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  1. Re:What do they need to contribute back? on Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH · · Score: 2

    I think it will be the MS cli interface helper, sshclippy. "It looks like you're trying to ssh into a remote server. Wouldn't you like to use RDP instead?"

  2. Over 40? Move into management, or on Ask Slashdot: Career Advice For an Aging Perl Developer? · · Score: 1

    jump into a mulcher to become perlite.

    They don't like us oldsters in this biz.

  3. Re:Dear recruiters.... on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    "How many of them have actually licked a cray?"

    I don't know if that's a typo or some old-fashioned slang for what people used to do with HPCs. But unless I had stumbled into a job involving cluster computing, I probably never would have seen (licked?) any ridiculously expensive Mellanox infiniband gear, so I'm not sure that the nameplates on the hardware you work with is such a good metric of one's capabilities.

  4. Re:Make it mandatory on WA Pushes Back On Microsoft and Code.org's Call For Girls-First CS Education · · Score: 1

    K-12 means kindergarten through the end of high school (12th grade) in the US.

    This program is just another example of "who cares about the boys who are lagging behind in most other aspects of education, the girls are lagging behind in this one area and THAT INJUSTICE MUST BE FIXED NOW!"

    Parents of boys would do well to home school, or move to a country where a student's worth is not measured solely by the structure of their chromosomes.

  5. Re: Nostalgic for Windows 7? on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    So this is what passes for self-flaggelation these days?

  6. Re:The religion of peace on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 2

    "Assad would be no less cruel if he were atheist or christian"

    Religion does not factor into Assad's cruelty - he's a DENTIST!

  7. Re:Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 2

    Simple solution to thwart those who would emotionalize the debate in the manner you suggest - hold the debate on a cross-country flight to Orlando.

  8. Re:why should he have it on James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him · · Score: 1

    Shimon Peres and Arafat should have split an award. They both (ultimately) worked towards peace in a situation where peace was (and remains) a pipe dream.

    Gandhi clearly should have gotten a peace prize.

    This underscores the fact that there is a flaw in the decision process.

  9. Re:Looking at the Heading of TFS on A Paper By Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel Was Accepted By Two Journals · · Score: 1

    While I share your exasperation at the pervasive feminSJW tilt slashdot has undergone recently, I have to point out that in the US, usage of the name "Kim" still skews heavily to the female gender.

  10. Re:why should he have it on James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Obama's ludicrous Peace prize was more jarring to your conscience than Henry Kissinger's? Something isn't right here. You're either very young and unaware of the dubious history of this prize, or you have personal issues that cloud your judgment of the inanity of obviously stupid Nobel awards.

  11. Re:Great but on A Paper By Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel Was Accepted By Two Journals · · Score: 1

    Why? Lisa speaks eloquently. Simpsons canon does not indicate that Maggie cannot write. Perhaps that's how she conspired to plan the Burns assissination.

  12. Re:TFA is a crappy piece of socialist propaganda on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    "'Women are not paid less if they are doing the same jobs and spending the same time doing them as men do, '
    demonstrably false."

    OK then - demonstrate it.

  13. Re:Bullshit Stats. on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    Talk about a meaningless number to pull from your ass! How much do male nurses in Seattle make compared to female nurses, when they work the same jobs on the same schedules? How much do female garbage collectors make compared to male garbage collectors, again when they work the same job for the same hours?

    The SJW manipulation of vague statistics doesn't do anyone any good.

  14. Re:TWC are (surprise, surprise) crooks and thieves on Overbilled Customer Sues Time Warner Cable For False Advertising · · Score: 1

    It was laughable nonsense because I haven't leased a modem from them for some time now, and back when I did that modem did not have any wireless features. Even if I was currently leasing a wifi-capable modem from them, why should there be a separate line item for "home wifi" in addition to the modem lease? They are not providing any extra service - if they want to charge more for leasing the wifi-capable modems, they should say so, not tack on a deceptive extra "service" charge. Charging a fee for a "service" that they are not providing is sleazy any way you look at it.

  15. TWC are (surprise, surprise) crooks and thieves on Overbilled Customer Sues Time Warner Cable For False Advertising · · Score: 5, Funny

    I noticed a $10 line item on a recent TWC bill for "Home WIFI." I went through the chat option on their website to inquire what this was, and how TWC might think it is provisioning wifi in my home despite my owning my own cable modem and WAP. They told me that they could remove the line item, but that wifi would no longer work in my home. Laughable nonsense. I called their bluff and my bill dropped $10. I wish I had saved a transcript of that chat. They prey on people who don't know any better.

  16. January to August 2015? on US Postal Service Hacked, 500k+ Employees and Public Data Breached · · Score: 3, Funny

    The USPS *is* the future.

  17. Well that does it. on Amazon Releases (Not Many) Details On Its Workforce Demographics · · Score: 2

    They'll get no more of my money until Bezos has a sex change.

  18. Re:Every patient? on Why Every Cardiac Patient Needs a Virtual Heart · · Score: 1

    OK - I'll bite. Dollars seem to be pretty negligible here. Equipment to capture the images? Already there. Hardware to generate the model? Sunk cost - re-up every 3 years to keep it fresh. Software development? More or less done, not that it is a prohibitive cost in the first place. Administration of the hardware? They still pay sysadmins somewhere? Training on how to use it? Surely not much more than the cost of a hospital aspirin per trainee.

    What's the huge financial burden here?

  19. Re:Snipers love it on Navy Tests Unpowered Exoskeleton · · Score: 2

    Do we count Fort Hood or not?

  20. Good thing this isn't a US story. on Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Stocks · · Score: 2

    It could result in a monumental political battle between fluke and Fluke.

  21. Re:UK Law has changed. on WikiLeaks' Assange Hopes To Exit London Embassy "Soon" · · Score: 2

    "Nah, they make him prime minister of Italy and everything's gonna be ok-a."

    ^ FTFY

  22. Re:Already changed on IeSF Wants International Game Tournaments Segregated By Sex [Updated] · · Score: 0

    Blizzard is fine with their game being used in the female-only tournament, though. Curious. That's the change that was made, by the way. There are no longer separate tournaments for men and women. Now there is a separate tournament for women only, and one open to all.

    Feminism can't even do "separate but equal" right.

  23. Re:The cost on Court Allowed NSA To Spy On All But 4 Countries · · Score: 2

    Oh my god! The little old ladies are going to blow up a bridge!

  24. Re: Eastern Finland have found that .. on Study: Stop Being So Cynical, You Could Give Yourself Dementia · · Score: 2

    Huck, maybe, but definitely not his pap.

  25. Re:Dead on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Congratulations! You win the award for most incorrect obnoxious pedantry of the day. "Shot to death" is a perfectly acceptable phrasing.