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  1. Re:Even Check Norris ? on Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Basically on Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    "Pass the Clippy on the left hand side. . ."

  3. Re:Universal App APIs are too limited on Microsoft's Skype Drops Modern App In Favour of Old-Fashioned Win32 App · · Score: 0

    Or, being Redmond, they foresee the old freebie as the entry-level UI, and plan to roll out the New Hotness with a $tring attached.
    Capitalists: always out to make a buck.

  4. Re:The only way to stop this on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 1

    Hey, man: check your tribal hypocrisy privilege for microaggressive tendencies.

  5. Re:The only way to stop this on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 1

    Still trying to peddle your "Tribe's" narrative, then?

  6. Re:The only way to stop this on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 0

    What? I didn't call him the Second Coming of Lincoln.

  7. Re:Surprise, Surprise! on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 0

    "I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. "

  8. Re:The only way to stop this on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 0

    There is a substantial difference between lie-spouting (full concurrence with you there) and actually making a call that moves his mode beyond "passive-agressive rodeo clown". My point is that he ain't packin' the gear to go past the latter, irrespective of whether a given context would justify such.

  9. How about a cage match? on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 0

    NSA vs. the IRS in a hack-off. Whichever organization does the better job of gutting the other gets to absorb the others' tasking.
    We've got to do something about this federal hydra. Having the heads attack each other is at least worth trying.

  10. Re:The only way to stop this on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 2

    You'd have to be prepared for the fertilizer to hit the air circulator before a stunt like that.
    I'm not surmising that #OccupyResoluteDesk has either the sack to order such an attack, or the sack content to deal with the fallout.
    If a crisis involves doing more than showing up and delivering a speech in his Barry-tone(TM) voice, BHO just hasn't proven himself up to the task.

  11. Re:Surprise, Surprise! on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 1

    It would be tantamount to a declaration of war, if my amateur grasp of international law isn't too far out in the Spratleys.

  12. Re:Yes, but because on Steve Albini: The Music Industry Is a Parasite -- and Copyright Is Dead · · Score: 2

    More generally, the Information Age means that we need less and less peopleware to manage data and shepherd people.
    The last holdout, of course, is government.

  13. Re:Boston 3rd Stage on Third Stage Design Problem Cause of Most Recent Proton Failure · · Score: 3, Funny

    I saw Third Stage Design Problem open for Flaming Reentry in Kalamazoo, MI in '87.

  14. Re:Power to the blamers! on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    How did you get modded up for equating global warming and a rape hoax?

    Possibly the evidence of a lack of evidence.

  15. Power to the blamers! on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Power to the blamers! There is far too much power to be garnered from inflaming (occasionally real, but often wholly manufactured) biases.
    But things like the Rolling Stone UVA rape hoax, global warming, GamerGate, &c have blown the lid off what a bunch of cheap hucksters the Grievance Industrial Complex are.
    Go back to hell and stay there, creeps.

  16. Re:Kansas isn't even remotely flat on Shape of the Universe Determined To Be Really, Really Flat · · Score: 1

    You've got to crank the Pink Floyd to bring out the trails, though.

  17. Re:Boohoo, crocodile tears. on Senators Demand CIA Director Admit He Lied About Spying On Senate Computers · · Score: 1

    1. Keep the rules simple.
    2. Swap out the people enforcing them (elected & un-elected) at far higher frequency.
    3. Understand that corruption is a cost of doing business, and can only be managed, not "solved". And that by applying 1. and 2.

  18. Re:Another feature copied from Linux? on Future Holds Large Updates Instead of Stand-Alone Windows Releases · · Score: 1

    On another plane, Steve Jobs was heard to groan appreciatively.

  19. Your faith in the regulatory state must remain beyond reproach.

  20. Absolutely. Gotta blame the parents and the church.

  21. Re:Hahah on Unable To Hack Into Grading System, Georgia Student Torches Computer Lab · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We must always prefer drugs and state intervention to failed approaches like, you know, parenting and involvement in a community of faith.

  22. Re:It is an ad. on How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Look: power doesn't care what you do to acquire and wield it.

  23. Re:Already patched on New Zero Day Disclosed In WordPress Core Engine · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Take a long hard look at the code behind Wordpress then get back to us

    Get back "to" you; get back "at" you: what's in a preposition?

  24. Re:privacy? on Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine? · · Score: 1

    Recreational legislation is an evil exceeding premature optimization.

  25. Re:privacy? on Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine? · · Score: 1

    Not in dispute. As noted above, I'd missed "ISP" as well. I think I was exhausted when I replied initially.