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  1. Re:Better answer on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    It very likely would have never been law in the first place. There should also be an exponentially growing sunset on ever law passed. The laws up for sunset should require a 90%+ approval rating as it should by then be obvious that they are good, tried and true.

  2. Re:What else aren't they telling consumers? on The 'Linux Inside' Stigma · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ChromeOS the shiny coating on the ugly steel Linux framework. Makes sense to me. nobody ever really complains when you say see that chrome bumper...That bumper is actually steel with a chrome coating on the outside. It's know to those who it matters to and everyone else just likes the facade.

  3. Re:Better answer on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    "This "society" problem is actually generally not a problem for most other things."

    Not sure which society you live in, but I see nothing but arguments and majority squashing minority, even if that minority is still in the upper 40% of people.

    unrelated soap box: But then I've always been against the idea that 51% is a majority. That is only slightly more than the apposing argument. All government action should require 66% to even be reviewed and 75% to be voted into law.

  4. Re:Is it? on Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox Suffers Serious Attack, Instawallet Offline · · Score: 1

    My bitcoins are stored on a thumb drive in an FDIC-covered bank vault.

  5. Re:For those About to Whine! on Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland · · Score: 1

    By server you actually mean "display server" which is exactly right and by client you man application client making requests to draw stuff on that server. Which is also exactly right.

  6. Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 0

    Yes, everything should be static and people should all be 100% identical. Why should people desire to be better tomorrow than they are today, all that does is breed envy and jealousy. The state should just mandate a standardized set of living instructions that everyone must follow. Makes a lot more sense that way.

  7. Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 0

    Yes, the market does train it's own employees. All of them. Individual companies may or may not assist with it, but within the market if you are not self training then yes you are doomed to fail, you deservedly need to learn to be happy at minimum wage.

  8. Re:Use FTL to request the RFC... on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    IMO FTL is NIH, so the RFC is a POS and we should MOO FTW!! LOL.

  9. Re:ROT13 on Remote Island Adopts Dothraki Language · · Score: 1

    Family Guy proves you wrong....or right. I'm not sure which.

  10. Re:ROT13 on Remote Island Adopts Dothraki Language · · Score: 2

    Fewer typo's and grammar errors at least.

  11. Re:Google should have bought Sun on Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Sure wish I could fuck up as rich^H^H^H^Hbadly as them.

  12. Re:One step too far on HBO Says Game of Thrones Piracy Is "a Compliment" · · Score: 1

    I'd pay to stream the show. I would pay for an HBO streaming account I WON'T pay for an internet connection just to get an HBO streaming account.

  13. Re:It will never be that cheap again on Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value · · Score: 1

    Realty is a better example. There is still the possibility of boom/bust cycles, but there is still a limited amount and in the middle to long term it will always be growing. The only thing that really could bring it crashing down is some type of breakthrough in perhaps quantum computing that allows several hundred orders of magnitude more computational power than is currently available. Similar to what would happen to realty if we found a way to quickly terraform Mars to a lush vacation like environment and start shipping people there for cheap.

  14. Re:It will never be that cheap again on Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value · · Score: 1

    All money is magiced out of thin air. How is this any diffrent than the dollar or the euro?

  15. Re:You're not kidding on Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value · · Score: 1

    1% of my broad band is tiny compared the the large portion of my life spent keeping the $ going.

  16. Re:3D printers will not be popular at any price on Gartner Says 3D Printers Will Cost Less Than $2,000 By 2016 · · Score: 0

    It's always interesting to read the views of a Luddite that has no vision. Seeing a tech for what it currently is and thinking that's all it will ever be. Sure right now it's small plastic junk, but in the future it will be metal objects then full electronics and/or anything and everything. Scaled up and down you could print medicines or sky scrapers. Hell people like you might be able to print a life. Sorry that was just mean.

  17. Re:Why yes, there is. on Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? · · Score: 1

    Yep, the replica in the other server room across the country is still fine. The three other replicas in two other countries are also sitting pretty. Plus the backup that I take every minute down to my desktop at home is still up and working fine.

  18. Re:Does the fallback pager include little previews on GNOME 3.8 Released Featuring New "Classic" Mode · · Score: 1

    Actually I use Linux specifically because there is very few things I have to go out and download and modify to get it to do the things I want. Unlike the Windows and Mac environments where the "Just works" motto is limited to it's very narrow view of things included with the OS. You still have to spend the next week downloading crap to fill all the normal use items.

  19. Re:Libre as in We don't care what you think on GNOME 3.8 Released Featuring New "Classic" Mode · · Score: -1

    Exactly! We've always done it, so we should keep doing it. It'd be idiotic to change something.

  20. Ohhh, makes sense now. My faith is renewed.

  21. It is the first that sets out the seven days of creation:

            Day 1: heavens, earth, light, day and night.
            Day 2: the "dome" (sky) that separates the waters below (on earth) from the waters above the sky.
            Day 3: dry land and vegetation.
            Day 4: stars, moon, sun.
            Day 5: water creatures and birds.
            Day 6: land animals; humankind (both male and female). The number of human beings created is not specified. Also, God here gives to people "every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food" (Gen 1:29) -- no prohibitions.
            Day 7: God rested, and blessed this day.

    In the second creation story, things are a little different. First of all, individual days are not specified. And the sequence is very different:

            earth and heavens; no rain yet but a spring would well up and water the ground
            from dust, man was created (not woman yet)
            garden of Eden -- man is put here; garden includes the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil
            God tells man to till and keep the garden of Eden, but not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (note that Woman has not entered the scene yet! Man is alone).
            God notices that Man is alone and wants to find him a helper and partner, so He first creates animals and birds and Man names them. But still there was no helper as partner.
            God makes Man fall asleep, pulls out a rib, and makes Woman.
            The story of original sin then ensues.

  22. Re:6 days on Creationist Bets $10k In Proposed Literal Interpretation of Genesis Debate · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yea the first day the earth was already there and light was created, of course it was a few days later when the sun was created so where did that light come from?

  23. Re:Easy... on Creationist Bets $10k In Proposed Literal Interpretation of Genesis Debate · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If that were the only discrepancy then that could easily be tied in a detail of the creation of man. how about the complete order of how things were invented in the two creation myths? one man was created on the last working day, while the other man was created first and he was seen to be bored so all the things were created in the world for him.

  24. Re:Why yes, there is. on Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? · · Score: 1

    The cop isn't going to be able to wirelessly grab what was sent 20 minutes ago.

    Unless he goes 223538400 miles away very fast and receives your transmission.

  25. Re:Why yes, there is. on Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? · · Score: 1

    Unless it's cloud storage!!