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  1. Re:KDE on Ask Slashdot: Good Linux Desktop Environment For Hi-Def/Retina Displays? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thankfully, the Mac Ports package manager lets me run an enormous number of Linux and BSD software packages without too much difficulty.

  2. ... likely outcome on Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail · · Score: 2

    Charges dropped? I don't think there's even the foggiest chance that that will happen, but I wouldn't be surprised for some sort of reduced sentence and not life.

  3. Re:What about the SGC? on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 1

    They had a hybrid propulsion system with 4 distinct subsystems employing different technologies. Traditional jets, aerospikes, traditional booster rocket, and a hyperspace window generator.

  4. Re:What about the SGC? on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 1

    Didn't they start building these into F-302s back in 2002?

  5. Re:not so sure about the sound analogy on The White Noise of Smell · · Score: 2

    From the summary, I think they're talking about a random composition of smells. Perceptual neutrality is related to our brains ability to adjust to a shifting noise floor. As a Vermonter, I'm used to doing this with smell on an annual basis.

  6. Re:Young students? on Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying · · Score: 1

    *wasn't bullying.

  7. Re:Young students? on Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying · · Score: 1

    Even majoring in computer science, I couldn't really relate to my peers on anything academically related. It was bullying, or even really resentment (as far as I could tell). But there was a social barrier, because I couldn't convincingly participate in any conversations about "that hard test" or "hard professor", etc.

  8. Re:Thankyou... on Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying · · Score: 1

    As a counterpoint to this post, most of my extended family are evangelical Christians on the right of the America political spectrum, and are uniformly more intellectual and better educated than society at large (including degrees from MIT, Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton, Middlebury. I think Yale and Colby are on that list too, but I'm not 100% sure). On the other hand, growing up in Vermont, 90% of the people who bullied me in high school were as lefty as could be.

  9. Re:Wow, don't have opinions online.. on How Free Speech Died On Campus · · Score: 1

    because nobody pays to attend a state school?

  10. Re:How cool is it though... on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    No, OS X is UNIX and Darwin is not, because Apple doesn't feel like paying for SUS certification for the benefit of all of the the two open source developers who use Darwin by itself.

  11. Re:Delicious Library on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    I second this opinion. Works so so so well, and is quite full featured. I also use it to inventory my Lego collection (wrote a plugin to query the Peeron database instead of Amazon).

  12. Re:How cool is it though... on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 0, Troll

    OS X isn't just derived from Unix, it *is* Unix.

  13. Re:320x240 LCD? on Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Math on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1

    My point was (money =) press coverage = votes. That's the only thing that distinguishes successful third party candidates from unsuccessful ones. Gary Johnson was arguably more qualified to be president than Romney OR Obama, in terms of both executive experience and ability to conduct meaningful policy discussions, and nobody paid attention. $15 or $20 million would have changed that.

  15. Re:Math on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 2

    Ideological typology polls show that only somewhere between 40%-60% percent of Americans fall on the traditional left/right spectrum, and that libertarians ought to have a 20% block of dedicated votes, but have appeal to both sides of the spectrum on some issues, just as the current Republican party spans the spectrum between libertarian, social conservative, neoconservative, and some centrist-like positions. I suspect there is a strong correlation between voter turnout (around 60% this year) and disenchantment with the existing parties. Which makes sense when you look at natural voting blocks based on ideological typology polls. A libertarian, or green, or other reasonably qualified 3rd party or indepedent candidate who had the campaign and fundraising apparatus to keep up would probably do quite well. Look what happened when Ross Perot entered the race.

  16. Re:Tweedledee won ! on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Obama still tried to keep us there longer, and only withdraw when Iraq refused legal immunity for US troops.

  17. Re:GWB 2.0 on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1
    You did, even if you didn't realize it.

    Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

    The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

  18. Re:GWB 2.0 on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    a) No. They don't, the Constitution is pretty clear about standards necessary to convict for treason.
    b) They didn't all happen on the battlefield.
    c) The administration has been in court defending it's right to assassinate journalists on equal footing with terrorists, after an injunction was obtained to prevent exactly that.

  19. Multiplayer on MIT Slows Down Speed of Light In New Game · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd be even more impressed if they managed to make it multiplayer. Maybe merge this with the Resequence Engine? Not for time travel necessarily, but because they've already worked out how to run multiple reference frames at once, and I suspect you'd need an event buffer for every pair of players, and possibly to introduce a preferred reference frame as well for simulating the environment.

  20. Re:About time on MIT Slows Down Speed of Light In New Game · · Score: 2
  21. Re:GWB 2.0 on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And Obama will be known as the President who first sanctioned assassination of American citizens.

  22. Re:.... and the US deficit continues to balloon on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Florida.

  23. Re:Tweedledee won ! on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Incidentally, Obama tried to keep us in Iraq longer, before withdrawing on the Bush timetable after the Iraqi government gave him the finger.

  24. Re:Why? on Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs · · Score: 2

    Mac developer (10+ years) here, and long time Mac user (19+ years). If this happens, I'll say piss off Apple, and switch to Linux.

  25. Re:They just need to... on Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse · · Score: 3, Informative

    And Apple's comes with a webcam, built in 50 watt speaker, Firewire, and GigE connectivity. Not to mention Thunderbolt.