Comment Re:The Secret of Nim (Score 2) 520
Don't you mean:
The 20th century is 1901...2000 inclusive because of 1-indexing.
Comment Re:why? (Score 4, Insightful) 677
yeah, GOTO the end and do some cleanup and/or error reporting, which is common to all the gotos. I don't see a problem with that. It's clear, simple and avoid heinous if/else deep nestings.
Comment Re:You have no understanding of light (Score 1) 330
Oh Yeah ? And during the day, how black is your screen ? Or you actually live in a cave ?
Comment How about convenient... (Score 1) 249
It's simply not possible to listen to music loudly at home. So it's:
- On the mountain bike with bluetooth OPEN earbuds so I can ear what's around. From a phone. Music.
- On the bus with active noise canceling earbuds, wired from a phone. Movies, FM radio.
- At home with small bluetooth speakers from a laptop (movies) or a phone (music).
- In the car with a custom blutooth replacement to the external CD charger of the car radio, so I can have SD memory cards or phone. I wish all car radios came with SD/USB slots, but that's still not the case. And for some cars it's not like you have a choice unless you spend 1600€. We can sleep in the car in the middle of the woods, with a tablet stuck to the ceiling and a horror movie playing on the car speakers. Wicked.
Comment Re:Attack vector Port is SSH (22), passwd guessing (Score 1, Informative) 98
Most linux systems don't have root passwords anymore. Use sudo, don't allow root logins and you are safe from those stupid 'so 1996' kind of attacks.
Samsung SmartTV Customers Warned Personal Conversations May Be Recorded 309
An anonymous reader writes Samsung's privacy policy includes details that its Smart TV voice recognition feature may pick up on personal conversations and transmit private communications to third parties. Buried in the privacy policy related to the smart television, Samsung advises users to be aware that any snippets of conversation might be captured by the software which allows them to control their television sets with a series of commands. Questions have been raised about who these third parties could be, what the information is used for, and how the data is being transmitted – with potentially unencrypted voice clips left exposed to hackers.
Ask Slashdot: What Tools To Clean Up a Large C/C++ Project? 233
An anonymous reader writes I find myself in the uncomfortable position of having to clean up a relatively large C/C++ project. We are talking ~200 files, 11MB of source code, 220K lines of code. A superficial glance shows that there are a lot of functions that seem to be doing the same things, a lot of 'unused' stuff, and a lot of inconsistency between what is declared in .h files and what is implemented in the corresponding .cpp files. Are there any tools that will help me catalog this mess and make it easier for me to locate/erase unused things, clean up .h files, and find functions with similar names?
Comment Re:The DEA is just doing their job (Score 1) 577
Second, are you aware of how much 'gun regulation' already exists today both in federal, state & local statutes?
Apparently not much, judging at the sheer amount of guns in circulation in the US.
Comment Motion (Score 3, Insightful) 263
Use any webcam or USB connected camera and 'motion' a Linux FOSS tool that lets you program picture taking any which way you want.
Comment Re:Let's get this straight (Score 1) 145
It's probably too expensive for robocallers to call from outside.
Comment Re:Let's get this straight (Score 1) 145
That. In most European countries there's no such thing as robocalls. They get their line disconnected fast.
Comment Re:Wish I had the money to offer a bounty on camer (Score 1) 152
Most of them are probably invisible. Good luck finding them. Or placed at the top of high poles/3D towers. Good luck reaching them.
Comment Re:Wow .... (Score 1) 155
As if the price of medications depended on the techniques used to produce them... Ha, you must be new here.
Comment Re:Lift? (Score 1) 83
A tethered blimp that can be winched back. And a pump to fill it with martian air (or deflate it in case of storm). And a heating element to give it buoyancy.
Comment Re:I have an even better idea (Score 1) 304
I completely disagree with you. If there were enough people with (rightfully so) suspended licences in the US they would work to improve the infrastructure. You know that there are cities in the US that you CANNOT cross on foot ? Yes, I've lived there.
Another country that has driving peculiarities is France where you can buy licence-less car (voitures sans permis). Small cars that you can drive without license, or with a suspended license. They legally top out to 60km/h but I've seen some beefed up to go 120km/h. When you seen one you KNOW it's driven either by a drunk or by a blind 90 year old. Fuck those people and the car they rode onto. Let them walk or bike.
