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  1. Re: Wages as share of GDP dropping since 1972 on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the new word!

  2. Re:Missing the reality of what kids do to insects on Cyborg Cockroach Sparks Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    Ketchup and rosemary?

    You sick fuck.

  3. Re:Not to worry! on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 1

    As you see in the story below, drone strikes still serve a purpose in Pakistan.

    Car bomb kills 40 in northwest Pakistan

    You mean, to kill lots of innocent bystanders who aren't on a bus, right?

  4. Re:Lovecraftian horror. on Malware Now Hiding In Graphics Cards · · Score: 1

    ^ Why we need a +1, Troll option for moderation. ^

  5. Re:Climate Change? meh... on What the Insurance Industry Thinks About Climate Change · · Score: 2

    Posting to undo moderation. Next time I'll read a post all the way through before giving an "Insightful" to a self-centred prick.

  6. Re:GNOME: We don't want Microsoft to have all the on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    I keep it installed on my systems as a little reminder to KDE that DEs that start to misbehave too badly can quickly be replaced. :)

  7. Re:Took a trip to Shenzhen a few years back.. on China Lifts Bans On Social Media, Foreign ISPs In Free Trade Zone · · Score: 1

    I've never been refused a stay at any Chinese hotel, but some obviously cater to foreigners, and some obviously do not.

  8. Re:GNOME: We don't want Microsoft to have all the on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1
  9. Re: and so meanwhile... on Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL? · · Score: 1

    A huge part of the answer is "Windows". PG really dropped the ball on that one.

  10. Re:and so meanwhile... on Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL? · · Score: 1

    One of the first lessons I learned, ever, is that DB abstraction layers suck in general.

  11. Re:Maybe Microsoft Should by them on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    Enjoy your dictionary, AC, and I'll stop casting pearls before swine.

  12. Re:prosumer? on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    I can read, but you apparently can't detect sarcasm.

  13. Re:prosumer? on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    IOW, the AC was correct?

  14. Re:Maybe Microsoft Should by them on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    The word you're maybe looking for is trifecta.

  15. Re:Bigger news on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    Those of us who were at Sun during the end times there can now feel a tiny bit better about ourselves, I suppose.

  16. Re:Not really surprised on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    s/AirDroid/AirDroid/ in previous, sorry about that.

  17. Re:Not really surprised on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    Why are you even wasting time looking for a USB cable?

    Next, on Amazing Discoveries... Wifi-enabled devices can share files using existing network protocols!

    On my home network I use SharesFinder and AirDroid. (If anyone cares to recommend better and/or more secure alternatives for either or both of these, feel free to do so!)

    I never had a single problem that I can recall with the GMail app freezing up on any of my 3 Android devices but I suppose MMMV.

  18. Re:It'll be news once they do it on OpenSUSE May Be First Major Distro To Adopt Btrfs By Default · · Score: 0

    Hmmm... Wikipedia appears to agree with my memory. What have you got?

  19. Re:Look over here, look over here! on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 1

    "See look at all that ice, global warming is a communist lie to make us give up our livers!!!!"

    You really shouldn't give away lines like that for free. You'll never know how close that came to being appropriated for my new sig. :)

    Look at all that ice--global warming is a capitalist lie to make us give up our livers!

    --Thoughts from Chairman Mao

  20. Re:Here's a contract for you on Internet of Things Demands New Social Contract To Protect Privacy · · Score: 1

    A very big difference between "making a stand" and "posturing" there is--something really you learn should, young Jedi.

  21. Re:Here's a contract for you on Internet of Things Demands New Social Contract To Protect Privacy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To which the only sane response is, "Good luck with that, Ace".

  22. Re:It'll be news once they do it on OpenSUSE May Be First Major Distro To Adopt Btrfs By Default · · Score: 0

    The only reason ReiserFS was dropped as the default was because he was convicted of murder. There was no technical reason.

    Bzzzzzzzzzzt--wrong.

    SUSE switched its default away from reiserfs in 2006, which was about 2 years before Hans even got charged with anything, much less convicted.

    (Longtime OpenSUSE user here. I switched to ext3 because SUSE works exactly as icebike says in this regard, so when they changed the default, I tried ext3 as well as jfs, and found that reiserfs sucked balls compared to both. For this reason, I've not used reiserfs in years, and it isn't popular anymore because there are many better alternatives now available, and because it's not been actively developed for at least 5 years.)

  23. Re:Why Use a Cloud? on Poor US Infrastructure Threatens the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Everything was so cloaked in marketing speak that it was impossible to tease out how to do anything normal and straightforward. They couldn't even manage to say words like "VPN" or "ssh." Simply ridiculous. Who has the time to learn a whole new nomenclature for the same old tasks we've all been doing for decades, just to satisfy a bunch of marketing droids whose only interest is in being the least helpful they can possibly be, and sucking as much cash out of you as they possibly can.

    Spot on.

  24. DocBook FTW on Is HTML5 the Future of Book Authorship? · · Score: 1

    I will never go back to anything containing "TeX" in the name.

  25. Re:Look over here, look over here! on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 1

    Cheers for the link. I'd forgot all about zompist. Good to see someone's still working on it.