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  1. Not at all on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 1
  2. There are those who create & those who devour on The Man Who Created the Pencil Eraser and How Patents Have Changed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some build up, through genius employed.
    And lesser men must see work destroyed.

  3. Re:How is this news? on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Quality be damned hard to sell to a market that's been dumbed down from Mozart to Miley.
    FTFY

  4. Distraction on US, Russia Agree On Plan To Dispose of Syria's Chemical Weapons · · Score: 0

    No, thanks.

  5. Legislation on US, Russia Agree On Plan To Dispose of Syria's Chemical Weapons · · Score: 0

    Kills whole economies

  6. Re:Debian on Why Apple Went 64-Bit With the iPhone 5s · · Score: 1

    I code defensively, and put all the "End If" and "Loop" and "Next i" stuff over in column 80, so that, at a brief glance, it looks more like Python.

  7. Re:Debian on Why Apple Went 64-Bit With the iPhone 5s · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tell people that admitting to knowledge of VBA is like confessing expertise in box wines.

  8. Re:In other news on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    "We had to destroy the First Amendment to save it."

  9. Re:who cares? on A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs · · Score: 1

    I have no idea what you mean by "stand alone". Is there another term which might be helpful?
    One could argue that SQLite doesn't run in a multi-user mode on its own. You'd have to put another process in front of it to serialize requests, if you wanted to serve web site data from it. Is that your point?

  10. Re:who cares? on A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs · · Score: 1

    Correct. Also correct: "lose".

  11. Isn't it really worse than that? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 2

    Isn't the compiler software?
    And doesn't the compiler target an architecture?
    And isn't that architecture rife with microcode you never see?

  12. Re:Yeah... on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    paranoid fear-mongering conservatives

    Don't know what you're on about. I'm in favor of returning to the limited, Constitutional government we eschewed right around a century ago.

  13. Re:USA need to stop... on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    While not endorsing gunboat diplomacy, your ideas set up a Big Win in the 1930s. For "War" values of "Win".

  14. Re:please, please on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    Nicely played.

  15. Re:We're safe on China's Secret Scientific Megaprojects · · Score: 1

    I love the smell of classic rant in the morning. Smells like. . .well, not much, really.

  16. We're safe on China's Secret Scientific Megaprojects · · Score: 4, Funny

    They haven't started on the project framework factory project.
    When that one completes, the Eschaton shall surely be immanentized.

  17. Re:Yeah... on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    My in-laws, a lovely older couple, are in absolute despair over the political situation there. Have you seen Daniel Hannan or Nigel Farage on YouTube? Those are the voices of reason over there.
    My prayer is that the centennial of WWI passes "peacefully" next year.

  18. I'm just not happy with the name on Global Warming Spreading Pests Far and Wide According To Study · · Score: 2

    "Anthropogenic Global Warming" really had some heft.
    But that sadly died, and "Climate Change" was left.
    That's now dead, and what must rise from its dust is
    Something like "Global Non-Constant Atmospheric Justice".

  19. Re:I'm totally holding out on First US Inpatient Treatment Program For Internet Addiction Opening In September · · Score: 1

    Bureaucracy is a cast. You need it for that fracture, but it never leaves, and atrophy follows.

  20. Re:Yeah... on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    I mean, I married a German woman nigh a decade back and over there every couple of years.
    Pro tip: "You obviously" is best used in a humorous context.
    As for America's wildly uneven, frequently fascist laws: nolo contendere.

  21. Re:I'm totally holding out on First US Inpatient Treatment Program For Internet Addiction Opening In September · · Score: 1

    You really don't understand how bureaucracy works, do you?

  22. I'm totally holding out on First US Inpatient Treatment Program For Internet Addiction Opening In September · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . .for the one you do via SMS, while driving. Preliminary course outlines involve a cliff, I heard.

  23. Re:Yeah... on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    close-minded and hostile to the idea of the welfare state

    Other than its tendency to turn people to cattle, beget bankruptcy, and land societies somewhere between Kafka and Orwell, I can find no fault with the welfare state.

  24. Re:Yeah... on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    Now let the demagogic flamefest begin.

    Respectfully request you revise and extend your remarks to include a definition of what you meant by 'begin' in that sentence.

  25. Re:Yeah... on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 0

    Yeah, but think about homeschooling your children and stand by for the raid.