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  1. Re:Future wars on Where Whistleblowers End Up Working · · Score: 1

    And List::Util isn't in my installation of perl. sort -R works, though.

  2. Re:Exact Opposite of the Obama Campaign Message on Where Whistleblowers End Up Working · · Score: 2

    What do mean? Obama's government is incredibly transparent! You can't see anything at all!

  3. What about Cygnus X-1? on Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist · · Score: 1

    To take what is probably the strongest example of an observed phenomenon that can be explained as a black hole and not much else. Even Hawking gave in and paid off his bet with Kip Thorne.

  4. Re:Who cares about succinctness .... on Rosetta Code Study Weighs In On the Programming Language Debate · · Score: 2

    Poorly done, cryptic succinctness can indeed make code impenetrable. Yet overdone verbosity can destroy readability just as thoroughly. When the language is naturally succinct, it's easy to ensure that it contains enough context to be readable. When the language is overly verbose, you generally can't slim it back down to readable conciseness.

  5. Re:Overkill? on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 2

    Napalm is quite effective against locusts.

    The crops, not so much.

    No, it destroys the crops very effectively too.

  6. Re:Summary is Troll Rant on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    "It's just the pursuit of truth, which math, peer review, and jargon have no bearing on!"

    The guy is a little skewed, but you're putting up a strawman here. He's not saying "have no bearing on" but rather "are not the core of what makes science science, and cannot by themselves make what you are doing science." And that is absolutely correct.

  7. Re:Decisions on Hundreds of Thousands Turn Out For People's Climate March In New York City · · Score: 2

    But I was always told it was okay to leave nothing but footprints!

  8. Re: I never thought I'd say this... on FCC Chairman: Americans Shouldn't Subsidize Internet Service Under 10Mbps · · Score: 1

    Yes, but at the same time, paying for an internet line to be run to your house can actually cost more than your house in rural areas

    And asking for a subsidy doesn't make that cost go away--in fact, it'll make it higher. You're just making somebody else pay the cost for you.

  9. Re:Yes, pipelined utilities, like the logs on Torvalds: No Opinion On Systemd · · Score: 5, Funny

    I already have a program to read all logs, more or less.

    In fact, you have *two* programs to read all logs. More and less.

  10. Re:and also should be worth mentioning on Commander Keen: Keen Dreams Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    You think Doom and Quake aren't cartoony?

  11. Re:The real test? on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 1

    I never got the reaction of the start screen. It's basically a full screen Start Menu.

    Which is at least part of the problem. A Start Menu doesn't *need* a full screen, and it's incredibly wasteful and inconvenient to make it take up a full screen.

  12. Re:Then I guess you could say... on Schizophrenia Is Not a Single Disease · · Score: 1

    More importantly, not only did you know why it was happening, whether or not it happened was *your choice*.

  13. Re:But the question remains: on Uber CEO: We'll Run Your Errands · · Score: 1

    Do they also walk dogs?

    Awwww, I wanted to do that one...

  14. Re:Minecraft itself is a phenomenon, but on Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Minecraft: The Flamethrower! The kids love that one.

  15. Re:Marvel did it first! DAZZLER! on Researchers Working On Crystallizing Light · · Score: 1

    But hopefully without the disco this time.

  16. Re:Simple solution on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 1

    Similarly, 99% of the problem could be stopped if they cancelled the Equitable Sharing program and instead insisted that all such seizures to go to the federal government, not to any local fund.

    Hmmm...possibly. How much of local cops' seizures actually belong to the feds and are "shared" back by this program, and how much are seizures under local authority--or could be made so if the local cops think they won't get federal seizures back? The latter can't be constitutionally claimed by the feds, although it would be possible to insist it all go to the state government.

  17. Re:To be fair... on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 5, Funny

    NFL: One of the many industries where smooth talking idiots can rake in millions spewing bullshit.

    Fixed that for you.

  18. Selection bias? on Reanalysis of Clinical Trials Finds Misleading Results · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They looked at reanalyses that had already been done for other reasons, rather than doing their own reanalyses on randomly selected trials. It occurs to me that these trials may have been subjected to reanalysis precisely *because* there were doubts about the initial analysis.

  19. Only one problem... on WD Announces 8TB, 10TB Helium Hard Drives · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now all my MP3s sound like the Chipmunks!

  20. Re:It doesn't have to work perfectly. on GM To Introduce Hands-Free Driving In Cadillac Model · · Score: 1

    Automated driving systems DO NOT need to be foolproof.

    They need to be very close to foolproof at the very least. Your point is logically unassailable, but alas, logic doesn't enter into it. It'll be assailed in courts of law, and in public opinion. Every accident that happens will be the fault of the autpilot, and the fact that the autopiloted cars have less accidents will be irrelevant.

  21. Re:No need to swear on US Rust Belt Manufacturing Rebounds Via Fracking Boom · · Score: 1

    Watch your fracking language.

    We don't need that felgercarb herre.

  22. "Partial auto-pilot" on GM To Introduce Hands-Free Driving In Cadillac Model · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now *there's* a phrase to fill you with confidence. "Works right up to the point where you need to be paying attention, except you won't be because the car is driving itself."

  23. Yeah, that's gonna work on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 1

    We can't even get TCP/IP v6 off the ground, and they want to try this?

  24. Re:Sigh on News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid the one who can't read a dictionary is you. The definition you quote does not state that tolerance implies disapproval. It states that tolerance does not imply approval. That's not at all the same thing.

  25. Re:The US slides back to the caves on Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio · · Score: 1

    The geography I was taught was that the Ural Mountains is the boundary between Europe and Asia, meaning that western Russia is indeed part of Europe, though the eastern part is not.