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Re:Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock and Ourselves on Sunday September 20, 2015 @03:10AM (#10246809)
Dunno about others, but I think an alarm clock the shape of a scale model time bomb is kind of cool (even more so if it looked like something right out of a video game). I don't see it as particularly dangerous -- it's more on the same level as painting Nerf guns green and black to make them look more realistic.
Re:This Is What Common Core Looks Like on Monday October 06, 2014 @10:20PM (#8419415)
I wouldn't fault Common Core. I'd fault the textbook. That little page on counting-up subtraction didn't make sense to me either, so I went to Wikipedia, read this shorter snippet[1], and understood it immediately. That textbook's just crappy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtraction#Counting_up

Re:Violent computer games blunt teenagers emotions on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @06:43AM (#7777512)
What a misleading title. It should really be "Violent computer games blunt teenagers' response to violent computer games."
Re:Finch – local port forwarding on Sunday May 18, 2014 @11:58PM (#7765633)
Basically one of either outcomes happen: 1. Maintainers of both projects fight it out and one project gets renamed. Users are happy. Packagers are happy.

2. Maintainers of both projects fight it out and neither compromise. Users of both projects (intersection of the sets, rather than union) are pissed. Packagers are even more pissed, and put in an annoying and difficult situation, and forced to come out with weird hacky solutions to appease users. (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614907)

To any of you who read this and find yourself naming a project in the future, do your users some justice and at least do some cursory Googling before settling on a name. And please don't pick annoying-to-Google names like + or * or - or _ or some other one- or two-character name.

Re:Web server in one line of bash on Friday August 16, 2013 @12:33AM (#6222183)
$ busybox httpd

Works even in an initramfs, and in some embedded systems. Serves up the current directory, and you can even have CGI scripts in cgi-bin.