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  1. Re:Can you get Gnome to replace X? on Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only · · Score: 2

    You are doing it wrong.
    1. If you are an adminstrator of any worth you can do it without X via command line.
    2. Almost all enterprise Applications that are fairly new are Web Based
    3. There are other just as affordable or more affordable remote access "thin client" solutions available.

    X11 is an aged and out of date protocol. It had its use, today it is a dinosaur. Just because you work on badly managed enterprise or aged model, it doesn't mean everyone else does.

    1) No real Scotsman
    2) Just rewrite all your existing enterprise software to be web based!
    3) Money is never the issue in enterprise

  2. Re:Apple Stores on Apple Causes Religious Reaction In Brains of Fans · · Score: 1

    And yet there are those who have seen proof of God. You might not have, but many people would attest that they have. In fact, many more people would attest that they have seen proof of God than those who could attest to have proof of the current state of atomic physics, thermodynamics, or cosmology. You and I learned from the books written by people who did the studies and found the "proof" of the theories, turning them into laws. But it was not you who did those studies: it's the same leap of faith.

  3. Re:This is actually part of a bigger problem on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 1

    There's an economic professor who wrote some books, name I forget as I type (please reply if you know?), his last was about the idea that peasants would live behind a kings walls in exchange for protection against marauders. The price was taxes and serfdom.

    Welcome to the age of digital serfdom?

    Actually, put that way, a walled garden doesn't sound so bad.

  4. I can not read the comments! on Hack Targets NASA's Earth Observation System · · Score: 1

    I see that there are 30 comments on this article, but I cannot see them! Pressing "Get More Comments" does nothing, and neither does the javascript slider! Slashpot, fix your website! It's been broken for a few months, since the last update!

    Kubuntu 11.04, Firefox 4

  5. Re:Even after reading TFA on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    They are one and the same! The US Dollar has been a fiat currency since the early 1970's.

  6. Re:Even after reading TFA on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    Gold and diamonds have intrinsic usage in industry. Gold is used for electrical contacts where failure means loss of life (airbag crash sensors, for instance). Diamonds are used for cutting.

  7. Re:Even after reading TFA on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    Just like any currency, it's worth whatever people are willing to trade it for.

    That's not any currency, that's a fiat currency. But bitcoins, being "mined" are apparently not supposed to be a fiat currency. Think of gold or diamonds being used for trade as opposed to dollars or euros. The gold and the diamond have intrinsic worth in industry and jewelry.

  8. Re:... is for porn on Syrians Using Donkeys Instead of DSL After Gov't Shuts Down Internet · · Score: 1

    Poor animals? They are getting the type of attention /.ers only dream of.

  9. Re:I have only one question on Syrians Using Donkeys Instead of DSL After Gov't Shuts Down Internet · · Score: 1

    "Double standards" doesn't even begin to describe the hypocrisy. We do live in a hugely fucked up world.

    What double standard? Libya has oil, Syria and N.Korea do not.

  10. Re:crop circles on Search For Alien Life On 86 Planets Begins · · Score: 1

    And the aliens happened to start in a handful of Western countries and then spread their message around the globe?

    Do you really think that when crop circles were an unknown phenomenon and one would appear in Elbonia someone would rush to report that all over Europe? Only when the phenomenon was recognized did reports of the occurrences spread outside of the third world.

    I'm not actually suggesting that crop circles are an extraterrestrial phenomenon. I am simple stating that just because you don't hear about something doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.

  11. Re:is anybody out there? on The Rise of Filter Bubbles · · Score: 1

    Just nod if you can hear me.

  12. Re:Last, but not least... don't believe TFA on The Rules of Thumb For Tech Purchasing · · Score: 1

    I'm already paying over $8 a gallon. Google does the conversion very slickly, might I add:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=7.50%20(israeli%20shekel%2Fliter)%20in%20(usd%2Fgallon)

  13. Re:Nicely done! on Telehack Re-Creates the Internet of 25 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Very cool, thanks!

  14. Re:Nicely done! on Telehack Re-Creates the Internet of 25 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Very nice reproduction, it's scary that I could actually get around on it. I just had to see if I could still write an old-fashioned BASIC program. Worked like a charm.

    I was recently looking for a basic interpreter for Linux, they are not as easy to find as I had hoped. I found basic256 but that is more similar to VB than BASIC. Happily, this reproduction run BASIC very similar to what I had on the old Commodore.

  15. Re:Hahaha have some crow on Comcast Helps Fix Pirate Bay Connection Problems · · Score: 1

    Nice. What was the contents of the $tpb variable at the beginning of the script? That first line implies there was already something there.

  16. Re:Hahaha have some crow on Comcast Helps Fix Pirate Bay Connection Problems · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, according to Serious Tubes Network (the ISP in question), Comcast did _not_ help them:
    http://serioustubes.org/

    Important news:

    Comcast did not help us fix The Pirate Bay. The problem was GBLX using reverse path filtering. We shut down one of our transits because it was flapping. The result was that all outgoing traffic to GBLX got filtered even though the packets took the same path as before. The Pirate Bay is using different paths for incoming and outgoing traffic to avoid beeing traced. We don’t even know where their servers are. We resolved the issue by activating our other transit again.

  17. Re:Apple? on Google Launching Music Service Without Labels · · Score: 2

    We're sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States.

    Looks like I'll have to continue relying on The Pirate Bay for my music.

    Actually, I'm kidding. Everything on my computer is legal, from the OS (Kubuntu) to every last file. Abstinence has been working fine for me.

  18. Re:I'm tired of Matt Welsh on NASA Gravity Probe Confirms Two Einstein Predictions · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please, can somebody restore the fortune database? Thanks.
    Uh, and First Post.

    Restore it? It works fine for me, here:

    Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?

    In fact, I've been seeing that for a few days!

    Protip: Say that quote while walking the halls. You will immediately know who your fellow /.ers are by the snickers. If your boss laughs, then you're in trouble.

  19. Re:Why is this notable? on Former Senator Wants to Mine The Moon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Chinese are exactly the reason that senator Schmitt wants to mine the moon. Remember last year when NASA bombed the moon? There were no Chinamen there yet, so the bomb was a waste. But mining the moon, those mines will sit and wait for the Chinese to come and step on them.

    This is the US we're talking about. Their only foreign policy is infantry, bomb, mine.... infantry, bomb, mine...

  20. Re:Am I the only one... on Cracker-Size Satellites To Launch With Endeavour · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are the only one.

  21. Re:FIFO Queue on Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home? · · Score: 1

    Nice, thanks! I often hear about zsh and it's wonderful features. I don't use it, though, as I'm always SSHing into different (other people's) machines and need to be proficient in bash. But your find method works great. Thanks!

  22. Re:FIFO Queue on Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home? · · Score: 1

    Nice! However, for those of us who do need to search in /home/user, is there any way to prevent it from searching hidden files and directories? I tried piping it through a reverse grep:
    $ find -mtime 7 | grep -v -G "^./."

    But it fails and exits if it encounters any permissions errors:
    $ find -mtime 7 | grep -v -G "^./."
    find: `./.config/menus/applications-merged': Permission denied

    At that point, it stops searching and I cannot find anything.

  23. Re:So much for a fair trial. on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    174 comments and nobody's mentioned this, but what happened to the presumption of innocence?

    I mean, a guy arrested at the scene of a mass shooting, covered in blood and holding an assault rifle, screaming about how the aliens in his head told him to murder all of mankind... still gets a trial. Timothy McVeigh (the second biggest terrorist to attack US soil) got a trial. People who systematically abduct and rape hundreds of little girls and hide their bodies in barrels get a trial.

    If absolutely nothing else, now we'll never truly know if he really did it. Who the power behind him was. Who was sponsoring him, who was protecting him (aside from the obvious: Pakistan), who were his allies. Think of all he could know.

    Action movies lie to you. Dead guys give zero intel and create martyrs. Killing him was, by a huge long away, out and out the worst way to handle it. Bring him in alive. See what he knows. Then put him in prison for the rest of his days.

    This was a poor choice.

    Osama was a symbol, nothing more. Don't forget that questioning him will show that he is not responsible for many of the things that are traditionally blamed on him. What good would that do?

  24. Re:Please: NO POLITICAL POSTURING. on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    Bin Laden isn't an enemy of civilization itself, he is an enemy of multicellular life forms. In his thinking is the downfall of us all, of every phylum, every order, and every species.

  25. Re:Awesome on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    I wish I could have shot Bush myself for all the wasted hours I've spent in TSA lines because of his antics.

    FTFY. Osama had nothing to do with it other than laughing.