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  1. Re:It's all Gnome's fault on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    poorly written stuff like PulseAudio

    Fun fact : PulseAudio was written by Poettering.

  2. Re:I assumed this was already a default on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just use nohup [wikipedia.org], because that's exactly what it's designed for./blockquote
    And that's exactly what systemd is breaking.

  3. ROT13 on WWII Code-Breaker Dies At Age 95 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    EVC

  4. You're totally right he didn't call anyone a moron on this issue, *yet*.

  5. WTF on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, "screen" has always been a good way to ensure that processes don't get killed randomly by disconnections, logout or X crashes.
    Then comes systemd and kills all your processes at logout, even when launched with screen.
    Finally, then comes Poettering, explaining you that you're a moron if you expect to keep those processes running.
    Seriously, the systemd devs make it really hard no to hate them.

  6. Re:The Jurassic period. O2 in atmosphere was 130% on Mars Is Coming Out Of An Ice Age (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    No mod point left. So :
    thank you for your posts, +5 Informative.

  7. Re:Roughly 25%-35% of warming due to solar changes on Mars Is Coming Out Of An Ice Age (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  8. No mention of Google in the title. That's weird.

  9. Re:Open source unix virus on Pastejacking Attack Appends Malicious Terminal Commands To Your Clipboard (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favorite is still writing

    echo "sleep 1" >> ~/.profile

    inside the .profile of my colleagues when they leave their terminal open.
    A few weeks after, I complain that my Windows desktop seems to be always booting slower and slower, but that hopefully, it's never been a problem with Linux.

  10. So it's "X trillion", where X could be anything between 2 and 999, and trillion could be 10**12 or 10**18. :)

  11. Re:Is this really healthy? on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My personal favorite :
    http://trendmodels.es/fine-bau...

  12. Re:How nice of Facebook to take time out of... on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If your marriage can be ruined by Facebook, it probably could be ruined by many other unrelated things.

  13. Re:Ruby Community / Rails is hardly "a mess" on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    Ruby and javascript are both crap, because they are barely strongly typed

    Don't put them in the same bin. Both are dynamically typed, but Ruby is strongly typed and JS is weakly typed.
    JS:

    a="10"
    -> "10"
    a-1
    -> 9
    a+1
    -> "101"

    Ruby:

    a="10"
    ->"10"
    a+1
    ->TypeError: no implicit conversion of Fixnum into String

  14. Re:Ruby Community / Rails is hardly "a mess" on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 2

    You need to close things with an 'end'.

    You don't need to.

    10.times{
        puts "HELLO"
    }
    10.times do
        puts "HELLO"
    end

    Both have correct Ruby syntax.

  15. Re:Getting confused on Node.js Now Runs COBOL and FORTRAN (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Both seem to have been written : COBOL on Javascript last summer (see title), Javascript on COBOL recently (that's the piece of news, so it's not mentioned in the title).

  16. Re:Track it here on ISS Completes 100,000th Orbit of Earth (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    It's probably the most beginner-friendly telescope there is.
    They're cheap, they're super-easy to aim (like a cannon, basically), you don't have to align it to the North Star, you don't have to lock/unlock screws while moving.
    The mirror is big enough to see all the planets, double-stars and some galaxies/clusters/nebulaes, even in light-polluted areas. I could look at Jupiter/Moon/Saturn/ISS every night and not get tired of it. It's a wonderful experience to see the great red storm or Io's shadow on Jupiter. It's nowhere near as detailed as on NASA pictures, but it's very enjoyable to see it directly.
    My daughter enjoys it too, and can track the moon by her own (she's 5).
    I was a complete beginner a year ago, and learned a lot just using this telescope outside, and looking at Stellarium every now and then. I still have much to learn.
    http://www.skyandtelescope.com... is a great todo-list.
    What's funny is that for this price, you cannot get any decent optical tube or any decent tripod. With a dobsonian, you get both, and they're more than good enough for many astronomical needs.

  17. For the first time what? on Firefox Tops Microsoft Browser Market Share For First Time (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't something missing? For the first time ever? For the first time since ....?
    http://www.w3schools.com/brows...
    Firefox used to beat IE in 2009 for example.

  18. Re:Do not trust Sourceforge on SourceForge Tightens Security With Malware Scans (fossforce.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, Azureus was great but Vuze is a piece of malware shit.
    It might not even be related to Sourceforge.

  19. Re:Track it here on ISS Completes 100,000th Orbit of Earth (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    If you like seeing this bright spot flying through the sky, you'll love seeing the whole actual ISS structure (basically like this : H) through a telescope.
    I wasn't sure it would be possible, but I tried it with my small dobsonian, and saw it for a few seconds. Tracking is a bit of a PITA, so it helps a lot to have someone else roughly track it via the finder scope, while you adjust focus and keep the ISS exactly in the middle of the eyepiece.
    It's a wonderful experience, even for non-geeks. My family and neighbourhood kids enjoyed it a lot.

    Sorry for the slashvertisement, but this telescope is affordable, very good, and very suitable for ISS tracking :
    http://www.telescope.com/Teles...
    Some friends with bigger telescopes and equatorial go-to mount bought it just to be able to see the ISS.

  20. Re: iTunes Deletes Unverified Music. on Apple Says It Doesn't Know Why iTunes Users Are Losing Their Music Files (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine wiped a part of my music collection 10 years ago, when he wanted to copy some mp3s from his ipod to my computer. He installed ITunes and selected "synchronize". Well, it synchronized the Ipod and my computer just fine, deleting all my mp3s that weren't on his Ipod. I had backups and original CDs, but I really couldn't believe how shitty the Ipod/Itunes design was.

  21. Exactly. It's like RAW images from your camera.
    You don't see any difference between RAW and JPGs until you have to save blown highlights, change contrast/shadows/white balance.

  22. That's a chicken and egg problem : it's easy to fly 6000 miles, so it's okay to live far away from close relatives.
    You live far away from relatives, so you "need" to fly 6000 miles.
    Peak oil will sort this problem out.

  23. Re:Pressure suits and air supply on Hyperloop One Technology Tested Successfully In Nevada Desert · · Score: 1

    You're right, but the GP basically wrote that exp(x)==x**2.

  24. Re:Pressure suits and air supply on Hyperloop One Technology Tested Successfully In Nevada Desert · · Score: 1

    Drag goes up exponentially (velocity squared)

    Please, no.

  25. On a related note : https://www.youtube.com/watch?... :D