User: fph il quozientatore

Re:No, because meaningful whitespace

On: Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language?

Curious that you are writing this on a website where replies to a comment are identified only because of indentation, and no one has ever complained about that.

Re:Ya I've never understood this Facebook paranoia

On: Pirate Bay Founder: We've Lost the Internet, It's All About Damage Control Now (thenextweb.com)

US immigration *does* ask for social accounts now. I just made an ESTA. And (for now) they take "none" as an answer.

Re:Intel, can you read...

On: Intel Fires Warning Shot At Qualcomm and Microsoft Over Windows 10 ARM Emulation (hothardware.com)

"Sorry, sir, it's the last row and we're out of QWERTYs --- is Dvorak fine?"

Re:Don't write buggy code

On: Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Team Track And Manage Bugs In Your Software?

Or, if you use git, just use this command:

git gud

Re:If advertised as a laptop in the UK

On: Get Real, Microsoft: If the New Surface Pro Is a Laptop, Bundle It With a Type Cover (pcworld.com)

By that definition, even a heavy rock is a laptop.

Re:Only a temporary solution

On: Wikipedia's Switch To HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship (vice.com)

You mean like they didn't when Symantec did it?

Excessive traffic

On: New OS/2 Warp Operating System 'ArcaOS' 5.0 Released (arcanoae.com)

Excessive server traffic? All five of their users trying to update at the same time?

Re:Don't think Uber will be alone with this

On: Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You're Willing To Pay (bloomberg.com)

Airlines have been doing this, like, forever, and no one ever batted an eye.

Re:In case you wondered...

On: Access Codes For United Cockpit Doors Accidentally Posted Online (techcrunch.com)

That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Re:I feel left out

On: Google Researchers Find Wormable 'Crazy Bad' Windows Exploit (bleepingcomputer.com)

More people have died at the hands of their own governments than have died in war.

Given that usually it's governments that declare wars, maybe you should count war deaths as caused by the government, too.

With an axe

On: Slashdot Asks: How Do You Handle Interruptions At Work?

I kill the poor guy usually.

Re: Sure!

On: DRM Will Be Gone By 2025, Predicts Cory Doctorow (theregister.co.uk)

Humanity.

Sure!

On: DRM Will Be Gone By 2025, Predicts Cory Doctorow (theregister.co.uk)

And proprietary software will be gone by 2030.

LOGO

On: Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com)

LOGO. Grade school, I think fourth or fifth grade. Version horribly translated in my language.

Re:Quantum entanglement

On: Light Sail Propulsion Could Reach Sirius Sooner Than Alpha Centauri (arxiv.org)

It's impossible to transmit information using entanglement.

Lolwut?

Re: Look at Android

On: EFF Says Google Chromebooks Are Still Spying On Students (softpedia.com)

So what do you recommend instead..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Re:How about Google Scholar?

On: Tearing Down Science's Citation Paywall, One Link at a Time (wired.com)

Free as in beer, not as in speech.

Re:If you want to be taken seriously

On: Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' Final Beta Now Available For Download (betanews.com)

Well, I guess the latest release is already old... $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 16.10 \n \l And which exactly is the animal name here? DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=yakkety DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.10"

"Lose"

On: Red-Light Camera Grace Period Goes From 0.1 To 0.3 Seconds, Chicago To Lose $17 Million (arstechnica.com)

I hate when people use the word "lose" to mean "not anymore have the opportunity to gain as additional income (under certain additional conditions)". See also: "the machine that will utterly bankrupt the music industry" by Peter Sunde: https://boingboing.net/2015/12...

Re:You see?

On: Physicists Find That As Clocks Get More Precise, Time Gets More Fuzzy (sciencealert.com)

You are too easy to troll. You need to have a thicker skin to survive on the internet.

Re:Limited media experience

On: 82% of Kids in 'Netflix Only' Homes Have No Idea What Commercials Are (exstreamist.com)

It's not like Firefox with Adblock is available on Android, right?

Re: Great news

On: Jolla Sailfish Will Build A Google-Free Mobile OS For China (silicon.co.uk)

Funny that you mention it -- yes, Jolla runs Systemd. It also runs Wayland, and they switched from BTRFS in their first phone to EXT4 because of stability reasons. Oh, and it ships with the git command-line client and vi preinstalled.

Yes

On: Can Technology Prevent Cops From Forgetting To Turn On Their Body Cameras? (fastcompany.com)

Step 1: remove the off switch. Step 2: there is no step 2.

Re:Sailfish someone?

On: 99.6 Percent of New Smartphones Run Android or iOS (theverge.com)

Sailfish here! Torilla tavataan! I'm just hoping it survives financially and doesn't get any Russian backdoor in the near future...

Re:Should be obvious

On: Can We Pollinate Flowers With Tiny Flying Drones? (economist.com)

If you judge the intelligence of a species based on how long they have survived, algae and amoebas must be the closest thing to Einstein we have.