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  1. Re:Programming? on The Top 10 Programming Languages On GitHub, Over Time · · Score: 1

    I fell short of saying CSS is programming: "it executes subjectively in the mind of a user".

  2. Re:Programming? on The Top 10 Programming Languages On GitHub, Over Time · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey, hey, hey: everyone gets a participation trophy, mister.
    We don't want anyone feeling diminished because their specialty is not considered "programming".
    More seriously, especially with CSS, the capacity to design something that doesn't look like a mud fence is a substantial skill.
    That is: don't discount the work just because it executes subjectively in the mind of a user. You want to know where the sale is made? It sure ain't in the elegance of the design patterns buried in the server code.

  3. Re:Happily married? on Extortionists Begin Targeting AshleyMadison Users, Demand Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    I'd always thought that was spelled "cacaphony".

  4. Re:Happily married? on Extortionists Begin Targeting AshleyMadison Users, Demand Bitcoin · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How so? Is this not simply a higher-order screwing?

  5. Re:Confessed? on Two Arrests In Denmark For Spreading Information About Popcorn Time · · Score: 4, Funny

    But they each weighed as much as a duck, and therefore were made of wood. . .

  6. The Optogenetic Lights Witch on Implanted Optogenetic Light Switch Lets Scientists Flip Neurons On and Off · · Score: 1

    The Optogenetic Lights Witch
    Couldn't avoid the oncoming ditch
    Parked there in her beard
    Due to Burma Shave feared
    Her limerick was thick and rich.

  7. Re:"just too revealing for your tastes" on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    I'm confessing to 100% humanity here. What, specifically, are you suggesting I do, that I haven't done yet, and which you yourself are doing?

  8. Re:"just too revealing for your tastes" on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    Look, dude: this ain't no Philip K. Dick novel. I know that, as a human, I'm chief among the avoiders.

  9. Re:"just too revealing for your tastes" on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    I mean, it can be. However, humans excel at avoiding inconvenient truths.

  10. Re:"just too revealing for your tastes" on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    I don't care for: Trump, Kasich, Christie, JEB, Huckabee.
    I can't vote at all for JEB; I am persuadable on the rest.
    I *like* Fiorina, Cruz, Walker, Rubio, Paul, Carson.
    I agree with you that it's almost entirely dog'n'pony.

  11. Re:Thoughts on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 0

    The internet of things is going to spread the technological distribution from the creepy uber-geeks who are embedding processors in their heads, to the Mexican fisherman who still gives it a "Meh, gringo."

  12. Re:"just too revealing for your tastes" on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    I'm not voting for anyone--there ain't no ballot yet.

  13. "just too revealing for your tastes" on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry--you think that the Trumpalicious One is revealing a single thing that is off of his script? Oooookay. . .
    If ever a man's hairstyle told you absolutely all you needed to know, that hairstyle was Trump's. A ridiculous bit of follicular folly that successfully underscores the naked scalp from which it attempts to distract.
    It's Summer. Donald is Me First & the Gimme Gimmes filling air time before the real campaign begins.
    Of course, I don't dispute that he could be a total false flag operation for Her Majesty, intended more as a wrecking ball than anything else.
    I'll also cast a protest vote for him, should your buddies at GOP Central insist on nominating JEB.

  14. Re:Oh, fall off the planet on XKCD Author's New Unpublished Book Becomes Scientific Best-Seller · · Score: 1

    And you've fully gleaned the supply system reference.

  15. Re:Surprised? Not me on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 2

    I think he's also a (political, if not business) buffoon, who won't last past pre-season. But hey: belly laughs are where you find them.

  16. Oh, fall off the planet on XKCD Author's New Unpublished Book Becomes Scientific Best-Seller · · Score: 0

    I despise your implication that "popular" == "low quality". Popularity and quality are not mutually exclusive, for all advertising may bamboozle.

  17. Re:My big hope on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    The fun thing about this thread is that I've had a nearly Perl-esque TMTOWTDI outburst in reply to my original riff. And yet those environment variables are still buried at some obscure registry key.

  18. Re:My big hope on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    Everything is easy when you know how to do it.

  19. Re:My big hope on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    With 8.1 I actually have used the search feature. To locate Paint. Because #GreatUI

  20. Re:My big hope on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 1, Informative

    Nothing about the Windows key ever suggested using it like that. I've always waded through the User menus as close as I could get to the system menu, and put a shortcut on the desktop.

  21. Re:review of the review on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    Now, just because you had to tweak the query string to read the other three pages doesn't make it a bad article. It's not like anyone will follow the link anyway.

  22. My big hope on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 3, Funny

    My big hope is that this version's Environment Variable easter egg is buried under a few more layers of indirection.
    With each new version, one must spend several extra minutes figuring out where the Double Secret Super Duper Advanced Don't Try This At Home Brutal Power User Steel Cage Death Match Of Dh00m dialog is located, merely to set the PATH.
    Sure, I'll get modded 'Flamebait' for this, but seriously: quit kicking me in the groin, Redmond.

  23. Sexist 'Stat? on Researchers: The Thermostat In Your Office May Be Sexist · · Score: -1

    Sexist 'Stat? Well, how 'bout that?
    The boss is a Cro-Magnon most shaggy.
    But with a blade, a pen, and some CNN
    You can get something mildly faggy
    Burma Shave

  24. Ambiguous on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Store a Half-Petabyte of Data? (And Back It Up?) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you mean:
    (a) "Don't store it. Employ Amazon (or some other cloud) storage."? or
    (b) "Do not use Amazon."
    Clarity: it's like that one thing that is not the other thing, except for when it is.

  25. Re:"Tin Foil Hats" is not PC on Company Aims To Launch Spacecraft On Beams of Microwaves · · Score: 1

    Good tahms, Jethro: good tahms.