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  1. Re:I want to be reincarnated as Linus Torvalds on Linus Torvalds Says 'Buggy Crap' Made It Into Linux 4.8 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    These are the same people who think Steve Jobs invented the mouse, and Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote MS DOS in their garage in their spare time.

  2. Re:Desperate Donald, there's no point... on FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say (foxnews.com) · · Score: 0

    I honestly doubt Trump gives a shit about slashdot

    I think you meant to say "I honestly doubt Trump has ever heard of slashdot."

  3. I just realized the awesomeness of that metaphor: Robocop worked for the government, but he was beholden to Corporate America.

    Oh, well, good thing it's nothing like real life.

  4. Re:SOmething Useful like... Authentication? on Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft Come Together To Create Historic Partnership On AI (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Funny how Yahoo didn't get invited to the party, with their sterling track record on security.

  5. Hasn't the State seen fit to provide you with just enough food so you don't suffer from the scourge of obesity

    Obviously hasn't been to the USA.

  6. >>>As T.S. Eliot observed “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.” Belief can be, and often is, used to justify action that would otherwise be clearly horrible.

    The most monstrous crimes in the history of mankind were committed by people who did not drink vodka, did not smoke, were not unfaithful to their wives, and fed squirrels from the palms of their i hands. —Viktor Suvorov

  7. Ironically, Jesus felt the same way.

  8. Re:Courage on iOS 10 Is Surfacing Hardcore Porn GIFs in iMessage (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I'll bet they have the "courage" to fix this before they fix "touch disease".

  9. What do you expect from those Loonix users?

  10. Re:Where's Lee Majors? on Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in US Diesel Emissions Probe (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    I thought he died ages ago.

  11. Re:Bring Back the Thorazine! on Walmart Is Cutting 7,000 Jobs Due To Automation (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Would that be Bernie as in Made-off?

  12. Re: All according to plan on Walmart Is Cutting 7,000 Jobs Due To Automation (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0

    Dear God, you Libertarians crack me up.

  13. Re:Keyboard? Battery and OS are the problem. on Lenovo's 'Yoga Book' Laptop Is So Thin It Needs A Touchscreen Keyboard (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux people will miss any hardware novelty or burn the think for lack of fan support, then end up on a xterm with an external USB keyboard, coding their builtin ACPI and keyboard drivers and struggling to get rid of systemd, let alone trying to cope with the lack of any modern and consistent GUI.

    Classic.

  14. If by guys you mean "young men", then yeah.

    At my age I think about it every few hours.

  15. Re:And so here we are. on FBI Director Says Prolific Default Encryption Hurting Government Spying Efforts (go.com) · · Score: 1

    But young people are smarter! Zuckerberg said it, it must be true!

  16. Re:Should be: First World reasons to be excited on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    While much of the USA is becoming a 3rd world country.

  17. Re:Too Happy on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Comment from the Youtube video you linked to:

    "that's the future i want to see. perhaps not in the exaggerated way like in the video, but it's ten times better than playing snake like in early 2000s. with that technology it never getting boring that's for sure."

    >>>Let's hope the budget for road maintenance is still approved.

    Not likely, since places like Vermont are tearing up the roads and going back to gravel.

  18. Re:Eleven reasons to be depressed abou the future on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, replied to wrong poster.

  19. Re:Eleven reasons to be depressed abou the future on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Comment from the Youtube video you linked to:

    "that's the future i want to see. perhaps not in the exaggerated way like in the video, but it's ten times better than playing snake like in early 2000s. with that technology it never getting boring that's for sure."

    >>>Let's hope the budget for road maintenance is still approved.

    Not likely, since places like Vermont are tearing up the roads and going back to gravel.