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  1. The first programing language... on Book Review: Head First Python · · Score: 0

    that should be taught is Lisp or Scheme. I personally recommend a 1.0 or 1.5 LISP with dynamically typed variables.

  2. This is yet another example... on Dreaming of Digital Glory At Hacker Hostels · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    of the degeneration of the United States into a teeming, fetid copy of China or India. Question globalism. Question diversity.

  3. They're aren't any "right" people. on GPS Spoofing Attack Hacks Drones · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Drones raining death from the sky shouldn't be killing *any* people.

  4. I hope... on Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs? · · Score: 1

    you get drafted.

  5. Re:The East Bay is totally cool. on Finding the Downside In San Francisco's Tech Boom · · Score: 1

    I always took BART or the 'F' bus. Seemed fairly reasonable to me. Are you saying the new bridge is worse than the old one?

  6. Re:The NY Times didnt' say shit when Wall St. did on Finding the Downside In San Francisco's Tech Boom · · Score: 1

    Obviously.

  7. Re:The East Bay is totally cool. on Finding the Downside In San Francisco's Tech Boom · · Score: 1

    Not so many blacks except in the flats and a lot of them have moved to San Leandro and Pittsburg. As for Richmond, you no longer have to get off the freeway to get to the San Rafael Bridge. Another downside to SF is all the Asians. They tear down all the neat old buildings in the Sunset and Richmond and put up horrendous stucco buildings that cover the lot all the way to the property lines. Plus they can't drive for shit because of their genetic predisposition to presbyopia so they can't see for shit. Plus when the average mama-san drives a Benz she can't see over the steering wheel.

  8. Re:I can only imagine on Finding the Downside In San Francisco's Tech Boom · · Score: 1

    Take BART, dummy.

  9. Re:The NY Times didnt' say shit when Wall St. did on Finding the Downside In San Francisco's Tech Boom · · Score: 0

    Except throughout history they often are. The Sistine chapel wasn't painted for free.

  10. Re:Complain, complain..... on Finding the Downside In San Francisco's Tech Boom · · Score: 2

    All depends on who it is in bed with me...

  11. The East Bay is totally cool. on Finding the Downside In San Francisco's Tech Boom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's more laid back and the Berkeley/Oakland hills are backed up by thousands of acres of parks and undeveloped reservoir land. Plus both the views and the weather are better. And you can get into the city in a matter of minutes plus have a shorter drive to Tahoe and Yosemite.

  12. Re:Freedom on IEEE Spectrum Digs Into the Future of Money · · Score: 1

    Wrong. They can lend out at anywhere from 8 to 12 times their actual deposits according to whatever the Fed policy for the Reserve Requirement dictates at the time. It currently stands at 10x.

  13. Re:Freedom on IEEE Spectrum Digs Into the Future of Money · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, in our fractional reserve banking system that is *exactly* what banks do.

  14. Specie on IEEE Spectrum Digs Into the Future of Money · · Score: 1

    We will soon be returning to various forms of specie as currency and sooner than you think.

  15. OpenBSD on Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security? · · Score: 1

    *not* Linux is what is actually used by security conscious firms.

  16. Re:Why not Linux for security? on Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security? · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

  17. Derbyshire was just telling the truth on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Negroes attack whites at something like 6 or 7 times the opposite. /.'s political correctness makes me wanna puke. So do you white race traitors and H1B Hindus and Pakis with your bogus technical "degrees" that are forcing down our wages. GTFO!

  18. Western Electric 300B on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    I looooove the melodious distortion I get from using single ended WE 300Bs as my output stage. Ella never sounded better!

  19. MANAGER??? on IT Crises vs. Vacation: Sometimes It Isn't Pretty · · Score: 1

    Anyone who has to be available to re-boot a server is not a "manager."

  20. Online chat... on When AIM Was Our Facebook · · Score: 1

    is for morons.

  21. Yes, on Comet Hale-Bopp 'Frozen To Death' · · Score: 1

    that's how comets work. Good job staying awake in your 5th grade science class.

  22. Absolutely... on Using Googlemaps To Simulate Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    lame simulation.

  23. Re:Not nearly as bad... on The Great Firewall of Europe · · Score: 1

    It's a simile, numbnuts. You need to drive over to a good dictionary.

  24. Re:Not nearly as bad... on The Great Firewall of Europe · · Score: 1

    Rather than being clueless the term "information superhighway" is still quite apt.

  25. Shoot? on DIY Laser Pistol Shoot 1MW Blasts · · Score: 1

    You Engrish not very good.