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  1. Re:Follow the Good Eats mantra on Here Comes the Keurig of Everything · · Score: 0

    What makes buffalo wings?

  2. Wow. Still? on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I remember futzing around with this little project 15 years ago. I am pleased to see that, not only is it still going strong, it's pretty remarkably modern.

  3. Re: Happy Friday from The Golden Girls! on College Board Puts Code.org In Charge of AP CS Program · · Score: 1

    That post has said "cosmonaut" since 1999.

  4. What's the big deal? on Drone Flying Near White House Causes Lockdown · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear the president is absolutely in love with drones, and he likes to spread that love.

  5. Re:Old DOS Borland Developer Tools. on RTFM? How To Write a Manual Worth Reading · · Score: 1

    In the same vein: QBasic help file. Until I was able to finally obtain a copy of Turbo Pascal in high school, QBasic was there to teach me programming from absolutely nothing.

  6. Re:Trolling Douchebags on FCC May Stop 911 Access For NSI Phones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, fraudulent 911 calls are a problem. But I'd rather have 100 of those for each legitimate call from an NSI phone which might save one or more lives.

    This is yet another example where cost effectiveness mentality kills people.

    What about people placed on hold because the emergency lines are tied up? Making decisions with your feelings can kill people, too.

  7. Re:"Citizens united" was a coup on House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data · · Score: 1

    He wanted a link. And we're "fucks" for not Googling it for him.

  8. Re:Weakness on Third Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered In As Many Months · · Score: 1

    Or, as I like to think: you can agree with the right people and the right ideas, but such agreement is not a serviceable substitute for actual intelligence.

  9. Re:Why won't he just die already? on Bill Gates Still Trying To Buy Some Common Core Testing Love · · Score: 1

    Hey now, I give him credit for QBasic. It was my first exposure to programming, pre-internet, using nothing but its superlative help file.

  10. More implications on Proof-of-Concept Linux Rootkit Leverages GPUs For Stealth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If Malware can do it, so can legitimate-ware, perhaps? Emergency tasks can run on cpu-pegged systems, like maybe Windows Task Manager, if they were designed to run on the GPU instead of the CPU?

  11. Re:Oh Boo Hoo on A Visual Walk Through Amazon's Impact On One Seattle Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    In what universe would a libertarian support one man's aesthetic determining another man's property rights? In what universe is this Maoist? I think you are knowledgeable of neither libertarianism nor Maoism.

  12. Re:Someone pissed they didn't get hired? on A Visual Walk Through Amazon's Impact On One Seattle Neighborhood · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And "brogrammer"? Seriously? Submitter is an entitled, classist jackass.

  13. Re:We're so screwed. on US Appeals Court Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Not Authorized By Congress · · Score: 1

    The idea that granting pardons contradicts the government's role as a guarantor of personal liberty is pretty tortuous; pardons exist so that government may more perfectly secure freedom for individuals that, by means of imperfect justice, are imprisoned. You suppose that it implies the exact opposite of what it does.

  14. Re:Older = more experience on NFL Releases Deflategate Report · · Score: 5, Funny

    The difference between (+5, Insightful) and (-1, Offtopic) is knowing which thread you're posting on. ;P

  15. Re:Can we please stop tacking -gate on to the end. on NFL Releases Deflategate Report · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's time to put a stop to it, too. We need to organize. #gategate

  16. Re:Boston fans... on NFL Releases Deflategate Report · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The average football fan is not an NFL player.

  17. Re:We're so screwed. on US Appeals Court Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Not Authorized By Congress · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I disagree. They are not tasked with keeping us safe; they are tasked with safeguarding our liberties.

  18. Re:This is just a problem waiting to happen on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1

    Your #1 scenario hinges on the Windows admins in question being illiterate morons, having just sat at a computer for the first time that morning.
    Your #2 scenario hinges on the Linux admin being too stupid to pick up cross-pollinated skills.

    I find both of these scenarios unlikely.

    Judging from history it is another Embrace, Extend, Extinguish attempt. Microsoft is just pulling from it's old bag of tricks.

    Extinguish what? Their own Powershell? Wouldn't deleting the source repository be faster and cheaper?

  19. Re:Cold war is over on Export Ban Drives Cuba To Non-US Analytics Software To Boost Tourism · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I like Cohiba's, I really do. But I think a lot of the obsession is just the forbidden fruit tasting sweeter. For my part, I prefer Sumatran leaf to Cuban.

  20. Money quote on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    "The software industry has pretty much decided what information patients should receive, and to my knowledge, they have not had any stakeholder input."

    Maybe fix this part first.

  21. Laws that need to be made in secret on Extreme Secrecy Eroding Support For Trans-Pacific Partnership · · Score: 5, Insightful

    are bad laws. Period. I am hard pressed to think of an exception.

  22. Re:You mean "app appers"! on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    I think "app appers" applies more appropriately to Apple appreciators.

  23. Re:Plot Hole on Why Scientists Love 'Lord of the Rings' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because hobbits tend to fall off the back of eagles during aerial combats with fellbeasts. No, flying them in on eagles is a terrible idea.

  24. To be fair on Facebook Launches Internet.org Platform and Opens Up To More Developers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't trust Zuckerberg or Facebook as far as I can throw them, if only because of their desire to turn IT into minimum wage labor via immigration, but the fact is that there are no cartoon villains in real life. Some people I don't like, and who I genuinely believe are ruining our industry, are just as capable of philanthropy and good works as a dedicated activist. Perhaps more so. Another example is Bill Gates.

  25. Oh, yeah? on Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    MY distro is emacs on systemd.