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  1. Re:Classic French politician. on EU Leader Says English Is Losing Importance (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    You'd be happy to learn that the risk of dying by grizzly in Canada is about as high as the risk of dying from a terrorist attack in Europe.

    I live in the GTA and will fly with the whole family to Germany in the summer.

  2. Re: Seems we have a bit of a pattern here, doesn't on Days Before Election: Macron Campaign Says It Is the Victim of Massive, Coordinated Hacking Campaign (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So have you stopped beating your wife yet?

  3. Re:Seems we have a bit of a pattern here, doesn't on Days Before Election: Macron Campaign Says It Is the Victim of Massive, Coordinated Hacking Campaign (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    lol

  4. Re:Classic French politician. on EU Leader Says English Is Losing Importance (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    "Not like there's any real difference between the two..."

    You should get out more. Travel the world a bit.

  5. Seems we have a bit of a pattern here, doesn't it? on Days Before Election: Macron Campaign Says It Is the Victim of Massive, Coordinated Hacking Campaign (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Now who could possibly want to damage Macron, other than the Le Pen campaign?

  6. Exactly. These kids nowadays just don't get Cold War paranoia. Otherwise they'd never write something like this:

    "Which made no sense because there were no Russians on the Moon to assault."

    Obviously you could only be 100% certain after you got your own guys up there checking for a Russian presence.

  7. I'll explain the insanity ... on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    ... that is Daylight Saving time.

  8. Re:It's pretty simple on Energy Star Program For Homes And Appliances Is On Trump's Chopping Block (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The reason for EU standards in a nutshell.

  9. I wouldn't expect them to be bigger than what was dropped on Hiroshima.

  10. Predictions are difficult, especially with regards to the future.

    You can also google all the predictions about NK's nukes. They unfortunately eventually panned out.

    Getting a means to get their nukes close enough to the US is a much easier problem than to assemble one in the first place.

  11. No American president can afford to allow NK to have nukes and intercontinental carrier capacities, or the ability to launch nukes from subs.

    I don't think Trump should have ever been in the White House, but this is his problem to deal with now, because it looks like within four years NK will almost certainly get there.

  12. Re: Leftisy government on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    That the person in question is a lying, slandering coward that tries to call an investigation into his activities political harassment and hides away (with ludicrous excuses) when realizing that what he have done is considered rape (and rightly so) really speaks for itself.
    True that.

  13. Re:move on on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares what I call it.

    The point was because outside Sweden it is not counted as rape, the statistics compares apples with oranges. Why is that so hard to understand?

  14. Re:move on on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't know about the assault while asleep part. Certainly much worse, and definitely rape as I understand the term.

    Not that a disappearing condom is a laughing matter either.

  15. Re:move on on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't see how this counts as an Assange apology. I consider him an asswipe but not much of a rapist. Just states the facts of the case as I understand them. If anything this makes him burrowing in that embassy even more ridiculous.

    The main point was to explain why the statics is so skewed.

  16. Re: Leftisy government on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sweden is a runner-up for rapes per capita, fighting with Botswana for the second spot (after South Africa).

    Really messes with a statistics if you have a country like Sweden classify consensual sex, with non-consensual condom disappearance, as rape.

    They should just call it the Assange sexual offense.

  17. Re:Write software after work on Ask Slashdot: How Should You Launch A Software Startup? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep. Bootstrapping that's what I've been doing. We've been around for tow years but are just now at a point were we can launch our first product in the cloud, and low and behold now some dude from LA wants to buy a third of our company.

    We still have some runway left and I can always do some consulting on the side to keep me afloat, so we are in no hurry to take on seed capital.

  18. Very ethnocentric on More Than a Hoodie: How We Talk About Developers (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    In my experience IT folks in Europe never even came close to this strange American stereotype.

  19. Re: A Hubert J. Farnsworth worthy invention on Scientists Discover Way To Transmit Taste of Lemonade Over Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Lame. The Smell-O-Scope is a precision instrument that can pick up the smell, and pin-point the location, of dog crap anywhere in the know universe.

    *totally different*

  20. A Hubert J. Farnsworth worthy invention on Scientists Discover Way To Transmit Taste of Lemonade Over Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The Smell-O-Scope can't be far behind.

  21. Re:As unpopular as it will be to hear... on SAS Mocked For Recommending 60% Proprietary Software, 40% Open Source (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    SAS always wanted to kill R, since forever, and Dr. Goodnight hung on to the goal way past the point when it was clear that this was a losing battle.

    As somebody who used to work at SAS, I can attest that their older core products are rock solid but the new stuff is often (if not always) over-burdened with issues, and released too early. I used to work with some R&D teams, and my impression was that they are spread to thin, over too many products.

    Don't get me wrong, they are committed to fixing things and getting it right. Their customer orientation is a real strong suit of the company, but early adopters nevertheless should expect some pain.

    With FOSS you can can get a much better picture, early on, about the maturity of a product. Yes, it's not magic pixy dust, but it is much more transparent what you get yourself into.

  22. Always happy to hear about hardware progress on The First Practical Use For Quantum Computers: Chemistry (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    But nothing report here is particularly new. It has been known for quite some time now that breaking encryption takes a lot of qubits, whereas quantum chemistry can be accelerated with relative modest qubits amounts, assuming they can implement universal QC gate model operations.

  23. Or comparing it to the monetary value stored in Swiss banks, which would makes $1T look like a rounding error.

  24. Re:Tough shit -- welcome to the real world on It's About Time Astronauts Got Healthcare For Life (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Spot on. I fortunately live in Canada, but I still have friends and family in the US, and it's beyond frustrating that they suffer, because these idiot GOP voters insist on shooting themselves in the foot.

  25. Re:Tough shit -- welcome to the real world on It's About Time Astronauts Got Healthcare For Life (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, he is special, yet what should go without saying for him, should also be offered to all Americans like in the rest of the civilized world.

    Then again you clearly don't fall into that category, and it's because of assholes like you that there is no public healthcare plan in place.