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You're a fucking idiot. First they are that exciting, if you don't think so, there's something mentally defective about you.

Second, the only reason scientists find it exciting is because it's a fucking total eclipse you idiot.

Maybe this xkcd can explain the scientists' point of view for your microscopic brain.: Eclipse Science

You think people should spend the 2.5 minutes on the daily routine than take a break and watch a total eclipse of the sun. Just go fuck off and die, you pathetic waste of oxygen.

Google takes money from the government, making it quasi-governmental.

No, it makes it a private company that gets money from the government; there's nothing quasi-governmental about it. Additionally, they are not the ones determining what speech is acceptable on the "public internet," but they are the ones determining what speech they allow on THEIR OWN SERVERS and running through THEIR OWN SERVICES.

I would agree, however, that you're using words/phrases that you don't understanding the meaning of.

https://xkcd.com/1357/ ...because maybe it's easier for you to understand as a cartoon.

Of course the government can't admit that the planes were full of chemtrail chemicals because that would reveal the chemtrail conspiracy!

Obligatory xkcd

Obligatory XKCD

Your idea that Westerners should be "involved in local political matters" strongly reminds me of the "Beware of the Leopard!" bit from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. My county seat is 100 miles away, and much smaller than my city. You can imagine what going to the state capitol is like. I do it, but it's a much bigger sacrifice than the folks you're bragging about have to make.

You urban Easterners are always trying to lecture us about how power should be centralized, when what we really need is to diffuse it closer and closer to home.

Zealous Autoconfig
https://xkcd.com/416/

It should be a closing parentheses (')'), not a closing brace ('}').

Obligatory XKCD

You seem to think that "everyone knows" about corporate legalese half-truths, and you seem upset that it is posted as news. Well, the reason that "everyone knows" is because of these kind of news stories. Slashdot has a long history of posting this type of article, so of course old-timers like you and me know about it. At some point in the past though, you didn't know; so let others learn instead of berating the teacher for repeating a lesson you've heard before.

There's even a relevant XKCD about this phenomenon, but I'm willing to bet you already knew about it.

Like many things, XKCD explains how (and predicts the feature/product a few years in advance.

You missed a closing brace. See, XKCD predicted that I would do this.

Like many things, XKCD explains how (and predicts the feature/product a few years in advance.

You missed a closing brace. See, XKCD predicted that I would do this.

How the fuck do you run a program without downloading it? Or is this some marketing bullshit where "downloading" has a different meaning than "installing"?

Like many things, XKCD explains how (and predicts the feature/product a few years in advance.

Because we may all be needing our own Bobby Tables soon...

Although

HOME)`; DROP DATABASE msdb; --

might be more fun to watch.

The do what you love and money will follow is pretty much:
https://xkcd.com/1827/

I will say I have been fortunate in this regard personally, but statistically speaking, doing what you love will leave you broke.

Tapping the side button the phone five times in iOS11 disables touch login and requires the passcode, which the US police cannot (legally at least, $5 wrenches aside) compell you to provide. Presumably it'll do the same thing for face login too.

Obligatory XKCD.

When did I miss the episode where hate speech and hate crime became synonyms ?

Well you may have missed this episode, which is an important reminder that freedom of speech does not grant you some magical immunity from the consequences of what you say. You only have to look post-Trump USA, and post-Brexit UK, to see how racist (or sexist, homophobic) rhetoric has real world outcomes. As the WWII slogan says "careless talk costs lives."

He's still very much alive, and doesn't look nearly as old as he is. His current alias is "Tommy Wiseau", and is infamous for making a bad movie named "The Room" using the money he stole in the hijacking.

https://xkcd.com/1400/

Robot apocalypse?
See here : https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/

Basically the rogue killerbots will most likely run out of fuel and ammunition rather quickly, or get stuck behind closed hangar doors.

Interesting XKCD picture here.

What they are failing to recognize is that repressive governments can dictate what people can and cannot run on a server within their own borders. You can argue they can use servers outside their borders but that's just likely to cause them to completely segment their chunk of the internet.

The real-world result of this tool is going to be enabling individuals that were banned from various sites for ToS violations to continue spreading hate/spam on those sites.

It's good in concept but the reality is the $5 wrench will win.

It's not a contest.

But someone was wrong on the Internet!

Anyway, TFA doesn't say it was the "worst disaster in the history of the U.S. Navy". That incorrect factoid appears to have been fabricated by whoever wrote the summary.

https://www.xkcd.com/538/

Oblig xkcd

https://xkcd.com/927/

There's "censorship", and then there's "you're an asshole, and association with you will hurt my reputation, so I won't do business with you".

It's not like an ISP is proactively blocking people who want to read this site's content, or the government is forcing people to abandon him. The free market is acting.

Exactly this; obligatory xkcd explaining the difference between censorship and freedom of speech.

As the "hover text" on the xkcd image says, "defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express"

This XKCD needs updating... or does Allo have so few users it doesn't even register on the radar?

Exactly.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

Always good to post in these discussions, as so few people understand.

They absolutely have the right to express their views.

GoDaddy is under no obligation to give them a forum to do so.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1357/

And, as usual, there's an even simpler explanation in XKCD.

companies have moved from offices and cubicles to giving everyone one or two meters of desk space sitting face to face and side to side of each other

Can you cite any actual evidence that open offices are more prevalent today?

My experience has been the exact opposite. I worked as a programmer in a bullpen in the 1970s, a cubicle in the 1980s, and a real office ever since. Apple is famously moving in the wrong direction, but I don't think that is typical. I am aware of several companies that switched to quiet offices with walls.

Also, as an old geezer, I have never felt discriminated against, and I have never felt that my age or experience was a handicap. I am open to learning new skills, and often start using new tech before the younglings, but I love it when a 20-something learns about an elegant tool from a more civilized age.

An old XKCD demonstrates the problem fairly succinctly.

And is fair because most people do think like that. However in this case it isn't relevant because in the section "Possible non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech" very early in the memo he explicitly addresses this by reminding people not to use statistical averages to predict the actual behaviour of individual people.

An old XKCD demonstrates the problem fairly succinctly.

xkcd: 1095

Sites "failed Dashlane's tests." Good for them. Recent analysis by real cryptographers shows that password rules are worse than no rules.

And now we have "Dashlane", a nobody who wants to "grade" sites on their "password creation policies."

https://xkcd.com/936/

Bye Dashlane and stop it with your self-serving PR memos. You are a disservice to oxygen-breathing password-users.

E

This is a very cool hack.

'course, there's an emacs command to do that.

Maybe we can finally get a decent UFO picture.

Obligatory xkcd.

The population is estimated to grow to roughly 8 billion by 2022, so we'd better act fast and get a bulk rate for those ~4,900 cameras that we'll each be carrying around...

Ignorance assumes those cameras are assigned to people.

How many cameras are operating in your city?

How many cameras watch you every time you commute to work?

Now you know why your assumptions are fucking wrong.

Obligatory xkcd.

The population is estimated to grow to roughly 8 billion by 2022, so we'd better act fast and get a bulk rate for those ~4,900 cameras that we'll each be carrying around...

Soon there will be trillions of cameras all around us.

https://xkcd.com/605/

I'm sure this same scenario is true for someone with a son, so how is gender the determining factor?

XKCD said it well.

As well, it may be that the earth has been hotter at times in the past but never has the temperature risen at such an alarming rate. It's not just the temperature rising, it's the rate that it's changing.

From human records, that is false - the earth has not be hotter than it is now. It may be hotter prior to human civilization, but all the records we have (and proxies) indicate that today it's the hottest it's ever been. And it will be even if we halt all activity right now.

Granted, it USED TO BE hotter in the past, but we've already beat that record (recently).

In fact, XKCD has a very nice graph of the earth's temperature through history. The 0 degree mark is chosen as the 1961-1990 average temperature, but it's arbitrary. There was a period where it was about a half a degree warmer than that line, but at the very end, you can see we've exceeded that. It only happened about 5 years ago, at that.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Notice, the speed of change, when it is not natural.
Natural changes are glacially slow.

Randall Munroe knew this back in 2001 XKCD

Exactly. It's not difficult to get passwords wrong, even Bruce Schneier is wrong about passwords - see his criticism of the XKCD method:

Those who require passwords really ought to take a look at it.

https://xkcd.com/936/

Which is essentially what BB said.

Those who require passwords really ought to take a look at it.

https://xkcd.com/936/

https://xkcd.com/875/

https://xkcd.com/1264/

This reminds me of the XKCD strip about free speech. Free speech means you have the right to say what you want. It doesn't mean anyone has to listen to you. It doesn't mean they can't think you're an asshole for saying it. It doesn't mean there won't be consequences.

This person exercised his right to say what he wanted, and I fully support him having that right. And lots of other people are exercising their right to think he's an asshole for saying it, and I fully support them having that right. No one's censoring him or trying to silence him. They're just expressing their own opinions, as they have the right to do.

What are you going to ditch Linux for? Windows, MacOS?

No, the rule is you have to switch to something with less marketshare. That leaves FreeBSD. Once that project offends in some manner or gains too much mainstream support, it's off to GNU HURD.

If I took over this project I'd rip all that shit out and simply use Lua for everything. Developers are so stupid.

And now you have five programming languages in gedit.