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  1. Didn't know anybody still used that. Hosers!

  2. Re:Linkedln offers advice on Microsoft's Nadella Banks On LinkedIn Data To Challenge Salesforce (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Clippy is reborn.

  3. Re: Cultural ethics won't allow work-free life on Billionaire Jack Ma Says CEOs Could Be Robots in 30 Years, Warns of Decades of 'Pain' From AI (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it's true, but it doesn't help with creating a good healthcare system.

    Tell that to Aneurin Bevan.

  4. Re: Cultural ethics won't allow work-free life on Billionaire Jack Ma Says CEOs Could Be Robots in 30 Years, Warns of Decades of 'Pain' From AI (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Work or starve is life putting up barriers. There's no one who made that law. The only way you can avoid starving is to make food, trade for it, beg for it, or steal for it.

    Unless a robot makes it for you.

  5. Re: Cultural ethics won't allow work-free life on Billionaire Jack Ma Says CEOs Could Be Robots in 30 Years, Warns of Decades of 'Pain' From AI (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not clear that this will make things better.

    The fact that it works better in almost every country that has it (which is pretty much everywhere they have plumbing) is a pretty strong hint.

  6. Re:What's changed? on Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:yeah on Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he was thinking of this.

    https://hywelsbiglog.wordpress...

    I know the first time I tasted it I went "Jeeeeesus Christ!!!"

  8. Re:My answer on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    being cleaver

    That's a cutting remark!

  9. Perhaps they're being eaten by an Aloxotyl?

  10. CGAT. Started at the age of -9 months.

  11. Re:Manufacturing at home, not that impossible on Linux PC Maker System76 Plans To Design And Manufacture Its Own Hardware (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    And the CPUs, lan/wifi cards and so on?

    The claim was that cases are as difficult, if not more so, than the electronics. To make, not to scavenge.

  12. As the proverb goes, one lesbian's bug is another transgender's feature.

  13. Re:BASIC, of course on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 0

    Of course it is. Say hello to Mrs Merkel for me.

  14. Re:BASIC, of course on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 0

    Because it's much easier with Perl.

  15. Re:Old people will probably say BASIC on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, had a Sinclair Spectrum. BASIC comes up as the shell.

    Also used BASIC on a RM-380 something at school.

    Dabbled with assembler on both, didn't really get very far.

  16. Re:Fortran on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wasn't it still called Natural Philosophy then - and taught in Latin?

  17. so yes that is one of the points of open source, if you don't like it, fork it and/or make your own.

    Good advice. Pity you didn't follow it, Lennart.

  18. Me, back on RH 6 or 7, once. That's RH, not RHEL.

    It's so long ago I found the answer I needed in an actual paper book.

  19. Re:expect higher prices on Linux PC Maker System76 Plans To Design And Manufacture Its Own Hardware (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    Make those corners really pointy, just to be on the safe sued^H side.

  20. Re:Cases, not electronics on Linux PC Maker System76 Plans To Design And Manufacture Its Own Hardware (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone who could build a motherboard or CPU at home put their hands up.

    [nobody]

    And now everyone who could build a case, albeit one that's susceptible to termites.

    [me].

  21. Re: Becaue you aren't offering to do the work. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Are you talking about gedit?

  22. Re: Becaue you aren't offering to do the work. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    It's called a joke. Possibly inspired by this: http://www.goodreads.com/quote...

  23. Re:Becaue you aren't offering to do the work. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    Your post reminds me of a joke that used to go round usenet as a response to pie-in-the-sky ideas. It was like a form with a load of reasons why something wouldn't work. The unions won't allow it, the government won't allow it, IBM won't allow it. You ticked the ones that applied.

    Damned if I can find the thing now.

  24. Re:Becaue you aren't offering to do the work. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    I was going to joke that maybe he got a negative reaction because adding emoji support to LaTeX was a bad idea.

    But it seems somebody thought it was a good idea.

  25. Re:Research Paper on Grand Theft Auto V Is Being Used To Help Teach Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Human eyes aren't digital cameras, you pillock.