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  1. Game changer on New Solar Cells Can Convert CO2 Into Hydrocarbon Fuel (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 0

    We are such in a deep shit, that for a such technology to become a game changer, you must not patent it to be used in such a tremendous scale like Salk did to provide a vaccine that help eradicate the polio virus...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Otherwise, it will be business as usual....

  2. Re: How about we hackers? on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 1

    > L. Poettering, on the other hand, seems to relish in breaking things

    http://xkcd.com/1172/

  3. OMG on Breaking Bad's Scientific Consultant On Making Meth and More · · Score: 1

    Look at the picture! She took something, too!!!! ;)

  4. Start a new DE on Lumina: PC-BSD's Own Desktop Environment · · Score: 0

    I also want to start a new Desktop Environnement.
    My goal will be to make it heavyweight, unstable, slow-running, and compliant with nothing!
    The goal of all good Desktop Environnement!

    Who want to help me?

    Jokes apart. They all promise that and time passing they all end far away of....

  5. Re:Graphic design geniuses too on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 0

    Footer : "This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags"

  6. For WINDOWS users! on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Another reply to be sure that no WINDOWS user missed it!!!!

    The first thing that a windows user should install to gain a LOT of time installing and updating software:
    http://chocolatey.org/
    http://chocolatey.org/
    http://chocolatey.org/
    http://chocolatey.org/
    http://chocolatey.org/
    http://chocolatey.org/

    And the list of all the available software
    http://chocolatey.org/packages

    After, you could install your other software using chocolatey ;) (even using a bat script!)

  7. Re:Random Windows and Programming tools on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    First and mandatory, install chocolatey http://chocolatey.org/ to easily and quickly install most of these software :

    Notepad++
    GitExtensions (better than Tortoise Git) or sourcetree
    P4merge (one of the best merge software)
    ConsoleZ (a descent console for windows)
    sumatrapdf (quickest pdf reader)
    clover (tabs in file manager)
    speedcrunch (a good calc)
    greenshot (screenshots)
    paint.net
    foobar2000
    vlc
    windirstat
    7zip
    Sysinternals
    Firefox ...

    And do a bat file to install automatically all that with chocolatey!!!!!

  8. The easy division is a little advantage when you have to learn hard silly numbers like how many yards in a mile? And I don't ask you to calculate surfaces and volumes based on lengths :( When I see the mess it is... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...

  9. Re:Celsius on How Russia Transformed a Subtropical Beach Resort To Host the Winter Olympics · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, it's time to give up! http://imgur.com/3ZidINK and to use the metric system also : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

  10. Re:It still doesn't get the job done on LibreOffice 4.2 Busts Out GPU Mantle Support and Corporate IT Integration · · Score: 1

    > It took a moment to familiarize myself with their implementation
    hhhuuummmmmm... it seems to be a standard regex though... https://help.libreoffice.org/C...

  11. Kinect on Apple Officializes Purchase of Motion-Sensor Firm PrimeSense · · Score: 1

    This is the company that have developed the Kinect for Microsoft. What do you think is the future of the Kinect? Is it in the Microsoft's hands, now?

  12. Re:The efficiency of capitalism on How To Lose $172,222 a Second For 45 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Bullshit! Your economic growth is only linked to the quantity of energy introduced in your economy (Ask a good physician!). Economists and politics did a good job at hiding that to cheat other people. If they don't understand that, they are bad economists/politics!!!

  13. Re:Huh? on Linux 3.12 Merge Window Closes With Release of Linux 3.12-rc1 · · Score: 2

    dentry is for "directory entry". To do really simple, it's a little struct that describe a file : his name and a pointer toward an i-node containing the datas of the file

  14. Re:Yeah, if DirectX 9 had been around and not evol on Direct3D 9 Comes To Linux, Implemented Over Mesa/Gallium3D · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are only taking information that goes the cynical sens you want to give to your comment. Perhaps you should take the date of february 2007. The date of the release of the Direct3D 10 sdk. And then, taking into account some transition months to use this sdk, you see that games using this version is *only* 6 years old (And I'm pretty sure that games using this version was out 1 or 2 years after!). So, for those that are not fanatics and don't absolutely need the LAST games, that should be a first good step!

  15. Re:is this some kind of joke on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps you could launch IE 6 to refresh your memory. I think you begin to think about IE6 with nostalgia...

  16. Re:GIT sucks on windows on Subversion 1.8 Released But Will You Still Use Git? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, you could even use GitExtensions ( http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/ ) which I find is a better GUI on Windows...

  17. Re:Simple explanation on Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate · · Score: 2

    One of the big problem of these false numbers given by the manufacturers for fuel consumption is that these numbers are directly linked to CO2 emissions. And lots of governments give ecological aids when a car emit few CO2. So, with low (false) numbers manufacturers obtain ecological aids for expensive cars that emit in fact a lot of CO2! A these aids are paid with everybody taxes. So the poor pays taxes for rich people buying big polluting cars where aids should encourage to buy smaller ecological cars!

  18. Re:Toto...?! on Egypt Cuts the Net, Net Fights Back · · Score: 2

    Yeah! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAte_%C3%A0_Toto Because toto in french is a small boys not very intelligent so there is nothing (or 0 ) in his head. That's why 0+0= 0 = "tête à toto" = "head of toto"

  19. Re:What's the Catch? on Egypt Cuts the Net, Net Fights Back · · Score: 1

    Yep. Exactly. To add an information it's the oldest ISP still in activity (but not as big as commercial ISP and not the same infrastructure but perhaps with more moral values)

  20. Re:Toto...?! on Egypt Cuts the Net, Net Fights Back · · Score: 1

    In fact, in france, "toto" means some differents things... - We have "toto" jokes which is quite similar to your Little Johnny jokes http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blague_de_Toto .It's very common jokes we all tell when we're young, very simple, naives,... - in computer science, we use "toto" to name all the things "useless" where a name is required (variables in hello word programs, debug display, sometimes --secured :) -- login and password,...)

  21. Re:Ditto in Chicago, But Less French on French Use Space Tech To Find Parking Spots · · Score: 1

    Saying that last sentence makes you so outrageously American :)

  22. Re:Sites sometimes limit passwords on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    oups! Sorry!! Know the reference but not used to jokes in english :(

  23. Re:Sites sometimes limit passwords on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    strange way of thinking! lack of empathy... Because it is enough for you, it's enough for everyone!?! If I tried it, that's beacause I wanted.

  24. Re:Sites sometimes limit passwords on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    yep! Gmail for exemple. You can't use the character http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign that we have in azerty keyboard :( And I just saw that slashdot can't even display it (at least in the preview). you don't have it in qwerty keyboards?

  25. Trick on W3C Says IE9 Is Currently the Most HTML5 Compatible Browser · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised nobody notify that Microsoft have submitted some times ago a lot of their test used to develop IE9. So all these tests are passed by IE9 and sometimes not the other browsers. That's why IE9 passed so much tests... But I think that globally (for all the HTML5 requirements), IE9 is still behind...