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  1. Either on Book Review: Architecting the Cloud · · Score: 1

    "Most books about cloud computing are either extremely high-level quasi-marketing tomes about the myriad benefits of the cloud without any understanding of how to practically implement the technology under discussion. "

    Or....?

    You didn't even get your first sentence right, I'm not going to read about the rest of your thoughts.

  2. Re: Actually, Putin does more for Russia ... on L.A. Times National Security Reporter Cleared Stories With CIA Before Publishing · · Score: 1

    Call me naive, but I had no idea that the increasingly weird, anti-government, pro-corporate rhetoric on this site was coming from the top.

    Maybe I'll need to reconsider my visits here.

  3. Re:Idiots on Fedora To Get a New Partition Manager · · Score: 2

    Exactly - a fork, not a rewrite.

  4. Re:question colon on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Trigraphs aren't ternary operators. Tri-graph roughly mean three-characters, so "??!" = "|".

    If a statement seems obviously wrong, maybe you don't understand it well enough.

  5. For assignment, not comparision.
    $ useful_var="so good"
    $ second_var ="no good"
    bash: second_var: command not found
    $ third_var= "oh no"
    bash: oh no: command not found

    It makes sense if you know how bash works, but it's definitely a gotcha to newbies.

  6. Re:Sweet. on Whole Organ Grown In Animal For First Time · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It'd be really nice for people who were born without the organs in question. First it'll probably be for people with a straight-forward birth defect, but eventually, this could possibly grow gonads for trans people, allowing their bodies to produce their own hormones. I'd be pretty excited if I could eventually stop taking synthetic estrogens.

  7. Variation in online reviews on Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find Good Replacement Batteries? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > They all seem to have varying reviews, ranging from "Perfect official factory replacement!" to "Garbage knock-off, worse than the battery I replaced."

    This is because amazon lumps reviews from different sellers together. Once you've identified a potential seller/product you want, go into the list of sellers, and make sure to pick one with good reviews. It's going to be more expensive than from a place with 2 stars, but at least it'll work.

  8. Re:Like Nikola Tesla... on Is Storage Necessary For Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    Only to be faced with the reality of power loss during transmission :)

  9. Re:Expert?? on Is Storage Necessary For Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    Gravity! That's why water flows downhill. :)

  10. Re:What's there to compare? on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    Half as young?

  11. Re:Easy As 1 on Georgia Tech Researchers Jailbreak iOS 7.1.2 · · Score: 1

    Yo. Just don't install the apps that need too many permissions. Then you don't gotta root your phone, and you won't fuck up your battery life.

    Sorry that you explicitly said "give me control" and proceeded to trash it.

  12. Re:Success = going for... on Science Moneyball: The Secret to a Successful Academic Career · · Score: 1

    Academics need to compete for grant money. You can't just ignore securing funding - if you do, you're out your job.

  13. Re:Always videos :( on Linux Sucks (Video) · · Score: 1

    (she)

  14. Re:Another casualty of the War on Drugs on Robbery Suspect Tracked By GPS and Killed · · Score: 1

    If you "make a joke" by waving a weapon at cops who have just surrounded your vehicle... you're not very bright.

  15. Re:Didn't deserve to die... on Robbery Suspect Tracked By GPS and Killed · · Score: 1

    Whooshed.

  16. Re:Simple solution on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Products For the Over-Equipped Household? · · Score: 1

    Seriously. Stop worrying about "what if somebody takes my stuff."

  17. "I'm worried about somebody taking my stuff while I'm gone."
    "SHOOT THEM."

    Good job.

  18. Red Herring on How Free-To-Play Is Constricting Mobile Games · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure, only 3% of your players give you money if you're free-to-play. But if 3% of players of a F2P game is more than 100% of players of a $3 game, it doesn't matter. It's like arguing "If we implement super-awesome-DRM, our piracy will go down to 1%" without an understanding that these actions may hurt total sales.

    Relative numbers are pretty useless without the bigger picture.

  19. Re: Republicans on How To Prevent the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 2

    I have no idea why you're maintaining that "Republicans" create these bugs, and I'm, like, a socialist.

  20. +5 Insightful on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 0, Troll

    You heard it here first: Sex workers not being able to keep their money in a bank is worse than the Holocaust.

    This fucking website, man.

  21. Wrong target on F.C.C., In Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans To Allow Fast Lane · · Score: 1

    Netflix isn't the bad guy here.

  22. You, uh, don't take the bus very often, do you? I haven't seen any public bus, in any city I've lived, with seatbelts, without sideways seats (at least in the back), without standing room, or that stays at less than 30 MPH.

  23. White cis straight dude detected on Women Increasingly Freezing Their Eggs To Pursue Their Careers · · Score: 1

    Seriously, if you were anything else, you wouldn't pine for the 50's.

  24. Re:Wiretapping? on Double Take: Condoleezza Rice As Dropbox's Newest Board Member · · Score: 4, Funny

    White male tears are my favorite beverage. :)

  25. Uh on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    Uh, yeah, there's a big difference between people of a group reclaiming a word, and other people using the word to shit on them.