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  1. Re:That's an interesting statement to make now on Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Double my expenses? Sure. I've lived in a country where most of my expenses were up to 5x what I'm currently paying in the USA. Medicine? Don't take any. Insurance? that's already 4x the norm for the rest of the world here. How far would I be willing to go? Whatever it takes. You short term thinkers have no place in the world. Most of the things you take for granted, and complain that they are already too expensive, like gasoline and electricity, are downright dirt cheap by the rest of the world's standards. I say remove the government subsidies in the USA and let you people discover what it's like in the rest of the civilized world.

  2. Re: You don't say... on Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    After all, they have the same first name!

  3. Re:That's an interesting statement to make now on Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Ahh, so you're moving the goalposts now. It's no longer about long term trends, but that the news is claiming it's the "hottest year on record"

    You do you. Good job!

  4. Re:That's an interesting statement to make now on Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok. Feeding the troll here, but I have a super serial question then:

    Obviously when we dump shit into the atmosphere, it creates a net positive increase in temperature. Even if it's not the primary contributor, why the fuck are you retards so hell bent on doing nothing about it?

    What's the harm in reducing emissions? If we're not causing it then cutting emissions can't hurt. If we are causing it, then cutting emissions will help. Seems like a win-win to me.

  5. Re:That's an interesting statement to make now on Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Want to see something cool?

    Even with your cherry picked data, guess what?

    http://init.sh/wp-content/uplo...

  6. Re:A bloody great Wheel for steering on The Fourth US Navy Collision of the Year Was Ultimately Caused By UI Confusion (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry. s/yoke/joystick/g;

  7. Re:A bloody great Wheel for steering on The Fourth US Navy Collision of the Year Was Ultimately Caused By UI Confusion (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In an Airbus aircraft, if the aircraft receives input on both yokes, there is an audible warning of "DUAL INPUT". Also, holding down the autopilot disconnect switch of either yoke causes a "PRIORITY LEFT (or RIGHT)" audible warning so everyone is aware who has control. And if the FWS system fails (that's the one that gives audible warnings), there are still visual warnings which alert the same thing.

    Also, in the case of dual input, the control systems average the inputs. For example, if the captain gives full right and the F/O gives full left, the aircraft will stay in its previous configuration.

    What caused the Air France crash was the pilot trusting his "feeling" for the aircraft's attitude in 0/0 conditions over what the aircraft was telling him. With multiply redundant systems in place, it's a safe bet to trust what the aircraft is telling you. That pilot chose... poorly.

  8. I think the real question here is: Where did they get the playing cards?

  9. Re:Query string in fragment identifier needs JS on A Surge of Sites and Apps Are Exhausting Your CPU To Mine Cryptocurrency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not even remotely true so the parent post is spot on. That's a standard HTML tag called an anchor and can be linked directly to without any kind of scripting required.

  10. Re: WHY?!? on The Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility: Where Spacecraft Go To Die (bbc.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    You don't really know much about how things work in space do you?

  11. Oh Come on on Steve Wozniak Announces Tech Education Platform 'Woz U' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The other story is still on the front page for fucks sake!

  12. Use as intended on New Video Peeks 'Inside the Head' of Perl Creator Larry Wall (infoq.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem I've always seen with PERL is that nobody seems to use it as it was intended. If you have to take massive amounts of data (usually text), extract information from it, manipulate it, and then output it into a meaningful result, the PERL does this. It is VERY good at this. it's when people start tacking on shell scripts, a tcl/tk ui, and using it as the base for a program that doesn't do those things, that we run into problems.

    I once worked for a telecom in Japan and one of my jobs was to take billing data from a couple hundred subsidiaries, normalize the data, dump it into a formatted table, calculate usage and totals, then output a properly formatted paper bill. (this was in the early 90s) PERL was the obvious and best choice for this back then.

    The data we got was in various formats from CSV to excel sheets, to plain text files with various fields defined (or not). PERL also has an excellent template system for outputting data to fixed width columns and doing output formatting.

  13. So if you don't have power on Hurricane Maria Knocks Out Power To Entire Island of Puerto Rico (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We are 100% without power," a spokesman for the Puerto Rico governor's office said Wednesday.

    How did they get this quote? RFC 1149?

  14. Re:the border search was established in 1952 on Trump Administration Sued Over Phone Searches at US Borders (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Dwight D. Eisenhower of the Republican party won the United States Presidential Election in 1952

  15. Re:Can't Log Out? on GNOME 3.26 Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that's just stupid then. If I have a single user machine, I want to be able to log out, not just lock the screen. I don't want my credentials in use at all when I'm not sitting at my desk unless I launch a background process from a terminal. I still want to be able to leave the system at a login screen. Glad I don't use this crap, and won't be any time soon.

  16. Can't Log Out? on GNOME 3.26 Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Log out and switch user only appear if there's more than one user."

    Um, so I can't log out unless someone else is already logged in? How does someone else get a login prompt then? Stop removing shit!

  17. Re:That's what's good about critical thinkers on Mathematician Who Claimed 'P Is Not Equal To NP' Says His Proof Is Wrong (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    ABORT, RETRY, FAIL

  18. Thanks Obama

  19. So if you get a papercut or spit coffee on your keyboard, do you get a purple heart?

  20. Re:The best computer game ever on ESR Announces The Open Sourcing Of The World's First Text Adventure (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    All these worlds are there ready, waiting to be explored.

    Except for Europa. Fuck those guys :)

  21. And this is legal how? Yet, don't copy that floppy or you'll get 10 years in a FPMITA prison.

  22. Ockel Sirius B on Ask Slashdot: Is There A Screen-Less, Keyboard-Less, Battery-Powered Computer? · · Score: 2

    You can wipe windows 10 and put linux on it. Have Mint on mine.

    http://init.sh/?p=354

  23. Re:Wait a second... why did he turn off the camera on Cop Fakes Body Cam Footage, Prosecutors Drop Drug Charges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd be happy with the following setup:

    If the police vehicle has a dash cam, then while in the vehicle, the body cam is off. When the officer exits the vehicle, the body cam automatically turns on. Use RFID or something to detect if they're in the vehicle or not.

  24. Re:First post^Hcrack on 'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you mean, "That's smurfing hilarious."

  25. Re:sounds like a great idea on Anbox Can Run Android Apps Natively On Linux (In A Container) (anbox.io) · · Score: 1

    try gqrx