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  1. Re:SD handle? on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 1

    SlashDot?

  2. Re:The hipsters need to go. Now. on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 1

    What if one needs joins?

  3. Re:What are the questions? on Half of US Nuclear Missile Wing Implicated In Cheating · · Score: 1

    <voice="litella">Never Mind</voice>

  4. Re:What are the questions? on Half of US Nuclear Missile Wing Implicated In Cheating · · Score: 1

    is b) the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg or the Spartacist Rosa Luxembourg?

  5. Re:What are the questions? on Half of US Nuclear Missile Wing Implicated In Cheating · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, the banks wants guys who can sit in well-appointed offices waiting for the order to destroy the world.

  6. Re:Problem is Content+Presentation model on Google Planning To Remove CSS Regions From Blink · · Score: 1

    What is needed is to analyse and factorise how a web browser today actually does layout internally, and create a programming language that can access that directly, drawing on specifications in a CSS-like stylesheet for its source information.

    And if different web browsers do layout in different ways, how would you deal with that? Also, the browsers should follow the standards, rather than the other way around, but good luck with that.

  7. Re:Big deal. on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 1

    And what great knowledge have you demonstrated?

  8. Re:Big deal. on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 1

    DEC may have done more with software in a technical sense, but Microsoft made more money from it,

    The fact that history unfolded in such a way that Gates completely lucked out and got the opportunity to turn M$ into a criminal enterprise and make billions has nothing to do with it, and calling it some huge deal based on incredible insight is flatly revisionist.

    Oh, Please! Gates may have been lucky with the clones, but knowing that the PC market would be huge didn't require that much insight.

  9. Re:Teachers Unions on K-12 CS Education Funding: Taxes, H-1B Fees, Donations? · · Score: 1

    To what extent do teacher's unions fight against students?

  10. Re:I stole the free couch you gave me. TAKE THAT!! on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    wind up in GPLed projects.

    FFTY

  11. Re:Why do free contracting work? on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    I like to think of it as, why are you doing FREE work for a proprietary company that has no obligation to you other than to possibly hide your name at the bottom of a long list of credits buried in the help menu? This is what the BSD license allows.

    The BSD license may allow this, but I suspect that Apple is paying people to work on LLVM/Clang.

  12. Re:NOW he realizes this? on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    How is unixisc claiming that Apple is a person? The "his" in "despite his rants" is Stallman.

    Apple has done a lot for LLVM/Clang.

  13. Re:wow on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, you would be equipped to be a pizza-delivery eunuch.

  14. Can we hope on SCOTUS To Weigh Smartphone Searches By Police · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can we hope for the proper decision (that police need a warrant)?

  15. Re:Allow it... on Americans To FCC Chair: No Cell Calls On Planes, Please · · Score: 1

    FAAs new policies for medical certificates that forces anyone with a BMI of 40 or more to prove they DO NOT have sleep apnea. Too many pilots falling asleep at the wheel, something has to be done.

    Does that apply to passengers as well?

  16. Re:Feinstein on US Senator Warns Against Political Surveillance By Drone · · Score: 2

    Fuck Feinstein

    Ewww!!

  17. Re:Colorado is already way ahead of you as usual on US Senator Warns Against Political Surveillance By Drone · · Score: 1

    When is the moon directly above Florida or Texas? Isn't it pretty much above the Equator?

  18. Re:Fuck off on Code.org: Give Us More H-1B Visas Or the Kids Get Hurt · · Score: 1

    Until the cost of a coder drops to near minimum wage -- say $15 an hour, there is a shortage of them

    Wouldn't that be a surplus of coders and a shortage of jobs?

  19. Re: Sirens? on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    It's the Queen's realm, and the rest of the British just live there?

  20. What? on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    The visual angle looking at the middle of a 24" screen from 16" away is twice the arctangent of 3/4, which is two times 37 degrees, or 74 degrees.

  21. Re:Duh on Unencrypted Windows Crash Reports a Blueprint For Attackers · · Score: 1

    Those that don't think its an issue are like vaccinated children, running around on the playground serving as a conduit for exposing others.

    Vaccinated children are a conduit?

  22. Bah on Dual_EC_DRBG Backdoor: a Proof of Concept · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Who can you trust?

  23. Re:Follow the money on Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users · · Score: 1

    I love the smell of diesel particulates in the morning; it smells like victory!!

  24. Re:Good for Him on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 1

    The "high security" refers to the public's security, not the prisoners' security.

  25. Re:Going to PMITA prison! on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 1

    With respect to sodomy, yes. With respect to sheer anger, perhaps not so much.