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  1. Re: A machine... on Microsoft's Cortana Doesn't Put Up With Sexual Harassment (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When drawings in a manga are considered child porn, expect anything.

  2. Re:The Republicans are destroying our lives on All 12 Member Countries Sign Off On the TPP (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    I vote for Cave Johnson, with Lemons for VP.

  3. Re:Bad tool on Storing Very Large Files On Amazon's Unlimited Cloud Photo Storage · · Score: 1

    Wrong, that should be 1000 x 1.44MB BMPs. At least then they could say "they're floppy disk images!"

  4. Re:4KW on Hunting Malware With GPUs and FPGAs (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    On the bright side (and by that I don't mean the IR it emits) it may make coffee as a side product!

  5. Re:It's God. on NASA's Fermi Satellite Maps Entire Sky, Finds Mysterious Unknown Object · · Score: 1

    This just in: they've decoded the gamma rays signal, and it said "don't masturbate".

  6. Re:clarification on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Using a Reputation Engine To Rate Information? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. You need to be careful with the UI, though. It might be easy to express one's thoughts as a knowledge-graph, because you're familiar with each node individually. But for others to traverse that graph the structure needs to be much more organized. You can easily get "lost" in cliques that hide content not very well connected. It's much easier for a newcomer to traverse a tree, and there is the ages-old HMI rule of "no more than 3 levels and 7 items per level".

    About computation, you might find this interesting: http://askemos.org/
    I haven't used it, but I read about it sometime ago... perhaps it intersects some things you have in mind.

  7. Re:clarification on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Using a Reputation Engine To Rate Information? · · Score: 1

    I've tried really hard to find any information that would explain what makes OneModel different than "wiki in list format" (not trying to be snarky here), but I've ended up empty handed... could you please explain further? Is it really a custom UI with a wiki backend (conceptually speaking)?

  8. Re:Now explain that to the judge on Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Where is the mod for '+1, No Sense of Humor'?

  9. Re:So a national emergency gets declared and... on French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I heard they intend to pass legislation renaming their fries "liberté fries".

  10. Re:What Do Cobol jobs pay ??? on 3 Open Source Projects For Modern COBOL Development (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Note that these jobs pay more not because of the rare expertise required, but for the suffering and mental damage they inflict!

  11. Re:Why log on Cryptome Accidentally Leaks Its Own Visitor IP Addresses (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Honest question from my ignorance: how can you be sure they don't keep logs? Did they make pinky promises?

  12. cadaver dogs on Researchers Isolate the "Smell of Human Death" · · Score: 1

    The cadaver dogs in Resident Evil were terrifying! And Will Smith's cadaver dog in "I am Legend" made me cry.

  13. ompresses data on Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is a "lossless compressed data format that ompresses data

    ... by discarding random bits and pieces of redundant occurrences of words.

  14. Re:This one will be easier on Microsoft Reportedly May Acquire BlackBerry · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least it might make for a nice slogan: Microsoft, where phone companies go to die!

  15. Re:de gustibus non est disputandem on Choosing the Right IDE · · Score: 1

    and there is really no possible way that anything interesting will result from the conversation

    People might inform you of a flavor you have never heard before. And you try it. And it is the best motherfucking ice cream of your life.

    Btw, if you go to Italy, look for Grom... it will be the best motherfucking ice cream of your life.

  16. Re:Sweet...Breaking Bad reboot storyline in 2025 on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 2

    No, no, no! This time it will be Pasteur!

  17. Re:Sony's Project Morpheus on Oculus Rift Launching In Q1 2016 · · Score: 1

    Does it come with a blue pill and a red pill?

    This is Sony we're talking about... obviously it will come in a variety of colors, but in the form of a suppository.

  18. Re:Sounds good to me on How an Open Standard API Could Revolutionize Banking · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I feel your pain... I left my previous bank because they "improved" the UI with a brain dead design, that required pixel hunting and clicking "next page" until all the records had been displayed for the selected month before being allowed to save as CSV. Btw, the bank I'm talking about is the CGD of Portugal (Caixa Geral de Depositos). Fuck you CGD, please slowly die in a fire.

    I made a small script with xdotool to dump all my data before I switched to another bank. It was ugly, but did the job.

  19. Re: better idea on UN To Debate Lethal Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sure, just as not long ago murder was an alternative to solve personal conflicts. Fortunately, the evolution of society made it a more costly alternative, as in you'll pay with the restriction of your liberty if you choose it.

    To solve the problem of war we would need transparency and real accountability for those who command it, and to remove incentives from the war industry. In other words, remove the opportunity Dick Cheney had, when he made a fortune by making Halliburton's stock skyrocket with his crimes in Iraq.

  20. Re:Tabs vs Spaces on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    In 10 years that argument will be dead with tabs winning.

    Perhaps. But right now, not in the bad old days, I do a "git diff my_file_with_tabs_different_than_8_spaces.c" and get a wonderfully beautiful output [/sarcasm].

    Yes, I love CLI, now get off my lawn.

  21. Re:HOWTO on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If America wants to execute people, THEY WILL.

    Psychopaths sympathize with that statement.

    I'm sorry you're too simple minded to understand that some people are not worth letting live

    I'm sorry you're too simple minded to realize how flawed your justice system is, and how many innocents had their lives taken by it.

  22. Re:Britain is only 10 years ahead of the US on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 3, Funny

    The UK never really wanted to be part of Europe. It even tried swimming away, but quickly got tired after just some kilometers away from the continent.

  23. Re:Anonymous speech *is* the problem on Yik Yak Raises Controversy On College Campuses · · Score: 1

    Westboro Baptist church is about as offensive as a literal-interpretation-Christian organization can get and they are not anonymous.

    FTFY. But I bet they still eat shellfish.

    [Obligatory plea for God to damn Westboro Church and I'm glad that asshole Fred Phelps is dead.]

    That's what Jesus would say. You are indeed a good Christian (I mean, if by "God" you meant Yahweh).

  24. Re:YANIH on Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think Bazaar can be included in the NIH set, as upstart and mir can. When they started working on Bazaar, there was no distributed VCS that was as simple and intuitive as what they had implemented. I've used Darcs before switching to Bazaar, and though I don't remember specifics, I remember feeling much more comfortable using bzr. In the end, git is the clear winner of the DVCS race (Mercurial folks might disagree with me), but you can't blame Canonical for investing in their solution (a very good one, imho). Btw, bzr was first released two weeks before git's first release.

  25. Re:Maybe, maybe not. on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 2

    Stupid snarky comment aside, the GP was referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
    I've been reading too many Asimov books lately... :p