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  1. Re:Authority to approve hosting expenses on Time For a Warrant Canary Metatag? · · Score: 1

    4. The U.S. government these days apparently doesn't give a fuck whether what they do in other countries is actually acceptable or legal

  2. Re:Bullets not guns on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    People claim they're already doing that, i.e., the government is buying up a lot of ammunition to decrease supply to the people as the factories are producing at full capacity.

    Granted, it sounds like a good candidate for conspiracy theory and I have no idea whether it's fact, but hey. That's how we roll here on Slashdot, right? :)

  3. Re:Remind me why this is needed? on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    Being explicitly precise, sure...unfortunately then there's the "...or if the officer at the time feels like it" clause that throws all that straight out the window, on a lot of our favorite /. laws.

  4. Re:Liberty is the only thing in danger here. on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    Isn't it already going to be unlawful to take guns anywhere they want to prevent these *plastic* guns from going anyway? So no new law is needed.

  5. Re:Assembly == SLOW ; JAVA == FAST! on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Well, it all gets translated down to machine code in the end, so obviously it's feasible. I never said it would be easy...

  6. Re:Ethanol is a crock nobody wants on Can the US Be Weaned Off Ethanol? · · Score: 1

    'We're just giving the customer what they want,' right? Right??

  7. Re:Ethanol is a crock nobody wants on Can the US Be Weaned Off Ethanol? · · Score: 1

    Like how your standard public roads car engine these days was designed to use pure gasoline? There's a reason that they say not to put more than E10 in a normal car.

  8. Re:Choose your own adventure, drinkypoo on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    You, sir, just made me glad that I'm still reading Slashdot.

  9. Re:Gotta ask ! on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    because you have no choice in the matter

    Some philosophy gives suicide as the other side of the choice.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism

  10. Re:Assembly == SLOW ; JAVA == FAST! on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    So compared to Java, basically assembly, assembly, and more assembly.

  11. Re:Might actually be the case on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I should really get back on top of that "assembly scripting" project I was making for fun, if for no other reason than to watch programmers' eyes twitch when I mention it.

  12. Re:Assembly == SLOW ; JAVA == FAST! on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Or somebody could work on a compiler to efficiently convert a high-level language into something lower that already maps well to assembly...

  13. Re:Unconscionable Contract clause on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 1

    Well, we seem to know more about when something is obviously unconstitutional than our own justice system, for one thing.

  14. Re:Why do programmers start counting at zero? on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 1

    Exactly the reason why I'm confused when the people where I work refer to C++, C#, and .NET separately on occasion.

  15. Re:They don't. on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 1

    If you determine you don't have the necessary ingredients to begin the process, do you say you quit on the first step, or never started?

  16. Re:I believe you mean 0 AM on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 1

    He said 0 PM. Which would apparently be 1200?

  17. Re:not a structure. on Astronomers Discover Largest Structure In the Universe · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the leftovers of some event. I'm apparently missing how that means that a really, really big wave (sphere?) of expanding gamma rays constitutes a "thing"...

    Although I suppose surfers consider a wave a 'thing.' Hmm.

  18. Re:Spinning out of control? on NSA Wants To Reveal Its Secrets To Prevent Snowden From Revealing Them First · · Score: 1

    You know, it *is* possible to describe what's wrong with the country *without* comparing the U.S. to either the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.

  19. Re: ironic idiocy on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    It's a clam. I think it's exaggerating to claim that killing things that are barely aware of their surroundings and tasty is "near-sociopathic."

  20. I was actually assuming the summary was accurate.

  21. Re:Why always a back door on Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' · · Score: 1

    You're a towel

  22. Re:I already have something that holds 8 credit ca on Startup Touts All-in-One Digital Credit Card · · Score: 1

    First World Problems

  23. Re:To bad it's way less secure than chip and PIN on Startup Touts All-in-One Digital Credit Card · · Score: 1

    A lot of places don't accept paper checks anymore.

  24. Re:"Advertising policies"? Try borderline malware. on SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors · · Score: 1

    If I can't run it in vanilla VLC, it ain't worth it. (Granted, this is on a desktop)

  25. Re:No Problem. on DRM To Be Used In Renault Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    How would it be a lease if they *didn't* take the battery back when you stopped paying? Either you buy it outright, or keep paying installments on it forever?