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Comment Re:too much Java ... (Score 1) 538

Exactly - it's not too much Java, it's students not understanding the libraries they're using:

I'm not sure how much of the problem is Java itself and how much is the emphasis on using libraries, though. The trouble is that Java has in many places been used to dumb down the curriculum while at the same time increasing the apparent level of delivered goods. It is good to be able to (quickly) build new things by calling libraries, but often that's not a skilled, challenging job. If that's all you have seen, you are completely lost when faced with a job for which a pre-packaged solution does not exist.

Comment Holy Acronym Overload (Score 3, Funny) 87

F.E.A.R. , short for First Encounter Assault Recon .... University of Alberta GAMES (Game-playing, Analytical methods, Minimax search and Empirical Studies) .... called STRIPS (for STanford Research Institute Problem Solver)

Combine that with such gems as:

players view the virtual world from the perspective of the characters they manipulate, making Counter-Strike an example of what's known as a first-person-shooter game.

and I'm not sure that belongs here.

Then again, maybe I'm just bitter that I still can't beat GNU chess.

Comment Right to be informed (Score 1) 260

From European Data Protection Supervisor page:

The person whose data are processed - the data subject - enjoys a number of enforceable rights. This includes, for instance, the right to be informed about the processing and the right to correct data.

Now how do you apply that to remote searches? Will they inform people they mistakenly "search" due to incorrect information?

Comment Re:It is for the server.. (Score 4, Informative) 217

steamclient_linux.so is used by the dedicated linux servers to connect to steam and check for updates and such, it was probably just included by mistake..

The article quotes a large string of names and says:

These strings plus hundreds of other technically shouldn't be needed if this were simply for Linux server usage -- even though no Linux server binary ships with the Windows game on Steam.

Not sure if that's reasonable grounds for their assumption, but is worth considering.

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