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  1. Re:We're what 5 generations beyond NTFS now?! on OpenSUSE May Be First Major Distro To Adopt Btrfs By Default · · Score: 3, Funny

    I question the use case, The hardware was defiantly desktop grade

    Was the hardware told that it absolutely must stop being desktop grade? I see no other reason for it to express defiance.

  2. Re:*yawn* these have around for years? on USB "Condom" Allows You To Practice Safe Charging · · Score: 1

    USB Charging Specification

    If a portable device is attached to a USB host or hub, then the USB 2.0 specification requires that after connecting, a portable device must draw less than:
    2.5 mA average if the bus is suspended
    100 mA if bus is not suspended and not configured
    500 mA if bus is not suspended and configured for 500mA

    Where do you get 50 mA?

  3. Re:Welcome to Linux on Ask Slashdot: Attracting Developers To Abandonware? · · Score: 1

    Let's extrapolate:

    I haven't manufactured any vehicles, so I don't deserve to have an opinion on how much fuel they should use or how safe they should be.
    I haven't invented any media codecs, so I don't deserve to have an opinion on which formats online distributors should provide.

    And for immature bullshit, let's extrapolate again:

    You're not my mom, so you don't deserve to have any opinions about me.

    See how stupid that was?

  4. Re:Welcome to Linux on Ask Slashdot: Attracting Developers To Abandonware? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's utterly inane attention-grubbing bullshit that needs to stop because it makes all of us look bad. Linux is not GNU/Linux any more than Windows is "GNU/Windows" after you install Cygwin. Do you use the Cerf/Internet every day, and sometimes drive a Lenoir/Car? What did you have for Albertson's/Lunch?

  5. Re:Hmm on It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body · · Score: 4, Funny

    SyFy (sigh)

    Iy think you myght have meant (sy).

  6. Re: 64-bit BS on Why Apple Went 64-Bit With the iPhone 5s · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is a depressing depreciation in total knowledge of the word "deprecation".

  7. Re:FFS. on Amazon Hiring More Than a 100 Who Can Get Top Secret Clearances · · Score: 1

    Your dictionary definition of "hundred" is a dictionary definition of "hundred". It is not a definition of "100", which clearly starts with a one. You will note that your definition clearly shows that you may use "a hundred" or "one hundred". It does not show "a one hundred". You cannot write the term "hundred" in a numerical format, as it is abstract.

  8. Re:FFS. on Amazon Hiring More Than a 100 Who Can Get Top Secret Clearances · · Score: 1

    No, it cannot. 100 is "one hundred", nothing more, nothing less. It already has the article "one", and adding another article "a" is wrong. Anyone who does so is either a non-native speaker who is not yet fluent, a child in elementary school who sure as heck didn't write the headline here, or an idiot.

  9. FFS. on Amazon Hiring More Than a 100 Who Can Get Top Secret Clearances · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good: A hundred.
    Good: One hundred.
    Bad: A one hundred.
    Bad: A 100.

  10. Re:Snowden beware on New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA · · Score: 2

    Good: "use [it] to wipe your ass"
    Good: "wipe your ass with [it]"
    Bad: "use [it] to wipe your ass with [it]"

  11. Re: They shouldn't be using IPad or TI on For Education, Why TI-83 > iPad · · Score: 1

    Only 500 days? Mine have been going strong for several thousand. Sounds like you need to buy an ink upgrade for those pages.

  12. Re:Typical on The Big Hangup At Burning Man Is Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    s/square-bracket/bracket/g

    You're being annoyingly redundant. There's no bracket that isn't a square. There's no brace that isn't curly.

  13. Re:They (probably) don't need to on Thailand Government Declares Bitcoin Illegal · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing your red herring dealer (who goes by "The Snorting Straw Man") only takes cash?

  14. Re:This is why we have a first amendment. on Judge Rules In Favor of Volkswagen and Silences Scientist · · Score: 1

    What's all this talk about wagons? It's Volkswag e n for fuck's sake...

  15. Re:Already happening on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    the Post Service, which is buckling under massive financial losses

    a nuisance to be a slave to junk mail

    The "Post Service" should consider charging standard rates to the junk spammers, instead of giving them bulk discounts. Either the spam volume will massively decrease, which will save them money on delivery since many customers will no longer require delivery but a few times per month, or the spam volume will stay the same, but they'll gain several million dollars of budget power from the increased postage fees.

  16. Re:CORRECTION on Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups" · · Score: 1

    The main logo may not be the classic wind-blown flag, but who said a flag has to be wind-blown to be a flag? There's still other flags around, if you look. See the icon attached to setup.exe on the installation disc. For whatever reason, that's the wind-blown version rather than the flat version used in most of 8.

  17. Re:But will Microsoft sue? on Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups" · · Score: 1

    Really? Because when I start Windows 7, there's this flag animation in the middle of my screen, and there's a flag on the start menu button. The "Anytime Upgrade" in control panel also has a flag in the icon. The C: drive in "My Computer" has a flag in the icon. The "Windows 7" theme has a giant flag in the center of the desktop background. Even Windows 8 still uses a flag (not just the four-box grid thingy) in places (see the icon in setup.exe on the install disc).

  18. Re:Ok on Linux 3.10 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Simple string sort says 3.10a > 3.10. "a" and "b" can work like version numbers as in OpenSSL, but they don't work as designations for "alpha" and "beta" unless you're already finagling your sorting algorithm, in which case checking for semver's "1.0.0-alpha" or "1.0.0+a1b2c3" and placing them behind "1.0.0" is hardly more effort. If you're really concerned about making the string sort slightly simpler, then why not put in a change request to make the patch version optional on pre-release versions? There's a nice "open an issue on GitHub" link near the bottom of the front page.

  19. Re:Ok on Linux 3.10 Officially Released · · Score: 2

    If you're doing version comparison based on ASCII codes, you might as well give up now, because you have a terminal case of stupid.

  20. Re: AMD botnet on AMD/ATI Drops Windows XP Support · · Score: 1

    24/7/52 may not be exact, but 24/7/365 is stupidly redundant. Just say 24/365. Or, if the issue is being exact, then go with 24/365.242 :)

  21. Re: AMD botnet on AMD/ATI Drops Windows XP Support · · Score: 1

    Actually, 24 * 7 = 168. Nice try, though.

  22. Re:Prior art on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port · · Score: 1

    You mean like those eSATA / USB splitters you can find on eBay that allow you to use an eSATAp port for both an externally-powered eSATA drive and a USB device at the same time, that I've been using with my laptop for well over a year? How ingenious...

  23. Because the NSA does screen capture and OCR on Introducing the NSA-Proof Crypto-Font · · Score: 1

    Right. The NSA is doing screen captures and then using OCR to read your messages, rather than just intercepting the bytes that don't give a fuck what font you're using.

  24. Re:Damage control on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Your ignorance is showing. Anybody with a clue knows Dreamcast was SEGA, not Sony.

  25. Re:Of course. on Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders · · Score: 1

    So many yokels coming out of their shells and cracking bad jokes...