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Comment Completely unnecessary clickbait FUD (Score 1) 157

How about "Tesla leaves nothing to chance with Model X Seat Recall". Seriously, you'd think this post was written by an auto industry insider with all of the negative spin and shade being thrown at Tesla. Recalls happen all the time. This is no different. They're putting safety first.

Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 3, Interesting) 126

Perl 6, what's that? Seriously though, it's nice to see p5 undergoing productive changes as the grand wait for Perl 6 wears on and as it becomes more clear that the Perl 6 we're getting might not be the one we wanted. Having said that, I find it annoying that the focus on backwards compatibility hamstrings new features to the degree that everything is marked as unstable or experimental and we're left just writing the same damn old perl 5 we've been writing for years. We keep dancing around the issue, but what's really needed is a breaking fork of p5 to revamp the code base and remove a lot of the cruft and make a language that can be parsed by more than just the perl interpreter. Better packaging would be nice too. I'd love to see Perl offer proper bundled binaries a la Go.

Comment Re:No (Score 0) 671

Agreed. There is no substitute for good network security. If your business doesn't have behavior and signature-based network security and an isolated-host wireless network with strong encryption and authentication, you are doing something wrong. Furthermore, if your VPN gateway is open to the world and the password is shared, ANY employee can log in using ANY machine they so choose. If this person is still able to get into your secured network despite reformatting the laptop, what does it matter which OS is on it? That said, it sounds like the real issue here is that you're going to be pushing your boundaries from day 1. You might want to cool it, put the POS company laptop into a box, and just use your own personal machine.

Comment Eh... (Score 0) 94

It's cute, but not terribly impressive. There's only rudimentary scrolling of a map that is entirely hard-coded, no movement other than the blocks representing the world and the player itself (which is locked to a specific column that can only decrease). It might be a bit more of a technological achievement if the music was coming from the same board, but it's a totally separate, single purpose board.

Comment Re:Hello from Meatspace! (Score 2, Insightful) 352

This is going to be meta as fuck -- but the only preconcieved notions I brought to that post were; that the gist of his complaint(and thus post) applies to just about everything(which a later reply addressed) both on this site and within western cultur, that Iraq is a contentious topic(confirmed by some of the replies), that bringing up your own US military service invariably will send any conversation down certain lines(also confirmed by the replies - thank you for your service, what were you expecting, yada yada), and that as a poster with an ID that low, he knew all of these things and thus knew what he was doing. And of course what is implied by the fact that both darfur, and Rwanda 2, child of rwanda, aka the congo were brought into it as well.

It was utterly irrelevant to the article(or rather only as relevant to this topic as to any other topic), only sort of relevant to the person he was replying to, and not productive except to create a derail, which it did. That's a troll -- oh, and the purpose of a troll is to generate conversation, not necessarily in a bad way. I know that definition has gone out of vogue, but sorry it's the one drilled into my brain.

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