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  1. Re:Sure, why not? on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 0

    If we don't spend three years developing two crashing websites for all that boodle, Imma be disappointed.
    As long as you only ever expect a cock-up from him, Obama never disappoints.

  2. Re:I find it interesting on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 1

    If I wrote for a magazine, would I drop a riff quite so derogatory about sales?

  3. Re:Yea, it doesn't have systemd. on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 1

    Does systemd use XML? I heard that's the gold standard.

  4. Re:It doesn't use systemd. on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 1

    If you feed it some Big Data, it grow up big & strong.

  5. Re:Hot grits on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where's Stephen King
    Pwning all your base
    Found dead, manscaping
    With soap on his face?
    Burma Shave

  6. Re:I find it interesting on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 0

    Parallelism has a lot to do with sales. It takes a lot of cores, RAM, and storage appliances to catch up with the latest release of Java. And then there is the next release.

  7. Brushed off? Valentines Day? on Target's Internal Security Team Warned Management · · Score: 1

    Time to cue: Getting the Brush.

  8. VFW? on IE Zero-Day Exploit Used In Attack Targeting Military Intelligence · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dude, the VFW is substantially a drinking club for old warhorses.
    TFA is akin to saying the Commies infiltrated DFW to score information on the U.S. Air Force.
    YHBT. HAND.

  9. Re:Interesting on How Blogs Are Changing the Scientific Discourse · · Score: 1

    As above, I do think that Disqus is a rounder wheel. Oh, and then there is this asinine timeout before submitting multiple comments. And the 25 comment limit if I've been mod-bombed lately.

  10. Re:Interesting on How Blogs Are Changing the Scientific Discourse · · Score: 1


    Why do you consider it a "disaster"?"
    Mostly the way it supports vendettas. I suppose it's one of the oldest going, but I really think Disqus is an improvement. And the whole slider thing seems a triumph of over-engineering.

  11. Re:Interesting on How Blogs Are Changing the Scientific Discourse · · Score: 2

    What's even more interesting is the spectrum of solutions to managing the signal-to-noise ratio, from no comments, to moderated, to the fabulous disaster that is /.'s moderation system.

  12. Re:"climate change deniers" on How Blogs Are Changing the Scientific Discourse · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, if you are arguing that climate is constant, then you're a CCD.
    Except that no one has ever argued constant climate.

  13. Re:Not good for one's career on How Blogs Are Changing the Scientific Discourse · · Score: 2

    Being liberated from the tedium of work is not the same thing as being liberated from the laboratory.

  14. Re:Not good for one's career on How Blogs Are Changing the Scientific Discourse · · Score: 5, Informative
    Legal blogs, http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/, http://althouse.blogspot.com/, http://althouse.blogspot.com/, http://www.powerlineblog.com/ don't seem too bad for careers, in the main, though one of the PowerLine writers took a sabbatical due to a client. Maybe the legal blogs are closer to talk radio.

    In the olden days, science could easily be mistaken for a bloodless intellectual game

    By precisely what mature person with any shred of insight into human nature? It's kind of silly how the Church of Holy Progress has tried to co-opt scientists as some sort of secular priesthood. Get over it. Scientists are people, too. I'd expect Richard Feynman would have been a right blast of a blogger, if he yet lived.

  15. Climate change on How Blogs Are Changing the Scientific Discourse · · Score: 1, Funny

    Climate change
    Home on the range
    Though it's buried in snow
    Vice suds, for a change
    Burma Shave

  16. Re: version 0.3.16. on Windows Replacement? ReactOS 0.3.16 Gets Themes, CSRSS Rewrite, and More · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sort of a master Beta, if you will.

  17. Why do you H8. . . on Cops With Google Glass: Horrible Idea, Or Good One? · · Score: 1

    Communities of Practice?

  18. Re:RMS needs to get over the GPL on LLVM & GCC Compiler Developers To Begin Collaborating · · Score: 1

    So maybe there are multiple motives and strategies behind licensing, and the GPL + BSD ecosystems are stronger than either would be in isolation.
    I realize that part of the advertising going on is beating up everyone who doesn't agree with Teh One True Way, but still. . .

  19. "If I were RMS I'd be worried" on LLVM & GCC Compiler Developers To Begin Collaborating · · Score: 3, Interesting

    RMS is like a typecast actor. He has his role, and plays it unswervingly.
    However, if there are ways to help out the studio, even if he's not in the film, what's the issue?

  20. Buck the feta on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    I mainly log in, do JEs, and respond to replies. Make that navigation effortless. Bring in some serious UI heads and do it right.
    Also, lift the idiotic 400 friend restriction. I have 26k+ followers on Twitter. Why are you boring me with arbitrary restrictions? I don't mind a modest subscription fee; maybe you make a perk out of that.

  21. Re:Best of luck, John on John Carmack Left id Software Because He Couldn't Do VR Work There · · Score: 1

    What we need to do is get Carmack together with some military historians and have them get their grognard on.

  22. IIS is Isis's sis on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 3, Funny

    IIS is Isis's sis
    That Apache had to save
    From her hirsute marital bliss
    With abundant
    Burma Shave

  23. The Secret Service Grew Suspicious. . . on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 1

    "I mean, we can all agree that Timothy Geithner was a cartoon character, and Jack Lew looks like he fell out of a comic book, but signing the notes 'Cerebus the Aardvark' was quite a provocation," stated U.S. Government Spokesman Wile E. Coyote.

  24. Gorilla Cuntilla on FileZilla Has an Evil Twin That Steals FTP Logins · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gorilla
    FileZilla
    Fur Transfer Protocol
    Killa
    Burma Shave

  25. "has been sued before" on Michael Mann Defamation Suit Against National Review Writer to Proceed · · Score: 1

    Are you referring to that un-funny joke that played out in Canada?