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  1. Re:Animal House on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    There is a fundamental problem of catering to the lowest denominator.

    Don't tell Justin Bieber's accountants that!

  2. Re:turn-about isn't just fair-play, it's PROPER pl on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1
    No, you definitely said:

    If you were a little bit professional, you'd be getting paid for your work instead of contributing to some projects with other latent homosexuals who seem obsessed with penises.

    Which implies that homosexuals are unprofessional.

  3. Re:How's he encouraging more women to join the fie on You Don't Need to Start as a Teen to be an Ethical Hacker (Video) · · Score: 1

    How's he encouraging more women to join the field?

    By giving talks about Spanking The Monkey of course, how could that possibly fail?

  4. Still 5 Months Until... on Oldest Dot-com Domain Turning 30 · · Score: 1

    porn.com turns 20.

  5. Re: Shouldn't they be after Google? on Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones · · Score: 1

    I think he was referring to external USB Mass Storage, i.e FAT32 formatted USB drives.

  6. So what exactly ARE these patents? on Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones · · Score: 2

    I keep hearing about Microsoft's Android patents but I still don't know what they are?

  7. Re:I already know I'm old but on Yik Yak Raises Controversy On College Campuses · · Score: 1

    Me neither, the repeated references to yaking had me really confused. Then again maybe I understood the meaning perfectly...

  8. Re:scoring on NBC Thinks Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time" Can Make Boxing Cool · · Score: 1

    Real time scoring that is shown as soon as a point is made would be effective.

    Like they have in Olympic boxing.

  9. Re:Hmmm .... on Physicists Gear Up To Catch a Gravitational Wave · · Score: 1
    In Europe we're starting to move our GW detection into space with a Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (Lisa). To start with:

    ...Pathfinder's job is to prove the metrology.

    To do this, it will try to put two small gold-platinum blocks into a perfect free-fall and then track their relative movement using lasers.

    The intention is to get these blocks following a line that is defined only by gravity. To do that requires that all other forces that might interfere with the demonstration are removed.

    This means, for example, carefully controlling the influence of temperatures and magnetic fields. Even the vacuum state will introduce "noise" into the system if some residual gas molecules are allowed to collide with the blocks.

    The experiment has been designed such that disturbances to the blocks as small as just a few picometres should be noticed. One picometre is a small fraction of the width of a hydrogen atom.

  10. Re:I agree. on Physicists Gear Up To Catch a Gravitational Wave · · Score: 1

    In theory, we can test the idea with a direct experiment, but the cost would be in the multiple billions

    Link this?

  11. Re:Fair and impartial? on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure when facing the death penalty, that life without parole in a federal penitentiary is going to be that much more appealing

    I thought your life expectancy on death row was longer than if you serve life without parole.

  12. Re:One condition should be on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    Here's a question, in 100 years who will be more famous, Obama or Snowden? Will people be thinking "Obama, wasn't he the president during the Snowden leaks?" or will it be "Snowden, wasn't he the guy who leaked that stuff during Obama's presidency?"

  13. Re:Systemd, for or against? on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    You're way off topic there. If you'd said "Snowden should insist that SystemD is made optional in all major Linux distos" you'd have made a +1 Insightful troll.

  14. Re:Missing the problem by a mile on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    Looking at the name extension will tell you what the system will attempt to do with it by default.

    Emphasis mine.

    If Windows does something other than open a file with .jpg file extension in the image viewer it's not the default behaviour?

  15. Re:Missing the problem by a mile on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    And it's also the "Content-type" header in HTTP that determines the how your browser will render the content.

    Wrong, you can create a javascript file with a .php extension (or .jpg extension) and include it with a <script src="foo.php"> tag and the browser will treat it as any other js file regardless of any headers sent by the server.

  16. Re:Good operating systems Dont. on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    This is true for Linux (Mint so I'm assuming Ubuntu, not sure about the rest). If I rename an image from screenshot.png to screenshot.txt it will try to open it in a text editor. As you said though, extensions don't change whether a file is executable.

  17. Re:Buy some suntain lotion on How Do You Handle the Discovery of a Web Site Disclosing Private Data? · · Score: 0

    He's also a massive internet troll and a white supremacist.

  18. Re:I strongly disagree. on Ikea Unveils Furniture That Charges Your Smartphone Wirelessly · · Score: 2

    Who would EVER put an expensive phone flat on a table???

    No, I always balance mine on its edge. That's assuming there aren't any kids running around, otherwise I leave it on the floor. Idiot.

  19. Re:I'm glad Microsoft doesn't want to ... on Microsoft's Goals For Their New Web Rendering Engine · · Score: 1

    Agreed, but did you know that MS give away free VMs* for testing IE?

    I'm not suggesting that running IE in a VM means it's not locked-in but it's pretty handy, even for Windows based web devs I'd imagine.

    * Free as in beer, not free as in liberty, obviously.

  20. Re:New design on 3D Printers Making Inroads In Kitchens · · Score: 1

    For me, regards the preview, quote parent buttons, the text is visible but the button background only appears on hover.

    I can also confirm that the Post and Load All Comments buttons are barely visible.

    Also (I mentioned this below) no left margin inside the white container.

    This is the same on FF36 and Chrome 40 on LinuxMint 17.

  21. Re:New design on 3D Printers Making Inroads In Kitchens · · Score: 1

    I've seen other users complain of that but haven't noticed it myself (FF36 on Mint). The main annoyance for me (although it's certainly better than Beta and with a few tweaks could be great) is the complete lack of left hand margin. I mean I see 15px of grey and then first post has zero margin. I do see a right hand margin and other boxes further up the page (such as the summary) have left margin...

    In fact if the comments section was the same width/margin as the summary above, that would be fine.

  22. Re:Pull the disk on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    Is redeaded like a dead zombie?

  23. Re:Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation? on Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation? · · Score: 1

    I'm far from an expert in theses matters but isn't hardware more likely to be an issue than what version of Android you're on? I mean I don't even run stock Android and I've never come across an app in the Google Play store that wouldn't run on CM.

  24. Would a Lenovo AI be considered Catholic? on Machine Intelligence and Religion · · Score: 1

    If it runs on a Lenovo then it'll definitely be born with original sin.

  25. Re: One thing for sure on Machine Intelligence and Religion · · Score: 2

    Also, if you read the religious books, it's amazing how many visions of god happened at high altitude or after days (months) wandering in the wilderness with no food, when the human brain isn't exactly working at its best and hallucinations are far from uncommon.