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  1. Re:No way soar losers will abuse his... on Xbox One Reputation System Penalizes Gamers Who Behave Badly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Soar losers won't give a flying fuck.

  2. Re:Is this a request for optimal code design... on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 1

    Ha HA! Ya got me. .

    At this stage in the game I don't know where the cynic ends and the human begins.

    "Probably at the asshole," a voice whispers in my ear.

  3. Re:Knuth's TeX and Metafont on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 1

    In a way these codebases evolve a lot like DNA, and for pretty much the same reasons. So you end up with a lot of patches and hacks, as well as code sediment: stuff that's basically obsolete but would be too painful to remove. Something about the dirty and relentless nature of reality.

  4. Re:Elegance only exists in textbooks on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 1

    "The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead."

  5. Is this a request for optimal code design... on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    or is the OP requesting us to hunt down a piece of code that fulfills his project specs (and does it elegantly, gosh darnit!)?

    Is the OP's real name Tom Sawyer?

  6. In related news on Turkish Finance Minister Defends Twitter Ban · · Score: 3, Funny

    Turkey to create an alternative social messaging service: gonna call it "Gobbler".

  7. Re:Sorry - Has to be posted on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    He wasn't much of a candidate at all. They're all pretty useless, these politicians and their buddies. It happened with "heckuva a job" W, it's happening with Obama, it would have happened with Romney and his Bain buddiess, and it will happen with Clinton II.

  8. Re:Sorry - Has to be posted on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    Demonstrably and completely untrue. I am not a fan at all of our adventurism in the middle east, especially Iraq.

    But it's silly to argue they have not _improved_ our readiness and strength. You need to fight to be strong, and we've been fighting. Having a military just sitting on bases and doing training exercises does not lead to the military power. You have to go fight on the ground, in the air, and at sea. And we've been doing that.

    Wat.

  9. Re:Sorry - Has to be posted on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

    Romney would have been a reasonable candidate had he not been shackled to the current Republican party, who are largely responsible for the current overextension and perceived weakness of US military forces engendered by the minimistically planned and even more poorly executed incursions in the Middle East in the 2000s (aided by a feckless and obsequious Democratic party, AKA Diet Republicans).

  10. Dick wagging on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1
  11. Pity on Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics · · Score: 2

    Petty power play by Puting to prevent protest and put plaintive political people in a perpetual position of powerlessness.

  12. Keeping it regular on Singapore To Regulate Virtual Currency Exchanges · · Score: 4, Funny

    I made a similar currency: I call it '$hitcoin'. It's not the first one I made, but version number two.

    It's a craptocurrency, but one based on alimentary, time-tested economic principles, real old-stool. IANAL, but it rests on a strong fecal foundation, with minimal risk of law sewage.

  13. I made one on The Future of Cryptocurrencies · · Score: 1

    It's version number 2.

    I call it '$hit oin'.

    It's a craptocurrency, but one based on alimentary, time-tested economic principles, real old-stool. IANAL, but it rests on a strong fecal foundation, with minimal risk of law sewage.

  14. Re:What did you expect? on White House "Privacy Tour" a Flop On Its First Leg At MIT · · Score: 0

    Downvoted? Really?! Christ almighty! NSA bitches abound.

  15. What did you expect? on White House "Privacy Tour" a Flop On Its First Leg At MIT · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"?

    You've got to remember that these are just simple data farmers. These are people from the government. The common clay of the new domestic spying apparatus. You know... morons.

    Also, this Keith Alexander guy: just what a cunt.

  16. Re:This just in on One In Ten Americans Thinks HTML Is a Type of Sexually Transmitted Infection · · Score: 2

    ... and the other half don't know the difference between average and median.

    And the other other half are tiresome pedants, but this is Slashdot, so that figure becomes all but the upper vigintile.

  17. Study confirms that half of all people have below-average intelligence.

  18. The developing world on Facebook Wants Drones To Connect the Developing World · · Score: 1

    Finally, decent internet in the East Bay!

  19. Karma on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 3, Funny

    What goes around comes around. No, wait...

    I mean: He got his comeuppance.... NO!

    Er, that is to say: For every action there is an equal and opposite erection... ah fuck it.

  20. Re:Ah, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communicat on Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive · · Score: 1

    Yeah but neither do these books ever get mentioned on the front page of Slashdot.

    I originally meant my rant to be a poke at Slashot, but instead got carried away by something else entirely (yet again). It's not that there's so much dross, it's that people sometimes thrust it in your face and present it as something of worth.

  21. Ah, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication on Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That bastion of scientific progress and beacon of enlightenment.

    Trash "research" like this is one of the big reasons I had to leave academia. Shelves and shelves lined with tomes of pabulum. So much drivel, you wouldn't believe. And I'm not referring to abstruse areas of investigation, but rather all the ad-hoc, pseudoscientific articles and journals which pollute scientific libraries and are the inevitable answer to the prime commandment of academic life: "publish or perish.".

  22. Meet the Flockers on First Outdoor Flocks of Autonomous Flying Robots · · Score: 1

    Seems kind of gimmicky: more of a PR stunt than actual, you know, technological innovation.

  23. It's not like saying nothing will be of any use on 'Obnoxious' RSA Protests, RSA Remains Mum · · Score: 2

    As if the NSA doesn't already know what they really think.

  24. Be careful on Tesla Used A Third of All Electric-Car Batteries Last Year · · Score: 3, Funny

    At current projected usage, Tesla is threatening to use up all the supply of batteries by 2016, and then there'll be trouble. I foresee a US invasion of Fremont in the near future as mayor Gus Morrisson continues to engage in belligerent talk and saber rattling related to commercial zone redistricting and increased parking fines. Rumors still abound regarding the untimely demise of his predecessor Bob Wasserman. Was it pneumonia, or something far more sinister?

  25. Why a gnu? on Interview: Ask Richard Stallman What You Will · · Score: 1

    Why not perhaps a more majestic creature?