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  1. Re:It's 1930s retro! on Professional Internet Troll Sues Her Former Employer · · Score: 1

    Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

    So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

    SHAME ON YOU DICE!

    To be fair, the filezilla project opted to use the adware/malware. The other "abandoned" projects, not so much.

  2. Re:There is truth in his question. on Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    *%&^ you, Autocorrect!

  3. There is truth in his question. on Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Teaching coding to elementary/primary school children may not be helpful. A good portion of them may not yet grasp the perquisites necessary to understand logic for conditionals. If there are more crucial learning deficits like reading or arithmetic, then it's better to focus on them first.

  4. Re:Lots of highly paid folks on A Tool For Analyzing H-1B Visa Applications Reveals Tech Salary Secrets · · Score: 1

    As for the US, I'm guessing it's not a protected term. They make a complete mockery of it.

    It takes years of study and certification to become a Mockery Engineer, though.

  5. Re:Collapse on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 1

    "This" civilization would be responsible for maintaining immortality tech. If it falls away, then we're left with a collapse for no good reason.

  6. $70000 is poorest? on California Is Giving Away Free Solar Panels To Its Poorest Residents · · Score: 1

    What is median?

  7. Car explodes on ignition... on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 1

    "The gasoline fume containment package is extra." --Volvo

  8. Re:Surprised those edits weren't reverted on British Politicians Delete Negative Wikipedia Descriptions Before Election · · Score: 1

    "If you can think of a simpler way, I'd like to hear it."

  9. Re:Sniffing wearable tech on Sniffing and Tracking Wearable Tech and Smartphones · · Score: 2

    "By the way, try washing your wrist sometime." --Leela's wrist thingamajig

  10. Re:Yeah, no. on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 1

    we've had quite a few very high intelligences in our society over time. None of them have posed an "existential crisis" for the the planet, the the human race, or my cats.

    Only because the Vice Presidential Action Rangers stopped them from creating a singularity with the LHC. And that was when they were led by Biden but before they restored Gygax with the vampire bacillus.

  11. Re:Nice on Cute Or Creepy? Google's Plan For a Sci-Fi Teddy Bear · · Score: 1

    I would have loved that movie if it had just ended with the blue fairy. After the blue fairy was pure dreck.

  12. Re:The disks usually don't ... on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 1

    You laugh, but the first computer bug was a moth.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  13. Warning: RAID 0 on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 2, Interesting

    RAID 0 is unstable to begin with. Medium case scenario here (for legitimate use) is some data gets corrupted on a compute node. Run the program on two nodes; if you get the same result on both, that result is probably fine. If you're running RAID0 on any filesystem that isn't temporary or at least easily replaceable, you're doing it wrong.

  14. Re:Contingency plans for the contingency planners on Secret Files Reveal UK Police Feared That Trekkies Could Turn On Society · · Score: 1

    Given the veneer some contingency plans get (zombie apoc as a veneer for disease outbreak and riot scenario), "Trekkie" might have been code for something else in this contingency.

  15. Re: North Pole on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    Who are three people who have never been in my mother's kitchen?

  16. Re:Power Creep Unless Proven Otherwise on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    not reading my quotation of it in my post is a whole new level of Slashdot. I am truly impressed.

    *cue dramatic music undertone*
    It is my power. It is my curse. It is my responsibility.
    *crescendo*
    *fade to black*

  17. Re:Sue Storm has always been powerful on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    Another that gets forgotten is the Scarlet Witch, magneto's daughter.

    In one arc her powers run amok and completely change the whole of reality for nearly everyone, including most mutants.

    *Begin Spoiler*


    * Spoiler: It's not 100% her fault. A retcon in Children's Crusade revealed that she meddled with forces beyond her control to try and recreate her children. Those forces caused her to attack the Avengers in the Disassembled arc and eventually House of M.


    *End Spoiler*

  18. Re:Power Creep Unless Proven Otherwise on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    Power over the story itself? Blonde Phantom, She-Hulk, and Squirrel Girl. All three have comic awareness and can use that to their advantage (She-Hulk usually just threatens the writer or penciler, whereas Squirrel Girl defeats Bi Beast, Dr Doom, Deadpool, Galactus, MODOK, Thanos, and Wolverine). Their only male counterpart with this ability is Deadpool.

  19. Re:Bottom Rising on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    Even in the X-Men universe, the stories are concentrated around Wolverine, Professor X and Magneto.

    I know we all have blocked out XMen 3, but that movie was 100% about Jean Grey (and we knew it would be from the end of X2).

  20. Sue Storm has always been powerful on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 2

    Invisible Woman has almost always been one of the most powerful and versatile superheroes in Marvel. She can knock out the Hulk. She can kill Wolverine. She can redirect a gamma bomb blast, saving the lives of all the other superheroes who have gathered (in that canon issue, her husband was already dead).

  21. Re:That easy to detect... whew! on Trojanized, Info-Stealing PuTTY Version Lurking Online · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I only have to connect to all of our machines with an admin account with psexec and run a c:\program files (x85)\PuTTY\pscp.exe -V with my admin account. Then I'll know if it's malware that I shouldn't run with an admin account. Huzzah!

  22. Re:Personally, I prefer Cygwin's OpenSSH client. on Trojanized, Info-Stealing PuTTY Version Lurking Online · · Score: 1

    Sometimes cow-orkers require percussive maintenance to reduce the incidence of pebkac episodes.

    While I agree that no one should be orking cows, I think beatings are a rather severe punishment.

  23. What about the installer executable? on Trojanized, Info-Stealing PuTTY Version Lurking Online · · Score: 1

    That's not from the main putty page but is linked to from the main page.

  24. Re:The next trend on UK Criminals Use Drones To Case Burglary Prospects · · Score: 2

    And then a low flying helicopter gets its cabin illuminated and the maker of the automated laser blinding system gets to peacefully chat with SWAT teams.

  25. Re:And OP is retarded. on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Precious metals are only worth something because other people want them. Because they think the metals are worth something because other people want the metals because they think they're worth something because... They're pretty, they're partly lasting and they're rare. Until they're not: aluminum used to be a valuable metal. Now I coat my armpits with it every morning, and half the metal objects I own are aluminum.
    If you're expecting a big crash, you're better off purchasing items of utility or improving your land for raising food.