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  1. Re:News for history nerds... on Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe · · Score: 1

    P.S. The difference is that the funnies were specifically designed in advance, largely based on the failure[1] of the 1943 Dieppe raid, whereas the hedge cutter was improvised on the spot.

    [1] Nominated for an understatement of the century award.

  2. Re:News for history nerds... on Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe · · Score: 1

    The thing made of sticks (it's a bundle of bundles of fairly big logs) is called a fascine. The clever thing is that it's not bound too tightly so it automagically conforms to spread the load and fill the hole.

    It was carried on a special tipper mount on the front of the tank.

  3. Re:Does Excel work yet? on Recalc Or Die: Excel 1.0 Developers Celebrate Their Baby's 30th Birthday · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately on TODaStWD I only saw people washing dishes, but I'm surprised they don't have something custom made. Excel is error prone to say the least.

  4. Better hope there are fewer than 65536 of them and nobody's name is longer than 256 characters.

  5. Re:Both a computer and history twat ... on Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should include reading comprehension & logic in your awesomely broad range of studies, because nothing that you say invalidates my point that it isn't news.

  6. Re:Does Excel work yet? on Recalc Or Die: Excel 1.0 Developers Celebrate Their Baby's 30th Birthday · · Score: 1

    Spreadsheets are used by every small/medium business, to tot up their earnings, which are invariably integer or - at most - two decimal places.

    I'm from Kuwait, you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:Interesting subject, lousy article on Meet the Michael Jordan of Sport Coding · · Score: 1

    of course they're going to have some ticks.

    They should see a doctor before the spread. Lyme disease is pretty unpleasant.

  8. Re:News for history nerds... on Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe · · Score: 1

    I always thought it was intersection, not union.

    Perhaps I should submit a story about Roman manipular tactics during the late republican period?

  9. Re:Spelling pet peeve on How the Car Industry Has Hidden Its Software Behind the DMCA · · Score: 1

    Under article 27.b subsection iv of the slashdot meme regulations that pun is only allowed when discussing wifi/3G blimps.

    At the risk of getting whooshed, the band changed the spelling because people didn't know whether to pronounce it as the metal or as t rhythm.

    No idea what Def Leppard's excuse is.

  10. Re:Furthermore on The #NoEstimates Debate: An Unbiased Look At Origins, Arguments, and Leaders · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. Whether it's software or spacecraft, some projects are sufficiently similar to stuff that's been done before that you totally can produce reasonable estimates.

    And don't presume to tell me what I do or don't grasp, you pompous arrogant ass.

  11. As the man said on Chrome For Android's Incognito Mode Saves Some of the Sites You Visit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any sufficiently advanced malware is indistinguishable from a bug.

  12. Re:News for history nerds... on Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe · · Score: 1

    Sure. But it's not really news, is it?

  13. Even schwit1 was ashamed to put his name on it on Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying" · · Score: 1

    Clearly a hoax. The correct expression would be "decobbering".

  14. Re:Admission of Guilt on America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses · · Score: 1

    That's silly.

    Connect one of a cable into one port. Form the cable into a spiral. Connect the other end into another port.

    Make the buggers dizzy!

  15. Re:A solution on America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses · · Score: 1

    That would also solve the problem.

  16. Re:Good Riddance on Speaker of the House Boehner Announces Resignation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lawmakers can fix broken laws, and even repeal them.

    But you were just playing to the peanut gallery, weren't you?

  17. Re:Ah, no lessons learned from Windows 8 on What's New In GNOME 3.18 · · Score: 1

    Where did they put the Terminal app, was it under Accessories or Utilities?

    That's why I said custom. Put it where you want. It's about the third thing I do on a new system.

  18. The wisdom of Miyagi on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    Non-sequiteur.

    Either Latin do "yes" or Latin do "no."

    You Latin do "guess so".

  19. Re: Professional Engineers have the power to say n on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    So where does the workgroup get its requirements from?

    It's the same problem pushed up a level.

  20. Re:MMM on Twitter's Tech Lead On Making Software Engineers More Efficient · · Score: 1

    If you read between the lines, MMM isn't really about software at all; it's about people.

    They haven't changed much.

  21. Re:Finally on Phone Passwords Protected By 5th Amendment, Says Federal Court · · Score: 1

    Rubbish. Otherwise you'd only be able to get a search warrant if you knew exactly what was in there.

    Proof is not needed to search for evidence, that's a logical impossibility that even Xzibit couldn't solve.

    Perhaps that's why the phrase "probable cause" exists?

  22. Re:Furthermore on The #NoEstimates Debate: An Unbiased Look At Origins, Arguments, and Leaders · · Score: 2

    Just like any other comparison from software to real world objects, yours fails because the real world object is far more predictable

    Is the F-35 a real world object? How about those road tunnels in Boston?

  23. Re:Furthermore on The #NoEstimates Debate: An Unbiased Look At Origins, Arguments, and Leaders · · Score: 1

    If you can't tell them what it will cost, they will go find someone else who will.

    Of course it's totally different if you can tell them what it will cost; in that case they'll go to someone else who tells them it will cost less.

  24. Re:Can anyone explain in actual meaningful terms? on Apple Admits iCloud Problem Has Killed iOS 9 'App Slicing' · · Score: 2

    I did the same, it wanted far too much access to my shit so I bailed.

    Even though I didn't complete it I get about 20 spam mails a day.

    Pity, because some of the content looks interesting.

  25. Re:Sometimes the ethical path is very clear on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Someone could divide it up such that the parts in isolation aren't obviously wrong and divide them between several implementers, none of whom sees the big picture.