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  1. how about on Ask Slashdot: Best Test Case Manager Plugin For JIRA? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How about a test case manager for the crooks at dice? Stealing projucts, beta, and now pop overs? Fuck you

  2. Re:Coding: Language Skills on Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Will This Fight Ever End? on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Get rid of it on Obama Asks Congress To Renew 'Patriot Act' Snooping · · Score: 1

    He is safeguarding your liberties. Those liberties include the right to drink bud light, and watch the NFL.
    Go back to sleep citizen.

  5. Re:Meh... on California Votes To Ban Microbeads · · Score: 1
    Ah yes, demeaning people and calling them peasant garbage to elevate your position. How very "rational" of you.

    The only thing compiled here is a smug sense of superiority and possibly entitlement.

    Please do not execute with the --verbose argument any more.

  6. Re:North Pole on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    This is not what he wants. He does not need to know 'an infinite number of points around the south pole. he other interviews check for mathematical competency and such. The answer, as is proper for any good brainteaser is in the question itself, "earth". Why, because that is your starting point, and you never went UP. It is not a technical answer he wants I'll wager.

  7. Re:No Mystery on Robotic Space Plane Launches In Mystery Mission This Week · · Score: 1

    Is that pronounced Jiha-D? What services does that daemon provide the system, particularly the Islam Kernel ? Does it respond correctly to shutdown and restart requests?

  8. Re:Come a long way on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Come to.soylent news. it's made of people!

  9. Re:Really? on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    it was a joke. nop is an assembly instruction.

  10. Re:So out of All of the major mobile carriers, on Verizon, Sprint Agree To Pay Combined $158 Million Over Cramming Charges · · Score: 1

    Use ting

  11. Re:That'll Show 'Em on Verizon, Sprint Agree To Pay Combined $158 Million Over Cramming Charges · · Score: 2
    Verizons NET revenue in 2014:9.625 billion [wikipedia]
    Damages 90M Percentage fees take from net profit = 0.9%

    Less than one percent of one years profit for fucking customers for years. Yeah, that'll teach 'em.

    As usual, this is a show and a sham. Bet some lawyers will make bank though.

  12. Re:And what of false positives? on Can Earthquakes Be Predicted Algorithmically? · · Score: 2
    To add to my earlier comment (since I just read the crap article), not having an exact time limits utility as well, since people are not going to stay in shelters for 20-30 days.

    I am half drunk and tired, can anyone find a better source than one that masturbates with buzz words?

  13. And what of false positives? on Can Earthquakes Be Predicted Algorithmically? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    How often do their algorithms generate a false positive? If that rate is sufficiently high, the system is useless.

    Even if it were used, people would likely begin to ignore it.

  14. Dear Samsung on Samsung's SSD 840 Read Performance Degradation Explained · · Score: 1

    Admit you're wrong and fix the vanilla 840s and OEM devices based on the same or similar firmware/NAND. Keep mistreating customers and they will leave. This is not the smart tv market with average joes not caring. Most SSDs are purchased by pros, are specced en masse for machines by pros, or by well informed enthusiasts, Treat this customer base ill at your peril.

  15. Congresscritters versus intelimals on Senators Demand CIA Director Admit He Lied About Spying On Senate Computers · · Score: 1
    ROUND 1...FIGHT!

    Well mister vocal congressman, it would be a shame for this (fabricated or not) evidence of your (pick one.. drug use, homosexual activity, pedophilia, adultours wife, illegal contributions), to become public wouldn't it?

    Wonder who wins....

  16. Re:small business? on Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations · · Score: 1

    One hundred times this. I manage a small shop. We reload boxes due to major infection or failed hardware every day. We have a static IP. This could be us (except we are on Comcast but you get my point).

  17. an example on Microsoft's AI Judges Age From Snapshots, With Mixed Results · · Score: 2
  18. Re:Does she walk, does she talk? on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    Your lyrics aren't complete...

  19. Re:What about a bus? on New Study Suggests Flying Is Greener Than Driving · · Score: 2

    It's powered by natural gas.

  20. I wonder... on Russian Cargo Mission To ISS Spinning Out of Control · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did someone on the ISS order scrambled eggs on the supply boat?

  21. Re:This never works on Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs · · Score: 1

    All it takes is a few with the ability to break and rip then seed the torrents. how many people rip themselves now vs torrenting? I have the capability but rarely do.

  22. Re:Hey you grumpy cynics... on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 1

    In wordpress you can install a separate theme for mobile with the right plugin (it might even be native now, my wordpress is rusty). I have used this in the past for clients stuck on an old custom theme and it worked fine. Just find/build a good mobile one specifically for that.

  23. Hey you grumpy cynics... on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 5, Insightful
    1. The search results are only changing for non-mobile friendly devices IF the search originates from a mobile device, not for everyone.

    2. This has very little to do with ad revenue. Google is always tweaking the algorithms that feed the results page. This does not give any new precedence to paid advertisers at all.

    Basically they want you to bring your site into the 21st century. I see no real issue here. Responsive sites that are designed well (IE, not slashdot mobile), can be useful, and you can always request the full desktop site (if the site honors that request). Content and formatting do not exist independently of each other. Do you want some gopher sites in your search results?

  24. What a time to be alive... on USPS Shortlists 'HorseFly' Octocopter Drone Delivery Service · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Or dead...

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

    CAUTION: Please wait until noise has receded before checking your mail.

  25. Re:possible workaround. on Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5 · · Score: 1
    Even were the spammers able to coordinate and get a game greenlighted (doubtful at best), they would still get kicked out by normal reporting procedures, requiring an endless parade of $5 accounts to keep scamming.

    I received three invites this week from scammers. rather than ignore, I accept, wait for the bait then report. Two sent fake steam community links that were typosquatting malware, I did not investigate further as I was not near a test box and did not want a drive by infection. One sent a bit.ly link to a trojan downloader. When I put it in my test system, it promptly installed cryptowall3. Personally I am all for reasonable measures to curtail these douches. $5 seems reasonable to me.