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  1. Re: Does anyone really believe the government here on Cody Wilson, 3D-Printed Gun Pioneer, Arrested In Taiwan (reason.com) · · Score: 0

    I'll add that it is absolutely disgusting that anyone who considers them self a liberal would result into such hideous victim-blaming of a child. Basically, no one should victim-blame a child.

  2. Stanford? on 'Father of GPS' Receives the IEEE Medal of Honor (eetimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Didn't he get a PhD from Stanford and teach at Stanford?

    https://profiles.stanford.edu/...

  3. Re:Please not creimer! on Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can't understand all the Trump bashing then you are likely a Russian troll.

  4. Is Texas a troll state? on Apple Must Pay Patent Troll More Than $500 Million In iMessage Case (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, the Eastern District of Texas at least.

  5. Re: Lawsuit in 3... 2... 1... on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We have members of the armed services on food stamps.

  6. Re:Is LA that different? on Most Cities Would Welcome a Tech Billionaire, But Peter Thiel? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The California House Congressional delegation is 39 Democrats to 14 Republicans. There are two Democratic Senators from CA. There are no Republicans elected statewide to any governing posts, Governor down to State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Cheeto lost statewide in California, 61.73% to 31.62%. California is a deeply blue state.

  7. Re:Which amendment ? on The Trump Administration Has Announced the End of DACA -- Unless Congress Can Act To Save It (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Article 2, Section 1.

    However, if you think that DACA is unconstitutional then why wasn't it successfully challenged? By comparison, the AZ state law attempting to limit DACA got tossed.

  8. Re:Flash? turn it off? on Chromification Continues: Firefox May Use Chrome's PDF and Flash Plugins (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    chrome://plugins/

    Just turn it off. I turned Native Client off as well.

  9. Re:Men prepare for 21% pay cut on Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft Sign White House Pledge For Equal Pay (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    If the only reason why you were paid 21% more than women are is because you're a guy, you are a sad strange little man and you have my pity.

  10. Re:Oh boy on Hillary Clinton Chooses Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine As Running Mate (go.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Kaine supports public abortion funding. (Oct 2012) http://www.ontheissues.org/Sen...

  11. So on Guccifer 2.0 Drops New Documents (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    what.

  12. More years than he hasn't been doing the LInux kernel. He's 46 and he started 24 years go when he was 22. September 1991.

  13. Stallman hated // C++ comments on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    which is odd since it's pretty much the only thing C++ did right.

  14. Material science is definitely not my area but the only articles I can find on this revolutionary process are in GizMag.

    http://www.gizmag.com/stronger...
    http://www.gizmag.com/flash-ba...

    There is a patent application from 2008:

    https://patents.google.com/pat...

    But then there is a .mil evaluation:

    http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc...

  15. bro is a perfectly good noun on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    There is nothing misogynistic about bro. Guy is not misogynistic. Dude is not misogynistic.
    Buddy is not misogynistic. Bloke is not misogynistic. Cat, chap and fella are not misogynistic.

    Gal is not misandristic. Babe is not misandristic. Cafebabe is not misandristic. Chick, doll and honey are not misandristic.

    Mozilla though, may be misandristic.

  16. Cut out the middle man on Ask Slashdot: Best Data Provider When Traveling In the US? · · Score: 1

    The NSA.

  17. Another Function Key please on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    Would that the Caps Lock Key were repurposed as another Function Key.

    As I type this on my MacBook Pro, I notice that ALL of the Function Keys are overloaded. What is so special about the Caps Lock Key that it wouldn't be overloaded? I usually end up disabling it: System Preferences>Keyboard>Keyboard>Modifiers Keys>Caps Lock>No Action. At least this prevents me from accidentally locking my caps which I NEVER EVER want to do.

  18. Re:depends upon what you're making on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Yes, they use zero unsafe C features. They use unsafe C++ features.

  19. Linus was being too nice. on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    A fair comparison is Linux vs LLVM.

    Linux is written in clean fast readable maintable C with GCC extensions.
    LLVM is written in C++.

    Go ahead and look.

  20. Objective C on Ask Slashdot: Which Classic OOP Compiled Language: Objective-C Or C++? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hate C++. It's the triumph of syntax over clarity. The only thing it brought to the game was a better commenting method. I can't read a page of C++ without referring to something. I've never seen clear clean C++. I'd never willfully write in C++. Objective C is a measured improvement over C and I vacillate between obj C and GCC. Would that Swift were more like obj C and less like C++.

  21. C++ is the triumph of syntax over clarity on Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded 2015 Dahl-Nygaard Prize · · Score: 1

    In my career, C++ has been my least favorite language. There's really nothing I like about it, save its introduction of // commenting. I hate looking at a page of C++ and not having any idea and knowing I can have any idea ever given that one page. I wouldn't recommend it for anything, for anyone, ever.

  22. No way in hell would I work with progressives on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 1

    I have progressives for driving and everything else. I also have prescription sunglasses for driving. But for computer work, I have a readers with the focal distance set at about 3-4 feet, tool distance. To be clear that is *not* reading distance. It's the distnace of your laptop or desktop. I also use these when I'm working with tools. But there are many choices out there, depending on your wallet. Single vision butt ugly prescription readers are CHEAP. Be certain that they are good and ugly so that you only use them for said purpose. If you have slightly more cash, you can get Seiko PCWide Trivex. Basically progressive exists because the lense makers can pretty much infinitely vary their lenses. Progressives are two or three lenses in one. But you can also optimize for other criteria. These are called free-form lenses and for a few dollars more you can get lenses optimized to you as well such as Seiko Individual. You will have to educate yourself on this. Your optician may not know or have the time to explain. But to be blunt about your question, no way in hell would I work with progressives.

  23. Us Yanks are just trying to understand this. on UK Man Jailed For 'Offensive Tweets' · · Score: 1
    Again, we'll grant that the guy is a dick. There are a lot of dicks in the world. Catch me on a bad day and I'm a dick.

    Slander and libel are handled in the civil courts. If I say, Beckhem can't play the game of soccer, Mr. Beckham can sue me. Fire in a crowded theater is immediately dangerous, accent on immediate. Advertising is commerce.

    I'm not saying you're wrong. At all. But our First Amendment says Congress shall make no law ... abridging the Freedom of Speech. It's only these incidents that illuminate differences for us.

    As for the penalty, from this side of the pond jailing and getting kicked out of school for being a drunk dick on Twitter, I see that as excessive.

  24. Schwarzkopf didn't say that. on Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was a Bush underling, Jed Babbin. Schwarzkopf was honored as a Honorary First-Class Private in the French Foreign Legion in 1991. France sent 18,000 troops to that war.

  25. Re:It's not just the textbooks on Math Textbooks a Textbook Example of Bad Textbooks · · Score: 1

    You're disagreeing with something the parent didn't say. He said that it's ok to keep reusing a standard text rather than coming out with the 2012 Social Media Enhanced Edition of First Grade Arithmetic. He didn't say that profs can/should write their own texts. In particular, he narrowed his argument to "Pre-university mathematics". I rather like my university math texts, Stewart Calculus in particular. Even in university there is a churn that requires students to buy the latest edition. But for elementary school and high school, I think Anonymous' argument is brilliant.