Comment Science and Religion, explained (Score 4, Insightful) 755
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Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
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Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
...Or better yet apply enough solder correctly the first time....
But... but... but... but... I thought Apple's build quality was the best there can be?!?!?
...For driverless cars to work, to decrease congestion, increase safety, reduce lawsuits and lower our insurance premiums everyone would have to be driving one....
For driverless cars to work, they would have to work under more than just ideal conditions. They would have to be able to, for example, navigate around potholes in the road and other stealthy road hazards that the current crop of driverless cars tend to overlook.
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Have a driverless car navigate a New England winter, stop showing them running in sunny California and the western deserts.
You can add a petty subjective clause if you want to...
I don't consider code quality to be a petty thing.
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I have not written a NTP server.
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Then there's this gem:
The bootkit can even replace Apple’s cryptographic key stored in the ROM with one generated by the attacker, preventing any future legitimate firmware updates from Apple, the researcher said in a blog post.
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The NTP people are generally more concerned about accurate & precise network time than about code quality or security.
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(did I say something funny?)
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The trouble is the the ntp.org project seems to be more concerned about adding every last neat new feature, and less concerned about the quality of the software they push upon the world.
It's the openssl fiasco all over again.
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Maybe I should start hitting the Amazon reviews and flagging all the books whose grammar usage I find confusing.
Let's see, this book uses strange and confusing Capitalization, making it difficult to read. Maybe Amazon should suppress it as well.
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Looks like the state Attorneys General are the newest benefactor of policital contributions in the ongoing purchasing of our government by special interests.
The sprawling Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains provides freshwater for roughly one-fifth of the wheat, corn, cattle and cotton in the United States. But key parts of the underwater aquifer are being depleted faster than they can be recharged by rain (see map)....
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