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  1. Re:What do they mean by speed? on Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC (dice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?

    Nope, those still get you modded down. To be modded up, you'll need to be an elf or a hobbit...

  2. I remember that last time they covered this on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    And I still have the same thought: "Hidden Forbidden Holyground".

  3. Black and white is well within the reach of even a casual hobbyist, although it's "anyone who can use tweezers and has access to a darkroom." Color tends to be rather more complicated; developing Kodachrome was strictly a job for professionals.

  4. But making up a couple of dozen of prints to keep before you hand over the negatives would be easy. Granted, you couldn't make more after the negatives were out of your hands without a great deal of trouble, but you'd have those prints.

  5. Blackmail is such an ugly word. We prefer "fish paste".

  6. Re:more guns needed on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We call that mantitory gun control.

    That's when only men with tits can have guns.

  7. "Allergy" on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  8. Free vulnerability scans and penetration tests on DHS Offering Free Vulnerability Scans, Penetration Tests (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if you didn't ask for them!

  9. Re:Achievement: 7th CPU core unlocked! on Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I know, the DLC in that game was just ridiculous.

  10. So he's saying the batteries are made of wood...?

  11. But the kids today don't know squat... on Researchers Create Sodium Battery In Industry Standard "18650" Format (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    ...about sodium! So we'lll just have to reach them through the rock-n-roll music that the kids seem to like.

  12. Re:Swallow the Doctor on Swallow the Doctor: The Present and Future of Robots Inside Us (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2
  13. It may just blow his mind that some programmers used to write programs w/o computers.

    ITYM "wrote programs w/o the Internet". Mind you, people *have* written programs without computers, but that's a lot rarer and has a harder time being useful.

  14. Re: Just don't IoT on Pwned Barbies Spying On Children? Toytalk CEO Downplays Hacking Reports (bt.com) · · Score: 1

    No, don't be "that guy"!

    We should all strive to be like this guy.

  15. Re: Just don't IoT on Pwned Barbies Spying On Children? Toytalk CEO Downplays Hacking Reports (bt.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine for example using your smartphone to heat up food on your commute home

    Cooking by remote control? Honestly, doesn't sound too practical. I'd have to have everything set up beforehand and it'd be just a simple to do it when I get there.

    using it at the store to see what's low in your fridge so you know what to buy.

    I have the latest tech on that. It's called a "grocery list." Only requires a pen and paper and it's abolutely unhackable!

  16. Exact words... on Pwned Barbies Spying On Children? Toytalk CEO Downplays Hacking Reports (bt.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "No user data, no Barbie content, and no major security or privacy protections have been compromised to our knowledge."

    And we're going to do our damnedest to make sure we never find out, either.

  17. Re:remote-controlled panzer... on Finnish IT Retailer Reveals Most Returned Products · · Score: 1

    Well, the PzKpfw III wasn't all that great a tank. They probably traded them in for Vs. (Tigers were even deadlier, but they were slow and lacked cross-country ability).

  18. Confusing "online" with "web" on The First Online Purchase Was a Sting CD (Or Possibly Weed) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I think I just lost my faith in you.

  19. Re:Definition of online on The First Online Purchase Was a Sting CD (Or Possibly Weed) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they meant "first web sale". Yes, I want to shoot the people who think there was no computer networking before the World Wide Web too.

  20. What he's done is illegal, and he has been charged. (Whether or not it was a good thing is a separate question) It is not, however, treason, which is the only crime defined in the Constitution and is defined quite narrowly.

  21. Re:Save a noodle, on Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood · · Score: 1

    eat a tree!

    "Many parts are edible."

  22. Re:Smearing? on Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks (latimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He's a traitor by any definition.

    Except for the one in the Constitution, which would be, y'know, the legal one in his case.

  23. Well, I could try believing you.

    Oh, wait, you didn't give me any sort of refutation or alternate story to believe in. I guess you lose. Better luck next time.

  24. By giving bad examples? on How Sports Commentaries Can Speed Up AI Development (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    âoeAny time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win.â You see? Don't say things like that.

  25. Re:Easy solution on Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..except that the dealers have made that illegal, for the most part. For our protection, of course.