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  1. Us vs them on How "Omnipotent" Hackers Tied To NSA Hid For 14 Years and Were Found At Last · · Score: 5, Funny

    We hack Iran to prevent them from releasing a bomb.

    NK hacks us to prevent us from also releasing a bomb, IYKWIMAITYD.

  2. Re:What if... on Inside the Mind of a Schizophrenic Through Virtual Reality · · Score: 2

    I'm very close to a schizophrenic, and the "voices" are always int he form of either false memories or "code" in web pages or the crawling text on the news. They are not "perceiving" anything true. It is a mental disease.

  3. Re:Already sloved on New Encryption Method Fights Reverse Engineering · · Score: 1

    LOL, that was me for 5 years on QBasic until I looked at the help file. And then a new world of magical wonder was opened to me...

  4. Re:First Post on What Your Online Comments Say About You · · Score: 1

    If you don't put a trigger warning on posts like this, it constitutes a misogynist micro-aggression, you insensitive clod.

  5. Re:Already sloved on New Encryption Method Fights Reverse Engineering · · Score: 4, Funny

    I keep my code undeadable with a liberal use of goto statements.

    You made an infinite loop with goto?

  6. Re:Bring it on, folks! on New Encryption Method Fights Reverse Engineering · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, but count-up's are indefinite. Now they won't find it until they count to a million or something. Should have counted down, but now it's too late...

  7. Re: Want sexy versions? on Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump · · Score: 1

    "But vee had to change ze naming scheme; ze focus gwrooops liked 'Slightly Annoyed Kitten' better."

  8. Re:Not quite sure on Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump · · Score: 1

    After 24 year, I think that if it were to become the MS monstrosity, it would have done so by now. Consider how many times the DOS/Windows kernel has been rebooted in that time.

  9. Re:Want sexy versions? on Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump · · Score: 4, Funny

    WWII tank name conventions! Linux SuperKernel M4A0

  10. Re:We are your gravediggers, capitalists on Mood-Altering Wearable Thync Releases First Brain Test Data · · Score: 0

    Check your shirt tag and your jeans. Where were they made? Vietnam? Thailand? How about the device you used to type this empty platitude? What was the wage of the person that built it? Stop bitching about capitalists; you are one.

  11. Re:Tell them the measles contain gluten on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    I'm holding out for the Black Death, personally. Go big, or go home.

  12. Re:Do they have any authority to do that? on NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free · · Score: 1

    Which brings us back around to my original suggestion: forget these guys, and lobby the FAA.

  13. Re:Do they have any authority to do that? on NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free · · Score: 1

    which will work because all people are "rational actors" who will see that their self-interest is served by it. Or something.

    Yep, only in this case only hopes, dreams, and fairy sprinkles make adding burdensome GPS + dynamically updating blacklisting (is that even technically feasible?) sound good for the self-interests of a rationally-acting drone manufacturer.

  14. Re:Do they have any authority to do that? on NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I read the TFA. They still don't have the authority to do jack-diddly-squat. They got a list of people who don't want drones, and they're prepared to write sternly worded letters to manufacturers, woo hooooo. The FAA has actual, legitimate regulatory authority. One of these people is worth writing to, and the other is not.

  15. Do they have any authority to do that? on NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free · · Score: 1

    The FAA has sole purview over airspace rights. If the aircraft is high enough according to FAA rules (which of as of yet specify manned vehicles only, at a minimum of 500 feet) then it is outside of your, as a landowner, ability to control. These people are not the ones to lobby; the FAA needs to create rules for drone use at low-altitudes to remove the current ambiguity.

  16. The alternative on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Imagine a language with no fluff, no cruft, no boilerplate. Everything is essential and concise. You have something akin to either assembly or too-clever Perl. The fluff is necessary. The fluff provides context, readability, and maintainability.

  17. What do you expect? on AP Test's Recursion Examples: An Exercise In Awkwardness · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A legitimate use of recursion would probably be something a lot more complicated, and a lot harder to grasp, than a contrived use that teaches the concept in isolation. It's like teaching a kid long division using 6000 / 10, and disparaging the example saying, "yeah, but you would never use long division for that." Well, no shit, Sherlock. You're teaching mechanics. Application is for another lesson. Maybe even another class.

  18. Re:Why not get someone to make it for you? on Ask Slashdot: Automated Tool To OCR CCGs Like Magic: the Gathering? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can tell you that when I lived in Germany, even if I was writing in German, I got the decimal notation wrong every single time. I was just too used to my way of doing it.

  19. Re:Why not get someone to make it for you? on Ask Slashdot: Automated Tool To OCR CCGs Like Magic: the Gathering? · · Score: 1

    Some European countries swap the , and ..

  20. I don't have a solution on Ask Slashdot: Automated Tool To OCR CCGs Like Magic: the Gathering? · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I just wanted to say that you are perhaps the biggest nerd I have ever been aware of. I mean that as a sign of respect.

  21. Re:No they did not. They have failed HARD. on Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next? · · Score: 1

    Mozilla was the original code-split from Navigator, and it's purpose was to preserve Navigator as a browser for the half of the web that was optimized for it (remember the old "best viewed with..." buttons? Good days). Firefox née Phoenix was a fork from Mozilla to strip out Netscape-sponsored features of the Mozilla engine (giving us the Gecko engine). It succeeded in this goal, as well, for a time.

  22. Re:to be honest, we dont have farms anymore. on Farmers Struggling With High-Tech Farm Equipment · · Score: 1

    You forget another staple of Asian diets: soybeans. The US is the world's greatest supplier of soybeans, and we represent about half of China's soybean imports. Brazil might overtake us, some day, if they slash and burn of more of that pesky Amazon rain forest.

  23. Re:to be honest, we dont have farms anymore. on Farmers Struggling With High-Tech Farm Equipment · · Score: 2

    And while it's sad to see this kind of farming go away, with its hard work and the romance we tend to associate with it, and we view the modern mechanized agricultural machine as an extension of a heartless corporate machine (which it is), it is nevertheless the means by which we feed the world and an ever-expanding population that the older, less efficient but more human approach ever could.

    And for the world's longest run-on sentence, I denounce myself.

  24. Re:Honestly on The Poem That Passed the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    If you pass me a napkin with my fries, I'll write it down for you.

  25. Re:Honestly on The Poem That Passed the Turing Test · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have found the average Philosophy major to be indistinguishable from an Eliza program.