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  1. Re:If they hadn't brought their drone on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    Calling bullshit on that rotor damage, how can the rotor be damaged on both sides from a single bullet shot. Also there is no way they could land two hits on the same rotor like that. I bet they simply snapped it off and since they're playing clever tricks with the footage such as not showing it land and then cutting out after that there's nothing to say otherwise.

  2. Re:Hyperbole on LHC Powers Up To 4 TeV · · Score: 1

    know/n/
    Verb:
    Be aware of through observation, inquiry, or information.
    Have knowledge or information concerning.

    So, yes we would "know". It's your mis-understanding of the definition of the word. Not everyone else's that's the problem here.

  3. Re:Hyperbole on LHC Powers Up To 4 TeV · · Score: 1

    Hate to be that 1% because you can't know anything given that definition which makes the word entirely useless.

  4. Re:Did AdBlock kill the free internet? on Will "Do Not Track" Kill the Free Internet? · · Score: 1

    SO, people publishing things on the internet should do it out of charity and the good of their hearts?

    Agree 100%. By the way you owe me $1 for reading my post.

  5. Re:Good on Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding · · Score: 1

    If Ubuntu's purpose is to bring in new people, wouldn't the wisest choice be to make the interface as similar to the "hated-but-known" Windows interface?

    No, because they're trying to establish themselves as something different and unique. Personally I like unity, after using it I don't see myself going back. It's much easier to just press the windows key type the program name and hit enter then navigating through the old gnome menu.

    I also think it's much easier for novice computer users because it helps you get stuff done. I press the windows key and it brings up the unity panel I can type:

    bittorrent - it shows vuze in the listing
    image editor - gimp
    office - libreoffice
    email - evolution
    internet - google chrome

    It's genius, because this is what novice computer users want. It's not some muscle memory ui with the requirement of knowing what applications are called what. They've sat down and watched what computer users have problems with an addressed those problems.

  6. Re:Wat on Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding · · Score: 1

    They broke even almost 3 years ago dude.

  7. Re:Travel Alert... on Thai Gov't Welcomes Twitter's Censorship Plans · · Score: 1

    Unless you can read thai I'm pretty sure you're in the clear.

  8. Re:We're falling behind! on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 2

    To be fair I never saw any moon base in the movie..

  9. Re:Well on What If the Apollo Program Never Happened? · · Score: 1

    There isn't much point in exploring space either. At this point in human knowledge everything is pointless.

  10. Re:First thought... on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 2

    Look everyone, yet another OS war on linux exploit news, how original!

  11. Re:Hrrm on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 1

    and if you compile it with a buggy compiler?

  12. Re:Hrrm on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 1

    I could see a few ways to do it..

    - Linux games are becoming more popular
    - A poorly coded script on a webserver that lets you upload and execute a file

  13. Re:Returns on Fake IPad 2s Made of Clay Sold At Canadian Stores · · Score: 1

    Most electronic products. Specifically the iPads were returned. The writer is making people aware of the potential danger not that it happened in this instance.

  14. Re:Good on Mozilla Announces Long Term Support Version of Firefox · · Score: 0

    It's not the users that need them it's the developers that are tired of supporting old browsers because some asshole like you thinks not updating a browser is a life and death decision for a business.

  15. Re:Not vapourware! on Raspberry Pi Has Gone To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Windows on an ARM device... wtf.. I'm tired of these fucking Microsoft employees posting on slashdot.

    You think you're cool because you surf tech sites and know everything about windows server 2008, but in reality you know jack shit.

  16. Re:It's not only programmers vs bosses on The Bosses Do Everything Better (or So They Think) · · Score: 1

    Anyone can be a dish washer, not everyone can program. Everyone can be a marketer, not a good one, but still hold down a job.

  17. Re:It's not only programmers vs bosses on The Bosses Do Everything Better (or So They Think) · · Score: 1

    Sales and marketing is mostly finding out what a person needs, why he needs that and how they can help the person with it.

    Wrong, check out Fear appeals. It's not about helping each out.

  18. Re:What's up with the offensive name? on Testing the MongoDB Global Write Lock Improvements · · Score: 1

    Mong is slang. Mongo means nothing in English. It's also not that offensive anymore, especially when we're talking about Mongo Database, I didn't even make the connection until you pointed it out.

  19. Re:Free software wouldn't have helped on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    Except that's just bullshit. There was already a movement there! Software never used to cost anything and the full source was available until IBM changed their business model. He created a license that the movement used and he tries to claim credit for everything that uses it, include the linux kernel.

    I love the GNU license however the amount of bullshit that's been fed to newbies of the FSM for the last 10+ years is such a joke that's it's not funny anymore because they're starting to believe that Stallman did all this on his own. He's trying to go down in history for being this amazing guy that spurred the free software movement which is just wrong.

  20. Re:We all start off trying to explain ourselves on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    Trying to explain to them that there are very simple things they can do to prevent their computers from needing to be fixed is a waste of time, they don't want to hear it.

    It's like the janitor in your company coming up to you and saying that if you took off your shoes he wouldn't need to clean the floor so much and then going into details about the different types of floor cleaner he uses.

  21. Re:Sorry, I try but.. on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    You're a computer janitor not a teacher, you're there to clean up the mess not lecture people. That's why they switch off because they don't care about your favorite topic of computers, they just want you to do your job so they can get back to doing theirs.

  22. Re:This quote states it best... on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    ..because they're not interested. They don't care. Unlike you they see the computer as an unimportant tool. They don't want a lecture from the computer janitor every time what the usually do doesn't work anymore.

  23. Re:Pretty straightforward (at least, anecdotally) on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    Parents not trolling that's exactly what IT support is. It's there to look after the IT equipement, just as a janitor is there to look after the upkeep of a building.

  24. Re:Nowhere was the question "Are they justified... on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    Seems like they just don't have anything non-work related to talk to you about. You could get the ball rolling by talking about only non-work related stuff around them, while fixing their problems, etc.

  25. Re:She needs to tell us about the people ,,, on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    Sounds stupid to me too because you failed even in your post to mention why can't she keep her old password. You're just wasting her time.