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  1. Re:Really? Political correctness? on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the Corsair was born a hermaphrodite (in Gallifreyan terms). That would allow that without destroying what seems to be otherwise established continuity.

  2. Re:Really? Political correctness? on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    Anyone really believe they're not coming back again?

    Personally I think the whole "last of the Timelords" thing was a misstep. Too much un-mined material there.

  3. Re:Typical Microsoft approach on MS Office For Android: Pretty, But Woefully Incomplete · · Score: 1

    Nope. I use the onscreen ctrl and alt. Then again, I'm not trying to program on it and administrative tasks typically get scripted after the first time of having to go through a lot of typing. Command line recall is also pretty useful. Unfortunately, command line completion seems to have problems due to the above mentioned missing tab.

  4. Re:We tried a woman in power and it didn't work ou on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    Art should be personal. Government paying for it is a travesty.

  5. Re:Why does anyone like this show? on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    Just to be clear, are you talking about just the current run or the whole series back to '63.

  6. Re:No on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    It might also be interesting if he spent the time discussing advances in contemporary technology and the implications of upcoming scientific research.

    It just wouldn't be Doctor Who.

  7. Re:Really? Political correctness? on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 2

    It would seem jarring because this weird contemporary idea that women can match men in a one-on-one physical confrontation is simply bullshit for all but a tiny section of women (of which a female Bond could possibly be a member. But not any of the actresses they'd cast for her) vs a relatively small section of men (so all Bond's enemies would have to be wimps basically).

  8. Re:Really? Political correctness? on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    Well, Bond has been Scottish before. In truth, in modern times, a black Bond might not be too out there. But I don't care either way. All this PC stuff gets kind of tiresome though.

  9. Re:Really? Political correctness? on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Possibly. But is there any particular reason it has to be the same Gallifreyan? Do you really want to break what appears to be continuity and almost certainly alienate a large proportion of the viewers just for that? (Personally it wouldn't bother me but it doesn't bother me that it's not either and I'd rather have a Doctor on the screen than than a PC Doctor cancelled. It took long enough for it to come back last time.)

  10. Re:Slashdot naivete on Snowden Gave 15,000 Documents to Glenn Greenwald; Obama Cancels Russia Summit · · Score: 1

    But it's been going on for a long time. It must have been at least 20 years ago that it was revealed that the US was spying on UK companies and vice versa and then they just exchanged data.

    I guess somebody said "Yes, technically but for all intents and purposes, you may as well just spy on your own people". And the intelligence agencies said "Good point" and did so.

  11. Re:Barely worth pirating on TV Show Piracy Soars After CBS Blackout · · Score: 1

    I watched episode 1. That was enough.

  12. Re:Q.E.D. on TV Show Piracy Soars After CBS Blackout · · Score: 1

    Thumbdrive? Drag & drop to the DVR.

  13. Re:Typical Microsoft approach on MS Office For Android: Pretty, But Woefully Incomplete · · Score: 1

    I use ssh frequently without much of an issue. Vim too. It's not the best experience but it is tolerable.

    The big issue I have is with screen. I can't seem to reliably send a tab (needed for a split console).

  14. It's on Comcast Working On 'Helpful' Copyright Violation Pop-ups · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Internet
    Service
    Provider.

    Just forward the damn packets and take my money.

  15. Re:Date problems on How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped? · · Score: 1

    Yes. But only by postcard.

  16. Re:3 or 4 months from completition on Utah Set To Exempt NSA Datacenter From Power Tax, After All · · Score: 1

    Just that there's room for cuts (real cuts, not reductions in budget increases). Lots and lots of lovely cuts.

  17. Re:Basis for discrimination on US IT Worker Files Hiring Lawsuit Against Infosys, Class Action Proposed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd literally take 10% less for that. I'd also take extra vacation days at a double pro-rata cut.

  18. Re:Thanks for sharing on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    It makes me cry how many accounts I've had to register, confirm and forget just to add a comment to a forum I'll never read again (typically when I've been searching for the answer to a problem, found the answer elsewhere and want to share that answer with others who have not yet solved the problem).

  19. Re:Pissing and Moaning on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    Also, because emails are completely impossible to process automatically and not as trivial as adding "*:|spambot.pl" to the aliases file.

  20. Re:Protection against drunk posting on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 4, Funny

    I often need three stiff drinks just to be able to read the things.

  21. Re:3 or 4 months from completition on Utah Set To Exempt NSA Datacenter From Power Tax, After All · · Score: 1

    Everyone should forward this to any politician they hear crying about the sequester.

  22. Re:NSA doesn't like the system it created??? on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 1

    And four years later, after he had failed to keep his promises, they voted for him again.

  23. Re:Er, no, that isn't the story on Surveillance Story Turns Into a Warning About Employer Monitoring · · Score: 1

    If it were me, I wouldn't be making a press release on every terrorist I caught...

    Remind me again, is the purpose simply to catch the maximum number of terrorists or perhaps it would be better to attempt to discourage them from attempting those attacks in the first place. Perhaps I should fix-that-for-you

    If it were me, I wouldn't be making a press release on every terrorist I caught if I weren't catching very many

  24. Re:Alright then. Carry On. on Surveillance Story Turns Into a Warning About Employer Monitoring · · Score: 1

    It was clearly a false-flag company.

  25. Re:Alright then. Carry On. on Surveillance Story Turns Into a Warning About Employer Monitoring · · Score: 1

    They removed it. There is no duty of the police to do either.