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  1. May be in the way things work now, it is no longer required for leaders to dilute their ideological lines to more centrist, moderate positions to gather mainstream acceptability now because the capability of mainstream media to act as a gatekeeper of ideas has diminished. Case in point Jeremy Corbyn in Britain.

  2. Re:Mass appeal on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    "Shakespear in love" won in 1999.

  3. Remember what Dijkstra said about BASIC? on Melinda Gates Was Encouraged To Use an Apple and BASIC. Her Daughters Were Not. (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery." -- Dijkstra

  4. Re:A good point, but poorly phrased. on 20 Years of GIMP (gimp.org) · · Score: 1

    The problem with QT is that they use their own macro language over c++, and your source is no longer pure C++. I wish the QT project would get rid of moc, and use pure C++, instead of this non-standard dialect of C++. Perhaps with the recent features added to C++, the moc mechanism is no longer necessary.

  5. Re:How I Lost Linux on Debian Founder: How I Came To Find Linux · · Score: 1

    I think you should try Arch. Its rolling release system is magic, and you rarely have worry about a huge update messing up too many things at the same time.

  6. Re: How sad on Mandriva Goes Out of Business · · Score: 1

    I think Caldera had a tetris game available for playing while installation was proceeding.

  7. Trac on Ask Slashdot: Issue Tracker For Non-Engineers? · · Score: 1

    I have used python based 'Trac'. Bitnami Trac is an easy to install distribution of it:https://bitnami.com/stack/trac.

  8. Why 18B this quarter? on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    I think the quality of comments here is deteriorating. I wonder why no one is asking what special thing happened this last quarter for them to earn this much?

  9. Re:Linux desktop never happened on Worrying Aspects of Linux Gaming · · Score: 1

    ArchLinux has had rolling releases since like forever, always getting you the latest packages, I don't think that you can beat that.

  10. Re:Few Asian magazines... on Ask Slashdot: What Good Print Media Is Left? · · Score: 1

    You missed out 'Seminar' - http://www.india-seminar.com/

  11. Re:Still? on Study Shows Agent Orange Still Taints Aging C-123s · · Score: 1

    I think ConAir is still flying them birds.

  12. Re:Degaussing? Really? on Where Old Hard Disks (with Digital Secrets) Go To Die · · Score: 1

    If the drive ain't working how you going to run dd on it mate?

  13. Re:It's still under investigation on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1

    Lets them farmers get done with wheat, and sow some seeds of rape

  14. Did Carl Sagan say the same thing in 1963? on Scientists Are Cracking the Primordial Soup Mystery · · Score: 1

    Carl Sagan did some work on the synthesis of ATP in the primordial soup. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/8/21/sagan-synthesizes-atp-in-laboratory-plaboratory/

  15. Re:Lots of great new stuff! on Qt 5.1 Adds Android and iOS Support · · Score: 1

    Are they done with their moc madness yet?

  16. Tables are a pain on Extended TeX: Past, Present, and Future · · Score: 1

    The tables are still a pain with LaTeX. Ideally tables ought to be layed-out automatically like most of the other things.

  17. Creepy on Nestle's GPS Tracking Candy Campaign · · Score: 1

    What if somebody eats the gps without knowing?

  18. Reverse Video on Amazon Debuts Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire HD In 2 Sizes · · Score: 1

    Does the new Kindle have reverse video. For reading in dark, reverse video is much better than front-lit or backlit normal text.

  19. Re:Always loved the thinkpad style on The ThinkPad Goes Ultrabook — ThinkPad X1 Carbon Tested · · Score: 1

    The keys are almost completely worn clean of any clue to the letters, and the little navigation bumps on f and j are long gone.

    You mean the tits are worn down now

  20. Does the rover has a microphone? on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 1

    Does 'Curiosity' have a microphone which IIRC Carl Sagan had suggested to be put in the NASA Mars rovers to record the sound of martian winds?

  21. Re:Oh Boeing... on Flight 4590 Didn't Kill the Concorde; Costs Did · · Score: 1

    Tu-144 did fly supersonic over land between Moscow and Alma-ata

  22. Re:Not getting RDMS on Moving From CouchDB To MySQL · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Tutorial D is the right solution for this: a strong adherence to the fundamentals and a purer syntax

  23. Re:Communists != Muslims on Edward Teller: Father of the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    IIRC, Many of the leaders of LTTE were Christians

  24. Re:Classical Mystery on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should try Raymond Chandler for a change