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Ok, but Hurro-Urartian is an agglutinative language family that is an isolate and has nothing to do with Semitic.

From what I know, the main issue is that the Linear A script corpus is rather small. Another commenter here said it's only 7500 symbols in total, spread around 1500 inscriptions (s…

The reason is that auto-updates and CI tools have reached a critical saturation and everybody uses them. Years ago, `npm install` would have been more likely to be run manually, an…

OK, how about this then: sudo rm "$(modinfo -n algif_aead)" Nice and simple. Or if we want to be more thorough: modinfo -n algif_aead && sudo mv "$(modinfo -n algif_aead)" "$(modin…

This reminds me of War of the Worlds, where the martians had no diseases and thus no immune system. When they came to earth they died from diseases. A society like that, with no de…

And the drive to HTTPS was initiated by "evil" Google (like free email with >2GB which was unheard of at the time).

I've often wondered about using an older OS such as OpenVMS for which hacking tools simply don't exist.

Am I the only one left in the world who actually likes Google and has a positive opinion of them? I remember switching from AltaVista to Google and thinking they're much better. I …

How much jewelry is that in Tutankhamuns? Is it like half a Tutankhamun, or less?

OK, I had to search for the edits themselves, they're at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angels_%26_Airwav... Here's a sample: 23:37, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk con…

Didn't America attack british colonies in Canada in 1812? I thought America was the aggressor in that war and Britain just retaliated.

Wouldn't those limiting factors apply for this upgraded protein as well? If they don't, then selective pressure should have already upgraded it.

I can't read the article, it seems to be behind a paywall or something.

I wonder if neclei were "invented" by viruses as those safe rooms. There are already theories that DNA was first invented by viruses to protect against cleaving by RNAases, and the…

During the crusades it was the crusaders who massacred muslims when they took Jerusalem. When Saladeen retook it, he did not massacre anyone and turned out to be more civilised by …

Were those side projects done during work hours or using Google's equipment?

I access my GMail with Chrome and have no problems.

I wonder if their reaction was counterproductive in that the more they try to apologize or do promotions the more people are reminded of the incident because of which they are doin…

Is Chrome a bad browser? I feel that unlike IE6 vs Firefox, Chrome is not inferior to the competition and in fact moves faster, not slower towards innovation.

Ah, yes, sorry. I didn't realize this article talks about dark matter, not dark energy.

I recently read another article suggesting the universe expansion might be anisotropic. The most interesting part was mentioning that data from supernova standard candles had been …

I was told a horror story about a dev who was given a project to complete only to turn out he had done nothing 3 months later. He was too ashamed to ask for help. They weren't doin…

But Stuxnet did use obfuscation. The last payload was decrypted by concatenating two environment variables on the host and Symantec never managed to decrypt that one. Did author no…

Didn't the article say the explot is hosted on a Korean portal? I assume this means they target mostly Korean users, which probably means the hackers themselves are Korean.

Maybe someone at Kaspersky is a Charles Stross fan...