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  1. That's the way the gyoza goes on 3D-Printed Gun Earns Man Two Years In Japanese Prison · · Score: 0

    That's the way the gyoza goes,
    When liberty itself is feared,
    And self-defense, the fascist crows,
    Is buried in laws as a face in a beard.
    Burma Shave

  2. In theory, schools can act as a crap filter for workers.
    "The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory."--some C++ Users Journal article

  3. Re:I know! on How Women Became Gamers Through D&D · · Score: 1

    +1 Troll Tuesday Terrific!

  4. Gammer Gamers on How Women Became Gamers Through D&D · · Score: 1

    Gammer gamers of old,
    Whose mettle proved hard,
    Taking scalps untold.
    Even the grizzled grognard!
    Burma Shave

  5. Every time I hear the name on The Cult of Elon Musk Shines With Steve Jobs' Aura · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm all looking around for the cologne advertisement.

  6. Re:Windows 9X on Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility · · Score: 0
  7. Re:Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. . . on Mangalyaan Successfully Put Into Mars Orbit · · Score: 0

    . . .and looking down at the midgets who've traded exploration for ObamaCare.
    Sweet, sweet bureaucracy.

  8. Re:This week, it's all loosely coupled on 'Reactive' Development Turns 2.0 · · Score: 1

    And then the big reveal that "reactive programming" was really a cover name for "Macho Grande programming".
    All those coders who swore on pain of death that they'd never be over Macho Grande then get together for a bit of Agile Pair Scrum seppuku.

  9. This week, it's all loosely coupled on 'Reactive' Development Turns 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Next week, doubled over in pain, the lack of determinism is going to look like a big kick in the crotch.

  10. Re:Good on Microsoft Kills Off Its Trustworthy Computing Group · · Score: 1

    If you like your trusted computing, you can keep your trusted computing.

  11. Re:Better title on Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died · · Score: 1

    Nice. Speaking of covers, how about Soundgarden doing Devo?

  12. Better title on Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Apple Warranty Canary Caught Working in a Coal Mine"

  13. "MS. . .will get worse before this gets better" on Microsoft Lays Off 2,100, Axes Silicon Valley Research · · Score: 0

    BREAKING: Microsoft will deliver version Windows 9.0, code-named "Jehova^3" in 2016.

    "It'll be like Windows 3.0 meets the Trinity!" said Bob.

  14. Re:DING DONG! on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Steps Down · · Score: 1

    He needed room
    For his Soviet broom
    On which he goes: "Zoom!"
    While plotting your doom
    But he no Burma Shave

  15. Re:Clippy 2.0 on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "No," said Bob.

  16. BREAKING on NSW Police Named as FinFisher Spyware Users · · Score: 2

    NSW police arrest SWF for NSFW behavior. Lurid film at 11.

  17. Come for the info porn. . . on Treasure Map: NSA, GCHQ Work On Real-Time "Google Earth" Internet Observation · · Score: 1

    . . .stay for the Bond Villain who, knowing what he's up against, reads "Dorsai!" and comes with a completely off the grid attack.

  18. Re:Good intentions vs free time on The MOOC Revolution That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    I've started 3 and fully completed none, for various reasons. Mainly children. I'm a big fan, though, and I will get back into it when time frees up. Pinky swear.

  19. Getting /. to advertise the service, which can be sun-rised (is that a word?) on a whim.

  20. Re:Made in America on X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd have likely died during the attempt at birth, and taken my mother with me. I'm kind of enamored of modern technology, for some reason.

  21. Re:No thanks on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 1

    Concur. I think that there are a spectrum of motives for doing code, from joy to business.
    What matters is that the legal system allow and deconflict a flourishing of motives, not that Any One True Opinion prevail.

  22. Re:not communism on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 2

    I think his role as FSF cheerleader #1 requires inflexibility. RMS certainly plays the role with gusto. What else is he supposed to do? I guess we'll find out when existential inevitabilities catch up with him, and someone else has to try to be RMS.

  23. Re:Shortest version on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 1

    It's the "moral" connotation to which I object. There is no means of putting source code on the same behavior continuum as, say, sexual mores or discussion of the afterlife. There are pragmatic reasons to support the FSF, and I do, but they are not moral ones.

  24. Re:"Guyth" on Scala Designer Martin Odersky On Next Steps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They won't rest until they've figure out how to run Haskell on a JVM.

  25. "Guyth" on Scala Designer Martin Odersky On Next Steps · · Score: 3, Funny

    But the third one (Don Giovani) is about a fundamental rethink of Scala, with a strong focus on simplicity.

    "Guyth. Let uth dump all the thyntaxth exthept the parens, and put the left one before the thymbol name."
    "Hey, man: what's with the sudden lisp?"