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  1. You think?? on IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    it does seem surprising that he would have accessed such sensitive data with his own domestic IP address.

    No fucking shit...

  2. Re: Show us the data on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 1

    The latter is causing the former; deflation in action...

  3. Re: Show us the data on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 1
    In other news, researchers announce that despite the hazards of crossing roads without looking, the common squirrel is far more likely to suffer fatalities from simply running into objects such as telephone poles and mailboxes.

    Or not. :)

  4. Re: Show us the data on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 0

    What about the externalized costs of wind farming? All those fan blades pushing against the wind will surely have an eventual effect on the dynamics of the planet; think about how much fracking we'll eventually have to do [to generate the watts needed] to spin all those fans the other direction...

  5. Re: Data Mining Experiment? on Marijuana Growers Need Software, Too (Video) · · Score: 1

    Lolol, that so-called "deal" carries no legal weight whatsoever. The Feds can put a stop to this instantly bit will they? They're signalling otherwise but only a fool would trust that.

  6. Great idea, Microsoft... on Software Defined Smart Battery Arrays Extend Laptop Life · · Score: 0

    Great idea, Microsoft... but please just let someone else produce the actual code??

  7. Re:In 7th grade... on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope you didn't damage any essential components.

    I didn't really have a chance as it was a short-lived experiment; while I liked to consider the basement workshop to be my own RC lab (aka super-secret lair for The Devising of Strange Contraptions to Masturbate With), the reality was that I needed to disassemble Said Device before I risked having to explain the Purpose to my dad...

  8. Re:Can't Take the Heat........? on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 2

    Technical excellence does not require uncaring aggressiveness.

    What kind of idiot would even think of trying to claim that Linus doesn't care?! If his "aggressiveness" (lol, "Don't hurt us, Linus!") isn't an indicator of how much emotion he's got invested in Linux, I don't know what is! ;)

  9. Re:I used to do kernel dev.. on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    I think he intentionally makes an example out of people occasionally.

    That hardly makes for headlines; surely we can do something about that... :p

  10. Re:Issue is more complicated on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    Hardly. This isn't analogous to MAD in the slightest; rather, it's a simple matter of establishing boundaries. Nice try, though.

  11. In 7th grade... on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? · · Score: 4, Funny
    In 7th grade, I took a hand-operated bilge pump, a plastic mayo jar and the rear tire from a Tamiya Hornet... and constructed a functional cock pump.

    No, really.

  12. Re:Can't Take the Heat........? on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 2

    Everyone being offended by the atmosphere in kernel development hardly makes headlines.

  13. Brutal = effective? on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    Considering that this is communication we're supposedly talking about; everything is orthogonal except its effectiveness... and considering this isn't a complaint relating to OS/2, I daresay the answer is self-evident.

  14. Re:Individual tax payers get the shaft again on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 1

    In 1913 the income tax was introduced

    I believe the Federal income tax made its appearance during the Civil War.

  15. Re:How do they define GM? on Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops · · Score: 1

    It just shows you that the anti-GMO camp is mostly uninformed.

    I'm trying to think of a scenario in which you wouldn't be claiming something stupid like that, regardless.

    Nope, not coming up with one.

  16. Re:Nail everyone? on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    Then you sue for wrongful termination.

    Wow, you make that so easy... however, "he who represents himself has a fool for a client." Or did you conveniently leave out the step where you magically hire an ethical, affordable and competent attorney on contingency? I'm sure it was an oversight on your part... :p

  17. Re: This wasn't an engineering decision... on VW Fiasco Puts Ethics In Engineering Under the Spotlight, CEO Steps Down · · Score: 1

    urea injection

    We at the National Golden Shower & Watersports Association prefer the term "Diesel Exhaust Fluid" (it gets us less hot and bothered).

  18. Re:Except GM and BMW executives dont know..... on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    Except GM and BMW executives dont know how to sell a premium brand that makes everyone want to buy it.

    GM executives certainly seem to know how to sell a mediocre brand that's marketed as a premium brand that makes the ignorant masses and the nouveau riche want to buy it...

  19. Re:"It would likely cost quite a lot of money ..." on Club Concorde Wants To Put a Concorde Back In the Air · · Score: 1

    Having read literally tens of thousands of books throughout the past ~4 decades (books written in the 1800's and 1900's), I can say that while it may have been in use in the 1600's, it wasn't inserted into Standard American English until very recently... and I have to wonder if we have a fucking cretin of a Millennial to thank for that...

  20. This is especially true, considering their savvy customers switched to other AV programs over a decade ago (for me, it was when I caught Blaster on an Winblows system running fully-updated AVG)...

  21. Re:"It would likely cost quite a lot of money ..." on Club Concorde Wants To Put a Concorde Back In the Air · · Score: 0

    were gifted

    I realize that in 2015 we're on the front lines of the Decline of Western Civilization - and as such I'm quite used to atrocious examples of improper grammar - but it still galls me: "gift" is a noun; the word you were looking for is "given".

  22. Re:Let Me get This Straight on The Ethical Issues Surrounding OSU's Lab-Grown Brains · · Score: 1

    Your projection [of this mythical person who's cool with the former but bothered by the latter]? Just that.

  23. Re:I hate to break it to the author... on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    Capacitors... yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at. ;)

  24. Re:Color me naive.... on Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming · · Score: 1

    Professional driver and tech here who's owned nearly two dozen German cars over the years (but all pre-2001 models), not to mention lived all over the country including New England (but not, I'll admit, shitty Massachusetts - thank God; far too many unhappy Massholes such as yourself (yeah, we see you guys all over the country; you really should change your plates so we can't identify you except by your discourteous and unskilled driving style). ;)

  25. Re:My view of this on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 0

    Oops, apparently I didn't read your entire post; my apologies.