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  1. Re:filed under lame news? on 5.1 Earthquake Hits California · · Score: 1

    For both parties.

  2. Re:filed under lame news? on 5.1 Earthquake Hits California · · Score: 1

    How hard is it to understand? Anybody who agrees with me is informed. Anybody who holds a dissenting viewpoint is an ignorant sheep. Very simple.

  3. Re:Tarzan need antecedent on Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down · · Score: 5, Funny

    When he said Pluto wasn't a real planet. Some countries put you to death for that shit.

  4. Re:Yeah, but it's fast and it's not bloated on Firefox Was the Most Attacked & Exploited Browser At Pwn2own 2014 · · Score: 1

    Both of them are perfectly free to stop trying ports of IE.

  5. Re:How long id a song on How Data Storage Has Grown In the Past 60 Years · · Score: 1

    And a "Gigabyte" really means a single byte that is very large; weighing in at least 10 pounds or more.

  6. Re:Debian Minimal Install on Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    You misspelled BSD; it doesn't have any 'w's in it.

  7. Re:WTF is with the Japnese? Why such a high percen on How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan · · Score: 1

    Have you seen how big the Android phones are? Now remember this is Japan. :P

  8. Re:Funny on Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics · · Score: 1

    Ahhhh. Sweet, sweet, delicious tears of self righteous rage. Especially those from the line-toeing groupthink against special handshakes.

  9. Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    You can, if you redirect their standard streams right after forking off.

  10. Re:Funny on Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics · · Score: 2

    Yup, it's completely true. We all email each other and hold secret meetings with our own special handshakes. And you're not invited. All to make you rage those sweet, sweet tears.

  11. Re:Funny on Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics · · Score: 2

    That's a whole lotta words just to say "Please mod me down, I wanna pretend to be ironically persecuted so I can feel vindicated".

  12. Re:"hello" == 0 is TRUE on The New PHP · · Score: 1

    As in my example, calculating sizes. Often when working with memory buffers, when you multiple the number of something by the size of it.

  13. Re:PHP on The New PHP · · Score: 1

    Who said they were bad?

  14. Re:PHP on The New PHP · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was about to make a joke, but seriously, the only language I can think of that doesn't have some nasty gotcha is . . . . ugh . . . BASIC. Python has the whole whitespace deal, Perl code tends to be unkempt, Java is fuggin java, Ada is a secret government spy, I don't even want to talk about C++, Bash is fine as long as you never have the misfortune of using quotes or variables, C guarantees regular segfaults, Matlab/Octave will delightfully inform you of your bugs deep in system library code, SAS's userfriendliness pars that of installing Linux from scratch, you can't write more than four lines of Fortran without painting some Star Trek action figure, and just fuck Cobol.

    Honestly, BASIC's wins this round just by virtue of being so limited that it's hard to shoot yourself in the foot. I don't count GOTO, as jumps aren't really language specific. Having tutored programming for years, I can say that students are perfectly able to write speghetti code with or without goto. :p

  15. Re:"hello" == 0 is TRUE on The New PHP · · Score: 1

    I agree, and as annoying as it is . . . it really is a *very* bad habit to assume transitive property holds for most operations. For example, if a > c and b > c, it's not always the case that a + b > c. Or a * b > c. That's a nasty way to introduce a security exploit when using malloc (eg malloc(sizeOfObject*numberOfObjects)).

  16. Re:"hello" == 0 is TRUE on The New PHP · · Score: 1

    I personally complain a lot when I see those bugs in C. Great way to troll C newbies though . . .

  17. Re:One question on The New PHP · · Score: 2

    Password hashing has always been easy: $hash = substr($_GET["password"], 0, 5);

    :p

  18. Re:You would hope on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 1

    I know it's a joke, and that there are genes related to intelligence, but AFAIK there's no common gene for making stupid decisions.

  19. Re:Mischaracterization of problem on Teaching Calculus To 5-Year-Olds · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, it's called embryonic development. It affects millions of people around the world and leads to impaired math abilities, where the affected cannot handle hundreds of mental calculations before making an error. The only known cure is to spend years in a basement alone eating cheetos, while insulting others' trivial math and lingual mistakes.

  20. Re:You can't make tech safe from malice on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    No, I saw your point, you missed where I was getting at. You are not able to protect yourself from every [road] hazard. No matter how skilled you are, the skills that matter are the auto engineers, civil engineers - and most importantly - the other drivers. Automating driving just switches the responsibilities and statistics around; it does NOT change the nature of the game. And statistically speaking, automated cars have a much better safety track record than human drivers. Both for the occupants, and for the others on the road.

  21. Re:You can't make tech safe from malice on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    First off, No. Doesn't matter if you're the best, most attentive driver in the world, there's always a risk of getting into a serious accident. And the sad thing is, that risk is pretty big. Secondly, by driving manually as opposed to automatic systems you put others at risk, because as a human, you're a shite driver. Sorry, but mother nature forgot to check off that box that says "can manipulate deadly, explosive multi-ton monstrosities traveling at ridiculous speeds, on designated paths that have other streams of said monstrosities traveling the same speed in the complete opposite direction". Feel free to file a bug report on that one, but the wait time is horrendous. Ironically, the box labelled "can design system to manipulate, deadly, explosive monstrosities traveling at ridiculous speeds" somehow got some better love. This is what happens when the customer doesn't properly fill out design specification documents.

  22. Re:Why? on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 2

    There are ways to profit from falling currencies. Particularly with strategically placed liabilities and investments.

    For example, place an order in bitcoins amount of "product" equal to $X. Sell on streets in cash for $X + markup. Watch bitcoin value "conveniently" fall and pay back promised amount bitcoins, now valued much below $X. IRL cases would probably be much more complex, but bitcoins still suffer from an issue where there's large financial gains for some folks if the prices were to fall - and the means of significantly achieving such are plausible.

  23. Re:Why so expensive? on NASA Forgets How To Talk To ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They do know cheap. And they know cheap gets you Apollo 1 do-overs.

  24. Re:Gender lies in society, wage gap on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 1

    *Sigh* This is what happens when you spend to much time living in a basement. Fermenting those sour grapes.

  25. Re:Similar to most studies on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 0

    Let's play "count the fallacies". Go!