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  1. Re:I agree on BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying · · Score: 1

    Lack of intimacy. It makes people nuts

  2. Re:is it really the same? on Can Older Software Developers Still Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 2

    Do you have any recent technologies to cite as examples? Fp and async were both codified and well established in the 70s.
    Admittedly, learning the new names for the same old shit, gets old faster than I do...

  3. slashdot is... on BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45 · · Score: 1

    aggrandize ... enhance the reputation of (someone) beyond what is justified by the facts...

    aggregate ... pieces of broken or crushed stone or gravel...

    Seems either is appropriate.

  4. Re:This Entire Thread on LLVM Clang Compiler Now C++11 Feature Complete · · Score: 1

    Ironically mirroring gcc itself....

  5. Re:Secularism on Ask Slashdot: What Planks Would You Want In a Platform of a Political Party? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Serious answer: you have it backwards.
    Our religious beliefs are derived from our intrinsic sense of morality and ethics.
    That and a healthy side dish of hatred, prejudice and self aggrandizement.
    Although Genesis proclaims ... So God created man in his own image, ...
    I rather prefer: ... So Man create God in his own image...

  6. malwarebytes finally gets it right on Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers · · Score: 4, Funny

    It identified the malware, disabled it, and everyone gets upset...
    no pleasing some people

  7. Americophobes? on Canadian Official Escorted From House For Others' Facebook Comments · · Score: 1

    Misamericist is a closer butchery of English (or proper Merkin if you prefer). The fear only applies to their insane worship of violence...

    The media is but a dim reflection; in this case, dimmer.

  8. Re:Great AI on Why Self-Driving Cars Are Still a Long Way Down the Road · · Score: 1

    You could set your imaginary sights much lower, like towards piss poor AI, and still be off with the fairies.

  9. Re:My theory on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    It appears to be the other way around. The users have trained on the mobile/touch UI, and MicroSoft are ambitiously trying to regain lost ground.
    You have to give them credit for trying something different; especially since they are gambling with their existing user base.
    Given the shaky reception it has received in all form factors, I wonder if they will stay the course....

  10. Re:More spending.... on Is $100 Million Per Year Too Little For The Brain Map Initiative? · · Score: 1

    Apparently the answer is more like:

    âoe2/3 of an F22 at a time...â.

  11. 27b/6 on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    ....
    Blaming a gun for someone being shot may be like blaming a fork for making Rosie O'Donnell fat but limiting her access to the cutlery drawer couldn't hurt. ....

  12. In related news.... on Canada Launches ACTA Bill · · Score: 1

    Keystone XL passed a notable hurdle today....

    There is no whore like an old whore - Brian Mulroney, former Canadian PM and (presumably still) douche bag.

  13. Favourite Mill quote... on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 1

    I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

  14. negligent? on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    This thread is the airing of violent revenge fantasies to sooth the stress and anxiety of a desperate state of inadequacy and powerlessness. All you have is negligent? Right fucking insane, the whole lot of them. Except for the G*P who was clearly making a too early jab at trigger happy para-athletes.

    Now back to fantasy land.

    Would it sound too gay if I said I wanted to shoot them in the face?

  15. Re:As Opposed Too.. (Helter Skelter!) on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 1

    | Several cool trillions

    citation? preferably an un-funded citation...

  16. The Guardian? on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you donâ(TM)t need to read the article....

  17. Re: Time? on Ask Slashdot: What Features Belong In a 'Smartwatch'? · · Score: 1

    | Interesting concept, poor implementation.

    What could be more Sony than that?

  18. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

    -Ayn Rand

    [ regardless, she is still a horses ass ]

  19. Doh! on Over the Antarctic, the Smallest Ozone Hole In a Decade · · Score: 1

    | It's so much easier to win arguments with imaginary opponents who can be vilified for saying outrageous things.

    | ... beloved by Lefties in particular, that "economics doesn't matterâ.

    Thanks for the great example of the strawman argument.

  20. fakery on Paper On Conspiratorial Thinking Invokes Conspiratorial Thinking · · Score: 1

    re: ..they think it is a load of crap..

    I believe that use of the word think is misleading. Technically, think is synonymous with (be of the) opinion; however it implies that the opinion is one garnered by contemplation of connected ideas.

    It does not suffice to contemplate what opinion could lead to my greatest personal benefit then present that as what I think. That is contemptible fakery.

  21. Re:My Ass on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1

    I think you are very generous. The vendor does really have the authority to have the student ejected. That points a finger at an overly cozy relationship between the vendor and the university.
    Quebec has recently been cleaning house over inappropriate cozy relationships between publicly financed institutions and businesses (for lack of a better term).
    Maybe the student union should draw the attention of the Charbonneau Inquiry. The inquiry seems to have a problem with witnesses suddenly flipping their stories. I wonder why.

  22. Re:The iPhone was designed for web apps. on Amazon Sidesteps App Store Business Model, Plays Back MP3s From Safari · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did you notice who the submitter was?
    It would be notable if it was not stupid.

  23. Who gets the IP? on Dell Said To Be In Buyout Talks With Private-Equity Firms · · Score: 1

    Colour coded input jacks changed the back side of personal computing.... a Dell innovation.

  24. Ms Learning Curve on Microsoft Patents Tech That Would Silence Your Phone For You · · Score: 1

    Last year they applied for patents on interpreting users striking their devices. Now, they want to make devices less annoying.

    Are they learning from their previous mobile efforts?

    Hey Bob, users find our phones annoying and want to hit them. Can we do something with that?

  25. the third option - options. on The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts · · Score: 1

    Try googling:
    apple call options jan 19
    Over half a billion dollars could be liberated (in the Iraq sense) if AAPL remains below $550 through this date, then rises.