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  1. Re:TWO DAY OLD NEWS on 22 Million Missing Bush White House Emails Found · · Score: 1

    Yeah, those are some pretty cutting edge stories.  When the US attacked Iraq, you could read about it on slashdot before anywhere else.

  2. Re:TWO DAY OLD NEWS on 22 Million Missing Bush White House Emails Found · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Grandpa, is it true what the say about early slashdot being so magical and pure and full of ponies?  Can you tell us some stories about how you would go to work and read titillating news stories on slashdot all day? Grandma, how come you don't remember your name anymore?

  3. Re:Love the spin on 22 Million Missing Bush White House Emails Found · · Score: 1

    This is a stupid argument. 10 minutes may have not made much difference, but what did he accomplish by giving up those 10 minutes?  Oh yeah, he finished reading a story with some children. Colossally poor judgment.

  4. Re:More than a gimmick? on A Dual-Screen 10.1" Laptop In Time For the Holidays · · Score: 1

    Did you look back?

  5. Re:Dropbox on Synchronize Data Between Linux, OS X, and Windows? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    9.99/50 = .1998 $/G
    19.99/100 = .1999 $/G

    So it's more expensive per Gig for the larger package. Hilarious.

  6. Re:Algorithms on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    You've never needed algebra? wtf.

  7. Re:then you're not a real developer on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    if you attempted to escort me out the door without security you'd find yourself with a broken nose, lying on the ground crying to your mum.

    Cowardly and bad-ass; you are an enigma.

  8. Re:So the bullshitters change their story. on Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Well, catholics tend to spread their religion primarily via "heredity" , e.g. have kids, indoctrinate them from an early age, presto, you've got more catholics. Couple this fact with the fact that catholics tend to have larger families than average, and it seems clear that if catholicism is increasing at a rate less than the world population, then they are leaving in droves.

  9. Re:Beware on Caves of the Moon · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Star Wars? Really? That's the literary reference you're going to go with? You clearly draw from a deep well.

  10. Re:Explained by a Simple Formula on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 2

    If that was true, then governments would be able to make property rights "disappear" with a mere stroke of the pen.

    Don't they do that now? eminent domain?

    The history of the 20th century shows us that property rights are innate in the nature of man.

    That's a pretty brief history when talking about the "nature of man". I don't think property rights are universal to human cultures.

  11. Re:Explained by a Simple Formula on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    Property rights are a merely an agreed upon convention among peoples. States formalize that convention. Property rights have no independent reality outside of what groups of people agree upon.

  12. Re:More dangerous the bigger it gets on Sony Demo'ing 360 Degree 3-D Tabletop Display · · Score: 1

    Won't someone please think of the children?

  13. Re:NOT a Railgun on Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'm posting as AC because I can't argue with people trying to make a business case out of this without getting a serious karma hit.

    You make cowards everywhere proud.

  14. Re:Working while riding... on California Requests Stimulus Funding For Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    Sound like you need a new job. The point stands, time sitting on a bus or train or in a carpool is not wasted in the same way as driving yourself somewhere. Work, read a book, surf the web, do your nails, or maybe spend the time looking for a job where your employer doesn't treat you like shit.

  15. Re:It will never happen on California Requests Stimulus Funding For Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    45 minute commute? Wow, that sucks. What is that, about 10% of your day awake spent in a car going from point A to point B.

  16. Re:not a record on New Motorcycle World Speed Record, 367.382 mph · · Score: 1

    There's nothing more beautiful than taking the best designs from nature and applying them to our own.

    There's nothing more sad than "discovering" principles of fluid dynamics, vehicle design, etc from watching television rather than, you know, reading books and going to school.

  17. Re:So in theory on IE8 Beats Other Browsers In Laptop Battery Life · · Score: 1

    For me, surfing without adblock is not an option. I said goodbye to annoying flash ads years ago, and have never looked back.

    Aren't you looking back right now?

  18. Re:Lack of standards. on eBay Denies New Design Is Broken, Blames Users · · Score: 1

    I believe most USAF refuelers are based off the 707 airframe. Same with the vomit comet. Hope that helps.

  19. Re:Meh on Steam-Powered Car Breaks Century-Old Speed Record · · Score: 1

    "Our" victory? We as the people of 2009 banded together to defeat those godawful sons of bitches from 1906?

    Side hurts, thanks.

  20. Re:Version Control Systems all have one thing on Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems · · Score: 1

    Actually, yes, they do all suck.

    Boy, this is fun!

  21. Re:No they don't. on Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In his Google Tech Talk on Git, LT was an asshole.

    There, fixed that for you.

  22. Re:No, please, stay on my lawn... on The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, what are all the .pyc and .pyo files in my build, smart guy?
    Even if those didn't exist, at program startup is compile time. Why
    not detect syntax errors then instead of 1 hour into execution.

  23. Re:No, please, stay on my lawn... on The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen · · Score: -1

    >>> a = 1
    >>> a++
      File "<stdin>", line 1
        a++
          ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

    Oh thank you python for protecting me from myself, I was about to get totally confused because there is more than one way to do the same operation.  Never mind that python can't find the simplest of syntax errors at compile time, at least all of stupid programmers aren't burdened by having to understand the ternary operator.

  24. Re:"Tattoos have always been very chic" on The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen · · Score: 1

    You're so smart (go academic bowl champ, go) that you can't even understand the concept of generalizations? Boy are you going to have a painful existence.

  25. Re:Perhaps I just don't understand TFA, but... on Smarter Clients Via ReverseHTTP and WebSockets · · Score: 1

    "tad" is correct.