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  1. I think he wants to start one with Canada instead ;)

  2. Re:This Jackoff on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's also be clear...

    https://slate.com/news-and-pol...

    What kind of person takes other peoples children hostage as a "negotiating strategy"??

    Yes, I am going to use the T-word, terrorist, in this case.

  3. Re:What random actually means... on Canada's 'Random' Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn't Actually Random (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if the applicants are initially entered based on the date their application was received, then clearly certain days of the year could be "golden", and certain ones "bad"...so yes, this could become exploitable....

  4. Re: clear linux for the desktop? on Clear Linux Beats MacOS in MacBook Pro Benchmark Tests (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not clear to me what it is based on, but it does use RPM's, so I do imagine there is some "general use" case possible.

  5. Re:This kills the Internet on Copyright Law Could Put End To Net Memes (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    A free internet, if you can keep it...

    Apparently we can't.

  6. Re:Implementation cost on Copyright Law Could Put End To Net Memes (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    As Stalin might have said, it is not important who controls the platforms, but rather the filters...

    "unoriginal" will also include "unapproved", such an infrastructure will not be used for copyright alone.

  7. Re:What's a good alternative? on Microsoft Is Talking About Acquiring GitHub, Says Report (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed there are a number of advantages to gitlab presently. And most importantly if gitlab were also taken over, that codebase is free for anyone to use and setup their own gitlab instance. Because git handles multiple remotes, it is also possible to be on both sites for visibility, and that makes it easy to leave either one of them, too...

    For me the concern is with golang, which uses the actual git repo host as part of the source path of your local code. To migrate that entire eco system cleanly does not seem trivial.

  8. Ambulance chasing! on Lawyers Are Sending Mobile Ads To Patients Sitting In Emergency Rooms · · Score: 1

    Barratry brought to a whole new level.

  9. Re:FB should make downloadable tool available to on Facebook Asks British Users To Submit Their Nudes as Protection Against Revenge Porn (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, it would be very logical to provide such a utility. But...this? I have to wonder, given how audacious it is, if it really is a kind of social experiment, just to see what they can get away with and what they can get people to do? Emperor Tiberius, to test and demonstrate his power over others, would have children jump off his cliffside retreat. Queue in image of Zuckerberg in a Dr. Evil chair with maniacal laugh...

  10. I think you missed the part about "embedded in routers", etc...

  11. Re:Thunderbird... on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the state of email clients is really pretty awful as a whole.

  12. Mutt! on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because it doesn't expose my gpg encrypted email by loading messages into a web view...

  13. Let us not forget.... on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    There really are also modern concave Earthers, too...who no doubt tonight think they are looking up at China...

  14. Re:Online Whores on Facebook Reaches Its Natural Conclusion As A Dating App (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't myspace also go down this path during it's fall?

  15. Re:Trust, but verify on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Here is the thing, peace is really cheap for Kim. He doesn't have to give up his kidnapped sex slaves or dynastic rule or address any past crimes at all. He can lock-in those gains. On the other hand, I really doubt he has any illusions of the dynasty and his pampered ass surviving another Korean war. Keeping his own pampered ass comfortable is far more important than the old party line of unification. For Moon, the motivations are related; clearly he has no illusions of the US caring about how many millions of Korean may die or how many decades of Korean prosperity will be wiped out just so that Trump can show he has a "bigger button". Letting Kim has his fantasy play land in the north is the price of survival for Moon's South Korea, and one he is very willing to pay given the options.

  16. Re:Marketing? on Go Programming Language Gets A New Logo and Branding (golang.org) · · Score: 1

    Indeed some of their forced formatting choices are just dumb. Since they have a brace notational language, enforcing stupid rules like } else { is just dumb and pointless. Python of course requires specific white spacing (and ruby solves this with an "end" ;). But if you are going to have {}'s, enforcing such rules to that level are just idiotic and petty, and many of their forced formatting choices feel that way. That braces for blocks are good but ()'s in conditionals are bad is also strangely inconsistent.

    I am far less concerned with style, trends, and what feels good to someone's pet agenda, than to simply getting stuff done. And this too is the main thing that keeps me away from Go. Much of Go and choices made it in reek of fostering one groups very specific agenda, rather than focusing on function and real usability. Making political statements on raii and pointers while offering and demanding adoption of far poorer alternatives that are "pure" to their "vision", and specifying really dumb directory layouts, are all perfect examples. If I want a language made of ideological purity, group think, and what's hip at the moment alone, I might as well take up node ;).

  17. Privacy is cheap according to the SEC.

  18. Re:UBI Sounds Familiar - reservations on Could We Fund a Universal Basic Income with Universal Basic Assets? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Indeed this is an issue faced on reservations too. In places where shared ownership reservation lands were turned into individual owned plots, much of that land eventually became owned by a few outside corporations. This is not a new experience, per post USSR Russia, but rather it is a very old trick.

  19. Re:So, so sum up.... on Firms Relabelling Low-Skilled Jobs As Apprenticeships, Says Report (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    the new serfs...

  20. Re:The problem: on Linux Mint 19 'Tara' Cinnamon Will Be Faster (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem is not javascript per say. It seems to be in the way gtk3 lays out widgets, and that is now surprisingly slow. When I played with cinnamon with just a few panel extensions it took an extra 10-20 seconds to startup, and naturally my first thought is that it was js. But after profiling it a bit, it became clear gtk3 itself is to blame. I think this was also a primary motivation for Ike to abandon gtk in favor of Qt for all future bungie work.

  21. Re:The Answer is in the Math on Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    There are large 3d printers actually being used experimentally to churn out single family homes for ~4k right now, so in some ways this idea is not that impractical at all. A good base design around the specific climate/location needs could do much as well, and could be built right into the structure itself as its being printed, whether explicit air gaps to insulate, well placed vents based on modelled airflow, etc.

  22. Ancient Egypt also had high priests that made a somewhat similar sales pitch...

  23. As awful as facebook really is... on Facebook Should Be 'Regulated Like Cigarette Industry', Salesforce CEO Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ...the very idea of regulating human behavior that this would seem to require seems far worse to me.

  24. Let me correct this for them...

    assigned some of our very best marketing minds minds to sell suckers entirely new chips with built in protections disabled by default

  25. Indeed...translation; "Intel fucked up, and we fucked it up even more in our crappy design decisions, but we are both going to make huge profits from selling everyone new hardware and software, so all is good."