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  1. Sounds about right. on EFF: Hundreds of S. Carolina Prisoners Sent To Solitary For Social Media Use · · Score: 1

    In other words, if a South Carolina inmate caused a riot, took three hostages, murdered them, stole their clothes, and then escaped, he could still wind up with fewer Level 1 offenses than an inmate who updated Facebook every day for two weeks.

    Okay. How do we get that punishment implemented out in the world?

  2. My typing and proofreading skills are often inadequate.

  3. Re:I'd love to buy some sparc hardware on Five Years After the Sun Merger, Oracle Says It's Fully Committed To SPARC · · Score: 2

    If it wasn't for that the price of the hardware can often be close to ten times higher than the equivalent x86 machine.

    At least for certain definitions of "equivalent" ...

  4. Re:why? on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There may be a better pattern, but in a few cases ...

    Like many (most?) tools, the GOTO can be used and abused. Only pendants are convinced the issue is black and white.

  5. Re: Yes on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    I imagine there's some misinformation on both sides of the SystemD issue - perhaps not equal, but Lennart and Kay's hands are probably not clean - based on their histories.

    SystemD seems overly engineered, complex and consuming for what actually *needs* to be done. Concerns of the "malcontents" shouldn't be casually dismissed - as the SystemD supporters seem to be doing.

  6. Re:Questionable on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    Replace "The Daily Show" with "Fox News", "Jon Stewart" with "[any anchor on Fox News]", and "funny" with "scary/sad" and your points are all still relevant - just sayin'.

  7. Re:Why does John shut down all systemd talk? on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    Of course some of the vagueness is precisely because things happen mysteriously, and systemd has a habit of doing unexpected mysterious things.

    So if my car breaks down, or coffemaker quits running I can blame it on systemd, and that's okay?

    Not yet and shut up. Don't give Lennart and Kay any more ideas. We're all suffering enough as it is.

  8. Re: Yes on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    Unlikely, it is a minority of malcontents who are upset about SystemD ...

    So anyone who disagrees with you and/or SystemD are "malcontents" - nice.

  9. Re:"Not intentional". Right. on Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video · · Score: 1

    The only high speed internet provider where I live has rewritten HTML on the fly to serve their own content.

    The Cox "Browser Alerts" seem to only come from three IPs. I blocked them at my router and haven't experienced any problems. I don't have those IPs handy, but found them when NoScript listed them as choices to Allow/Forbid. (In my case, they were "letting me know" that I should upgrade from a 2.x to 3.x DOCSIS modem.)

  10. Re:I love you man on Alcohol's Evaporating Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    I'm not drinking alcohol at all this year (just as an experiment - I'm not a recovering alcoholic or anything like that).

    Me too, though for different reasons. I ran out a few years ago and have been too lazy to go to the liquor store (the ABC store here in VA) to get some more. I do like beer, but don't often drink it because, I think, the Hops gives me a headache -- I have an allergy to pine needles.

  11. Re:But surely... on Samsung SmartTV Customers Warned Personal Conversations May Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    I set it up and gave it a custom activation phrase that I figured wouldn't come up in normal conversation.

    Just FYI that "safe word/phrase" is usually for when you're getting boned too hard, not hard enough.

  12. Re:Never used recursion on AP Test's Recursion Examples: An Exercise In Awkwardness · · Score: 2

    I use recursion fairly often for traversing unconstrained trees. Though I'm lazy and never really looked if there was a better way to do it.

    "Better" - maybe. Easier - not so much. Recursion is a good way to investigate an issue from a higher perspective w/o having to deal with implementation details, just to get something working. I use it all the time for rapid-prototyping, problem evaluation and double-checking my non-recursive solutions.

  13. Re:This is why I quit web programming on How To Hack a BMW: Details On the Security Flaw That Affected 2.2 Million Cars · · Score: 1

    At some point, you still have to walk over to the toaster to put the bread in it. While you're there, it's not a big deal to program the toaster by twiddling a few knobs or pushing a button or two. You also have to be there to remove the toast when its down. A toaster running NetBSD is still a cool project, but that doesn't mean it's really useful.

    Good points all, though, I was actually being sarcastic - sorry. Personally, I never run anything in the kitchen, or at home in general, that can easily catch itself or something else on fire w/o supervision.

  14. Could be worse... on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: 2

    ... the Macrobiome in her Gut Fauna could have been out of whack.

  15. Re:what about skinny people? on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: 1

    I know its a joke, but not really. At the end of the day, humans are just fairly complicated machines, or even just a big complex chemical reaction.

    We are all just biological containers for our poop bacteria overlords.

  16. Re:This is why I quit web programming on How To Hack a BMW: Details On the Security Flaw That Affected 2.2 Million Cars · · Score: 1

    It's like connecting your toaster to the internet -- pointless and not very useful.

    Not useful? With this toaster running NetBSD you can program all the toaster's features remotely.

  17. Problem solved. on Canadian Climate Scientist Wins Defamation Suit Against National Post · · Score: 4, Funny

    The judge agreed, concluding "the defendants have been careless or indifferent to the accuracy of the facts. As evident from the testimony of the defendants, they were more interested in espousing a particular view than assessing the accuracy of the facts."

    And now that is sorted out, just like when Dr. Andrew Wakefield was discredited for his fraudulent research that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine caused autism, rational thinking can now prevail and we can all get back to ... oh wait.

  18. Re:Here is what I *HOPE* is next on Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next? · · Score: 1

    3) Remove all that developer stuff that 99.99% of users don't use or care about and put it in an addon.
    4) Remove all that chat and conferencing stuff that 99% of users don't care about and put that also in an addon.

    And the new baked-in "Apps" stuff that 99% of all users won't use and the associated "Tools->Apps" menu item - which could only figure out how to hide using the userChrome.css snippet below - sigh:

    /* Hide "Tools->Apps" menu item. */
    menuitem[label="Apps"] {
    display: none !important;
    }

    [ Please let me know if there's a better way... ]

  19. Hmm... Where have I seen this before? on Why It's Important That the New Ubuntu Phone Won't Rely On Apps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For instance, the music Scope will pull songs from Grooveshark alongside music stored locally on your device, without strong differentiation between the two.

    Right. The Unity/Amazon Shopping Lens - 'cause searching for something on my device isn't any different than searching for stuff on the web - or a vendor.

  20. Re:What! on The Search For Neutrons That Leak Into Our World From Other Universes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even worse... what happens when those undocumented neutrons get together and create anchor hadrons.

    We can smash the large hadrons, it's the small and medium ones I'm worried about...

  21. What! on The Search For Neutrons That Leak Into Our World From Other Universes · · Score: 4, Funny

    We need to build a fence to keep these undocumented neutrons out of our Universe and from taking jobs from our neutrons. # IAmNotAScientist

  22. Hmm... I thought it was *my* vehicle. on Automakers Move Toward OTA Software Upgrades · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So the vendor can/will push an update OTA to *my* vehicle w/o my specific consent?

    Also... Imagine (a) needing to use your vehicle - for an emergency, perhaps, in the middle of the night only to be met the dashboard message: "Update in progress; Please wait ..." or (b) waking up to a bricked vehicle from a bad update.

  23. Re:Censorship on a broad scale on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 2

    No matter how vile and criminal the content it still has the right to be seen.

    If by "it" you mean the video, then I'll remind you that "things" don't have rights.

  24. Re:For profit proganda. on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is what Fox News' viewers want to see: the barbarity of Muslims.

    While this may be the case, there also seems to be that pesky fact they seem to have put someone in a cage, lit them on fire, and burned them to death.

    True on both counts, but Fox "News" aired/posted a snuff film - (isn't that illegal?). In their defense, though, it's was probably more to make Obama look bad - for not bombing them further back into the Stone Age - than making Muslims or, more specifically, ISIS look bad.

  25. Re:Literally? on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 1

    ... but they are not literally working for them unless they are getting a paycheck.

    One can work for another w/o getting a paycheck - you know: volunteer, intern ...