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  1. Re: I assumed this was already a default on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    "Calling a spade a spade" means using accurate, straightforward language instead of euphemism. If you honestly believe that Poettering is a female body part, I question your mental health.

  2. Re: I assumed this was already a default on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 0, Troll

    There are literally thousands of nonsexist insults you could have and should have used. Choosing the words you did greatly weakens your own credibility.

  3. Re:Oh for fuck's sake on Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade (thehill.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    All things considered, billions of people have grown up and lived long and fulfilling lives without ever touching a fucking basketball or paint brush.

    You're just as much a snob as Tim Cook.

  4. At the risk of repeating myself on Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    As I have said innumerable times before, "Fuck you, Tim Cook. Just fuck you."

  5. Thanks but no thanks. on Facebook Launches 'Agents On Messenger' Platform With Chatbots (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    One more reason I am never installing Messenger anywhere.

  6. Warrant Canary encoding reductio ad absurdum on Reddit Deletes Surveillance 'Warrant Canary' In Transparency Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Suppose Reddit set up a whole suite of warrant canary warning pages:
    "Reddit has not received any NSL requests during January 2016 for people with a last name beginning in A."
    "Reddit has not received any NSL requests during January 2016 for people with a last name beginning in B."
    "Reddit has not received any NSL requests during January 2016 for people with a last name beginning in C." ...
    "Reddit has not received any NSL requests during December 2016 for people with a last name beginning in X."
    "Reddit has not received any NSL requests during December 2016 for people with a last name beginning in Y."
    "Reddit has not received any NSL requests during December 2016 for people with a last name beginning in Z."

    Then when they get an NSL request they delete one line.

    Extending this to more dates and more letters of the name is left as an exercise.

  7. Re:physicists? on NASA Eagleworks Has Tested an Upgraded EM Drive · · Score: 2

    Photons carry momentum away from the electron when they are emitted ("recoil") and to the electron that absorbs them ("pressure"). This momentum is real and measurable. https://goo.gl/CkjOxe

  8. Re:- JEW troll doing 'racist' meme bs - on Jefferson-Designed Chemistry Lab Discovered In UVA Rotunda (virginia.edu) · · Score: 1

    Sprinkling your comment with pejorative "JEW" words just makes Baldrson cream his pants.

  9. old stuff on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    In 1988-1989 I was printing marked sense cards (i.e., inked squares not punched holes) with addresses on them, sending them to the Post Office to be put in order, and using a card reader to read them back. CP/M system, dBase II.

    In 1992 at that same job, we switched to using a 9 track tape. Programmed my own library for it in Turbo C.

  10. Re:Reason: for corporations, by corporations on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    Based on the most recent three articles I've read there (which are also the first three I read there, and will be the final three I read there), there is absolutely no Reason(tm) to read Reason(tm). It is full of asshattery and lies.

  11. Sure, I trust Facebook with this. Not. on Facebook Puts Users On Suicide Watch · · Score: 1

    Being told by Facebook that they think I might be suicidal ... would be a trigger that would make me HOMICIDAL. NONE OF THEIR FUCKING BUSINESS what's going on in my head. NONE OF THEIR CONCERN whether I speak to mental health professionals. GO STICK YOUR HEAD IN A PIG.

  12. Re:Numerology on Theory of Information Could Resolve One of the Great Paradoxes of Cosmology · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It makes a tiny bit of sense to me.

    "If we use [unstated first principles] to estimate what energy density should be, it's about 10^94 g/cm^3.
    If we use the information content at the Planck scale, it's pretty close -- about 10^90 g/cm^3.

    But we actually observe an information density of about 10^-27 g/cm^3.
    And if we decrease the resolution from Planck scale voxels to 10 km^3 voxels, we get an information density that equates to 10^-27 g/cm^3.

    This is evidence that we are living in a simulation, and the programmers aren't running the universe at Planck scale voxels, but only star sized voxels."

    A large mountain of salt needs to be taken with this argument, but it does make sense -- as an argument.

  13. I'm more pissed off on Elementary OS: Why We Make You Type "$0" · · Score: 1

    that their blog is on tumblr. Fucking tumblr.

  14. Your credibility was completely lost when you typed menu's.

  15. Re:Very cool. on Samsung SSD 850 EVO 32-Layer 3D V-NAND-Based SSD Tested · · Score: 1

    Most consumers are not photographers who keep every RAW image.

  16. Re:Sunflowers - a plant that indeed reflect sunlig on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    Did you honestly just write David Niven "Ringworld" series?

    David Niven (actor)
    Larry Niven (author)

  17. SHUT IT DOWN, SHUT IT ALL DOWN. on Apple's App Store Needs a Radical Revamp; How Would You Go About It? · · Score: 0

    There's no good reason to have an app store. We lived without app stores for decades. We can return to not having them.

  18. Re:Why shouldn't something for the XBox... on The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you cared to actually read the rest of the fucking article, you'd realize that it's been several years since the software was even COMPILABLE for the original Xbox. Idiot.

  19. Re:fundementally impossible on Nightfall: Can Kalgash Exist? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is not the six suns but the constraints on the planet and moon:

    * that the planet's orbit be stable over thousands of years. Millions or billions, if you want life to evolve.
    * that the moon stay invisible at all times -- never be illuminated enough by any sun to be visible.
    * that the moon be wide enough in angular size to eclipse one sun for over a day!

    If you read this paper, you see they settled on a moon the same mass as Kalgash but with the density of Saturn! How could such a system possibly arise?

  20. Re:errr that's Unpatched not Unpatchable on Drive-by Android Malware Exploits Unpatchable Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Yes, because everyone has the resources to migrate to another country at any moment, just because they dislike their phone contract. Your username is incorrect, it should be IDiot.

  21. Re:When CPU meets RAM. on The Double Life of Memory Exposed With Automata Processor · · Score: 1

    Somewhat similar. Also resembling WISARD, which used RAM like a neural network.

    The essential point to think about is that a 1GB RAM can act as a cellular automaton with a billion cells. There's no algorithmic complexity to defeat because there's no algorithm. Of course the harder the problem gets, the more cells you need....

  22. Re:Another bad Hollywood Movie? on Former Director of the ISS Division At NASA Talks About Science Behind 'Elysium' · · Score: 1

    Read a bit more carefully. He's not saving the overpopulated earth. He's saving a few millions of people. The rest are written off for dead.

  23. Dr. Evil's true plan revealed on Former Director of the ISS Division At NASA Talks About Science Behind 'Elysium' · · Score: 1

    Two HUNDRED BILLION Dollars!

  24. Re:The Romans found out about lead on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    Please turn your sarcasm detector back on.

  25. Pubcrawl sense on Cell Phone Powered By Urine · · Score: 1

    Actually this makes sense to me for pubcrawls. Hook up the loo where everyone pisses to a bank of batteries, and let anyone at the bar plug in.