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  1. Re:python sucks on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 0

    All these crappy python applications asume that /usr/bin/python is just the right version for them.
    Both python 2.5 and python 3.0 install with a version number (e.g. /usr/bin/python2.7 ), and under the generic /usr/bin/python.
    What did you want me to rename exactly? And why should I as a user need to rename stuff just because python developpers can't be bothered to use decent versioning?

  2. python sucks on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: -1

    Upgrading python is a real pain.
    The different versions don't even implement the same language.
    Last time I had to upgrade to 3 for one piece of software all other packages seized working... why? Because they started with '#!/usr/bin/python' which now pointed to version 3 instead of 2.5. I had to edit all of them to use /usr/bin/python2.5

    On the other hand I don't expect much better from those who think whitespace is part of the language anyway....

  3. Re:2*0 on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    No they do not.

  4. Re:youtube? on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since most of the deniers seem to get their arguments from quality sites like youtube they probably thought it was a good place to post a video with some real research.
    The mistake they make is thinking the deniers are interested in science at all....

  5. Re:Would have walked away? on Dream Chaser Damaged In Landing Accident At Edwards AFB · · Score: 5, Insightful

    RTFA, the reporting is fine, you are doing a lousy job at reading.

    It was unmanned... that is why there are no injuries.
    The damage was such that if a pilot had been in there he would have been able to walk away.

  6. Re:Am I the only one that sees the hypocrisy? on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    We can't stop you from killing......
    We simply don't want to have any part in it.

  7. Re:Hey on Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It all comes down to definitions... I regard myself as both as I regard them two answers on two different (but related) questions.

    When someone asks me wether god (pick your favorit) exists I answer 'I don't know' since I have no proof either way. This is the agnostic part.
    When someone asks me wether I believe in god (pick any flavour), I answer 'No' since I don't see any reason to blindly put my faith in any of the various religions. This is the atheist part.

  8. Re:Link not working on Elon Musk Admits He Is Too Busy To Build Hyperloop · · Score: 2

    Space flight is incredibly inefficient.
    You lift a tin can above the atmosphere only to drop it back in a little later. All the energy you used to lift it will be lost.
    It also doesn't scale very well.

  9. Re:Seriously? I mean seriously? on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 1

    Gitmo is used for a new category of people made up because it was convenient.
    This isn't even close to the military prisons you refer to.

  10. Re:Just because you don't like the law... on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Gandhi had been arrested before, and this had proven to work out for his cause. He made a judgemend call that being arrested would work out again.
    In Snowden's case the opposite might verry well be true, and he obviously made a different choice.

    However the main point still stands: both broke a law (both viewing it as justified). They also both publicly admitted what they did and why.

  11. Re:Seriously? I mean seriously? on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 1

    I was not expecting anything else....
    But the mere fact that the US is affirming its own stereotype does not make it right.

  12. Re:Seriously? I mean seriously? on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No you and parent still don't get it.
    And your selective quoting is a big hint.
    I never said that Russia looks better as a whole. (Re-read those first five words again, better yet do it a few tims).
    As for the sentence you qouted: it also contained the words 'IN THIS CASE' which you conveniently left out.

    To make it a little bit easier for those who still don't get it:
    -Russia bad
    -Russia looking better than US in regard to Snowden.

  13. Re:Just because you don't like the law... on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In 1930 India was still under Britsh rule and it was forbidden to produce your own salt. This was the law.
    Some indian guy thought this law was morally and ethically wrong and marched to the sea and produced his own salt.

    Back then types like you when all nuts with 'He broke the law!'.
    Today very few would argue that what Ghandi did was wrong.

    Is the case against Snowden exactly the same? No, if only because the most brilliant part of Ghandi's actions were its shear simplicity.
    But it does show that breaking the Law, no matter who wrote it, is not by definition the wrong thing to do.

  14. Re:Good on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And that is why this great justice system of yours has worked out great for those in Guantanamo Bay?

    As for him bein a traitor in your opinion: history books will judge different about him.

  15. Re:Seriously? I mean seriously? on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 2, Informative

    The first sentence of my post only contained five words....
    Please wake up yourself and READ them.

  16. Re:Gone on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know if Snowden likes those countries anymore than you, however if you want to get away from the US government it isn't a bad move to go to those coutnries least likely to turn you over....

    As for Latin America.... compared to the US just about any country could be called 'leftist'. For me (as I am not an American) that doesn't necesseraly mean a bad thing.
    Especially since most of those 'leftist' regimes have been democraticly chosen and have replaced US backed rightwing dictators.

  17. Re:Gone on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it definitly is not.
    And that is why it is so sad to see that the nation that just can't stop telling how free and great they are comes of looking worse than the Russians.
    The Russians might just do it to simply piss off the US, but a trully free and just country should not have any problems winning this PR battle.

  18. Re:Our culture on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 0

    Bullshit.

    The amount of 'plot' hollywood has been putting out can easily be understood by any 3 year old anywhere on the globe.
    The US does not have a culture (besides killing its natives).

  19. Re:No Shit on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It also doesn't support the 'Snowden is evil' image either. Afterall he is only reporting what any 'responsible' government already knew and did......

  20. Re:IPv6: Who gives a shit? on One Year After World IPv6 Launch — Are We There Yet? · · Score: 1

    There is this new thingy called 'privacy extensions', is only 12 years old so you might not have heard about it yet.....

  21. Re:Priority Failure. on BT Begins Customer Tests of Carrier Grade NAT · · Score: 1

    They were done in the last millennium.... and they did fix the actual issue (new address scheme and ip header).

  22. Re:If people had put more thought into the transit on BT Begins Customer Tests of Carrier Grade NAT · · Score: 1

    And how would you 'extend' ipv4 without ending up with essentially all the same problems?

  23. Re:Dear Computer Programmers: Why do this? on Mozilla Dropping 64-Bit Windows Nightly Builds For Now · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you use the right types in C there is no problem at all.
    No endless if statements needed.
    However the world is filled with idiots who mix integer and pointer types.

  24. Re:Is there enough data on Report Says Climate Change Already Evident, Emissions Gap Growing · · Score: 1

    I'm no expert either, but last I checked dead plants do tend to rot......

  25. Re:Interesting on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    They did.
    There were multiple family matches. (including his father and his son)
    Why he also gave DNA himself is interesting though... was it due to social pressure, did he want to get caught, maybe he didn't believe they could really match it....