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  1. In other words on Microsoft Responds To Linux Concerns Over Windows 8 and UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 2

    if the computer's locked down, blame the OEM, not us.

  2. Re:Can we stop with the anti-Microsoft FUD? on SUA Deprecated In Windows 8? · · Score: 0

    It's the constant drumbeat of OMG MICROSOFT IS EVIL articles lately. Pandering to the least-common denominator.

  3. Can we stop with the anti-Microsoft FUD? on SUA Deprecated In Windows 8? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seeing it more and more frequently since Taco left is getting really tiresome. Give it a rest.

  4. Re:Windows, duh! on Walmart Goes Solar In California · · Score: 1

    One of the area's Walmarts has lots of skylights in its ceilings. Can't speak as to HVAC efficiency, but on sunny days it's pretty bright in there.

  5. Re:Good on Walmart Goes Solar In California · · Score: 1

    Hospitals manage it with residents.

  6. Figures on Adobe Pushes Emergency Flash Player Security Fix · · Score: 0

    I just got done making a new install image for work today.

  7. Re:Norton Disk Doctor on Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? · · Score: 1

    There was another program (DISKTOOL, I think) that came with Norton Utilities that could re-write sector information only. That could help DOS see files again.

  8. It's very profitable, after all on Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps · · Score: 1

    Most companies would kill to get a 1/3 cut on every program sold.

  9. Re:Just be honest? on Atlas Takes Heat For Melting Glacier Claim · · Score: 2

    From your caricature of those who think AGW is happening, I see that you are a denialist.

  10. Re:Well... on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    Well...

    I've got a 64MB Pentium-90 machine here under my desk. It dual-boots between FreeDOS and Damn Small Linux. The DSL side has a copy of Firefox 2.0 that can run somewhat bearably. I would never try running Flash nor playing videos, but it's OK for web fora and downloading files.

    FreeDOS has Arachne for Web browsing, but honestly it's kind of a joke.

  11. Re:Too big on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    One certainly can question his motives for doing it. Doing it because he realized he's created a monster and because he values liberties is laudable, if that's his true motivation.

    If his motivation is merely saving money and he still doesn't care so much about liberties and privacy, well, that's still pretty contemptible.

  12. Re:Funny how the guys who were spending.... on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    Not exactly; they /do/ hire people!

    Except they're all in the Third World where people will work for peanuts.

    I don't understand why the Democrats are too stupid and spineless to point this out everytime the bullshit "job creators" meme is trotted out.

  13. Re:Too big on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    You must be joking. Most congressweasels are still in the "do whatever we can to make us appear safer" mentality and don't give a toss about civil liberties.

    You expect that kind of thing from Republicans, but even the Dems are generally that way.

  14. Re:Obligatory on Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS · · Score: 1

    Except how compatible is ReactOS?

    How compatible will it be in the future?

    How long will it take to get it sufficiently compatible for whatever Windows programs the Russian government absolutely must use?

    How long would it take to write Linux equivalents of those app(s) that would do the same job that would have guaranteed compatibility?

  15. Obligatory on Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS · · Score: 1

    Why not follow China's example and develop your own official Linux distro?

  16. Double-dip recession imminent? on Cisco Emerges From Restructuring 13,000 Employees Lighter · · Score: 1

    Between this and Bank of America dropping thousands of jobs, I'm starting to wonder.

  17. Re:What we do ... on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you mean RHEL 6.1 and not Red Hat 6.1.

    That was an amusing picture of someone downgrading a very nice cluster to a 12-year-old version of Linux with a 2.2 kernel.

  18. Re:I call Shenanigans!!! on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 2

    Modern? Your faith in your elders is cute.

  19. Re:Gah on The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany · · Score: 1

    This isn't a result of environmentalism. It's a result of idiots being scared by the Japanese earthquake.

  20. Re:Obama.... on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    Meh. I'd give Obama a C- myself, and I voted for the fucking pussy.

  21. Re:ID on Journal Editor Resigns Over Flawed Global Warming Paper · · Score: 1

    I'm only suggesting we do so for retards such as yourself who can't be bothered to read what other people have written.

    On second thought, we should probably sterilize you so you can't pass your defective genes on.

  22. Re:Of course he had a point on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    Pretty much like any other utopian political or economic system. Libertarianism, for instance.

    "It'd work if people would just..."

  23. Re:dup on Google Kills Desktop Search and Gadgets · · Score: 4, Funny

    Taco would never have allowed these dupes to happen.

    CMDRTACO NEVER FORGET.

  24. Re:Sad truth on UK Government Breaks Open Source Promises · · Score: 1

    Yes, this. It's a symbolic thing. Every time a new Parliament goes into session the first time, the Sovereign's representative is ritually denied access to the House of Commons.

  25. Re:If for nothing but.. on Laptops In the Classroom Don't Increase Grades · · Score: 1

    Not really. One of our student workers told me that the current e-book program at my uni is this: the school provides an iPad, the student buys the e-textbook as an app in Apple's store, and then at the end of the semester the school takes the iPad back.

    If the student wants the book to refer to later on in life, they have to buy an iOS device... unless someone's got an e-reader for other platforms that can read these books?