User: Hognoxious

Re: The year of Linux on the ...

On: Linux For Cars: Tesla Isn't The Only Automaker Running Linux Under the Hood (zdnet.com)

I haven't had as much practice as you.

Re: Hey look it's Ivan-Hackingbear with more FUD

On: Huawei Has Suspected Ties To Front Companies In Iran and Syria, New Documents Reveal (reuters.com)

"rein in", you fat fuck.

Re:331 read emails?

On: Digital Hoarding Can Make Us Feel Just as Stressed and Overwhelmed as Physical Clutter, Research Suggests (bbc.com)

Sounds Japanese. It must be good!

Re:Shoot the messenger

On: Proceedings Start Against Portland State University Professor Whose Carefully Crafted Fiction Helped Expose the Rot Within Some Sectors of Modern Academia

So the irresponsibility of his reporting (assuming your description is accurate) is probably mostly what got him into trouble.

Is irresponsible reporting per se a crime?

Re:Awwww

On: Proceedings Start Against Portland State University Professor Whose Carefully Crafted Fiction Helped Expose the Rot Within Some Sectors of Modern Academia

now circling the wagons.

That's not very inclusive towards cultures that have not - for perfectly valid reasons that we have no right to question - chosen to develop wheeled transport.

#triggered #ilovemytravois

Re: Thou Shalt not Expose...

On: Proceedings Start Against Portland State University Professor Whose Carefully Crafted Fiction Helped Expose the Rot Within Some Sectors of Modern Academia

How does that work if the flaw being exposed is that they wouldn't know fake data if you hung a big orange sign on it?

Re:Booting Into Python

On: Eben Upton Remembers The Years Before the First Raspberry Pi (techrepublic.com)

What it boots into depends on what you put on the SD card.

Re:Let her decide

On: Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Should I Buy For My First Employee?

You can claim 100% of anything remotely work related. At least that's what cayenne8 says, and he's awesome.

Re:The Visible Computer: 6502

On: Eben Upton Remembers The Years Before the First Raspberry Pi (techrepublic.com)

pancrei

Don't think so. Unless they've started spelling it as pancreus.

Re:Discrimination of Chinese people

On: Eben Upton Remembers The Years Before the First Raspberry Pi (techrepublic.com)

STFU, AmiMoJo.

When the Welsh start putting plastic in baby milk you might have a point.

Re:Not much of a homecomputer

On: Eben Upton Remembers The Years Before the First Raspberry Pi (techrepublic.com)

You seem to be confusing a "home computer" and "a home computer from 1983".

Ob

On: Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Should I Buy For My First Employee?

Classify her as an independent contractor and tell her to buy her own goddam computer.

When they crash

On: China To Launch Self-Driving Bullet Trains That Will Travel At 217 MPH (independent.co.uk)

When (not if) they crash will they be able to bulldoze themselves - and any survivors - into a ditch so senior officials don't lose face?

# Dvorak - From The New World

On: Link Between Social Media and Depression Stronger In Teen Girls Than Boys, Study Says (cnn.com)

In the old days we didn't have the internet. We had to make our own mental illnesses.

Of course we didn't all them that. You were just a bit tapped, or not right in the head.

OMG!

On: Link Between Social Media and Depression Stronger In Teen Girls Than Boys, Study Says (cnn.com)

the link between social media use and depressive symptoms in 14-year-olds may be much stronger for girls than boys.

That's like soooooo unfair!

Re:The year of Linux on the ...

On: Linux For Cars: Tesla Isn't The Only Automaker Running Linux Under the Hood (zdnet.com)

2021: the year you get it to boot (if it has systemd).

Re:They still think digital watches are cool

On: NASA Spacecraft Confirms Successful Flyby of Distant Solar System Object (theverge.com)

That's not primitive, That's just old.

Re:Were They Their Own Moons?

On: NASA's Photos of Ultima Thule Suggest Long-Ago Moons (jhuapl.edu)

Why would they slow?

Why don't you ask someone with experience? Try that big white ball in the night sky. It's been there, done it and got the t-shirt.

Re: Hey China

On: NASA Drops Spacecraft Into Orbit Around Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Bennu (cnet.com)

The race is on! Do you think he'll beat AmiMoJo?

Sunday best

On: NASA Drops Spacecraft Into Orbit Around Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Bennu (cnet.com)

I thought the asteroid belt was between Mars and Jupiter?

Re:Hopefully

On: NASA Drops Spacecraft Into Orbit Around Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Bennu (cnet.com)

Failing that a bunch of herpin' derpin' oilmen will destroy it - but only after them there fancy-pants book-learned so-called "scientists" totally fail it.

Re:Ps, wind turbine blades are actually airfoils

On: Texas Has Enough Sun and Wind To Quit Coal, Rice Researchers Say (houstonchronicle.com)

Most wind turbines are attached to the ground. Their maximum speed is the same as their minimum speed - zero.

Re: Nicole Foss on renewables

On: Texas Has Enough Sun and Wind To Quit Coal, Rice Researchers Say (houstonchronicle.com)

STFU, Ivan.

Re:Nicole Foss on renewables

On: Texas Has Enough Sun and Wind To Quit Coal, Rice Researchers Say (houstonchronicle.com)

Two data points proves absolutely fuck all.

Re:Build something in a country

On: White House Advisor Kudlow Says Apple Technology May Have Been 'Picked Off' by China (cnbc.com)

Is there anything the Chinese could do that you wouldn't condone?