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  1. Re: Sounds good. on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and your English teacher will split the bill between them.

  2. Re:systemd on Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Wicd is a piece of shit too. There's a checkbox for "never connect to this AP" that seems (if it does anything) to make it prefer the one in question.

  3. At this point, I'll give SCO $500 just to go away.

    That's $199 short.
        Signed,
        Darl.

  4. Can anybody tell me what - after adjusting for inflation - the current value of a cock-smoking teabagger is?

  5. Is the submitter paid by the hour, or by the number of times he can fit "restaurant industry" into TFS?

  6. You are Joe_Dragon AICMFP.

  7. Overheard at the synagogue: "... and I said why sell it once when you can sell it twice? Do these goyim take me for a schlemiel already?"

  8. I assumed that the hero had managed to dramatically yank out the plug before the progress bar got to the end.

  9. Re:Nothing to see here on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    You can't say "figure", it might trigger someone with a negative body-image.

  10. Re:Interesting that this isn't reversible on Chinese Scammers Take Mattel To the Bank, Phishing Them For $3 Million (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It would be reversible...if the money stayed in the destination account.

    That rather depends on the jurisdiction where the bank's located. In England & Wales it's certainly not the case that you can automatically issue an "undo".

    http://www.theguardian.com/mon...

    In China, Vanuatu or some mailbox on a rock in the Caribbean ... anybody's guess. Probably depends how friendly the account holder is with the local officials.

  11. Re:let me guess on Valve Loses Australian Court Battle Over Steam (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    You know the old one about the trouble with political jokes is that they sometimes get elected? There must be an equivalent for the legal sphere.

    4) (a corollary[1] of 1 ): Is that the one with the Lederhosen or the one with the kangaroos? Yeah, we, er, meant the other one.

    [1] No, not a corroboree.

  12. let me guess on Valve Loses Australian Court Battle Over Steam (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 2

    Valve has contested ACCC's arguments on a number of grounds.

    1) We're American!
    2) What? That's like communism!
    3) But it's on the internet!

  13. Re:Valve Thought They Were Still A Prison Colony on Valve Loses Australian Court Battle Over Steam (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    The French sold the USA to the USA, which was doubly cheeky because it actually belonged to Spain.

    It was Britain's fault, though.

  14. Re:Kiss from a deadly rose on Internet of Seals: Vodafone Connects Marine Mammals To IoT (techweekeurope.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Like building a big enough deep fat fryer?

  15. Re:The lack of technical precision in TFS is annoy on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope they call it Ubuntu Runner.

  16. Re:systemd on Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I only have a small house so one WiFi hotspot is enough.

  17. Re:As we all let out a collective.... on Police Unlikely To Win Wider Access To Smartphones Despite FBI Success In San Bernardino Case (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not? If you can make a lucky guess once you can make a lucky guess twice.

  18. Re: The lack of technical precision in TFS is anno on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It probably has an NT emulator embedded in it. After all, it has pretty much everything else.

  19. Re:Is his real name Eric Morecambe? on Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I know the thing you're referring to, but I was thinking of a guy I used to know who knew every single command (and the many many additions & variations) in the language we worked with, but couldn't write a decent program to save his life.

    "Great with notes but shit at tunes" was how I put it. In a way, the superclass of the proverbial "Penny wise and pound foolish".

  20. Re:systemd on Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Except you'd have a reasonable chance of figuring out why.

  21. Re:systemd on Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NetworkMangler is his too? That completely changes my opinion of him. I used to think he was a hack-and-hope chancer who chucks things over the wall when they're barely half finished.

    Now I know it for sure.

  22. Re:systemd on Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong (ieee.org) · · Score: 0

    Linux is the kernel. Systemd works outside the kernel.

    For now ...

  23. Re:Have no fear, Luddites! on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    That's far too short a time scale for you to develop a sense of humour.

  24. Re:if it ain't broke... on New NASA Launch Control Software Late, Millions Over Budget (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Commercial software is available now. Not so much 10 years ago.

    But according to TFA "even though NASA could have simply purchased already available software that other launch companies were using successfully, the agency decided to write its own."

    Are you suggesting that the submitter is confused, or perhaps being economical with the truth?

  25. Re:Osborne effect on Oculus Rift Review: Virtual Reality is Almost Here · · Score: 1

    You're using the obsolete meaning of the word, often preceded by an explicit or implicit "independent".

    You don't see them much these days.