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  1. Favorite statement on this topic on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Screw comments! It was hard to write, it should be hard to read!"

  2. Obviously on Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations · · Score: 1

    Obviously, this researcher is holding it wrong.

  3. Acronym on Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse · · Score: 1

    I would love to see the poll of former Mt. Gox users that knew the name stands for Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox. I would almost enjoy see the color drain from the faces of those get-rich-quick tulip bulb traders.

  4. Put it another way on Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing? · · Score: 1

    Would we all enjoy an announcement that the Koch Brothers will offer to fully-fund public education on the state level, but only if the state agrees to teach only the political, economic and scientific theory that the brothers approve (with violations being an instant termination)?

    Public Education should be just that, not a plaything of the 1%; not for ideological reasons nor for 30 pieces of silver to cover budget shortfalls.

  5. 2001 on Movie and TV GUIs: Cracking the Code · · Score: 1

    Love 'em or hate 'em, but the ship display screens in 2001 were quite original. It was early foreshadowing by a detailed director, telling a future of very lazy ones to come after.

  6. It would be cheaper to do a pilot project in Centrailia, PA to build a power plant to generate steam from the coal already burning underground.

  7. More to the terrifying point on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 2

    People with nothing to hide can still get wrongfully convicted with planted evidence.

  8. No on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    You probably wouldn't buy a car without an engine.

    No; you're contending one must buy a second engine.

  9. New Jersey on New Jersey Auto Dealers Don't Want to Face Tesla · · Score: 1

    Man, what a corrupt state.

  10. Best answer on The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery · · Score: 1

    The best answer I've seen as to what happened: this was a failed take-over of the plane (suicide attack, not high-jacking). It didn't work, so no one is going to claim responsibility (along with not tipping their hand at future attempts). And as it went into the sea at speed nearly perpendicular, not much of a debris field, just like the Airbus out of South America a few years ago.

  11. Free Windows on Crytek Ports CRYENGINE To Linux Support Ahead of Steam Machines Launch · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much Steams' moves away from Windows has impacted the possible decision by Microsoft to offer a free version of Windows (unless the free version is graphically / memory gimped).

  12. Animal Farm on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have sympathy for her, and her arguments against being spied upon. Why does she not have sympathy for us, and for our arguments against being spied upon?

    Because she - being a very wealthy Senator - is more equaler than the rest of us.

  13. Wat on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 2

    Before the farm subsidy act of the 1950's, no one grew food crops in California, and no one raised cattle.

    So all those 1930's Dust Bowl farmers moved from the plains to California just because the desert was more picturesque?

  14. Apple Insider on Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"? · · Score: 1

    aka Kettle Monthly with an article shaming pots.

  15. Doesn't Ring A Bell on Satoshi Nakamoto Found? Not So Fast · · Score: 1

    It's a question of ethics and credibility...

    "Them I'm still looking for." -- Leah McGrath Goodman

  16. Simpsons on Physics Forum At Fermilab Bans Powerpoint · · Score: 1

    "Dad, there are other wipes than just the star wipe." -- Lisa

  17. Careful what you wish for on Physics Forum At Fermilab Bans Powerpoint · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of a Calc lecturer I had that when hearing a request from the hall to slow down his board work, relayed a story that when he was in college, his Calc prof had broken his writing arm but soon taught himself to use his other hand instead.

    Once he was healed, he then started using both hands to write on the chalk board during his lectures.

  18. Keystone XL on BP Finds Way To Bypass US Crude Export Ban · · Score: 1

    This is the exact reason for the Keystone XL pipeline terminating at Houston. It was never for supplying the US domestic market; it is solely for the export of crude (or meta-crude) on the more lucrative international market, resulting in not one penny lower gas prices for consumers.

    This is why it's so hard to have respect for the extremist Right supporters: slavishly voting against their own interests in the childish fantasy that by letting billionaires become trillionaires, they themselves - by some inexplicable miracle - will become millionaires instead of the real downward spiral into poverty.

  19. Re:Good. on Apple Refuses To Unlock Bequeathed iPad · · Score: 1

    Hell, make it simpler, if someone leaves me their computer, does the drive need to be wiped and all the programs and OS repurchased, even if they came with the computer?

    YES -- Business Software Alliance

  20. Coming soon to a college campus on Deadly Avian Flu Strain Penetrates Biosecurity Defenses In Seoul · · Score: 1

    This pork-barrel* will have a body count when it's all over: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bio_and_Agro-Defense_Facility/

    * Rammed through by Senator Pat Roberts, who hilariously will probably lose re-election to an insane Tea-Bagger.

  21. Alexander the Prick on White House "Privacy Tour" a Flop On Its First Leg At MIT · · Score: 1

    I think we are going to make headway over the next few weeks on media leaks. I am an optimist. I think if we make the right steps on the media leaks legislation, then cyber legislation will be a lot easier

    aka The Alien and Sedition Act 2.0

  22. Priorities! on Computing a Winner, Fusion a Loser In US Science Budget · · Score: 1

    Computing research can help advance and perfect the Panopticon; Fusion would only damage Big Oil's profits and power.

    Pretty clear choice for 99% of politicians.

  23. Finishing Move on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    I'm just waiting for Apple to sue all of them for daring to use their word 'Pod'.

  24. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 1

    Who Watches the Watchers ('batin)? Or does that require another filter?

  25. It kinda reminds me of a Goa'uld Death Glider. So it's really a good thing the Nazis didn't find it.