Just because someone made one minor mistake about the shape of the connector doesn't mean they don't know what they're talking about. The rest of his post was accurate.

This new form of ice is arguably different from the other 17 forms of ice; as the fine article says, "Depending on whom you ask, superionic ice is either another addition to water’s already cluttered array of avatars or something even stranger. ... 'It's really a new state of matter.'" But as far as ice I through XVII goes, lots of molecules have multiple crystal structures depending on conditions. For example, scientists care a lot about graphene these days; it's a form of carbon, just as graphite and diamond are. Phosphorus comes in different forms too: white, red, black, violet. Same with silicon dioxide: take quartz and heat it up and it'll turn into tridymite; heat it and squeeze it under high pressure and you get coesite; etc...

Sounds like you don't know what HDCP is. Yes, the glowy thing does do the decryption itself if it can receive HDCP content; that's the whole point.

Does your browser say that https://yro.slashdot.org/ is secure? Because Slashdot uses Let's Encrypt. If your browser doesn't show it as trusted, you're probably using root certificates that are 10 years old, and you should update them.

Cable is fiber to a few miles away from your house, where it gets converted to coax and you're sharing that fiber with maybe 1000 people. FTTH is fiber until a box on the side of your house or in your garage, where it gets converted to Ethernet (or coax, but that's not as common), and you're sharing that fiber with maybe 30 other people. They're very different.

The translation in TFA didn't even get her name right (it is Meng Wenzhou).

No, it's Meng Wanzhou. The translation in TFA isn't perfect, but it's fine; definitely a lot better than Google Translate ("Hello, I am Meng night boat.")

So "Gemini Advisory" says card fraud is up, huh? But Visa says that fraud is down. Who's right? I don't know, and don't feel like looking into the details of both reports. It's likely that both are right, and they're talking about different types of fraud. My understanding is that overall, fraud is down significantly, but some types of fraud are up, such as card skimming at gas pumps (since the chip conversion deadline for those is still in the future and very few of them support chips right now.)

Sorta related, but not the same. De Bruijn sequences contain all possible strings of length n using an alphabet of size k, whereas this is about the shortest string that contains all possible permutations of the string 123...n

E.g., if n = 2 and the alphabet contains "1" and "2" (k = 2), a De Bruijn sequence would be 1122, which contains 11, 12, 22, and 21 (it wraps around. 11221 if you want to make it explicit.).

But for this problem, if n = 2, the shortest sequence is 121, which contains 12 and 21. It doesn't need to contain 11 or 22, because those aren't permutations of 12.

> It is compiled to native vs the .net VB which is not.

This is an outright false statement. VBA is not compiled to .Net.

What's false about it? nten didn't say that VBA is compiled to .Net; he said, "It [VBA] is compiled to native."

Parent needs to be downvoted.

Nope.

I came to look for a post mentioning the DEC logo, and it turns out to be the frist one. Congrats and good job!

I switched my certs from a commercial CA to Let's Encrypt, and maintenance effort has gone down. With my previous CA, every two years, I'd have to go to the CA's website, put in credit card information, upload CSRs, download certificates, etc. With Let's Encrypt, I install a cron job on my webserver that automatically renews the cert without me having to do a thing. Sure, they expire after 3 months, but since I don't have to spend time renewing them, what do I care?

I don't play fast games, but I think the sensor is great for "office" type work. I had a Logitech MX400 with its laser tracker that would skip on a mousepad, of all things. The BlueTrack sensor in the MS mice tracks smoothly on just about everything I've tried (mousepad, plastic table, glossy wood table). It even works fairly well on a wood table with a sheet of glass over it.

The new 'Classic Intell[i]Mouse' for 2018

The FA mentions at the end that the mouse is available direct from Microsoft, and the MS page gives the part number as HDQ-00001. But that part number is also available from Amazon, which says, "Date First Available: October 16, 2017".

In fact, I have one of them; Amazon tells me that I "purchased this item on March 11, 2018". I like the mouse a lot: it's corded, the BlueTrack sensor works well, and I like the shape. It's a good mouse, but it's not all that new.

P.S. I also like the Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Bluetooth Mouse for a Bluetooth mouse. It's not a miniature "laptop" mouse, but I use it with my laptop... I had a small laptop mouse for a while, but prefer the feel of the larger mouse. Gotta say, MS still makes good mice (and keyboards).