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  1. ÂHablan inglés? on The Nations of the Amazon Want the Name Back (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    so there's a bunch of Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries that want to have the English spelling in their TLD? why don't they fight over .amazonas or .amazona?

  2. Hacker publishes on Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Hacker publishes URLs of 435 major websites

  3. In one fell swoop, this person did exactly what free software is trying to prevent: a single overpowered entity who decides to leave and take his ball home with him, thus ruining it for everyone else. Power to the People? Only if our benevolent dictator also gets his way.

  4. Re:How about a "UL approved" instead? on Drupal Creator Floats an "FDA For Data and Algorithms" · · Score: 1

    Good idea, but these do exist in many forms though they're not necessarily keeping up with industry needs. I know for 61508 SIL (Safety Integrity Levels) many companies, which I'm not going to mention here, offer these services. Of course, the problem is how do you know that an algorithm is good enough? For SIL, they basically say if it's complex at all, then don't do it. Of course, these are safety systems, so they need to guarantee safety. But at times it feels like they're saying if you don't want to get in car wreck, then you must walk. It's not for lack kof trying on their part, it's just a hard problem.

  5. Re: It's backwards on Why Winners Become Cheaters (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    My guess is they cheated in the first part in a creative, unexpected way. Won. Then continued to cheat I the second part in expected ways.

  6. Re: What do you mean... on LibreOffice 5.1 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    +1 insightful. I don't think you're a troll. But I do think everyone should be doing memory management. :-)

  7. Re: What do you mean... on LibreOffice 5.1 Officially Released · · Score: 0

    They're just haters. No modern computer user can honestly say they'd prefer searching through dropdown menus over the ribbon that focuses on putting the most used features at the users fingertips. The ribbon isn't perfect only because it's a difficult ui problem. But it's damn nice. I'm a big fan of libreoffice but my biggest problem with it is that it feels like office 2003 because they haven't(or legally can't? ) replicated the ribbon.

  8. Re: Another reason to avoid "cloud" solutions on Microsoft Backs Down, Lets OneDrive Users Keep Their Free 15GB of Storage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Pray I don't alter the terms further

  9. I don't believe Pluto truthers actually exist. it's all part of a conspiracy to make us argue about something other than Benghazi

  10. Re: I'm of two minds about this. on Machine Learning System Detects Emotions and Suicidal Behavior · · Score: 1

    Parentalistic... I like it. I'm gonna try this out and see how it works

  11. Re:Coding standards? on 2014 Underhanded C Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Going even further, it's tough to get certain engineers not to write code like this. Coding standards are needed not to prevent malice but to manage incompetence. A lot of less experienced developers will gladly fight to write software without standards then these types of bugs will be everywhere. The real malice in this case is this competition which is encouraging people to write obfuscated, and thus buggy, software.