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  1. I guess ... on Facebook Donates $1 Million To Support Wikipedia (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    ... Facebook finally got tired of that damned popup.

  2. One is called ... on Two Android Apps Used In Combat By US Troops Contained Severe Vulnerabilities (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... Angry Kurds.

  3. Re-release as ... on Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Webtit. Web Totally Inane Terminology.

  4. When?

  5. Re:MAGA bich on This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began (gizmodo.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lots of jobs to be had building that wall.

  6. Re:It's a sign from Jobs above on Some 2017 iPad Pro Displays Suffering From Bright Spot Above Home Button (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, overheating batteries are a sign from Jobs below.

  7. If you can count it ... on Researchers Use AI To Map Every Solar Panel In the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ... you can tax it.

  8. Re:What good is a day off? on Burnout, Stress Lead More Companies To Try a Four-Day Work Week (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    calls you on your personal line

    "Hello. This is Lenny."

  9. We regularly engage with other browser vendors through standards bodies,

    That's a pretty low blow. Google is really going after Microsoft's Achilles Heel with that strategy.

  10. Re:Not sure whether the feature is entirely new on Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Shady sites get opened in their own tab. Or window. And then get closed when I'm tired of fighting with them.

  11. ... thanks you.

  12. body odor contains natural pheromones

    Fresh body odors do. Not the ones that bacteria have had a day or two to work on since the last shower.

  13. Re:Used to be an Oracle DBA... on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Any truth to the rumor that all of O'Reilly's 'Animal' books for Oracle feature pictures of bugs on the cover?

  14. Re:Why on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 1

    It's no secret that people are more likely to waste money when they're having fun.

    As demonstrated by the number of dollar bills carried off in g-strings.

  15. Re:Why on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 1

    This is about money and advertisers, not "SJWs".

    Same thing is happening on 4chan. It has been split into two sites: 4chan, the uncensored stuff and 4channel, the SFW content. For the advertisers. Funny thing, there seems to be more advertising on the uncensored site. Not just porn ads, but mainstream stuff. I guess they know where all the eyeballs went.

  16. Re:Audit - "does this apply in any way"? on US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus, they have to get inside to launch complex.

    (6) Security cameras didn't cover the entire base.
    (8) Base personnel didn't challenge visitors on bases without proper badges, allowing access to secure areas.

    Ooops.

  17. This is just a 'fuck you, because we can' move. Never mind Tweedy Pai and the FCC. Shareholders need to short any company that risks political retribution by pulling childish crap like this.

  18. Re:Why no one is addressing - Fart and its contrib on Cement is the Source of About 8% of the World's Carbon Dioxide Emissions (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But if a cow is slaughtered to feed me, it stops farting. My dietary predilections are saving the planet.

    What we need to do is to get rid of all the cows that are just wandering around, farting (and belching). Hindus, I'm talking to you.

  19. Brazilâ(TM)s new president plans to plunder the Amazon

    Modern civilizations impact on the Amazon has been appalling. We need to go back to what it was before Europeans arrived on the continent.

  20. Somewhere back in time, some Jews decided people needed to be taught how to protect themselves from bad food.

    This is most probably how it started. The wise men observed people dying from following certain practices. They may not have understood the underlying causes, so they made up some rules. The (largely ignorant) population ask why they should follow the rules. So the wise men (priests) make up some crap about all powerful and all knowing beings that will kick your ass if you deviate from the rules. Much like telling a four-year-old not to cross the street "Because I said so."

    But then, as others have noted, religious ritual serves to identify and separate different groups. And that has significant political value in terms of maintaining the absolute authority of ruling classes. So we get funny hats, dreadlocks, or blue and red bandanas, tattoos, etc.

  21. What do you get when you order a carton of bubble wrap?

  22. Re:Why Python? on How Microsoft Embraced Python (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    This is mostly an issue if you mix Python versions.

    So what do you do if you have many millions of lines of code released under strict configuration control* in the old language version?

    *Developed and tested per DO-178 as required by the FAA. Not cheap to re-certify.

  23. Re:Whitespace as language construct = fuck off on How Microsoft Embraced Python (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets turn that around:

    That white space isn't there for your benefit. It's there for the compiler.

    Either way, humans parse stuff differently from compilers. Forcing me to use some construct that I either don't need or would like to do differently just to satisfy the compiler is just wrong. I have my reasons for formatting my source for human readability purposes.

    -- Happily mixing tabs and spaces since 1991.

  24. Re:Protest smarter on People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    We set traps for them.

  25. Not your personal army.