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  1. Windows 10 is what pushed me to Linux on the desktop as well. I game on my one Windows desktop, and run a free and non-spywared OS everywhere else now!

  2. You keep looking for that word: privateer. I do not think that word means what you think it means.

  3. Would that make the wearers of these devices *snaps on regular sunglasses*...
      Appholes?

    Don't worry, I'll see myself out the door.

  4. My team's mail server admin did lose his **** when the students at the university started replying-all to an email sent by the communications department with the dl in the To instead of the BCC box. The resulting thread brought down our email servers for a few hours, and for 15 minutes at first, the admin console was not even responding.

  5. Re:Here's your list on Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Citation needed

  6. Re:And what exactly is Ubuntu Budgie? on Ubuntu Budgie Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Does budgie remind anyone else of wedgie, too?

  7. What makes you think Senators would make better projectiles?

    They're cheaper?

  8. Yawn. Let me know when they get the Improbable Drive going.

  9. Re:Who gets the discounts? on Uber, Lyft, Zipcar Offer Free Or Discounted Rides To Polls On Election Day (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Frankly, it's a tough call either way for the United States, but I definitely expect Uber, Lyft, and the like to prefer Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump.

  10. Re:Major incident caused by a "computer virus" on Computer Virus Attack Forces Hospitals To Cancel Operations, Shut Down Systems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What filesystem do you use? I would like to know what snap-shotting filesystem you use that serves Windows systems.

  11. 2016 was the Year of Linux on My Desktop. At home, my main system is Korora 23 (I had problems the one time I tried whatever replaced fedup; haven't gotten around to trying again). I have my Windows desktop around because it still has some of my old games installed on it.
    I switched to LibreOffice at the same time. I still use Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2013 at work, but only because I haven't gotten a new system. If I get a new one at all, I'll install Linux first and virtualize Windows. At present I am virtualizing Linux at work.

    I work with Linux server all day, at home and work.

  12. Re:Didn't Work. on Archive.org Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    Time machine, remember?

  13. Re:Obviously... on How Linux Saved A School's Failing Windows Laptop Program (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    What part of the country are you hiring in?

  14. Re:Considering the decline in code quality... on Bad Code May Have Crashed Schiaparelli Mars Lander (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    No, goto hell is still worse!

  15. Re:Didn't Work. on Archive.org Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    You were holding it wrong!

  16. Re:They tell you upfront it isn't going to be good on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed After Losing Showrunner Bryan Fuller (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    A woman was the security officer until the actress wanted off the show for unrelated reasons (didn't want to be type-cast, iirc). RIP, Lt. Yar!

  17. Re:They tell you upfront it isn't going to be good on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed After Losing Showrunner Bryan Fuller (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    In Star Trek: Voyager, the character striving for humanity was the Doctor. Also Seven of Nine, but the Doctor was definitely the outsider. By the time the show Voyager came around, half-Klingon wasn't really news and simply made portraying the internal struggles of the character B'elanna easier (since everybody has internal struggles) when it came up. It wasn't a huge deal that she was half-anything. The Doctor's programming to resemble a human and act similar to a human, as well as Seven of Nine's Borgness led to each character's struggle to be more human.

  18. This sounds like a job for the Apps guy! Except, he needs to rebrand to "Apple guy."

  19. Does anyone else see a "Microsoft Azure App Service" Sponsored Content entry right beneath this one on the main page?

  20. Re:What are we forgetting... on Elon Musk's Mars Colony Would Have a Horde of Mining Robots (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Hm, I seem to recall some very interesting enforcement possible on Mars-- totally!

  21. Beyond the Titanic. I was just a kid, and I didn't know what I was doing. I would get into the under(water/ground?) grotto, and then never figure out where to go from there. Good stuff! It's a game, for command-line people. How amusing that I am now a linux and CLI guy. I should give these text adventures a shot again.

  22. Re:How long... on Chemical-Releasing Bike Lock Causes Vomiting To Deter Thieves (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Cryptobiker?

  23. Re:So what are these CISSP "cyberwarriors" doing? on Prosecutors Say Contractor Stole 50 Terabytes of NSA Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the budget situation not already so?

  24. Comment on China Overtakes the US in iOS App Store Revenue (techcrunch.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apps are for cows, you Chinese cows. Apps!

  25. Exactly. That's the sound it makes when it does that.