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  1. Re:Nope, nothing to see here on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Fucking hypocrite.

    It's pronounced, "Republican". #FTFY

    Its Pronounced "Politicians"
    They all are hypocrites. All of them.

    Agreed and I never said otherwise. My narrower statement doesn't preclude your wider one. (You just assumed it did.)

  2. Re:Nope, nothing to see here on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fucking hypocrite.

    It's pronounced, "Republican". #FTFY

  3. Re:Nope, nothing to see here on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We all know that Mr. Pence is the very model of morality and will be completely transparent and forthcoming on this innocent mistake.

    Like Jeff Sessions, I'm sure his actions were, "correct and honest as I understood it at the time".

    [ P.S. As that answer, from the Attorney General of the US seems, so far, to be sufficient for the Congress of the US, I can't wait to use it someday myself. Surely, I can't be held to a higher standard than them... ]

  4. Something similar. on Li-Ion Battery Inventor Creates Breakthrough Solid-State Battery, Holds 3X Charge (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Saw this episode of NOVA, Search for the Super Battery with David Pogue about Tufts University professor and engineer Mike Zimmerman and his solid plastic electrolyte, described here: New Damage-Proof Battery Has Higher Energy Density, Won’t Explode:

    But Zimmerman’s battery can withstand repeated damage without risking explosion or fire. In fact, it can continue to power devices even after most of it has been chopped away.

    Watched him hit the batter pack it with a hammer, drive nails through it and cut it up with scissors all while the battery kept producing power.

  5. Re:Freezing damage on Scientists Have Found a Way To Rapidly Thaw Cryopreserved Tissue Without Damage (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thawing is great. How are you going to freeze the tissue without damage?

    Become an Alaska Wood Frog (alternate article). They survive being frozen almost completely solid for 7 months at a time.

  6. First - this is a copy/paste from Soylent.

    Are you aware how this site works and the fact that there are some people contributing stories to both of them?

    I know how it works: Soylent is people!

    Or is that just the Green kind?

  7. Re:As a percentage on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The pee water evaporates. The pee solutes do not. This process concentrates the solutes.

    Then there are these things pools have called, filter and sanitation systems.

  8. Buffer Interruptus on Netflix Uses AI in Its New Codec To Compress Video Scene By Scene (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    "We're allergic to rebuffering," said Todd Yellin, a vice president of innovation at Netflix. "No one wants to be interrupted in the middle of Bojack Horseman or Stranger Things."

    Or porn. "Yes, yes, yes..." (buffering ...) [ Nooooooooooooooo.... ]

  9. Re:I don't like it on A Norwegian Website Is Making Readers Pass a Quiz Before Commenting (niemanlab.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why I must pass a test before being able to read a website. Also, do I have to pay for the test? How long is it? I think this is a stupid solution for a non-existent problem.

    Just wait until these guys get hired by the TSA to quiz people coming into the US.

  10. The vast majority of Americans just voted in a president ...

    Sure, if by "vast majority" you mean 46.1% (from various "real news" sources):

    The Democrat outpaced President-elect Donald Trump by almost 2.9 million votes, with 65,844,954 (48.2%) to his 62,979,879 (46.1%), according to revised and certified final election results from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

    But the rest of your post is pretty spot-on.

  11. Don't give banks any ideas. on 'Robots Won't Just Take Our Jobs -- They'll Make the Rich Even Richer' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    What if your ATM could not only give you a hundred bucks, but sell you an adjustable-rate mortgage?

    Some people take so long at the ATM I wonder WTF they are doing - international banking, hostile takeover - what, What, WHAT? Jesus! So please don't give the banks any more ideas for ATM functions.

  12. Can I just ask: How much is enough? on 'Robots Won't Just Take Our Jobs -- They'll Make the Rich Even Richer' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Make the Rich Even Richer

    How rich does anyone need to be? I understand the desire to have more and, certainly, a bit more than you need, but way more than you could possibly ever need or even use? How much is enough and why?

  13. Maybe he took a wrong turn ... on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Omin was instructed to answer the following questions: "Write a function to check if a Binary Search Tree is balanced," ...

    ... and accidentally walked into a Google interview. Was there a whiteboard in the room?

    [ I'll add, seriously, that I couldn't write that function on the fly after a 20+ hour flight. ]

  14. The Windows Operating System was actually designed for frogs. "Reboot!" "Reboot!" "Reboot!" "Reboot!" ...

    That explains things. I put my PC in a pot of water, slowly raised it to a boil and my PC never jumped out.

  15. I'll answer this one. on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Hello my name is Mike, I'm a GDE and lead at NY Times, I don't know what np complete means. Should I?"

    Hey Mike, I once worked for the NY Times Shared Services Center. And, generally, no.

  16. Re:git was written when SHA-1 attacks were publish on Linus Torvalds On Git's Use Of SHA-1: 'The Sky Isn't Falling' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    and yields somehow valid code.

    Comments. You have infinite tries to get it right.

    But not infinite time, unless you're immortal - in which case you should have better things to do.

  17. Re:git was written when SHA-1 attacks were publish on Linus Torvalds On Git's Use Of SHA-1: 'The Sky Isn't Falling' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Linus really has no sense of security. He'll use whatever is expedient over what's wise. It's a shame really.

    How about describing the attack vector?

    Well, the "practical" attack, described here required:

    This attack required over 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 SHA1 computations. This took the equivalent processing power as 6,500 years of single-CPU computations and 110 years of single-GPU computations.

    So, Step 1: Get a super-computer ... or rent a fuck-tonne of capacity at Amazon EC2 ...

  18. Re: git was written when SHA-1 attacks were publis on Linus Torvalds On Git's Use Of SHA-1: 'The Sky Isn't Falling' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your comment might have been funny if at least their was some algorithm called "SHA-7", but there isn't.

    At least Mozilla isn't in charge of updating this, otherwise we'd get SHA-1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.1.0 ... bumped every six weeks.

  19. Re:Not a problem at all on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't hire any Trump supporters

    So you discriminate by political party in the hiring process. Interesting.

    Political affiliation is not a protected class. Not saying discrimination based on that is cool, but it's not illegal.

  20. Re:Elections have consequences on FCC To Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure everyone who made this happen knows what "consequences" means.

  21. Re:Fake News on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hydrogen was not lost. It just sublimated.

    To be fair, it said "metallic hydrogen" has been lost, not simply "hydrogen" - so not fake.

    (P.S. People. Please stop misapplying the phrase "fake news". The fire's host enough w/o needlessly fanning the flames.)

  22. Re:Mostly, send the snowflakes to Venezuela on Inside Uber's Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... make believe that you're some sort of Milo-like entity. And look where his big mouth got him.

    A date to the junior high prom?

  23. Re:Goes both ways on Inside Uber's Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone screams at you on the phone hang up

    Someone should pass that advise along to the Prime Minister of Australia. :-)

  24. Re:Goes both ways on Inside Uber's Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they don't read /. and think you're a bad guy :-)

  25. Re:"Rape, murder, arson, and rape." on Inside Uber's Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You said 'rape' twice...

    Looking at another menu, I'd say there's not much rape in this item.