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  1. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is great, because software never has bugs. And why the hell would you want to switch out of D while you're moving unless the throttle is jammed, which can't possibly happen because it's computer controlled too.

  2. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    If you mean a column shift, I rented a car (was a midsize Buick) and also a Toyota van with one. Late 90's.

    There's a practical reason in the van - it allows an extra seating place in the middle.

  3. Re:Get a life, Grammar Nazi on Uborne Children's Books Release For Free Computer Books From the '80s (usborne.com) · · Score: 1

    No it's not. If you're a journalist, or even pretending to be, you ought to be more competent.

  4. Re:Why give them 3 months? on French Gov't Gives Facebook 3 Months To Stop Tracking Non-User Browsers · · Score: 1

    Should be. Probably isn't. It'll need a restructuring of two frameworks, changing 23 xml files, and tweaking a dozen json generators.

  5. Re:Timothy is back? on Most IT Pros Have Seen Embarrassing Information About Their Colleagues · · Score: 1

    A conversation that could have happened:

    G: "So, what would my favourite grandson like for his birthday".

    T: "Well I already got a bike. A tech website?".

    G: "I don't know what that is, but OK."

    T: "Mom, mom! Did you hear what Grandpa Whipslash is going to get me?"

    M: "He spoils you, timothy. I hope you take better care of it than the puppy."

    G: "Just one thing. Play nice and share with cousin Ethan".

  6. Re:Wasn't the C64 just a BASIC interpreter anyways on Uborne Children's Books Release For Free Computer Books From the '80s (usborne.com) · · Score: 1

    The original poster said nothing about having familiarity with 8-bit computers.

    Given the context - 1980s computers - I'd take it as read.

  7. Re:This brings to mind Penny Power on Uborne Children's Books Release For Free Computer Books From the '80s (usborne.com) · · Score: 1

    We used to work in a rota - one reading, one typing, one resting.

  8. No surrender jokes yet? This place is going to the dogs.

  9. Re: So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 2

    adnausium

    Can't find it. Is it one of the transition elements?

  10. 99% of the people who support her views haven't read Atlas Shrugged. I'd reckon it's about the same for those who are against them.

    Because (the odd sparkle aside) it's bloody hard going and not very coherent either.

    Disclaimer: read it because I had to, or I wouldn't have.

  11. Re:Cheaper and Faster???? on Windmill Blade Molds 3D Printed By National Labs (energy.gov) · · Score: 1

    A metamold?

  12. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not necessarily the UXtards' fault. Components cost money.

    If they could have made it with no buttons they would have.

  13. Or did you just get mad

    Stop lying.

    tell him to get bent?

    Stop lying.

  14. I also am with having a problem with it.

  15. Re:Cheaper and Faster???? on Windmill Blade Molds 3D Printed By National Labs (energy.gov) · · Score: 1

    They should make the mold out of ice or something. Then melt it and pour it out.

  16. This driver has been developed over the past two years by a former Intel developer with having a completely open and mainline DRM kernel driver and Mesa Gallium driver

    Yo dawg, I herd u like "driver", so I put it as every third word whether it makes sense or not.

    Hint: it doesn't.

    Did you say thanks to grandpa for buying you a tech site, timothy?

  17. Re:Welcome to the gravitynet on LIGO Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement on Thursday · · Score: 0

    You'll still have to log in to Forbes to see it.

    (it's left as an exercise for the reader to create his own malware joke).

  18. Re:Math is fine! on An Advanced Math Education Revolution Is Underway In the U.S. (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Disagree, but doesn't matter.

    It totally does matter, because you're just plain wrong. The full title is "Common core state standards initiative". They aren't talking about heraldic flags there.

    Straight from the horse's mouth. Not Fox. Not Vacccinesmakeyoucommunistandgay.org.
    http://www.corestandards.org/a...

    Scroll down to "Myths About Implementation".

  19. Re:Math is fine! on An Advanced Math Education Revolution Is Underway In the U.S. (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, because it's totally impossible to write it down on paper (like in the olden days, and like some small shops do even now) then ring it up later.

  20. a reader? on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    On an average day, more than 20 percent of the traffic to WIRED.com comes from a reader who is blocking our ads.

    So they only have about five readers in total?

  21. Stop repeating what idiots say on Fox. on An Advanced Math Education Revolution Is Underway In the U.S. (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    At first I thought the Common Core was dumb after my elementary school child showed me what he was doing, but after researching the teaching methods I know understand the reasoning behind techniques they are using.

    Clearly you need to do a bit more research. Common core isn't about methods or techniques at all.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    "The standards do not dictate any particular pedagogy or what order topics should be taught within a particular grade level."

    http://www.corestandards.org/a...

    "That is why these standards establish what students need to learn but do not dictate how teachers should teach. Instead, schools and teachers will decide how best to help students reach the standards."

  22. Australians on Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs: "The Science is Settled." · · Score: 1

    Australians can spell "axe" properly.

  23. Re:Math is fine! on An Advanced Math Education Revolution Is Underway In the U.S. (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I have been standing at registers where the cashier was thinking way to hard on how to return 27 cents in change. So, yes, math would be good even for them.

    English might help too.

    Of course it could be the fault of common core that takes the kids into a huge detour to figure out simple results.

    Unlikely. Common core is a set of standards defining what they should be able to do, not a set of methods defining how.

  24. Re:Math is fine! on An Advanced Math Education Revolution Is Underway In the U.S. (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I was once, after a long day at work, trying to buy a loaf of bread and a can of spaghetti when there was some kind of fault with the register. The cashier wouldn't sell it to me. I told him the amount (IIRC, you didn't even need to carry anything), put the right money down and walked off with my dinner.

    "You can't do that ... I'll call the police!" he yelled after me, to general amusement.

    Oh, one other thing: that's arithmetic, not mathematics.

  25. Re:Ok. on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    How many other publications have tech news for non-techies?