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  1. Re:What is UNUSUAL on Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil' · · Score: -1

    ..is the effort they spend for Jesus Assange. They must be really scared of the truth.

    All the "truth" that guy has to offer was released years ago. Now it's time for him to go face justice in Sweden. If you were the father or brother of those two girls your opinion on the matter would probably be different.

  2. Re:no comic sans??? on "Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs · · Score: 1

    Time to start your rehabilitation.

    http://www.comicsanscriminal.c...

  3. Re:Here's the article on "Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like the way it looks good all the way down to 8pt, and is legible even in 7pt. Not that I'll be reading such tiny code, but many quite a few otherwise-excellent fonts I've looked at over the last few years seem to go a bit funny below 12pt.

    I love 7pt fonts, they allow me to pack a lot more regex in my Perl one-liners.

  4. Re:As the old saying goes... on Abusing Symbolic Links Like It's 1999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    On proper time systemd has added symlinks, a (somehow) worthwhile command line, non-graphic environment, the ability to remotely manage, declarative-based configuration management...

    It's only they are reinventing all these things on their own, forgetting about how did they came to be and, of course, not caring about the way those facilities have been used and abused in the past.

    I think it was Henry Spencer the one that said "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."

    Hehe

  5. Fountainhead anyone? on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 2

    This systemd guy is just like Ellsworth Toohey. As long as the sheep follow he'll keep pushing things further and further into idiotland and have a good laugh in the process.

    "Kill man’s sense of values. Kill his capacity to recognise greatness or to achieve it. Great men can’t be ruled. We don’t want any great men. Don’t deny conception of greatness. Destroy it from within. The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional. Set up standards of achievement open to all, to the least, to the most inept – and you stop the impetus to effort in men, great or small. You stop all incentive to improvement, to excellence, to perfection. Laugh at Roark and hold Peter Keating as a great architect. You’ve destroyed architecture. Build Lois Cook and you’ve destroyed literature. Hail Ike and you’ve destroyed the theatre. Glorify Lancelot Clankey and you’ve destroyed the press. Don’t set out to raze all shrines – you’ll frighten men, Enshrine mediocrity - and the shrines are razed."

    -- Ellsworth Toohey

  6. Re:Bullshit on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 2

    What we're dealing with now is something that neither "average person" nor "master geek" find easy to fix.

    This is the best summary I've seen of the whole systemd thing. They try to Apple-ize linux but it's half-baked and neither more user-friendly or more reliable than the stuff they replace.

  7. Privacy on Google May Try To Recruit You For a Job Based On Your Search Queries · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If Microsoft was to do the same thing in Bing - or God forbids in Windows 10 directly, it would be a scandal and there would be endless blog posts and tv interviews about it. And of course people on Slashdot would get their panties in a bunch.

    But with Google it's kewl.

  8. Ambitious on 'Gynepunks' DIY Gynecology For Underserved Women · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    they're assembling an arsenal of open-source tools for DIY diagnosis and first-aid care—centrifuges made from old hard drive motors; microscopes from deconstructed webcams; homemade incubators; and 3D printable speculums.

    So they're getting 3D printable speculums, cool, but what about more basic, affordable tools, like good ol' coat hangers or steep staircases?

  9. Re:Tip # 1 on Ask Slashdot: Tips For Getting Into Model Railroading? · · Score: 1

    Courtney Cox is still smoking hot after 30 years of age

    Smoking hot? Courtney Cox was the least attractive cast member on Friends (including males).

  10. Re:Not really news at this point on Another Slew of Science Papers Retracted Because of Fraud · · Score: 1

    Knowing that a large number of reviewers think an article is worth reading is good enough.

    Even better: there should be a way to find the article score in various demographics, like they have on imdb. That way when an article is rated 8.4 by females age 18-29 and 6.4 by males 30-44 (like Divergent on imdb), I will know better than read it.

  11. Re:Oh well on Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can't even spend $9 to back your joke by buying the domain and putting up a quick website? Lame.

    That's the problem with kids nowadays. No follow-through.

  12. Wind of change on Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    President Trump will change that flawed perception that Republicans are dishonest morons.

  13. Re:WtF? on Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did you know that Box's CEO pays himself a very modest salary, lives in a tiny apartment near the office, drives an old car, and got a very small stake in the IPO (something like 4%)?

    The guy has been working like a madman for over 10 years. I'm not a big fan of him, I find him obnoxious, but he is definitely not a scammer.

  14. Re:Foolproof on London Deploys Cycle Superhighways Despite "Old Men In Limos" · · Score: 1

    The obvious solution to that is to respect my personal space.

    Why don't YOU respect other people's space and not stink it up.

    As for the rain and snow. Dress for the weather. Or do what a lot of cyclists do: bus or drive during bad weather.

    This is a great idea. Let's focus on sunny day urban planning! Off course on rainy days everybody will take 4h to get to work, trying to drive or ride the bus in the gridlocks, while the huge bike lanes are empty except for 2-3 bike warriors who think they don't stink because people at the office are too polite to complain.

  15. Re:Foolproof on London Deploys Cycle Superhighways Despite "Old Men In Limos" · · Score: 1

    I do shower every morning and use a good deodorant (not a perfume but an actual deodorant) and I wear a fresh shirt / polo every day.

    Fascinating. What about underwear? Do you also wear a fresh pair of underwear every day?

    Such a clean freak, reminds me of my grandfather. Come Sunday morning, dirty or not, he would take a bath.

  16. Foolproof on London Deploys Cycle Superhighways Despite "Old Men In Limos" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Of course the plan includes building locker rooms for all those people who will now get to the office covered in sweat, rain, snow and whatnot.

    Otherwise it's the entire office that will smell like a locker room.

  17. Re:Mobbing and agitprop is "culture"? on Facebook CIO Discusses Zuckerberg's "Will You Resign?" Email · · Score: 1

    Posters he's describing are pure propaganda, all basically shouting "WORK HARDER AND MORE!"

    Work harder... doing what? Facebook has 10,000 employees. What are those people doing all day? The guy wrote the first version working part-time while he was at school. Of course they have improved it, I know they got all fancy with their php jvm and nosql database and whatnot. But still... 10,000 people?

    Tesla has about the same number of employees and they design, build, sell and service futuristic electric cars that accelerate faster than a Formula One racing car.

    Wtf.

  18. Re:Openness on Facebook CIO Discusses Zuckerberg's "Will You Resign?" Email · · Score: 1

    Some people never got over the death of MySpace.

  19. Re:Openness on Facebook CIO Discusses Zuckerberg's "Will You Resign?" Email · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is nothing to say about this Zuckerberg quote. Someone doesn't understand 'openness.' I will never work at that company.

    Zuckerberg went on to write that the employee obviously didn’t share the same values of openness and transparency because they shared the confidential information in a way they were asked not to do.

    That person released confidential information without telling anyone about it, and without coming out when it was leaked, so they were not doing it in a transparent manner. This is just like the dude at Wikileaks who operates in total secrecy but publishes the secrets of other people. Once you start doing cherry picking on what you "share", that's not being open and transparent.

  20. Re:Opportunity on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is people like you who fuck up the moderation on this website.

    Mod -1 Redundant.

  21. Re:Opportunity on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 0

    People can't even shoot drones hovering over their garden and filming their kids. We are a long way from killing copyright trolls.

  22. Re:Opportunity on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 2

    We'll get to that, as soon as we're done with Wal-Mart, Monsanto, BP, Wall Street and the NSA. Lotsa people to kick out of pools lately.

  23. Re: Opportunity on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 3, Funny

    So what's the master plan? Download the movie, put it on a USB stick and leave it on the subway? That should teach them.

    That's like revenge porn without revenge or porn.

  24. Bravo on How Developers Can Fight Creeping Mediocrity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I found out I couldn’t commit CSS without headaches, I rewrote the entire front-end.

    Says the guy who bitches about unrealistic deadlines.

  25. Re:Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux on Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't worry, they are planning to use Oracle Linux. They are currently using the 2nd most powerful computer in the world to calculate how much the license will cost.