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  1. Re:Is it the year of the Linux desktop yet? on Intel Gets Called Out Again For Their M.I.A. 3.0 X.Org Driver (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    it's doing just fine. although someone put an axe through it a while back, so i had to get the handle replaced.

  2. Re:Is it the year of the Linux desktop yet? on Intel Gets Called Out Again For Their M.I.A. 3.0 X.Org Driver (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm typing this on a 20-year old machine. Granted, I have replaced some parts here and there at various times (like the cpu, keyboard, screen, ram, motherboard, drives, case, video card, nic, modem, mouse, etc.) and it's still working fine...

  3. I have a 9-year-old that knows how to program JavaScript thanks to khan academy's excellent interactive tutorial series. He quickly hit a brick wall with scratch.

  4. Re:Can't have it both ways? on Tension Escalates Between Netflix and Its TV Foes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    those budgets are obtained in the form of loans, investments minimum guarantees for theatrical distribution deals. those loans and investments have sizable interest rates.

  5. Re:Can't have it both ways? on Tension Escalates Between Netflix and Its TV Foes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The budget is how much it cost to put the movie in a can. The box office revenue is how much money was paid by the audience. There's a whole ton of marketing, distribution and exhibition costs that go on between those two. Yes, often those are inflated, but you make it sound like they should be zero.

  6. Re:We need a different term for this on K12CS.org: Microsoft, Google, Apple Identifying What 1st Graders Should Know · · Score: 1

    Huh? Concepts like looping, conditionals, variables and variable arithmetic are definitely computer science.

  7. Re: Well deserved. on Kid Racks Up $5,900 Bill Playing Jurassic World On Dad's iPad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah almost every time I unlock my phone it works he 1st time. Sorry you don't understand English that well....

  8. Re: Well deserved. on Kid Racks Up $5,900 Bill Playing Jurassic World On Dad's iPad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Comprehension fail. AC complained that he had to enter his passcode 10% of the time. I said I sometimes have to reposition my finger. Nowhere did I mention having to enter my passcode.

  9. Re: Well deserved. on Kid Racks Up $5,900 Bill Playing Jurassic World On Dad's iPad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 2

    you need to re-enter your prints. my 6 reads my print almost the 1st try every time. only so often do i have to re-position my finger if i'm holding the phone weirdly.

  10. Let them in! on Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a Persistent and Incessant Port Scanner? · · Score: 1

    1) set up a paved box on an isolated vlan.
    2) forward all traffic from your scanners to that box.
    3) log every packet.
    4) send traces of hacking attempts to the FBI.

  11. It should be trivial for the FBI to discover who did this and why. Unless, of course, the NSA doesn't want them to...

  12. Re: Translation on Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    i'd be interested to know how fast Clang compiles Petzond compared to msvc. including re-compiling with simple change with/without PCH & incremental linking enabled.

  13. Re:Godwin's law is not an argument on Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    "Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas" - Hellen Keller, after her books, among others, were burnt in Germany, May 10, 1933

  14. Godwin's law is not an argument on Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    This guy sounds more like Hitler every time he opens his mouth.

  15. A tool? How come?

  16. don't like the working conditions there? GO FUCKING WORK SOMEWHERE ELSE!

  17. i'm not kissing anyone's ring. i will pay someone to deliver goods to my door, though. if you think that makes me some kind of slave, you need to get a perspective, seriously.

  18. if you don't like the tax incentives, you need to protest the corrupt government agencies that gave them out. news flash: everyone's trying to get free stuff from the government. you can't blame those that get it. only those that give it out.

  19. Re:amazon? on Amazon Warns Employees About 'Million Mask March' On Seattle HQ Today (geekwire.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    the WTO riots were in my neighborhood. it was a bunch of assholes from california with nothing better to do than destroy a bunch of local businesses and stand around circle-jerking while morons set fire to trash cans.

  20. wait, so Amazon shuts down transactions after existential threats from regulators and you blame Amazon?

  21. amazon, really?

    is the Seattle group just blatantly anti-commerce, or is there something Amazon did to lump them in with all the government injustices they're protesting against?

  22. Re: Why Atom? on Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements (blog.atom.io) · · Score: 1

    And notepad2, because your notepad replacement shouldn't need an installer (like notepad++)

  23. Re:I code in ASCII on Mimic, the Evil Script That Will Drive Programmers To Insanity (github.com) · · Score: 1

    ironic, then, that most math letters/symbols can't be typed in ASCII.

  24. Re:I code in ASCII on Mimic, the Evil Script That Will Drive Programmers To Insanity (github.com) · · Score: 1

    not everyones' alphabet fits in the ASCII codeset.

  25. Re:False Alarm on Danish Bank Leaves Server In Debug Mode, Exposes Sensitive Data In JS Comments · · Score: 1

    that doesn't explain the user-agent discrepancy.