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  1. BZZZZT! Wrong! on Docker Turns To Minecraft For Server Ops (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A new GitHub project is allowing software teams to construct software like Legos.

    No it doesn't.

  2. Re:Yep, Pacific Rim was bad physics on Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    Indeed. When I read something like "if an ant was as big as a dog it could lift a bus" it makes me spit blood.

    No it couldn't. If its legs didn't collapse under its own weight it would suffocate.

  3. Ensure - to make sure that something happens.
    Insure - paying premiums, just in case it doesn't.

  4. tut! on Citrix Spinning Off GoTo Collaboration Business, Laying Off 1,000 People (cio.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Why is there a comma after review?

  5. "comprised on"? DonÂt think so.

  6. All men are mortal; Socrates is a man on Celebrate the 200th Birthday of George Boole With Logic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Boole is an unsung hero of the digital age who deserves to be recognized as the forefather of the Information Age.

    Isn't that over-egging it a bit? It's been a long time, but isn't it really the same as ancient Greek syllogisms except with symbols instead of words?

  7. Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares on Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares (digitaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    What the hell are they intending to do with them?

  8. Re:Do One Thing and Do It Well on Government Team Experiments With Paying For Small Open Source Tasks (gsa.gov) · · Score: 1

    Depends if they'd been drinking Tennents or not.

  9. I'm confused on The IRS Has Stingray Devices (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reason The Guardian figured it out was that they happened to see an IRS invoice from when they paid a company to upgrade one of their devices and provide training on its use.

    I would have thought, with The Leveson Inquiry and all, that if a newspaper managed to get hold of such a device they'd keep quiet about it.

  10. Re:Do One Thing and Do It Well on Government Team Experiments With Paying For Small Open Source Tasks (gsa.gov) · · Score: 2

    It's as good a tenant as KISS.

    I wouldn't let my property to a rock band. With all the drinking, drugs and wild parties the rent probably wouldn't cover the repairs.

  11. Nice try, but consistency and correctness are different things.

  12. Re:You know who does that already... Uber on Getting Over Getting Over Uber: Tim O'Reilly Does the Math · · Score: 1

    look around at the barley kept -up infrastructure

    I'm amaized it still works.

  13. Article submitted by a peon on Getting Over Getting Over Uber: Tim O'Reilly Does the Math · · Score: 1

    Darn, beaten to the draw again. Obviously I need to take a lesson from Uber and embrace 24x7 agility at the speed of the interwebs and abandon my old-economy paradigms.

    I wasn't sure if it was an alternate spelling, but - here's protip for timothy - I found this marvelous thing called a google where you can look things up.

  14. Bastard. You beat, me to it.

  15. Re:Scariest Star Trek episodes? on Ukrainian Hacker Who Targeted Brian Krebs Extradited To US (go.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You should have submitted that as a story - it's better than most of the stuff shitandpiss and his army of cockpuppets post.

  16. Second on Will You Ever Be Able To Upload Your Brain? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately connectomics [..] falls far short of the goal of reconstructing a mind, in two ways. First, we are far from constructing a connectome.

    Second, we get distracted halfway through a small list.

  17. I think you have to multiply by seven. Or is it divide? No, wait, maybe that's dogs.

  18. That should be "months' worth".

  19. Re:How Can We Tell? on Replacement of Writers Leads Gartner's Predictions (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I think this comment by one "Infostack" is the winner (no way to link directly to it; just 'like' and 'share'):

    The problem with today's internet model is that it lacks settlement exchanges that clear supply and demand both north-south and east-west ex ante.

    Robotics/AI is a component category that cuts across the four major market forces which are digitizing everything as we know it, namely: 4K content on demand, 2-way HD collaboration, mobility first, and internet of things. When referencing Robotics/AI, people tend to mistakenly focus on the latter "all things to all people" market exclusively.

    Seriously, this guy needs to have his paradigm shifted with a slap round the head followed by a synergistic kick in the nuts.

  20. Re:Effort significant effort on Debian Dropping Linux Standard Base (lwn.net) · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's been a while since Bennet Haselton has contributed a frequent contribution, hasn't it?

  21. Re:Effort significant effort on Debian Dropping Linux Standard Base (lwn.net) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup. That's two efforts more than the editors make.

  22. chinks on 30 Years a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    Chinks go in your armour, not on it.

  23. Re:cruising at 2AM for new domains to purchase on How Someone Acquired the Google.com Domain Name For a Single Minute · · Score: 1

    Parallel construction doesn't mean using a word wrongly.

  24. Re: $949/week? on Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs · · Score: 1

    It sounds like they just used the stick too much instead of the carrot.

    You disgusting pervert!

  25. Re:Of course, this is natural. on Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be · · Score: 1

    It depends on whether you interpret lighter as having less mass or having less weight.

    For an equal mass, the feathers will have a larger volume and therefore more buoyancy, so the [net/apparent] weight will be less.