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  1. Don't shank the business model on Ancestor of All Placental Mammals Revealed · · Score: 0

    Public money has been borrowed from future generations to give to researchers to generate conclusions.

  2. Re:Man, oh man! on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hey, hey, hey: it's important that we relive the 1930s, so that we appreciate the Depressing fullness of FDR's Greatness.

  3. Of course not on Is the Era of Groundbreaking Science Over? · · Score: 0

    Until half of scientists are female, science remains fundamentally sexist.
    Let's break some ground, and get more ladies in there.
    Because #Fairness.

  4. Re:Ponder that, though on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    Yeah, unless you really enjoy the two minutes of hate along with your Inner Party perquisites.

  5. Ponder that, though on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As our political class increasingly becomes an aristocracy, this sort of thing becomes a weapon to keep the peasants out.
    Once you're a made member of the club, scrubbing your data and enjoying some privacy is a perq.

  6. Privacy And Sin on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Privacy and sin,
    Like skin on the chin,
    Covered by hair,
    Nicked by tech #FTW
    Burma Shave

    This is an important story, beyond the troll.
    A political party supporting liberty, where that is defined in part as the right to own all data pertaining to yourself, would see a great deal of support.
    And we can expect any of our entrenched parties to support liberty in 3. . .2. . .

  7. Re:Just tax it. on Why It's So Hard To Predict How Caffeine Will Affect Your Body · · Score: 1

    Actually taxation is a way of using the free market to create societal changes.

    This is not a sentence.

  8. Re:Just tax it. on Why It's So Hard To Predict How Caffeine Will Affect Your Body · · Score: 1, Troll

    In the modern nanny state, isn't taxation the preferred method for shaping societal behavior by our Ruling Class Overlords?

  9. Aquamacs does not seem to understand what the slave process know as "OSX" is on about in this case.
    Probably not important.

  10. Re:Just goes to show. . . on Mars Rover Curiosity: Less Brainpower Than Apple's iPhone 5 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or how bloody-minded comparisons tell you little. The reason you need horsepower on the board is not because computations are bearish. Rather, all the human interface code.
    I worked on government systems two decades ago that had four-decade old technology and worked great. Why? All the user interface agony was offloaded to dedicated consoles.
    Case in point: which is harder to code against: a command line interface, or a full-on GUI?

  11. Re:'Evolving' on Microsoft Phases Out XNA and DirectX? · · Score: 1

    No.

  12. 'Evolving' on Microsoft Phases Out XNA and DirectX? · · Score: 1

    XNA and DirectX are no longer evolving

    For these years, I had operated under the assumption that source code was edited & compiled.
    Gosh, the stuff you learn on /.

  13. Re:1st step. on Microsoft Embraces Git For Development Tools · · Score: 2

    The GPL and the Git community are going to break Mr. Softy somewhere around step #2.

  14. Re:Midnight Commander is the true text editor on After A Year, Emacswiki Alternative Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Yes, and Midnight Commander is a file manager.

  15. Batteries if you must on Elon Musk Offers Boeing SpaceX Batteries For the 787 Dreamliner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Batteries if you must,
    In moving parts trust,
    Or with mere soap and a blade,
    Be plying your trade.
    Burma Shave

  16. Re:Midnight Commander is the true text editor on After A Year, Emacswiki Alternative Shutting Down · · Score: 2

    Really? I thought it was Lynx.

  17. Re:Too bad I had never hear of WikEmacs before... on After A Year, Emacswiki Alternative Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    I'm in the same boat. I love EmacsWiki though, and reference it often.
    Did work with headless, virtualized Linux nodes accessed via RDP into a Windows server. Everyone's all whining about the security policies, and all.
    I slap in a PuTTY distro and Emacs, fix and environment variable, and I'm in there via Tramp Mode like it won't nothin' but a thang.
    The other biggie is Org mode, a full outlining tool that is mainly driven by the tab key. For doing admin work, it pays heap big dividends to take a lot of notes.
    I will admit to using Aquamacs on OS-X.
    And yes, for you vi girls, Emacs does have emulation modes. *sigh*

  18. Tourettes and Rap on New Secure Boot Patches Break Hibernation · · Score: 1

    NOT peanut butter & chocolate.

  19. Re:I'll go for it on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil About the Future of Mankind and Technology · · Score: 1

    Zen's then, baby: Zen's then.

  20. Re:Old software? on Why a Linux User Is Using Windows 3.1 · · Score: 1

    Right, but the file size limit on a 16-bit OS has me wondering if TFA isn't a joke.

  21. Re:Extraneous human population on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil About the Future of Mankind and Technology · · Score: 1

    You will always have a purpose to soak up EBTs and vote for the Progressive whenever called upon.

  22. I'll go for it on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil About the Future of Mankind and Technology · · Score: 2

    What if what seems to be a general technology-driven implosion into a Single World State goes a completely different direction, due to some 'unexpected' encounter with the fundamental irrationality of humans? In short, are there hidden assumptions about the rationality of human nature within this 'Singularity' notion?

  23. Also known as on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil About the Future of Mankind and Technology · · Score: 1

    Xeno's luggage

  24. This explains on Poor Sleep Prevents Brain From Storing Memories · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . .why the last 20 years or so are such a blur. But it does offer hope that the lousy economy may be remembered as sucking less.

  25. Re:Not 1609 kilometers... on Cities' Heat Can Affect Temperatures 1000+ Miles Away · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The environment is only a major issue during a Republican administration.