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  1. Alternative interpretation - C beset peer reviewed on C Code On GitHub Has the Most "Ugly Hacks" · · Score: 1

    Do we know that the comments were added by the author? An alternative explanation is that the C code has had fuller peer review than other languages, and the reviewer has marked these areas for future refactoring.

  2. Re:nonsense on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 3, Funny

    A dose of socialism is just the bitter pill that might finally convince .....

    Bitter pill ,,, that will by $275 please

  3. WTF on Canadian Town Outlaws Online Insults To Police and Officials · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is muslim-like mentality - ban saying something we don't like because our feelings are more important than free speech. I wonder if this Canadian town will take this to Muslim extremes where pointing out any moral issues with the officials, or that they are ineffective in their jobs will be seen as a reason to arrest someone.

  4. A spokesman for Uber said on Uber Forced Out of Kansas · · Score: 5, Funny

    A spokesman for Uber said "We're not in Kansas anymore".

  5. Re:Depends how you evaluate the curve on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 1

    ..that's why I put the quantitative measure on those who generate a profit from their skill, or produce a profit on their time for others.

    I am quite certain that curve is U-shaped.

    Even ignoring those wh don't generate any profit I'd be surprised if it wan't a slope, with hundreds of buskers, small orchestra players, music teachers, fiddlers in folk bands playing the Irish pub circuit etc. and very few high paid violinists.

  6. Got to ask on Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 Released · · Score: 1

    does it run systemd

  7. Re:There's even an ebuild for gentoo too! on UK High Court Orders Block On Popcorn Time · · Score: 1

    Heck, Popcorn Time is even available via the Arch Linux User Repository. What are they going to do? Block the AUR?

    Heh heh. There's even a gentoo overlay with an ebuild too. Why doesn't the UK just cut all their international data cables and be done with it? Otherwise the scary software is bound to seep through, oh no!

    If UKIP get in power they probably will. And close the airports and ferries. He takes England, England as an instruction manual.

  8. Re:Gamechanger on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 2

    I priced out a backup propane generator as a backup for my home that cost about the same thing. Never went with it. This could provide a home with good backup power in case of outage. (keep the sump pump or the furnace going anyway)

    Charging from the mains and using this as a backup is a very good secondary usage in areas where power outages are common.

  9. Re:Gamechanger on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 2

    what do you do in the winter time?

    Depending on where you live you could still get enough electricity for solar. Not everyone lives North of the 50th parallel

  10. Re:Great! on How an Open Standard API Could Revolutionize Banking · · Score: 2

    Because I really want advertisers and the NSA/IRS knowing even more about my financial habits. Yay for openness!

    You think they don't already?

  11. Someone going to link one here? on UK High Court Orders Block On Popcorn Time · · Score: 2

    According to the new regulation, Virgin, BT, Sky, EE and TalkTalk are now required to block access to popcorntime.io, flixtor.me, popcorntime.se and isoplex.isohunt.to – all sites which link to Popcorn Time downloads

    Link here. Better still link - Facebook - Twitter - Tumblr... and see if the ISPs dare to block these

  12. In other words on Ancient Megadrought Entombed Dodos In Poisonous Fecal Cocktail · · Score: 4, Funny

    They were up shit creek without a paddle

  13. Not in the UK on How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial · · Score: 2

    Our top link is the Wikipedia article followed by several links that definitely call it a genocide. I guess the Turks only bought a propaganda ad in America because the UK public is already sufficiently brainwashed with the "religion of peace" crap.

  14. To paraphrase the "Life of Brian" on When Enthusiasm For Free Software Turns Ugly · · Score: 2
    To paraphrase the "Life of Brian":

    BRIAN: Brothers! Brothers! We should be struggling together!

    FRANCIS: We are! Ohh.

    BRIAN: We mustn't fight each other! Surely we should be united against the common enemy!

    EVERYONE: The KOffice Project?!

    BRIAN: No, no! Microsoft Office!

    EVERYONE: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes.

  15. Re:It's finally time on Feds Say It's Time To Cut Back On Fluoride In Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    and our daughter has orthodontic treatment without charge

    I have to be "that guy". You were charged - and quite a bit for it, they just didn't hand you a bill after you received the service. When you factor in all taxes (VAT, fuel tax, TV tax, income tax, NHS tax, etc) even the lowest tax bracket in the UK is paying roughly 50% of their income in taxes.

    Rubbish The lowest tax bracket is zero and accounts for income up to £10,600 in 2015/16, from £10,000 in 2014/15. In terms of indirect tax, VAT is not charged on children's clothes or "non luxuary" food, and is 5% for domestic heating and electicity. There are a number of other exemptions and it is on 20% for the rest.

  16. Re:It's finally time on Feds Say It's Time To Cut Back On Fluoride In Drinking Water · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Britain has better dental health than the USA. But keep peddling that century old myth if it makes you feel better.

    My wife is American and finds this particularly funny. When she came to the UK she had a lot of treatment that she could not have afforded in the USA, and our daughter has orthodontic treatment without charge - and some of her relatives who have had teeth removed because they could not afford treatment still make jokes about British teeth

  17. Re:WTF?! on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1

    "According to Nilsson, women seem to be drawn to engineering projects that attempt to achieve societal good"

    ALL engineering projects are for the societal good. There's not one that isn't made for other people.

    ... except maybe a dog kennel or nest box

  18. Re:Pumped Hydro Storage on Why Our Antiquated Power Grid Needs Battery Storage · · Score: 2

    They should be build a pumped hydro storage system - like Dinorwig in Wales. These installations are so simple - I don't know why they're not more common.

    They are very simple where you have an abundant supply of water and suitable hills or mountains. In other places not so much

  19. Re:That whole area is intolerant to different folk on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 2

    The whole area in the middle east is intolerant to accepting people of different faith, ethnic back ground and culture. They claim to be so holy but offer little as examples of peaceful people. They act like the world is thousand of years in the past. No the US is not perfect and the example of perfect will never be achieved because we are human. This is just another example of how little these people have advanced in hundreds of years.

    That's islam for you

  20. Ya big Jessie on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 1

    get with it, run a manly operating system ya big Jessie.

  21. Re:This won't pay: system in London closed in 2003 on UK Company Wants To Deliver Parcels Through Underground Tunnels · · Score: 1

    There was no congestion charge in 2003.

    True, but since they say it cost five times a much to send things by the rail compared by road this would only swing the balance if 4/5 of the cost were the congestion charge. In other words it would have to cost four times as much as the driver's salary, fuel, maintenance, and vehicle costs - which it obviously doesn't

  22. This won't pay: system in London closed in 2003 on UK Company Wants To Deliver Parcels Through Underground Tunnels · · Score: 1

    Until 2003 the royal mail used an underground mail railway. Even though the costs of building the tunnels had been paid off it was five times more expensive than using road transport for the same task. I can't see how any system involving new tunnels could possibly be viable.

  23. Re:Typical Muslim response to the truth on Turkish Hackers Target Vatican Website After Pope's Genocide Comment · · Score: 1

    Typical Muslim response to the truth. Ban it, bar it, become the victim.

    No, it's a typical nationalist response to the truth. Your clumsy attempt to involve Islam proves that you hate the truth as much as they do. You are exactly like them, and are therefore one of them.

    Thank you for reminding me of the Muslim's other typical response - ridiculous equivocation. Drawing a picture that you don't like becomes the moral equivalent of killing people. Raping children becomes the moral equivalent of protesting about the rape. And in your case of course someone who points out that Muslims try to ban truth about a genocide becomes "exactly like" the people committing the genocide.

  24. Typical Muslim response to the truth on Turkish Hackers Target Vatican Website After Pope's Genocide Comment · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Typical Muslim response to the truth. Ban it, bar it, become the victim.

  25. You probably could tell looking close up on Sharp Announces 4K Smartphone Display · · Score: 1
    You probably could tell the difference looking close up (A person with 20/20 vision at 4 inches - the closest a healthy adult can focus - can see up to 876 PPI) , but:

    If the average reading distance is 1 foot (12 inches = 305 mm), p @0.4 arc minute is 35.5 microns or about 720 ppi/dpi. p @1 arc minute is 89 microns or about 300 dpi/ppi. This is why magazines are printed at 300 dpi – it’s good enough for most people. Fine art printers aim for 720, and that’s the best it need be. Very few people stick their heads closer than 1 foot away from a painting or photograph.”