Comment Re:Not sure how well this will stop cheating (Score 1) 122
Also, Austria-Hungary and Spain.
Comment Re:Experience outside the valley (Score 1) 514
I can't speak for what it is like in Silicon Valley but where I work in the deep south I would estimate that at least 30% of my fellow tech workers are of African ancestry.
Obviously, the rest of them came from Asia, right?
Comment Re:Burglary... (Score 1) 122
http://www.dkeith.clara.co.uk/... ? (And get it out of the floppies while you still can...)
Comment Re:Sample Question (Score 1) 122
Hey, that's the combination I had on my brand-new luggage before I changed it to 12345!
Comment Re:Not sure how well this will stop cheating (Score 1) 122
Based on what I've heard about the ICBM people, it should probably go to the candidate who can quote the most Bible passages, preferably those of the "the end of world is nigh" kind.
Comment I call BS (Score 2) 189
It's a cautionary tale about the fundamental unreliability of Wikipedia
As opposed to what? The things that people "knowledgeably" trade, like the one about us using "only 10% of our brains"? Or the things that we "know for sure" about ancient history? A few uncaught jokes in Wikipedia, and suddenly it's no more reliable than hearsay? (Or how else am I supposed to interpret this "fundamental unreliability"?) Sooner or later, someone would have attached a [citation needed] to that anyway.
Comment Re:Car analogy? (Score 1) 317
You wouldn't rip a car in your home entertainment system, yada yada yada...
Ford, GM Sued Over Vehicles' Ability To Rip CD Music To Hard Drive 317
Lucas123 writes: The Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies is suing Ford and General Motors for millions of dollars over alleged copyrights infringement violations because their vehicles' CD players can rip music to infotainment center hard drives. The AARC claims in its filing (PDF) that the CD player's ability to copy music violates the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992. The Act protects against distributing digital audio recording devices whose primary purpose is to rip copyrighted material. For example, Ford's owner's manual explains, "Your mobile media navigation system has a Jukebox which allows you to save desired tracks or CDs to the hard drive for later access. The hard drive can store up to 10GB (164 hours; approximately 2,472 tracks) of music." The AARC wants $2,500 for each digital audio recording device installed in a vehicle, the amount it says should have been paid in royalties.
Comment Re:Fundamentals of Comp Sci (Score 1) 315
1) Learn Oberon (with concurrency extensions, say, Active Oberon). 2) Achieve enlightenment. ... I can't tell you how to get to the "X) Profit!" part, though. ;)
Comment Re:So much Fail. Ignore. (Score 1) 315
Not only that, if you have a variable of a non-final class type or interface type in Java, you can also "change the type of data held by the variable when the program is running". E.g, without this property, it would be difficult to process items of polymorphic collections (i.e., collections allowing items of multiple types/representations simultaneously, which in Java happens to be the case of all collections, of course).
Comment Re:What makes this a gigafactory? (Score 1) 95
it's a way for them to name a plant so that it has obvious technological associations
It actually has obvious mythological associations, but feel free to limit yourself to physical units. In common speech, "megas" meant nothing more than simply "big", while "gigas" meant "a Giant". I guess the obvious English adjective would be "effing huge".
Comment Re:What makes this a gigafactory? (Score 1) 95
Yes, but is it 1000 times bigger or 1024 times bigger? That's the important part!
I'm not sure we're familiar with the size of the Ancient Greek Gigantes with such precision.
Comment Re:Bullets will not win this conflict (Score 1) 868
And yet Israel insists on controlling the territory. They may not get a vote but they ARE Israeli citizens until such time as Israel actually stops trying to control their political processes and truly leaves.
And Afghani are US citizens until the US actually stops trying to control their political processes and truly leaves. You logic is impeccable!
Comment Re:Radicalization (Score 2) 868
Yet in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, almost those 4.4 million people are under Palestinian civil administration, while only about 0.1 million people in the West Bank are in the Israeli civil administration. Perhaps the Israeli have an undue influence over a part of the West Bank, what with their security operations there, but claiming that "Israel rules Palestine" seems rather overblown. I might as well claim that the US rules Iraq and Afghanistan.
Comment Re:Nudity (Score 1) 175
Saudi Arabia is to modern Olympics what the US et al. would be to Ancient Olympics...
