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  1. Re:Science Fiction is the Prediction! on Inside 'Emojigeddon': The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't stand them. They offer very little real world value to anyone other than the slackjawed consumers content to rub on their phones all day.

    s/phones/tablets/ and that's pretty much what Amenemhat said to Khnumhotep in 2650 BC.

  2. Re:Expect drama on Stolen Patreon User Data Dumped On Internet · · Score: 1

    Any context? The way she's grinning suggests that the meaning is a little more nuanced than a 5-second clip can tell us.

  3. Re:Johnny can't get a job on Struggling University of Phoenix Lays Off 900 · · Score: 1

    I hate to spam, but here is something you need to look at if you're looking to get an accredited online degree: www.wgu.edu. Western Governors University is affordable: $3000 per 6 month term, where you can do as many credits as you can. I got my MSc in 18 months, for 9k. Everything was online, except graduation, which was a big party in Utah.

    I knew there was going to be a catch.

  4. Re:BS on the Obama comment on Struggling University of Phoenix Lays Off 900 · · Score: 1

    "Get" is a verb. "Educated" is also verb. Proper simple sentence structure is Subject-Verb-Object [about.com], not Subject-Verb-Verb

    Educated is an adjective you moron. Just like bored, it is formed from the past participle of a verb.

  5. Re:and the beer is really good on How American Students Can Get a University Degree For Free In Germany · · Score: 1

    I love Germany, but I don't know of any German beers that are all that good. They certainly have the reputation but the reality has always been disappointing.

  6. Re:Doing it now... on Is It Worth Learning a Little-Known Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    As other posters pointed out, this is all a mute point anyway.

    That's what they all say.

  7. Syriac not Assyrian on OS X Users: 13 Characters of Assyrian Can Crash Your Chrome Tab · · Score: 4, Informative

    That script is the Syriac script not the Assyrian one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

  8. Re:A decade behind the rest on OpenStreetMap.org Gets Routing · · Score: 1

    It's not about the software (Dykstra's algorithm has been around for a long time), but about the data. What's impressive is that OSM has built a good enough network through community contributions that it can do routing.

    PS Naturally routing isn't as simple as just Dykstra, but it'll still be the basis.

  9. "him and John Stultz continue ..." on Closure On the Linux Lockup Bug · · Score: 2

    "... him and John Stultz continue to back and forth ..."

    What in the world is happening, editors?

  10. Re:islam on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    Lebanon. Jordan. Assad-controlled Syria. The Levant is not the Gulf.

  11. Re:I actually live here on Vast Nazi Facility Uncovered In Austria; Purported A-Bomb Development Site · · Score: 1

    Hey I live here too ... It's a good 10 hour flight and then a 20-minute drive from Linz airport.

  12. Re:Eurasia vs. oceania on New US Airstrikes In Iraq Intended to Protect Important Dam · · Score: 1

    Turkey ....

    ISIS holds dozens of Turkish diplomats, their guards and family members after overrunning their consulate in Mosul. And Turkey (along with Qatar, Saudi, the US, etc) was one of the main backers of rebel groups in Syria.

  13. Edit please on 3 Years In, a "B" For Tim Cook's Performance at Apple · · Score: 0

    Though the lanky 53-year-0ld is reportedly short on small talk, his people skills have earned him a 93 percent approval rating ...

    "Th0u9h the 14nky 53-ye4r-01d is rep0rted1y sh0rt 0n sm411 t41k, his pe0p1e ski11s h4ve e4rned him 4 g3 percent 4ppr0val r4tin9."

    Probably still some room for improvement, but it's a start!

  14. Re:Next wave of phishing? on Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    That kind of phishing already exists, even more sophisticated: a bug that a lot of software contains is not distinguishing between same looking characters in different alphabets. E.g. you can sign up on many forum/bbs platforms as Administrator if your leading A is cyrillic A instead of latin A. Both look the same but have different html entity codes and are different unicode chracatres, which is true for most vowels and many consonants (e.g. cyrillic B and latin B, C and C, E and E...).

    What software (or library) is programmed to recognize that two chars look the same and therefore allows them based on the appearance rather than their encoding?

  15. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    In fact, aren't there Muslims in the Knesset?
    Show me another country in the region that has a single Jew or Christian in office.

    Everyone else got the easy ones, so let me contribute... Turkey has Erol Dora (sorry no English wiki page), a Syriac Orthodox Christian who runs on the Kurdish ticket, so voted in by Muslims. Iraq has at least two Christians and one Yezidi:

    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y...
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y...

  16. Re:Chicago Blackhawks too? on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    In my opinion there is nothing wrong with Chief Wahoo and the name Redskins. So what make you right and me wrong? And that's the problem here. There is no such thing as a wrong opinion. With all the problems we have in this society, it is absurd that THIS is what people are upset about.

    You seem pretty upset.

  17. Re:rape is *the* lowest category of violent crime on UN Report Reveals Odds of Being Murdered Country By Country · · Score: 1

    By the way: case clearance rates for female homicide victims are higher than for male homicide victims.

    You can either listen to the gender issues folks, who make it sound like violence against women is a HUGE CRISIS, or you can read the BJS statistics. Women have been, and continue to be, a protected class in the US.

    Want to bet that the clearance rate for female homicide victims has something to do with the fact that they disproportionally killed by people close to them?

  18. Re:But Terrizm! on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 1

    Except that the person in question was William of Ockham, a place in Surrey, England. Which is spelled 'Ockham' still.

    Except it's Occam's Razor.

  19. Re:100% paper on A Rock Paper Scissors Brainteaser · · Score: 1

    100% paper strategy will win 50% of the time. Of the remaining 50% of games played, (assuming even distribution of the remaining picks) 25% will be losses and 25% will be tied

    No, you are describing another game where the opponent is forced to play rock 50% of the time, paper 25% of the time and scissors 25% of the time.

    This game is different.

    (I'm repeating my self from another post but many people are making the same mistake)

  20. Re:For money, you mean? on A Rock Paper Scissors Brainteaser · · Score: 2

    With no such restriction, random choices on both sides lead to 33% win, 33% draw, 33% loss, right? With the opponent throwing Rock 50% of the time, assuming the other 50% is evenly divided between Paper and Scissors, if I always throw paper I'll win 50% of the time, lose 25% of the time, and draw 25% of the time.

    So depending how the betting works, I'd be pretty willing.

    No, you are describing another game where the opponent is forced to play rock 50% of the time, paper 25% of the time and scissors 25% of the time.

    This game is different.

  21. Re:Okham is very fast racer on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 1

    And the fail is you misspelled "misspelt" attempting to do a spelling correction.

    Seriously? You really didn't know?

  22. Re:But Terrizm! on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 5, Funny

    the only explanation that makes sense to me is okham's racer

    Congratulations you are the first person ever to have misspelt Occam's Razor Okham's racer.

  23. Re:systemd Architecture on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 2

    There's slackbuilds.org for your ports equivalent.

  24. Re:Maylasian military fucked up on US Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost · · Score: 1

    Most of the proposed flight paths that I've seen show the plane travelling over Thailand not Malaysia. We've heard nothing from them at all.

  25. What about operating systems? on The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly · · Score: 1

    ... Microsoft Researcher Danah Boyd put words to a feeling
    "The idea of everybody going to one site is just weird. Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being....

    I wonder if she believes that the same should hold true for operating systems.