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  1. Re:When comments... on Theo De Raadt's Small Rant On OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    Theo De Raadt makes comments about Linux being for losers. Linus Torvalds makes comments about OpenBSD users being masturbating monkeys. You usually have to take some of their comments with a grain of salt.

  2. The will only lead on UK Bans Sending Books To Prisoners · · Score: 2

    To the prisoners making pencils out of toilet paper and writing their own underground novels, which are then sold for packs of cigarettes.

  3. In other news... on One Billion Android Devices Open To Privilege Escalation · · Score: 2

    That there are 3,500 customized versions of Android developed by handset makers and carriers is really a news story unto itself.

  4. Re:Ask any man... on One Billion Android Devices Open To Privilege Escalation · · Score: 1

    Quit being alarmist--the exploit only works once every 28 days.

  5. Nice recover on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: -1, Redundant

    From a dick move.

  6. Big Deal on Your Car Will Soon Sense If You're Tired Or Not Paying Attention · · Score: 1

    Wives and girlfriends been making use of this technology for millennia.

  7. Re:Get used to a poorly designed environment on Ask Slashdot: Can an Old Programmer Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

    Young programmers can eat large amounts of hip, carelessly designed defacto syntactic sugar and not get diabetes.

  8. Re:Emergency Scenario on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1

    It would take 5-10 minutes of fill up the beast's tank with gas. I don't think an electric car can fully charge up in that amount of time. Any I've heard there are areas of the world that don't currently have available electric service. But again, I'd love to be wrong about both those things.

  9. Your Muse on Interviews: Ask Jonathan Coulton What You Will · · Score: 2

    Did you have a specific girl in mind at the office when you wrote that song?

  10. Emergency Scenario on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    To back up the parent post, let's say in a single day a sudden coup brings down the government of a development country the president is currently visiting. In i's place is an extremist government that's extremely hostile to the US made up of a lot of recently former terrorists who would love nothing more than hold the US president hostage (or worse). The president is nowhere near Air Force One, and The Beast has to drive 800 miles across hostile territory to reach a SEAL extraction team in a friendly country. The route has to go through very rural areas where Secret Service agents have to do things like hold up gas stations, spending only five minutes pumping before moving on. And where gas stations are sparse, forget even about electric fast-charging stations, the agents have to sneak up to parked cars and steal gas quickly with specialized pump-driven siphons, relying on the fact that gasoline can easily transferred from one car to another quickly. Far faster than any kind of scheme with jumper cables. In this nightmare scenario, you want something ridiculously ubiquitous and instantly replenishable.

    An electric Beast would be an absolutely terrible idea. Stateside an electric Beast would actually be a neat PR bit to show the Oval Office cares about green technology. But the fact that electric car advocate geeks will take issue with the above scenario and will make endless excuses for their technology and will dismiss very legitimate practical concerns with electric says a lot about how detached from reality the electric car movement really is right now. Screaming "FUD" really doesn't make anything better.

  11. Is this testing whether the OS is Replicant on Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices · · Score: 1, Funny

    or a lesbian?

  12. I ,for one, on Yes, You Too Can Be an Evil Network Overlord With OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    welcome our new evil OpenBSD network overlords.

  13. I should have listened to my mother on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 2

    When she told me that donuts would make me stupid.

  14. Linus Not Being A Subject Matter Expert on Non-Coders As the Face of the Learn-to-Code Movements · · Score: 1

    Has never stopped him from being an opinionated (if misinformed) spokesman on subject. Google "Linus Torvalds" and "usability" for examples. So yes, I would expect Linus Torvalds to be a spokesman for NCAA basketball, basing his opinion on the strengths and weaknesses of the competing teams CS departments.

  15. In Finland on Linus Torvalds Gives 'Thumbs Up' To Nvidia For Nouveau Contributions · · Score: 1

    Is upward thumbs is the equivalent of a middle finger?

  16. It's a perk! on The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer · · Score: 1

    Golden showers are the new free laundry service.

  17. Whenever I hear about electric car failures on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: -1

    I am reminded why most lifeforms has been storing energy chemically, as opposed to electrically, for billions of years.

  18. Meteorologists has rated it on Surrey Hit With Catnado · · Score: 2

    cat gory 5 catnado.

  19. Newsflash: Dog Bites Man on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    I was expecting Richard Stallman to type a statement from his new Macbook Pro saying: "Rock on! I have Balls The Clang, and if I LLVM was a woman and I knew how to have sex with her she would so have my baby."

  20. Only a trend? on Facebook Is a Plague That'll Burn Out In a Few Years, Says Study · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm glad to hear that vanity, gossip, and pursuit of social status are fads that will eventually go away like skinny jeans.

  21. Re:Make sure the have basic English reading skills on Ask Slashdot: How To Reimagine a Library? · · Score: 1

    touché.

  22. Make sure the have basic English reading skills. on Ask Slashdot: How To Reimagine a Library? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then worry about technology.

  23. Women Are Like A Software Project on Python Scripting and Analyzing Your Way To Love · · Score: 4, Funny

    They always start out with an super-long, totally unreasonable requirements list that includes stuff that's totally irrelevant to any imaginable scope. Through hard work and negotiation and development of what you initially bring to the table, you need to bring down the client's impossible functional specification to something workable she can reasonably be satisfied with (also beer helps). It's called "game" for a reason.

  24. I originally read headline as on BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Unveils New Steganography Tool DissidentX · · Score: 0

    "Baron Cohen Unveils New Steganography Tool DissidentX"

  25. Re:Useless! on Carbon Nanotubes and Spongy Polymer Help Transistors Stretch · · Score: 1

    Flexible transistors would actually be quite useful in the burgeoning wearable electronics industry. A molex under tight-fitting spandex might be mistaken for some strange growth, a nipple, or general happiness at seeing you.