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Comment Military Drones (Score 1) 229

There have been a couple instances recently where the Predator drones have been malfunctioning in odd ways. They have programming that when they loose communication with the controller they return automatically to base. These have been running away to less than convenient locations. Either on their own or hijacked they haven't said exactly.

Couple hellfire and sidewinders could do a hell of a lot of damage.

Be scared.

Comment It's the Economy dummies. (Score 0, Troll) 280

Intel hasn't prevented people from getting what they wanted. People pay for what they want unless the Gov gets involved. I've paid more for both when I wanted something based on the quality.

You know by this same logic MS should get paid by Redhat because you get a free os which is less than the cost to make it.

EU is just looking to make a buck and redistribute wealth. Socalists and Facist suck.

Programming

What Makes a Programming Language Successful? 1119

danielstoner writes "The article '13 reasons why Ruby, Python and the gang will push Java to die... of old age' makes an interesting analysis of the programming languages battling for a place in programmers' minds. What really makes a language popular? What really makes a language 'good'? What is success for a programming language? Can we say COBOL is a successful language? What about Ruby, Python, etc?"
The Almighty Buck

Stealing From Banks One Cent at a Time 313

JRHelgeson writes "In a story strangely reminiscent of Superman 3, a 'hacker' allegedly stole over $50,000 from PayPal, Google Checkout as well as several unnamed online brokerage firms. When opening an online brokering account it is common practice for companies such as E-trade and Schwab to send a tiny payment — ranging from only a few cents to a couple of dollars — to verify that the user has access to the bank account listed. According to the story, the attacker wrote a script that opened thousands of accounts at dozens of these providers. He was arrested not for taking the money, but for using false names in order to get it."

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