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  1. Re:Shuttleworth is a lunatic. on Canonical Ports Chromium To The Mir Display Server · · Score: 1

    I'm happy with Mint-MATE, thank you very much, and sure as hell doesn't look dated and ugly.

  2. Re:Finances and technologies on Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will · · Score: 1

    What part of "As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post." don't you understand?

  3. Re:Still a ways to go...until we get where? on Sulfur Polymers Could Enable Long-Lasting, High-Capacity Batteries · · Score: 1

    "Only two orders of magnitude"?
    Well, that's the difference between flying and staying on the tarmac.

  4. Stupid question on MtGox Sets Up Call Center For Worried Bitcoiners · · Score: 1

    I don't know much about Bitcoin, and it's probably a stupid question, but where did the BTCs go?
    Isn't it possible to trace it, and prove that you owned them?

  5. sudo aptitude install .... on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    zsh, vim+plugins, ssh, ssh keys, unison, git, rvm for ruby and some gems, guake/yakuake, htop, solarized and all the corresponding config files

  6. Re:Easily available loans on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but the more you explain yourself, the less I understand.

  7. Re:Easily available loans on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    If you ask me, I'll say $12'000. It's a $450'000 purchase, a $230'000 mortgage, I'll pay an average of 3.5% interest per year, I'll have paid it off in 10 years.

    Wait, what?
    230 000*3.5%*10 = 80 500
    $12 000 would be about 0.5% interest per year
    Did I miss something?

  8. Re:The better solution is to buy Nikon on Open Source Brings High-End Canon Camera Dynamic Range Closer To Nikon's · · Score: 4, Informative

    It goes back and forth.
    Canon got a lot of Nikon users when only Canon had full frame cameras.
    Nikon got a lot of Canon users (back?) with D3/D700/D300
    Nikon got some Canon users with the 14-24 f/2.8
    Nikon got some Canon users with the D800
    Nikon got some Canon users with better CLS/TTL flash system
    Canon got many Nikon users for video
    Fuji now gets many Nikon/Canon users with X-trans sensor, good ergonomics and great lenses
    Sony got some Nikon/Canon users with small cameras and big sensors, but lost them again with slow and expensive lenses and lack of support
    Nikon lost customers with sloppy quality control
    Canon lost customers with not so good sensors

  9. Re:Eh? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? · · Score: 1
  10. Peak oil and climate change on Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism? · · Score: 1

    If you really want to talk about how technology is changing the world and how the next 40 years might look like, you'll have to mention peak oil and climate change.
    http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

  11. Re:Still not quite correct. on The Higgs Boson Re-Explained By the Mick Jagger of Physics · · Score: 1

    No field that behaves anything like molasses would be consistent with that principle.

    see ether.

  12. Goto? on Apple Fixes Dangerous SSL Authentication Flaw In iOS · · Score: 2

    1) I haven't seen GOTO statements since my GWBASIC days, and I've surely never seen this many.
    2) I really like one-liners for if statements in Ruby: "do_this if x==1"
    3) Two-liners for C if statements without curly braces feel wrong, are dangerous and hard to read
    4) http://xkcd.com/292/
    5) GOTO 1

  13. Good on Ubuntu 14.04 Brings Back Menus In Application Windows · · Score: 1

    Good!
    Continuing in this direction, Ubuntu 18.04 might be as good as Ubuntu 10.10!

  14. Re:Your masters will learn to tune the system on Math Models Predicted Global Uprisings · · Score: 4, Informative

    it could ???
    "Bread and circuses" is a 2000 years old expression.

  15. Re:compare water usage with "average"? on California Fights Drought With Data and Psychology, Yielding 5% Usage Reduction · · Score: 2

    The only meaningful comparison would be sustainable water usage.
    People may realize one day that it isn't a good idea to build huge cities, swimming pools, golf courses and water shows in the friggin desert.

  16. Better than nothing on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't like the answer, but it could be worse, and it's nice the director answered honestly.

  17. Summary. on Why Improbable Things Really Aren't · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why? Because there are 7 billion people on Earth.

  18. Gödel's incompleteness theorems on Mathematician: Is Our Universe a Simulation? · · Score: 1

    I might be wrong, but it's my interpretation of Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
    If you're in the Matrix, you cannot prove you're in the Matrix, if you're in a big simulation, you cannot prove you're part of the simulation.
    So the definitive answer to this question is : "Maybe".

  19. Re:Thinking laterally on Germany's Renewable Plan Faces Popular Resistance · · Score: 1

    It might have to do with the fact that modern automobile was invented in Stuttgart (south of Germany).

  20. Typisch Deutsch on Germany's Renewable Plan Faces Popular Resistance · · Score: 0

    Typisch Deutsch:
    * We don't want nukes
    * We care about the environment
    * We want big cars
    * We want good air quality
    * We have a lot of coal so why not use it?
    * We want electric cars
    * We don't want wind turbine, radioactive waste or power lines in our backyard
    * We don't want to reduce our energy consumption
    * We understand global warming is a big problem
    * We want to fly to Mallorca twice a year
    * We want cheap gas
    * We want cheap electricity

    I'd say most of the German population would agree with all those statements, without realizing that many of them are in direct contradiction.

  21. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1
  22. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  23. Re:Ads are toxic. on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 1

    Best explanation I've read so far :
    http://theoatmeal.com/pl/worki...

  24. Re:Somehow fitting on Up To a Quarter of California Smog Comes From China · · Score: 2

    +1. Sad truth.
    A lot of people don't understand that the less they give as customers, the less they'll receive as employees.
    It's the same problem at a global level : Germany doesn't understand either that a 2 billion $ train produced in Germany is much cheaper than a 1 billion $ train produced in China.
    Karma and macroeconomics are bitches.

  25. Re:Job limit. on If I Had a Hammer · · Score: 2

    Or maybe we'll go back to farming and repairing.
    Fossil fuels are the ones doing most of the work, and they won't be here forever.