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  1. I run the O/S that runs the stuff I want to run. That's how people who care about getting stuff done rather than O/S religious zealotry operate.

  2. Re:The Discrimination is about wages, not age on Online Job Sites May Block Older Workers (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you like to socialize, that's fine. If the business wants to sponsor it, it's work, and they can pay their employees for it.

  3. If you don't want to be stuck in a traffic jam, walk.

  4. Re: tabs4lyf on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    as I said, if the leading space on line is tabs, you are fine, including multi-line statements. I know, I've done it. And if you want to see two spaces per tab and I want to see 4 spaces per tab, we both can get what we want. Trust me, it works fine. Just requires people to pay attention to what the group wants, rather than insisting on going their own way, no matter what.

  5. Re: tabs4lyf on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    you don't have a "tab == x spaces" in your dev environment?

    by the way, there's NOTHING wrong with leading tabs... as long as you ALWAYS use tabs. Convenient thing is that if I like 2 space indentation and you like 4 space indentation, we can both have what we want, as long as no one is converting leading tabs to spaces.

  6. Re: tabs4lyf on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    in fortran i used to space over 8 instead of 7 just to make sure i missed column 6 (continuation card)

  7. They don't just think they have a "right" steal, they are outraged that anyone would try to prevent them from stealing.

  8. we should all be such screwups

  9. How does including DRM prevent people from providing DRM-free content?

  10. Re: All in the timing on SpaceX Plans To Send Two People Around the Moon In 2018 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    When a guy is threatening to dismantle your country for his own personal profit, the only rational response is hatred.

  11. Hmmm... I'll just say that back in the 1990s I was worked on an end to end full suite of apps in a particular industry, and I recall going thru the work THEN to make sure that everything worked as an ordinary user, because we had a major customer who didn't want to give its users admin rights. I'm having trouble believing it's still the norm to hand out admin, or that there are a lot of applications that insist on installing in particular directory. But maybe I've led a sheltered life.

  12. Nonsense. I run as an ordinary user and I rarely have to run anything as admin. Games don't require admin.

  13. Re:Not viable on Windows 10 on 94% of Microsoft Vulnerabilities Can Be Mitigated By Turning Off Admin Rights (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This sounds like BS. I used an ordinary user account on Windows 7, I'm an ordinary user on Windows 8, no problems. Hard to believe they broke it in Windows 10.

  14. Re:Physical stuff and regulations on Did Silicon Valley Lose The Race To Build Self-Driving Cars? (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    what's the alternative? anybody who wants to can put any deathtrap they want on the road? When we are talking about a ton of vehicle traveling at 70mph I'll take lots of review and sign off on designs, thanks.

  15. Re:those who ignore IRC on Are Your Slack Conversations Really Private and Secure? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    I'll agree with one thing, I don't want webcam video. We had our daily standups via hipchat and I just left my webcam off. People know what I look like, they don't need to see me grimacing as they lay out absurd schedules.

  16. Re:those who ignore IRC on Are Your Slack Conversations Really Private and Secure? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    What if I want to do all those things (talk, chat, share screens, share files) w/o having to configure 15 different programs and figure out to get each one thru the firewalls? What if I just want to click the "share screen" button and have it, you know, work?

    I use skype, and whatever I need to do, it just plain works. That's what I want. Not 15 obscure programs to configure, update, and have break.

  17. Re:Running an internal Jabber server here on Are Your Slack Conversations Really Private and Secure? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Why?

  18. Re:Artificial Gravity on Why Astronauts Are Banned From Getting Drunk in Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to think that sleeping in space would be great, but I recall running into an article that said that astronauts had difficulty sleeping. Here's one article that details the reasons: http://science.howstuffworks.c...

  19. Re: The hacker cares more than Valve on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 2

    So I'm not allowed to comment, comrade trump?

  20. Re:The hacker cares more than Valve on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, then play a different game, no?

  21. Re:Caring on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 2

    Sounds a lot more obnoxious than that. More like they took off the tires of the car and piled them in the rear seat because the car was unlocked.

  22. Re:Caring on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    If this is such an obvious exploit, how is it no one walked thru this open hole in the fence the last few years?

    And really, at that point you are just arguing over how hard it is. That really doesn't matter. If someone throws a rock thru your window to show you that you have cheap glass, it's not your fault that you didn't have bullet proof glass in place.

  23. First thing I do with a new game is reconfigure the controls so movement is on the numeric keypad. But if you can't reconfigure the game would be unplayable.

  24. try being left handed

  25. Re:I'm literally shaken, not stirred. on SpaceX's Next Launch Carries Colonies Of A Drug-Resistant Superbug (businessinsider.com.au) · · Score: 1

    He's laughing in his secret underground lair in the Brazilian jungle right now