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Comment Re:What is the TSA for anyway? (Score 1) 427

It seems that Romney would like to streamline the TSA. There was also a republican bill introduced last year to reduce the TSA. Not that Romney, or any politician is without faults, but making assumptions about positions leads to uneducated voting, which I think is why we're in the position we're in.
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Submission + - What IT Should Know About Windows 8 (infoworld.com) 1

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard takes a deeper look at Windows 8 from an IT and corporate developer perspective, and finds tough choices ahead for corporate IT. 'Instead of looking at Windows 8 as a unified operating system running on two different sets of hardware — along the lines of, say, Windows NT — IT and developers should think of Windows 8 as having three distinct flavors,' namely, Metro, Windows Desktop on Intel, and Windows Desktop on ARM, Leonhard writes. 'In spite of appearances and great presentations, writing for Metro isn't as easy as redesigning an app to use a touch interface, then having a .Net guru go at it. There are all sorts of new restrictions. Worse, Microsoft hasn't released anything resembling the .Net 4.5 Framework for ARM machines. ... That's a tough pill for IT developers to swallow. Think of it this way: If IT has to make two different versions of its Windows 8 tablet apps to run on the Desktop on Intel and ARM processors anyway, why not go with an OS that's well known — pick your poison, Android or iOS — and forget about Windows on the tablet entirely?'"

Comment Re:#winning! (Score 1) 292

Apparently I can beat a computer, but can't beat HTML. Here's what that was supposed to look like:

Here's a way to do it. Feel free to send me a reasonable amount through paypal or USPS.

1. The first one is random, so use rock until you win it. If you lose, restart the game.
2. After the first rock, its logic kicks in, and the next 7 moves are: SSPPSRP
3. From here, it gets even easier. It gets into a loop of 6 moves: PSPSRR

Keep doing the sequence in 3, and rack up the wins. Once you do it once, then your next move is always the same as the second move from the bottom of your history. When it reaches 100, it has a glitch and rolls over to the next line. Here's a screenshot of 113 wins, to show the bug. The 3 gets bumped down to the next line: http://img217.imageshack.us/f/rpso.jpg/

Comment Re:#winning! (Score 1) 292

Here's a way to do it. Feel free to send me a reasonable amount through paypal or USPS. 1. The first one is random, so use rock until you win it. If you lose, restart the game. 2. After the first rock, its logic kicks in, and the next 7 moves are: SSPPSRP 3. From here, it gets even easier. It gets into a loop of 6 moves: PSPSRR Keep doing the sequence in 3, and rack up the wins. Once you do it once, then your next move is always the same as the second move from the bottom of your history. When it reaches 100, it has a glitch and rolls over to the next line. Here's a screenshot of 113 wins, to show the bug. The 3 gets bumped down to the next line: http://img217.imageshack.us/f/rpso.jpg/

Comment Re:Difficult question? (Score 1) 141

Potentially, a kernel developer could debug code while away from the computer. Perhaps this hypothetical kernel developer is out for a jog and would like to debug code at that time. Perhaps this developer needs to mow the lawn, or is on a long trip. It may also come in handy for someone learning how the code is structured and is in the same situation. It's a giant stretch, and certainly not the purpose of this, but could potentially serve some use.

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