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  1. Don't care on Students Show a Dramatic Drop In Empathy · · Score: 1

    Somebody Else' Problem.

  2. Re:Head down in shame on Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer · · Score: 1

    You're not a Rusky, are you?

  3. Head down in shame on Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is the sorta thing that shames me when facing the Russians. Stop it.

  4. Re:Mistakes make you learn more... on When Mistakes Improve Performance · · Score: 1

    I keep "learning" like today, I'd lose all my clients and go bankrupt in a month.

  5. Re:Sounds reasonable to me on When Mistakes Improve Performance · · Score: 1

    Out networking code explicitly assumed unreliable network transmission, but I doubt much of our code is designed to handle baked CPU faults.

  6. Re:Moving, not fixing, the problem on When Mistakes Improve Performance · · Score: 1

    Bit like Itanium VLI-whatever architecture - leave it to the compiler (i.e. software) to correctly pack instructions to big units so they can use up all the subunits simultaneously.

    Possibly it might be suitable for some niche applications.

  7. Re:Particularly relevant on What Scientists Really Think About Religion · · Score: 1

    Muddled heads like sociologists can't grok science and religion are orthogonal. In fact, they probably reach for dictionary when you mention "orthogonal".

  8. Re:Global warming is the cause on The Sun's Odd Behavior · · Score: 1

    No use deriding Moonie-funded shills. Might as well squeeze water out of rocks.

  9. Re:Psychologists on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 1

    Goes to show you even the broken clock gets the time right twice a day. Even idiots smell bullshit around psychologists.

  10. "Most people" on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 1

    Yeah, "most people" are too dumb to heed scientific finding unlike you obviously. Look at how science is reported, particularly medicine/health stories, and you're probably better of ignoring them.

  11. Re:Well... on Is Wired's App Really the Future of Magazines? · · Score: 1

    Their color scheme also induce seizure, but I'm told that's just a bonus feature.

  12. Re:You come a long way on Apple Surpasses Microsoft In Market Capitalization · · Score: 1

    That's true, but if you get big enough, you just get the scrutiny no matter what, especially media heavy hitters like Apple, because you can always define the market segment arbitrarily to apply anti-trust concerns.

  13. You come a long way on Apple Surpasses Microsoft In Market Capitalization · · Score: 2, Informative

    Meet the guys, the Justice Department's anti-trust section.

  14. Lucid Lynx on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Benchmarked and Reviewed · · Score: 1

    For a moment I thought it's a GUIfied lynx. :P

  15. Re:Who is Bill Joy? on Bill Joy On Sun, Microsoft, Open Source, and Creativity · · Score: 1

    He does look like slightly more hygienic Lutheran version of RMS.

  16. Re:customers on Data Center Building Boom In Silicon Valley · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "The problem was those customers were ultimately not viable. "

    But Facebook is completely different.

    Hehehe.

  17. Re:Moldova? on Global "Last Mile" Performance Stats Going Public · · Score: 1

    I read their vegetables are very fresh, though.

  18. Moldova? on Global "Last Mile" Performance Stats Going Public · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's the story there?

  19. Hack for Life on Random Hacks of Kindness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I most heartily approve.

    And I hope there are many interesting results, other than buncha nerdy half-assed bullshit software projects. There are a lot more out there in life in need and want.

    Build a better water pump. Build a better wiring harness. Things people in need can use.

    And for god's sake, stop wasting your good brains cooking up another social network bullshit. You young people can do way way better than that.

  20. Re:No GNOME then? on Slackware 13.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Hey, I hear you. My first Linux installation was with Slackware - stack of 3.5" floppies and a green CD with Bob.

    I moved on to Debian ages ago, but I share your warm feeling for Slackware.

    Thanks for the replies to other guys here. As for that AC rambling on about Patrick kicking the bucket, the fuck, why are you even here?! Go hang out in MSDN or Apple bullfuckingshit or whatever it's called.

  21. What a jackass on HP Explains Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive · · Score: 1

    Title says it all. At least have the decency to shut the fuck up while you're raping your customers.

  22. Re:No GNOME then? on Slackware 13.1 Released · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Ok, what's with excluding GNOME?

  23. Comfort food on Slackware 13.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Slackware release announcement on slashdot is like fried chicken dinner to me. Is Patrick still at it?

  24. I don't know why on Twitter To Block Third-Party Paid Tweets · · Score: 1

    But the whole thing disgusts me.

  25. Hm.. on Do Build Environments Give Companies an End Run Around the GPL? · · Score: 1

    What if the firmware is burned into ROM and hardware only supports ROM?