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  1. Re:Manhattan project was the same thing on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 1

    Just have a little sympathy for them. They can't really know sometimes. Neither can you.

    The word is fear.
    Only a fucking lunatic would sympathize a kid bent on lethal destruction in the classroom.

  2. Re:Missile waste? Look at the F-35 aircraft on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 1

    It's not a waste.
    It's just multi-role in the sense the role can change every month.
    Which is preferable to a war every month.

  3. Re:"without garbage collection" on Rust 1.0 Enters Beta · · Score: 1

    You must be a Java programmer. Garbage collection is generally a very bad idea for a systems language, because of the periodic stalls whilst it does the cleanup.

    Why not garbage collection methods in the kernel with different strategies?

  4. Re:Tin foil hat time on TrueCrypt Audit: No NSA Backdoors · · Score: 1
  5. Re:The real missed question on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    So the easiest solution for companies is to force people to come into the office.

    Force? Last time I checked we agreed I attend and do some in exchange for a bundle.
    Also, I'm pretty confident it's better business for let's say, any restaurant, to provide services in a consistent location?

  6. Re:Welcome to the USA on Commercial Flamethrower Successfully Crowdfunded · · Score: 1
    It is a comment on morality in war. Dresden was a historical cultural landmark without defenses; it was known to be of large wood constructions, it was known to harbour fugitives. This is exactly the reason why it was never bombed before.
    (firebombing was in effect since 1942 on major German cities).
    War has never been a place for ethics, ashing thousands of (civilian) people and claiming to save humanity is a fucking joke.
    It didn't work either, because Japan had to be nuked twice afterwards.

    “Dresden, the seventh largest city in Germany and not much smaller than Manchester, is also far the largest unbombed built-up the enemy has got. In the midst of winter with refugees pouring westwards and troops to be rested, roofs are at a premium. The intentions of the attack are to hit the enemy where he will feel it most, behind an already partially collapsed front, to prevent the use of the city in the way of further advance, and incidentally to show the Russians when they arrive what Bomber Command can do.” RAF January 1945

  7. Re:Welcome to the USA on Commercial Flamethrower Successfully Crowdfunded · · Score: 1

    And communicating to members of such a regime that you're effing serious and now won't stop short of total surrender.

    Get the fuck off your moral high horse. What was Churchill trying to communicate with Dresden?

  8. Re:i can't wait! on Micron and Intel Announce 3D NAND Flash Co-Development To Push SSDs Past 10TB · · Score: 1

    Be sure to put the disk upright to avoid 1 bits accidentally falling over.

  9. Re:Wait... what? on How Nuclear Weapon Modernization Undercuts Disarmament · · Score: 1

    A little piece of you
    The little peace in me
    Will die

  10. Re:Why? on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 SDK · · Score: 1

    Time will tell. Many die hards such as myself will need a reason to upgrade. I think a bigger crises than XP awaits MS by 2020.

    Many die hards need an incentive to stay on MS platforms.
    Ditching studio with C# for Xcode & Objective-C is no longer desperate, HTML5 is the universal platform supported by all the major vendors.

  11. Re:They should go on In Response to Pollution Spike, Paris Temporarily Halves Traffic By Decree · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nonsense? There should be a law against driving Picasso.
    For god sake, did you even looked at the pictures in the links?!?

  12. Re: Didn't knew they even had computers on South Korea Begins To Deprecate ActiveX · · Score: 1

    What about cheap N-Korean labour?

  13. Re:Deja vu... on Exploiting the DRAM Rowhammer Bug To Gain Kernel Privileges · · Score: 1

    I was describing something that happened in a machine that was built before the world settled on 8-bit bytes

    I know, you'd implement ECC by visually inspecting the pins.

  14. Re:Just recycle the energy! on New Concept Tire Could Recharge Car Battery · · Score: 1

    Electric and hybrid cars are better for the environment, and they already employ technology to charge the batteries with energy that would otherwise be wasted as heat (for example, the braking systems.)

    It is the braking that is wasteful.
    Anticipating makes for a smooth ride.

  15. Re:Just recycle the energy! on New Concept Tire Could Recharge Car Battery · · Score: 1

    You mean TOPAZ-powered drones delivering for Amazon.com?

  16. Re:Debian 8 was already a lost cause. on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: 1

    reporting is absorbed by systemd.
    just boot up a testing system

  17. Re:Let me guess on Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS · · Score: 1

    Any system has compromises. And network transparancy is not a core capability, it's like supporting a remote unknown display driver.
    Network transparency as a capability unnecessary complicates the core and design (security, transport, feature querying et al., responsiveness). It can be solved in an additional framework, just as Exceed does on Windows.

  18. Re:Right, but does it correctly model... on Statistical Mechanics Finds Best Places To Hide During Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    zombies don't swim; they walk the bottom.
    in any case, I prefer slashing puppy zombies over zombie killer whales

  19. Re:Legitimate use for 3D printing on Researchers Create World's First 3D-Printed Jet Engines · · Score: 1

    speed up development and testing? I'd guess they have computer models for that, waiting for a printer takes time

  20. Re:you can buy yellowcake on Amazon on 1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum · · Score: 1

    Great!
    Now all I need is this My-First-Missile kit. Anyone?

  21. Re:Attack vector Port is SSH (22), passwd guessing on New Multi-Purpose Backdoor Targets Linux Servers · · Score: 1

    Good luck guessing with major distro's defaulting to "PermitRootLogin no" nowadays.

  22. Re:Mobile will be a HUGE lesson for open source/Li on The First Ubuntu Phone Is Here, With Underwhelming Hardware · · Score: 1

    If only BBQ opened QNX / blackberry os to be a competitor instead of a dead end road.

  23. PowerVR drivers and linux.

  24. Re:Long term storage: process is more important on Ask Slashdot: With Whom Do You Entrust Your Long Term Data? · · Score: 1

    GWBasic is not a reliable encryption technique

  25. Re:No they did not. They have failed HARD. on Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next? · · Score: 1

    exactly, communicator was a resource hog and simply the only (usable) browser for linux/bsd. Opera had some issues (not showing everything correct) with the HTML world of IE and was shareware.
    Firefox was not super in its pre 0.9 versions, but IMO became worse after version 3. (Coincidentally, this was also the case with Netscape Navigator 3 growing into Communiicator 4).
    That said, Firefox has proved to be an indispensible tool for web development (firebug).