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bylarry bagina
11, 2014 @12:43PM
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Attached to: House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary
Back in 2007, the NY Times endorsed Hillary Clinton and John McCain in the primaries. So I'm sure they endorsed McCain for the general election, right?
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bylarry bagina
11, 2014 @12:32PM
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Attached to: House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary
Virginia has an open primary. It wouldn't be the first time crossover voters affected the outcome.
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bylarry bagina
11, 2014 @11:53AM
(#47213635)
Attached to: Interviews: Ask Andrew "bunnie" Huang About Hardware and Hacking
No disrespect intended, but let's say we stop some random people on the street and ask them to name a famous hardware hacker. I bet that question isn't showing up on Family Feud anytime soon!
What can we do to increase the public awareness (and create more hardware hackers)? I was thinking perhaps high schools could have shop classes for nerds -- instead of working on engines, wood working, etc, it would be hardware and software.
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bylarry bagina
11, 2014 @09:09AM
(#47211933)
Attached to: Apple To Be Investigated By the EU Over Tax Affairs
Congress/Parliment/etc write tax laws. If companies (or other people) follow the rules to minimize their tax burden, is that bad? Exemptions and credits exist to encourage that! Don't blame the player, blame the game.
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bylarry bagina
2014 @02:18PM
(#47205487)
Attached to: Comcast Converting 50,000 Houston Home Routers Into Public WiFi Hotspots
my cable modem doesn't do wifi and isn't the cable co's property. Next time don't rent a POS modem from the cable co? The NSA and cable cos would prefer otherwise, of course.
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bylarry bagina
2014 @11:29AM
(#47203829)
Attached to: NSA's Novel Claim: Our Systems Are Too Complex To Obey the Law
Stick to leather -- it doesn't absorb farts. My buddy has a cloth chair that is oversaturated with farts. Aside from the permanent stench -- which would be bad enough -- it releases a gas bomb if you ever sit in it.
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bylarry bagina
2014 @09:33AM
(#47202767)
Attached to: <em>Grand Theft Auto V</em> For Modern Platforms Confirmed
All the ghetto thugs and gang bangers are too busy playing Office Space V, the game where you pretend to be a white collar IT worker cranking out TPS Reports, avoiding Lumberg, and browsing slashdot at work.
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bylarry bagina
5, 2014 @11:15AM
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Attached to: Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport
You know what's better than free wifi at Atlanta's airport? Avoiding Atlanta's airport.
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bylarry bagina
2014 @01:48PM
(#47158369)
Attached to: GnuTLS Flaw Leaves Many Linux Users Open To Attacks
There have been too many problems with existing crypto code so I've developed something better: goatsecret. Instead of relying on math, it relies on a frenchman's gaping asshole. Basically, the software breaks your message/file/whatever into small chunks and superimposes the data in the goatsecret image. Sure, it's not encrypted, but who is going to stare into the void just to get your data? No hacker/cracker/big business/three-letter-agency is that desperate.
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bylarry bagina
2014 @01:19PM
(#47158071)
Attached to: Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift
Are you high? Not even php is retarded enough to do that. It's a compiled language. String interpolation happens at compile time.
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bylarry bagina
2014 @02:56PM
(#47149025)
Attached to: Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite
Cross platform is wearing three condoms and then butt fucking, to abstract away the differences between men and women. It's usually a shitty experience for the user (though some people seem to prefer it).
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bylarry bagina
2014 @12:41PM
(#47130175)
Attached to: Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework
ehh, I tried using perl for a small "modern" (REST) backend, gave up and used ruby/sinatra/mod_passenger because it worked. Perl? Dancer looked nice but there are too many dependencies. CGI is hopelessly obselete (does /. still run on it?). I implemented my own microwebframework on top of CGI (a hundred lines or so to do routing) before I discovered passenger and switched to that.
I'd take perl over node anytime but I'm not impressed by CPAN (it's better than npm, if you want some faint praise) and a lot of the code and culture is stuck in the 80s/90s.
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bylarry bagina
2014 @12:08PM
(#47129861)
Attached to: Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework
Huh? Still no UTF-8 support? Damn. A couple years ago they hired a hotshot perl programmer with 30 years of UTF-8 experience to implement it. Hired him off Dice.com, in fact. Oh, hmmm. Well, ASCII is good enough.
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bylarry bagina
2014 @10:19AM
(#47128983)
Attached to: UPS Denies Helping the NSA 'Interdict' Packages
Heh, reminds me of the Thomas Jefferson quote (paraphrased) "When people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have tyranny."
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bylarry bagina
2014 @08:43AM
(#47128211)
Attached to: UPS Denies Helping the NSA 'Interdict' Packages
Too many secrets.
I watched sneakers a couple days ago (it's on netflix) and nearly shit my pants at the end when Robert Redford reveals the magic decryptor box isn't for spying on the russians, it's "for spying on us". (Of course, they meant the NSA was spying on the FBI/CIA but still... future predicted).
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