Pakistan, a Muslim country much poorer and more unstable than Iran, has had nukes since 1999. That was the country hosting Osama bin Ladin before his (alleged) death, I might add.
The only nuclear power in the Middle East has been and is Israel, a country than is not party to the NPT and still refuses to acknowledge its arsenal publicly. We have no official alliance with Israel and they have never shed blood alongside Americans in any war that I have heard of.
Bibi has babbling on about Iran becoming a nuclear power since 1992 and it hasn't happened. Why the fuck should anyone listen to him, especially when he's so damn grating anyway? Even if he suddenly was right, who is he do deny others a capability he claims for himself?
Our good ally Saudi Arabia beheads more people than ISIS (they call it "crucifixion") and their laws around human rights and religion are 180 degree away from what the US claims to be the right way to do things.
1979 was a long time ago, before many of us (myself included) were ever born. Let's get over it already.
I've noticed that Slashdotters like to wax eloquent about so-called freedoms that align with their own interests, and whine like babies about consequences of the Internet and globalization that oppose their interests.
Talk about stating the obvious! Why would you expect otherwise? Thanks for your perfectly objective "view from nowhere", WEIRDo.
I like your phrasing here because it is very accurate. Even the hardcore anti-SSM people don't seem bothered by girl-on-girl. It's the guy-on-guy that enflames their imaginations.
I mean, hell, it was the very first link that came up in my google search. You do know how to use google, right? Right?
The much more terrifying thought is that these other posters did search Google and posted accordingly. Don't ignore the power of search bubbles and individualized results.
Not everyone is interested in being part of the "reality-based community".:P
The Periodic Table of Elements has "ever" been the same since the Big Bang.
Our current understanding is that only hydrogen, helium, and lithium atoms would have been created in the moments after the Big Bang. All the heavier elements didn't appear until the first generation of "metal poor" stars created them during their life-cycles.
NTFS is case-sensitive, it's just that Windows chooses to ignore it.
This point is important to keep in mind when working with NTFS volumes under Linux, where all NTFS-legal filenames are allowed and usable rather than just the smaller subset that are Windows-legal.
I would have joked about imperial versus metric billion instead:
A billion is a large number with two distinct definitions:
1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now generally the meaning in both British and American English.[1][2]
1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the long scale. This is one thousand times larger than the short scale billion, and equivalent to the short scale trillion.
American English always uses the short scale definition but British English has employed both versions. Historically, the United Kingdom used the long scale billion but since 1974 official UK statistics have used the short scale. Since the 1950s the short scale has been increasingly used in technical writing and journalism, although the long scale definition still enjoys common usage.[3]
Another word for one thousand million is milliard, but this is used much less often in English than billion. Some languages, such as French or German, use milliard (or a related word) for the short scale billion, and billion (or a related word) for the long scale billion. Thus the French or German billion is a thousand times larger than the modern English billion.
Of course, the error in summary goes is clearly not related to this issue... it's just wrong rather than nerdy wrong as would befit this site.:P
I don't use activities, and KDE 4 has never tried to make me use them.
Actually, at least some variants of KDE 4.x had the workspace pager replaced by the blue/red/green activity balls in the taskbar by default. I remember this especially because I had to go read up on what an activity was!
It was simple enough to change that, but I definitely count that episode as trying to "make me use them".
I could see mentioning Ron Paul in the same breath as Sanders, but not Rand.
Rand has been flip-flopping all over the place trying to pander to the mainstream Republican vote. That has not worked, and it has alienated those of us who saw his father as the sort of principled stateman that works towards something bigger than just self-aggrandizement.
Signing on to the idiotic anti-Iran deal letter is just the biggest example of his apparent non-seriousness.
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No thanks. Faith in the hand of the free market is not subject to counterexample.
The Affordable Healthcare Act,.
Pakistan, a Muslim country much poorer and more unstable than Iran, has had nukes since 1999. That was the country hosting Osama bin Ladin before his (alleged) death, I might add.
The only nuclear power in the Middle East has been and is Israel, a country than is not party to the NPT and still refuses to acknowledge its arsenal publicly. We have no official alliance with Israel and they have never shed blood alongside Americans in any war that I have heard of.
Bibi has babbling on about Iran becoming a nuclear power since 1992 and it hasn't happened. Why the fuck should anyone listen to him, especially when he's so damn grating anyway? Even if he suddenly was right, who is he do deny others a capability he claims for himself?
Our good ally Saudi Arabia beheads more people than ISIS (they call it "crucifixion") and their laws around human rights and religion are 180 degree away from what the US claims to be the right way to do things.
1979 was a long time ago, before many of us (myself included) were ever born. Let's get over it already.
Sometimes. Sometimes the seller has enough economic clout to bribe the government into requiring you to purchase their product.
Welcome to crony capitalism.
Whether a binary is allowed to execute or not is one of the most basic features of Linux file permissions.
I've noticed that Slashdotters like to wax eloquent about so-called freedoms that align with their own interests, and whine like babies about consequences of the Internet and globalization that oppose their interests.
Talk about stating the obvious! Why would you expect otherwise? Thanks for your perfectly objective "view from nowhere", WEIRDo.
Man-Man sex
I like your phrasing here because it is very accurate. Even the hardcore anti-SSM people don't seem bothered by girl-on-girl. It's the guy-on-guy that enflames their imaginations.
Meh... Flattr has been around since 2010.
I mean, hell, it was the very first link that came up in my google search. You do know how to use google, right? Right?
The much more terrifying thought is that these other posters did search Google and posted accordingly. Don't ignore the power of search bubbles and individualized results.
Not everyone is interested in being part of the "reality-based community". :P
I saw that behaviour from the add-on in Win 10, but in Linux Mint it does not make changes to the cookie whitelist list as near as I can tell.
Correct, but the X99 platform is going to offer much lower performance per $ spent for most users, even most power users.
Make sure you have a use case for 6 or 8 cores before you buy in.
Every large moon in the Solar System is tidally locked, Enceladus included.
The Periodic Table of Elements has "ever" been the same since the Big Bang.
Our current understanding is that only hydrogen, helium, and lithium atoms would have been created in the moments after the Big Bang. All the heavier elements didn't appear until the first generation of "metal poor" stars created them during their life-cycles.
You still have windows updates. You still have windows malware to contend with.
If the software doesn't need net access, the VM doesn't have to be given it, which completely solves these two issues.
NTFS is case-sensitive, it's just that Windows chooses to ignore it.
This point is important to keep in mind when working with NTFS volumes under Linux, where all NTFS-legal filenames are allowed and usable rather than just the smaller subset that are Windows-legal.
Or have I missed something...
Yes. MS has given the telemetry system permission to bypass the hosts file.
Consider that, and then ask: just whose computer is it, exactly?
I would have joked about imperial versus metric billion instead:
A billion is a large number with two distinct definitions:
1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now generally the meaning in both British and American English.[1][2]
1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the long scale. This is one thousand times larger than the short scale billion, and equivalent to the short scale trillion.
American English always uses the short scale definition but British English has employed both versions. Historically, the United Kingdom used the long scale billion but since 1974 official UK statistics have used the short scale. Since the 1950s the short scale has been increasingly used in technical writing and journalism, although the long scale definition still enjoys common usage.[3]
Another word for one thousand million is milliard, but this is used much less often in English than billion. Some languages, such as French or German, use milliard (or a related word) for the short scale billion, and billion (or a related word) for the long scale billion. Thus the French or German billion is a thousand times larger than the modern English billion.
Of course, the error in summary goes is clearly not related to this issue... it's just wrong rather than nerdy wrong as would befit this site. :P
I don't use activities, and KDE 4 has never tried to make me use them.
Actually, at least some variants of KDE 4.x had the workspace pager replaced by the blue/red/green activity balls in the taskbar by default. I remember this especially because I had to go read up on what an activity was!
It was simple enough to change that, but I definitely count that episode as trying to "make me use them".
I could see mentioning Ron Paul in the same breath as Sanders, but not Rand.
Rand has been flip-flopping all over the place trying to pander to the mainstream Republican vote. That has not worked, and it has alienated those of us who saw his father as the sort of principled stateman that works towards something bigger than just self-aggrandizement.
Signing on to the idiotic anti-Iran deal letter is just the biggest example of his apparent non-seriousness.
Write in vote for Sanders.
Windows 7 and 8 are now just as intrusive as 10 so please make sure you include that information in your local tech support opinion.
We have to stay up to date if we are to advise others.
Microsoft has already solved your workaround by making all new KBs entirely nondescript. Enjoy your black box updates.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
MS isn't letting you get away that easily.
Command & Conquer 3. It complains about requiring Windows 98 or better to run.
Running the exe in compatibility mode gives the same error.
Oddly, C&C3: Kane's Wrath works fine.
Windows 10 shows ads in both the start menu tiles and the search menu results by default.
I have seen at least one "system notification" advertising Office 365.
Welcome to 2015.