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  1. Re:Where are the interlocks? on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or the interlocks were there and the ISS was hacked...

    I misread that as "IIS was hacked", and was thinking, "not surprised".

  2. Small ISP on Shadowy Tech Brokers Deliver Data To the NSA · · Score: 2

    What "smaller ISPs"? Are there many left? Haven't most merged into competition-free oligopolies already?

  3. -5 Gross on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 1

    How come there is no "gross" mod category? That's a gross oversight.

  4. Re:More Republican saboteurs? on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 1

    I didn't ask it for the entire world, just food sold in the USA. If non-halal-ness is important to the population of a given specific country, it makes sense for that country to use labeling in that country.

    What do you mean by "extremely strict standards"?

  5. Re:+ operator for string concat? on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the heck the designers of JavaScript were thinking when they added that feature. Did they fail to consider to consequences in a dynamically typed language, or did they judge "matching Java conventions" to be more important than utility alone (for marketing and/or familiarity to reduce the learning curve)?

    I'd like to see the mental mistakes documented so that future language designers don't make similar mistakes.

  6. Re:2001, oh how cute! on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 1

    I pronounthed it wrong, I have a lith.

  7. Re:More Republican saboteurs? on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 1

    Most of us just want GM food labelled, not banned. How is that comparable to climate change?

  8. Re:Redneck excuse on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 2

    I was just cleaning it and it went off. I didn't know it was loaded.

    I tried that excse whenn I was aroudn 12. I stlill wnet blnid, thouhg.

  9. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 1

    No, they are just popping the tires.

  10. 2001, oh how cute! on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 1

    Of course the cubes launched themselves, they are baby obelisks. Perhaps they are hatching and leaving the nest.

  11. Re:Definition of "Lie"? on Hackers Break Into HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    No, actually, it pretty much is if you promise A, then can't deliver A.

    Failing to reach a goal is NOT a "lie", by most accounts. It's failing to reach a stated and/or promised goal.

    There are different ways to screw up and I am not letting O off the hook in general for screwing that up. But I am bothered by its classification as a "lie" (without having more specific info), being a persnickety nerd about certain things.

  12. Re:Variable crop on New HTML Picture Element To Make Future Web Faster · · Score: 1

    There are more important things to fix/improve about HTML/CSS/DOM/JS. That's not high on my list.

  13. Re:Definition of "Lie"? on Hackers Break Into HealthCare.gov · · Score: 2

    "Misstatement of the Year" is not as headline grabby.

  14. Simple fix on Twitpic Shutting Down Over Trademark Dispute · · Score: 0

    Just rename it to TwatPick.

  15. Definition of "Lie"? on Hackers Break Into HealthCare.gov · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because there is some wiggle-room in the interpretation of the law, it appears he thought, or hoped, it was possible to tweak the enforcement or application of the law enough so that most people could keep similar services or doctors.

    Being overly optimistic is not quite the same as "lying". Bad judgement, yes!

    P.S. Mitt told some whoppers also. Honest politicians are a rare breed; I suspect the system weeds out the honest ones.
       

  16. Re:Amiga on Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen · · Score: 3, Funny

    If a system can display an error message, it is not messed up enough.

    There is an in-between. I once saw the error message:

    ERROR: There is not enough memory to display the error m

  17. Re:Variable crop on New HTML Picture Element To Make Future Web Faster · · Score: 1

    I'd argue that's business logic to be handled by custom programming rather than something to be hard-wired into a GUI design spec. The circumstances, thresholds, and device sizes are too varied.

  18. Solved! on The Frustrations of Supporting Users In Remote Offices · · Score: 1

    I got so tired of supporting remote offices that I outsourced that task to a remote office.

  19. Make a deal, guys on Oregon Suing Oracle Over Obamacare Site, But Still Needs Oracle's Help · · Score: 1

    They should settle out of court. Both sides are guilty of multiple questionable practices. Making it public damages the reputation of both sides and slows fixes.

  20. Dust on Taking the Ice Bucket Challenge With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1

    Here in California we are in a drought, so we dump a bucket of dust over our heads to conserve water.

  21. Re:Those stupid Canadians! on Canada Tops List of Most Science-Literate Countries · · Score: 1

    Don't be so nit-picky, you sap!

  22. Misplaced? on Welcome To Laniakea, Our New Cosmic Home · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can't click-open the article. Imagine if we slashdotted an entire Beowulf cluster of galaxies.

    Seriously, though, how could we have missed that many nearby galaxies for so long? Did we not see them, underestimate their size, miscalculate their location or direction due to dust being in the way?

  23. Short-term versus long-term on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    In the short-term if you take the time to become a master coder on your own, you can probably get a decent job as a coder and avoid a few years "wasted" in school.

    However, if you later grow tired of coding, wish to move into management, get RSI and wish to do other IT, etc., then the degree will have notable benefits. HR departments feel more comfortable with degrees when it comes to hiring semi-generalists.

    Look at it from HR's perspective: If 19 candidates with degrees and 1 without apply, if HR selects or approves the 1 without and things go sour, HR looks pretty bad. If they pick a degreed person and things go sour, then it looks more like a random bad apple.

    Plus, a degree exposes you to more subjects than just IT, making you more well-rounded, and perhaps a better communicator.

  24. Competition on Amazon's Plan To Storm the Cable Industry's Castle · · Score: 1

    Good, we need more competition in the digital delivery field. My current choices are:

    A) Tweedledee
    B) Tweedledum

    One has crappy equipment, the other crappy customer service.

  25. Re:Eh, not quite on Apple Reveals the Most Common Reasons That It Rejects Apps · · Score: 1

    To be frank, I think I would fail that auto-type feature also. Shortcuts shouldn't interfere with long-cuts. People do things out of habit and you shouldn't add shortcuts to disrupt those habits. If they enter the full email URL, then the auto-appended part should be parsed off internally, or better yet: automatically disappear once "@" is keyed.

    K.I.S.S. often overrides saving keystrokes when dealing with wide or unknown audience.