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  1. Re:The whole concept of 1%/wealth is ... irrelevan on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Well said.

  2. They are not the 99% on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    The 92% rather than 99% actually have jobs and do not occupy anything other than their workspace. They have social obligations, friends, family and they do their part. If you're occupying Wall Street, or DC, you're not looking for a job. Clearly you have time and funds to travel, so travel to a place that has less unemployment than where you come from and get a job. Yes you may have to work hard and do a job that isn't your ideal. Travel a bit to other parts of the world, then you'll come back and like Snoop Dogg, admit that even living in the projects you have it better than most of the world, food, shoes on your feet, a place to sleep, free education, etc.

    Occupy This and That are not the 99% and they are not like us.

  3. This is not an OS on 'Cosmo' — a C#-Based Operating System · · Score: 1

    How is this an operating system? You "run" it by hitting F5 INSIDE VISUAL STUDIO. The most basic thing an OS does is provide a bootloader. If you require a .NET runtime, which is a huge virtual machine, how are you writing an OS? A command shell is not an OS.

    Maybe they go ahead and describe how they make a boot image later but I stopped at the "hit F5 in VISUAL STUDIO" part.

  4. why are there complaints? on Google Pulls Plug On Programming For the Masses · · Score: 1

    Who in their right mind would build anything, much less a business or curriculum off a google product? What was the end of life google gave you for this product when you did your research into it? Or did you just hop on the latest/greatest google thing du jour bandwagon?

    Someday ppl will figure out that free crap from google comes with no guarantee of any kind. Use at your own risk.

    Even the paid stuff comes with no service.

  5. Re:I don't get it on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    Good question. Why do people care what the guy who created one of the world's most successful operating systems thinks about GUIs that run on it?

    I thought you were talking about Linus not Bill Gates? If you're talking about Linus, then you mean the guy who should have listened to his professor and then we'd have a sweet microkernel OS where no kernel module (device driver, stack, etc.) could cause a kernel panic or hard crash because they all run in user space instead of in a monolithic kernel, and it wouldn't have taken so long to have SMP and a somewhat preemptible kernel for semi-real-time use. See Minix for a free/academic exercise and QNX for a commercial example of sweet microkernel systems.

    If you are talking about that Linus, then what you mean to say is you like to listen to the guy who created an ok UNIX-like kernel after studing UNIX source code. I can't think of any actual operating systems he's written, but I might be wrong.

    Probably what you mean to say is you think he's really smart and that's why you listen to him.

    BTW I 100% agree on this topic, hate Gnome 3.

  6. Who uses google for anything other than search? on Google+ Account Suspensions Over ToS Drawing Fire · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone put their important data on any free SaaS (latest buzzword = "cloud") site? Why would you use gmail for anything other than a spam trap?

    What is the disaster recovery plan and SLA for your google data?

    Do you think Google makes money by respecting your privacy and making sure your data is always safe and available?

    Finally, why would you trust your data to services, even if they were paid and you had some recourse should there be a failure, that are always in beta test?

    Also the image acompanying the article is extremely inappropriate, equating mass loss of life during war with losing access to your free google services. I'd have commented on the article's site but you have to register with them to comment, I won't give them free content and spend time registering with my spamtrap google email :).

  7. Exciting news! New Librevision++ released! on 100% Libre, Trisquel 4.5 STS 'Slaine' Released · · Score: 1

    The developers of Librevision++ proudly announce a new release which includes a new version of the Jabberwocky++ client and the Gerlbes browser. Updated boot loaders for Snapcore images and Dijong class monitors is included! Bug fixes for Smacklepackle 2.3 and a few new features for Jinglebanlge 4.3 are included!

  8. Re:Hmmm ... on CMU Eliminates Object Oriented Programming For Freshman · · Score: 1

    You will find even less demand for functional programming or imperative programming. Hopefully other schools won't follow this loon's lead, because we will have to import even more programmers (or offshore) from overseas.

  9. Re:One of these things is not like the others. on Citation Map Shows Top Science Cities · · Score: 1

    Here's another SAT question. Psychologists are to psychiatrists as chiropractors are to ....?

  10. One of these things is not like the others. on Citation Map Shows Top Science Cities · · Score: 1

    Is this a SAT test question? Physics, Chemistry, and Psychology? Why not Voodoo or Phrenology?

  11. Re:capitalists take note on Chinese Intellectual Property Acquisition Tactics Exposed · · Score: 0

    Why did you bother reading the story? Your sig says it all. According to you they were just doing their moral duty.

  12. Re:herd immunity. on Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City · · Score: 1

    Riiight, because all of a sudden asphalt and pavement get soft because everyone is driving a GWIZ deathtrap. Same with the trees and poles... The level of mental retardation caused by going green is just shocking.

  13. Where? on US To Host World Press Freedom Day · · Score: 1

    I don't want to hear about your problems, I want to hear your solutions. Would you mind suggesting 5 alternate locations that have greater freedom of the press/speech? Perhaps Iran - they are on the UN Commision for Women's Rights after all.

  14. Re:Sarcastic submitter - ignorant of history on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Like this http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529832,00.html No one remembers Vietnam either right? With little kids sent to walk up to troups while holding a grenade. Remember, no profiling allowed so everyone gets treated just the same by the TSA...

  15. Sarcastic submitter - ignorant of history on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    I, for one, feel much safer knowing the TSA is protecting us from impressionable minds warped by too much Dora the Explorer.

    Because no one has ever planted explosives on a child before...

  16. Thanks for saving me lots of time again on US Elections Dominated By Closed Source. Again. · · Score: 1
    Hadn't read Slashdot in a while, checked back today and the summary again reminded me why I stopped visting.

    Plus they are vulnerable to software bugs and are often based on unstable, closed-source operating systems.

    /barf
    Yes the problem with voting machines is the unstable closed-source operating systems, as opposed to the ultra-secure ultra-stable open-source operating systems that fix all of your crappy application programming issues.

    New signature idea - TRY LINUX, IT'S MAGIC!!! PROPAGANDA INCLUDED AT NO EXTRA CHARGE!!!

  17. Multitasking is not a skill on Video Games Lead To Quick Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    In fact, it is detrimental behavior. Studies (find your own references, it's not hard to google) have shown that people who "multitask" think they are getting more done but in fact are less productive.

    I have no doubt that certain types of games are beneficial, in moderation, just like anything else. I play RTSs, LoL, WoW, diabolo clones, flight sims, etc. with my young kids. They are able to use a PC from when they are about 2. I don't have a problem with us playing together for an hour or two per day, as long as they also do their schoolwork, chores, get their exercise in, and play normal kid games that require them to use their imagination. Works out for us.

  18. Re:What is more stupid on Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites · · Score: 1
    No, the Koran very clearly states that Muslims are to kill and persecute the infidels (non-Muslims). Very clearly. There is no such doctrine taught in the Bible with respect to "abortion clinics". In fact the exact opposite is taught by Christ himself.

    Here is a secular (i.e. no Christian bias) site where you can find the specific quotes from the Koran with respect to you and me (infidels).

    http://infidelsarecool.com/2006/12/28/overwhelming-evidence-of-i/ Muslims can not believe the Koran and claim this is a religion of peace. The ones that do simply have not read their "holy book". This is why "moderate" muslims don't speak out against the ones that implement their holy book's command. This is why the Cordoba House Imam says "One man's terrorist is another man's hero." and talks about how suicide bombers go to heaven because they are martyrs.

  19. Pogue might be mildly retarded on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    That is all.

  20. You can run on for a long time... on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Fuel, meet Fire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc Yes yes, flamebait :)

  21. In other breaking news.... on Mahara 1.2 EPortfolios · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rob Roy provides a review of Maboosa's book on Tingalo and Jehooviast. This books will allow users to get the most out of their Tingalo and optimize and scale out ther Jehooviast installations. In addition, paradigms will be shifted.

  22. You hate what you don't understand on Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds like you don't really understand what you're talking about. The reason we continue to use ACID compliant RDBMS is because they work and they work well. If you don't think that RDBMS have changed over the years, you're simply lacking experience. I feel this is most likely the case as you comlain about the interface language (SQL), and don't understand how to CM stored procedures, or how to test a DB (OMG I have to make a copy of the DB to test - so hard!) Comlaining about the overhead of using an RDBMS in an application that doesn't require an RDBMS is tantamount to complaining about how hot you get while wearing a spacsuit when you jog in the park.

  23. Re:Oh boy... on Microsoft's Security Development Process Under CC License · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Pretty sure you have no idea about Unix internals vs NT internals. UNIX doesn't have ACL security.

  24. Re:Really? on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow. Put a label on someone and then you can treat them as sub-human. You're well on your way.

  25. Well, we have to pay bloggers... on Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To make up for the state run left-wing media.