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  1. Re:Doing it the hard way on In a Security Test, 3-D Printed Gun Smuggled Into Israeli Parliament · · Score: 1

    Why? Humanity's sake? Pfft! He's a person with a proven proclivity for assassination. As such, you'd be an idiot to think that gun was the only thing on him. Take him out then and there.

  2. Re:Velociraptors on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Ahhhhh, shit - FINDING goto statements.

  3. Re:Absence of a test suite on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 2

    Oh hell, I'd rather have none than some I've seen.

    Worst case was being flown in to summarize a system's functionality (don't know why, but staff was terminated en-mass) only to find the documentation was photocopy pages in boxes. That's it; no folders, no color coding or anything, just loose sheets. Top that with many of the copies being so faded as to require literally fifteen minutes or so each to figure out what things were. After a week and being shown the state of things, they decided to scrap and rewrite.

    OK, I do know why the staff was shown the door.

  4. Re:I miss progressive enhancement on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    "Anybody whose website failed to work in Lynx was derided as an idiot."

    Only on /. and other like venues.

  5. Re:Solution in extensions on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    "It's not about precious CPU cycles,..."

    This. It seems that the most frequent argument is "consuming cycles". That's bogus. Even my old XP spends most of its time waiting and waiting. Speed is a bogus argument bordering on the ridiculous.

  6. Re:Solution in extensions on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    I come from a time before "the web" and the Internet WAS applications. ... The folly is assuming that web pages have to be applications.

    You don't see the contradiction in pining for the good old days where the Internet WAS the folly you abhor?

    we still had search engines. We had email. We had message systems"

    And they were crap. I was there. They were crap.

    So the argument in favor of making javascript mandatory is so that people who click 'like' buttons won't be inconvenienced by a slower "web experience"? "

    Who are you to complain? Your argument is javascript should disappear because some coders do stupid things you don't like with it.

  7. Re:Solution in extensions on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    Nice play on an old standard cliche, but not a true variant. One can write a quick, portable and reliable page/app. Been done many times, they're just small.

  8. Re:Solution in extensions on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    "People deserve better than petty kings like you. They deserve to be kings themselves, to master their own fate."

    You mean like people telling them they should only develop their pages in such-and-such a manner?

    Simply sounds like another form of petty dictatorship.

  9. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    No, you're merely taking a condescending attitude towards those who want to enjoy the evening they paid for and addressing them as if it were somehow a failure on their part that those interruptions annoy them.

  10. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dude, he's in a theater posting to /. *now*.

  11. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    We have a volunteer fire dept here in So Mo. They don't all call each other when there's a fire. They rotate being available and are *there* at the station. Your friend's dept sucks, IMHO.

  12. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    Believe it. I've seen it many times in a number of cities.

  13. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    Dude, your keyboard/pad clicking skills *do not* translate to street fighting.

  14. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    Actual tests show otherwise. They only think they're doing both. They're actually time-slicing and taking the resultant hit in performances.

    None of which ameliorates their being assholes for doing it in a theater.

  15. Re:Useless on To Counter Widespread Surveillance, Stealth Clothing · · Score: 2

    You can see this in the video. The subjects' heads and stomachs start glowing more brightly as the person dons the piece. The really buff guy's heat shifts to his face and arms almost immediately. So you have your program look for a shorter block with a beacon shining above it.

    If facial detection programs that clip the hair off first aren't already out there, my guess is they're close at hand so I don't think the greasy twirls will do much for long.

    The handbag gadget seemed functional though.

  16. Re:Better idea: on Why Engineering Freshmen Should Take Humanities Courses · · Score: 1

    "Or that a skilled ..."

    Nawh. One doesn't get to equate a hypothesis based on an abstraction with one based on empirical evidence from a variety of sources, said empirical data touching a number of fields.

  17. Re:Better idea: on Why Engineering Freshmen Should Take Humanities Courses · · Score: 1

    Most literature (Kafka's included) is for the plot and entertainment. Much, if not all, 'insight' taught about Kafka and other's works is projection.

    Enjoy the works or spend your life searching for the message between the lines, it's your call, but let's not elevate critics (which is what teachers of literature really are) into some deliverer of truth and insight, they ain't.

  18. Re:Well it appears to be a legitimate rape attempt on Security Researcher Attacked While At Conference · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ask Whoopie. I hear she's an expert on what is and isn't really "rape rape".

  19. Re:The real answer on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 1

    Wrong pronoun - *it* got old.

  20. Re:work with the public for a year or two on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 1

    Read some world news. Not one of those instances is restricted to first world. I agree that each of those is worse than troll spouting but you yourself dropped into troll mode with your last sentence.

  21. Re:Yes but... on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 1

    How very nice of you to demonstrate exactly what is being discussed here.

  22. Re:Indeed, flamers and trolls want their freedom. on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 1

    You know one of the hallmarks of a troll it to twist the context so as to make it *their* favorite bugaboo. In this case, a against the US.

  23. Re:Do not understand this. on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 3, Informative

    To the biologically illiterate AC:

    47,XXX
    48, XXXX
    49 XXXXY syndrome
    49, XXXXX
    Klinefelter's syndrome
    Turner syndrome
    XX gonadal dysgenesis
    XX male syndrome
    XXYY syndrome
    XYY syndrome

  24. Re:That's fine on Legislators Introduce Bill To Stop Set Top Boxes From Watching You · · Score: 1

    Don't project.

  25. Re:Transporters on Dmitry Itskov Wants To Help You Live Forever Via an Android Avatar · · Score: 1

    "I'm not quite sure how Star Trek handled the concept"

    Same way all scifi does, presumption. They never explain, they don't have to. It's fiction.