Comment Re:Watches (Score 1) 141
Sounds implausible. Only the officers would have needed to know what time the barrage would lift (or whatever) and they generally didn't carry rifles.
Comment Re:The associated EMP pulse... (Score 1) 203
It may also cause ATM machines to fail and vehicles to stop because their EMS systems and ECU units hang up.
Comment The tabs (Score 1) 147
Less of the trivial nonsense. What we all want to know is how round the tabs are.
What Happens When Betelgeuse Explodes? 203
StartsWithABang writes: One of the great, catastrophic truths of the Universe is that everything has an expiration date. And this includes every single point of light in the entire sky. The most massive stars will die in a spectacular supernova explosion when their final stage of core fuel runs out. At only an estimated 600 light years distant, Betelgeuse is one (along with Antares) of the closest red supergiants to us, and it's estimated to have only perhaps 100,000 years until it reaches the end of its life. Here's the story on what we can expect to see (and feel) on Earth when Betelgeuse explodes.
Comment Re:They don't want workers, they want robots (Score 1) 87
Your way of thinking is completely skipping the quality of the item produced.
Well of course it does. If you want managers to judge the quality of the product they'd have to know something about it and how it's produced. People who know those kinds of thing are far too rare to waste in management positions.
And as any fule kno, management is a skill all of its own. If you can manage a company that mixes sugar with water you can manage one that makes computers (to pull an utterly stupid, far-fetched, and ridiculous example out of the air).
Comment Re: why? (Score 1) 677
break can't break out of two loops in many popular languages.
You just have each loop be conditional on a breakout flag. Of course you'd either have to have separate flags for each nesting level and set them appropriately before pulling the handle, or make the while (or is it until?) clause check all higher (or is it lower?) level flags.
In any case those are trivial implementation details and I'm sure it would be exponentially better and cause ShanghaiBill to literally shit his pants, retire on the spot and hire you as his replacement.
Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 677
I've used that trick
Comment Thank you (Score 1) 153
Thank you. I now have the Megadrive/Genesis bootup tune in my head.
If you haven't, it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Re:The banned weapons (Score 1) 318
but you'll want to kill the sniper with the first shot, lest they continue shooting.
Is there something special about snipers that means they're 0% impaired until they're 100% dead?
NSA, GHCQ Implicated In SIM Encryption Hack 155
First time accepted submitter BlacKSacrificE writes Australian carriers are bracing for a mass recall after it was revealed that a Dutch SIM card manufacturer Gemalto was penetrated by the GCHQ and the NSA in an alleged theft of encryption keys, allowing unfettered access to voice and text communications. The incident is suspected to have happened in 2010 and 2011 and seems to be a result of social engineering against employees, and was revealed by yet another Snowden document. Telstra, Vodafone and Optus have all stated they are waiting for further information from Gemalto before deciding a course of action. Gemalto said in a press release that they "cannot at this early stage verify the findings of the publication" and are continuing internal investigations, but considering Gemalto provides around 2 billion SIM cards to some 450 carriers across the globe (all of which use the same GSM encryption standard) the impact and fallout for Gemalto, and the affected carriers, could be huge.
Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons 264
An anonymous reader writes Following polling on Linus Torvald's Google+ page, he's decided to make the next kernel version Linux 4.0 rather than Linux 3.20. Linux 4.0 is going to bring many big improvements besides the version bump with there being live kernel patching, pNFS block server support, VirtIO 1.0, IBM z13 mainframe support, new ARM SoC support, and many new hardware drivers and general improvements. Linux 4.0 is codenamed "Hurr durr I'ma sheep."
Comment Re:griping about historical accuracy in this case (Score 1) 194
No one says, "hey, let's make a movie about 9/11 with only one tower, and maybe a missile hits the tower, and maybe we'll have terrorists inside the tower as well, because only one tower is cheaper, and the broad strokes of the story are still there
Careful. I heard Michael Bay reads slashdot.
Comment Re:Spit! (Score 1) 681
signed a partition
Well, it looks like the writing's on the wall...
Comment Re:Such potential (Score 1) 520
In the latter case you just put a new {/begin/do when you enter a control level and a }/end/done when you leave it. In the former you need to keep a count in a variable.
Comment Re:Good grief... (Score 1, Insightful) 681
When you say "build" do you mean "assemble"? Or are we expected to start with sand, oil, and malachite?
