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  1. Re:tell me again on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    This. I'm actually far more afraid of what the government will do in response to stuff like this than actually being a victim of something like this.

    That's only because you haven't been a victim of it. I'm pretty sure if you were one of the people with their limbs blown off you'd be singing a different tune. Not that I'm disagreeing with you, just trying to keep this in perspective.

  2. Re:Wrong quote on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 2, Funny

    At least I can spell it fuckwad.

  3. Re:Isn't it sad? on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's liberal doublespeak. They talk out of both sides of their mouth because they know the populace has been so dumbed down by public education that they'll never know the difference. Oh and should anyone actually point it out the news media will just ignore it anyway because it doesn't advance the new world order agenda.

  4. Re:Xen's biggest obstacle right now on Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project · · Score: 0

    ...from my own anecdotal perspective, is that VMs are very often used as a way to isolate commercial software products into their own little box where they don't have to play nice with other applications on the box -- and which VM's are supported for these products depends entirely on the vendor.

    Which is fucking stupid when you can do the same with with jails in FreeBSD and not have the ridiculous VM overhead, licensing costs (VMWare I'm talking about you you fucking assholes) and bullshit associated with virtualization.

    I use VM's all the time and every time I do I think to myself "Why in the hell is my employer paying for this shit?"

  5. Re:tell me again on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 0

    I can only tell you what I would do:

    1) If it was a foreign terrorist. I would hang him, publicly for all the middle east etc to see. Then I would deal with the country that sent him/her because these people are rarely loners. They are almost always sanctioned by a state, usually Iran.
    2) If it was a home grown loon, I would determine if they were the Oklahoma federal building variety or the Occupy Wall Street variety. Then I would hang them publicly for all the world to see and deal with their organization harshly and quickly, because they are almost never loners and are almost always sanctioned by a particular group residing in a particular state.

    The bottom line is, this runs deeper than we know. It must be dealt with harshly and we must be intolerant of political bullshit. The first politician to trott the victims out on stage or off a plane to DC, regardless of party, should be beaten within an inch of their life, tarred and feathered and set to walk down main street in shame.

  6. Re:tell me again on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    Clearly you need to be carted off to the re-education camp. How dare you go against this administrations agenda! Don't you know you work for the liberal government? Did you think this was a democracy?

  7. Wrong quote on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rahmemanue409199.html

    "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." -Rahm Emanuel

    Former aid to President Obama and current mayor of Chicago which is undergoing major budgetary and violent crime crisises as we speak.

  8. Re:News Articles are Identical on Giant Snails Invade Florida · · Score: 1

    You dumb ass still doesn't get it. It's a NEWS aggregate SERVICE. Just like the fucking associated press. No news network can be in all places at once so they pool resources into Reuters and AP and pull the same info all over the world. What part of that doesn't your dumb ass get? Seriously. Fucking die already, you're a cancer on society.

  9. Re:Isn't it sad? on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Isn't it sad that the first thought I have after, "those poor people, I hope they're OK!", is, " Oh, great, *now* what civil rights is the US government going to shit all over?"

    All the ones they haven't already.

  10. Pathetic summary on Google's BigQuery Vs. Hadoop: a Matchup · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "The public version of BigQuery probably isn't even used by Google, which likely has something bigger and better that we'll see in five years or so"

    With in-depth analysis like that who needs the full article.........

  11. Re:News Articles are Identical on Giant Snails Invade Florida · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Reuters is a news aggregate service like the AP. It's word for word because Fox, like most other news outlets, purchases the information from Reuters. Don't let your liberal bias against Fox get in the way of your retarded narrative though. I mean why let a potential flame against "the enemy" go to waste.

    Fuck I'm tired of you people.

  12. Re:Rename Time on Giant Snails Invade Florida · · Score: 0

    Many snails actually live under water.

  13. Re:Live Syntax checking. on Taking the Pain Out of Debugging With Live Programming · · Score: 1

    Yeah but then you have to use VB and "dot Net"............ I'll pass

  14. Re:Visual Studio on Taking the Pain Out of Debugging With Live Programming · · Score: 1

    Weird, I get all of that for free when I develop for Linux, the support I mean. I don't think I've ever gone more than a few hours without getting an answer from someone on a forum or mailing list. Plus I get all that incredible community support without being locked into an MS ecosystem.

    Whenever I see the insane prices of MS dev tools I cringe. So many people waste so much money on this crap that it isn't even funny. It's not like software on Windows is of some extra great quality surpassing OS X and Linux or anything.

  15. Re:The government doing something right? on Will the Supreme Court End Human Gene Patents? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Shhhhh. Don't give the liberals facts and supporting documentation. It scares them. Why do you think they have the DailyKOS?

  16. Re:Straight porn isn't allowed either on Apple Bans Sale of Comic Book On All iOS Apps Over Gay Sex Images - Update · · Score: -1, Troll

    (And I think the ban on porn in general is childish)

    Then you're an idiot. Lets show your 6 year old daughter some anal penetration porn in her my little pony app, see how that goes over. Fuckwads like you are a blight on society.

  17. Re:I thought it was well known on Apple Bans Sale of Comic Book On All iOS Apps Over Gay Sex Images - Update · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, it's an outrage when a minority group doesn't get their porn pushed out onto a family oriented medium like the Apple App Store. In comic books no less.

    Watch all the liberals go crazy detracting it as "censorship OMGZ" and all the moronic LGBT activists have hissy fits. Sorry but your gay porn doesn't belong on an app store where little kids spend a fair amount of their time. Especially when its in a fucking comic book app that kids will naturally be drawn too. Keep your perverted bullshit to yourselves.

  18. Not google? on Mozilla: Unlike FB and Twitter Single Sign-in, Persona Protects User Privacy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So Mozilla took a jab at Facebook and Twitter but left Google alone? Is this because they take money from Google?

  19. Re:no apology like firing adam orth on Microsoft Apologizes For Cavalier 'Always-Online' DRM Tweets · · Score: 1

    He'll probably get a raise. Like the Hollywierd people always say, there's no such thing as bad press. Pretty much every shitty company on the planet is making money hand over fist right now.

  20. Re:Not so much that there are no jobs in Humanitie on Getting a Literature Ph.D. Will Make You Into a Horrible Person · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think the error in your thinking is assuming all degrees should lead to a job. It used to be that college was cheap enough, even at the graduate level, that you could pursue it for enjoyment alone. At my Uni there were a large number of professors that didn't even enter graduate school until they were in their mid-40's or 50's and started teaching after that because they enjoyed it.

    I myself have an English degree because I wanted one, not because I was going to get rich from it. I lucked out and qualified for state and federal grants that made my education virtually free. I have no regrets.

    These people dropping 100k+ on a degree thinking they will become instant millionaires is what is driving up costs and setting unrealistic expectations. Just because you have a degree does not mean you are guaranteed a job, much less a high paying one. That goes for all degrees and all fields. Great, you got a degree. All that tells anyone is that you were able to foot the bill for a time, attend classes and do some homework.

    If I'm hiring someone and the job pays a good salary, I'm looking for what they can "do" more than what they "know."

  21. Maybe on Getting a Literature Ph.D. Will Make You Into a Horrible Person · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I work in IT and have since 1997 or so. When I started in IT there really wasn't a college course in IT available. You learned on the job. Some jackass employers would require a CS degree at the time for simple IT work but that's because IT was semi new and they just didn't know what they were doing.

    I didn't go to college until 2005. I was just too busy earning money to bother. I eventually went back to college and got an English degree because I already had a boat load of IT experience. I got my present job specifically because I had an English degree (they were sick of IT people that could barely read and write much less produce any type of legible documentation). I'm probably the exception to the rule but thinking on it, I really don't see the value of an IT degree today. There's literally nothing you can't figure out in IT with just some google searches and on the job training. My English degree however opened up a lot of doors for me, allowed me to pursue things I consider to be fun (working on a novel) and made my resume stand out enough that my present employer took notice.

  22. Re:How is this a win? on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    "Xylose is otherwise pervasive, being found in the embryos of most edible plants"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylose

    Doesn't seem to be an issue.

  23. Worse on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    I live in an apartment. I'm surrounded by 30 other WiFi routers. My connection is so horrible as to be almost unusable sometimes. So no offline mode means no console gaming for me. I won't be held hostage to the whims of my neighbors and their microwaves interrupting my gaming.

  24. Re:idle curiosity on GNOME 3.8 Released Featuring New "Classic" Mode · · Score: 2

    I tried 3.8 on Arch today. It was horrible until I started downloading extensions. Then is was tolerable. I still won't use it for the simple lack of minimize and maximize buttons. Back to KDE I guess. The Linux desktop is in serious need of an enema.

  25. Re:We need soccer stadium mass executions on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 1

    Congratulations. You're now worse than they are.