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  1. Re:It could work. on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Sorry man, 5 minutes on random /. rantings is as much as my ADD-rotted brain can manage.

  2. It could work. on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 5, Funny


    Remember that forks sometimes do succeed.

    Take Linux. It forked from OpenBSD which itself was forked from QNX with smatterings of FreeBSD code.

    QNX programmed itself from vacuum tubes and trace wires left on the ground at Quantum Software in Ottawa one evening. Dan Hildebrand (RIP) apparently had something to do with this metamorphosis.

    Meanwhile across the ocean, FreeBSD was forked from Windows 95 which itself came from the unholy union of MS-DOS and the GEM environment. MS-DOS was bought from a company in Washington State and was a fork of CP/M. GEM was a stand alone thing and should never have been born.

    Where was I? Oh yeah, CP/M. CP/M was a copy of Apple's SOS used in the Apple /// series of super-powerful business computers. The source code was left at an airport where Gary Kildall read it when his plane was on auto-pilot.

    Apple SOS was a mix/fork of Apple ProDOS and TRS-80's OS; I forget the name, not important. Radio Shack forked their TRS-80 OS from some source code they saw in Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition.

    Fact.

  3. Too bad, so sad. on Ask Slashdot: Make Windows Update Install Only Security Updates Automatically? · · Score: 1

    If they come to you for advice and that advice is to ditch Windows, then you are not obligated to help them with support.

    I've taken that hardline approach for years and flat out refuse to help by saying, in essence, "I don't use it, I don't know it."

  4. Ad blocking on iOS has been around for ages. on One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store · · Score: 1


    I use the Mercury browser on iOS. One of its features is adblocking, I haven't seen an ad in ages.
    Mercury homepage

  5. Re:Parents suck too on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 1

    I meant using teams and coaches as expensive babysitters or allowing the kids to do that stuff without ensuring their more important school work is done.

  6. Parents suck too on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many of these parents work with their kids when at home? How many let the kids to go their room and play on the iPad or xbox and only see them at dinner? Or are too busy driving them to useless and expensive team sports events?

    Education requires major input from the parents but many of them treat the schools like babysitters and get mad at the teachers when their kids can barely read.

  7. Re:Suck it, "editors." on GameStart Uses Minecraft to Teach Kids Programming (Video 1) · · Score: 0

    Every day the editors at /. wake up to a hot cup of fresh brewed failure.

    They take the failure train to work.
    They snack on failure chips and failure dip.
    At lunch they eat failure sandwiches on whole-grain failure bread with special failure sauce.
    They shit out failure and wipe their asses with failure paper.
    They take the failure train back home where they eat microwaved leftover failure.
    They lay in bed at night in quiet failure with a tear running down their cheek
    They get up and, after fumbling for an hour, realize they are too inept to make a noose then put the rope of failure back down for another night.
    They cry themselves to sleep and have the same shared nightmare of running in slow motion as the utter blackness of a failed life catches up.

    Then they wake up to that hot cup of fresh brewed failure.

  8. Re: the Patriots should come out and support on Boston Tracks Vehicles, Lies About It, Leaves Data Exposed · · Score: 1


    Takes one to know one

    I think a "I know you are but what am I?" would have been much more direct and hurtful.

  9. Re:More women = good stuff! on Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming · · Score: 1

    No problem, you can mail me a mod point.
    Cheers!

  10. Re:More women = good stuff! on Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FEWER cocks, sorry.

  11. Re:More women = good stuff! on Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was a joke: nothing more, nothing less.
    Like if I were gay and wrote "Oh that's too bad, less cocks to go around." Lighten up.

  12. More women = good stuff! on Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming · · Score: 5, Funny


    I keep the sexual harassment forms in the bottom drawer of my desk.
    That way when a woman goes to get one, I can check out her ass.

  13. Re:Using the potty. on Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System? · · Score: 1

    What if he touched poo-poo to his nose? Gross. (btw sorry about the misplaced commas and such in my post, talking about poo-poo while in the dark gets me excited.)

  14. Using the potty. on Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System? · · Score: -1, Troll


    After he went poo-poo in the potty, how did he ensure his bummy-bum was clean if he was unable so see the toilet paper? Did he use a bidet in the dark? Were the ravioli poo-poos gross and, what we call, "two-flushers" in our house? How would he know when the potty has enough toilet paper in it?

    Seriously, if you're going to do science, you have to include the poo!

  15. This is shortsighted. on China Preparing To Send Crewed Shenzhou 11 To Tiangong 2 Space Station In 2016 · · Score: 1


    Very shortsighted, and it will get expensive. When they return to Earth they'll want to go back in an hour

  16. iStan hacked! on Hacking Medical Mannequins · · Score: 1, Flamebait


    The terrorist hackers programmed iStan to expand it anus and rectum to the maximum size then changed its MOTD to "iGoatse."

    Rest not, evildoers, you will be extinguished in puff of drone-dropped Freedom Smoke.

  17. Phew! on Google Changes Logo · · Score: 5, Funny


    I looked at Google last night and fell off my chair when I saw a differnet, yet oddly familiar, logo. Many dozens of other news outfits were reporting on it, but I waited until I saw the story on Slashdot to confirm it.

    Slashdot is to logo confirmation as Netcraft is to BSD's death confirmation.

  18. Good job Wikipedia! on Wikipedia Blocks Hundreds of Accounts Doing Paid Editing · · Score: 5, Funny


    I was sitting here drinking a refreshing Coca Cola when I started reading this story on my Apple iPhone 6 Plus. The level of paid shills that infested Wikipedia were getting bothersome. It was at the point that I started using my Encyclopædia Britannica (2015 edition).

    Sorry if I don't get to your replies sooner, I'm taking the Prius to Chipotle for a GMO-free lunch.

  19. Re:Use a VPN, there's even one build in. on More Popcorn Time Users Sued · · Score: 1

    FrootVPN.com based in Sweden keeps no logs. There are others.

  20. Use a VPN, there's even one build in. on More Popcorn Time Users Sued · · Score: 4, Informative


    Use a VPN, there's even one built in. Just need to sign up.

  21. There is only one trusted source. on Smartphone Malware Planted In Popular Apps Pre-sale · · Score: 2


    There is only one source you can trust for technology. That source is Apple.
    Sent from my Blackberry.

    .

  22. Re:Well, that's embarrassing on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 0

    Satan altered the carbon dating results to test their faith.

  23. Re:Holy Fuck on 3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time · · Score: 1, Funny

    How long has the earth been around?
    6,000 years.

    How long have we had satellites watching or even just regular and reliable weather records.
    Sheeple. We don't have satellites and never made it to the moon.

    Now tell me what "we've never seen before" means. And no,this would not be " the evidence you are looking for".
    It means that since God created Man and the Earth 6,000 years ago we have not seen this type of weather. It's a lie though, we had it all the time but never took the time to document it.

    Seriously, you people dismiss the lack of hurricanes and just weather or even blame it on Global Warming and now you want to blame 3 at once on Global Warming.
    Global warming is indeed a hoax perpetrated by Satan.

    I have a theory. Everything that happens or doesn't happen in this world is because of my farts. Under the "science" of Climate change, it's irrefutable.
    Satan is in your anus if that is true.

  24. awk on The Most Important Obscure Languages? · · Score: 3, Interesting


    While it isn't considered a full-blown language, awk is pretty useful for a lot of purposes. Best of all, it's included with every *nix flavour.

  25. Re:Buy an island on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    This counts a Flamebait?

    It is to those losers who couldn't afford my $1,000,000 lottery for a week with 10 of my topless female slave-warriors.

    Dream big, people!