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  1. Re:Funny block... on Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s · · Score: 1

    Anyone who knows how to run an ffmpeg-one-liner is probably not wasting his time listening to crappy You-Tube recordings via crappy soundcards and even crappier speakers. I wonder how the imbeciles who do are actually finding the ripping site. Oh let me guess - they have an "app" with a single button to push...

  2. Re:So Apple on Apple Patents Polluting Facebook, Google Profiles · · Score: 4, Funny

    We know who you are. Very funny alias, Mr Willy Ficken from Petting, Germany...

  3. Woohoo! on How Icaros Desktop Brings the Amiga Experience To x86 PCs · · Score: 1

    Another undead "Amiga". Hooray...

  4. Re:Being hunted down. on MPAA's Dodd Secretly Lobbied For a Canadian DMCA · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Let's be sure to make this rot of a planet uninhabitable before it's to late.

  5. Never use SSH on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1

    For security reasons, never use SSL. As an educated user can easily guess from the sheer number of warnings that will pop up when SSL is activated, it is a major security hazard. Until now I have always been able to click them away before they could do any harm, but it's just a matter of time until one gets through the firewall.

  6. Four hours for a man on Stroke Risk Spikes In Healthy Adults Who Don't Get Enough Sleep · · Score: 1

    Four for a man, five for a woman - and six for an idiot
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  7. I did on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 1

    Indeed I switched straight to KDE when I had to realize that GNOME would not be "fixed" this time. I have occasionally been using KDE since 1998, so I was anyhing but new to it. I also took a look at XFCE (I had used it for the last time when it was in a very early state), just to see where that had gone - and I'm still there. XFCE might partially be a little too spartanic but it is by far the best overall experience of all. Simple, clear, unsurprising ...and not annoying.

  8. No on Is OpenStack the New Linux? · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a "cloud OS for the datacenter" Open Stack clearly has to iconoclast on empowering croud-sorced segregation-effects within the namespace of its initial synergies. Anything else would be a paradigm shift.

  9. These data are completely useless on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    As long as we do not know how they correlate to other "suspicious" searches or even to the sum of all queries at a given time the pure existance of these wuery terms does not tell us anything. Not even the slightest definition of "suspicious" query was given, so the whole theory is speculative.

  10. Re:No, our science education is dismal on Taking Issue With Claims That American Science Education is 'Dismal' · · Score: 1, Informative

    Are you talking about differential calculus? In this case, i guess, somebody German mistranslated "High School". Differential calculus in Germany is either college level, or -if you choose to specialize on maths/science- part of 12th class higher leading schools, which are not "High Schools". Education systems are quite different, so there's no direct analogy but our middle schools would be next to US high schools.

  11. Re:Patriotism is poison to the workers! on DHS Best-and-Brightest STEM Program Under Fire · · Score: 0
    Patriotism is poison to the mind...

    Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori...

  12. Re:Treaspassing on Whose Cameras Are Watching New York Roads? · · Score: 1

    Said in a simpler way: I[Ampere]=U[Volts]/R[Ohms]. The amount of current that will flow through you is -as voltage is constant- indirectly proportional to the total resistance of your body + clothes + floor. It can also not be higher than what the power source can provide for logical reasons. So more amps are potentially more dangerous. Especially if you're around barefoot in a moist, flat area...

  13. Use what you know best on Ask Slashdot: Tips For Designing a Modern Web Application? · · Score: 1
    Supposed this thing is going to run on it's own server, or on a shared host providing access to an app server instance to you, just get it running on JSP. You know how to handle the backend, the front-end will be not too complicated. Having written a PHP framework for a very, very similar use case some years ago, I dare to say, that the HTML part of it will not be much of a problem. I would -if I had to do it again-:
    • implement the backend in Java or PHP
    • build the main submit/edit/display methods around an MVC
    • use Java/persistance rather than PHP, as entity objects are exactly what you need to map events to (event.date, .place, .promoter, .uri,...})
    • dont fsck around about the framwork. You will need some CSS/HTML and AJAX frameworks for the frontend - pick one, when you'll finish it. For the draft you don't need one
    • keep the backend open for different frontends. iCal, XML, API-access, various calendaring standards will be very useful

    Don't forget. If you're a Java EE guy, you probably know all, you need to. Get the backend running, check with simple text or raw HTML output and then polish the web appearance. I don't know which of the varios CSS/HTML frameworks will integrate best with JSP, but look for one that lets you easily create calendar fields and forms with pulldowns. I remember a useful date selector being a lot more complicated than I'd expected.

  14. Re:Suing herself? How you say .... on Copyright Infringer Tries To Shut Down Reporting On Her Infringement · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yes. The actual version is

    ::1

    Please upgrade.

  15. Re:Really? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    The big bang...well, what was there before that?

    Logical error: there is no "before". Time starts with the universe expanding == the very moment of the Big Bang. In the beginning there was nothing: no distance, no time, no matter, no "before".

  16. Re:Really? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    I strongly disagree. You are free to believe in whatever you want. I -and the rest, I guess- are free to call you a bloody idiot if you happen to argue against all known logic. That's basically two parties - and the price of mentioned freedom to be as much of an aggressively confessing ignorant as you want.

  17. I got pretty much what you specified on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Lenovo Thinkpad L720. Business model (non reflecting screen). Without SSD drive I payed about $500.- six months ago. HDD were generally quite expensive when I ordered mine, but even then you would have stayed far below your limits. Can't complain - I wanted a reliable machine with as litte non-essential extras as possible (no camera, no fingerprint reader etc.), as I use it mainly for music production and performance. Got exactly what I wanted. Runs Debian/stable AMD64 and Windows7 64bit, Debian installed without any problems, GLX, wireless, audio, BT, all there out of the box.

  18. The "Response" part may be delayed on US ISPs Delay Rollout of "Six Strikes" Copyright Enforcement Framework · · Score: 1

    But you bet, the deep packet inspection system will be rolled out soon enough.

  19. Re:Apple... on Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak" · · Score: 2

    Exept the fact that Apple does not hold any "government-mandated monopolies". AT&T de facto did. Some defense contractors might (I don't even say they do!) But Apple? "Government mandated monopolies"? I actually hate Apple. They're worse than MS ever were, IMHO. I'd call them a dozen nasty things, but not that one.

  20. Re:Less and less interested in windows 8 on Aero Glass UI No More On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I, personally, will rather die or live on the command line than be virtually lobotomized. I seriously doubt there will be any "power tools" to adopt. Just ook at these idiotic "apps" people are running nowadays. Too stupid and too lazy to even open web site. They really need an app for that!

  21. Abandon all hope on Aero Glass UI No More On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    The GNOME3-Borg have taken Microsoft, too. Seriously - I was playing with the thought of Windows as a last resort, if the dumbing-down-the-UI idiocy would ruin Linux. No chance, as it seems. Say 'hello' to the shiny new world where everything feels like a toy for the mentally challenged...

  22. Re:Cyber terrorism? on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    More simply, at what time do they determine it's copyrighted material? I wonder if their new-fangled software solution is going to get caught by false positives?

    Come on - do you really think Microsoft, Sony, Disney and some "rights enforcement" goons from Russia actually care about that when pulling a publicity stunt? They most likely flooded some minor ISPs networks with invalid packets, broke DNS and routing somewhere in the wild east for a few hours or days, kicked anything out of the net that was listening on "suspect" ports and brought down a gazillion of "pirate" SANs, printers and traffic lights. Sure, they might also have interrupted a few kids' filesharing activities for an afternoon and they probably have also seen someone sharing copyrighted content, but that's not exactly rocket science. Propaganda action. My bet. MS, SONY and Disney(!!) - what else could they join forces for? Tech research? Sure...

  23. Re:Many of these items are still around on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 2

    If you were into electronics (sort of literally), you'd consider magnifying glasses as pretty much "the most useful of items". Electronic components are unlikely to become bigger in the future and electronics are not exactly about to become obsolete, so the magnifying glass still will be with us for some time. Heck, you can't even read the type number on most microchips without some good light and a magnifying glass.

  24. Re:Heil on 'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany · · Score: 1

    Very nice! Den Kerl erschiessen!

  25. Re:Is she? on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: 3, Informative
    "I liken biggen assen and I cannot lie."

    gern geschehen.