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  1. Re:Blablabla on Hardware Hacker Proposes Patent and Education Reform To Obama · · Score: 1

    Modders, why is he modded troll?

  2. Re:I'm pretty sure it doesn't work on China's Radical New Space Drive · · Score: 1

    Classified patents are revealed when the invention is reproduced by a civilian.

    hahahahaha, good one.

  3. Re:Nepomuk? on KDE 4.10 Released, the Fastest KDE Ever · · Score: 1

    Semantic desktop. It is ahead of it's time, for sure. I personally love the akonadi/nepomuk/indexer stuff. It's taken a while to get there, but its awesome. Anecdotally, Microsoft have been trying to do the very same thing with their WinFS filesystem since Vista was a twinkle in their eye - but have so far failed to do much with it. KDE on the other hand has really gotten somewhere - thanks to the EU. ;)

  4. Re:Left KDE Because of Nepomuk and Semantic Deskto on KDE 4.10 Released, the Fastest KDE Ever · · Score: 1

    I run KDE on my work laptop. Have had the machine turned on without a reboot for over 6 months now and haven't experienced any rogue processes or major memory leaks. I'm about to do some kernel updates though, so here comes a reboot! =)

    My point is that your experience is not mine - nor many others.

  5. Re:Nepomukrewr on KDE 4.10 Released, the Fastest KDE Ever · · Score: 2

    Of course - this is KDE. System Settings -> Desktop Search - > Disable.

  6. Re:Ubuntu to revolutionize the smartphone industry on CES: Jono Bacon Talks Up Ubuntu for Phones (Video) · · Score: 1

    Currently 10M+ desktop/laptop users. That's not bad, if you ask me. Tore up the PC industry? No. But it has made a difference.

  7. Re:looks great but... on CES: Jono Bacon Talks Up Ubuntu for Phones (Video) · · Score: 1

    Better late than never. The good thing about an ubuntu phone OS is that it won't die. Once the community has it then we'll all be able to keep it rolling.

  8. Re:I want a Linux phone... on CES: Jono Bacon Talks Up Ubuntu for Phones (Video) · · Score: 1

    Carrier control.

    Have you ever noticed how your carrier has a host of crappy half-made services for video, music and other entertainment but it never really catches on because of the alternatives? With Ubuntu Phone, the carriers can have their services front and center as the point where users get their movies, music, magazines, etc. This is a big selling point for any carrier that has been trying to get in the software game.

  9. Re:Really Anonymous? on Anonymous Warhead Targets US Sentencing Commission · · Score: 1

    Obviously just a bit of a joke. It may be a clue as to some of the contents - but this isn't what they did by any stretch. Firstly, you cannot pipe stuff into an aes256 extension and magically have it encrypted. Secondly, no cracker worth their salt "rm -rf /"'s a server until they've made sure that the regular backups have been corrupted. Third, why would you pipe into a file and then remove it if successful with the very next command?

  10. Re:The perfect point defense system on German Laser Destroys Targets More Than 1Km Away · · Score: 1

    I'm a seasoned /.er, so I haven't RTFA. But it strikes me that its effectiveness as a point defense system would hinge on the speed at which it nullifies its targets, not just the fact that it can given time.

  11. Re:What if same news but fired from Chinese army? on German Laser Destroys Targets More Than 1Km Away · · Score: 1

    That's true. A large majority of people would fear this weapon in Chinese hands as they've been trumped up as a threat by Western media. However, Germany currently experiences far less corruption in its leading political bodies than does China right now - that counts for something - something quite important, actually.

  12. Re:Four words on German Laser Destroys Targets More Than 1Km Away · · Score: 1

    "Following the conclusion of this sentence, I will use two words to describe this situation." ...doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

  13. Re:Two words on German Laser Destroys Targets More Than 1Km Away · · Score: 1

    Even saying "two words to follow" exhausts it. It's impossible.

  14. Re:Just kick him out. on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 1

    Exhibit A: How to miss the point. ;)

  15. Re:Two words: on John McAfee Explains How He Milked Information From Belize's Elite · · Score: 1

    Bravo, his plan has worked. Now he can safely plead insanity in the courts.

  16. Re:Two words: on John McAfee Explains How He Milked Information From Belize's Elite · · Score: 1

    Or, he could be building a body of evidence to get himself remitted in court on the basis of being 'mentally insane'. Given his predicament, this is a very smart thing to do. Just have a look at Christopher Skase. My friend was one of the QCs responsible for getting him charged in court, the stories he relates about Skase pretending to be mentally insane in the hearing and then everyone listening to him bark orders to his lawyers out the back are quite interesting.

  17. Re:Wow, how innovative on Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Parent is son. Yes.

    ...asplode.

  18. Re:Oh Great, More Fragmenting Crap for Crap's Sake on Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled · · Score: 1

    It is unity you ninkumpoop. The difference being that it is fully touch friendly and has merged concepts from the Ubuntu TV project (which is also Unity, you ninkumpoop). ;)

    Oh, did you also forget that it runs a full linux desktop when docked?

  19. Re:windows 8 on Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Explain to me how you run your windows desktop apps on your WP8 phone. That's right, you don't and you can't.

    However, you can use your Ubuntu Phone to do all your 'smartphone' stuff, then dock the thing and use a full desktop environment with all your native desktop applications - that is something special.

  20. Re:Wow, how innovative on Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Moron. Nokia N9, WebOS, etc. This isn't WP8, not even close. Copying? Pull your head in, son.

  21. Re:Win8 with KDE? on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    I'm going to assume that you're using 'gnome3 clone' in the sense that they're both failed attempts at a unified interface? Because 'Formally Metro (tm)' is nothing like Gnome 3.

  22. Re:Steve Balmer on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    I remember when he first replaced Bill Gates at the head of the company, he cited that it was time for the company to "grow up" and become mature. He's done that, in a sense. What he did was "hedge all bets and manipulate sales". Fast forward to 2013 and the company has grown stagnate and soft. The only innovation coming from Microsoft is from their research division, but so precious little of that makes it into their products.

  23. Re:Windows 8 blows on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    More and more AAA titles are indeed built with OpenGL support. It also helps that the major development environments for games (for example, Unity) work directly with OpenGL and DirectX. The advent of smartphones and smartphone games has lead to a resurgence in OpenGL dev as well. I think you'll find that the future of DirectX is limited.

  24. Re:It's not dead. on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    Great for situations like this: http://cbsg.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/live

  25. Re:I wish I could "unsee" this.. on KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've got the Transformer Pad Infinity. I'll definitely be setting up dual boot. Since the specs of the Nexus 7 and the Pad Infinity are so close, I don't imagine it will require that much hackery to get it working....