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  1. Re: Why does the world need to be so complex on Illinois Supreme Court: Comcast Must Identify Anonymous Internet Commenter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bullshit. Trolls are an important part of why anonimity is needed. They pull out and open up the issues. They show us our emotions, and what we react to. Without them we lose a big part of our ability to derive truth.

  2. Re:Lemme ask you this ... on Patriot Act Spy Powers To Expire As Rand Paul Blocks USA Freedom Act Vote · · Score: 1

    Except you're not getting a new president. You're getting a copy of an old one.

  3. Re:Lemme ask you this ... on Patriot Act Spy Powers To Expire As Rand Paul Blocks USA Freedom Act Vote · · Score: 1

    It's bipartisan. The thing is, they will let it expire, use that to get into office, stage or provoke another major incident, then reinstate the patriot act, only tougher. Using the excuse that getting rid of it made the country vulnerable to terrorist attack. Later the skeptics, and anti war protesters will group together and fight to stop whatever insane killing is going on. The Democrats will take credit for this and use it to get back into office. It's a tag team match between big oil and the motion picture and movie industry.

  4. Re:You seem to talk much like the Prosecutor... on Murder Accusations Hang Over Silk Road Boss Ulbricht's Sentencing · · Score: 2

    I've read a lot about this, and this guy broke the law, knew he was breaking the law, and got caught. He, pretty much, told them who he was - openly. They caught him red handed with all the evidence he could ever need. The legal system isn't acting in any way that isn't legitimate. Plus, he probably did hire people to kill people. Which, no matter how I feel about draconian drug laws, I will never get behind or agree with. I'm as anti establishment as the next guy, but there is a point where you have to say, lets look at another case...

  5. Huh? on The Tricky Road Ahead For Android Gets Even Trickier · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but iOS really has very little to offer a power user. How many custom Roms can it run? What can you do with it? What kind of other devices run iOS? It's, pretty much, the most boring piece of crap on the planet. People who don't have time to fiddle with their phones tend to get iPhones because of this. I know a lot of tech people who use iPhones so they can avoid the temptation of hacking their Androids. Or they will have one as a second phone in case they blow the Android up and need a phone. No, the world didn't suddenly flood with mentally challenged 'power users'.

  6. Re:As a hiring manager on How Much C++ Should You Know For an Entry-Level C++ Job? · · Score: 1

    Entry level C++ developer is kind of like an entry level bull fighter.

  7. Re:First, define what you mean by "C++" on How Much C++ Should You Know For an Entry-Level C++ Job? · · Score: 1

    LOL, it's always been classified as a mid level language. I came from an assembler background, so this is something that just went without saying for me. But with all these coders coming from high level scripting language backgrounds, it has to be useful to point this out. C/C++ are designed to be able to allow the programmer to get closer to the hardware level while still maintaining it's status as a programming language, as opposed to assembler. Because of this it's more portable. But, it was always a mid level trade off.

  8. Re:A knowledge of cache behaviour on How Much C++ Should You Know For an Entry-Level C++ Job? · · Score: 1

    Nice :D. It's more than that, but that's a clear and clean method using terms most programmers understand. If they can think their way through that one a bit, they have a chance :D.

  9. Huh? on How Much C++ Should You Know For an Entry-Level C++ Job? · · Score: 1

    Huh. It's not about knowing templates or overloading operators, or virtual this or that. It's about knowing when those things are necessary, and how they should be used. Know your way around pointers and memory management, and know how to avoid memory leaks and corrupting the whole system with them. Know the difference between a memory leak and every other kind of bug that can show up in code. It, really, is a specific thing and it doesn't just describe everything. This is why coding in C++ is looked at as hard, I think. it's not about knowing this and doing that. There's no formula. You actually have to be able to think and react accordingly. Seeing people overuse templates when they're unnecessary is worse than people who under use them, for example. I've seen coders rewrite C++ so it will read like Pascal, because that's what they're used to. I want to rip their guts out and kick them back to whatever hell they came from.

  10. Re: foxnews holes on Largest Eruption In the Known Universe Is ~100 Times the Size of Milky Way · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. Those 'EXTRAS' fox news throws in are called lies. Other news outlets tend to add spin to capture audiences. For the full story, talk to people that are there, go there, or do some thorough research on the internet. Fox will never bring more truth to the situation.

  11. Wouldn't it be easier just to have a girlfriend who had one too?

  12. Hrm, there's no indication any of those responses came from astroturfers. Your comments are shit. That's all. You're a sad, angry human who doesn't have the money to buy a half decent pc, so you're taking it out on an innocent /. forum. Get over it. The specs aren't that harsh, I have 2 pcs that will be fine. Otherwise, if you don't like it, don't buy it.

  13. Hrm, because it's not the 90's? The VR being made now is nothing like the stuff they were building in the 90's?

  14. Re:in other news... on Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted · · Score: 1

    I dunno, 8.1 is pretty good with Command Shell. I like it better than 7, at least as long as I avoid the sides of the screen and metro apps. It's so much crisper than 7, the file operation dialog boxes are immensely better than 7's, and the performance charts are better and easier to get to. I do feel like I'm going backwards when I use a Windows 7 machine. *but this is with Command Shell installed, only. Using Windows 8 without it is just stupid and annoying.

  15. Re: It's not limited to the US on More Than 40% of US Honeybee Colonies Died In a 12-Month Period Ending In April · · Score: 1

    Maybe? But this is more about the Farmers going after Monsanto and trying to blame them for CCD because they're butthurt about not being able to save off their seeds at the end of the year. The farmers pushing that are, for the most part, conservative. Their propaganda tents to be directed at Liberals, oddly enough.

  16. Re: From Micro-Soft on Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations · · Score: 0

    No, but all nazis are.

  17. Re:Do you understand English? on House Bill Slashes Research Critical To Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    I think he's stereotyping. Can you prove that he isn't racist? It's a typical issue people with his convictions tend to share through overwhelming correlation.

  18. Re:Cripple Linux? on Intel 'Compute Stick' PC-Over-HDMI Dongle Launched, Tested · · Score: 1

    I think there isn't a person reading this that isn't thinking that they want the Windows version only to put Linux on it. It's what I would do. I've started working on some Pi projects, but I'm wondering what this thing looks like with that plastic case ripped off it.

  19. Re:I thought we were trying to end sexism? on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there's nothing wrong with promoting interest in programming, etc. - but forcing it or recreating situations that have been proven in the past to be deeply flawed and broken? This makes no sense.

  20. Re:And this is news... on NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly · · Score: 1

    Get over it, the Democrats are owned by Hollywood and the MPAA, the Republicans are owned by Big oil and Jesus. 'Mercans are screwed whatever you do, and you're determined to bring the rest of the world down with you.

  21. Re:Hell No Hillary on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Ok, considering that the other person running is probably going to be Jeb Bush, you might want to rethink your comment...

  22. Re:Never consumer ready on 220TB Tapes Show Tape Storage Still Has a Long Future · · Score: 1

    Tape backup drives were most definitely a part of higher end home systems for a while. QIC was directed towards small business and home use from the beginning. High end home computer users and small business owners tend to have similar needs in any case. Right now small business doesn't have acceptable backup options either.

  23. Re:Never consumer ready on 220TB Tapes Show Tape Storage Still Has a Long Future · · Score: 1

    Red drives aren't enterprise level drives. I've started switching to them over Seagate, I have had too many failures in 3tb Seagate drives.

  24. Re:Never consumer ready on 220TB Tapes Show Tape Storage Still Has a Long Future · · Score: 1

    Tape isn't a fair option for a home system. I have a 21tb RAID6 that's growing quickly. I need something like this now, and cheap. Right now, my best option seems to be the 8tb archive drives Seagate is selling, I don't know. Honestly, there is no good solution. Even RAID6 I'm nervous, and it's good to be able to backup, wipe, and rebuild my raid if I want to fix or change something about it. I'm on Ubuntu mdadm/ext4 64 bit right now, and I wouldn't mind trying out some of the Freebsd/zfs options. I don't know. No matter what, it would be nice to have some flexibility and another level of safety.

  25. Fuuu on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Holy Fuckbutts. Awesome.