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  1. Re:So we're not going to over-react this time, rig on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the crusading christians only started targeting the muslims after they had already existed for four-hundred years. Thanks to Charles Martel for defeating them in their early progress.

  2. Internet for programming? on Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hell, I learned a whole about computers without computer. I was 18 when I could afford one, a ZX Spectrum.

  3. Re:Is this a euromyth on The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink (juliareda.eu) · · Score: 1

    Seems like a move of Bloody Stupid Johnson

  4. Re:Swarm, not sphere. on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if they get hit by giant meteors.

  5. 100 years ago on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    One hundred years ago, there were three million fugitives in Europe. There were only two places they could go, France or Holland. But most of them could hope that one or another the war would stop and they could go back home.

    There are currently much less fugitives, but their future seems much more uncertain.

  6. Paradise Lost? on Are Enterprise Architects the "Miltons" of Their Organizations? · · Score: 1

    I first thought they meant John Milton. I do not watch TV.

  7. Cheers! on Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe · · Score: 1
  8. Re:The Nazis Could Have Won on Chemical Evidence Shows the Nazis Weren't At All Close To Having the Bomb · · Score: 1

    That was one of his key errors in the first invasion of Russia. The people in the western part of Russia were glad for a change, glad to have a way to get relieved of the soviets. However, for Hitler and his cronies they were all Slavs, and those same people decided after a couple of months that it was better to take their bets at the side of Stalin.

  9. This article should be rated +5 funny on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    Enough said.

  10. Re:Security on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So that would maybe be the way to destroy systemd: organise a conference of security hackers, and only concentrate on systemd.

  11. Add-ons and plug-ins? on Google Chrome Tops 1 Billion Users · · Score: 2

    I considered using Chrome some time, but Firefox still beats it regarding plug-ins and their configurations: Adblock+, Noscript, Lightbeam, ... and the possibilities to block anything that you do not want on your computer/browser.

  12. Re:This will be a historic mission. on Arab Mars Probe Planned For 2020 · · Score: 1

    If they want to use that capacity, they will also need to develop an industry to build and arm them.

  13. Re:Snowball effect on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 1

    This predated Linux. I had a version of it in 1991.

  14. Lisp-likes and CS background on Is It Worth Learning a Little-Known Programming Language? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Start with How to Design Programs and work it through, from beginning to end, even if you are a good programmer.

    Then go to Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Work through the chapters that you find interesting.

    Then start with learning Common Lisp. Even after 30 years existence, there is still no other programming language which implements everything that is possible with CL. There might be programming languages which are more specialised in certain language subsets that are also part of Common Lisp, but none includes everything that CL includes.

    Then learn Common Lisp macros, and realise that to get at the same level of possibilities in other programming languages, you need to embed a Lisp system. But that will be a slow interpreter, and Common Lisp can compile.

  15. Re:Isreal on Why the Framework Nuclear Agreement With Iran Is Good For Both Sides · · Score: 1

    Most Islamic terrorism is of the Sunni variety. Only in Lebanon are there Shia terrorists.

  16. Re:Make a federal case out of it - learn this term on EU's Unitary Software Patent Challenged At the Belgian Constitutional Court · · Score: 1

    Indeed, being Flemish myself, I resent all European parties which are anti-Europe (Vlaams Blok, Geert Wilders, French Front National). Having read a whole lot on the history of WW1 and WW2, my take on matters is that anti-European parties are in reality pro-war parties.

  17. Re:List culled from public sources, and here it is on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1

    And General Protection Fault was also rumoured

  18. Re:Gates? on Gates: Large Epidemics Need a More Agile Response · · Score: 1

    It is mainly to trick gullible people like you into believing that doing charity is a positive trait. The kind of people that are most loathable are the robber barons who then try to cover up their past tricks with doing things 'for the good'.

    And US charity is paternalistic, it is always done with disdain for those who receive it.

  19. Re:Last straw? on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    And the Kurds

  20. Re:Last straw? on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    These people (ha, such a word for that kind of pond scum) do not want peace. What they really want is that other Islamic people say: yes, you do get a free card for murdering people if you are a muslim, even if you kill other muslims.

  21. Re:Last straw? on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 2

    But that was te phony war(Sep 1939-May 1940): the English helped the French man the Maginot line, but not anything else. In May, Hitler then really started the war and overran Belgium, Holland and France.

  22. Re:Question In Headline on Is Sega the Next Atari? · · Score: 2

    In that case they should at least make a good decision every now and then, due to randomness.

  23. Re:If someone is attacking you, you should use it. on 100 Years of Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    WW1 was not a land dispute.

    Austria wanted to punish Serbia because of the death of their crown prince. Subsequent events led to an escalation of hostilities between Germany/Austria and France/UK/Russia.

  24. Re:Says Howie. on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Additionally, do not forget that Wilhelm Friedrich Gauss' health was undermined by his spring and summer work at the beginning of the 19th century surveying Hanover.

  25. Re:Good grief... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    You are a few abstractions too deep if you think you need knowledge of quantum mechanics to know how a computer works.

    It is possible to build a computer with mechanical relays. Not a trace of quantum physics in sight here. Your statement seems proper evidence of what Bill Nye means.