If you could move on to being completely speechless that would be an improvement.

OK you got me there. That would indeed be worse. Does anyone even do server-side javascript any more? I know you used to be able to do that with Netscape Enterprise Server back in the dark old days but I haven't heard of people doing it lately.

The difference between a 4-digit user ID and a 7-digit user ID becomes increasingly clear.

This piece of crap is a JavaScript/HTML5 hack plus a server-side Java process. The worst of both worlds!

Guacamole is a HTML5 and JavaScript (Ajax) VNC viewer, which makes use of a VNC-to-XML proxy server written in Java.

Plain old vncserver had this capability since at least 1998. I remember using it once at a customer site and their staff gathered around gawking. "He's got xterms in Netscape!"

Ah, I should have been more precise and said "assign" instead of "cast". R assigns a 64-bit int to a double, and therefore loses precision in certain cases.

Workarounds like those you mention are what I wound up using. I did more work outside R and less inside R. These days, for many projects I no do almost nothing in R.

What do you expect the RDBMS to do in this case? It returns a 64-bit integer value. Then R reads it and silently casts it to a double, which silently swizzles the low 12 bits.

Since YAAS, should I stand back?

The point is that when scientists write software they store big numbers in floats because no sane person needs more precision than that. The idea of huge, exact numbers is foreign to physicists and chemists and statisticians. Especially statisticians.

Only computer programmers and cryptographers need huge, exact integers.

A freetard is an uncompromising advocate of the FSF philosophy. R is a FSF project and is therefore by definition a freetard product. Did you have a point you wanted to make regarding R and 64-bit numbers or did you just come here to act offended?

I think you're right, and I see the same kind of thinking when I ask about 64-bit integers in R. The people who use R are statisticians who can't imagine why a double isn't close enough. The people who complain about it are the computer programmers who are trying to use 64-bit exact fields to merge two datasets etc.

FWIW, GNU R, the freetard knockoff of S, also can't do anything with 64-bit numbers. It stores them in a double, which gives you 52 bits of exact integers and beyond that it's approximate. This can really bite you in the ass if you aren't aware of it ... and it's not documented anywhere except in code. It can be especially bad if you try to read a BIGINT (64-bit integer) value via RODBC, which silently truncates the value to 52 bits.

Well, you're wrong. Current wifi chips which come loaded with "world" firmware will never broadcast on 5GHz channels unless they first see beacons from an AP on that channel. These channels are marked for passive scanning only. When a device sees a beacon on that channel then it assumes that local regulations allow wifi on that channel, and the chip will enable it. The chips used in access points, by contrast, generally are shipped with locale-specific firmware, or at least locale-specific black box operating systems.

This is why the wifi card out of your laptop can't really be used as a decent access point. You can't get them to ever broadcast beacons on the 5GHz band.

ssh -c arcfour

Or, on certain builds

ssh -c none

Perhaps not, but the video you're seeing here is significantly degraded from what the gunner sees in the helicopter. For one thing, his TV feed hasn't been ripped and re-encoded. For another he can just look out the freaking window. In an Apache the gunner sits in front.

This is not what war is like, this is what cowardice looks like. If armored infantry are so afraid of 8 photographers walking down the middle of the street that they have to hide inside their armored vehicles waiting for a helicopter to investigate, then those infantrymen are chickenshits. Plain and simple. I'm sure you'll say that the grunts just want to make sure they don't get dead, but the fact is that they're armed to the teeth and in a city crawling primarily with unarmed civilians. They are going to have to be men and not hide behind FLIR gun pods.

"Hearts and minds" and all that.