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  1. Re: Jew propaganda bs - on Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence (hopesandfears.com) · · Score: 2
    Uh, hold on...

    A day is 4 facets of Nature's Harmonic 4-Dimensional Time Cube, you are educated stupid to deny it, world leaders are in conspiring to prevent you from knowing the truth. I'm not sure if we're speaking the same language, but this is the closest I can get.

  2. Re:Need the ARC reactor on The Effort To Create an 'Iron Man' Type Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    Where are we supposed to find an Angel for the suit to devour in order to become cordless?

  3. Re:The bill would have been okay... on Legislation Requiring Tech Industry To Report Terrorist Activity Dropped · · Score: 1
  4. If it ever gets human-scaled on Invisibility Cloaking Takes a Big Stride At a Small Scale · · Score: 1
    From TFA:

    If it was used to make black dresses, the wearer’s head and limbs might appear to float around a dress-shaped hole.

    We now have a whole new technology for rich idiots to prank each other with. Or just make dressing up as headless horsemen for Halloween easier.

  5. Re:couldn't hurt on Do We Need More Emojis? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The difference between hieroglyphics and Chinese characters (Korean just uses a syllabary as far as I know) is that while hieroglyphics were actually alphabetic in nature, hanzi/kanji are ideograms. So hieroglyphics are actually closer to the alphabets in use today.

  6. Re:"There are no programs for text editing" on City of Munich Struggling With Basic Linux Functionality · · Score: 1

    You have your choice of vi or emacs. :)

    Great, now civil war's inevitable.

  7. Re:Military version to follow shortly on Clinical Trials Begin For Russia's First Medical Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    "He claims that what they're doing in Russia is the missing piece. A weapon to surpass Metal Gear."

  8. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on An Organic Computer Using Four Wired-Together Rat Brains · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure one of the comics kept the idea.

  9. Re:Presumably the bug count... on Fallout 4 Will Be Skipping Xbox 360 and PS3 · · Score: 1

    Don't tell me you can tolerate commenting in the mobile interface.

  10. Re:Murderer assistant on Microsoft Bringing Cortana To iOS, Android · · Score: 1

    Platonic yandere?

  11. Re:Trantor on Spitzer Space Telescope Finds New Planet · · Score: 1

    Just follow a road, any road. They all lead there.

  12. Re:Social Networking is a mess on Twitter Moves To Curb Instagram Links · · Score: 1

    I guess it's probably convention. That, and pre-specifying and image's dimensions prevent it from shifting text when it loads.

  13. Re:And we are back to them again... on The Untold Story of the Invention of the Game Cartridge · · Score: 1

    I'd say they're pretty different in concept. The former is designed to be reused and rewritten, and executables stored on it are usually wholly copied to the main device's primary storage before being run, as USB isn't fast enough. The latter is ROM made to hold a single program which is run off of it. Plus, cartridges (usually) aren't multi-platform.

  14. Re:Punch cards on Data Archiving Standards Need To Be Future-Proofed · · Score: 1

    But those don't hold up well against time.

  15. Re:Who has the market share? on Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly · · Score: 1

    Nobody's trying to convince you to change anything.

  16. Re:Who has the market share? on Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since we're talking about desktop market shares here, Linux's number isn't that far off. It doubtlessly dominates the server market alongside BSD, though.

  17. Re: Message to George RR Martin: on Dungeons & Dragons' Influence and Legacy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, with those in mind, I'd say he's running 1e with most magic houseruled out.

  18. Re:Message to George RR Martin: on Dungeons & Dragons' Influence and Legacy · · Score: 2

    But what if ASoIaF is actually a retelling of the events in a campaign he's GMing?

  19. Re:So Anonymous were useful idiots for the FBI? on How FBI Informant Sabu Helped Anonymous Hack Brazil · · Score: 1

    Wait. Isn't that what fighting the man is?

  20. Re:Closed source software on New OpenSSL Man-in-the-Middle Flaw Affects All Clients · · Score: 1

    Apple's SSL implementation is actually open source, but true, the only upstream contributor to that repository is Apple.

  21. Re:This is awesome on New OpenSSL Man-in-the-Middle Flaw Affects All Clients · · Score: 1

    Apple's SSL implementation is open source too.

  22. Re:Why not the death sentence while You're at it? on Life Sentences For Serious Cyberattacks Proposed In Britain · · Score: 2

    Stupid svns

    FTFY.

  23. Re:What took them so long? on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    Swift is still new, it might become more community-oriented as it matures. I think the term you're looking for here is "open source with one upstream contributor."

  24. Re:Multi-platform matters on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    Seeing as Apple has been pretty consistent with LLVM/Clang being open source, I wouldn't see why they wouldn't open source it.

  25. Re:looks decent on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    It's not really a proprietary language (and neither is Objective-C, for the same reason) because it compiles using LLVM/Clang, which is open source.