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  1. So, at long last, does this 9th generation Intel Core processor make coffee, as suggested by its name ?

    Come on now, we developers have been waiting ages for this essential feature !

    #CoffeeLake

  2. Wait. They're all clones, right ? I bet a single virus could wipe them all.

  3. Only on Intel Core chips with vPro and some Xeons on Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature To Steal Data and Avoid Firewalls (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    There are actually a number of Intel Core chipsets released every year that are not cursed with vPro and AMT. You may want to choose from those. Not sure how to pick the right Xeon though. http://ark.intel.com/Search/Fe...

  4. Not to mention fish cum.

  5. Re:Not clever on Coup in Arrakis Capitol Leaves Region in Flux · · Score: 1

    Still makes him/her a columnist.

  6. Re:If eadable or not eadable.... on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    Fun fact: milions of Catholics eat Christ once a week during mass.

  7. Re:I wonder on B-52 Gets First Full IT Upgrade Since 1961 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tell that to the russian engineers at Tupolev. The Tu-95 "Bear", the soviet counterpart of Boeing's B-52, was first flown in 1952, and is still in active service 62 years later. Pretty damn fast too for a turboprop bomber.

  8. Re:informal poll on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 1

    I use Linux at work and at home. So does my wife on her own laptop. I also maintain a Linux distro on my parents' laptop, which spares them the hassle of dealing with malware/viruses/adwares.

    Despite having had trouble with trojans and adware on their Windows PC, and the fact that Linux would cover 100% of their computing needs, I still haven't convinced my inlaws to migrate to Linux, and they've had their PC unusable for a few weeks now, once again, due to adware.

    YMMV.

  9. Re:Coming soon to your country. on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Oh come on. Is it Muslims that are suing the Kansas Board of Schools for teaching evolution in classes ? Is it Muslims that enacted abortion laws that require medical rape with a sonar to make women feel more guilty for doing it ?

    You've got enough brain-dead biggots in your country to make it as bad any backwards theocracy.

  10. They had to be twerking on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 1

    or Harlem-shaking.

  11. With that name ? on German NSA Critic Denied Entry To the US · · Score: 2
    A guy by the name of Ilja Trojanow (which could be translated as "Elijah Trojan") gets barred from entering the US by the NSA ? Really ?

    Sorry, but barring Trojans from entering your systems is just basic computer security.

  12. Why Switzerland ? on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 3, Interesting
    That's ridiculous. Why would the French army go to the pains of crossing the alps and trying to invade a country that has atomic shelters everywhere, a well trained national guard and a good army (or reputedly so), when it would only take two days and an infantry division to invade filthy-rich Luxembourg ?

    Add a navy operation on Jersey, Guernesey and Sark to hunt down rogue bankers in neighouring tax havens for good measure, and voilà !

  13. Re:Intelligence on Egyptian Authorities Detain French "Spy" Bird Found With Tracker · · Score: 4, Insightful
    If you are supporting Morsi, I suppose you're supporting his vocal positions on Jews and freedom of press, here you go.

    After watching this, I consider that any man with just a little common sense would support the overthrow of Morsi. Which does not mean supporting the slaughter of hundreds of opponents in the aftermath. But the independence of the USA was not completed in one day, neither was the French revolution, nor will the Arab revolutions. It takes time before an appeased democracy takes place after centuries of colonial occupation and military dictatorships.

  14. In soviet Egypt on Egyptian Authorities Detain French "Spy" Bird Found With Tracker · · Score: 4, Funny

    When a bird flies like a stork and quacks like a stork and walks like a stork, then it's a fucking swan.

    And a spying one, at that.

  15. Hardly news on Toxic Green Algae Takes Over Beaches Off Yellow Sea In China · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This is no news for us in Brittany, France. We've had those algae for the last 25 years on our beaches.

    The reason ? Industrial farming, mainly. The manure that our farmers spread over the fields is washed down to the rivers and the sea shores. The level of phosphorous and nitrogen in the water rises and leads to massive, smelly "green tides" of algae on our beaches.

    Unfortunately, no effective action is taken to correct these trends, and industrial farming tends to grow ever bigger and pollute our water ever more despite several warnings from the ECJ.

  16. Re:Broken by Design on In France, a Showcase of What Can Go Wrong With Online Voting · · Score: 1

    Yup. Either broken by design, or designed by people who didn't actually care about the result. Those guys neither have a culture of democracy, nor a culture of computer security. It boggles my mind that they've been 10 years in power until 2012...

  17. Re:Computer Culling on German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection · · Score: 1

    Ach, dis ist der proper Cherman way of dealing wiz it. (now mod me down to oblifion if you vill)

  18. Re:Saving American lives on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, like no innocent civilian life was ever taken out by some jerk piloting a drone from an office seat 10000 miles away. Please.

    I'm not saying that US soldiers are not making sacrifices or that they're not being sent into harm's way. They deserve respect.

    We're talking about drones here. The US is using plenty of them to direct so-called "targeted strikes" on presumed terrorist groups. Which often turn out to be just families living next door.

    Hey, would you mind if Pakistan or China sent out a few drones to hunt criminals on US ground, and accidentally killed civilians instead ? Oh, I thought so.

  19. Re:Common Sense Really on EU Working On Most Powerful Laser Ever Built · · Score: 1

    It is quite likely you will eventually hit something we might need someday.

    Or the laser beam could come around and bite us in the ass.

  20. LKML Slashdotted on EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Brilliant. Well, it certainly worries this Linux developer -- although I mostly rely on pre-3.0 kernels. Wasn't there a rule on Slashdot about mirroring articles before posting links to them ?

  21. Re:Copyright is just too long in this country on 17th Century Microscope Book Is Now Freely Readable · · Score: 1
    blockquote>Unfortunately for the Hooke estate, the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great offspring of the original microbes are demanding 347 years of royalties for the use of their ancestors likeness.

    Which, divided by quite a few thousand trillion siblings, amounts to... not much.

  22. Frost piss! Pretty bizarre experiments in the book on 17th Century Microscope Book Is Now Freely Readable · · Score: 2

    The "Frost piss" title has never been so appropriate here: you will certainly like the chapter "Several Observable in the fix branched Figures form'd on the surface of Urine by freezing", page 88 (Google Books index). Hey, that frozen urine crystal looks marvelous !

  23. Re:Oldest Campain Trick in the Book on Linux Forcibly Installed On Congressman's Computer In Act of Terrorism · · Score: 1

    * that the people that âoeforcefullyâ put Linux on a computer never heard the word, âoenoâ uttered by the computer, thus imping it was âoeconsensual.â

    Some might argue that this is tantamount to "Linux by surprise"....

  24. Re:Rat murderer on Roundup Tolerant GM Maize Linked To Tumor Development · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Drinking weed killer is bad on Roundup Tolerant GM Maize Linked To Tumor Development · · Score: 1

    Ditto. Please read TFA.