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  1. Re:A bunch of someones didn't do the required read on PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES · · Score: 1

    I can only assume Microsoft will jack up their OEM license prices, and then we'll see who's laughing.

  2. Sup Dawg on PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES · · Score: 1

    We heard you hate the Windows tablet interface, so we installed a dual-boot Linux tablet interface alongside your Windows one so when you get tired of hating Windows, you can reboot and start hating Android!

    I'm genuinely not sure whether I would give the Android one a boot before laughing maniacally, obliterating the partition, and installing a real Linux distro.

    Oh wait...they're trying to make it impossible to do that, too. Maybe I'll just go off and shoot myself instead.

  3. Re:I can stop terrorism right now... on US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because 100.000% of Middle Easterners are in the Middle East. This is the exact same reason we have suicide bombers already, only times a million. Anyone left would have a hell of a lot more of a reason for revenge.

  4. Re:unavailable information on US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal · · Score: 1

    Answer this question: Is there any data that you want to be **completely unavailable** to law enforcement with **proper warrant**?

    A very large part of this issue is that it was NOT done "with proper warrant."

    People with power will abuse said power, and if not them the ones who succeed them. And apparently all this is not having any effect at all at stopping terrorists, in addition to fucking over the citizens' rights.

  5. Re:Translation: on US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal · · Score: 1

    Call it Rules 34 and 35 of the Legal System:

    34. There is dirt on him.
    35. If there is no dirt on him, some will be manufactured.

  6. Re:Short answer: no on Is Ruby Dying? · · Score: 1

    I suppose it's kind of idiotic for me to argue that the rule is stupid when I normally use whichever rule is in play to bludgeon people with, yeah. Damn.

  7. Re: on US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal · · Score: 1

    filtering out people in the population who are unlikely to be terrorists (e.g. children, the elderly, women)

    At which point, any terrorist organization with half a brain starts using exclusively teen and elderly women. For people willing to suicide bomb and kill random civilians, do you really think they wouldn't?

  8. Re:Americans surrendered in Vietnam on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 2

    Assuming that it would ever have done so in the first place...

  9. Re:Americans surrendered in Vietnam on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 2

    Gee, just because they've been around for almost 5 times as long?

  10. Re:Look who asked for it.. on How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation · · Score: 1

    Democrats wanted it, so it was doomed to fail since nothing they do work.

    So all those bills the Republicans have been desperately voting down "BECAUSE DEMONCRATS!!" are just mercy killings?

  11. Re:"Average American was given nightly tutorials o on How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation · · Score: 1

    What's "So Mo"? Southern Missouri? Technically that would be "So MO" to disambiguate from Montana...

  12. Re:Short answer: no on Is Ruby Dying? · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering whether it should be "an eulogy" as eulogy starts with a ~consonant sound (y) but it's spelled with a vowel. Personally, I go with anything that starts with a vowel *sound* getting an "an."

    Also see a lot of occurrences of "an historic X."

  13. Re:I support Mr. Mikko Hyppone on F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen Cancels RSA Talk In Protest · · Score: 1

    Isn't the American typographical equivalent suffixing an 'e' after the vowel? e.g. Hyppoenen

  14. Re:Yes, because moderation is oh so hard to do on Internet Commenting Growing Away From Anonymity · · Score: 2

    Fuck the fucking fuckers?

  15. Misconstrued on Internet Commenting Growing Away From Anonymity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because sites are doing it in no way indicates that users *want* it that way.

  16. Re:Another Case of Poe's Law? on Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob · · Score: 1

    Where did I say that? I'm not a fan of South Park, and would consider cancer in the same unfunny camp.

  17. Re:Another Case of Poe's Law? on Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob · · Score: 1

    I think a joke that includes AIDS in any way, shape, or form is bound to be unfunny and offensive. Unless of course you're South Park, apparently.

  18. Re:What kind of summary is this? on Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Fantastic summary! on Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the bit where after you clicked the summary link, you had to go through an empty Forbes quote page to get to the link to the original article.

    WINNING

  20. Re:"So who needs native code now?" on Asm.js Gets Faster · · Score: 1

    * Whoops, drop that extraneous paren after the return.

  21. Re:"So who needs native code now?" on Asm.js Gets Faster · · Score: 1

    String name = "Image.gif";

    public void hover()
    {
          name = flipImg( name );
    }

    private String flipImg( String imgName )
    {
          return ( imgName.contains( "over" ) ? imgName.replace( "over", "" ) : imgName.replace( ".", "over." );
    }

    While I'll admit your version works with non-deterministic naming pairs, the guy didn't ask for that originally.

  22. Re:"So who needs native code now?" on Asm.js Gets Faster · · Score: 1

    Yes of course it can be done in other languages, but I very much contest that your example/language is "more elegant."

    This is a prime example of why I am very suspicious of JavaScript et al.--there's no "verb" anywhere in the command. Well okay, there's "bind", but that's more of a function definition from what I know of JS. Reserved keywords inside quotes also make me flinch.

  23. Re:I don't trust anyone on RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money · · Score: 1

    Freshies?

  24. Re:1.5 times slower on Asm.js Gets Faster · · Score: 1

    Used correctly, 250% the original length of time. Next!

  25. Re:"So who needs native code now?" on Asm.js Gets Faster · · Score: 1

    Anything else and your just being lazy.

    Ironyyyyyyy