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  1. Re:Je suis Charlie on In France, TGV Test Train Catches Fire, Derails, Killing 10 (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    ITYM "Je suis Eagles Of Death Metal".

  2. Re:Speed to blame says Guardian on In France, TGV Test Train Catches Fire, Derails, Killing 10 (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    High speed trains have been attacked -- a French TGV was bombed in 1983. Two people were killed by the bomb.

    At the same time a bomb, placed by the same group, went of in a toilet in a railway station -- it killed 3 people.

    So toilets are better targets than high speed trains.

  3. Re:I'm 8 hours in on "Fallout 4" Release Raises Questions About Reviews of Buggy Games (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    But on a triple-A title you payed £60 for?

    You were ripped off. Amazon has it for GBP 39.99

  4. Re:Skylon = SkyNet + Cylon? on British Spaceplane Skylon Could Revolutionize Space Travel (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    Nope, it's a reference to the 1951 Festival of Britain.

  5. Re:This article is pure FUD on Linus's Thoughts on Linux Security (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So you and Linus think the problem with the Maginot Line was that it wasn't strong enough, not that it was a fundamentally stupid idea.

    Defense in depth. That works. Unbreakable fortresses, not so much.

  6. Re:This article is pure FUD on Linus's Thoughts on Linux Security (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's Matthew Garrett, given his history this is not outside the realm of possibility. But nasty case of sour grapes is a more likely reason.

    The article was written by Craig Timberg. Matthew Garret does not write for the Washington Post.

  7. Re:This article is pure FUD on Linus's Thoughts on Linux Security (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    It blames the "towelroot" Android exploit as being the fault of Linux

    But towelroot was the fault of linux, no?

    https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-3153

  8. Re:Matt Garret? on Linus's Thoughts on Linux Security (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The one that fart-farts to anyone who doesn't see his point of view?

    His blog, his rules.

    Every time I've seen him fart-fart some post it's because the poster couldn't read the clear and obvious warning.

  9. Re:Somehow? - Here's how.... on Greenland Ice Sheet Not Covered In Soot · · Score: 1

    Conveniently Global Warming initiative somehow morphed into the Climate Change

    Yes the US government deliberately changed the terminology in the early 2000's

    The IPCC was formed in 1988.

  10. "judging from the diffs" on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 1

    Judging from the diffs, system log integration is the most obvious consequence of the change.

    He's removed the code that allowed syslogd to be socket activated by systemd.

    72 lines of code.

  11. And anybody with a history of high blood pressure who takes pseudoephedrine needs their head examined.

    Oh, great no stuffy nose. Pity about the stroke.

  12. Re:Well if its anything like the US... on Reactions Split On What Canada's Liberal Majority Means For Tech Policy Future (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 2

    It's because liberals know how to read and have heard of this thing called the dictionary.

    Xenophobia -- fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners, first known use 1903.

    Looks like the train has left the station, Jane.

  13. Re:K in KDE on KDE Turns 19 · · Score: 1

    UI retrogression abandoning use standards is a universal hipster problem.

    You said "hipster". The rest of your post can be ignored.

  14. The biggest problem is why Facebook UK made a loss (thus avoiding taxes) -- mostly it was because of the high prices of the letters a, b, c, e, f, k and o which it rents from Facebook US at extortionate rates.

  15. Re:No on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For as long as communities have existed, there has been evidence of bartering.

    This turns out to be untrue. Before the invention of money most systems seem to have been based on a gift economy, not barter. In fact debt, accountancy, and later money, were invented as a way of keeping track of the gift economy.

    Barter tends to come into existence as when money collapses, it post-dates, not pre-dates money.

  16. Re:Scammers on The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Shhh.

    The first rule about setting up the "B" ark is you don't let the passengers on the "B" ark know it's a scam.

  17. The real distribution curve is normal.

    Yes, that is ridiculous, but it's how IQ is defined.

  18. Re:Wrong industry? on Source Code On Trial In DNA Matching Case (post-gazette.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nothing to do with copyright law.

  19. Patented so no reason to keep secret on Source Code On Trial In DNA Matching Case (post-gazette.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    If his method is patented he has no need to keep his code secret.

    Unless it's shit, of course.

  20. It was called "the dismal science" by Thomas Carlyle because economists claimed that slavery was economically inefficient.

  21. Re: Why would anyone be shocked? on Researchers Unable To Replicate Findings of Published Economics Studies (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    No, as pointed out above they're not even wrong.

    Even if they happened to be "right" it would mean nothing as they deny empiricism -- they could only ever be "right" by accident.

  22. Re:Show us the data on Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed · · Score: 1

    With wind, as power requirements vary (e.g. when a TV show finishes) you can just spin up or down more turbines.

    Huh?

  23. You're making some possibly unwarranted assumptions about the shape of the distribution curve.

  24. Because all I'm seeing is that the best way to find out if a civilizations is about to go pear shaped is to do an atheist headcount.

    Yes, as the secular government of Syrian Baathism is being replaced by the overtly religious ISIS things are getting much more civilised.

  25. Re:A remarkable number of people are idiots on A Remarkable Number of People Think 'The Martian' Is Based On a True Story (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're in favour of making it impossible to modify the constitution -- anyone who would modify it is unable to vote.

    But of course the constitution itself includes the mechanisms for amendment, which you want to make impossible to use, so you would not have the right to vote under this system.