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  1. Re:Many eyes... on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 1

    When did you break your pedantrylessness vow?

  2. Re: tmux, cygwin on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Organize Your Virtual Desktops? · · Score: 1

    Pining for it like a fjord, indeed.

  3. Re:tmux, cygwin on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Organize Your Virtual Desktops? · · Score: 1

    MSys2 is more gooder. It incorporates pacman. As long as we're daring to broach a technical topic on /., I tried to compile paludis using mingw64 on Windows 8.1, and had a configure error for lacking posix_openpts().
    Any C hackers know how you port around that tragic occurrence?

  4. There are scant barriers at the moment on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    You can't lower the bar much more without crushing a foot.
    You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink.

  5. Re:I heard homeopathy might fix climate change on UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows · · Score: 1
  6. Re:I heard homeopathy might fix climate change on UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows · · Score: 1
    And just two administrations after his, we suffered a Vice President who said:

    From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.

    For comparative foolishness, I'll take the Gipper.

  7. Re:Nothing to worry about on UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows · · Score: 1

    In all three cases, to say nothing of ours, defeat seems to come from within.

  8. I heard homeopathy might fix climate change on UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows · · Score: 0

    Are we comfortable with failing to exhaust all possibilities in the fight against changing climate?
    Homeopathy, it is said, might be willing to take on income inequality after climate change has been rendered a fangless constant.

  9. Re:Nothing to worry about on UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, it's almost as if there were no history of Russian expansionism going back to Peter the Great and stuff.

  10. Donald Trump should give them to supporters on Amazon Stops Selling Fire Phone · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Here's your phone. You're Fired! Get it? Making America great again, one belly laugh at a time."

  11. Re:Or the Gordon Dickson approach on Law Professor: Tech Companies Are Our Best Hope At Resisting Surveillance · · Score: 1

    I was thinking Dorsai, where countermeasure have driven everything to a bare physics level, even below an organized Postal Service.

  12. Or the Gordon Dickson approach on Law Professor: Tech Companies Are Our Best Hope At Resisting Surveillance · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would it not be ironic if a parallel, completely pre-Information Age system of handwritten, couriered messaging evolved in response to the whole Big Brother thing?

  13. Re:Change the channel, Marge on New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment · · Score: 2

    it has been going steadily backwards, albeit slowly.

    I thought that Adam Sandler mesured the velocity and arrived "At a Medium Pace".

  14. Re:Change the channel, Marge on New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment · · Score: 0

    Ever the Wally-esque undertaking, Slashdot has dodged this bullet by keeping its design head welded to the pillow.

  15. Re:frosty shit on Facebook's Solution To 'One of Education's Biggest Problems' Is a Dashboard · · Score: 1

    Dashbored.

  16. Re: Telemetry Hack on Microsoft's Telemetry Additions To Windows 7 and 8 Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Making a living
    Would seem better than
    Making a dying
    In Somecountrystan

  17. Re:Telemetry Hack on Microsoft's Telemetry Additions To Windows 7 and 8 Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    "Sack on BACK!
    Installing Slack
    Bummer #1 with a mullet
    Love to cower, Jack,"
    AC/DC did not sing.

  18. Telemetry Hack on Microsoft's Telemetry Additions To Windows 7 and 8 Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2, Funny

    Telemetry hack
    Like shearing your back
    The right suds keep it
    From chopping your stack
    Burma Shave

  19. "Things" on Scientific Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations · · Score: 2

    subtitle: "And Stuff"

  20. Re:The on Scientific Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations · · Score: 1

    The three legged duck
    Had all the luck
    And when he got stuck
    He didn't give a whit of concern.

  21. Re:ah on Wired: IBM's School Could Fix Education and Tech's Diversity Gap · · Score: 0

    I saw Diversity Gap open for The Biden Administration at a dive bar in Virginia Beach this spring.

  22. Me, too on Dawn Drops To 1470km Orbit, Snaps Sharper Pictures of Ceres · · Score: 1

    First day, new eyes.

  23. Re:Reportedly on Samsung May Release an 18" Tablet · · Score: 2

    John Wayne coded with Emacs on a CGA terminal, baby.

  24. Re:Should it be still called an tablet? on Samsung May Release an 18" Tablet · · Score: 1

    I mean, when your junk is as big as Deez Nuts, you gotta print 'tablet' in about a 72 point font to cover it all.