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Comment Re:What does that even mean (Score 4, Informative) 95

I think you're missing the point:

The earth's mantle is significantly more dense than the crust. Mountains are made of matter that is less dense than the mantle, so when they go deeply into the earth, there is less mantle "beneath" your feet.

More mountain = less mantle = less dense.

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 2) 34

Here's the 'clarifying' quote by the director of BIS:

“Vulnerability research is not controlled nor would the technology related to choosing, finding, targeting, studying and testing a vulnerability be controlled,” said Randy Wheeler, director of the BIS, today during a conference call. “The development, testing, evaluating and productizing of an exploit or intrusion software, or of course the development of zero-day exploits for sale, is controlled.”

After reading that several times, I'm still not sure what is allowed and what is not.

Comment Re:Non-answers (Score 2) 107

I'm with you. It was sanitized corporate-speak. I didn't learn anything from reading any of the answers...

She sounded more like a PR droid than a nerd. She couldn't even give a straight answer to question about ultra-caps, which are an absolutely idiotic technology for primary storage (they may make sense for regenerative braking capture, but that wasn't the question). This was a very disappointing interview.

Comment Re:Yeah right. Then explain COBOL. (Score 2) 414

COBOL was relatively readable when it was invented, compared to the other languages of the time. The purpose was to be so readable that even managers could understand it

Well written COBOL is understandable. The biggest complaint is that it's overly verbose (other problems like "no re-entrant functions" aren't problems anymore). In many ways Java seems like a modern version of COBOL.

Comment Re:Verbosity is easy? (Score 1) 414

A decade ago, your major threat to readability was someone with pattern prejudice; those who ended up encapsulating everything in a factory-factory to factory to interface to abstract to etc, etc, etc,

lol it fascinates me how common this problem is (and why always choose factory?). And then you half your code is converting from one object type to another.

Comment Re:better open source the tools (Score 5, Informative) 126

and publish them well away from USoA soil.

This is what happened with the encryption ban in the 1990s. Companies did their development outside America, using non-Americans. The result was job losses for Americans, atrophy of American skills, and no increase in security. That was predictable, and continued long after the stupidity of the policy was blatantly obvious. But it really takes a special kind of idiocy to do it all over again.

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