Comment Re:How Pascal Literally Saved My Life (Score 2) 492
Worst Haiku ever.
Comment A garland of pickled ringpieces. (Score 1) 148
Cross platform? They haven't even solved cross version.
People used to give me Word 2007 docs to correct. I had Word 2003. After two attempts I started asking for a hard copy that I'd scrawl on with a pen. They thought I was mad until I showed them; If I tried to do it on the 'puter the editing used to happen in a random location. I say random, the one place it didn't happen was where the cursor was.
Comment Re:Simple solution (Score 1) 431
There's no such thing as a "greatest common denominator".
Stop repeating what you think you heard the grown-ups say.
Comment Re:Oh yay, more about the bullshit clock (Score 1) 216
Did you know the most dangerous drivers are not those who have just gotten their license, but those who have had a bit of experience?
Have you ever insured a car? It's a while back, but I'm pretty sure my premiums went down in the first few years, not up.
Comment Re:R wont run on linux soon (Score 1) 105
Not possible, systemd already has the interpreter built in.
NASA Considers Autonomous Martian Helicopter To Augment Future Rovers 83
A reader writes with this story at the Verge about an approach being considered by NASA to overcome some of the difficulties in moving a wheeled or multi-legged ground vehicle around the surface of Mars, which has proven to be a difficult task. Rover teams still have a tough time with the Martian surface even though they're flush with terrestrial data. The alien surface is uneven, and ridges and valleys make navigating the terrain difficult. The newest solution proposed by JPL is the Mars Helicopter, an autonomous drone that could 'triple the distances that Mars rovers can drive in a Martian day,' according to NASA. The helicopter would fly ahead of a rover when its view is blocked and send Earth-bound engineers the right data to plan the rover's route.
Comment Oo-er, matron! (Score 2) 211
Population is provided by "Otto fuel II" which is a hot expanding gas
It's caused by something expanding, but it's not a gas. At least mine isn't.
Comment Re:Pedantic, but... (Score 1) 169
In which case the snippet you quoted becomes "I make up I speak for everyone when I say".
If that improves your comprehension it must be pretty poor to begin with.
Comment Re:Science by democracy doesn't work? (Score 1) 497
Nice, but in the real world you often don't have the luxury of waiting that long.
Made-In-Nigeria Smart Cards To Extend Financial Services To the Poor 40
jfruh (300774) writes "A new factory producing smart cards opened in Lagos this week, promising to open up access to financial services to many poor Africans and other inhabitants of the Global South. The cards can be used by people without traditional bank accounts to access the worldwide credit card and smart phone infrastructure." From the article: Preliminary estimates indicate that there are currently about 150 million active SIM cards, 110 million biometric ID cards and 15 million credit and debit cards in Nigeria, [Nigerian president Goodluck] Jonathan said. As more financial-inclusion schemes, requiring more bank cards, are rolled out and different Nigerian states implement ID projects, the numbers of smart cards in use are expected to experience double-digit growth, he said.
Comment Beam me up (Score 2) 673
Snot is a noun. The adjective is snotty.
Comment Re:Suitable Penalties Need To Be Given (Score 1) 247
wreckless management
I prefer it to the alternative.
Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much" 180
sarahnaomi writes On Wednesday, prosecutors in the Silk Road trial began to lay out the wealth of evidence found on the laptop taken from accused kingpin Ross Ulbricht in a San Francisco library in October 2013. The evidence presented by prosecutor Timothy Howard was the most comprehensive and damning thus far, including more than a thousand pages of chats between the site's pseudonymous operator Dread Pirate Roberts and Silk Road administrators. Also entered into evidence was a journal that dates back to at least 2010 describing the creation and operation of the site. FBI computer scientist Thomas Kiernan, the second witness in the trial, testified about the day Ulbricht was arrested and the evidence gathered from his laptop.
Science By Democracy Doesn't Work 497
StartsWithABang writes The US Senate just voted on whether climate change is a hoax, knowing full well that debates or votes don't change what is or isn't scientifically true or valid. Nevertheless, debates have always been a thing in science, and they do have their place: in raising what points would be needed to validate, robustly confirm or refute competing explanations, theories or ideas. The greatest scientific debate in all of history — along with its conclusions — illustrates exactly this.
Comment Re:Obviously. (Score 1) 302
Bluntly, this stuff is a great deal easier than C.
That doesn't make it a subset of C. For some reasons, C programmers tend to take the reasonable claim of "could learn
