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  1. Re:I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Innumeracy and a reflexive resistance to "the government telling me what to do".

  2. Re:It's time to fire samzenpus on Forest Service Wants To Require Permits For Photography · · Score: 2

    I have to agree, this is nothing but yellow journalism and /. and Dice should be ashamed of it.

  3. Re:Does it address the existing issues? on Fedora 21 Alpha Released · · Score: 0

    If you expect things to work I don't honestly know why you're running Fedora. This distribution is for people who want bleeding edge but aren't willing to put up with Arch's cheeky hijinks.

  4. They're renaming the project on Fedora 21 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    The next release will be called Trilby.

  5. Re:can we have ONE non-dumbed down GUI please? on KDE's UI To Bend Toward Simplicity · · Score: 1

    FSVO "smoothly". I question whether you've ever run full-fat Windows 7 on an Atom, especially in situations where antivirus is mandatory.

  6. Re:more evil things to do elsewhere? on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Steps Down · · Score: 1

    He's got enough money he could be idle the rest of his life, but...

    maybe he'd want to run for a Senate seat or governorship. He already owns a whole island in Hawaii.

  7. Re:System updates over dialup are painful/impossib on Ask Slashdot: Remote Support For Disconnected, Computer-Illiterate Relatives · · Score: 1

    Chromebooks don't support dialup to the best of my knowledge. Some models have cellular modems, however, and that might be an option here.

  8. Re:COBOL: Why the hate? on College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class · · Score: 1

    I would not be surprised to learn that a large percentage of existing Cobol is one of the archaic dialects that cares about which column you put things into; further, that most of the users of said dialects have no interest in the expense and risk of modernizing their code to a less painful version of the spec.

    Besides that, there's the sheer verbosity of the language. Writing out DIVIDE 20 BY 4 GIVING RESULT vs. x=20/4, for instance, is simply annoying.

  9. Re:The UK Cobol Climate Is Very Different on College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class · · Score: 1

    If I absolutely had to I could wear a suit. I draw the line at wearing a goddamn tie, though, especially one that must be tied.

  10. Re:KC-135 on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    The tanker DC-10 is designated KC-10. The '135s are close to but not quite the Boeing 707; they're closer to being a derivative of the Dash-80 prototype that became the 707.

  11. Re:Wait, these are for real? on Astronomers Find Star-Within-a-Star, 40 Years After First Theorized · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ^^^ That's a place where "average" can be quite deceiving. The sun's atmosphere is rarefied but its core's density is up to 150 g/cm3, or 150x that of water.

  12. Re:It's getting hotter still! on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    And you'd be factually wrong. There is such a thing as being so open-minded your brains fall out, and you're unwittingly demonstrating this with your false equivalence.

    His "argument" about Al Gore was hardly nuanced, he's just giving the argumentum ad Goram cover because he happens to sympathize with the deniers, and that's enough in my book.

  13. Re:It's getting hotter still! on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    Deniers have nothing interesting or worthwhile, or even reality-based to say at this point, so there's no point in annoying myself by reading their drivel.

  14. Re:It's getting hotter still! on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    Oh, you're a denier.

    *plonk*

  15. Re:Lets not forget on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    You're wasting your time: you can't reason someone out of a position they weren't reasoned into.

  16. Re:It's getting hotter still! on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    Concern troll is concerned.

  17. Re:It's getting hotter still! on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    Your objection is completely meaningless and is a logical fallacy besides.

  18. Re:Lets not forget on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 0

    tl;dr: Dunning-Kruger.

  19. Re:It's getting hotter still! on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Likewise, every time AGW is brought up some fuckwit will bring up Al Gore as though it proves something... besides that person's tribalism and ignorance, I mean.

  20. Re:Lets not forget on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 2

    Likewise, complaints about Agenda 21 are a certain indication that person wears a tinfoil hat.

  21. Lots of anonymous coward deniers on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1, Troll

    What's the deal with posting as ACs, deniers? There's an awful lot of posters with those two attributes every time /. posts an article touching on climate change.

  22. Re:What is the point of these articles? on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the summary made it sound like it would be, and that's enough for deniers to latch onto.

  23. Re:What is the point of these articles? on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    Driving clicks.

  24. Re: I've been on data roaming since last Monday... on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    It's not true, but it makes a Good Point(tm).

  25. Re:911 was down for us Friday night on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    If you're /that/ exercised about being able to choose to do absolutely anything, then why in the hell are you using a proprietary operating system?

    I think you're full of crap.