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  1. Re: Crybaby on An AI Is Finally Trouncing The World's Best Poker Players (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    All four heads look like they were photoshopped on. :D

  2. Re: False premise on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Install a hypervisor and run Windows 7 on that.

  3. Re: First on Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In the future there will be an obscurely incompatible encoding.

  4. Re:Countdown to endless arguments in 3.. 2.. 1.. on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    >> Weight it in space (measure it's mass, to be precise).

    > 3) The period goes inside the closing parenthesis.

    OK, I'll even understand this is the form considered acceptable in English (as if that language could go lower in my judgment...).

    But care to explain why?

    The way I see the structure of the phrase is "assertion (accessory comment ) [terminator-sign]", where [terminator-sign] is the period.

    Why would it be pushed inside the brackets if it does not belong in the comment?

    Because it helps with physical typesetting machines. It is American English, not to be confused with English. And yes, it is illogical, and if it bothers you just put the period where it belongs.

  5. Re:Since '85?! on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    No actually old farts are being hired in droves. We're not "snowflakes" in need of constant coddling and stroking. We understand we work to pay our bills and be of service to our employers... Not fulfill our dream selves. Great if our job can be fulfilling, but not really necessary.

    So what you're saying is your just old snowflakes?

    The word is durable.

  6. Re:What's wrong with using COBOL? on Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, why is it a problem that they keep using something that works?

  7. Re:Check your own records on Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Free men own dildos. Slaves don't.

  8. Re:You mean Windows phones are rare as unicorns? on Windows Phone Market Share Sinks Below 1 Percent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Soon they will even be as rare as Blackberries.

  9. Interestingly the talk page is more nuanced and informative than the article itself when it comes to the definition of atheism.

  10. Re:Never stop never stopping on Netflix Launches Fast.com To Show How Fast Your Internet Connection Really Is (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Could not reach our servers to perform the test. You may not be connected to the internet

    Abort, Retry, Fail?

  11. Re: After I received a DMCA notice from them... on Copyright Trolls Rightscorp Are Teetering On The Verge Of Bankruptcy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And, try programming without access to stackoverflow.

    That would be like... programming.

  12. Re:Wait, let me check. on Copyright Trolls Rightscorp Are Teetering On The Verge Of Bankruptcy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    This is no cause for schadenfreude.

    Yes it is!

  13. Re:Progressive copyright fee schedule on EFF Confronts World Copyright Committee (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Say for years 1-5 keep it low and then slowly up it for years 5-20 but after 20 then start really jacking it up so the mouse can keep theirs but some abandonware / movies that bomb does not.

    Easy to do. You start at $0.01 (indexed for inflation). You then double the fee each year thereafter. It wouldn't cost much to keep a work out of the public domain for about $20 years but few works would make it past 25-30 years. Virtually none would make it past 40. Give unregistered copyrights a flat 20 years with no fees but no extension either. I would be fine with giving a 10 year free period with registration occurring any time in that 10 years. This would effectively cap copyright at somewhere close to 40-50 years, it would establish a way to allow authors to profit from genuinely valuable works for an actual limited time proportional to its value, and it would ensure works actually do get into the public domain without congress extending copyright indefinitely.

    Yes, this is the same idea I have. It would make most works slide into the public domain quickly but let profitability decide how long to delay the process for others.

  14. Well done.

  15. It would be interesting to see Microsoft fight this with an army of canaries, one or more for each of its customers.

  16. Re: Yes, but it's a Dyson on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Right, it's the ones peeing into the dryer.

  17. Re:MS should buy them out not just partner with th on Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere · · Score: 1
  18. Re:MS should buy them out not just partner with th on Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere · · Score: 1

    Nobody argued with Linux. But please tell me the last time you've seen a MIPS or SPARC server in a modern data center with your own eyes, as opposed to, say, x86 ones.

    Every time, they are called Cisco switches, running Linux on MIPS.

    You shoud go fix Wikipedia and tell them that Cisco IOS is Linux. That may surprise a few people, like Cisco or Linux people.

    It may surprise a few Cisco or Linux people who have been living in a hole that the world including Cisco have moved on since the 90s.

  19. Re:MS should buy them out not just partner with th on Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere · · Score: 1

    Nobody argued with Linux. But please tell me the last time you've seen a MIPS or SPARC server in a modern data center with your own eyes, as opposed to, say, x86 ones.

    Every time, they are called Cisco switches, running Linux on MIPS.

  20. Re:MS should buy them out not just partner with th on Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere · · Score: 1

    If you look around in a modern datacenter you'll see Linux everywhere, including all that hardware - and there is a lot of it - which is not x86 based servers, or servers at all, and couldn't possibly run Windows.

  21. Nope on Gene Roddenberry's Floppy Disks Recovered (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It said "We should go back in time and blow up Vulcan."

  22. C and vi on Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? (cheney.net) · · Score: 1

    I will program in C, using vi.

  23. Re:Avoid the Microsoft tax! on Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit · · Score: 1

    Yep, I did the same. When I realized that after jumping through this nasty bunch of hoops, I still did not have anything remotely as competent as Linux on the Pi, I put Raspbian back on the SD card.

  24. Re: America! F-Yeah! on America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses · · Score: 1

    And then France would do the same.

  25. Re:Available for a long time on Raspberry Pi Touch Screen Released · · Score: 1

    Instead they use the rpi's GPIOs (using spi or something ) to interface with the display.

    The display update rate is awful, useless for video and marginal for scrolling. Also it consumes the SPI port which is usually why one gets a raspberry pi in the first place.

    FWIW, I have had Pies since they were first released and have never used the SPI port.