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  1. Re:A Language With No Rules... on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 1

    Evolved, the VAX CISC instruction set was based on it

  2. Re:A Language With No Rules... on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 1

    You seriously ask, a college educated slashdotter such as yourself who knows the difference, vs. the ghetto moma with three children by three different men not making distinction? Who is education favoring, ye olde virgin?

  3. Re:A Language With No Rules... on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 1

    Many of what we call "dead languages" didn't die at all, they became the languages we use today or influenced them in ways we don't even totally know.

    And as for your PDP-11 joke, it isn't dead at all: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

  4. Re:KERN ME on Intel Will Reportedly Land Apple As a Modem Chip Customer · · Score: 1

    Not with Chrome on Windows it doesn't.

  5. Re:It's a tabu issue right? on World's 1st Penis Transplant Done In South Africa · · Score: 1

    No, you have an improper mental model. The issue is pathogens contacting living cells of a mucous membrane rather than keratin of dead cells.

  6. Re:Of course! on Prison Program Aims To Turn Criminals Into Coders · · Score: 1

    They're employable, but they won't be holding any good IT job, they do background checks.

    That Police Captain of yours won't be working for a big accounting firm, he's forever disqualified.

  7. Re:A Language With No Rules... on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    All languages have changing rules

  8. Re:Headline Is Wrong on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 1

    What's with that city slicker dialect, are you putting on airs? It's "Why thar Taint No Such Thang!"

  9. Re:It's a tabu issue right? on World's 1st Penis Transplant Done In South Africa · · Score: 1

    Was not claiming circumcision was better than condom or dam protection at all, just pointing out there is some benefit to be considered with all the downsides of which I could list a few also

  10. Re:It's a tabu issue right? on World's 1st Penis Transplant Done In South Africa · · Score: 1

    Those two sentences are not part of one argument, the first just a PSA (you're welcome)

    The second was only pointing out there is perhaps *some* value in circumcision

  11. Re:People's expectations are unreasonable on BlackBerry's Latest Experiment: a $2,300 'Secure' Tablet · · Score: 1

    it's unreasonable, they'll make their money on subscriptions so there is no need to charge an extra for their software.

  12. Re:Missing the boat on smartphones? on BlackBerry's Latest Experiment: a $2,300 'Secure' Tablet · · Score: 1

    and before cellular, AT&T rolled out their Mobile Telephone Service in St. Louis in 1946. They only had three telephone channels, so three people could simultaneously make a call in the city. It costs $15 a month ($180 a month in 2015 dollars) plus 30 cents a call.

  13. Re:It's a tabu issue right? on World's 1st Penis Transplant Done In South Africa · · Score: 0

    Wrong, you are living in a fool's paradise if you imagine washing after sex makes risk of STD go away.

    Meanwhile, you can read online of peer reviewed studies showing circumcision does decrease the transmission rate of certain STD

  14. Re:What about color rendition index? on New Crop of LED Filament Bulbs Look Almost Exactly Like Incandescents · · Score: 1

    Why worry about color rendition, we're not reading paper books and newspaper any more. We're staring at backlight screens on our monitors, phones and kindles.

  15. Re:price? on New Crop of LED Filament Bulbs Look Almost Exactly Like Incandescents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ditto for CFL, what a boondongle forced on us by ignorant legislatures and "progress social" morons who value symbolism over substance. What I really hate is the the one in six that put out a 7.5KHz or so shrieking noise, that's worse than the bad light and uneven lifespan

  16. Re:What's wrong with GLS on New Crop of LED Filament Bulbs Look Almost Exactly Like Incandescents · · Score: 0

    Yes, mass production in third world crapholes can do exactly that kind of cost reduction.

    CFL were forced on us by legislation, and they are godawful: toxic, unreliable, about one in six make shrill screaming noise, bad light....

  17. Re:California wins! (So far.) on Powdered Alcohol Approved By Feds, Banned By States · · Score: 1

    You're the one with failing mental abilities, the amount of ethanol that maltodexrin can aborb and still feel dry is epic. Most your booze 80 proof and less is water, of course this will weigh less. Some AC are so fucking dumb, they should be banned

  18. Re:legitimate use on Powdered Alcohol Approved By Feds, Banned By States · · Score: 1

    I'm struggling to find a legitimate use for the aisle of cocktail mixers at the local liquor store....

    give it a rest, people have been mixing all kinds of shit with booze from ancient times when it was first invented (likely Egyptian beer cakes)....get over it

  19. Re:Dangers on Powdered Alcohol Approved By Feds, Banned By States · · Score: 1

    there's a genre of Japanese porn about those drunk OL, by the way

  20. Re:Following instructions? on Powdered Alcohol Approved By Feds, Banned By States · · Score: 1

    What questionable chemicals? The polysaccharide is a bunch of glucose stuck together. You can find recipes for the "powdered alchohol" on the web, by the way. Maltodextrin (which is doubtless what they're using) is used in various recipes for absorbing fats, for example. Just happens to also absorb booze.

  21. Re:Following instructions? on Powdered Alcohol Approved By Feds, Banned By States · · Score: 1

    In my driver's ed class 35 years ago they actually mentioned in passing people imbibing alcohol by insertion at "the other end".

  22. Re:How does this compare to spinning drives? on Endurance Experiment Kills Six SSDs Over 18 Months, 2.4 Petabytes · · Score: 1

    they don't spin much at all

  23. Re:Intriguing headline.. on Proxima Centauri Might Not Be the Closest Star To Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, Linsey Lohan is, so drugged up she's rarely vertical

  24. Re:Que 1000 posts fundraising for openbsd on OpenSSL To Undergo Massive Security Audit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you claiming the misrepresent where funding goes on the LibreSSL site?

    "LibreSSL is supported financially by the OpenBSD Foundation and the OpenBSD Project. Please consider helping our efforts.

    OpenBSD team still lightyears ahead getting the bad code out of openssl; this "audit" will not do as well as they have already done

  25. Re:So much for Debian 8, then... on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: 1

    LinuxMint is taking a "wait and see" approach to SystemD for the next couple years. The BSD sure aren't jumping on that ship.

    RedHat is losing their "leadership" position, they do too many weird proprietary things and try to lock people into a weird "redhat way". Companies are ditching it last like week's garbage.

    Industries "standards" are sometimes found to be stupid and they flop.