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  1. Re:Wow.... on More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years · · Score: 2

    You forgot about calling all the factory methods and creating the graphic contexts and message queues and new whatnot.whatever.initialize() - you know: the computer sciencey stuff.

  2. Re:I'm surprised... on Coldest Spot On Planet Earth Identified · · Score: 1

    They said "coldest", not "evilist".

  3. Re:What an awesome place to work! on Amazon Uses Robots To Speed Up Human 'Pickers' In Fulfillment Centers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's interesting that the robots are networked, but the humans aren't allowed to talk to each other - on pain of termination.

  4. Re:Oh boy! on Neural Prosthetic Acts Like "Bridge" Over Damaged Brain Areas · · Score: 1

    I know you need to have brain damage to "get" Perl, I'm not sure about Prolog, though.

  5. Re:Stop Hitting Yourself! on Neural Prosthetic Acts Like "Bridge" Over Damaged Brain Areas · · Score: 1

    More like Dr. Strangelove's gloved hand.

  6. Pork, pork, pork, pork on Secret New UAS Shows Stealth, Efficiency Advances · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anybody really believe there's a "coverage gap" between satellites and (for example) Global Hawks? No, of course not. The SR-71 was retired because it wasn't needed, not with satellites that can read a license plate from orbit in real time. This is just a corporate handout for Northrup Grumman, we can't have them feeling left out, what with Lockheed Martin getting all the F-35 moniez.

  7. Re:Wait.... on The Climate of Middle-Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, but it is full of Orcs.

  8. Re:Some Hammer on FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App · · Score: 1

    Who do they think they are? CitiBank? Goldman Sachs?

  9. Re:This app never seemed necessary on FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apparently you're completely unaware of Google's business model.

  10. Re:Government is too powerful on Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring · · Score: 1

    We THOUGHT we were voting for a new FDR in 2008. What we GOT was a new Calvin Coolidge.

  11. Re:fit both ways on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ruins the sanctity of cabling.

  12. Another interpretation on Patent Battle May Loom Over 'Copenhagen Wheel' Electric Bike · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clearly the competitors are adherents of the "Many Wheels" theory.

  13. Re:This guy sounds like a whiny bitch on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    Really does sound like an upcoming episode of Portlandia, doesn't it?

  14. Re:The really strange thing about this: on Bitcoin Miners Bundled With PUPs In Legitimate Applications Backed By EULA · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's the whole point: there's no investment at all if it's running on somebody else's machine.

  15. I found another one on Bitcoin Miners Bundled With PUPs In Legitimate Applications Backed By EULA · · Score: 1, Funny

    A potentially unwanted program that consumes over 50% of my CPU cycles: it's called Adobe Flash. Anybody know how to get rid of it?

  16. Re:Statist gonna state on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    If money isn't a tool of the state, then why are monarch's pictures always on the currency? It's Caeser's face on the coin for a reason.

  17. Re:As long... on Spamhaus Calls for Fining Operators of Insecure Servers · · Score: 1

    WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE SERVERS?

    Little "MOMS" will go to bed tonight running XP. It can't remember the last time it had a full update. Won't you please help? Send your generous donations to...

  18. Re:Calling home on Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows · · Score: 2

    ..."calling home" to check licensing information kept throwing off the rests.

    Oh, they meant the tests.

  19. Re:2013-11-04 on Have 100GB Free? Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia, With Images · · Score: 2

    YYYY-MM-DD is the only date scheme where filenames sort ASCIIbetically. Kinda useful if you have a lot of copies of something.

  20. Re:Entirely Reasonable on FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe To Halt DNA Test Service · · Score: 1

    This New Year's Eve noisemaker I have in my hand scares away elephants - there aren't any elephants in MILES of my location.

  21. Re:Tom Baker on Happy 50th Doctor Who · · Score: 2

    SPOILERS...

    Pretty ironic, him showing up for the 50th anniversary episode and related "about" shows, after he was such a prick about NOT doing the 25th. At least we know Eccleston wasn't asked.

  22. Re:It'll Never Happen on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's funny; did Sean Hannity tell you that?

  23. Re:Me too! on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'll use little words so you can follow. The Federal website was speced to be a portal to the STATE websites where people could sign up to the you know, STATE insurance pools. Like it says in the law. Except 38 Republican-controlled state legislatures and governors decided not to bother, so the Federal site ended up getting overloaded with functionality and traffic it was never intended to have.

    As for "grandstanding", when the (Republican) Medicare Part D rollout turned into a giant turd and the Republicans were making excuses about "any large system is going to have teething problems...", the Democrats actually did what they could to make it work, rather than hold a lot of hearings and press conferences about who was to blame and needed to "apologize" -- you know -- NOT grandstanding.

  24. Re:It'll Never Happen on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And when you say "The House", you mean "The Republican Party". Why people keep falling for this "Government doesn't work! Vote for me and I'll PROVE it!" bullshit is beyond me.

  25. Re:Me too! on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, but can you do it in the face of sabotage and grandstanding by Republicans at both the state and local levels?