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  1. It looks like you are thinking that God can't read english:

    the rate at which it is rising seems to have slowed, doesn't means that level of co2 are lowering. Just not fast as before. And being the level of CO2 already too high, is not enough.

    If you lost 1000$ yesterday, and today 990$, it's not like you are getting rich atm.

    Or may be I misunderstand his message. Maybe He means: I planned to kill them all for they own stupidity. That makes sense!

  2. For the lazy web, a link on google cache:

    http://webcache.googleusercont...

  3. Re:For the Yanks who are confused. on Apple Ordered To Pay Up To $14.5 Billion in EU Tax Crackdown, Cook Refutes EU's Conclusion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Confused? Well they live in the United State of America, they should know better.

  4. Ah! C is for kids, real man program in assembler, becouse optimizer is for lazy people, that waste precious cpu clock cycle.

    Obligatory xkcd is obligatory: https://xkcd.com/378/

  5. Re:Huh? on Floating Solar Device Boils Water Without Mirrors (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "a material that both absorbs the solar portion of the electromagnetic spectrum well and emits little back as infrared heat energy"

    The "solar portion of the electromagnetic spectrum" ? Is that trying to say "visible light" ?

    I think that is a bit more wider than visible light. But I agree it's not very clear how it works. Does it emit infrared becouse is hot, or for other reasons, like fluorescence? How much would it improve over normal black paint?

  6. Re:Hate the NSA all you want on NSA Worried About Implications of Leaked Toolkits (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But don't forget they're our guys.

    It's possible that you think they are your guys. But you should not suppose they are the everyone else guys. :)

  7. Re:Good for them on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Except Switzerland is in the Schengen area (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area). And of course they want to be in.

  8. Re:Brackets exist for a good reason on Python/Unix Hybrid Demoed at PyCon (xon.sh) · · Score: 1

    But he wrote "missing brackets", not "missing bracket".

    If you missed an open and a close bracket, it wil compile (you dork).

  9. Re:I'm pretty sure I clicked on "Don't show this" on Photos Show The Lingering Radioactivity At Chernobyl And Fukushima (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    Probably you are one of the reasons of why this article posted on Slashdot. More people comments on the article, more ads are seen.

    And people complaining about shit this, shit that, means more comments, becouse angry people is more complelled in write comments. The math is simple.

  10. Re:Chernobyl is not in Russia on Photos Show The Lingering Radioactivity At Chernobyl And Fukushima (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    Go and tell that to Putin.

  11. Re:Old Saying on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes confirmation before doing something is dangerous, and often rm is alias to 'rm -i', which let it prompt to you if you want do proceed.

    The point is: if you need to run it over 1500 server, you can't confirm one by one. And how many rm were in the script? So you'll be asked for 1500 x (number of rm comand in the script). No way.

    The problem is confirmation help a bit, but not very much. When I was young, I worked on VMS, where del command ask for confirmation. And I have spent the day doing test, where I had to delete some *.dat files in a directory, to run a program, to see if the files are produced correctly, repeat till the file are ok.

    What could possibly go wrong? Just change directory, where a lot of configuration file are (and you can immagine, for some reasons, many have a generic extension like .dat), and just restart to do test without thinking, and say yes out of habit.

    If you think that confirmation is a good tool to save data, you're dangerously wrong. As many here have already said:

    1) copy data somewhere else is not a backup, and not help you from corruption/deletion of data. As soon you syncronize the data on the copy, your data is lost.

    2) real backup save the history of your data.

    3) your backup data must not be accesible from the server, you should not be able to delete backup data from the same place where you can delete the same data.

    So, I agree, that you should make difficult to make mistake. And it is already the default in unix (or at least in recent modern linux distro). But is not enough. You should also able to undo eventual mistake. As a sysadmin, I have learn, that every time you do something, you should thing about how you will undo if something go wrong. Backup is the most important tool.

  12. And there is also Eris that is like pluto. So if eris is planet 11, "Planet 9" should be Planet 12.

  13. Re:Finally! on Linux Kernel 2.6.32 LTS Has Reached End of Life · · Score: 1

    It's not like you're forced by Linux Genuine Advantage to upgrade your kernel.... Fell free to fix your kernel, if you really care so much.

  14. Seriously. No backup?

  15. Re:OpenRC forever! on Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but you miss the fact that is a retoric question. Your answer doesn't make sense, becouse the right answar is: you can't. Only a fool answer a question without knowing the subject. And exageration don't help you neither. "such a setup would only make your life painful". Really? *Painful*?

  16. That's not what he said... on Italy Invests 150 Million Euros In Surveillance, With Emphasis On PS4 Chats (thestack.com) · · Score: 1
    The quote about PS is this one:

    La rete - ha sottolineato Orlando - offre numerose opportunità di comunicazione, nelle indagini antiterrorismo è stato segnalato anche l'uso delle playstation, per questo ogni forma di messaggio va monitorata con nuovi strumenti.

    English translation:

    "The network - said Orlando - offers numerous opportunities for communication, in counter-terrorism investigations has also been reported the use of the Playstation, so any form of comunication should be monitored with new tools."

    So sorry, no emphasis on ps4 chats at all. It's just a clickbait title, so people can be outraged for nothing.

  17. Re:OpenRC forever! on Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? · · Score: 1

    Nice. And how can I disable journald completly and use only syslog? Thanks

  18. Just advertisment on The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 Is an Emoji (oxforddictionaries.com) · · Score: 1

    ... now everybody is talking about the Oxford Dictionary. Many people had spend time discussing about this, and now we know that exist a "Oxford Dictionary Word of the year".

  19. Data analysis in Excel? on Recalc Or Die: Excel 1.0 Developers Celebrate Their Baby's 30th Birthday · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Windows Platform Binary Table on Lenovo Installed Software On Laptops That Persisted After Complete Wipes · · Score: 1

    Windows install software that lenovo put in the bios. I think is a better summary.

  21. Re:Simple, no malice from Lenovo on Lenovo Installed Software On Laptops That Persisted After Complete Wipes · · Score: 1

    " Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity "

  22. It's a trap on Spyware Demo Shows How Spooks Hack Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    One of the thing we learned from the Hacking Team affair, is that the flash is one of the most frequent vector of infection. And the article has a flash movie... oh the irony!

  23. Re:DC conversion efficiency on Giving Up Alternating Current · · Score: 1

    No, they are all quite correct except for the DC to AC conversion efficiency, and he had indeed corrected his post, with a 80% efficiency that's quite reasonable. Efficiency for a coal plant is indeed about 30-35%. So also this number looks right. More than a post about AC vs DC, it looks like about "in grid" vs "off grid".

  24. Re:50% is lost in AC to DC conversion? on Giving Up Alternating Current · · Score: 1

    It looks like he corrected the post: "then to charge a DC device like a cell phone another 20% is lost in conversion"

  25. Maybe just because is the first version released. How surprising, first released version of software may contain bug or missing feature. And no. It's not the usual way, The other (older) drivers are conveniently prepackaged by you distribution.