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Comment Re:Le sigh. (Score 1) 178

Sigh. Fonts are programs, and have been, for a long while now. Is that news to you? You must have never seen what it takes to actually render a font not to understand that. Be thankful those are not postscript fonts, because those would have been even harder to implement safely. The TTF hinter execution environment is much simpler.

Comment Re:One more reason that such systems make no sense (Score 1) 308

really should be mandatory given north america's average weight

Yeah, because 2h per week of gym at school is going to do very much to the weight, ha ha ha. All you need to do to undo it is to drink a couple cans of a soft drink, even if they really did work out like crazy for the entirety of those 2h.

Comment Re:his report: "there is a bug :broken link:" (Score 1) 95

The link was not broken, it demonstrated that the bug was indeed there. The Facebook imbeciles didn't follow through with proper administrative access: they had to view the private profile of a third party, you can't just do that without being logged in administrative impersonation mode. I mean, how stupid can one be?

Comment Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver (Score 1) 662

We have had semi-automated and automated railway systems for decades. Railways are fail-safe (simply stop all trains), cars will be as well. Aeroplanes are the exception.

Even that is a bit untrue. There have been a lot of plane crashes that were caused by the pilots not putting down the plane on the nearest capable airstrip (or ditching in water). SR111 and the 2nd IL-62 crash in Poland come immediately to my mind, I'm sure there's many more.

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