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  1. Re:Cry me a river on California Bill Would Dramatically Limit Commercial Drones · · Score: 1

    This is my favorite part about libertarians. They seem to hate governance and rules, but of course they love them. It's just that their small government enforces entirely different sets of rules than every other libertarian. Governance is a drug that libertarians can't quit.

  2. Re: Wow on Next Texas Energy Boom: Solar · · Score: 2

    The lab where you used to work? Well, I'm convinced!

  3. Re:Suckers on Tesla Partners With Airbnb, Subsidizes Chargers · · Score: 1

    That's a neat trick there were you chose the most expensive installation. A few posts here have already said it only cost them 200$ (presumably the "no-complications" price.) 200$ one-time + 45$ a month is a drop in the bucket for AirBnB houses than regularly make 4k+ a month. Explain to me how that's not worth it on the whim alone. And that's 45$ on somebody who probably favored renting your place because of the charger if it's being used. If nobody bites, 200$. That's peanuts.

  4. Re:an amazing OS on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 0

    > it doesn't send every keystroke and whatnot to Microsoft for analysis either

    Windows 10 doesn't do exactly that either. (Nevermind that you can turn it off.)

  5. Re:i already have a master switch on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Weird, because you clearly don't know when to stop making sounds out of it when you want to control stupidity.

  6. Re:Idiots on Bitcoin Fork Divides Community · · Score: 1

    Sounds like regulations to me.

  7. Re: He's got company on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > track record of getting shit done and speaks his mind

    Is good at going bankrupt and says incredibly stupid shit that no emotionally functional person would say? Americans are a fascinating species.

  8. Re:Nothing wrong with XKCD, but... on XKCD Author's New Unpublished Book Becomes Scientific Best-Seller · · Score: 1

    I'm curous how fucking dumb you have to be to read this and think an award was given out.

  9. It's like YA for engineers.

  10. Re:Now that's just evil on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    > Playstation 4 runs on the BSD kernel so obviously games can and do run better on Linux/BSD than Microsoft shitware.

    Well that's a stupid example. The PS4 SDK and toolchain is Windows only. In fact, every game that you run on PS4/XBone/Nintendo platforms is developed in Windows. (To say nothing of the art tools used to make these games, many of which are also Windows only.)

  11. Re:The Onion had it right on Ebola Vaccine 100% Successful In Guinea Trial · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here's to hoping that one day you pass into adulthood.

  12. Re:MenuChoice and HAM (1992) on The Weird History of the Microsoft Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    It's so much easier not to say anything.

  13. Re:What bothers me on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 2

    .. all at the behest of the tinfoil industry.

  14. Re: ... and the hype for Windows 10 begins.... on Experiment: Installing Windows 10 On a 7-Year-Old Acer Aspire One · · Score: 1

    But you are a sheep. Just not Microsoft's sheep.

  15. Re:So why do we see so much censorship? on Calling All Data Do-Gooders · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think you have any idea what actual censorship, online, or offline even means.

  16. Re:The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 2

    Why on earth wouldn't you just consider it your own money that you gave the government in the past? You have to be pretty obtuse to turn down your own money in order to make a point about the evils of market incentives.

  17. Re:Terrifying. on Clang Plays Tetris -- Tetris As a C++ Template Metaprogram · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am mystified how people can read this and not realize it was just a little fun thing to do in his spare time. Or do you spend every waking minute of your life doing serious things with your knowledge and skills?

  18. Re:This makes complete sense on Naval Research Interested In Bringing 3D Printing To Large Scale For Ships · · Score: 1

    In short, if your ship can stay out longer and longer, then you will have to figure out how to rotate the humans aboard.

  19. Re:question on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 0

    *drop the artificial ingredients in as a final step

  20. question on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 0

    I assume it's healthier to drop the artificial ingredients as a final step, rather than add them during the mixing process like they do currently?

  21. Re:Why use ISP email? on Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    Inbox is the client, not the service. The "gmail" in "replacing gmail" is only referring to the client.

  22. Re:Why use ISP email? on Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    That is exactly my email situation to a T. The biggest inconvenience is one every few weeks I might have to dip into SA's junkbox and whitelist a sender, but I'm almost happy to do that in light of getting next to no spam by the time email reaches my google inbox.

  23. Re:CJK is Unicode's big failing on Unicode Consortium Releases Unicode 8.0.0 · · Score: 0

    Unicode trips up shitty programmers. It sounds a little more like it was one of those "out of your league" problems. Probably best to say away from CJK contracts tho. I've shipped shitloads of software with CJK localizations, and frankly, from that word soup you've produced, I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about.

  24. Re: bloatware on Unicode Consortium Releases Unicode 8.0.0 · · Score: 1

    Dutch has an extra character not in the Latin character set.

  25. Re:Infinity on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    This is a little like saying it would be handy if the compiler knew what you meant when you wrote code that attemtped to do soemthing for which there is no specifically well defined answer. While you may know what default you want, it's not going to the the right default for another programmer. Hell, usually it's not going to be the right default for some other place in your code where you're allowing your software to try and divide a value by zero.

    In theory, you could make a compiler that does something, but it's not a good idea because it would involve some set of programming being satisfied 'with the default' and many others now stuck with possible bugs because their software doesn't crash when it tries and does something mathematically undefined.