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  1. Re:Queue debate/trolling on FOIA'd Documents Give Tour of Minuteman Missile National Historic Site (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    At least we have REAL football

  2. Re:Perhaps amend the definition of resonance on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    As electronic engineers we talk about resonant circuits. They have a natural frequency, and when excited correctly, they resonate. So yes, I guess, strictly, you're right, but evferyday usage trumps here, I think.

  3. Re:That'll work well on Google Favors Less-Regulated UK For Self-Driving Car Development (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's the right side. You lot got it wrong, as usual!

  4. It's you lot who drive on the wrong side, you insensitive clod!

  5. Re: Simon & Garfunkel on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of my best friends are lampposts, you insensitive clod!

  6. Re:All the Leaves Are Brown! on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Hello lam post, what you knowing? I've come to watch your flowers growin'

  7. Re:Hannibal Lechter on IT Execs On Their Dream Dinner Guests · · Score: 1

    I don't like Fava beans or Chianti :(

  8. LOL

  9. Re:how does anyone make money off this? on It's Way Too Easy To Hack the Hospital (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When I'm lying on an oncology machine about to be zapped with high-power microwaves I'd prefer not to have to worry about some wanker changing the dose (up OR down) just for kicks.

  10. Re:Just to note... on Proof-of-Concept Ransomware Affects Macs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I deployed it as the operating system for a miniturised mass spectrometer: http://www.microsaic.com/4000-..., so there a couple of hundred instances running in labs around the world :)

  11. Re:Just to note... on Proof-of-Concept Ransomware Affects Macs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice to meet a fellow Lubuntu user :) I have full Ubuntu on my desktop, a Dell XPS, but I run Lubuntu on a Dell Latutude I picked up off ebay for £30. Great for all the needs I have, including electronic CAD (KiKad) and Android Studio. Works a treat.

  12. Re:That was quick on Paris Data Center Not Too Noisy, After All (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Heating, ventilation, air conditioning

  13. Re:SUSE is for cows. on OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 Released (opensuse.org) · · Score: 2

    Have you ever seen an open source cow? I really don't want to know what that looks llike.

  14. Re:SUSE is for cows. on OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 Released (opensuse.org) · · Score: 0

    Great ad hominem attack. now pehaps you could attack the substance of his argument!

  15. You, sir are an asshole

  16. It's the government that is revolting

  17. Re:BASIC on Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? · · Score: 1

    Well played, sir

  18. Re:Government Software IS open source - if we get on Government Team Experiments With Paying For Small Open Source Tasks (gsa.gov) · · Score: 2

    Ires and Scotts? WTF Scotts is a brand of porrige oats. The Scots on the other hand are a proud nation etc.etc. Ires .. thata's a new one on me.

  19. Exageration much? on Another 'StarCraft' Cheating Scandal Rocks Korea (playerattack.com) · · Score: 1

    A nuclear explosion rocks Korea. Death of president rock Korea ... but this .... ????

  20. ... die by the sword! 'nuff said!

  21. Re:Wrong on ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    So it's no longer a copy - it's a distant reation, much evolved.

  22. Re:Wrong on ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    In the same way that modern man is a 'copy' of Mr and Mrs Neanderthal's happy child: we've come a long way since then.

  23. Thaty's the wat to do it ... on Scientists Discover How To Get Kids To Eat Their Vegetables · · Score: 4, Funny

    Eat you vegatables ... OR STARVE !!

  24. Re:SSN are not secret on South Korean Citizen IDs Vulnerable, Based On US Model · · Score: 1

    Two digits for gender? Wow many genders are there over there?

  25. Re:Move to the latest version? on America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses · · Score: 2

    Twice as many as IP4? Just one bit!