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  1. Re:It's been 24 years on Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You very well might be right, but isn't that what COBOL devs said back in the day about the year 2000?

  2. Re:Pedophiles also on Finnish Politician Suggests Embedding Chips In Citizens To Protect the Welfare State · · Score: 2

    This Exactly. Implant always-on tracking devices under everybody's skin because think of the children.

  3. Re:Ouya was all false promises. on Razer Acquires Ouya's Storefront and Technical Team · · Score: 1

    Should have bought lottery tickets with that kickstarter money instead. It's no revolution when a single company controls everything, they wanted to be steam for android, that's all. But there's hope yet, a revolution is possible. We all have, in our pockets, an android device more capable than the Ouya. We all plan to upgrade said device regularly. It has internet access. It can project its screen on the TV. All we need is a good cheap bluetooth controller.

  4. Re:Where's the Nerd / tech angle? on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Their right to be married and your right to be nerdy is the same right. Equality matters to everyone.

  5. Re:Reddit.... on Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond · · Score: 1

    People who want to use mod points to win an argument will create two (or more) accounts. Comment from an account that doesn't have mod points, then mod themselves up from a different account. The rule accomplishes probably nothing.

  6. Re:Stupid/Misleading Title on US Navy Sells 'Top Gun' Aircraft Carrier For One Penny · · Score: 1

    International Shipbreaking did offer to pay for the USS Ranger, but the Navy declined saying: "Son, your ego is writing checks your bodyshop can't cash".

  7. C++/Ruby hotness on Which Programming Language Pays the Best? Probably Python · · Score: 4, Funny

    and Java/JavaScript topped the list, followed by PHP, Python, C#, and C++/Ruby.

    C/C++ is old, C#/C++ is tired, but C++/Ruby is so hot right now.

  8. Re:The problem is always the client on WhatsApp To Offer End-to-End Encryption · · Score: 1

    If an open source client were all it took to establish secure communications between two phones it would have been done a long time ago. There are other hurdles besides the client. It's rare for two phones to be able to communicate directly because phones don't usually get public IP addresses. When a phone gets a public IP address it's likely to have most if not all incoming ports blocked, and even if both phones happen to have public IP addresses with unblocked incoming ports they still need to find each other via some sort of directory server. So at the very least, the IP address and identity of both parties goes through a server that you do not control. But more likely, all data exchange between the two parties (including keys) goes through a server that you do not control.

  9. Re:If you wanted us to believe your Op-Ed... on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 1

    You might think duck-typing got its name from "If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck". Common misconception. The name actually comes from "If it's declared like a Duck and compiled like a Duck" as pointed out by GP.

  10. Re:Please explain on Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Xbox One Controller Support · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why does a driver for a game controller need to be incorporated into the kernel?

    Welcome to /. Mr. Tanenbaum. Please feel free to create an account.

  11. Re:PC couch multiplayer is a thing now on The Tech Fixes the PS3 Still Needs, Eight Years On · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the link. I was not familiar with the term "couch" multiplayer and your link greatly improved my search for the next game. For other players looking for a "couch" game I'd recommend Ibb&Obb, nice ambient, smooth platforming gameplay, and quite the linguistic challenge to talk through a puzzle since the words up and down have lost all meaning.

  12. Re:this has nothing to do with salmon on Study: Deforestation Depletes Fish Stocks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do they? Right there in the woods?

  13. Re:If you have the opportunity on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    I'll address gp's ridiculous hyperbole. Goliath is described as a champion, not a bully or a murderous thug. At no point in the story is he said to have killed innocent people. Goliath proposes to not have a war but instead decide the conflict based on the outcome of a single one-on-one combat (himself vs an opposing champion). There is nothing “Goliath-like” about any aspect of the war on terror.

  14. Re:The person who made the ppt was immediately fir on The 69 Words GM Employees Can Never Say · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone complained and HR agreed that he intentionally stopped short of making the list an even 70. Fired for sexual harassment.

  15. Re:Believe it or not on Astronomers Identify the Sun's Long-Lost Sister · · Score: 1

    Interesting. There is an asymmetry between "brother" and "sister" in the dictionary: "sisters" may mean a kinship group of objects, but "brothers" may not. The article consistently refers to stars as “it” (except for sister stars), so I endorse your interpretation.

  16. Re:Believe it or not on Astronomers Identify the Sun's Long-Lost Sister · · Score: 1

    Romance languages go Sun -> Male, Moon -> Female. Semitic languages go Sun -> Female, Moon -> Male . Exact opposites yet quite close geographically. Long story short, assignment of gender to inanimate objects is largely arbitrary unless the object really looks like a penis or a vagina. Bunch of pervs that we are. Not that the two or three billion people who speak genderless languages aren't pervs. Japanese, for example, is genderless.

  17. Re:AND?? on Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test · · Score: 1

    Peas and some plants you've never heard of because they aren't served next to a steak.

  18. Re:What's special about the time? on Up-Front Seats For Tonight's Near-Earth Asteroid · · Score: 1

    I like your writing style. Why aren't you in charge of the asteroid reports around here?

  19. Re:Rubbish. on Could an Erasable Internet Kill Google? · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen on Slashdot.

    And keep in mind AC has seen everything, commented on almost everything. This one really takes the cup.

  20. Science, Bitches! on Property Managers Use DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders · · Score: 1

    and male dogs

  21. Re:User unfriendliness strikes again unfortunately on Ars Checks Out CyanogenMod's New Installer · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it's not about installing, but about uninstalling. I've an old Samsung device that doesn't have a lot of RAM. They still release updates for it, each more bloated than the previous. I jumped ship last year to CM 7.2. It gives me the same OS version as the latest update from Samsung, but without Samsung's bloat. The cherry on top is being able to delete the Google Apps I don't want (gtalk, to name the worst one). On stock you can't delete them, you can't even stop them from running in the background. Now I got plenty of free RAM, phone's snappy, and I don't feel pressed to upgrade the hardware.

  22. Re:I can beat that on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    But did it support USB, TV tuners, and webcams?

    Yes it did! GEOS supported all the existing USB TV tuners and webcams of its time.

  23. Re:With be a major undertaking. on Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire · · Score: 1

    Did the fire also damage the grammar capabilities as well?

    This message brought to you by the National Socialist Grammar Nazis and the Department of Redundancy Dept.

  24. Re:Pun + Her attitude arbitrary pleases me too. on Automatic Translation Without Dictionaries · · Score: 1

    ... to make not-ASCII ASCII art.

    So... just art?

  25. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mister George Lucas on How LucasArts Fell Apart · · Score: 2

    We're all familiar with the works of George Lucas. How could any of us be even a tiny bit surprised to hear that game development under his direction turned out to be an endless re-write?