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  1. Re:rumor is dems voted for him on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 1

    Back in 2007, the NY Times endorsed Hillary Clinton and John McCain in the primaries. So I'm sure they endorsed McCain for the general election, right?

  2. Re:hahaha! on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 4, Informative

    Virginia has an open primary. It wouldn't be the first time crossover voters affected the outcome.

  3. I've never heard of you on Interviews: Ask Andrew "bunnie" Huang About Hardware and Hacking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No disrespect intended, but let's say we stop some random people on the street and ask them to name a famous hardware hacker. I bet that question isn't showing up on Family Feud anytime soon!

    What can we do to increase the public awareness (and create more hardware hackers)? I was thinking perhaps high schools could have shop classes for nerds -- instead of working on engines, wood working, etc, it would be hardware and software.

  4. Re:It's about time on Apple To Be Investigated By the EU Over Tax Affairs · · Score: 0

    Congress/Parliment/etc write tax laws. If companies (or other people) follow the rules to minimize their tax burden, is that bad? Exemptions and credits exist to encourage that! Don't blame the player, blame the game.

  5. cool story bro on Comcast Converting 50,000 Houston Home Routers Into Public WiFi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    my cable modem doesn't do wifi and isn't the cable co's property. Next time don't rent a POS modem from the cable co? The NSA and cable cos would prefer otherwise, of course.

  6. Re:Awesome on NSA's Novel Claim: Our Systems Are Too Complex To Obey the Law · · Score: 1

    Stick to leather -- it doesn't absorb farts. My buddy has a cloth chair that is oversaturated with farts. Aside from the permanent stench -- which would be bad enough -- it releases a gas bomb if you ever sit in it.

  7. Re:PC version moderately exciting on Grand Theft Auto V For Modern Platforms Confirmed · · Score: 3, Funny

    All the ghetto thugs and gang bangers are too busy playing Office Space V, the game where you pretend to be a white collar IT worker cranking out TPS Reports, avoiding Lumberg, and browsing slashdot at work.

  8. News for nerds? on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know what's better than free wifi at Atlanta's airport? Avoiding Atlanta's airport.

  9. announcing goatsecret on GnuTLS Flaw Leaves Many Linux Users Open To Attacks · · Score: 4, Funny

    There have been too many problems with existing crypto code so I've developed something better: goatsecret. Instead of relying on math, it relies on a frenchman's gaping asshole. Basically, the software breaks your message/file/whatever into small chunks and superimposes the data in the goatsecret image. Sure, it's not encrypted, but who is going to stare into the void just to get your data? No hacker/cracker/big business/three-letter-agency is that desperate.

  10. Re:Yet another C on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    Are you high? Not even php is retarded enough to do that. It's a compiled language. String interpolation happens at compile time.

  11. Re:Off-topic Maybe on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cross platform is wearing three condoms and then butt fucking, to abstract away the differences between men and women. It's usually a shitty experience for the user (though some people seem to prefer it).

  12. Re:I think it would be funny as heck if.... on Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework · · Score: 2
    ehh, I tried using perl for a small "modern" (REST) backend, gave up and used ruby/sinatra/mod_passenger because it worked. Perl? Dancer looked nice but there are too many dependencies. CGI is hopelessly obselete (does /. still run on it?). I implemented my own microwebframework on top of CGI (a hundred lines or so to do routing) before I discovered passenger and switched to that.

    I'd take perl over node anytime but I'm not impressed by CPAN (it's better than npm, if you want some faint praise) and a lot of the code and culture is stuck in the 80s/90s.

  13. Re:Maybe one day on Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework · · Score: 1

    Huh? Still no UTF-8 support? Damn. A couple years ago they hired a hotshot perl programmer with 30 years of UTF-8 experience to implement it. Hired him off Dice.com, in fact. Oh, hmmm. Well, ASCII is good enough.

  14. Re:Trust! on UPS Denies Helping the NSA 'Interdict' Packages · · Score: 1

    Heh, reminds me of the Thomas Jefferson quote (paraphrased) "When people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have tyranny."

  15. Re:wow on UPS Denies Helping the NSA 'Interdict' Packages · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Too many secrets.

    I watched sneakers a couple days ago (it's on netflix) and nearly shit my pants at the end when Robert Redford reveals the magic decryptor box isn't for spying on the russians, it's "for spying on us". (Of course, they meant the NSA was spying on the FBI/CIA but still... future predicted).

  16. Re:"Audit"? Try massive rewrite. on OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers · · Score: 0

    OpenSSL is the shiniest meat bicycle. Are you the conductor of the poop train? It's time to strip the flesh and salt the wounds.

  17. not this shit again! on Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2 · · Score: 1
    Do you know why IE used a different DOM event model than everyone else? (attachEvent vs addEventListener, etc.) It's because they implemented an early draft and then never went back and updated it. Why should they? Their customers are locked in!

    Well, HTTP 2.0 is DOM Events 2.0! IE and IIS will support HTTP 2.0 while the rest of the world scraps it (it's a turd in need of flushing) to work on HTTP 3.0.

  18. Re:anything that's not nailed down securly enough on Wikia and Sony Playing Licensing Mind Tricks · · Score: 1

    lol, yeah, I remember him. I also remember doing jaeger shots at the geek compound with Eric "Surprised by Wealth" Raymond. IIRC, that night he was surprised by tacosnotting. I haven't vomitted that hard, before or since.

  19. Re:Lotteries on German Authorities Lack Evidence To Prosecute Anyone For NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    Prosecutors don't like that so they overcharge defendants. Most people (the numbers are pretty shocking) take a plea bargain. No jury, no trial.

  20. Re:I got tired of waiting on PHP Next Generation · · Score: 1
    At the end of the day, I'd rather be writing web applications in Python than PHP.

    "At the end of the day, I'd rather be a prison bitch for the aryan brotherhood than for the colombians." Me, I'd rather not be in prison.

  21. Re:Argl on Trillions of Plastic Pieces May Be Trapped In Arctic Ice · · Score: 1

    Wind power and concentrated solar power are quite good at killing birds, including endangered and legally protected species.

  22. Re:Frosty on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Like John F. Kennedy Jr? Fact: he was killed by a drone strike after George Bush secretly approved his targeted murder. Of course you won't hear about it because it was secret and there was no trial. Follow the power - John John was planning on running for the Senate in New York (after Daniel Moynihan retired). After he died, Hillary Clinton was elected instead. Of course, it turns out they fucked themselves over. Hillary was supposed to be elected President in 2008 but that obviously didn't happen. If Hillary had waited and run for Senate in Illinois (the backup plan), there wouldn't have been a Senator Obama and she would have been elected President in 2008.

  23. Re:I'd rather not use on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 1

    It's not the text editor (vi), it's not the OS (Emacs). If my computer ran on smugness and body odor, everything would be fine, but no it runs on electricity. Fucking municipal electrity controlled by do-goody-good liberals that think brown outs and power outages are a good thing because electricity is evil, especially when it's affordable. (And yes, I have a UPS. It doesn't help when the shit hits the fan while I'm stocking up on cheetos or at the hospital for another heart attack).

  24. lol @ webforms on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 1

    Many webforms will save drafts of whatever data I'm entering

    But not slashdot.

  25. Re:Why make a journalist suffer? on Four Weeks Without Soap Or Shampoo · · Score: 1

    Having bought a pair of Levi's jeans, I agree entirely. Three washes and the things fell apart.