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  1. my father is 63 on Ask Slashdot: the Best Linux Setup To Transition Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    recently his medion laptop was completely clogged, the recovery disks were gone and i found out microsoft doesnt allow download of an iso even if you still have the serial stuck to the bottom of that pc you bought. So i thought what the heck : ubuntu. Installed it, put everything he uses in nice clean icons on the desktop and he doesn't seem to have a problem operating it. Google, youtube, musicplayer, photo collection, email, skype, urls as links in icons the desktop. Only thing i cant get to work is the internal mic, i had to stick a usb cam in so he can call his friends and be called, other than that months later i havent had a single complaint

  2. for windows pcs on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 1

    i usually use this to clear cache, cookies and temporary files. It also does registry check and i havent had it fail after a wipe one single time so far. It's capable of wiping free space in how many passes you like but as someone above already mentioned from everything i read three should be more than enough if not overkill already. The thing is you get a lot of stuff floating around in folders like .appdata that doesnt get deleted, usually stuff created when installing software. I'd do a manual check there if you got access but i wouldnt know how to make it 100% clean and safe for sure unless you erase the whole partition and wipe it clean before installing (but i'm not the security expert either)
    and it's free- or donateware or whatever its called these days

  3. Re:"Hacktivists" on Anonymous Dumps Australian Telco Data Online · · Score: 1

    well, good sir, there you have the charm. person b isnt even interested in being the hero. Work in the shadows all your life, never get any compensation, fame or recognition. I think that counts for some respect. Unless you think Assanges (a.o.) situation is some kind of martyrdom according to good old christian tradition i'm still pro-nonymous. They tried outing some of the cartels in south/mid americas but weren't careful enough. So a few heads got separated from a few people ... would they be heroes if they just posted that stuff with their names and faces on facebook? I think they'd rather be , as you call it, 'dumb' in that case , silly little kids tsk

  4. nature's way of saying on Ebola Outbreak Kills 13 In Uganda · · Score: 1

    you really need to fix that overpopulation. The thing is so horrible, it's the closest thing in reality to an actual apocalyptic zombie outbreak. Close personal contact, large crowded cities. I hardly dare think about it

  5. uhuh ... impressive middle finger attitude in the middle of an election race, take it to court but no matter what we will do as we please ... i guess this is what makes the us authority so likable lately, very democratic, justice, the american way ?
    uhuh ...

  6. Re:Windows 8 is not a catastrophe.... on Why Valve Wants To Port Games To Linux: Because Windows 8 Is a Catastrophe · · Score: 1

    i think that's the whole point when it comes to games in a nutshell, very nicely said. Kinect has been a disaster so far for any games that's not aimed at getting your fat kid off of the couch or some drunk dancing parties and i can't imagine battlefield working quite well on a touchscreen either. All the more yay , i suppose this doesnt mean i should hold out on getting windows 8 and put my steam collection on the shelf until its all been ported, but i very much like the sound of this. Games is the only reason why i boot into windows, i just can't find anything else that's i dont find more comfortable to work with on my Noobuntu installs

  7. you could say darwin invented evolution on Correcting the Record: the Government's Role In the Internet · · Score: 1

    but things would still just have evolved because of causality, necessity and pure randomness

  8. Re:Thank god on The Decline of Google's (and Everybody's) Ad Business · · Score: 1

    mh, targeted ads have a long way to go, everytime i get a l'oreal shampoo ad shoved down my throat or up my aagh when i try to watch some rowdy death metal video i get the feeling someone's not paying attention somewhere

  9. if he's that good for a starter on Ask Slashdot: Value of Website Design Tools vs. Hand Coding? · · Score: 1

    try to convince him to start building everything in blocks and objects like all things, it quickly turns into a versatile cms if you really got the head for it. Being able to reuse his dabblings for different sites/projects with only minor adaptations should save time and can't be bad for ego. (im not a pro myself, it just makes sense to me that way and we all like playing lego don't we)

  10. i read injunction and i read patent on Apple Wins EU Ban of Smaller Samsung Tablet, Demands $2.5 Billion In Damages · · Score: 1

    so i didnt read tfa since i get a headache thinking it's probably just more of this thing that happens when competition on quality and price won't work

  11. Re:I wouldn't. on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 1

    mhm, i wouldnt trust an eight-month old reactor, specially now i know that at the time of the fukushima disaster the goverment thought about evacuating an area bigger than belgium because of possible contamination. I feel really safe now knowing we got a few outdated plants here they just won't shut down because the former state company doing the electricity hasnt seen fit to even look into alternatives and the governments dont have the balls to look for foreign alternatives to introduce some competition. All it needs is one earthquake (granted, low probability here) and the whole country could be radioactive man's new playground

  12. can i, can i ...? on What's Next For Superhero Movies? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to order a lengthy movie based on some french comic artists work for starters ... 666 and Chroniques de la lune noire, also a movie or series based on mills/bisleys Slaine and last but not least a redo of babylon five's series up unto the shadow war at least, but only if Jackson and/or Cameron get to do it with spielberg money, and if it doesn't have to pass a morals commission first, just rate it pg25 then.
    i'd really like that but i better go dream on somewhere now (maybe if there's a little money left a single movie based on zelazny's lord of light then...for mah birthday)

  13. Re:A field in its infancy on Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back · · Score: 1

    Indeend
    and it's free, and accessible to anyone with a network node close to or at home. So you can't slap copyright trolls all over it and you can't control who gets to know what. Control ...and money, why pay for a lengthy education if you can learn the same for free? bad for business? Somehow i can see how an educated world population could be scary to some of the more elevate social positions

  14. hmz on App Developer: Android Designed For Piracy · · Score: 1

    reminds me of the story of how piracy, not the big movie theatres, was ruining the small movie theatres here somehow, is my twisted mind playing tricks on me

  15. import some belgians on The Nation Is Losing Its Toolbox · · Score: 1

    the below average wiz is hard to find here, and if one exists i think he would get hijacked by foreign companies anyway. When it comes to construction, repairing and your general handywork i know at least five six people in the two or three streets round here making a living, from small home improvement to cabling to garden design and maintenance, planting, fixing cars ... some on the books, some off the books, you're not a real person hear if you don't know how to build a brick wall ... the biggest problem would be to get them to leave their cosy hobbit hole but i guess money talks the same talk everywhere

  16. can i be the pessimist on New Coating Technology Promises Self-Cleaning Cars · · Score: 1

    and ask how many people are employed in a carwash worldwide ?

  17. Re:$50 for 8 gig is a terrible deal on 16GB Nexus 7 Sold Out On Google Play Store · · Score: 1

    from what i read on the specs it seems to be the best buy for people who can't really afford the expensive stuff. I'd like one myself but i think i'll sit it out and see if the nexus 10 becomes reality (at a price as sharp as this ones is) and stick with my trusty pocketbook for now. Very handy, weighted down i can use it as a club in case i get attacked

  18. Re:Good news everyone on World Population Grows Beyond 7 Billion · · Score: 1

    i think if the 1% were to split over a range of about 10% things would look a lot different, as if life were to imitate the brain and you get 10% neurons making decisions and acting all high and mighty. Can't have total equality in an overpopulated world where resources are getting scarcer (is that good english or is it 'more scarce' or 'less abundant' for the positivists, and society as is is still basically pretty primitive underneath the thin layer of tek.
    by the way, how much matter do we have left before the whole planet consists of humans ?

  19. Re:i thought nick on Google Wants You to Use Your Real Name on YouTube · · Score: 1

    slaps me for not using the preview button
    i find myself more active on raptr lately, network dedicated solely to gaming, very friendly, and no one bothers if you use a gamertag instead of having yourself adressed as mister this or that (this is not my real name btw, altho i like the sound of it i'm so obscure i dont even check my hotmail without going through a vpn tunnel, and i like it that way ... maybe also cos i'm not the only one using this ip and i wouldnt want to be associated with some of the more nationalist themed visits some others make, maybe cos the router aint secured and i think its very nice to have all my paypal, ebay and other passwords sent through an encrypted tunnel, or maybe i'm just paranoid)

  20. relativity on Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s · · Score: 1

    is watching the forex graph on EURUSD going down, down, deeper and down over the past weeks (weeks? months), so my guess is if it's bad in the U.S. it has to stink in europe right now, i'm bracing for the impact already

  21. i thought nick on Google Wants You to Use Your Real Name on YouTube · · Score: 1

    stopped being a male name right after the birth of the internet when it got its meaning as, well, nick, what's the big deal. If they're gonna push this i'll just have to close it down, like i did with facebook, and with twitter after i had about four accounts suspended in about six hours ... something about asking a jesuit if he did penance for all the rape his order committed during the 'christening' of africa and the south americas among other things ... telling some guy in syria he shouldnt count on help from the u.n. and stuff like that, you know : opinion. If i can't voice it then the channel is not for me. If i can't choose the nick i want then i don't want it. My last fb account had about 20% of people who used their given names, the other all used nicknames, turns out you werent really allowed to do that? No one seemed to care. Stuff like this might actually be beneficial for fledgling social networks. Maybe its part of the strategy where they just try to keep the ones who are least resistant to advertising and most likely to click on the average stuff presented, the stuff that tries to reach as big a chunk of ye olde bell curve as it can. Not for me i tells ya, not for me. I hope i can switch my email on xbl cos i use my google email for one of those accounts. I'll classify this in the nice try but fail shelf then

  22. Re:A better name for it on Europe Gets Pay-As-You-Go Satellite Broadband · · Score: 1

    that's actually funny, i a sad and very depressing way
    i wonder what our great leaders grand plan is, maybe they would like to re-instate slavery or something similar again. Sure looks like it's going down that way

  23. Re:Yeah na bro on Three-Strikes Copyright Law In NZ Halves Infringement · · Score: 1

    =teh lulz
    with all the campaigning here in europe they now get numbers filesharing has actually gone up i.o. down, some kind of backlash from having pushed too hard i suppose. Are these numbers accurate? If the government goes to such lengths as to keep numbers secret you can bet your sweet arse something isn't right there

  24. Re:libdvdcss ilegal? on Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools · · Score: 1

    as they could just jail whoever is behind google and bing and yahoo on the same charges they have up against the former tpb funny guy i suppose. They instated real jail sentence a while ago for posession of copied stuff. It's called labelling in some circles or how to make a criminal out of someone who wouldnt hurt a fly. I guess Sony has got a lot of influence just like you get your average (dare i say 'norm'- al lobby here in europe and just like you get the same in the land of Uncle S. Thing is, here and in the states somehow stuff like ACTA gets rejected in the end whereas there the voice of the population seems to be ignored just a little more. A dam shame, i love that place (from afar) and i hope to go there as soon as i can make it happen, if only for a two week holiday. I just wouldnt like getting off the plane and having my ereader scanned for possible violation of the SONY-act ... and spend three weeks in jail (see i'm told they can just keep you three weeks without even having to file a complaint) ... imagine that. I have high hopes tho when i see the huge movement coming out against the nuclear reactors. It's a start

  25. Re:I hope.. on Patent Troll Claims Minecraft Infringement · · Score: 1

    what i don't get is how judges, who are supposed to be real smart people, making decisions that impact lives and families sometimes for generations without anyone to control or check their integrity, how these people, the cream of the elite of our intellectual society, nominated for life with little or no repercussion to any of their decisions (so they just have to be perfect supermen right, or something would be seriously crooked in society) , how these people keep going along with it, while claiming at the same time they don't have time and they are flooded with (what i like to call) real criminal cases. I really don't get that