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  1. Re:Dependencies on Ask Slashdot: Feature Requests For Epoch Init System 1.3.0? · · Score: 1

    In other words, the absolute worst case of the priority system is the base case of the "more sophisticated" alternatives.

  2. Re:Lauren Weinstein - bias much? on France Claims Right To Censor Search Results Globally · · Score: 2

    This is not a problem of "having too much knowledge". This is a problem of what you do with it. The direct approach to addressing this problem is to simple not punish people for ancient misdeeds. However, that just seems "too hard". Instead, we would rather try to subject the entire world to a sort of enforced amnesia instead.

    No. It would be far simpler to simply alter our approach to how we deal with a person's "permanent record".

    Besides, this idea of yours that we "forget old crimes" isn't even accurate anyways. So your entire premise is bogus to begin with. Old crimes can and WILL in fact come back to haunt you. If you thought otherwise then clearly you've never been in a position to see how the system (as it is now) actually works.

  3. Re:hum on France Claims Right To Censor Search Results Globally · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Sherman Anti-Trust act wasn't just created on a whim. If you actively avoid treating corporations with the same skepticism that is popular for governments, then they WILL devolve into monopolies.

  4. Re:Commodore Amiga or Commodore PC? on Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools · · Score: 3, Informative

    You drone on about "history". Meanwhile, many of us LIVED through those years and yes indeed most of us non-kludge clone users would have viewed the branding of our chosen alternative as an INSULT.

    Commie users certainly would have viewed their machine being called a "PC" as an insult. PCs were a brand associated with IBM and later Microsoft. It represented the ultimate in crapulence unworthy success.

    I don't think DOS users in those days would have been happy to have their machines lumped in with Apples or Ataris either.

    The generic non-brand terms were "home computer" and "microcomputer".

    Some of us actually lived this shit and aren't just regurgitating bad wikipedia articles.

  5. Re:Use Synaptic package manager instead. on Ubuntu Software Center Criticized For Mixing Free and Non-Free Software · · Score: 1

    In general Canonical has never done a good job of highlighting interesting commercial software for Linux (payware or otherwise). Muddling things really isn't their problem.

  6. Re:Respects Your Freedom on Ubuntu Software Center Criticized For Mixing Free and Non-Free Software · · Score: 1

    In general, server hardware has always "played better" with Linux. This includes the avoidance of BLOBs. Although given the quite often expensive price tag of such machines, it's an interesting idea that one would be put together in such an ignorant fashion.

    "I built my server wrong" is simply not a remark that deserves any sympathy.

  7. Re:Fear of guns on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    There's that. There's the general hysteria. Guys walking alone in my neighborhood are likely to get stopped and bothered. Age and race don't matter. People around here are just hysterical nitwit suffering from 30 years of media overkill about child abductions.

    Still wouldn't think it would escalate to an arrest around here.

  8. Re:Fear of guns on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    The local elementary school is embedded in the neighborhood. If you want to go from point A to point B sometimes the only sane route is past the school down one or two sides of it.

    The principal was probably more of a disruption than the Stormtrooper.

  9. Re:Fear of guns on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    They have accessories for that. Special training too.

  10. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    > No it doesn't.

    The ancient measurements are all divisible by small numbers that are easy for a real person to handle without advanced technology. Metric is fine for a lab but really not suited to much else.

    The fixation on metric is just modern snobbery and the common vanity that the ancients were all idiots that didn't know anything or ever do anything interesting.

  11. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Actually those numbers (Celsius and Kelvin) are also equally arbitrary because those numbers change based on surface conditions.

  12. Re:Not converted on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 0

    > Well, all other advanced societies have figured out how to save massive amounts of money on their health care while typically having superior or comparable public health statistics. The US seems to be a bit slow sometimes.

    The real cost of healthcare in the US is easy to inflate. While often times other (European) countries make compromises in care that would be unacceptable in the US.

    It's easy to stiff doctors or companies doing medical research and call that a bargain. Even the US public options do that.

  13. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean like US companies already produce products with metric measurements? The idea that the US is not metric is somewhat disengenuous. What the US is not is "forced metric".

    US companies happily adapt to other countries (like in Europe) that make it a sort of fascist fetish.

    But it's true that Americans simply don't care, and have no interest in change just for it's own sake.

  14. Re:First sharing is stealing, now on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    She is simply whining that you didn't buy it from the correct middleman. It's an obviously outdated notion these days. It doesn't even reflect reality 30 years ago never mind now.

    She is simply emanating the death throes of a dying dinosaur.

  15. Re:Evidence is evidence no matter how small. on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 1

    It's a cache. By it's very nature and by design it is temporary.

    Calling it a "record" is a perversion of both technical and legal definitions.

  16. Re:Nothing to see here, move along. on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 1

    You don't have to be an extremist to think that effectively prosecuting the same crime under two different standards of evidence is double jeopardy. It doesn't matter what the man in the big house on the hill says.

  17. Re:No media center? Windows 10 is DEAD to me... on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: -1, Troll

    Beyond the fact that Microsoft happily corrupted it's operating system in order to accommodate consumer video DRM vendors, their DVR product was really never anything to write home about.

    Fortunately one of the PC CC vendors is finally making their own PVR software and they aren't just limiting it to Windows.

  18. Re:Turn over, Benjamin Franklin on The Bizarre Process Used For Approving Exemptions To the DMCA · · Score: 1

    Not just philosophy. Try history. He was a radical Quaker and didn't even bother to patent his own inventions when he had the chance. It just didn't sit well with his ideals.

    Not all of the founding fathers were plantation owners content with the status quo either before or after the revolution.

  19. Re:To those who never could run any business ... on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    Some of them did. Some of them just got a run around. It was just like all of the money thrown at the broadband ISPs. It was given to them as corporate welfare with the intention that it would eventually "trickle through" but it quite often never did.

    In truth,there's rarely much serious resistance to bailing out those that are "too big too fail". Whereas the small fry are simply eviscerated because they allowed themselves to be led astray by con men working for large corporations.

  20. Re:So, the other side? on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    >> extra year of pay,

    > If you hire someone, why wouldn't you owe them for the time they > work plus a year? Only Republicans believe that you only owe
    > someone for the time they worked.

    Yes. What a strange idea: actually pay for what you get and get what you paid for. Truly a radical idea.

  21. Most people are idiots.

    You're far better off depending on a warm body on the ground that can be told what to do if necessary. In an actual disaster, some random schmuck with a medical kit is going to be much more reliable than any sort of fancy cloud enabled robotic surgery kit.

    In an actual disaster, a field surgeon would probably be easier and quicker to set up than some overwrought bit of civilized technology.

  22. No. Data is data. So are doctors apparently. Both act the same way. You can't just run some shoddy network connection and then kid yourself that you're good. It's far better to forget the network entirely and just ship the actual doctor. It's much like shipping physical media.

    There remain jobs and tasks for which Cloud hype snake oil just doesn't cut it. The network isn't good enough and probably will never be. So you just need to stop pretending.

    If you're on the other side of the world, you're still better of if everyone understands there's no real replacement for doctors or physical media.

  23. Re:Nice on Cute Or Creepy? Google's Plan For a Sci-Fi Teddy Bear · · Score: 1

    Of course he wants your love. He's a surrogate for that real child that you have in cryo-prservation.

  24. Re:Prior Art? on Cute Or Creepy? Google's Plan For a Sci-Fi Teddy Bear · · Score: 2

    ...or Teddy Ruxpin.

    This seen like yet another idea already done to death probably which tricks and techniques or techniques that are similarly ancient.

    More USPTO run amok nonsense...

  25. Re:New version ... on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 1

    No. They just don't run PRODUCTION on the bleeding edge code. That doesn't mean that this stuff isn't being tested with non-trivial use cases. Any reputable IT shop is going to be putting version n+1 through it's paces before it does anything important because everyone wants to keep their jobs.

    The last time I used RAID0 for anything it was a high volume R&D project. The OS vendor probably got a couple of good bug fixes out of us.