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  1. Lets see... POSIX compliant, bash shell, GNU tools, X Window.... what exactly is OS X missing?

    No dependence on closed-source software?

  2. Re:Trolling is for cows. on One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign (dailydot.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You've already got one. It's called "Don't browse at -1".

  3. Re:Really hard to stop on One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    It'll be jail time - they are impersonating another, it's called identity theft.

    Yes, it is. And you won't get jail time until a) you can prove who it is and b) you can make the appropriate authorities care. Neither is simple. If the perpetrator is in another country (as is the case here) it becomes effectively impossible.

  4. Re:UK thinking back to past relationships and site on BBC World Service To Provide Radio For North Korea and Eritrea (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    When you live in Eritrea, "a reasonably dysfunction wester european country" is a land of milk and honey.

  5. Affecting on Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "Affecting only a 'small number' of users", not "effecting."

  6. Re:Webserver with ability to block SQL injection on The History of SQL Injection, the Hack That Will Never Go Away (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Ah, so you'll only be vulnerable to SQL injection from the right IP address.

    Grandparent post is correct. Do it right, and you don't need patches like this that could leave things uncovered or need clusmy unsafe patch-ups to try to cover up what you're doing wrong.

  7. Re:They use the integrated face system on Satellite Wars (ft.com) · · Score: 2

    They use the integrated face system to track satellites.

    How does Dirk Benedict track satellites?

  8. Re:A new olympics on Controversy Over High-Tech Brooms Sweeps Through Sport of Curling · · Score: 1

    At some point, the athletes will only take drugs with minimal risks which will likely mean minimal performance enhancement and we'll reach the point where everybody is back to the same place.

    I admire your optimism and belief in people's rationality. Alas, I can't say I believe in it. People will continue to push the envelope and continue to die until it is banned once again.

  9. Re:Looking forwards on Controversy Over High-Tech Brooms Sweeps Through Sport of Curling · · Score: 1

    Taking the most amount of steroids or doping is a feat of strength as much as is hitting a homerun or cycling over a mountain.

    But "who can take the most performance-enhancing drugs without dying" is not a competition I think most of us want to encourage. It's kinda tough on the losers--and not all that gentle on the winners either, come to think of it.

  10. Re:Cute girls doing cute Curling things! on Controversy Over High-Tech Brooms Sweeps Through Sport of Curling · · Score: 1

    The Japanese will make a manga out of almost any sport. There's ping-pong manga. There's yo-yo manga.

  11. I haven't heard any reports that bitcoins... on EU Set To Crack Down On Bitcoin and Anonymous Payments After Paris Attack (thestack.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...were used to support the attack. But, hey, never let a good crisis go to waste, right?

  12. Unless it was stunt plane designed for upside-down work. Such planes have a symmetrical airfoil and depend entirely on the angle of attack rather than the Bernoulli principle acting on an asymmetric airfoil, making them relatively efficient when flying upside down.

  13. Re:The movie's not out yet and I'm already tired on Star Wars Battlefront Released (giantbomb.com) · · Score: 2

    It sounds like it's time for you to throw in the towel. If you can't be bothered to download an update, why even own a console?

    This is a joke, right? Please tell me this is a joke.

  14. Re:The movie's not out yet and I'm already tired on Star Wars Battlefront Released (giantbomb.com) · · Score: 1

    Diablo 3 was Blizzard. Hell, they're still running the Diablo 1 servers. This is EA. In two or three years, there won't be any servers, and no multiplayer. Roll of the dice as to whether you'll be able to play it all without the servers.

  15. Silly gamers... on Star Wars Battlefront Released (giantbomb.com) · · Score: 1

    If they gave you content, how are they going to sell you the DLC?

  16. Re:zzzzzzzzz... on Being Effective and Having Fun at Your Company's Trade Show Booth (video) · · Score: 1

    For this content free fluff I had to abandon my principles and run Flash?

    It said up front it was about running a trade show booth. You've got no one to blame but yourself.

  17. From what I remember, there was no concept of directory in the very first version of DOS (no disk but tapes, ...)

    The first version of DOS did indeed have disk support (the letters stand for DIsk Operating System, you know) and in fact required a disk. You could get the original PC in a configuration without disk drives, but in that case you didn't run DOS or the alternatives, CP/M-86 or UCSD p-System; instead you just ran IBM BASIC out of ROM, which the PC would boot to if it couldn't find a disk (that's where you used the tape cassettes). But DOS 1.0 out of the box only supported floppies--and originally you could only get 160K floppies on a PC, at that. Directories were regarded as unnecessary. Directories were introduced in DOS 2.0 along with hard disk support and the PC XT--the 10 meg capacity of the XT's hard disk was regarded as making directories needed to organize it.

  18. I'm not a big Apple fan... on Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad (independent.ie) · · Score: 0

    But they have shown they understand what Microsoft doesn't.

  19. Meh on 'Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday · · Score: 1

    Don't care. Never have. The maniacs can go knock themselves out.

  20. Re:Microphone access. on Ad Networks Using Inaudible Sound To Link Phones, Tablets and Other Devices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh yeah cuz android.

    And cuz iPhone. It works on both.

    It works on both iOS and Androidd

  21. If only you knew... on Hour of Code 2015 Star Wars Tutorial: Spare the IF Statement, Spoil the Child? · · Score: 1

    ...the power of the Dark Side of the FORTH.

  22. Re:I Can't Figure Out on UK May Blacklist Homeopathy (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry. I'll believe there's a possibility of something to nutritional supplements. I'll believe there's a possibility of something to acupuncture. But homeopathy is not victim to "nobody tests it because there's no money in it." Homeopathy is blatantly fraudulent to anybody who spends five minutes investigating it. Homeopathy believes that medicine can work when it is so diluted that there is not a single molecule of the active ingredient left in the preparation. And that it's stronger for not actually being in the medicine.

  23. Re:Marketing on How Rocket League Brought Psyonix Back From the Brink (redbull.com) · · Score: 2

    su.per.son.ic
    ac.ro.ba.tic
    Ro.ket.pow.ered
    batt.le.cars

    Actually, you can sing it to the TMNT theme song...racers in a drag shell,rocket power!

  24. It's an HR problem on Head of Indonesia's Anti-Drug Agency Proposes Using Crocodiles To Guard Prisons · · Score: 1

    They really shouldn't have hired an ex-Bond villain for the position.

  25. And it's... on Astronomers Spot Most Distant Object In the Solar System (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    ...Donald Trump's humility!