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  1. Re:What are they thinking? on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    Paris is certainly a practical choice. High profile (metropolis, city of romance), surely Western (do not tell the French:),
    and, more important, banlieu's (suburbs) impenetrable by government;
    a lot of these people come from (former) French colonies.
    It's easy to walk about being of Middle East origin.

  2. Re:Why is the Left so fiercely defending Islamism? on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    I see no conspiracy.
    I see a large portion of left wing people defending religion as a first response to the attacks. And not for the first time.
    When confronted, an aggressive posture including all of the mentioned points is being made,
    and all arguments against a sect suddenly need unrefuted scientific research.
    You got to be kidding me.

  3. Re:Why is the Left so fiercely defending Islamism? on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1
    All the love to the family and people in this tragedy--

    Pics or it didn't happen. Do you actually have any examples of "the left" defending these attacks, or are you just finding someone to hate?

    And yes, left oriented sites I frequently visit over the last years have turned a blind eye and react notoriously indignant.
    Common responses:

    • It's a false flag operation,
    • You reap what you sow (Bush et al.)
    • Anti-semitism.
    • Request for citing examples or sources for something that is fucking obvious

    After the previous attack I have seen an increase of this behavior alienating me from the left side.
    I'm just so fed up with these excuses.

  4. Ask a question on Interviews: Ask Mathematician Neil Sloane a Question · · Score: 2

    What is your motivation?

  5. Re:2015 Passat tdi owner on VW Engineers Have Admitted Manipulating CO2 Emissions Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I own a 2015 Passat tdi. Frankly I am not worried about the nox or co2 output I make in my vehicle.

    Of course not. You should be worried about the VW in front of you.
    For this idiot we protest against smoking.

  6. Definite showstopper.

  7. why not repaint? on New Plastic For Old Amigas and Commodores · · Score: 1

    clean the plastic with a rag and Brasso copper cleaner, afterwards use another rag to wipe it clean, use spray paint to repaint. (anyone having a commodore should be able to type blindly)

  8. Kraptastic! on KDE Turns 19 · · Score: 2

    I vividly remember my Klamath choking and Fireball trashing all over the place when the library dependencies pulled in
    as konsole was trying to start (I was wary of loading a whole window system, this was C++ you know).

    I wept many tears and bled my eyes on the bulky pixel-fear-inducing window that appeared
    and burnt into my 15" aquarium after minutes seeming hours.

    The experience reminded me of the furious Emacs vs. VI battles, yet Emacs seemed to fly on the machine.

    Obviously, I was reminded at some newsgroup or other to use better compile options, as gcc 2.7.2 was *really*
    not up to par with other c++ compilers or standards these days, how could I expect anything else?

    So I spent days figuring out how to tune and compile the latest PGCC with the greatest options ever. Really.
    I made sure anything binary that would come out of the compiler would be stripped, framepointer-ommitted,
    loop-unwinded, MMX-enabled, -ftry-harder and optimized with -O9999 (if unfamiliar, just imagine the
    greatest bbq sauce recipe in existence).

    After this excruciating and cumbersome process, if fed the compiler source to the newly built compiler until
    I was satisfied and sure *nothing* unoptimized was escaping my toolchain. Then I repeated this process to
    assure my conscience; you know, these nights punch holes in your confidence.

    And again. I was relentless and unforgiving, no 386 opcode would be left in favor of 586 optimization.
    After that, I spent nearly the same time on LFS'ing and kernel-tuning my system on another partition with this übertoolchain.

    I can honestly say the system booted and flied -- it flied like a rocket.
    Rodney McKay would agonize in self-pity at the sight of it.

    Were any Stampede or Gentoo developer to see this, it would wet their pants
    and send them home crying for mommy. I'm pretty sure one of my fellow CS students
    quit shortly afterwards and took up a job at the local grocery store.

    I could pipe /dev/hda to X11 emacs and have responsive parenthesis matching at the same time!

    Then, confident but modest, started konsole on a prompt:

    % konsole
    Segmentation fault (signal 11)

    After that I dumped the computer only to discover some time after the kid next door used it to play Hind on Windows98.
    I'm sure there's some point in this story but I'm sure as hell not touching KDE to unbury it out of my brain.

  9. Re:Yes, especially in Boston. on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 2

    Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.

  10. I built an atomic bomb for my grade six Science Fair exhibit.

  11. Re:i work in enterprise datacenter on Plug In an Ethernet Cable, Take Your Datacenter Offline · · Score: 1

    If a single device brings down your entire data center, you've got design problems and your architect should be fired or retrained.

    Go fire the architect. http://www.tech-faq.com/how-do...

  12. Ask a stupid question ... on Ask Slashdot: Tips For Getting Into Model Railroading? · · Score: 1

    You should go and ask this relative obviously...

  13. If there are vastly superior languages out there for what I do, then let me know, because I'd love to use them.

    Self-regurgitating assembly with macro's.
    I could try and explain, it's just too powerful and expressive.
    Its purity and speed would leave you alone and crying for mommy.
    Variadic pointers and memory strategy? Who cares, assembly INVENTED virtual endless memory.

    Of course, when things need to get done, you fetch any script- /garbage collected lang is available and supported in vi/emacs/whatever.
    C++ is only superior in the feeling you never get to master it.

  14. And replacing it with something slower.

    Any plausible improvement for C would require memory management and extra run-time checking.
    Maybe a different hardware model tuned to multithreading would get a faster language.

  15. Re:KDE5 works, especially just using KWIN with XFC on KDE Applications 15.08.0 Released · · Score: 1

    But why haven't tests revealed this issue? I'd think Intel is about the most common graphics chipset around nowadays.

  16. Re:I don't want to be tracked on The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player · · Score: 1

    try ghostery also.

  17. Re: As much as possible on Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing · · Score: 1

    that's correct, but nowadays every tab needs its own bootstrap GUI and cookie tracking collection. not even counting the sliders

  18. fair comparison on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    According to the report http://nsnetwork.org/cms/asset... the F35 is outperformed on at least range, internal payload and maneuverability, compared to current-gen planes like the F/A 18.

    In short, for every task there's a better alternative flying already.

  19. Re: Way to sensationalize! on Fossil CEO: Wearables Smothering Swiss Watch Business · · Score: 1

    As soon as my car responds to me I will buy a smart watch.

  20. Re:install another operating system on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Use Older Android Phones? · · Score: 2

    I doubt this will happen with the many proprietary chip drivers and dead batteries after 3 years.
    Come to say, why not get a lithium battery standard fitting modern devices.
    You know in the old ages, like AAA, AA , C etc.

  21. Re:It is what it is on Twilight of the Bomb · · Score: 1

    It is so easy, in 2015, to judge what was done 70 year ago, but since you didn't live through it, you really have no idea what it was like... My Grandfather fought for Canada in WWII and he has shared many stories with me, and I've talked to other vets over the years who also served... their viewpoint is worth far more than your Monday Morning Quarterback take on it...

    It is impossible to judge people after talking to vets on either side, you think the common soldier had the option of clicking Axis or Allies and fight their favorite nemesis?
    No doubt either one would have given or settled for anything to stop death and destruction.

  22. Re:It is what it is on Twilight of the Bomb · · Score: 1

    The United States is very good at estimating military casualties.
    ...
    The United States had a million Purple Hearts manufactured to award to the soldiers expected to be killed or wounded in action in the invasion of Japan.
    They're still using that stock today

    Even now, it would cost nothing to say 'sorry' for gratuitous sadism. --Norman Stone

  23. Re:Troll on Sociologist: Job Insecurity Is the New Normal · · Score: 1

    The problem here is that your so-called "psychopaths" are normal humans exhibiting normal human behavior.

    Stalin, Pol pot, Churchill and Hitler were most definitely mentally ill, ranging from bipolar, antisocial to sociopath.
    Paranoia is not normal, morphine addication is not normal.
    Frauding is not normal; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_...
    Know that a (normal) human is very much a group creature; favoring ruthless individuals in the market will favor humans without group capabilities.
    Whatever merits the current market (or any free market, if possible), favoring individuals unequally with more than 7 billion people around is bound to problems

  24. Re:Shouldn't this work the other way? on Unicode Consortium Looks At Symbols For Allergies · · Score: 1

    Yes, here I propose the unicode for ... turds.
    donkey turds, smelly turds, turds anywhere BOM

  25. Re:My ancient i7-2700 on 10 Years of Intel Processors Compared · · Score: 1

    That's nothing, I have these pipes http://www.wanamakerorgan.com/... waiting for me to play, and that's only in house.
    To respect my lawn full light you best start mowing now, dim sum.