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  1. Re:Umm on Become a Linux Kernel Hacker and Write Your Own Module · · Score: 2

    The nice thing is, unless you are doing something totally off the wall, there is a good chance that there is already a module out there that does something similar to what you want to do and the open source love is revealed to you. This applies to many other open-source OSs as well, of course.

    Try this with windows and there's a good chance you'll find some incomplete example code from three API revisions ago that won't even compile with the latest libraries (BTDT)

  2. Well on Become a Linux Kernel Hacker and Write Your Own Module · · Score: 1

    I sent it Pi and the universe imploded. Fortunately we had recent back-ups. Though the ones from after Jeb Bush* became president went *ahem* mysteriously missing.

    *Replace with Hillary Clinton if you're on the other team.

  3. Re:Comment from a Chemist on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    That panel isn't going to do much good sitting at the end of the assembly line. Clearly there are other *cough* externalities involved.

  4. Re:Comment from a Chemist on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    Please read again.

  5. Re:Comment from a Chemist on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    The original pretext of...

    There ya go.

  6. Re:Comment from a Chemist on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The purpose is to curry favor with corn farmers and related people and industries in key states for politicians.

  7. Re:Comment from a Chemist on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    Calculations, please? Though if you are claiming this simply because ethanol free gas is more expensive, you must realise that it is more expensive not because it is more expensive to produce but because it is harder to get hold of because government regulation forces the ethanol fuel to be widespread.

  8. Re:Comment from a Chemist on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, simply incomplete.

    The question is whether it takes more fossil fuels to make the ethanol than are saved by using it.

    And the answer is "yes".

    For something like solar panels, you can argue that they break even after about 10 years and technology is improving. In the case of ethanol in fuel, it's a derp situation from the word "go".

  9. Re:Correlation vs correlation on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    And a few bushes, and Gores. A handful of Clintons. A couple of Pauls.

  10. Re:Bing = site for searching for Firefox on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 1

    Oh, ISWYM. Hmm. Just get an older release and update. If your aim is to sidestep IE, that should be close enough.

  11. Re:Bing = site for searching for Firefox on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 1

    Just got from ftp.mozilla.org. Username: ftp, password: email address (anything with an @ in it often works)

  12. Re:Bing = site for searching for Firefox on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 1

    My information may be out of date. I have definitely done it once or twice in the past though.

  13. Re:Bing = site for searching for Firefox on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 1

    Firefox can be downloaded with FTP. No IE required.

  14. Re:Waiter! on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 1

    And get the machine that goes "Bing"!

  15. Re:Bitcoin ? on AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail · · Score: 1

    Which is a problem because being on drugs is a requirement to want to use Dogecoin.

  16. Re:Cops need doughnut money, too! on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 1

    Slow moving vehicles tend to get overtaken (which can, in itself, be a dangerous procedure). That's not really a good argument against autonomous vehicles but there you go. Mixed traffic is likely going to present some real issues. Hopefully nothing to crazy though.

  17. Re:I'm sedentary on Even In the Wild Mice Run In Wheels · · Score: 1

    It's a colloquialism that is widely understood. There are many discussions where semantics are important but in this case, it's a distraction in this one.

  18. Re:Duh... on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 1

    Probably applies in that case as much as any other.

  19. Re:Correlation vs correlation on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    Except the CEO was that was killed was your dear buddy and they also got some collateral damage like your sister and nephew and the point of the company is to attack those who did the killing.

    You have to look at the bigger picture. I'm no pacifist but this stuff is not helping.

  20. Re:If you have the opportunity on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    You jest but that's not far from the truth. That's unacceptable to modern morals, of course (as it should be) but maybe that means that you should avoid starting such actions in the first place. Don't start a fight you're not prepared to finish.

  21. Of course on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course it's a bureaucracy, it was created by the CIA.

    Am I joking? I don't even know.

  22. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: Can Star Wars Episode VII Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    For a while. They did eventually relent and put the original release on DVD a year or two back. It's available on Netflix, I believe. I'd post a link but I only stream Netflix these days and the UI won't let me in the DVD section.

  23. Re:The problem with the "Prequels" wa on Ask Slashdot: Can Star Wars Episode VII Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    so using "voting with your wallet" metrics, they are better movies

    Scan your eyes across to the "adjusted for inflation" column. And I'm sure that is using official government figures also.

  24. Re:Send it back.... on Declining LG's New Ad-friendly Privacy Policy Removes Features From Smart TVs · · Score: 1

    I believe you should be able to do a charge-back on your credit/debit card for that if you used one.

  25. Re:Perhaps it's just... fun? on Even In the Wild Mice Run In Wheels · · Score: 1

    Not if the batteries are empty but perhaps if there are poor contacts in the buttons or to the batteries themselves.