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Comment Re:I suspect their simulation is flawed (Score 1) 509

Interesting question is - if they haven't released the pirated copy, how many people would have downloaded it (assuming anyone would even bothering cracking it)?

It has no DRM so it is not possible to crack.

If the developers really want to mess with the pirates, now they will start seeding dozens broken copies with various titles like "Game Dev Tycoon - FULL VERSION", so that the pirates can't tell the real one from the broken one.

Comment Re:tell me again (Score -1, Troll) 1105

For what it's worth, bombings are happening every day elsewhere in the world. But in the US, granted, it's an uncommon sight. Quite sad. (That it happened, not that it's uncommon!)

I was watching coverage of the Boston incident and the news ticker said "Explosions across Iraq leave 24 dead". But it's only brown people, right? The priority of those stories should have been reversed.

Comment Re:Not your time, ALL OUR TIME (Score 3, Insightful) 197

You, and the Slashdot editors that posted this, are wasting everyone's time with this question. What's next, an Ask Slashdot for shaking crumbs and pubes out of your keyboard?

Don't be an ass. The question is whether cleaning dust out of a PC actually makes a difference or not. (or even whether it's harmful). Since most people don't do it and their PCs continue to work; and it's possible to give a component a static shock while trying to clean it, the question is reasonable.

Comment Re:Musk isn't doing himself any favors here (Score 1) 841

Let me get this straight: I can't drive 65 or turn up the heat without having to worry about getting stranded?

If your petrol vehicle had a very accurate range finder, you'd notice the range going down when you sped up or turned up the heat.

You don't have an accurate range finder, so you assume that those things make no difference; and if you even do notice that your vehicle varies a bit in how many miles you get to each tank, you just put it down to randomness because you don't understand the actual factors that go into vehicle range.

Comment Accuracy of newspaper articles (Score 1) 841

We know the facts in this case and can see how far the news article diverges.

Think of all the times you read a news article about some topic you don't know much about besides what the article tells you - and yet we tend to take those articles at face value.

The handful of times I have known people involved in an event which got reported on in a newspaper, the article often diverged wildly from reality. One time, a murderer was reported as "having been tracked down after a 3-day manhunt" when in reality once he came off his meth high he walked to the nearest police station and handed himself in.

Comment Re:Remove keys from ignition? (Score 1) 1176

That's a phenomena specific to diesel engines. Diesel's don't use a spark to ignite the fuel mixture like gasoline engines do, they use the heat from piston compression. Thus, so long as vacuum pressure and fuel supply is maintained, a diesel can continue running without electrical power.

Fuel pumps are driven electronically too (for the last N decades) , normally turning the key off will also kill power to the fuel pump. In fact I once owned a car where the owner had installed a hidden switch under the seat to turn the fuel pump on and off, purely as an anti-theft measure - although I'm sure this French driver wishes his car had one of those.

Also (I'm sure you know this but some readers may not, judging by the number of "why didn't he just use the handbrake" comments), petrol engines continue to run without the battery being connected - the engine's mechanical output drives the alternator which powers the spark plugs. Turning the key off normally interrupts the flow from battery/alternator to relevant part(s) of the ingition system.

Comment Re:Kids (Score 2) 393

That your kids make you happier than anything else you have now DOES NOT imply that you would not be happier without them. IIRC there are studies that have shown people without children are in fact happier than those with children.

You don't know what true happiness is until you have children.

Comment Sample C code has implementation-defined behaviour (Score 1) 215

(char)rand();

Extremely minor nitpick, but converting an out-of-range value to a signed integral type causes implementation-defined behaviour (which could include raising a signal).

It's pretty safe to say that Microsoft will never release a compiler that breaks this, but portability could be maximised by making 'testdata' be 'unsigned char' and removing the cast in the quoted code (out-of-range conversions of unsigned integral types causes the value to be reduced using modular arithmetic - no cast is required or desired).

Comment Re:What is the problem (Score 1) 98

Man walks out of a gay bar. Has picture taken by anti-gay vigilanties. Facial recognition allows them to find him on Facebook and show the picture to his family, forcing him to be "outed" and ending in a Tyler Clementi situation.

Any facial recognition software could do this. Maybe the government already does this. I have pictures of myself on my Facebook page. The CIA could already have crawled over Facebook building a DB of everyone's name and photo.

Also, people being accused of things they didn't do (as another poster suggested) is hardly anything new. I sympathize with American posters not having faith in their justice system to sort out the facts though, as it seems that whoever can hire the most expensive lawyers wins over there.

It's sad that you have to resort to trying to avoid attention in the first place in case you are accused of something (and also sad that nobody really seems to see the problem with this). The guy ranting about privacy violation in East Germany should be looking at that angle of it.

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