. But in order to install E you need to install A first. So you have to break the dependency cycle.
Re:Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @01:54AM (#9803186)
Nah, they will just sweep it under the rug in the name of national security. Not even a post-mortem because that would put some highly ranked people whom about to become the advisors of the defense industry on the grilling fire.
Re:Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @01:51AM (#9803177)
But unlike F4, F35 has a main gun, and I think that demonstrates the dogfight doctrine still has its way. Unfortunately that gun has its own problem [1].

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/31/new-u-s-ste...

Re:Reading Is Forgetting on Sunday June 28, 2015 @10:21PM (#9796094)
I'm curious because once you have the ability to understand several-hour-per-page materials reading novels should be a breeze?
Re:Securing Email Communications from Facebook on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @03:41AM (#9651116)
Re:Securing Email Communications from Facebook on Monday June 01, 2015 @02:47PM (#9641154)
Bug report: the add public key page doesn't recognize the public key exported by GnuPG which has the header

  -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
  Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin)
I figured out that the second line with version should be removed but the error message is not quite helpful.
Re:Names of the chemical elements in Chinese on Monday May 04, 2015 @01:02AM (#9484404)
Inventing computer with Chinese/Arabic is inherently harder because it's more difficult to type such characters. Once you pass the punctuation card stage, now what? Build a huge keyboard with 10s of thousand of Chinese characters? It took 13 years for MS-DOS to support typing in Chinese.
The goal of marriage really shouldn't be getting a visa... I'm saddened that we have to entertain this solution. It feels almost like exchange my body for some materialistic goal when I think about it (of course I'm not OP).
L-1 visa holders can't change job.
I wonder how they prevent Remote Code Execution. Because >just embed arbitrary html/css/js is THE definition of RCE.
I would argue it is broken. >It can handle a limited amount of traffic, and controllers can't see anything outside of their own airspace—when they hand off a plane to a contiguous airspace, it vanishes from their radar.

To me there's no way to tell if the plane flies out of their space or drops out of the sky at that moment. If that's the case the search and rescue won't be better had MH370 happened in the US.

You can work anywhere regardless of your/company's physical location as an F-1 student. The restriction is placed on the company's and position's type. The nature of the job must be related to your major, and the employment is subject to approval from USCIS in the form of CPT and/or OPT.

Source: http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/f-1-opt-optional-practic...

and I'm an F-1 student myself.

That's one example of management being utterly technologically incompetent, which unfortunately is the case in a lot of Chinese companies.
I originally discovered this issue a month ago when debugging my friend's Lenovo laptop. Neither chrome nor IE can render battle.net correctly because the HTML injection is not properly escaped. Since the problem persists after a fresh recovery, I guess it's from some pre-installed software. I almost reported it to FBI.
Re:“A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog” on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @10:55PM (#9066895)
I don't understand, what's the point of such spamming? It's not advertising a brand or a product at first sight (I read it casually).
Re:China on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @10:52PM (#9066884)
Well, not really. Then you have all the funding agencies above them.
Re:How Misaligning Data Can Increase Performance 12x (2013) on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @07:00PM (#9066085)
It's probably because if your data is spanned across two pages, it may require a lot of page swaps if you access data back and forth?

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