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  1. Re:Pales to UE4 on Source 2 Will Also Be Free · · Score: 0

    HL3? Not gonna happen. The number of active HL2 servers is shrinking daily.

  2. Re:Insecure on Schneier: Either Everyone Is Cyber-secure Or No One Is · · Score: 1

    You should go to be liberry and check up on that.

  3. Re:Insecure on Schneier: Either Everyone Is Cyber-secure Or No One Is · · Score: 1

    Penetrating air-gapped machines is old hat now. The next step will be discovering that the hardware we buy has been pre-compromised before purchase. Oh, that's right, that's already happening.

    Hurray for megabyte sized firmware... lots of room to hide anything.

  4. Re:So is he a replicant, or not? on Harrison Ford To Return In Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    The power of the movie was due in large part to the uncertainty of Deckard's origins, and the uncertainty of his fate. Scott's opinion on the matter is valid, but if it were more than an opinion on a character he did not create, he could have made it explicit in the movie, which he did not.

    So... opinion.

  5. Re:Oh God No... on Harrison Ford To Return In Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 2

    How do you conclude that replicants don't appear to age? Most of them didn't live long enough to appear older, but for those that don't have an expiration date (presumably Deckard and Rachael) , there was nothing to imply that they wouldn't appear to age as they, well, aged. Apparently quite a few people did not understand what a "replicant" was supposed to be in the movie, or, for instance, why they would need human organs, like eyes. Hint: NOT A ROBOT.

  6. Re:That's the problem with a sequel. on Harrison Ford To Return In Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    Robot? I suspect you're thinking of some other movie; Terminator perhaps.

  7. What's the difference? on Giant Asian Gerbils May Have Caused the Black Death · · Score: 1

    What's the difference between a giant gerbil and a giant hamster?


    giant hamsters have more white meat.

    Who says bobcat goldwaithe isn't funny?

  8. Re:fuck medium.com on What Happens When Betelgeuse Explodes? · · Score: 1

    In the night sky. In the night sky. In the night sky. In the night sky. Is that some sort of drinking game?

  9. Re:How does this compare to radio? on Pandora Pays Artists $0.001 Per Stream, Thinks This Is "Very Fair" · · Score: 2

    You were a DJ long enough to learn the weasel words, apparently. Paying for "adds" is not payola, although the effect is the same. Someone above (below) mentioned that not all networks accept paid-for adds now, that was news to me if true. However, following decades of precedent, they probably still do EXACTLY THE SAME THING but use different words, or funnel the money in different ways. I haven't seen mention of satellite radio yet, but the lack of diversity on it is also baffling to me, and the only explanation I can imagine is money exchanging hands SOMEHOW.

  10. The song on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 1

    What if
    we lost this guy

    di di dah.

  11. Actually on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Man's biggest failure may be failing to stand up to aggression, but get RID of aggression? Not going to happen, and not a good thing if it did. Leaders are aggressive.

  12. Re:clouds of dust the biggest problem on Oxford University Researchers List 12 Global Risks To Human Civilization · · Score: 1

    Not many people survived that movie. After seeing it most of them killed themselves.

  13. Re:Hey well... on LG Exec Indicted Over Broken Samsung Washing Machine · · Score: 1

    Trolls gotta eat, same as the worms and buzzards

  14. Re:Huh? on Obama Says He's 'A Strong Believer In Strong Encryption' · · Score: 1

    huzzah

  15. Re:Hey well... on LG Exec Indicted Over Broken Samsung Washing Machine · · Score: 1

    Yes, and as I said, I hate them.

    Was there another point I missed?

  16. Re: Fear Mongering FTW on Oxford University Researchers List 12 Global Risks To Human Civilization · · Score: 1

    >>> "This article is not worth commenting on."

    >>BUT - here you are!!

    >Looks more like a meta-comment to me

  17. Re:Hey well... on LG Exec Indicted Over Broken Samsung Washing Machine · · Score: 1

    oven was a Whirlpool and I was rather pleased with it: quiet, reliable and extremely intuitive to use

    There's NOTHING I hate worse than a noisy oven.

  18. Re:Implement locally? on How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year · · Score: 1

    Go for it. I used to have something like this, but it was cheap and didn't work that well. Maybe you can do a lot better. Or maybe you'll find out why nobody else has done it.

  19. Re:With a name like his on How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year · · Score: 1

    He's really thrown a wrench into their operations.

    BOOYAH.

  20. At best, their excuse can be summarized as "we can fix this for some users, but not all, therefore we are not going to fix it at all".

  21. Re:The solution is obvious on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My widely distributed product has been discovered to have a serious security flaw affecting millions of users. I have fixed this but it requires you to get your congressman to fetch it for you and have his staff install it. It's not MY fault if you can't convince your congressman to do this, it's HIS fault, and if you suffer, that's just too bad. Take it up at the voting booth.

  22. Re:The least welcome news on Moot Retires From 4chan · · Score: 2

    Come for the filth, stay for the hivemind. An amazing amazing thing.

  23. Re:The least welcome news on Moot Retires From 4chan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    These days, yes. I suspect that there was a point about 3 years ago when moot got a visit from some TLA agency, and has been on a short leash since. I'm guessing they have finally taken him off of the dog collar he's been on since (redacted) and he is getting the hell out of dodge.

  24. Re:This guy hasn't done his research. on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 1

    always
    never


    Seriously? Is Python THAT GOOD?

  25. Re:One mile? on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    I'll jump in here for no reason.

    I rode my bike 3 miles to school from 2nd and 3rd grade until we moved closer to the school and then walked after that. Sometimes I would come home, realize I had forgotten my jacket or homework, and ride back up to the school to retrieve it.

    Nothing special about that, lots of kids did the same thing at the same distances.