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  1. time *IS* money on Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Time is money. So, if it doesn't save time, it isn't saving money.
    Besides, Linux is meant to boot your machine and provide basic OS service---not save you time or money.

  2. Not the official back door? on 'Unauthorized Code' In Juniper Firewalls Could Decrypt VPN Traffic (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So, they were sitting around the table at the code review meeting and nobody knew which government asked for THAT back door?

  3. Should have cleaned the data... on Bernie Sanders Campaign Blocked From DNC Voter Info After Improper Access (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should have scrubbed the data...you know...with a rag or something.

  4. Gee, why not look at using unicorn vomit as a fuel. It is more easily obtained and utilized than using He3 from the moon as a fusion fuel.

  5. Well, since one of the more popular phone lines is the iPhone, and since the late Steve Jobs helpfully pointed out that most of the users are holding it wrong, is this much of a surprise?

  6. Check out the new Thinkpads on How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Check again. Lenovo drank the Apple UI Koolaid and now the T450s, and many other thinkpads, have adopted the "logo upright when opened".

  7. It's just function following form... on How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just function following form instead of form following function.

  8. It was cool to copy Apple on How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It was cool to copy Apple. That's why the whole industry sucks.

  9. Exactly on Now We Know Why the Hobbit Movies Were So Awful (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, and it was not a prequel to the LOTR!

  10. Phbbbt. We don't need not stinking fact checking. on File Says NSA Found Way To Replace Email Program (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Jefferson was one of the lamest founding fathers.
    Jefferson did say things like:
    "All men are created equal". (Plagiarized from John Locke) Jefferson, the owner of hundreds of slaves, including the mother of his children.
    "Never spend your money before you have it." Of course, Jefferson died with tremendous debt.

  11. The US Government is broken on File Says NSA Found Way To Replace Email Program (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If this can happen, clearly there are problems with the separation of powers (i.e. the Executive is walking all-over the Congress). Unfortunately, the Congress is either too weak to regain their Constitutional rights and powers, or it simply doesn't want to.

    Too bad we cannot harness the energy output from the founding fathers turning and spinning in their graves.

  12. Indirect Payment on Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Carnegie Mellon wrote that its Software Engineering Institute hadn’t received any direct payment for its Tor research from the FBI or any other government funder.

    Ok. So I guess they received indirect payments for doing this?

  13. misinformation on Animal Rights Group Targets NIH Director's Home (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Gee, I thought that PETA stood for "People Eating Tasty Animals". I guess I was misinformed.

  14. Remember the Alamo. All other history can be revised.

  15. Re:Fact check or PC checking? on Texas Narrowly Rejects Allowing Academics To Fact-Check Public School Textbooks (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    All language implies. There are not absolutes in language.

  16. Chicago involved in racketeering...I am shocked! on Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets · · Score: 1

    Wow. Who would ever expect a city like Chicago to be involved in something that is essentially racketeering?

  17. Thanks! XOXO, Putin on UK's Coal Plants To Be Phased Out Within 10 Years (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Dear Comrades...er...Customers,
    Thanks for ditching your remaining coal plants.
    Now that you threw those pesky Ukrainians under the bus, we can now offer our natural gas without problems. I will love to sell more to you by 2025 and later.
    From Russia, with love.
    Putin
    XOXO

  18. All engineering is iterative on Slashdot Asks: Is Scrum Still Relevant? (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    All engineering is iterative in nature. If Scrum is dead (read as iterative, incremental development), then software engineering is a myth.

  19. Depends on where you live on Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    In the USA in many instances titles like Engineer and Architect are required to be licensed. They can sign-off on certain designs where other "elitist accredited/certified" people cannot legally do so.

  20. Question the source on Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Where did you get these definitions?

  21. Re:Something something question in headline equals on Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    mote point?
    At least a moat point is a place near water.

  22. Absolutely NOT---it's absurd! on Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no concept of professional licensing for programmers, so there is no legal justification for this.
    Also, programming is not an applied science, so there is no philosophical reason for this.

  23. Re:Jesus Christ used a slide rule on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The way Apple supporters carry on, you would think that Jesus used an iPhone.

    Anyhow, you are probably not that old or didn't do much math.

  24. Re:Specialty rules lasted beyond the early 70's on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I just started pilot training. I was given and was instructed how to use an E6B flight calculator. It's pretty nifty.

  25. Slide rules were never like cell phones... on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I never used my slide rules in the fashion of a cell phone. However, my cell phone does have a calculator.
    Also, I never wore mine off of my belt. The good ones were too long and too expensive to dangle and flail about. Most people I knew had a pocket one for convenience and a better, longer one for the real work.