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  1. Re:Too soon for KDE. on PC-BSD 7 Released, With KDE 4.1.1 · · Score: 1

    KDE 4.1.1 may not be as mature as >3.5.9, but it's certainly usable. Apart from Dolphin being something of a joke (horribly slow, but for all I know that might be a local or Debian problem; I don't even use it), I haven't had any trouble with KDE for a month or so. It's not a bad desktop.

  2. Re:Glamorizing suicide on David Foster Wallace an Apparent Suicide · · Score: 1

    Cowardice? Do you think committing suicide is easy? It takes real courage and hard determination, although that doesn't mean it's commendable.

  3. Re:With great genius comes great madness on David Foster Wallace an Apparent Suicide · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "most accounts?" There's hardly any information about the person William Shakespeare.

  4. Re:Stop saying that Mac OS is based on FreeBSD. on Ubuntu To Pay for Upgrades To the Free Software User Experience · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, the only difference is that it has a radically different architecture. Apart from that, and most of the code, it's the same.

  5. Re:The Climate Change Guys Will Have a Field Day.. on Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off · · Score: 1

    When a huge, 4500 year old ice shelf rapidly disappears (this latest break isn't exceptional, it's part of a trend), you have climate change (no, not an indicator of climate change; this is, in itself, climate change). When someone in Queensland complains about the weather, you have a whiny Australian. The former is the result of a change of average temperature over a period of many years, the latter is the result of some guy having to wear a jacket in the winter.

  6. Re:The Climate Change Guys Will Have a Field Day.. on Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off · · Score: 1

    Hey, idiot, there's a world out there that doesn't adhere to American English spelling conventions. Just FYI.

  7. Re:The Climate Change Guys Will Have a Field Day.. on Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, we have our field days when so-called "sceptics" follow up every story that even remotely concerns climate with stupid non-sequiturs, and point to single points of "evidence" against global warming as if they somehow were relevant. Like when junkscience.com presents a "global mean temperature" with sharp differences between day and night and summer and winter, or some idiot on Slashdot points to the weather in fucking Queensland.

  8. Re:Reputable news sources on Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Email · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hello, as a freelance Sun reporter, I'll quote you on that: 'Unnamed sources claim some of the emails were sexually explicit and addressed to a former Big Brother contestant'. Hope that's OK with you, and if it's not you can just piss off. Thank you.

  9. Re:I do no' thin' it means what you thin' it means on China Blocks iTunes · · Score: 1

    Yes, but "Isn't it recursive" just doesn't roll off the tongue well enough for a hit single. I'm sure it would sell extraordinarily well to the Slashdot crowd, though. Who would've thought... it figures.

  10. To be fair to China on China Blocks iTunes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Blocking an album containing Alanis Morissette, Garbage, Moby and Sting is probably preventing human rights violations as much as it contributes to them. Isn't that ironic?

  11. Re:Nice on AMD's OverDrive and CrossFire Come To Linux · · Score: 1

    Lack of third party support is principles? Sounds like a crap principle.

  12. Re:You should read the article. on Debian's Testing Branch Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is wrong with you, twitter? A reason for not mentioning decss, apart from the fact that it's off topic for the article, is that no one uses it anymore. It's been replaced by better means. If you've decided to play a free software zealot, you should at least try not being a total moron about it. Whining about lack of mention for decss in an article about the upcoming release of Debian today is like whining about lack of mention of the latest Windows ME innovations in a preview of Windows 7. Oh can it be because of the ongoing antitrust trials? It's just retarded.

    I don't normally notice your comments, but I can see why most people who do consider you to be a total fucking idiot.

  13. Re:Question on OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious · · Score: 1

    So basically you're keeping an old troll alive because you've read it. You must be a pretty smart guy.

  14. Re:The Chicken and the Egg on OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious · · Score: 1

    Funny you should say that. The only OS fans I've seen that are even worse than BSD, Amiga, Slackware and Mac zealots put together are the SGI zealots. Asking for help putting Linux on an SGI box in the comp.sys.sgi hierarchy used to be a failsafe way to get flamed to ashes, allegedly via email as well. Their enlightened reasoning was usually that "Linux will turn the SGI box into a PC".

    Of course, getting hold of an updated version of Irix is next to impossible if you aren't a big corporation.

  15. Re:THe video sucks on HTC Dream (Android) Video Emerges · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Installing it on your fucking iphone requires approval, dickhead. That's one thing some of us find unacceptable.

  16. They are idiots on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, I'm still sore that my donut shaped earth theory never caught on. Mmmm, donut.

  17. Re:new? on Mozilla Unveils Aurora Concept Browser · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then there's also already the Arora browser, a WebKit/Qt4 based browser that actually works. I suggest Mozilla rename the browser to something like Phoenix to avoid name confusion.

  18. Re:grammar, please.... on MIT Team Working On a $12 Apple (II) Desktop · · Score: 1

    I'm not wrong, you arrogant dipshit. Team can, in British English, work both as a singular and a plural noun. Just Google it and check for common usage, for instance at the BBC. Or check Wikipedia if you wish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_collective_nouns#Metonymic_merging_of_grammatical_number. You might learn something.

  19. Re:grammar, please.... on MIT Team Working On a $12 Apple (II) Desktop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...the team are actively recruiting enthusiasts...

    [members of] the team are actively recruiting...

    the team is actively recruiting....

    No, not in British English. Substitute "the team" with "they", and it makes sense.

  20. Re:What about the native americans? on Knights Templar Sue the Pope · · Score: 2, Informative

    He's not "insightful" just because he conforms to your prejudices. He's also wrong, as a number of other people have stated. More than 50,000 convicts were sent from Britain to America; far, far, more than went over on the Mayflower.

  21. Re:What about the native americans? on Knights Templar Sue the Pope · · Score: 1

    You just read the wrong Wikipedia articles, and you're fairly clueless about history yourself. Here's a better link for you:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation#British_transportation_to_North_America

    The British transportation of criminals to America only stopped after the revolution. Your turn to take a history class.

  22. Re:No, GNOME-like values on QT on Shuttleworth Sees Possibility For a QT-based GNOME · · Score: 1

    It's never going to happen, for technical, social and licensing reasons, so it can't possibly be a priority. A priority is something you set first. Putting never first is never a good idea. Pipe dream, perhaps. Certainly stupid. I can't believe someone with a UID below a million would even suggest it.

  23. Re:Oh lord on Free SMS On IPhone 3G Via AOL IM Client · · Score: 1

    You can get IM clients for most other phones as well. That's what makes this advertising and spam.

  24. Re:Oh lord on Free SMS On IPhone 3G Via AOL IM Client · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They don't work. This crap still shows up on the front page when I set the filter to "best only".

  25. Re:Drivers should be pure on Should the Linux Desktop Be "Pure?" · · Score: 1

    It is a correct example. Printers stopped working, since they didn't have drivers.

    Also, I'd suggest you shouldn't confuse binary code with assembly if you're trying to impress people with your vast knowledge. My personal attacks were well founded, aspie. You're a know-nothing hack.