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  1. I tried Ubuntu a couple of weeks ago when setting up a VM for a quick dev/testing environment.
    It was a fucking mess. Nothing made sense. The desktop quirks reminded my of Windows Vista pre SP1. The Linux core was tweaked just enough that the CLI I spent the most time in was my browser's search bar.

    Nuked that VM from orbit.

  2. Re:Better headline: on Microsoft Stops Xbox 360 Production, Servers To Stay Online · · Score: 1

    Moonwalk. This has been known for years.

  3. Re:Nobody Gives A Shit on Warmest March In Global Recordkeeping (wunderground.com) · · Score: 0

    Nobody gives a shit. Not even the people who pretend to.

    If nobody gives a shit, then why do stories on climate change generate so many comments? And why did you bother coming here to post about it if you don't care? I suggest that you do actually care.

    I'm sure that you cared when you undoubtedly said that global warming was a myth because it was getting cooler since 1998. You probably also cared when you claimed that it was a myth because of the hiatus once it became obvious that the cooling was just the result of 1998 being an outlier year. And I'm sure that you care now when the records are being consistently broken, but this time all you can do is try to distract us from the facts by claiming that nobody actually gives a shit now.

    Sorry, we do give a shit, even if you like to pretend that we don't.

    No, I don't give a shit about the climate changing.

    I do give a shit about retards like you saying it's my fault or that you need to take my tax dollars to "fix" it. I do give a shit about the fucking ignorant goon squad you and your ilk have formed to attack anyone who realizes the scam and calls it out for the unscientific political bullshit that it is.

    Further, please show me where I "undoubtedly said that global warming was a myth because it was getting cooler since 1998" or where I "claimed that it was a myth because of the hiatus once it became obvious that the cooling was just the result of 1998 being an outlier year".

  4. Re: Here we go on Warmest March In Global Recordkeeping (wunderground.com) · · Score: 1

    The AC you're replying to is not me.

  5. Nobody Gives A Shit on Warmest March In Global Recordkeeping (wunderground.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nobody gives a shit. Not even the people who pretend to.

  6. Butter gives flavor. Shortening gives flakes. Butter is a shortening as long as it doesn't melt.
    You can get light and flaky with butter if you work the dough properly. You want to keep it cold. The easiest way to do that is with a dough blender, such as this one: http://amzn.to/1YzJl2P

  7. For deep frying, use lard or canola oil. Deep frying with lard gets you a better result, and it's likely better for you, but canola is monumentally more convenient for occasional home use.

    For baking or anything high temperature, use butter.

    For all other cooking, use olive oil or butter, your choice.

    PS: Peanut oil tastes like fucking ass. Fuck you if you deep fry a turkey (or anything else) in peanut oil.

    PPS: The perfect french fry is achieved by: Peeling, cutting to size and shape, rinsing in cold water, par boiling until they begin to soften (before they fall apart), freezing over night, deep frying until barely blonde, draining thoroughly, deep frying again until golden brown, draining and seasoning (immediately). Restaurants with good fries start with frozen, par boiled fries and throw them into a 2-stage fryer. If you watch, you'll see a fry jockey dump a bag of fries into one fryer and later pull the basket up, shake it off, and dump it into the adjacent fryer. The basket from that fryer is lifted and the fries seasoned, then fries are served.

    PPPS: The perfect fried chicken is achieved by brining. Brining does not need to be done overnight - just a few hours makes a world of difference. Any frying method (deep or otherwise, battered or not) takes a back seat to the importance of brining. Chicken breasts are the worst thing to deep fry without brining. If you absolutely can't brine, use chicken thighs or drumsticks instead, since they have fat to add some flavor of their own.

  8. Re:News for nerds, how? on Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Someone has to pay for it.

    People who cry out socialism at the drop of the hat don't want their tax dollars being used to help those OTHER people. That don't mind if the government pays for the programs that they care about, say, Social Security benefits.

    Uh, I'm the one paying for Social Security.

  9. Re:Define Pirates on US ISPs Refuse To Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Name.
    The.
    Treaty.

    Also show us that it was signed and ratified.

  10. Re:Other People Can Use Your Phone..... on Cellebrite Is Developing Roadside Police 'Textalyzer' Device (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Either the legislators are not very technically savvy, or in Cellebrite's pocket.

    Mayor Quimby: Henceforth, this date shall forever be known as Flaming Moe's Day!
    Advisor: Uh, sir, this is already Veterans' Day.
    Mayor Quimby: It can be two things!

    Alternatively:

    Abe: All right! I admit it! I'm the Lindbergh baby! Wah wah! Goo goo! I miss my fly-fly dada!
    Bill Gannon: Are you stalling for time, or are you just senile?
    Abe: A little from column A, a little from column B.

  11. Re: Screw San Fran on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Overlords provide control. Larvae provide production. Zergling rushes provide QQ.

  12. Re:old cyberpunk trope on Japan To Begin Testing Fingerprints As 'Currency' (the-japan-news.com) · · Score: 0

    Which solves nothing. Just carry the dupe in your pocket until you whip it out at the scanner.
    For "advanced" scanners that claim to check for a pulse and other horseshit, just press harder.

  13. Re:The point is that exploiting the DESKTOP gets b on Anywhere Computing Makes 2FA Insecure On iOS and Android (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're logged into gmail on your desktop, you're logged into your google account, which means you're logged into play.google.com.

  14. Re:2-Step Auth != 2-Factor Auth on Anywhere Computing Makes 2FA Insecure On iOS and Android (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    This guy gets it.
    Real (physical) security is based on the model of something you have, something you are, and something you know being verified by the authenticating party.
    This is you walking into a bank and the teller or account manager looking at you, your government-issued photo id, and asking for you account number, pin, ssn, etc.

    They verify you are a early-twenties, 450 pound, balding, acne-riddled lump of a man. They verify you have a state id (but not a driver's license because you're useless) that matches that and lists the appropriate address of "mom's basement". They ask for your account number, ssn, or maybe the answer to your security question about who your favorite character on My Little Pony is or what anime character is your #1 true waifu.

    To get around what you are you'd need a disguise (and deodorant) able to pass inspection by a live human.
    To get around what you have you'd need a fake id that passes inspection by a live human AND a machine that looks it up.
    To get around what you know you'd need to know the private info and innermost desires of your target.

    Computer security only has one thing: Something you know. Smart cards, tokens, shit sent to a phone, anusprint scanners, etc. are all automated systems that simply tack on extra shit to the standard "something I know" piece (user/pass).

    We do this because we cannot manually inspect all authorization requests on the scale the internet requires. So you trust that the scanner generates a true hash and the true hash you got is from a trusted and uncompromised scanner and that it read a real anus and not a copy made form gummy bears. You trust that the SMS code you generate send to a phone number isn't intercepted on the phone itself (you have NO idea where that phone is) or over the air without the phone (very easy, SMS is SHIT). You trust that the algorithm the temporary password generator uses is "random" and secure and that the secret (seed) is secure within the hardware dongle, the generator application, hasn't been leaked from your database / the 3rd party's database, etc. and that the dongle/application are in the hands of the true user.

    We don't have 2-factor authentication on the internet. We have 2-step or, at best, 2-channel authentication.

  15. Re:Slashdot is now... on Opinion: DevOps Is Dead (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The problem in this case is that it's a shitpost linking to an "article" of absolutely no substance on a topic. "DevOps" is nothing more than a meaningless buzzword used by startups and those aping them in order to seem hip.

    Buzzword is dead! Long live buzzword!

    (Holy fucking shitty journalism - I clicked into TFA after writing the above - the closing line is "DevOps is dead. Long live DevOps!".)

  16. I'm pointing out that data is cherry picked and manipulated.

  17. Re:Breach of Terms of Service != illegal on Blizzard Shuts Down Popular Fan-run 'Pirate' Server For Classic WoW (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    What contract?
    Between what parties?
    And how is breaking a contract illegal?

  18. Re:Are millennials better at Science on Bill Nye: Climate Change Denial Is 'Running Out of Steam,' Thanks To Millennials (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    I think I've seen this trick from you (or someone like you) before.

    I don't think there is any possible thing I could post, from any source, that you wouldn't deny with semantic games and make new demands. I doubt that there is any objective evidence in this entire universe that you would allow to conflict with your preconceived world view. I'm not going to waste my time like that.

    So, you can't do it. No need to cry about it.

  19. Probably pretty bad. I might take up chain smoking, ignoring the SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS that's it's terrible for me and despite telling children not to smoke, waving my hand in front of my face as if I couldn't bear the smell.

  20. At best you'll get a link to data + codes along with a table of code definitions listing the data as "adjusted", "dropped", "known bad", "missing", etc.
    If all the retards who believe in this shit would spend 5 fucking minutes to look at the data, something they so frequently scream at others to do, they'd realize it's a farce.

  21. Did you just double self reply to make this point?
    Everyone knows that government education = liberal indoctrination = intolerant zealotry.

  22. Re:Black hole in the astronomical desert on Monster Black Holes May Lurk All Around Us (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    You can gain a whole lot of mass but you're up against the inverse square law. That gravitational 'force' (yes it's really just a geometrical distortion of spacetime) falls away rapidly with distance. The distance is what keeps those remote objects safe.

    How can it be "just" a distortion of spacetime and a " 'force' "? There needs to be some actual force to do the distorting of spacetime. You don't get to put quotation marks around "force" and parenthetically claim that gravity is not a force.

  23. Re:Translation on Reddit Launches New Block Tools To Help Temper Harassment (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup.
    Reddit is an awful, awful place.

  24. Re:What kind of pussies did the previous generatio on Reddit Launches New Block Tools To Help Temper Harassment (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Every generation thinks the next generation are spineless.
    Every generation makes stupid generalizations as they get old, and lose control of the future.

    Go ask one of the few surviving WWII vets if their parents thought they were spineless.
    Go ask one of the few surviving WWII vets about anything, and see if they're making "stupid generalizations" or not.
    Go ask yourself about making stupid generalizations about every generation.

  25. Re:FBI hack should not be made public on FBI Telling Congress How It Hacked iPhone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Do privacy concerns come before finding the bomb before it detonates?

    The Constitution says yes, absolutely.
    If you don't like it, push for an amendment to the Constitution.
    If you don't like guns, push for an amendment to the Constitution.
    If you don't like the rules, push for an appropriate change to the rules.

    Shitting on the rules or applying them only when (and to whom) it is convenient is tyranny.