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  1. This is why digital sucks on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: -1

    Stone tablets from Babylon are still readable because analog degrades gracefully.

    Want real long-term storage? Write them to analog tape again.

  2. Re:About time on Chrome For Mac Drops 32-bit Build · · Score: -1

    You do realize that HTML5 and the bitness of a CPU are orthogonal, right?

  3. Better reboot it just before landing on Indian Mars Mission Has Completed 95% of Its Journey Without a Hitch · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, just to be sure. Dear Friend, Please do the needful and report back, we'll close this ticket for now.

  4. Trust me, buy something on Ask Slashdot: Advice On Building a Firewall With VPN Capabilities? · · Score: -1

    "I'm a novice Linux/BSD user..."

    Buy something, it will Just Work and work well.

  5. systemd false flag on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: -1

    This guy is an idiot, and by mocking him, you end up advocating for systemd.

    Exactly as was intended.

  6. dbus interface? on Fedora To Get a New Partition Manager · · Score: -1

    Will it have a dbus interface, and run as PID 1?

  7. They didn't build that on Obama Administration Seeks $58M To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola · · Score: -1

    ZMapp is produced by a private firm. By effectively socializing its production, Obama can say "they didn't build that".

  8. plain old 'scientific' calculator ? on How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms · · Score: 0

    I still own a 'scientific' calculator that I bought in 1983, and it took me all the way up through Physics, Statics, Dynamics and Thermodynamics courses in a rather fine Engineering college. What do these fancy graphing calculators offer that paper and pencil + a decent scientific calculator can't ?

  9. Astroturfing for Hillary Clinton on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    First articles here, then a new policy on Fark, and now yet another story about misogyny. It's a constant, subtle pressure in the background for Millenials that women are oppressed... so they'll march right to the polls in 2016. Just like if you opposed Barack Obama you were automatically a racist, by 2016 if you have any objections to Hillary Clinton, you'll be shouted and blogged down as a misogynist.

    Like a kid asking for just 5 more minutes of TV time, or a 20 year long constant nagging for socialized medicine, eventually you chip away at the resolve of the unaware and get what you want.

  10. Re:Stop Making Up Words! on Reno Selected For Tesla Motors Battery Factory · · Score: 1

    Because Elon Musk.

  11. Phoronix = fail on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's the OSNews of the 21st Century.

    Buy Gigabyte, their shit is rock solid.

  12. Rockets suck on Battle of the Heavy Lift Rockets · · Score: 0

    They burn something like 99% of their takeoff weight just to get to orbit. Their biggest cargo is their own fuel.

    Where's the research on mass drivers/railguns, or tethers, or any of the "scifi" types of propulsion?

  13. Re:...goes to show... on Brian Stevens Resigns As Red Hat CTO · · Score: 0

    Over in 1. Was going to post the same thing.

    PS Redhat, you're not a desktop OS, you don't need hotplugging automounting USB webcams or eleventy config files and a giant daemon to start things, you need them to be stable and simple and manageable.

  14. This foe is beyond any of you on Slashdot Talks WIth IBM Power Systems GM Doug Balog (Video) · · Score: 0

    To the bridge of Khazad-dum!

    Oh, you said BALOG...

  15. UDP/broadcast only on DoT Proposes Mandating Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications · · Score: 0

    It's not a bad idea, provided that there's no concept of a conversation. There's no negotiating or acknowledgement that needs to happen, simply a car announcing what it's doing.

    Baking in more than this to the spec or implementation will only fuck it up.

  16. Dump SELinux and systemd, make it easier on How Red Hat Can Recapture Developer Interest · · Score: 0

    Everyone immediately disables SELinux, and people need to reinvent how they manage the system, all for no real return, unless you're one of the .1% who those technologies are targeted at. Make your system normal Unix, not weird Unix, and people will stay interested. Companies don't like moving targets.

  17. Damage or Change? on Climate Damage 'Irreversible' According Leaked Climate Report · · Score: 0, Troll

    Climate has always changed, the concept of "Damage" is only relevant to those affected by it. But lets pretend that they're the same thing, because it will gather more clicks.

  18. Re:Emulation Everywhere on Virtual Machine Brings X86 Linux Apps To ARMv7 Devices · · Score: 1

    But they don't have to make new hardware that "runs all past stuff" because the other 999,999 people out of a a million will simply buy the new one.

    Whose to blame here?

  19. How the world turns on Dropbox Caught Between Warring Giants Amazon and Google · · Score: 0

    One day Slashdot is fellating Amazon and Google for their Cloudiness, the next they're accused of corporate evil for being Walmart-A or Walmart-B.

    The only thing I see is a consistent bias towards and demand for free crap. Are there any adults on Slashdot anymore?

  20. Not Java, but the people who write it on If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? · · Score: 1

    It's a product of its times - with many more "computer science" people in the field, math says you're much more likely to run across crappy ones than you were before. (Not a bell curve issue, the bad ones are more memorable) Add in the H1B headwobble factor, and you have a lot of shitty java code, doing things because it can not because it should. Add in a corporate culture where time to market trumps reliability or maintainability, and you have a management philosophy that rewards the above behaviors.
    Java is shitty because the world has turned.

  21. Re:No Kari??? on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    She's not smart, she's a dipshit AW. And also, not gorgeous. 6/10 maybe, but not gorgeous.

    Try leaving your mom's basement some time.

  22. Why? on Virtual Machine Brings X86 Linux Apps To ARMv7 Devices · · Score: 2

    Other than a desire to run the x86 version of Doom on your BeagleBoard, why would you need this when software is just a recompile away?

  23. Thank God, Kari sucked on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 0

    Bring back Scotti. Also, Tori sucked. Grant and Scotti are all you need. Tori is a tool, good for comic relief when you need a doofus to eat a chili pepper, and Kari was just T&A.

  24. Re:Must be an alternate earth. on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 1

    And my problem with that is they they must know that they're underskilled hacks. And they sit there, smirk and headwobble, and then claim you didn't provide Requirements or Do The Needful, and YOUR ass gets chewed out when they fail.

  25. Re:heh on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    At which point I go elsewhere. Just because there's content out there doesn't mean its valuable. Most of the Internet is crap.