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  1. Re:Of course ... on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    Which is the way it should be.

  2. Re:Best way to stop these criminals on AnonSec Attempts To Crash $222m Drone, Releases Secret Flight Videos (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Excute them, and their families and friends and cats and dogs.
    Same goes for spammers. Why should a spammer who causes more than a billion dollars in lost productivity NOT be called what he is? A terrorist.

    I remember a time when /. was mostly filled with mentally stable people.

  3. Re:MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a sight to behold.

  4. Re:As someone who "upgraded" to Win10 on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Instability is located between keyboard and chair.

  5. Re:Why not "Cooking for All"? on Obama Calls For $4B 'Computer Science For All' Program For K-12 Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Why not "Programming for All"?

    After all, everybody uses computers. Not everyone is a chef.

    Ya moron.

  6. Re:What is a 'Ghostface Killa' and why should i ca on Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah · · Score: 1

    He might as well have said, "I don't even *own* a Ghostface Killah!"

  7. Hehe on Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is worth it just to see the /. commenters trip over themselves to lose their shit.

    *puts on some Ghostface Killah, grabs popcorn*

  8. Re:Makes sense to me. on Tesla Truck 'Quite Likely,' Says Elon Musk (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    According to market research, the overwheliming majority of truck owners do not use their truck like a truck. That doesn't make them all rich dorks, it just makes them regular consumers.

  9. Re:Just have medicare for all and get rid of the o on A Crowdfunding Site To Help Pay Patients' Medical Bills · · Score: 1

    *rolls eyes*

  10. Re:Boring... on Drone Racing League Wants To Be the Next NASCAR (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Watching somebody do something dangerous creates tension and suspense. Watching somebody a roller coaster doesn't create tension because in general we know they are safe. (When we do it ourselves, it doesn't really matter because our own instinctive fear can override our reasoning.) But watching somebody do something dangerous where we believe a possible outcome is injury or tragedy creates emotional tension.

    I find NASCAR boring as fuck, but if you don't intellectually understand the appeal of daredevils, even if it doesn't appeal to you personally, you're being deliberately obtuse.

  11. Re:Ridiculous on Google Fixes Zero-Day Kernel Flaw, Says Effect on Android Not Really That Bad (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're right. Some people would say that security depends on being perfect. Those people however are living in a dream world where trying to prevent mistakes and fixing mistakes are somehow physically mutually exclusive.

  12. Re: Politician-Speak on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Taxing companies for manufacturing outside the US could be argued to just be a tariff. Look below, people are already suggesting a practical implementation of such a thing would be taxing imports. That absolutely would involve violating trade agreements.

  13. Re:Politician-Speak on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I can see why people who have absolutely no clue as to how the world works would believe that.

  14. Re:Trump just says stuff on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    While the fantasy that the Clinton campaign is somehow in charge of two other leading candidates - one of which is in the other party, makes for a cool narrative, it takes a particularly kind of naivete and never-mind lack of faith in investigative journalism to believe it's even logistically possible to do, let alone keep it a secret.

  15. Re:"Policy not to acknowledge" quote is offensive on Katherine Johnson: NASA's Pioneering Female Physicist (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    The article uses the word computers. The summary uses the word contributor. The wikipedia article uses the word contributor. But it's not a quote, and here you are wringing your hands and feeling offended, which is baffling.

  16. Re:"Policy not to acknowledge" quote is offensive on Katherine Johnson: NASA's Pioneering Female Physicist (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Offensive? I can't roll my eyes hard enough.

  17. Re:Reusing the same password is actually better on LastPass Vulnerable To Extremely Simple Phishing Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    That is weapons grade dumb. The only thing this kind of attack can get is whatever passwords the duped user is entering. If they use only one, then as an attacker, all you need is that first one. Since auditing is so important to you, presumably you would also insist that you audit all the websites you're giving your password *to*. Think about it: "I don't trust the password manager, but I think it's a great idea to give the same password to a bunch of different websites who's handling of my password I *can't* audit." See how ridiculous your claim is that using a single uber-strong password is better than trusting a commercial entity who's business is predicated and relies on getting it right? All they get is an encrypted blob of your data, and you can sniff your own outbound traffic to confirm it.

  18. Re:How long will you all put up with this shit? on Microsoft: Only the Latest Version of Windows Will Support New CPU Generations (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    God, I love /. users. They are hilarious.

  19. So put them into some kind of altcoin. I hear that's a really good place to put your money these days.

  20. Re:No sympathy here. on Cryptsy Bitcoin Trader Robbed, Blames Backdoor In the Code of a Wallet (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    All of those things you mentioned are not a currency. When the stock market crashed, or the dot com bubble crashed, or the "global financial meltdown" happened, did the 10 dollars in your pocket turn into 2 dollars?

  21. Re:Teething pains are going to be a bitch. on Tesla Model S Software Updates Lets Car Park Itself With No One Inside It (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Tesla has no programmers who've thought about the things you came up with "as a programmer" in 5 seconds.

  22. Re:Really??? on Java Named Top Programming Language of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a lovely bit of word soup you have assembled.

  23. Re:Why is everyone wearing headphones? on Which do You Prefer: Mobile Web Apps or Mobile Websites? (Video) · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Dear sirs, it has come to my attention that this newspaper contains a sports section. I do not follow sports and will never read about sports. Please cease putting things in your newspaper that I do not read."

  24. Re:Abstractions: a purely academic concept. on Google Confirms Next Android Version Won't Use Oracle's Proprietary Java APIs · · Score: 1

    Lol, good lord, thanks for that laugh.

  25. You can't even make it through the summary? The hacks have targeted multiple companies/platforms in the past. Their targets have nothing to do with brand/corporate reputation.