Comment It's a step up from Diseased Newt, I guess. (Score 1) 264
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Comment According to the Hitchhiker's Guide (Score 1) 421
We'd become xenophobic omnicidal recluses and have to be locked away in a time lock...
Comment rhymed with their screen name or headline message (Score 1) 286
wait what? Is that a thing people do?
Comment "Dark Web" (Score 1) 69
Which is it, Deep Web or Darknet?
Excellent reporting there.
Comment Meh. (Score 1) 551
While his original idea has some sound points, the ideological militancy with which he pursues it does more harm to free software than good at this point. BSD-style licenses are not the enemy of free software.
Shunning BSD goes far beyond attacking non-free software; it's shunning free software proponents who don't shun non-free software. What's next, refusing to work with developers who also contribute to BSD projects? Refusing to work with developers who don't refuse to work with those developers? Take that far enough and you're basically on your own.
Comment "not going away anytime soon" (Score 4, Insightful) 36
That's pretty optimistic for a centralized site that seems to do exactly what the Pirate Bay got shut down for...
Comment Re:Lost socks (Score 1) 212
... I have so many coathangers. I don't remember buying most of them.
Mind blown.
Comment Preservation of proximity (Score 1) 212
The experiment seems to be based on the assumption that a particle leaving and returning our universe would be likely to enter closely to where it left - is this an inevitable part of brane theory, or could the particle come out somewhere else entirely?
Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister 328
eldavojohn writes A turnover in the Greek government resulted from recent snap elections placing SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) in power — just shy of an outright majority by two seats. Atheist, and youngest Prime Minister in Greek history since 1865, Alexis Tsipras has been appointed the new prime minister and begun taking immediate drastic steps against the recent austerity laws put in place by prior administrations. One such step has been to appoint Valve's economist Yanis Varoufakis to position of Finance Minister of Greece. For the past three years Varoufakis has been working at Steam to analyze and improve the Steam Market but now has the opportunity to improve one of the most troubled economies in the world.
Comment Re:Fake Hungarian Passport (Score 1) 182
"I will not buy this passport. It is fake."
Comment Well... could have gone much worse (Score 1) 182
At least the bot didn't pay a hitman to have random people killed.
Comment What they left out (Score 4, Insightful) 200
NASA didn't decide to build that; a Republican senator from Mississippi forced through the budget amendment even though it was pointless. Apparently stimulating the economy down there with some completely useless waste of resources is more important than actual space research.
Blaming NASA for it is just adding insult to injury - what an asshole reporter.
Comment CAPTCHAs (Score 1) 134
Instead of fancy breathalizer equipment, making people read a bunch of letters and numbers is probably enough.
Comment Life-size (Score 1) 171
That's supposed to mean the size of his body, or the size of his ego?
Comment Re:obviously they should track the sun (Score 2) 327
All you need is a small black hole to bend the light towards you...
