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  1. s/Terrorist attacks/Military intervention/g on When Criminals and Terrorists Communicate In Real Time · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "If that happens, terrorist attacks will become a form of theater in which terrorists not only get to write the play but also act as the primary producers of the coverage of the event."

    As opposed to:

    "If that happens, military intervention will become a form of theater in which governments not only get to write the play but also act as the primary producers of the coverage of the event."

    The CNN coverage of the Iraq invasions could be seen as the same thing as in Nairobi - it just depends on what side you stand on.

  2. Re:Probably because it was a sort of mediocre game on Myst Was Supposed To Change the Face of Gaming. What Is Its Legacy? · · Score: 0

    QFT. Myst sucked. It was like getting lost in the maze in Zork II, where everything you did got you more lost, until a grue ate you. The only people I knew who played Myst were suckered into it because it was 'cool', nobody actually played/won it.

  3. Re:Who uses the defaults? on OpenSUSE May Be First Major Distro To Adopt Btrfs By Default · · Score: 2

    By extension, "productivity" tools like Office and gcc should be able to be used casually without any thought.

    Oh wait, that's not true.

  4. Re:And then I got my eyes tested. on The Dash Is Now Anonymized In Ubuntu 13.10 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Loli President Bomb is my new band name.

  5. No more privacy = anonymous?? on The Dash Is Now Anonymized In Ubuntu 13.10 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Care to rephrase that, smitty?

  6. owning your machine on Post-post PC: Materials and Technologies That Could Revive Enthusiast Computing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An enthusiast wants to own his hardware, he doesn't care about 5.1 GHz uber-core machines. What the enthusiast wants is open specs, common interfaces, accessible GPIO, non-DRM memory or hardware, and open source code. Someone who buys the latest stuff from Intel and slaps Win 8.1 or Ubuntu on it so that they can run WoW is not an enthusiast they're just a rich consumer.

  7. Re:Minor Sympathy. on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Maybe you shouldn't have been bitches.

  8. Running a woodstove is simple on Engineers Aim To Make Cleaner-Burning Cookstoves For Developing World · · Score: 1

    Run it hot on clean, dry wood at full power for as long as you can, the thermal mass you surround it with will absorb the heat.

    Oh wait, the reason folks burn crappy wet wood in inefficient stoves is that they're poor, or they're too sick from dirty water (50% of all premature deaths on Earth are from bad water) to gather wood. How does this help that problem?

  9. Polar ice? on Study Suggests Weather and Not Hunting Killed Off Wooly Mammoths · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the BBC the one who said we'd be ice-free by 2013?

  10. How is this news? on Device Security: How Border Searches Are Really Used · · Score: 1

    Does anyone really think that the government wouldn't invoke any available power to achieve it's ends?

  11. The more you tighten your grip on UK Mobile ISP Blocks VPN, Citing Access To Porn · · Score: 1

    The more people will find $2/month VPS machines running OpenVPN.

  12. Last words... on NASA Finds, Fixes Small Glitch in LADEE Moon Probe · · Score: 2

    You arrogant ass, you've killed us!

  13. API? on New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free" · · Score: 0

    It's called "mp3". An API for music isn't a thing.

  14. Re:Politics vs Market Forces on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 0

    Ah yes, the crab-bucket mentality. Let me know how that works for you.

  15. Re:Another damned collectivist on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    +1

  16. Re:If I... on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    Shotgun shells, silver rounds, canned soup, and tampons.

  17. Re:So... on The Golden Gate Barrage: New Ideas To Counter Sea Level Rise · · Score: 0

    Countries like India will lose half of their land. Some island nations will be completely uninhabitable.

    And?

  18. Is Romania still a thing? on Romanian Science In Freefall · · Score: 1

    What exactly is Romania again?

  19. Stacker all over again on Intel Plans 'Overclocking' Capability On SSDs · · Score: 2

    It's the ancient tradeoff of CPU vs. IO. When you have more of one than you need, burn it to improve the other.

  20. Re:Why does Paypal need "cloud" ? on Why PayPal Chose OpenStack · · Score: 1

    If it shares the infrastructure, then they don't need their own.

  21. Why does Paypal need "cloud" ? on Why PayPal Chose OpenStack · · Score: 2

    They have a single business, with a relatively constant, yet probably growing number of users. If they need 100 servers today, next year it will be 120. They don't need massive content or application distribution, they don't need to rush new products to market, they don't need all that cloudy stuff. If "OpenStack" just means they virtualized some old iron that's another story, but a far less interesting one.

  22. Name game on Elop Favored By Gamblers As Microsoft's Next Chief Executive · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like a publicity stunt to me. It's close enough to Elon Musk that they can cash in on some of the buzz around 'hyperloop' and "isn't he the Tesla guy?" and "doesn't he build rockets?" to make them sound new and edgy and relevant.

  23. First they came for the Tea Party on X.Org Foundation Loses 501(c)3 Non-Profit Status · · Score: 1, Redundant

    And I didn't say anything, because I'm a liberal.
    But now they're going after Open Source ? Color me outraged. ...oh wait, it doesnt matter since I already sold my freedom for security

  24. Serves you right on Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down · · Score: 1

    For believing and investing in some handwavy concept called 'cloud' where you abrogate responsibility take the iOS view (it Just Works) of technology.

  25. Who uses tabs? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 0

    If you want a 2nd browser window, start a 2nd browser process.