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  1. Re: Those who would give up essential Liberty... on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    The only excuse for not having Belgium on the list is if you're a Belgian.

    Actually, even that's not an excuse because half of them hate the other half.

  2. Re: Those who would give up essential Liberty... on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Why will 4% be exactly average? Does it go in fixed steps or something?

    Also, what do you mean by average?

  3. Top of the list on The Swift Programming Language's Most Commonly Rejected Changes (github.com) · · Score: 1

    Make it more like Java.

    Make it less like Java.

  4. Re:Frightening on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    If you intentionally meant to imply "whoever wins"| by not actually saying it, then I award you 1 (one) golf clap.

  5. Re:Systemd on slashdot on New Year's Resolutions For *nix SysAdmins (cyberciti.biz) · · Score: 1

    Lennart has poured his heart and soul into creating a solution, and you don't have the problem to go with it? You inconsiderate bastard!

  6. Re:UTF-32 does not hold a grapheme cluster on The Swift Programming Language's Most Commonly Rejected Changes (github.com) · · Score: 2

    "Because Unicode" is used to justify all manner of things.

    And it's always wrong.

  7. Re: Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    A stand in? Sort of like a variable? Shouldn't that be $weev, then?

  8. At least facebook's logon system works.

  9. Re: Happy Birthday on The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use (informationweek.com) · · Score: 1

    First thought: Why go to all that complexity?
    Second thought: When you're rolling along the runway, you probably want to stay there!

    Thanks for that. Imagine if cars had that, it'd make parking a lot easier!

  10. Re:My new years resolution... on New Year's Resolutions For *nix SysAdmins (cyberciti.biz) · · Score: 1

    Screw it, let's do a Gillette and just jump to 8.

  11. Re:Systemd on slashdot on New Year's Resolutions For *nix SysAdmins (cyberciti.biz) · · Score: 1

    exponentially far more

    Not just exponentially, but far more exponentially?

    Since I'm obviously not as clever at maths as you are, can you tell me the equation for that?

  12. Re:Systemd on slashdot on New Year's Resolutions For *nix SysAdmins (cyberciti.biz) · · Score: 2

    When I read that, I hear the voice from the "mongo db is webscale" cartoons.

  13. Re: Happy Birthday on The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use (informationweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen a few B-52s landing and taking off at all kinds of odd angles. I heard once they have landing gear like a [scaled up] supermarket trolley.

  14. Hate to break it to you, George on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Mediocre as it was, that doesn't mean your involvement would have improved it.

    P.S. When did you last have a discernible neck?

  15. Re:Yeah yeah on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If the universe is truly infinite, all that bullshit happen, for real, somewhere, some time.

    I'm not a mathematician, but one explained to me once why that's bollocks.

  16. Re: Yeah yeah [Jar Jar fan] on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I've heard that said about Dubya, but if it's true he's a bloody good actor.

  17. Re:That is why standards are so useful on The Winner-Take-All Trend In Tech (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I was puzzled too. It does have the word "standards" in it...

  18. Re:Sand Storms on Should We Fill the Sahara With Solar Panels? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Like the ocean.

    It has its life underground and a perfect disguise above.

  19. yo dawg on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They should make a huge hollow death star with loads of death stars inside so that when the rebels think they've won they haven't.

  20. Fariy ports on The Power of Crowds and "Human Computation" (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Airy fairy wishy-washy nonsense.

  21. You want room 12A on The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use (informationweek.com) · · Score: 1

    He could be doing calculations in his spare time.

  22. Re:Gave up on it long ago... on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 1

    It is in fact, incorrect, to say

    It is, in fact, incorrect to place commas like that.

    When we add "didn't", we have to change it from "wanted" to "want". Crazy, I know, but that's our language. (0_o)

    How is it crazy? Other languages that do tenses with an auxiliary + participle/infinitive work like that, probably because it's a) easier b) not redundant and c) allows more tenses e.g. perfect and pluperfect.

  23. Re:Gave up on it long ago... on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 1

    That's not the issue. It's gobbing off like he's an expert when he's fucking wrong.

  24. I've actually used one, many moons ago. It was for calculating the apparent temperature based on air speed & humidity.

    The thing on the back of flashguns for working out what aperture to set probably qualifies too.

  25. Would have got the frosty, but my iphooooone is toooo sloooooowelevetyone.