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  1. Re:New Horror Flick... on Enormous Tunneling Machine 'Bertha' Blocked By 'The Object' · · Score: 1

    It could be called Objectzilla.

  2. Re:Moot point on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    What's there left to discuss? If you want who is moon's owner, just check whose flag is planted on it.

    It's apparently a white flag. Does that mean that the nation that put it there is surrendering?

    It's had its colour bleached by the sunlight.

  3. Re:This is done in the hopes Reddit will reciproca on Bill Gates Plays Secret Santa To Reddit User · · Score: 4, Funny

    Scratch that. We pontificate. We're very good at that.

    Nah, we just hurl profanities and insults at each other in a misguided attempt to feel important. You numpty :P

  4. Re:If only... on Inside Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit · · Score: 1

    Had they known in '85 how important the (as yet nonexistent) Internet would be, would they have made the same mistakes?

    What if Linux was dominant instead? Do you really believe there'd be no malware market?

    It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't realise hindsight is always 20/20.

  5. Re:Anyone Who Talks About Deflation...... on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    you can no longer buy a new car for $1000.

    OK, OK, I'll stop with the pedantic dickweedery now ;)

  6. Re:Mod Parent Article Down. on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    I suggest using several 1980's hard drives to make bitcoin bigger than Jesus.

    That lacks ambition methinks - instead, how about magnetic core memory from the 50s?

  7. Re:Yea ok on Inside Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit · · Score: 1

    Why use someone else's cloud when you can plug your own? That, and the money stays in-house instead of going to a competitor.

  8. Re:If only... on Inside Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes they could have had a proper security model in the early 90s, and yes they could have forced all users to run under limited accounts by default. But let's not let that get in the way of the #1 reason Windows has this many known vulnerabilities - when you're on 90%+ of the world's PCs, you make one hell of a juicy target.

  9. Re:Numerical computation is pervasive on 'Approximate Computing' Saves Energy · · Score: 1

    1/10000th of a BitCoin will be worth far more than a dollar and will only keep going up.

    Apart from when it goes down

  10. Re: OK, I'll bite on Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart · · Score: 1

    Strong with the FUD you are, my dear AC.

  11. Re:Nope. People will deny that they are robots. on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    I take a train to work (and home again) that has no driver. Yet, to a person, everybody disagrees with me that a robot drives me to work.

    Unless you count the train itself as a robot (which isn't anywhere near as mad as it may sound), no, you're not driven to work by a robot.

  12. Re:No kidding on Chat with Microsoft Beat Journalist Preston Gralla (Video) · · Score: 1

    That sound you hear is the joke flying over your head.

  13. Re:Ungrateful krauts on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    To be honest, if you have student debt, you probably aren't smart enough to truly deserve college to begin with.

    There is no better proof that money has nothing to do with intelligence than this arse-gravy.

  14. Re:Amazingly accurate estimate there on The Business of Attention Deficit Disorder · · Score: 2

    Not everyone diagnosed with a condition is automatically prescribed medication.

  15. Re:What is it then? on The Business of Attention Deficit Disorder · · Score: 1

    1-3: Yes to varying extents. 4: No idea.

    Not that I'm claiming genuine knowledge, it's more the general perception I have determined over time.

  16. Re:Who cares? on Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart · · Score: 1

    That was ISO.

  17. Re:OK, I'll bite on Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart · · Score: 1

    site:stackoverflow.com dart

  18. Re:OK, I'll bite on Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart · · Score: 1

    Javascript is a glorious, expressive and straightforward language. Unfortunately, it also allows shitty developers to write shitty code.

    You could have fun with this:
    C is a glorious, expressive and straightforward language. Unfortunately, it also allows shitty developers to write shitty code.
    PHP is a glorious, expressive and straightforward language. Unfortunately, it also allows shitty developers to write shitty code.
    Python is a glorious, expressive and straightforward language. Unfortunately, it also allows shitty developers to write shitty code.
    C# is a glorious, expressive and straightforward language. Unfortunately, it also allows shitty developers to write shitty code.
    BASIC is a glorious, expressive and straightforward language. Unfortunately, it also allows shitty developers to write shitty code.
    COBOL is a glorious, expressive and straightforward language. Unfortunately, it also allows shitty developers to write shitty code.

    Shitty developers write shitty code in any language :)

    NB: This post doesn't reflect my opinions on the qualities of the languages mentioned.

  19. Re:Buttons vs Touch screens on Smart Cars: Too Distracting? · · Score: 1

    Fiddling with any kind of touch screen when in a driving lane needs to be against the law.

    It is - it's called 'driving without due care and attention'.

  20. Re:I will point out... on British Police Censor the Global Internet · · Score: 1

    Not quite.

    A President is directly elected to that position, whereas the Prime Minister is not. What actually happens is the leader of the majority party (or the leader of the largest party in a coalition) is invited by the reigning monarch to form a government (a formality, but we Brits love our little formalities). Said leader then becomes First Lord of the Treasury a.k.a. Prime Minister.

    Obviously the party leader is elected in his/her constituency, but only members of the party can vote for their party leader.

  21. Re:So do a Prime Minister on British Police Censor the Global Internet · · Score: 1

    Yet they receive tax money.

    It equates to something like a pound or two per taxpayer per year. Given how much they (indirectly) bring in via tourism, I'd say it's a bargain. Plus we get the day off work when one of them gets married :)

  22. Re:Old News on Snowden Document Shows Canada Set Up Spy Posts For NSA · · Score: 1

    Apply meat now. Apply meat now. The tomato is about to be placed. The tomato is about to be placed.

    That is one dramatic BLT :)

  23. Re:Small Connectors on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    Guess you have no idea just how tightly packaged the average phone is.

  24. Re:Cross language - what .Net gets right on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 1

    On Windows/WinPhone, you can use .NET for WinRT apps, so it'll go for some time yet.

  25. Re:When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    And if they don't lock, then the car without ABS stops sooner, or at least in the same distance.

    The only job ABS has is to prevent the wheels locking. That is it.