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  1. Re:Loose the .xyz TLD on The Hostile Email Landscape (liminality.xyz) · · Score: 2

    I've configured our mail server to silently drop all traffic from many of the new garbage TLDs, including .xyz. It does wonders for cutting down the spam levels.

    Neither I, nor any of my users, appear to have gotten a legitimate email from any other these domains.

    Gee, I wonder if that's at all related.

  2. Re: Debian Spiral on Debian Dropping Linux Standard Base (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    I flit about distros like a drunk chick at her prom. Half the time I don't even install the OS, I just run it from a live disk. I've got enough RAM for that and I've been a mostly passive consumer for a while now.

    Wait.... is that some kind of innuendo?

    You didn't go far enough.

    Hopefully this doesn't fragment the system more than it is. However, I doubt I'll even notice unless stuff suddenly goes missing that I'm used to. If it does then I guess I'll just search and install it.

    I'm trying to wrap my brain around the layers of metaphor there. There might be some simile. Shit, I don't know. I think I'll have nightmares.

  3. Re:From a geek's perspective on What Non-Geeks Hate About the Big Bang Theory · · Score: 2

    Oh god, Hipster Geeks.

  4. Re:Genius or not on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    I pulled a lot of things apart when I was 12. I tried to put them back together. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. I had a box of spare parts that I'd try to make something new out of from the old failures. I learned a lot from that. I never took a case mod to school to show off my amazing skills at removing screws.

  5. Re:Genius or not on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 2

    Just because you were oblivious at 12 doesn't mean everyone was. I was a 12 year old kid with an interest in science. I was a shit stirrer. I could have been this kid if I'd grown up muslim in Texas and it very much would have been "playing politics."

  6. Re:Genius or not on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1
    And that's why I said

    Sounds like small town infighting in a rather large town.

    I never said Irving is a small town, just that everything that's been reported so far reeks of small town mentality.

  7. Re:Genius or not on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    That's why I call it small town infighting. Ahmed probably looks like his dad, and the dad has been pissing off the cops for one reason or another. Pure assumption, but that's exactly how the small towns I've lived in (3) worked.

  8. Re:Genius or not on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Whether he is a genius or not makes absolutely no difference in this case.

    Actually it does. If all he did was rip the guts out of a working clock and stuff it in a box, he was probably trying to provoke exactly this reaction. Considering some of the other information (the cop saying he thought that's who it was) it's likely that this is the dad trying to start crap. Sounds like small town infighting in a rather large town.

  9. Re:Witchcraft is for witches on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 2

    They burned.

  10. Re:Customers Let Them on The Android L Update For Nvidia Shield Portable Removes Features · · Score: 1

    Posting to undo moderation misclick.

  11. Re:"reatlowing beacons"??? on NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Becomes First To Orbit a Dwarf Planet · · Score: 2

    I think it's a perfectly cromulent word.

  12. Re:Makes perfect sense to me. on NSA To Scientists: We Won't Tell You What We've Told You; That's Classified · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that it's classified because of the data about the data? Damn, who knew that kind of stuff could be dangerous?

  13. Re:New solid state storage on Higher Hard Drive Prices Are the New Normal · · Score: 1

    ...Few hundred gigabytes is more than enough for the average user.

    That you Bill?