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Comment Yeah, that would be impossible. (Score 1) 315

There's no way I can tell what kind of changes are in a release without the version number telling the whole story. Too bad they don't have some kind of document like "Release Notes" or a "Changelog" or something. Then we could know exactly what was changing and be sure to do some appropriate testing before rolling out.

Comment I wouldn't be so quick to make that assumption. (Score 2) 315

I am the IT Manager of a mid-sized Health Care company of about 150 employees. I am currently preparing to switch all our users from using IE to FF (with IE Tab Extension for IE-Only sites/applications). Why? The feature-set of FF is far more standard and is MUCH MUCH faster for just about everything we need to do with our custom-built in-house and web-based business partner applications. For all our internal stuf, we will continue to test with IE to make sure it is as least marginally usable, but, we're not going to worry about the worthless performance of IE any longer. Trust me, it is not even a competition. FF and Chrome both are orders of magnitude faster in every way (actual use). You don't need a stopwatch to see it either. You just need to use it. The difference is DRAMATIC. Testing and deploying new version of FF every 3 months will be absolutely zero problem. Anyone who finds that challenging, should probably be in another profession.

Comment Re:Summary AND article misleading (Score 0) 210

is that the ICE and border guard hasn't managed to implement an automated neutron scanner yet, but a 17-years-old kid managed to

Well, here is another example proving that most of what people say on the internet is complete bullshit. Everytime there is something I actually KNOW FOR CERTAIN BECAUSE I WAS THERE I see tons of comments by people, including reporters and new organizations, that show they don't know WTF they are talking about yet they shoot off their mouths like they actually know something. In fact, ICE/CBP DOES have automated neutron detectors, and they don't rely on radiating. They are passive. They use Sodium-Iodide Crystals to detect Gamma Radiation and Helium 3 detectors for Neutrons. They are highly sensitive. I know, because I worked as a contractor developing software for the management and control of the systems. I also helped to deploy them in England, Amsterdam, and place in the US, and helped to test them at Nevada Test Site. It's comments like the parent that reminde how full of shit most people, including so-called professionals, actually are. The problem is people actually believe whoever shoots off their mouth the loudest, most frequently, in the most obnoxious manner. Most people have never produced anything of value in their entire life and yet go around shooting off their mouth at every opportunity.

Comment Re:Faulty Assumtions (Score 1) 615

No, they wouldn't. They'd be represented as mult-byte characters. You'd still have a password consisting of some number of bits. How would you enter the Chinese character? Do you have keyboard with all the thousands of characters? No? Then you'd need to enter the unicode equivalent (e.g \u2023 or somesuch). Which would end up being between 2 and 6 bytes. Why not just type 2 to 6 other characters. It would be nearly equivalent.

Comment Noooooooo! (Score 5, Insightful) 366

Netflix, gives me, for the most part, exactly what I want in television watching. I pay a reasonable monthly fee. When I want to watch a movie, there is a selection of B-movies and older classics (I use the term lightly) for me to choose from. No commercials. Nice! I pay my cable/internet bill on-time and regularly. I watch on average 1.25 moviews per day. AS far as I can tell, everyone wins. I'll never go back to straight cable. If netlix dies, I'll throw the TV in the trash and be done with it.

Comment Re:Javascript is a disaster (Score 2) 305

Two objects that have always contained numerical values, were assigned numerical values, are treated as strings. You always have to explicitly cast them as numbers. Which is bogus. Just the typing alone hurts my fingers.

Bu-u-u-llshit! Try the following

var i = 1; var j = 2; alert ( "This is a test : " + ( i + j ) );

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