User: jfdavis668

To another world in 80 days?

On: Elon Musk Proposes Spaceship That Can Send 100 People To Mars In 80 Days (theverge.com)

with Passepartout?

Re:Not My Living Room

On: Apple Is Getting Ready To Take On Google and Amazon In a Battle For The Living Room (qz.com)

That's right. I only trust my cable company.

Shouldn't this be in a business journel?

On: Jawbone Fails To Pay Key Business Partners and Has Almost No Inventory In Stock: Sources (businessinsider.com)

The fits and collapse of a business are better discussed in a business journal. This story isn't really about technology at all.

Riot! Burn down AT&T and Comcast infrastructur

On: Appeals Court Decision Kills North Carolina Town's Gigabit Internet (hothardware.com)

The National Guard is busy in Charlotte, there will be no one around to stop the riot!

It will be fixed in Hurd

On: Lenovo Denies Claims It Plotted With Microsoft To Block Linux Installs (theregister.co.uk)

Don't worry, the driver will be released along with GNU Hurd.

12 are porn sites

On: North Korea Has Just 28 Websites (vice.com)

One is for weather, one for shopping, four movie sites, 10 are news/propaganda and the rest are porn.

Does C-x M-c M-butterfly still work?

On: Emacs 25.1 Released With Tons Of New Features (fossbytes.com)

Because otherwise real programmers will have to use butterflies.

Control

On: 23 Years Later: the Apple II Receives Another OS Update (arstechnica.com)

OpenApple - Reset

Re:reboot!

On: 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com)

We can get Kanya West to play Kat!

Re:Airs next week

On: 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com)

I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that

Re:What if I am an Ubuntu hater, too?

On: Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 (pcworld.com)

It runs the software I want to run. I have been using Redhat/Fedora Core/Fedora since the original version 3. I'm not looking for it to entertain me.

Have they run out of curry yet?

On: 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com)

After 28 years, you think they would be out of curry by now.

What if I am an Ubuntu hater, too?

On: Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 (pcworld.com)

Can't I get one with Fedora?

He's Arnold Arnold Arnold Rimmer

On: 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com)

Without him life would be much grimmer

Re:Take that, Britain

On: New EU Rules Promise 100Mbps Broadband and Free Wi-Fi For All (arstechnica.com)

But Britain has biscuits!

Use Apple Maps and no one will find you

On: Android Users Need To Delete Google Maps and Google Play If They Don't Want Their Locations Tracked (theregister.co.uk)

You won't even know where you are.

The NSA works for President Obama

On: ACLU Is Launching A Campaign To Convince President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden (fusion.net)

Snowden released documents about the activities of the NSA under President Obama. I seriously doubt the President was happy about that.

Re:Ah, a newbie

On: LinuxScreenshots.org Closes. All Screenshot Tours Released For Downloading (linuxscreenshots.org)

My "back in the day" proceeded Linux even existing. I still don't see the point behind LinuxScreenShots.org.

Just go back to pillaging

On: Can Humankind Establish a Supply Chain in Space? (arxiv.org)

Before we maintained supply chains, we just pillaged what we needed.

I Can has Cheezburger? is more important

On: LinuxScreenshots.org Closes. All Screenshot Tours Released For Downloading (linuxscreenshots.org)

Pictures of Linux desktops? Why was someone even collecting them in the first place? At least pictures of cats are funny.

Re:Americans

On: Senator Urges Colleagues to Prevent Expansion of Government Hacking (onthewire.io)

US Constitution: Article I, Section I: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Space

On: It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org)

The final frontier.

Re:The contract is written in COBOL

On: HP Enterprise Reaches $8.8 Billion Deal With Micro Focus For Software Assets (reuters.com)

Since its COBOL, it should be all upper case, but /. doesn't allow that.

Fix this before Trump wins

On: Canadian Telecoms Will Try to Justify Their 'Ripoff' TV Plans Today (vice.com)

All the poor American's who will rush to Canada after Trump wins will need to be able to afford TV to watch the Daily Show.

The contract is written in COBOL

On: HP Enterprise Reaches $8.8 Billion Deal With Micro Focus For Software Assets (reuters.com)

MOVE Eight Point Eight Billion US Dollars TO HP.