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  1. What about android? on Free Software Foundation Endorses a "Truly Free" Laptop · · Score: 1

    Linux finally won! Why isn't Android "Truly Free"?

  2. Re:I am still on iOS6 ... on Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    1. it's ugly

    From a programmer's perspective, the UI is massively different. You really need to go through and update all your artwork and customizations to match. The size of the navigation bar changed (and it's translucent by default) so you also need to rearrange a lot of your views.

    There's also a lot of minor things where maybe you were doing it wrong before but it didn't matter... and now it breaks. Or deprecated stuff (which can accumulate for apps that have been around for a while).

  3. Re:And this on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 1

    Oh it would be stable, much the same way the "suck my asshole" economy is stable, in that no one is participating.

  4. Re:Buttcoins! on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 3, Funny

    I prefer ass quarters -- they're ribbed for your pleasure!

  5. Re: In the kitchen on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bad example -- in Mass., felons don't lose their right to vote. They do lose their rights to own guns but the gun laws are so draconian that they never really had that right in the first place. Most people who own a gun are breaking the law in doing so.

  6. Similar to Bob Dylan on Unreleased 1963 Beatles Tracks On Sale To Preserve Copyright · · Score: 4, Interesting

    100 copies of "Copyright Extension Collection Volume 1" (yeah, that's the name) were sold in Europe last year.

  7. Re:He's the President. on Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA · · Score: 5, Funny

    yeah, not his fault -- they gave him the wrong teleprompter.

  8. terrible title on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not slashdot's fault, this time. The real conclusion is that multivitamins don't cure heart disease. But who takes them to cure heart disease?

    My rock might be useless at keeping tigers away but it's useful for throwing at glass houses.

  9. fool me twice, shame on me on Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thanks but we all know you'll get bored and drop support for it in 6 months, bricking your (because it's licensed not purchased) thermostat in the process. If you have a problem with a Nest thermostat, you can call them up and talk to a person. If you have a problem with a google anything, you can, well, fuck off, because supportis the one thing Google can't find.

  10. I also have a theory about it on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Could Actually Be Group From Europe · · Score: 1

    My theory is: I don't give a shit.

  11. What I'm wondering: on Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee · · Score: 0

    Do you even lift?

  12. Re:costs on Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah, 4 tvs in one room, tuned to skinemax, spice, weather channel (don't ask) and playboy for an extended jack off session.

  13. Re:Lie-fest from the NSA on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If he expected to be treated like previous NSA whistleblowers or previous Obama era whistleblowers/leakers, why would he do that?

    At best he could talk to someone like Ron Wyden or Mark Udall. Except they already knew what kind of shit the NSA was doing and couldn't say or do anything about it.

  14. Re:$12 is cheap IF you account for all the costs on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    Lets account for all those costs. I can buy an incandescent light bulb made in the US. Where are those LED lights made?

  15. Re:this quote sums up the situation nicely on Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart · · Score: 1

    No love for GWT, the Java->javascript transpiler?

    And if your retort that Google abandoned it, that's even more reason to avoid Dart.

  16. Re:You're wrong. on Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart · · Score: 1

    Didn't you get the memo? classes reinforce outdated gender roles by telling an object what to do. Objects should be equals and ask instead of tell.

  17. Re:Making satire of equal rights. on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    It's not a satire of equal rights, it's the reification of a feminist programming language. Or is that satire, too? Postmodernism proves that it's not satire if you believe it.

    Is C++ sexist? Is C sexist? Is assembly language sexist? Are the physical laws of the universe sexist?

  18. Re:Surely a feminist language would be delcaritive on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    Maybe add bitwise not as a postfix operator?

    8====D~~~~

  19. Re:The worst thing... on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    God damn, that almost makes me wish I was using joyent just so I could stop using them.

  20. Re:Good on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 2

    Did you know github also hosts blogs?

  21. Re:The worst thing... on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    There's source code and a makefile. You can build, compile, and run it.

    There's a lot on github that isn't a software project (web sites and blogs, for example)

  22. for some definition of "learned" on More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years · · Score: 1

    learning _about_ CS, maybe, but certainly not learning CS. I'm sure more people learn abount chemistry from Breaking Bad than from your local University's graduate school.

  23. Re:The bigger issue is on Google Fixes Credit Card Security Hole, But Snubs Discoverer · · Score: 1

    (more length there actually would help).

    Yeah, I've heard that before.

  24. Re:This accomplishes nothing on Google Fixes Credit Card Security Hole, But Snubs Discoverer · · Score: 1

    Any turing complete programming language can generate lots of potentially valid credit card numbers. All of them, in fact.

  25. You were never anonymous on Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters · · Score: 1

    The NSA maintains a log of your comments posted on disqus, facebook, twitter, slashdot, reddit, google+, etc. Do you know why Barack Obama changed his mind about the NSA after he was elected? Do you know why Diane Feinstein doesn't care what they do? Do you know why FISA judges rubberstamp everything they do?

    The NSA has files on all of them. Coincidence?