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  1. Base Case on Baseball Software Can't Score What Jean Segura Did Friday · · Score: 1

    I had no idea you could go backwards on the bases.

    As a software engineer, I blame it on poor requirement documents and insufficient use case permutations.

  2. Whatever. on Bruce Schneier On the Marathon Bomber Manhunt · · Score: 2

    "Please stay indoors and off the roads unless you have a really good reason."

    "May we search your house for him?"

    Holy shit! The horrors!

  3. > Even before the error, theÂnumber of students qualifying
    >Âfor gifted seats â" 9,020 â" was far higher than the number
    > of seats.

    It doesn't make a difference -- this is the real stupidity. It's long since been shown society would get much more bang for its buck devoting just a fraction of the money it spends making sure every last yokel can count to ten to accelerated education for people who actually invent stuff.

    But those yokels, as adults, are amenable to claims that that is elitist, by other yokels seeking their support in power grabs.

  4. Can't even tell on Did B&N Pass On the 6.8" E-ink Screen That Kobo Snapped Up? · · Score: 1

    Is this thing B&W? It isn't worth $20 to me if it's B&W.

  5. Re:Gotta Love 4chan on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 1

    Apparently someone missed my sarcasm and thought I was being serious.

    Or...

    Apparently someone got my sarcasm, and realized I was mocking their beloved theory.

  6. Re:And anybody who complains about the unsightly v on World's Largest Ocean Thermal Power Plant Planned For China · · Score: 1

    Hey! The US is still great! We have over $800 billion a year in annual regulatory burden!

  7. Re:Rights. And stuff. on Police Capture Second Marathon Bombing Suspect in Watertown, Mass. · · Score: 1

    Four are dead, 160+ injured, some badly. It was a miracle more weren't. Also, massive response has a purpose beyond the immediate.

    Were any houses besides the dead suspect's searched without warrant or a knock on the door and asking?

  8. Re:Oh good. on Police Capture Second Marathon Bombing Suspect in Watertown, Mass. · · Score: 1

    The question of safe to go out is moot. It's Friday night and these are nerds.

    Also, these are the people hanging out on 4chan. So it's double-moot.

    Wai, how convenient. This is 4chan. It's triple-moot.

  9. Re:Make him run the Marathon on Police Capture Second Marathon Bombing Suspect in Watertown, Mass. · · Score: 1

    Flip him end over end to calculate a metric equivalent of the Smoot. At very high speed.

  10. Re:Basically, you want the company store on Drug Site Silk Road Says It Will Survive Bitcoin's Volatility · · Score: 1

    Libertarians do not object to government; they rely on it in their political philosophy. You are thinking of anarchists. Scams are wrong in a liberterian world, too.

    Including government ones.

  11. Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist on Changing the Ratio of Women In Tech: How Etsy Did It · · Score: 1

    > "Yet when Marc Hedlund took the helm of Etsy’s Product Development
    > & Engineering department, 97% of the engineering department were men."

    Huh. That is a pretty low ratio...of men.

  12. Re:Gotta Love 4chan on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 0

    The pictures of those two were couched in terms of conspiracy theory -- look at their huge bags which have a white spot like some blown-up thing! Oh my! These aren't the official suspects!

    - Wake up sheeple! Government is blaming it on some innocent teens! These real guys over here are government agents, see them hold their hands to their ear like TV?

    - Here's a statement from an agent who fears he will lose his job for saying this, but gubberment plans to blame it on innocent young men who they will conveniently kill when arresting!

  13. I heard Dakota is topless in her next film... on Iron Man 3 To Debut As a 4DX Film In Japan · · Score: 1

    I really don't want zombie rotting meat smells, nor assal-derived ones.

    I'm fine with Anne Hathaway or any other starlet's freshly-unholstered areolar or underboob scents, though, which I imagine is like a slightly musty fallen log found in the woods when you went on a hike some years ago.

  14. Re:Handing over our Rights on CISPA Passes US House, Despite Privacy Shortcomings and Promised Veto · · Score: 2

    How is his corporations' fault? It's good old government normality: Trying to void rights, and the same way Hitler did, by appealing to emergency needs.

    All the corporations did was, reasonably, seek legal protection for governments abusing this power.

    The correct solution is to forbid government this power to begin with. That, more than anything else, is the core teaching of the US Constitution.

  15. Re:Global Warming on Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will · · Score: 1

    I believe you answered your own question.

  16. Re:Been wondering myself. on LinkedIn Invites Gone Wild: How To Keep Close With Exes and Strangers · · Score: 1

    I would get introduced to family of a headhunter I used 8 years ago once.

  17. They touched phones...to start. on In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest · · Score: 1

    > In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest

    "Well, that's what we thought they'd use it for. Turns out 99% of people used it to find close relatives they didn't know to bang."

  18. Re:Coincidence? on Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant · · Score: 1

    The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence + I hate daddy syndrome.

    With a straight face, people bitch about capitalism using their iPhones, then drive to McDonald's to shove Big Macs down their 250- lb. gullets.

  19. Re:Why are these stories on /.? on Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant · · Score: 1

    This is what news organizations have been doing long before social media.

    The evening of the bombing, CNN was already analyzing Obama's speech w.r.t. whether he did a good job or not. Meta-analysis.

    That's fine for a politics class, but a news show?

  20. Re:How Tragic on Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant · · Score: 1

    I don't know but got that feeling from CNN this morning, that it was happily minding its own business in BFE and people built houses around it.

  21. Re:People Need to Realize on Google Breathes New Life Into EU's Cookie Law · · Score: 2

    Is it interesting? Corporate profits keep shelves jammed with things.

    The real evil is the privacy laws doesn't extend to government, which continues to root through things.

    Are you in Europe? Ask your grandma. She has experience with governments peeking when they shouldn't, and/or "wonderful" places that outlawed corporate profits.

  22. They were right to scrub. on Antares Rocket Launch Scrubbed · · Score: 4, Funny

    This evening's planned launch of the Orbital Sciences Antares rocket had to becanceled just 12 minutes before liftoff

    Wow! Antares is 470 light years away. Private space companies are advancing faster than I thought.

  23. Re:Somewhat academic, really. on House Panel Backs 'Internet Freedom' Legislation · · Score: 1

    Are we so diseased we assume "control by government" is the natural and proper base from which to start thinking about topics? It's a truism that government, AKA people in power who want to maintain it -- including those in the US -- will automatically assume so.

  24. A modern Constitution would be a joke. on House Panel Backs 'Internet Freedom' Legislation · · Score: 0

    "Notably, however, lawmakers dropped from the legislation the phrase “free from government control,” which had threatened to derail the April 11 markup by the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. ... [Democrats argued] it could undermine the U.S. government’s ability to enforce existing — or future — laws online.'"

    Sorry, Democrats. Even your congenital desire to hold up cardboard with "Commerce Clause" on it the way a rainbow-haired guy holds up John 3:16 isn't enough to override the First Amendment.

    Strange bedfellows -- what do you and the John 3:16 AKA religious folk have in common? 500 word paper due to tomorrow, turn in to Madison and Monroe.

  25. And we're glad of it. on Canadian Official Escorted From House For Others' Facebook Comments · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Well!" think half the other MPs, "Thank god I don't even know how to use a computer."