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  1. Re:Coined the term 'bug' on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 2

    I have several folders dedicated to just that.

  2. Re:Let's make a deal on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    don't try to climb up on my mountains.

    Don't even look at the carbon footprint of people who live in the mountains or in rural areas. Or spend time on recreation there. It's huge.

    If you have any respect for the environment, you'll move into a small apartment in a high rise in a city. You'll use mass transit and resources on your own city block. You'll never travel outside the city limits. Forget about mountain climbing, hiking, skiing, etc.

  3. Re:Carefully crafted on Did Mozilla Have No Choice But To Add DRM To Firefox? · · Score: 1

    embed secret code

    In an open source product? Help me understand this.

  4. Coined the term 'bug' on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... after finding an actual bug in a computer. Imagine how different things might have turned out.

  5. Re:Finally! on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 2

    And, as an aside, for a picture in the 1960's it was remarkably 'diverse'.

    The guy with the suit jacket looks Indian. Who called tech support?

  6. Re:Another casualty of the War on Drugs on Robbery Suspect Tracked By GPS and Killed · · Score: 1

    The initiative was in response to a sharp increase of armed and often deadly pharmacy robberies across the state, frequently by people addicted to painkillers.

    Put what you want in your body so long as you sit alone by yourself, bothering no one. And when it goes wrong, you o.d. and die by yourself as well. But if your drive to ingest substances drives you to violence and puts other members of society at risk, we can do without you.

    I'd like to walk down the street without pants. But considering the legal consequences, I choose not to. People who can't make reasonable trade offs w.r.t. such consequences don't function well in society. Not at all if their choice trumps the right to life of others.

  7. Re:But they won't track down and tase phone thieve on Robbery Suspect Tracked By GPS and Killed · · Score: 1

    No money in it for the manufacturers to sell replacements.

  8. So, teach your money-grubbing government a lesson: Quit smoking.

  9. We're screwed! on Pentagon Document Lays Out Battle Plan Against Zombies · · Score: 1

    I went to read the plan from the link in TFS. It sent me to a document hosted on scribd.com, which required a facebook login to download. So this means that in order to defend ourselves against a zombie attack, we will have to be assimilated so we can even read the plan.

  10. Re:Betteridge says No. on Should Tesla Make Batteries Instead of Electric Cars? · · Score: 1

    Tell them what you want. Tesla is a larger consumer of batteries.

  11. Betteridge says No. on Should Tesla Make Batteries Instead of Electric Cars? · · Score: 1

    Tesla creates demand for batteries. Until recently, they have been only consumers of battery production. But they have been the largest. If they stop making electric cars, what happens to the demand? And who would invest in battery R&D and production if demand drops?

    Its simple economics. Who is this Gundlach guy anyway? I want to short his portfolio. I'll be rich.

  12. Re:Don't. on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Products For the Over-Equipped Household? · · Score: 1

    beware of Doug sign

    This. Your doge will thank you.

    Much safe.

    Very alarm.

    Wow.

    U R good human, Doug.

    Plz no Glock sign. Burglars attract.

  13. Re:It eats smaller spots. on The Shrinking Giant Red Spot of Jupiter · · Score: 1

    There are also some theories that the spot causes and is a result of some chemical changes in the Jovian atmosphere. I believe it is cooler and a 'high pressure' weather phenomena. Some chemical phase changes may occur at some point which discourage energy transfer to/from the spot as well as an effect something akin to surface tension. Where the compounds inside the spot are attracted to ech other more strongly than to those of the rest of the atmosphere.

  14. Re:Adobe Creative Cloud Service offline... AGAIN on Don't Be a Server Hugger! (Video) · · Score: 1

    They just switched to one of those mushroom-shaped clouds

    Image related. It's the person who thought this would be a good idea.

  15. Re:solution on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    it's an opt-in setting.

    Yes. But can you opt back out?

    "You can opt-out any time you like,
    But you can never leave!"

    - Hotel Cupertino (apologies to the Eagles)

  16. Re:Horrible liability on Apple's part on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    Switching to Android from Apple.

  17. Re:yes! 17 yr old, nobody has asked her what she w on You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene · · Score: 2

    Why the fuck should a 17 year old be able to answer that?

    Goals. It may not be the same thing they want to do when they are 22 or 30. But they are thinking about something and working toward it.

    Dating hint for all you high school guys: Ask a girl what she would study in college and do as a profession. If she doesn't have an immediate answer, run like hell.

  18. Re:We need to fix the root cause on You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene · · Score: 2

    less-qualified people who happen to be women.

    And that's why there isn't a problem for many guys. With an attitude like that*, there's a whole class of men that have just removed themselves from the dating pool. The rest of us thank you.

    *Very common in the IT and engineering fields.

  19. Where is .... on You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene · · Score: 2

    ... Asa Mercer when we need him?

  20. Re:Is It Objectification...? on Unlock Your Android Phone With Open Source Wearable NFC · · Score: 2

    It's objectification only if you think it adds any accessor methods to them.

  21. Just watch .... on Sony To Make Movie of Edward Snowden Story · · Score: 1

    .... Brazil.

  22. Re:Public Transportation on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1

    That still puts the cash in the hands of these providers in advance. Somebody has to pay for that line of credit. Even if you pay your card balance off every month, your bank still has to finance the loan. And that means you pay (fees, crappy savings account rates, etc.) for your float.

    I want to park as little money as possible in stored value systems. Businesses and government agencies want me to park as much as possible in their own systems. Guess who appears to be winning?

  23. Re:Public Transportation on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1

    The Puget Sound region (Seattle area) has Orca cards. And Washington State DOT has their Good To Go pass. These are all stored value systems where the issuing entity gets to sit on your cash between the time you load it until you use it. They all profit from the float inherent in the system. Same thing for gift cards and customer accounts at the local coffee shop. Everyone want you to hand them a lump of cash that they can invest until they need to pay expenses.

    Nobody want to give their little pile of cash to a bank or other third party. So its in every businesses' (and gov't agencies) best interest to use a proprietary system.

  24. Re:Hmmm, So its like a book? on US Navy Develops World's Worst E-reader · · Score: 1

    This means you can now assign people to do nothing but go through paper manuals page-by-page and verify that every page is present and at the correct revision.

    There's an app for that.

  25. Sad on H.R. Giger, Alien Artist and Designer, Dead at Age 74 · · Score: 2

    BTW, did they ever recover the original Giger cover art for ELP's Brain Salad Surgery album?