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  1. Re:Useless Art Project on Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sort of like your post.

  2. Re:Please develop for my dying platform! on Blackberry CEO: Net Neutrality Means Mandating Cross-Platform Apps · · Score: 1

    He thinks his company's shareholders idiots. Like most CEOs.

  3. Re:More proof on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the Senators should be reminded that they have no more power than Cnut demonstrated he had. Being democratically elected does not grant powers to alter or negate physical reality.

  4. Re:lol, Java on Oracle Releases Massive Security Update · · Score: 2

    And what percentage of C/C++ code is well written?

    Or, to put it another way, is there any evidence that Java applications are LESS secure, on average, than C/C++ applications?

  5. Re:A vote does not make it so on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I know it's for mathematics and liquor.

    Has fucking little to do with science, mind you.

  6. Re:of course climate change is real on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, the other to be sure of is that fucking retards will repeat Koch memes endlessly out of ignorance, stupidity, and well, just plain fucking cowardice.

  7. Re:More proof on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    There's this story about Canut and the tide that the US Senate might want to ponder.

    Reality owes no debt to anyone's political ideology.

  8. Re:Amazing work.. on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I can see how ADD sufferers would prefer the cinematic version of an epileptic seizure.

  9. Re:COBOL on Is D an Underrated Programming Language? · · Score: 2

    Pleasant diphthongs?

  10. Re:I agree with the general premis on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 1

    About the only part of your construct that makes it explanatory is reasonably descriptive variable names. That's a lesson that can pretty much be applied to any modern programming language.

  11. Re:instant disqualification on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 0

    Or PHP vs C

  12. Re:Amazing work.. on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 2

    About the only actor in the reboots that I feel comes anywhere close to the original is Karl Urban as McCoy. Pine is just awful, and other than wearing the same shirt, has nothing in common with Shatner's Kirk. Zachary Quinto could probably be a passable Spock, if he wasn't waited with bad dialogue and pointless asides like the romantic angle with Uruha.

    All in all, the reboots to me are little more than a series of films that vaguely resemble Star Trek, but in no substantial way evoke the original series' strengths, or even attempt to create the kind of chemistry that the Kirk-Spock-McCoy triad had. Now maybe it is impossible, as chemistry between actors isn't something you can really force, but heck these fan productions do a far better job of evoking the friendship than a multi million dollar film with one of Hollywood's "ace" directors and a cast filled with all the young beautiful people that one could possibly get under one roof.

  13. Re:"Kirkstarter 2.0" on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 2

    I have as well. I feel it's money better spent than the money I forked over for the reboot films. At least when I look at the screen, I'm seeing what I consider the Star Trek experience, as opposed to a generic action film that happens to have the USS Enterprise.

  14. Re:So how are they on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Unlike the two reboot films.

  15. Re:Amazing work.. on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're okay, but not nearly enough lens flare, and man oh man, shot length is insane. I really do demand far more quick cuts and dialogue needs to be cut to about three words per cut. Being a modern viewer, I don't want to hear all that blah-blah-blah, and just want to be nailed with a solid hour of uninterpretable action, shallow dialogue, even shallow characterization, and bad (or possibly even missing) plotting.

  16. Re:baseless speculation and hype on Hibernation Protein May Halt Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Because Alzheimer's doesn't cause "retardation".

  17. Re:Punish those that do not readily condemn?!?! on European Countries Seek Sweeping New Powers To Curb Terrorism · · Score: 1

    I think an argument can be made for keeping imams known to preach violent jihad under surveillance, much as the FBI probably keeps a close eye on white suppremacist preachers who preach violent overthrow of government and racial violence.

  18. Re:Handle ODT files reasonably well on Andy Wolber Explores Online Word Processors' ODF Support · · Score: 1

    I've even seen such complex documents munged in Word. Modern word processors really do suck at large complex documents, which is why there is Latex.

  19. Re:.doc (clarification) on Andy Wolber Explores Online Word Processors' ODF Support · · Score: 1

    I can't speak to docx compatibility, but I know xlsx compatibility has some sharp limitations where newer features in later versions of Excel are present.

  20. Re:Punish those that do not readily condemn?!?! on European Countries Seek Sweeping New Powers To Curb Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Indeed. This comes awfully close to Thought Crime.

    What I could understand, though I do struggle with it, is identifying those that appear to approve of terrorism, and keeping an eye on them. But of course that would be abused.

  21. Solution! on To Avoid Detection, Terrorists Made Messages Seem Like Spam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Applying the Cameron Solution, all we need to do is ban spam... or email. I confess I'm not quite clear.

  22. Re:Lies on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: 1

    Do you apply your nihilistic philosophy to all branches of science?

  23. Re:call me skeptical on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: 2

    And what exactly does that mean? I can give you a list of biologists who claim Intelligent Design is true. It's a small list, dwarfed by the number of biologists who outright repudiate ID.

  24. Re:call me skeptical on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The funny thing about science is that it doesn't give a fuck about your ideology.

  25. Re:call me skeptical on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As opposed the fucking scientists, idjit.