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  1. Re:Woohoo! on SETI's 'Strong Signal' Came From Earth (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. It's quite a surprise, actually. Though... perhaps not worthy of a publication.

  2. One word rebuttal on French Version of 'Patriot Act' Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    Here's the one word rebuttal: Circumcision

  3. Re: SystemD added? on Ubuntu 15.04 Released, First Version To Feature systemd · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > Danger: systemd marketing droid detected

    Oh, fuck off. Seriously, just fuck off.

    (People are getting real value out of systemd vs. $whatever. It's fine if you don't perceive that value and you are free to articulate those concerns, but don't immediately accuse happy users of being shills, please.)

  4. It looks a bit verbose, but... on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    when you're right, you're right. ... but you have to wonder if we really shouldn't embrace the whole DevOps thing and just program our "scripts" in a real language such as Python. (Or Perl for that matter, I just happen to like the "subprocess" Python package for extremely simple unix-like automation.)

  5. Re:Full Disclosure can be found on oss-security... on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 2

    So you don't have bash installed. I'm fucking AMAZED that your bash isn't exploitable!

  6. "hate-mongering"? on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    You gotta be fucking kidding.

  7. I can only repeat my question on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 1

    You've just said what "init" doesn't do -- which btw, I'm well aware of -- I was merely preempting some responses I've seen in the past. Tell us which single thing it does do well.

  8. So... on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So what particular one thing does SysV init do well in your opinion? I honestly can't think of a single thing. It's crappy at managing services, it's crappy at running shell scripts (as witness by the non-standardness of init.d scripts), it's shit at managing running services with interdependencies (inittab), it's shit at dynamically reconfiguring systems (e.g. network reconfiguration for Wifi.), etc. etc.

    There's a reason alternatives were created, y'know.

  9. Yes, they're separate on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dark matter conerns the "missing" (i.e. never observed directly) mass in the universe, which has despite its "invisibility" been observed indirectly; for example look up Bullet Cluster on Wikipedia.

    Dark energy concerns what it is that is causing the expansion of space-time (and consequently) the universe itself.

  10. Is it... on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    It it... LETTER?

    That would be so hot!

  11. Re:On that note on Should We Eat Invasive Species? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here: http://www.ted.com/talks/bonni...

    Not being an expert in the field, I cannot vouch for its accuracy.

  12. Choice on Tux3 File System Could Finally Make It Into the Mainline Linux Kernel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, please. A modern Linux distro actually needs to provide hotplug that actually works, a tear-free desktop experience, reliable service termination/startup/restarts, etc.

    Stop living in the past.

  13. At least... on Tux3 File System Could Finally Make It Into the Mainline Linux Kernel · · Score: 0

    At least it'll be moving past X11 in a year or two :). But then people with no understanding are arguing that Wayland is NIH-X11 -- it's so confusing having to understand nuance!

  14. Lesson Being: on Your Old CD Collection Is Dying · · Score: 1

    Lesson Being: Digitize that shit as soon as possible and just keep enough backups with enough ECCs to keep transferring those digital copies perfectly to new media.

  15. Re:KDE 3 on KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace · · Score: 1

    Try it again. Seriously.

  16. I think *you* misunderstand on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    "Herd immunity" isn't an argument for you getting the vaccine for your children (those arguments are already plain) -- it's an argument against you being able to opt out of the vaccine for your children (barring medical reasons such as allergy to the vaccine).

  17. Re:Sex discrimination. on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    End result: the US with it's huge positive discrimination drive has the situation where men and women appear to compete opn an equal footing.

    You really need to find a citation for that because if it's true it would be hugely interesting!

    (Btw: I think the gender divide is basically universal. There have even been studies showing that women discriminate against women based on gender -- even when interviewing for positions which the women-doing-the-discriminating were occupying. It sounds absurd, but frankly I think social conditioning goes even further than this!)

  18. Harsh! on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    That's pretty harsh...

    Why not screw Beta gently instead?

  19. Idiocy on Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today · · Score: 4, Informative

    And regardless, how idiotic is it to grade someone based on the number of pages of their notes anyway?

    It's unbelievably idiotic and absurd... until you consider human nature.

    The people above you are incompetent (cf. "Peter Principle") and will latch onto anything that they can use to judge you to avoid appearing as the incompetents that they are. Even when it makes no sense from an analytical point of view. We humans seem to be hardwired to avoid (being perceived to be, or actually) being wrong. (The book's also pretty good!)

    Anyway, hope it wasn't too traumatic :).

  20. Are you saying... on Astronomers Discover Largest Structure In the Universe · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that gravitational lensing is just an anomaly?

    Gravitational lensing seems to be one of the major evidences in favor of dark matter/mass, but it'd be interesting to see you (or anyone for that matter) argue that it's just an anomaly given that it can be observed in multiple distinct locations.

    (Now, I think we both agree that dark energy is still just a hypothesis, but I think you'd have to come up with something better than claiming that it's "just an anomaly" to explain the existing evidence.)

  21. Cool! on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of the few languages in recent times with an interesting type system which isn't just a trivial rehash of existing (in practice) ones.

  22. No! Why didn't you mention this earlier? on Most Sensitive Detector Yet Fails To Find Any Signs of Dark Matter · · Score: 2

    Of course they hadn't considered it earlier! What fools they've been shown to be!

    (Hint: If you're a random commenter on Slashdot, then, yeah, the experts in the field have probably considered your idea before you suggested it.)

  23. Re:Hah! on Firefox's Blocked-By-Default Java Isn't Going Down Well · · Score: 1

    GOD FUCKING DAMMIT...

    "switched to FF<N>"

  24. Hah! on Firefox's Blocked-By-Default Java Isn't Going Down Well · · Score: 1

    PDF.js is unbelievably bad at font rendering and rendering in general. (Compared to Okular and whatever backend it uses.)

    Hopefully Mozilla have some metrics for the number of users who switched to FF (where PDF.js was added as default) and immediately switched to the system PDF viewer. What a collosal waste of JS code.

  25. Does it matter? on Nuclear Officers Napped With Blast Door Left Open · · Score: 2

    ... if all the lauch codes are zero anyway?

    (Well, alright that was some time ago, but really... this points to systemic issues, and I don't think they'll have been fixed within a few years.)