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  1. Re:How about "not diamond"? on Scientists Discover Diamond Nanothreads · · Score: 2

    You can sell anything on Shopping Network.

  2. Re:Oh, fantasitc... on Real Steampunk Computer Brought Back To Life · · Score: 1

    Originally, I was going to say RSX-11, but I didn't think enough people would get it.

  3. Re:Oh, fantasitc... on Real Steampunk Computer Brought Back To Life · · Score: 2

    Luckily, VMS runs on it natively.

  4. Re:individuate? on 81% of Tor Users Can Be De-anonymized By Analysing Router Information · · Score: 1

    "Ideation" is my own pet "are you serious?" word.

  5. Dear Tor users: on 81% of Tor Users Can Be De-anonymized By Analysing Router Information · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By "can be" De-anonymized, we mean "have been".

    Sincerely,
    The NSA

  6. Re:So slashdot is on Window Washing a Skyscraper Is Beyond a Robot's Reach · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly. There's also misogyny, diversity and political clickbait.

  7. Re:"... Spread of Diseases Using Wikipedia" on Researchers Forecast the Spread of Diseases Using Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Why not? Viruses use Outlook.

  8. Re:Wats poppin my negroes on Researchers Forecast the Spread of Diseases Using Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Jack Bauer found out who was there, who they worked for, and where the goddamn bomb was.

  9. Re:How? on Researchers Forecast the Spread of Diseases Using Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I don't think you're being fair. This research extends their ground-breaking study that searching Google for "Jennifer Lawrence iCloud hack" predicted fapping with 100% accuracy.

  10. Re:RIP Java! on Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform · · Score: 1

    Anybody know anything about what's going to happen with the C# compiler?

  11. Re:What license? on Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform · · Score: 0, Troll

    The usual Microsoft license: Bend Over And Like It.

  12. This just in: psychopath is psychopathic on Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 4, Informative

    Until we get away from the definitions that:

    1) a corporation exists only to increase shareholder value
    2) it is managements "fiduciary responsibility" to only "increase shareholder value", i.e. make the most profits possible
    3) a corporation is a legal person, with all of the rights but none of the moral compunctions

    We are going to have corporations that act by definition as psychopaths: amoral, antisocial, remorseless, uncaring, uninhibited, greedy and evil. They will act as unlawfully as they are permitted to.

  13. Re:Simple fix on Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 2

    And by "where you are valued" you mean "where we can get away with the most bad behavior". Like how their manufacturing is in China so they can pay the least and pollute the most.

  14. Re:Goes to show on Website Peeps Into 73,000 Unsecured Security Cameras Via Default Passwords · · Score: 2

    I don't know where you work, but around here, kill the messenger is company policy.

  15. If these cameras get secured, how will law enforcement hack into them, get a partial reflection of a face in a hubcap, enhance and run it through facial recognition software and have the perps drivers license picture onscreen within 40 seconds?

  16. Re:The first step to control on Computer Scientists Say Meme Research Doesn't Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Oh. I didn't realize the President had any control over the Federal Reserve. Oh, that's right, HE DOESN'T.

  17. Re:The first step to control on Computer Scientists Say Meme Research Doesn't Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's so blatantly false I don't know where to begin. Let's start with "reckless spending": Obama is the LOWEST spender since Eisenhower. And that's those pinkos over at Forbes who say so. How about "an actual annual budget again": well, perhaps if Mitch McConnell and John Boehner hadn't been holding their breath until they turn blue to block it (and everything else Obama has proposed), we'd have had one approved. And about half a zillion federal appointments they've blocked.

    The fact is, the Republican party has been systematically breaking government, ruining the economy and generally running this country into the ground for the last six years out of personal animosity for Barack Obama. I WILL grant you, however, that they have been *phenomenally* successful at blaming their systematic vandalism on him, and he's been too chickenshit to stand up to their bullying. Now that they've won a majority in the Senate as well, we can expect more show trials and hearings about hot-button non-issues like Bengazi.

    A few FACTS:
    1. We've now had 63 straight months of economic expansion.
    2. We are currently enjoying the longest period of private sector job creation in American history.
    3. Unemployment has dropped from 10.1% in October of 2009 to 5.9% and projected to reach 5.4% by summer of 2015.
    4. The stock market continues to set new records since President Obama has been in office.
    5. The Federal budget deficit is shrinking. Itâ(TM)s been reduced by two-thirds since 2009.
    6. Under President Obama, spending has increased only 1.4% annually, the lowest rate since Eisenhower was president.
    7. For 95% of American taxpayers, income taxes are lower now than just about any time in the previous 50 years.
    8. Our dependence on foreign oil has shrunk due to record domestic oil production and improved fuel efficiency standards.
    9. At least 7 million more Americans now have health insurance than before.
    10. The Affordable Care Act has added years to the life of Medicare.
    11. Since passage of the Affordable Care Act, we are seeing the slowest rate of increase in healthcare costs since 1960.
    12. We currently have fewer soldiers, sailors and airmen in war zones than any time in over 10 years.
    13. There have been zero successful attacks by al Qaeda on US soil since Obama became president.
    14. We now successfully catch and deport more illegal immigrants than ever before.

    You ARE correct, however, that Duverger's Law pretty much guarantees that a first past the post voting system will inevitably result in a two-party system.

  18. Re:Wasn't this already available someplace else? on Internet Archive Launches Arcade of Classic Games In the Browser · · Score: 0

    Back in 97, javascript was little more than a toy language for making animations in websites.

    Whereas today it's a toy language for making "immersive content" websites more annoying.

  19. Re:Get your naming right, Soulskill on Internet Archive Launches Arcade of Classic Games In the Browser · · Score: 4, Funny

    Besides, "JavaScript Mess" is redundant.

  20. Re:"More precise than any clock before" on New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping · · Score: 2

    Shit, you're right. We should just forget this whole physics thing and go back to building henges.

  21. Re:Thanks for reminding us in the last line... on Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine · · Score: 2

    There's a reason Disney employees refer to it as 'Mouseschwitz'.

  22. Re:Unless the plant is surrounded in a glass dome. on France Investigating Mysterious Drone Activity Over 7 Nuclear Power Plant Sites · · Score: 1, Informative

    Tell that to the people who used to live around Fukushima.

  23. A flying robot Tazer on "Ambulance Drone" Prototype Unveiled In Holland · · Score: 5, Funny

    What could possibly go wrong?

  24. Re:Now we can see on Check Out the Source Code For the Xerox Alto · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gates got his ideas from Genghis Khan.

  25. CP/M source code on Check Out the Source Code For the Xerox Alto · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In honor of CP/M's 40th birthday, the [PL/M] source code for a very early version from 1975, and three later versions from 1976, 1978 and 1979 are being made available for non-commercial use.

    LOL -- and a bit of Digital Research cluelessness from the past as well.