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  1. Re:urinating in reservoir on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They only emptied it a week early, they didn't really empty the reservoir just because of that. It is a place with lots of water, and water was still removed from the river at the normal rate.

    I know it sounds like a good story if you phrase it just right, but it isn't actually true.

    Another factor is that if you change your operations of the reservoir in response to the vandalism, it encourages a full legal response. A municipal site manager would know that, for sure.

  2. OTOH, the places with the most pollution have the least fish.

    I personally am not squeamish about fish. I've eaten fish eggs, and I knew what they were when I ate them!

    Competing with fish fucking: dinosaur pee!

  3. Re:Those kind of article stick into our head forev on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "ignoramus"

  4. Re:Are our lawyers really this clueless? on The US Department Of Defense Announces An Open Source Code Repository (defense.gov) · · Score: 1

    You might still be, the original said that it would be updated after receiving public feedback. By now they've received that feedback.

  5. Re:Two personality types of long-term success CEOs on A New Video Shows Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Arguing With a Driver Over Fares (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    For a lot of us that are natural assholes, it isn't a matter that you might "decide" to be aggressive for some purpose, but rather just that it is a casual situation away from work and it is just a personal luxury to argue with some moron. Obviously the moron is consenting to argue, so what is the problem? For me that is what it comes down to. If I feel like somebody is being an asshole, I assume that means I have permission to be one too.

    If they were only pretending they wanted an argument, just to make a video, hopefully they'll spell my name right.

    The only reason he cares is because they're getting reading to push out new policies that are bad for drivers. The only reason this is a story is because he was arguing with a driver for his company, not because he was arguing with some cab driver in general. If the same video was made but he was in a yellow cab arguing with that driver, nobody would even complain. Actually, they would say the driver was the asshole.

  6. Re:Are our lawyers really this clueless? on The US Department Of Defense Announces An Open Source Code Repository (defense.gov) · · Score: 1

    Try thinking, "Willis." There is no mystery in it. If you didn't understand it, don't press reply, just re-read it and try harder.

  7. Yep. I was only in SF for 6 months and it was obvious right away: Californians place social value on spending, not saving. If they buy something on sale and want to brag about the price, they tell you the list price not what they really paid. And if you tell them how to save money, they'll give you a silly patronizing look before they recover and ask what blog you read it on.

    And I'm only from one state away!

  8. Milk for example is cheaper in SF than in most of the country, and that is even if you're buying locally produced. Food is mostly normal prices. Restaurants prices are comparable to other cities. Electricity and water are normally priced. Gas is normally priced. Things like clothes, or anything from a department store would be exactly the normal price.

    The things that are more expensive: rent, parking, bars, certain types of live events, museums, gift shops and other tourist things, etc. If you visit and everything you do is tourist-y, that has nothing to do with the City.

    Public transit is cheap.

    As long as you only wave your hands and presume that some sort of unknown general class of items is more expensive, then you'll never even know if you're right.

  9. You might want to double-check your etymology there. It is the same as above, don't spend time correcting me when you didn't know and didn't even look it up. Word uses you recently discovered might not be new, after all.

  10. Re:Buggy Whips on Americans Have Fewer TVs On Average Than They Did In 2009 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have any buggy whips, but I was No TV Guy(TM) for over a decade. These days it is obvious to have a TV, because they all have inputs that match on of the outputs on a computer!

    They make a useful media screen, and there is even a TV tuner if I need broadcast emergency information! Of course, in an actual emergency the info feed will be looped on weather band radio, so it is minimally useful, but still.

  11. Fatkins died already, of course he's not hearing any complaints.

  12. Halibut is popular and expensive because of the texture, mostly.

  13. Re:"...diets heavily based on venison and fish..." on First Signs of Obesity In Some Arctic Groups Have Been Linked To Instant Noodles (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Killed by cheap ramen, I'm not surprised.

    I'm not ready to blame the grain, it might all be the cook's fault here.

  14. Re:Are our lawyers really this clueless? on The US Department Of Defense Announces An Open Source Code Repository (defense.gov) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. If you understood that it is open source, then you'd understand that the contract doesn't do any "copyright-type things."

  15. Re:Why is my car any different than my phone? on Questioning The Privacy Policies Of Data-Collecting Cars (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Most cars that age are new enough to have a mostly modern system that is fuel injected and everything is computer controlled, and so you can usually buy a brand new aftermarket engine.

    I drive a 2000 model year, and it would cost about $5000 for a new engine and transmission, and about $2500 for installation. Installation is about the same for both as for just one, because you have to take them both out and put them back anyways. Now, it is true that $7500 is more than the "value" of the car, but it is also true that if I bought a new economy car for $7500, it would not be nearly as nice. So it would be money well spent.

    That's my plan. You only have to replace the actual control computers, you don't have to buy any of the extra Brandy-Brand(TM) nonsense.

  16. Re:Living Illegally beneath you on Scraping By On Six Figures? Tech Workers Feel Poor in Silicon Valley's Wealth Bubble (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That is what is under Twin Peaks. The main access portal is in Glen Canyon Park, near the BART station.

    The bartenders are under Strawberry Hill. To find the door, try leaving a $20 tip on one of the pagoda tables.

    More difficult to find is the Janitors Guild under The Presidio. But apparently there is a competing Housekeeper Society under the south end of Russian Hill.

  17. Re:So how do others manage to stay? on Scraping By On Six Figures? Tech Workers Feel Poor in Silicon Valley's Wealth Bubble (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The serious answer is that they take the BART in from East Bay.

    All these discussions have a subtext of only being willing to live in high class or trendy neighborhoods.

    Blue collar workers who want to live in SF have to have good roommates, and some luck. Otherwise they can live fairly close in Oakland with roommates. Or way out east by themselves.

    One limiting factor for the rich is that they demand secure private parking. So they wouldn't even apply at the places that the workers rent, where there is no parking, and the residents all use public transit.

  18. Well, $3000 * 12 = $36,000 so it doesn't really hurt that bad on 6 figures after all. That's why they live their; they're not actually complaining about it being too expensive for their pay, they're just bragging about how much money they make.

  19. Re:"In the wild" - slight exaggeration on Apache Subversion Fails SHA-1 Collision Test, Exploit Moves Into The Wild (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    None of that has meaning or value.

    This doesn't crash anything, and a test case meant to do some shit that it doesn't do well doesn't cause a problem other than for that test case. There is no bad thing happening in your story, just somebody has some shitty code.

    Then you wave your hands and say, "he inadvertently broke the entire repository."

    There is no worry that repositories would, or even might, or even could, because irreparable. That's just making shit up wildly. The speculation in the stories were going into a much more detailed scenario that does involve a malicious actor. Misunderstanding the danger doesn't cause it to change.

  20. Right, dictionaries should only be listing known published uses of words, not mere utterances. Those might have some place in the phrontistery, but the dictionary is not that place.

  21. I'm one of those annoying people who considers English to be English, not one of those people who cries that it won't gift changes to mollify personal hangups.

  22. No, whining and saying something insulting isn't the same as reading a book, moron.

  23. Re:newsflash on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    My advice is to check in a dictionary before you try to correct somebody. Or else just read a fucking book now and then, asshole.

  24. Re:Are our lawyers really this clueless? on The US Department Of Defense Announces An Open Source Code Repository (defense.gov) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't claim to be a license.

    It says, if you're in a country where copyright doesn't apply then there is a contract enforcing the same conditions as the license would. And if you're in a country where copyright does apply, then it applies as a copyright license.

    In the US it is public domain but there is a contract attached to the original source. So if you actually downloaded it from them, the contract probably applies. If "open source" brings it to you by some other means, then probably it does not.

    The details of the license will just be a normal open source license, so it won't actually matter at all.

  25. Re:2FA on Ask Slashdot: How Are You Responding To Cloudbleed? (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it was actually "almost all," so they could still use slashdot without any contradiction. Also, it was "almost all major sites." Slashdot isn't as relevant as it used to be.