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  1. Re:Torvalds being foul-mouthed again? News at 11. on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because omitting that part invokes the impression that by abusive language she means swearing, which deligitimizes her complaint as whining about political correctness.

    People don't need to be impolite or swear in order to be assholes to each other. (That's pretty much what Torvalds said, too, when he talked about office politics.)
    And people don't have to be assholes to each other in order to work in an informal atmosphere. (And that's what Sharp said.) What they're actually disagreeing on is whether the present atmosphere in the LKML is an abrasive but honest, or an abusive and toxic one, and where the line between that is. If people can debate about this reasonably without devolving into a mudslinging match about PC, censorship and (inevitably, sooner or later) sexism in IT again*, I'll be surprised.

  2. Re:what? on Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups" · · Score: 1

    Also, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was the first truly good consumer level version of Windows.

    Also the second-last, counting XP.

    ( :trollface: )

  3. That big price tag would be more satisfactory on What the Government Pays To Snoop On You · · Score: 1

    If it didn't come out of your own pocket.

  4. Are all of these acronyms? on Discovering NSA Code Names Via LinkedIn · · Score: 1

    Because if so, how is it even possible for someone at the NSA to get this bored while listening to everyone's phone calls?

  5. Re:Wrong way to go about it? on DEF CON Advises Feds Not To Attend Conference · · Score: 1

    [ackbar]

    IT'S A TRAP

  6. Halfway there on Data Storage That Could Outlast the Human Race · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now we just need to build a license server that will operate for a million years, so the DRM-encrypted data will still be readable.

  7. One Million Years Later on Data Storage That Could Outlast the Human Race · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It has not been discovered what these disc-shaped glass objects were intended to symbolize, but it is now believed that they served either as ceremonial ornaments or a crude form of currency."

  8. Could be worse... on The Pentagon's Seven Million Lines of Cobol · · Score: 1

    At least their nuclear missile silos aren't operated by such a program.

    (... I hope.)

  9. This end should point toward the ground on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 2

    If you want to go to space.

    If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today.

  10. Blink on Google Chrome 28 Is Out: Rich Notifications For Apps, Extensions · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I think I'm going to switch to Firefox again. The Doctor warned us about this rendering engine in pretty strong words.

  11. Re:As someone who uses GNOME 3... on Giving GNOME 3 a GNOME 2 Look · · Score: 1

    regain something approaching my old workflow

    I know, it took me ages to get back the spacebar heating feature. :P

    (But yeah, random UI redesigns can be annoying as hell. Personally, I kind of like the gnome-shell desktop - and at least it's better than freaking Unity - but on the other hand I'm not over gnome-terminal losing transparency. Currently I'm holding on to the old version as long as possible.)

  12. moon landings in the future on House Democrats Propose National Park On the Moon · · Score: 2

    Yeah, that is a thing that is going to happen. Any day now.

  13. We can fix it! on Florida Keys Prepare For Sea Level Rise · · Score: 0

    Everyone just concentrate really hard on disbelieving climate change! That'll do it.

  14. Velociraptors on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 5, Funny

    (obviously)

  15. Weeelll... on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    And here I thought that after what NoScript pulled I'd never be installing it again.

  16. Re:Hum interesting on New Zealand ISP Offers "Global Mode" So Users Can Circumvent Geo-Restrictions · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well then let's invade and catch this Osama Bin Sauron guy.

  17. Why not let the problem solve itself on Reject DRM and You Risk Walling Off Parts of the Web, Says W3C Chief · · Score: 1

    Let them hide their content, wait for them to go out of business, and let the others learn from their example.

  18. Re:WHEN are non-muslim nations... on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 1

    Until your ideological side stops insisting on private ownership of instruments of automated mass murder, you should probably keep quiet on the whole "blowing people up" thing to avoid hypocrisy.

  19. Interesting on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 2

    Oh yeah, the terrorist thing too, but the actual story here is that people were under surveillance for more than a year without giving cause for their arrest. Particularly since the raid didn't result in an arrest, and the conclusion that the "terror plot" is at best a flimsy excuse to justify the surveillance is almost inevitable.

    As a citizen in Germany, I honestly feel more threatened by that than by someone allegedly planning to put explosives onto a toy plane.

  20. The Bitcoin Foundation doesn't have anything to do with the operation of the Bitcoin network. At least when they went after MtGox et al, they had some chance of making an impact by limiting the transfer of funds into and out of the currency. This here is a bit like prosecuting Bram Cohen for writing the protocol specification for BitTorrent.

  21. Now he just needs to get the NSA to install it on Introducing the NSA-Proof Crypto-Font · · Score: 1

    So his stuff will actually show up in that font when they try to read it.

    Wait...

  22. Suuuure... on US Charges Edward Snowden With Espionage · · Score: 1

    they welcomed the opportunity to explain the importance of the programs

    They did, really? Then I suppose they're really grateful to Snowden for giving them that opportunity, and not angry at him at all.

    But wait, if they welcomed that opportunity so much, then why didn't they tell us of the programs in the first place?

  23. Re: Cease and Desist letter on Pro Bono Lawyer Fights C&D With Humor · · Score: 2

    The second word would be "off"; the first left to the imagination.

  24. Re:County Lawyer on Pro Bono Lawyer Fights C&D With Humor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Adverbial, I believe, since it modifies "tried", not "bid litigation".

  25. So, nearly thirty years after 1984... on Lawmakers Try To Block Black Box Technology In Cars, DVR Tracking · · Score: 1

    Television finally watch you?