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  1. Amen to that one!

    Any time you have one piece of information serving two roles you are opening yourself up to problems down the line.

  2. The only additions in my hosts file... on MacKeeper Discloses 13 Million Mac Users' Details With Poor Hash Protection (mackeeper.com) · · Score: 1

    Were because these asshats would prevent me from leaving the web page when I was redirected there...

    ##
    # Host Database
    #
    # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
    # when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
    ##
    127.0.0.1 localhost
    255.255.255.255 broadcasthost ::1 localhost
    fe80::1%lo0 localhost

    127.0.0.1 mackeeperapp.mackeeper.com
    127.0.0.1 www.mackeeper.com

  3. What about Homophones? on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    I was waiting for you 3 hours at "write.plain.genes" no....not "right.plane.jeans"!!

  4. It only makes you smarter than you are... on Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' · · Score: 1

    ...by making your friends dumber than they look.

  5. Passes what? on Nobel Laureate and Laser Inventor Charles Townes Passes · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Wind? Seriously, what's wrong with the word "dies"?

  6. Journalists aren't out to be accurate though... on An Open Letter To Everyone Tricked Into Fearing AI · · Score: 1

    They just want to be sensational enough to flog their own agenda to subscribers. Whenever I've been knowledgable about a news article (one that involved me personally) my impression from the news organization's take on it was that they got completely the wrong end of the stick and actually spread falsehoods and lies.

  7. What about the old chestnuts... on British 'Porn Filter' Blocks Access To Chaos Computer Club · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering how Scunthorpe Council is getting on. Did they get blocked, again?

  8. Re:Religion on Ken Ham's Ark Torpedoed With Charges of Religious Discrimination · · Score: 1

    At least quote it in context...

    "The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

    Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

    The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

    Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself."

  9. I need this in comparable terms. on SanDisk Releases 512GB SD Card · · Score: 1

    Just how many Libraries of Congress are we talking about, here?

  10. Coming soon to a street near you on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 4, Funny

    Driverless car pulled over by driverless cop car and given a ticket.

  11. If you want a time machine go to Bing Maps... on Google Opens Up Street View Archives From 2007 To Today · · Score: 1

    We have a lovely convention centre here in Vancouver, built and opened for the 2010 Olympics. In Bing maps unfortunately it is still at the piling stage :(

  12. Re:There's a solution you know on Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber · · Score: 1

    Something akin to removal of appendages like in the 'old' days would seem to be appropriate.
    or...
    If they really want to live in a place with no infrastructure then exile to a barren island would be a suggestion..

  13. Hey!!! on King James Programming · · Score: 5, Funny

    It actually makes more sense!

  14. Call your Telecoms provider on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 1

    They should be able to see that you are being harassed and block the call for you.

  15. You pray if you like on Queen's WWIII Speech Revealed · · Score: -1, Troll

    "As we strive together to fight off the new evil, let us pray for our country and men of goodwill wherever they may be"

    Because you know if there's ever an imminent threat the members of the Royal Family aren't going to be sat at Buck House with a cuppa tea counting down the seconds...they'll be on their merry way to the other three corners of the globe.

  16. Re:Obligartory on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Fcuk you mothertrucker!

    Now...was I profane or not?

  17. Re: WTF? on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    ...and don't even get me started with Team Foundation Server vs SourceSafe!

  18. Re: WTF? on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, Microsoft have been working on this aspect to try to slow down VS to compete with Eclipse. VS2012 for instance now has a pause built in where you can't do anything for about 10 seconds when you open up an aspx page, presumably while it parses the file for you...even when you don't want intellisense and just want to copy some code out. It gets really annoying after a while.

    Vanilla VS2012 won't let you build an installer for a Windows service either, which you could do with VS2010, so I have to maintain both of them on my dev box, unfortunately.

  19. This has been working for years already on Scientists Use Sound Waves To Levitate, Move Objects · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just play any, for example, Justin Bieber tune and the resulting sound waves instantly move me out of the room. Most commercials on TV work the same way, unless I'm in control of the remote.

  20. Sounds interesting.... on Join COBOL's Next Generation · · Score: 1

    Until you realize that you have to go back to the world of Packed Decimal and EBCDIC - no thanks!!!

  21. Critical Bugs on Java API and Microsoft's .NET API: a Comparison · · Score: 2

    C# does not appear to have 40 Critical bug fixes every quarter like Java does either. The latest Java update has caused a _lot_ of business systems to crash.

  22. Surveillance on congress-persons? on FBI Admits To Domestic Surveillance Drone Use · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't members of the Senate and Congress be first to submit to phone/email surveillance and drone coverage?

    After all they are very important people and they need to be kept safe from the terrorists. And I'm sure they have nothing illegal to hide.

  23. Tunnel? on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's digging a tunnel to the nearest tube station.

  24. Batshit Crazy on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 1

    Don't forget - the batshit crazy folks have a right to print guns too...because...well they have a right to protect themselves just like the rest, don't they?

  25. Remote control on Quadcopter Guided By Thought — Accurately · · Score: 1

    The person doing the controlling and the robot don't need to be in the same location...it could be that a robot could effect repairs in space controlled by a person on the ground by thought, or a surgeon could similarly control a robot to work on battlefield casualties.