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  1. So... on Ask Slashdot: Service-Heavy FOSS Hosting? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You want a hosting company that makes money for you without you doing the work or paying the money required?

  2. Re:except for garbage collection on LLVM Clang Compiler Now C++11 Feature Complete · · Score: 1, Interesting

    C++ is now split into two factions; low-level C++ where you use it like C with classes, and high-level C++, where the language is treated like compiled javascript. Unfortunately (from my perspective), a majority of C++ programmers choose the latter approach.

  3. Re:Linux on LLVM Clang Compiler Now C++11 Feature Complete · · Score: 0

    It also becomes harder to build a working compiler for anything other than Linux

    Now, it is even less possible. I like to bring up DOS as an example that can't even fit the paradigm of the C++11 specification. How on earth are you going to have threads in DOS? You also have the long long int type, where if you need to use that on a 32bit system, it will need emulated

  4. - End to dietary supplements and homeopathic medicine
    - Classify any advertisement that says you get something for free when you don't ("X is free when you buy Y" or "Free, just pay ridiculous shipping and handling"), false advertising
    - Low cost (for real) dental for everyone
    - Death penalty for running a stop sign
    - A number on all food that indicated "If you ate nothing but this, this is how many days you will live"
    - PGP over phone networks
    - Research into brain transplantation

  5. Awesome! on Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will · · Score: 4, Funny

    I loved you in Terminator 2 and your vacuum cleaners are second to none

  6. Re:Summary? on Why It's So Hard To Make a Phone Call In Emergency Situations · · Score: 1

    Does that mean I can't use my shoes because I am constantly tripping?

  7. Re:Why so much Wayland? on Wayland 1.1 Released — Now With Raspberry Pi Support · · Score: 1

    Fixing visual glitches is part of functionality. If a user spends 10+ seconds looking at a window trying to rerender due to maximizing the window, with no UI update, the experience is a failure and your platform is doomed.

  8. Re:Creamy Mayonnaise on Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I think I know what is going on here... search engine gaming. If you search for "In a glass bowl, whisk together egg yolk and dry ingredients", you come across http://www.themiraclewhisk.com/recipe.html. I'm guessing this kind of garbage is used to rank these websites higher in the search engines

  9. Re:Some more details on Linode Hacked, Credit Cards and Passwords Leaked · · Score: 0

    One reason I like using my credit card... I am not liable for fraudulent charges

  10. Re:Pythons on Giant Snails Invade Florida · · Score: 1

    You don't need pythons. The lizards will prevail

  11. Re:KDE and lightweight. on KLyDE: Lightweight KDE Desktop In the Making · · Score: 2

    So lightweight, to you, means size of the package, vs. code actually running?

  12. Re:We did it! on AMD Says There Will Be No DirectX 12 — Ever · · Score: 3, Informative

    No it doesn't. It supports multi-threaded worker threads for the drivers, but it does not support multiple threads communicating to the same context

    Nonsense. Unless you change the context of the process in some other thread via wglMakeCurrent/aglSetCurrentContext/glXMakeCurrent, the context is the same in every thread.

  13. Re:Here's how to uninstall it.. on Microsoft Telling Users To Uninstall Bad Patch · · Score: 2

    Well, they may not be able to single out exact hardware, just some examples which fail. This patch was to win32k.sys which, among other things, provides the hardware abstraction layer to the NT/Win32 API. It could have made assumptions that turned out not true on corner-case hardware, could have been a problem with actual buggy hardware that didn't follow published specs (not uncommon), or any number of crazy things.

  14. Re:Never heard of subjunctive mode?? on Hackers Could Abuse Electric Car Chargers To Cripple the Grid, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    Negative. Charging stations are deployed and BEING deployed RIGHT NOW. Present tense applies

  15. And this is why we can't have nice things on Hackers Could Abuse Electric Car Chargers To Cripple the Grid, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    Imagine if we didn't have to worry about some ding-dong breaking things just because they could. We would have pneumatic tubes to every house, kitchen lasers for cutting would be common place, and small nuclear reactors in our back yards

  16. Re:Radial distribution should not be a requirement on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 0

    Hold on there, Buddy. If the light distribution didn't have a hard number, you end up with something similar to TV sizes. Some 32" models are 32". Some 31.5. Walmart TVs are known to go lower than that even though it is illegal. Imagine buying a bulb, 5 different brands. There is nothing stating the minimum radial flux. One will be 170 degrees, another 160, and the value brand will be 100 degrees.

  17. Re:That's the inconvenient truth of "the simple li on Iceman Had Bad Teeth · · Score: 1

    So are you saying the Amish don't have spoken language, currency, written language, specialized education, calendars, stethoscopes, toothbrushes, anatomy, cell theory, germ theory, etc? Because you'd be wrong

  18. Re:can I get on Top Coders Tell Agents, "Show Me the Money!" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nice try, 10x management CEO

  19. Re:There was less junk DNA around back then on Giant Dinosaurs Were Fastest Growing Animals Ever · · Score: 1

    Junk DNA, even if there are parts that have no code-like function still serve as a source of entropy. This tends to be why inbred children look "funny". While they may be genetically a fine specimen, the lack of entropy becomes noticeable in fractal style growth in body features

  20. Re: Not unexpected on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    They don't need to take it out. Just distort the hull enough that the software becomes stupid since the hull isn't at spec

  21. Re:Bullshit! on Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know what vehicles you have driven, but every vehicle I have ever operated had controls in predictable places, delineated by different textures and tactile feedback. I can change my radio station up and down, as well as toggle my AC and put down my windows without having to think or fiddle any more than having to zip up my fly

  22. Re:Too little, too late? on New Skype Malware Uses Victims' Machines To Mine Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    For mining with the GPU, this requires OpenCL/CUDA SDKs to be installed. If this came packaged with those, it would be the biggest bit of malware I've ever seen (well over 100MB).

    That leads the logical conclusion that these will be mining on the CPU.

  23. Re:interesting first results...we'll see on Dark Matter Found? $2 Billion Orbital Experiment Detects Hints · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Large Hadron Collider has more or less proved that Supersymmetry doesn't exist

  24. Re:Dark matter on Dark Matter Found? $2 Billion Orbital Experiment Detects Hints · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You are describing Aether in which Einstein proved does not exist

  25. Re:Probably not. on Oracle Releases SPARC T5 Servers; Too Late? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sun was beyond amazing for support. We had a server that wouldn't boot. It threw a kernel panic, went down and it wouldn't come back up without a kernel panic. We had not touched the thing in months. Called support, they asked a few questions about the panic details. Within 15 minutes the support guy KNEW it was cache module and we had one shipped to us overnight so we had our hands on it the next morning. We replaced the module and everything worked.