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  1. Running windows 10 with Awingu on The End of the Desktop? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Also considering to install Igel on the clients.
    Let me be clear we're still trying to manage that Awingu thing conveniently because it's not exactly managed with templating like Citrix.
    We have to because of funny security standards in contracts with clients.

  2. Hydrogen fairy tales revving up in Belgium on Solar Panel Splits Water To Produce Hydrogen (ieee.org) · · Score: 1, Troll

    A month ago the Belgian media suddenly started churning out news bouts how hydrogen "could save us" (see bible for other stories).
    I will not deny that hydrogen has a good potential for storing energy - although at very low efficiency.
    The only thing I like about this fairy tale is that the professors in the old lab where I once was a technician, and where I found my wife, finally started working together.
    20 panels of 1.65m to provide energy for one house and a little hydrogen storage somewhere against cost of panels and storage = fairy tale.

  3. Re:Yum! on Bees Can Solve Math Problems With Addition and Subtraction · · Score: 0

    Guinea fowl bathing in a raspberry vinegar, pink pepper berry cream sauce with melon balls, grapes and litchi. Brussels sprouts with chocolate is a perfectly good idea to go along with it. And croquettes. Damn, I'm dreaming up the ideal filling for the poultry already...

  4. Corrupt "je pense donc je suis" already on Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    "J'ai un compte sur Twitter donc je suis"
    Translation: I have an account on Twitter so I am.
    Try to explain Levinas "alterity" (otherness) to those kids and first thing that will cross their mind is if he ever got a "like" on Facebook.
    Or confirmation of scientific theories by the amount of followers on the account of the researcher...

  5. My daughter dropped her Ubuntu tablet on Software Developer Explains Why The Ubuntu Phone Failed (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and it's still working thanks to convergence. She even started to appreciate the desktop experience ;-)

  6. Re:Brexit will be walked back on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    True, although the more likely scenario looks like UK will land on an axis of Germanic countries after the EU project died.

  7. Suicidal Tendencies was already making songs like "flashing pictures on my screen, shown too quickly to be seen, does not register in my conscious mind, propaganda of another kind - they're fucking with me subliminally"

  8. When new hardware for Western world? on Jolla Sailfish Will Build A Google-Free Mobile OS For China (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I am dwelling the face of this earth with a broken smartphone screen on my Jolla for like two years.
    Meanwhile even my wife broke the screen of her tablet.
    We are both in the market for something (sail)fishy, but who will offer us something?

  9. It's time that Jesus and me... on Electric Car Battery Prices Fell By 80% In the Last 7 Years, Says Study (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    start that diy project on some modded sports car...

  10. Re:Well, there goes the neighbourhood! on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    I turn those arguments around and tell them that I actively try to stay away from profiling myself on internet to avoid customer perception problems.

  11. Re:Let's go cashless... on Second Bank Hit By 'Sophisticated' Malware Attack, Says Swift (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think hungry people have a bank account? I did business with a Hungarian artist, master degree and all: even he didn't have a bank account.

  12. basic income versus administrative self-importance on Greece's Former Finance Minister Explains Why A Universal Basic Income Could Save Us (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    It's good if it cuts down on Administrative self-importance syndrome (better known as ASS).
    Self-importance from harvest or manual labour seems long gone...

  13. Re:I'll go to hell for this. on Iraq's Mosul Dam Could Burst At Any Time (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    religion != mathematics

  14. Mathematics = survival tool on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    Our senses were developed to let a heterotrophic organism survive.
    Galilei quote:
    "The universe cannot be read until we have learned the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word. Without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth."

    You want to let kids choose between acting out like a chimp or study mathematics?

    BTW: reading is not adding letters in words, words in sentences, application of grammatics...
    It's recognition of patterns which just happens to be the essence of mathematics.
    Mathematics is easy peasy if you learn your definitions - as much a vocabulary thing as anything else.

    But the problem is you can't see that if you never studied it - or better, understood it's essence!!!
    So here I see a big problem in education: always the stress on analysis.
    But analysis is a chicken without a head if it's not followed by synthesis, a creative exercise to put things back in perspective.

  15. Re:Praise science! on LIGO Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement on Thursday · · Score: 1

    Yeah, apples and trees...

  16. War is function of fiat money since Nixon on Sci-Fi Author Joe Haldeman On the Future of War · · Score: 2

    All military actions after Vietnam were undertaken in function of oil or Lithium (paid by reserve currency (= Dollar)). eg Lithium mines in Afghanistan were contracted to the nation that buys increasingly bonds of USofA treasury - China (bonds are the assurance that the printed money is "approved" (translation of latin "fiat")).

  17. My daughters like computers and their boys... on Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs · · Score: 1

    ...as long as they do exactly what they say.

  18. If you don't bleed the corpse on 60,000 Antelope Died In 4 Days, and No One Knows Why · · Score: 1

    ... the taste of the meat is disgusting.

  19. Re: well then on Samsung Nanotech Breakthrough Nearly Doubles Li-Ion Battery Capacity · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that and they've only got half the voltage on the mains.

  20. Giving up on popular music is calcification? on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    tssss...
    Anyway, I was the guy at school talking a lot of my friends into Slayer, Metallica, Discharge...

  21. Re:The same as ever: Android on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days? · · Score: 1

    -1 Troll??? This must be Slashdot.
    I bought a Jolla smartphone and got a "banking app" installed by my provider as a "service".
    Never felt so stupid since I bought a smartphone.

  22. My dad was a CFO with low pay and authority on Seattle CEO Cuts $1 Million Salary To $70K, Raises Employee Salaries · · Score: 1

    His way of being a capitalist:
    You don't have the incentive to do your work correctly?
    He will shout you there with sincere anger.
    Just natural authority, no manipulation or big money needed in his scheme of things.

  23. Just get yourself some good admins.... on How to Prepare for an IT Security Disaster (Video) · · Score: 2

    ...not some nodding donkey pumps. That would be a good start.

  24. Re:Irrelevant, I can already install banned conten on Google 'Experts' To Screen Android Apps For Banned Content · · Score: 1

    I'm with you.
    And then my provider installed a banking app (called "proximenu") as a "Service" on my new Jolla.
    I feel so stupid now with my smartphone...

  25. Solid Phase Synthesis/Combinatorial Chemistry on New Molecular 3D Printer Can Create Billions of Compounds · · Score: 1

    Not sure what the difference is...