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  1. Re:Hmm on What Jonathan Coulton Learned From The Technology Industry (geekwire.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'd never heard of the fucker, and the first few things google dredged up didn't really motivate me to look for more.

    What's Portal?

  2. cigar adverts on Recent College Grads Aim To Land A Robot On The Moon (thehindu.com) · · Score: 1

    oxygen from the atmosphere air

    Good you cleared that up. We might have thought they were referring to the one on the G string.

  3. Re: First item on the agenda... on How G.E. Is Transforming Into An IoT Start-Up (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess the question is "How much security is good enough for IoT" ?

    Unless you're making devices. Then it's either "how much security can we get for a budget of X?" or "how little security can we get away with, given that the budget for it is zero?"

  4. Hmm on What Jonathan Coulton Learned From The Technology Industry (geekwire.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did he learn that he should probably have stayed in software developing?

    He's like that Australian guy with the eye-shadow, apart from being not funny and not as good a musician.

  5. Re:Google Tests A Software on Google Tests A Software That Judges Hollywood's Portrayal of Women · · Score: 1

    The French.

  6. Re:Free market on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Many, many issues in life are just inherently complex. So, when there's conflict, a person has to weigh which conflicting principle Is more important to them.

    So basically we're totally fucked and it's not a question of *if* the ants take over, it's a question of *when*?

    I'd bet on early December, but I doubt I'll be around to collect.

  7. Re:Young engineers ... on Dyson Will Spend $1.4 Billion, Enlist 3,000 Engineers To Build a Better Battery (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My teacher spent about 30 seconds explaining SQL with Van Diagrams

    Are those the ones where you draw a Ford Transit overlapping a Citroen Nemo?

  8. Re:So basically visa's for sale on White House Is Planning To Let More Foreign Entrepreneurs Work In the US (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    allow you to open a business (any business) in the US and leave here 3 or 5 years

    Seems like a stupid idea. If I opened a business I'd rather be as close as possible in the initial phase rather than fucking off somewhere else.

  9. Piffle. Sounds like the something from a Frederick Forsythe/John Le Carré cold-war novel.

  10. Do you mean classic theme? Nothing to do with speed, I used to set it because the other looked like it had been designed by Fisher-Price.

  11. Steam generation under one sun on Floating Solar Device Boils Water Without Mirrors (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Steam generation under one sun

    Why is the number of suns relevant? I don't often visit places with two.

  12. Who knows, maybe they'll grow the fuck up and start giving them sensible names.

  13. insults that are thrown out willy-nilly

    Phallocrat!

  14. Re: This is the wrong answer on Amazon Is Testing a 30-Hour, 75% Salary Workweek (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You might. I craft it.

  15. If it was possible, Elon Musk would have done it already.

  16. those idiot's votes count the same as yours and mind.

    Those?

  17. It won't work, because https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

  18. Re:Sharia courts on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    There are no sharia courts in the UK

    There are, but they hide them behind a name like "community arbitration panels".

    Of course both parties must "agree" to use them.

  19. Re:dark patterns huh? on Dark Patterns Across the Web Are Designed To Trick You · · Score: 2

    The reason UX designers are getting a horrible reputation is that most of them couldn't design an arse if you gave them two cheeks and a bunghole.

    This is more a management issue - not totally, because designers could refuse to do it and become unemployed designers.

  20. Re:WHIPSLASH & crew: Check RECENT section on Dark Patterns Across the Web Are Designed To Trick You · · Score: 2

    Right after the a-with-a-hat(TM) bug?

  21. Re:The safe 1 minute summary on Dark Patterns Across the Web Are Designed To Trick You · · Score: 1

    It's Engineer/architect jargon. Oinks like us don't understand it.

  22. Re:anti-science environmentalists on Florida Regulators OK Plan To Increase Toxins In Water (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately yes, and it gets worse:

    The Monte Carlo method is named after a monastery in Italy that was the sight of a famous battle in WW2. A survivor, who later went on to be Dean of Statistics at DeVry, used it as a euphemism for doing something by pure chance.

  23. Re:Water itself is toxic on Florida Regulators OK Plan To Increase Toxins In Water (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 0

    I heard it contains Dihydrogen Monoxide and Hydroxylic acid.

    And what's worse, you can't get away from them - those are both found as contaminants in beer!

  24. Re:Maybe they can "invent" Angry Bird Go on Apple Q3 Earnings: iPhone Sales Continue To Slide, But Apple Beats Estimates (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't, because I only use luddite software.

  25. Bit of an unfair generalization.

    Plenty of Indians write like that too.