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  1. Welcome to democracy! on Ask Slashdot: Would You Fire Your CEO? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the main problem with democracy. The people who vote do not understand the minute details fo what they are voting for. See Brexit and the election of Hitler for good examples.

    Which is why a representative democracy is always better. Direct democracy is a baaaaaaaaad idea.

  2. Re:Benign dictatorship on Ask Slashdot: Would You Fire Your CEO? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the talents needed to acquire power is different from the talents needed to exercise power.

  3. I knew someone who worked on a large website where most stuff was C++. But it was a very high traffic news site so it was necessary

  4. So you would prefer the Internet to remain a professional tool in the hands of trained elitists?

  5. The Air Force dug some tunnels during the cold war to launch missiles. What is so "mysterious" about it?

  6. Re:Much as I'd like to support Israeli companies on Israel's SolidRun Creates Open Networking Kit Inspired By Raspberry Pi (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. A router with 2 ports is a bit meh.

  7. Re:How do you take a turn? on China Builds 'Elevated Bus' That Drives Over Cars (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    My questions is, what happen to any overhead cables/lamps/whatever? There are still lots of those around.

    Cool idea though

  8. He did not inhale either. Maybe he is an undercover monk or something.

  9. Re:The president said it, it must be true... on Millennials Are Less Likely To Be Having Sex Than Young Adults 30 Years Ago, Says Survey (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "oral sex has always been very, very popular"

    I wish someone would tell that to one of my old girlfriends!

  10. Re:The president said it, it must be true... on Millennials Are Less Likely To Be Having Sex Than Young Adults 30 Years Ago, Says Survey (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Come on give Bill a break. Monica thought she was doing her job.

    She read an ad that said "Come to the White House and get a taste of the presidency"
    So she came in the White House and tasted the president. She misread the ad a bit!

    Not Bill's fault that she did roughly what the job description said. And if it's duty it ain't fun, so not real sex, right?

  11. Re:Reliability on 8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Jesus H. Jeremiah Christ, I just installed one of those in a ProxMox virtualisation machine on the weekend. Will have to pull it tonight, thanks for the heads-up.

  12. Re:Typical abusive prosecution on Clerk Printed Lottery Tickets She Didn't Pay For But Didn't Break Hacking Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Weirdly, in a way, you also just threatened him with his life, so he can call his lawyers and do the same. Which will result in an infinite stack of recursive life-threat-lawyer-enriching legal nightmare.

    What a way to crash the legal system!

  13. Re:Apple and Microsoft together again on Microsoft Brings ChakraCore to Linux and OS X (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, let's hope so, for if Apple decides to OSS MacOS/X then Unix on the Desktop might actually come true.

  14. Re:doesn't discriminate? on Microsoft Brings ChakraCore to Linux and OS X (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    On Edge JS is slower than with V8 on Chrome. But the HTML Renderer is lightning fast.
    Slower it is, but useless, no.

  15. At work we have a solar testing lamp field that runs DOS. That is a total bitch because the TCP stack cannot multitask and does not realise when the connection os broken (no timeouts in the background, cause in DOS...there IS NO background!)

    Problem is that the lamp field auto-switched off for a 10 minute cool down when you reboot it, so any debugging with that thing often involves waiting 10 minutes for the safety system to calm down because you pulled a network cable.

  16. Re: Pissing contest on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    256 TB SSD?!!?

    Your wife must be real disappointed

  17. Re: This is better than an ICBM because...? on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    A re-entering cruise missile would make a great shooting star when viewed from the ground

  18. Re: So this is Russia answer to the ,, on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Same problem with space based solar Energ. Lots of energy to be collected in space but anything that involves beaming it down with microwave lasers also makes for a giant city busting death ray.

    So all the viable schemes is a political dead end

  19. Re: Guardian?! on How Technology Disrupted the Truth (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Theresa May does not have the strong hand in this game.

    The banks can lean on Theresa as much as they want, she will get what the EU commission wants. And they are pissed off.

    The French are already pushing to move some UK operations to Paris, as they want to strengthen their financial sector. So do the Germans. And right now the Franco-German axis have way more say in the EU than the Brits.

  20. Re: Good news! on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you live is Germany that would be the wrong anser. Sarah Wageknecht is a classy sassy politician here. Looks like the Red woman in Game of Thrones. She Always wears red. Because she is the leftiest, loonient communist in the Bundestag

  21. Re: Seagate Fires 6500, Stock Soars on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    North korea is looking for experienced personnell.

    And i know lots of old east german and soviet citizens who are pining for the good old days...not

  22. Who cares on KDE Plasma 5.7 Released (neowin.net) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I downloaded one of the live ISO's installed it on a VM on my Mac, played with it for 5 minutes, laughed at the horror of it all and went back to work on my Mac, where all the programs I need actually runs. And worked with a stable Unix system doing development with a proper text editor in a Unix environment just pretty much same as Linux the whole day long. Except I used Illustrator, Word and Photoshop do do some quick fixes on something.

    That reminds me, I need to delete the ISO.

  23. Only in the US would the attorney general be called "Lynch"

  24. Re:Sure on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Uhm, with the exception of RTG's in spacecraft, Nuclear IS steam power

  25. Re:Or they offer too little on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadly, the same goes for intelligence and security services, like the CIA

    Two outcomes:

    a) Terrorist bomb goes off
    b) Terrorist bomb does not go off

    Two sorts of person

    a) Terrorist
    b) Innocent

    By the same logic the cloak-and-dagger types eliminates anything that might be a terrorist, even if it is occasionally innocent. But when a bomb does go off everyone whines that the Security Services are incompetent and heads roll.

    We should give them more credit for the invisible outcome of foiled plots because this really does happen far more often than the real thing.