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I don't see how my right thumb could be as precise as moving the mouse, which I do with all 5 of my fingers (for tiny movements) or from my shoulder (for larger movements). If thumb touchpads were good for FPS games, how come nobody is playing them with their thumb on their laptop's touchpad? Maybe I'm just old, but I don't see myself ever being able to use this.

Presumably at some point the kernel will have to do a context switch and subsequently store the contents of those registers in ram.

Perhaps the solution could be a small usb dongle containing an embedded arm soc with a kind of RAM that doesn't persist at all -- maybe even no RAM at all, just the cpu. The dongle would support just three commands: init, encrypt, decrypt. Init sets the key and algorithm, after which the device doesn't let you change them until the system is powered off. En/decrypt do block-level crypto.

> For example, my X1900

AMD have been shit since forever. There should be a message with giant letters printed on each box saying "THIS PRODUCT DOESN'T HAVE LINUX DRIVERS WORTH A DAMN".

Not that it helps your situation now, but maybe if you upgrade in the future, try with an nvidia card?

There should probably be a wiki somewhere, where bugs like those are documented, so various developers don't have to rediscover them all the time.

Why not just buy two-three gamepads with different layouts? Surely that would be cheaper and easier!

You were thrilled by SHARKNADO.

Now get ready.

To experience a new terror.

Coming from 419 million years ago,

it rises one last time to swallow you whole!

It's the ANCIENSHARK!!!!!111eleven

Yes, I know it's not a shark, but really - who would go to see the ancient not-shark fish that just sits there with a dumb look on its face?

In the end they cook it and eat it. Then the sequel is that the people who ate the ancient fish start evolving into Neanderthals (sharkderthals?) IN 3D

I didn't expect it to be a spambot per se, but I did expect it to be some sort of automated scraping of the site. Because "human posts semi-random words" is more or less trivial, but "human teaches neural net to perform broken poetry while scraping an ebooks site" is much more exciting.

I wanted it to be something like http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/No,_We_Need_a_Neural_Network...

It has just 5 different prime divisors. That's kind of cool for such a large number.

Can't we just give them this t-shirt? http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=... (or maybe http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=... )

Note: not affiliated, it's just so perfect.

Steam doesn't properly support sharing games still. You can share your entire library and if you aren't playing anything at all, your friend can play a game from your library. Which you could do already, you just had to give your friend your password. Currently me and my brother share a library just fine by having one of us set steam to offline mode and then we can all play at the same time. It's less useful than the old behaviour, but without sharing your password. Oh and you can save in the cloud and earn achievements personally for yourself. Excuse me while I vomit.

Useless.

I'm pretty sure the construct <conditional modal verb> 'of' <past participle> is now accepted as grammatically correct, if not in "main" English (if such a thing exists), then at least in a majority of American dialects.

Reminds me of the comment at the start of python's heapq module: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/bd8afb90ebf2/Lib/heapq.py . Grammatically not a comment, but I would count it as one semantically.

This will bring new meaning to the "we are legion" motto.

A better question is why isn't he posting as anonymous.

> Also, it all builds toward plugging a book

Ah, so it's not just investment advice, but also a practical example of good marketing.

> Mars is not that hospitable to life

I've always found it rather interesting how the combined mass of Mars and Venus is just about the same as Earth's. Can't we move Venus out to a higher orbit where it would impact with Mars and produce an Earth 2?

Because it's spinning in the wrong direction.

You wouldn't. You would use Linux and Docker.

This is HN, not a BSD mailing list.

Do you have a citation for the cases where Apple has successfully argued used this in court against some other party who was pirating OSX?

It's only "nifty" until it's put to the test and fails in court. It's "effective" as a way to protect software only in the minds of some Apple engineers; but a judge might not see it that way. There's no precedent to assure anyone that it would work. If there were, I suspect we'd see it in widespread use. Or maybe Apple has tried to patent it?

Perhaps the DMCA exists because "nifty" gimmicks like this one cannot be relied on?

Nice try.

Oh, the malware!

What do they do about users who do not turn on Javascript?

Or users who do not use the popular browsers?

It seems like the malware authors here, government employees or contractors, are just like all the others that form the underbelly of the internet... they only focus on the least sophisticated users or the users who always follow the herd (not the Hurd): Windows and OSX/iOS users.

Assumptions, assumptions, ...

Keep in mind that this was a known and fixed vulnerability, not an 0day. 'Burning' is a bit misleading in this context.

Didn't Jobs say "Great Artists Steal."?

Users who are artists must heed these wise words.

All Hail the Cult Leader.

As for this "poem", I've seen better from kids in elementary school. This speaks to the creative aptitude of Apple's kernel engineers. Certainly not the strongpoint of their workforce.

What sort of royalties or up-front payments did CMU get for letting Apple use their kernel?

How do you know there is only one specific complaint?

I find it fascinating that someone could be using something as complex and slow as Hadoop and not know of sort(1). Not faulting any lack of awareness, but it is really interesting that Google map/reduce and Hadoop marketing (word of mouth?) are so effective while the contents of /usr/bin are like buried treasure.

The funny part is that one of the early uses of Google's map/reduce approach was probably to distribute the job of sorting search results among many servers. And here you are sorting Hadoop results with something as small and simple as sort(1).

Ooh, very nice. I like bitmap fonts too, but I use Terminus and GNU Unifont (fallback for glyphs not in Terminus) myself.

"... considers us meaningless sheep to be herded at will."

For a minute I thought Arrington was referring to his previous employer, one of the players in the domain name racket, specifically the people who run Pool.com. If ever there was a "service" who viewed users as "zombies", they are it.

Then there's all the herding that TC does, funnelling its readers toward "preferred" money raisers. TC has taken the conflicts of interest inherent in the typical tech media "puff piece" to a new level altogether. If anything needs to be disrupted, it is TC's manipulation of "news".

It's really difficult to take this guy seriously if you know anything about his background. But I guess that excludes most of us "zombies". TC is a pillar of herdlike "thinking". Operations like TC/UC and the ones Arrington criticizes in the "article" share more in common than he may want to admit. Both rely on brainless, herdlike behavior in order to carry out their business plan. If anyone is going to effect a change upon the status quo, it must be users. But the SV that Arrington feeds on has no incentive to educate users to become independent thinkers. Herds are easier to manipulate and, you guessed it, easier to monitor. And Arrington himself is the furthest from an independent thinker I can imagine. He is a parrot.

Yes. 2000 calories can be starvation, complete with feeling like crap, reduced mental and physical capabilities and the body lowering its metabolism to keep itself from getting thin. Also, even if you do lose weight by starving yourself (which is inevitable if you do eat little enough for long enough and don't die from malnutrition), you can't go back to eating enough to feel satiated, because you'll get fat again. You'll need to feel like you're starving for the rest of your life.

For a game example, google "starforce breaking dvd drives". The irony(?) here being that an on-disc copy protection mechanism breaks your disc reader and makes it impossible to play the game you bought.

As obvious of a joke as it is, the logo is pretty good. It completely correctly conveys the BIG and the DOGS. The only thing it needs is a discrete subtitle, like BIG DOGS care centre, or BIG DOGS rescue squad, maybe BIG DOGS lawnmowers, BIG DOGS truck mechanics, BIG DOGS earthmoving equipment, BIG DOGS baby sitting, BIG DOGS tea and coffee shop with the option of also purchasing one of our many tasty fresh-baked goods. I'm not actually joking, I'd like a tea shop named BIG DOGS run by a few large buff people. One that also sells baked goods.

The OOM killer has almost never worked for me. I think once or twice only, the rest of the time, high memory pressure combined with high storage pressure effectively locks up the system. Easiest way to trigger it is to start eclipse, virtual box and start a system update (just package download, not install) and I can't move my mouse any more.