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  1. Re:Bye-Bye Java on Court: Oracle Entitled To Copyright Protection Over Some Parts of Java · · Score: 1

    I'd mod you up multiple times if I could!

    You're 100% right. Java is the worst, convoluted, bloated, bulky programming contrivance that has ever been!

  2. It seems a great many scientists disagree... on US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Projections on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    To help those with comprehension difficulties....

    No warming this millenium

  4. Re:AMD on AMD Develops New Linux Open-Source Driver Model · · Score: 1

    This is good news indeed. The more open source drivers we use, the better. At least it is then possible to inspect and improve in principle, whereas with proprietory drivers, it's practically impossible.

    Thank you, AMD, for trying to make the world a better place!

  5. Re:this is not news on WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" · · Score: 1

    AC is such a pathetic louse with a small wheenie... And brain damaged too.

  6. So what? What a dumbass question is this? on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    We all had measles when we were kids and no vaccination ever. None of us died, for goodness sake! We just had to stay in bed in a darkened room and get better. We didn't eat all the crap your kids eat nowadays and we all got well again.

    So what's the fuss about? Vaccinated people also get measles, hello!? But people who had measles as kids don't get it again.

    How's misleading whom here? Take your pharma propaganda somewhere else, thank you!

  7. Once again: Sensationalist headline on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    Where I live in South Africa, the Karoo region produces arguably the best lamb in the world. The water needed for this is minimal and they feed on karoo vegetation, which is close to bushy succulents. That is also meat, duh!

    This whole alarmist trend is bolloks! Systems will correct themselves. If there's not enough water, farmers will start producing something else. And anyway, as the nutritional research of the last decade has shown, fatty meat is a much more efficient source of food for humans than carbohydrates. Some go as far as stating that if we all switched to protein-based diets, we'd cut our consumption in half and in the process, shut down half the food chain stores. Instead of 10000 calories of carbo per day, 3000 calories of protein provide still more energy without turning the eater into an actor in Wall-E!

    On the other hand, the authors probably also believe all the warmist speculative nonsense politics, so there's no point in arguing with them: They are quite religious about their position

  8. Re:What are these shiny discs you speak of? on Sony & Panasonic Next-Gen Optical Discs Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    I've had ADSL line problems for more than two months now, which means I have great trouble accessing my cloud based data.

    I can tell you one thing: In theory cloud may sound great, but in practice I'd much rather keep local copies even if it may involve a little more work!

  9. Re:Absolutely on Fedora To Have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" For Contributors · · Score: 1

    Law is law

    Wrong. Fail. Law is only there to serve the people it was meant for. If it doesn't work, it must be scrapped. If it has unintended side-effects, it must be changed or scapped. No law is a law unto itself. There are way too many laws (millions of them) anyway.

    Also, because a country is perceived an enemy of another country, does that mean that the people in country A are all enemies of country B? Surely not, unless you just crawled out from under a rock and are still coming to terms with the fact that there are other humans.

    The US is by far the biggest perpetrator of injustice, terror, warmongering and destabilisation in the world - all part of empire building. The only reason that is so, is because the majority of the people in the US have been so dumbed down in the "education" that they allow these villians in government to get away with it.

  10. Quite right about that ribbon! on LibreOffice 4.2 Busts Out GPU Mantle Support and Corporate IT Integration · · Score: 1

    The only issue (some on Slashdot may say benefit ) is the lack of a ribbon UI.

    You're quite right. I still have to see the benefits of that attrocious "innovation"!

  11. Re:TL;DR version on The Status of the Fukushima Clean-Up · · Score: 1

    It will probably have a good effect on life in general and prevent a lot of cancer.

    This is why no-one has died from radiation sickness at Fukushima and probably won't in future either. It also explains why the people that chose to live in the Chernobyl radiation area are not mutating and dying a slow, horrible death. Radiation (as high as 800 mSv aoording to the original research) is actually good for you!

    Time to get with the times and stop hanging around in the atomo-phobic 60's!

  12. Excellent, I'd mark you up to six points if it were possible!

    Does anyone know where the research on creating a zombie virus is being performed?

  13. Re:maize?? on Study Linking GM Maize To Rat Tumors Is Retracted · · Score: 1

    and the rest of the world (excluding the US) uses the word maize.

  14. Re:Retailer on User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    "Vote up"

  15. Re:O'rly? No wai! on Protect Your Android Phone By Killing All Its Crapware · · Score: 1

    You can always install Ubuntu on your Nexus, then everything is open and you can turn off what you don't like or remove it.

  16. Re:LastPass on Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January · · Score: 1

    So opt to run Chromium rather than Chrome?

  17. Re:Economic Hitmen on Brazil Admits To Spying On US Diplomats After Blasting NSA Surveillance · · Score: 1

    ... "not doing so, would be treason", is what I meant to say!

  18. Economic Hitmen on Brazil Admits To Spying On US Diplomats After Blasting NSA Surveillance · · Score: 1

    After watching "Apologies of an Economic Hitman", any country in the world better be watching all US personnel in foreign countries really closely. Not doing so, would a treason.

  19. This Lexmark serves us well on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    We bought a Lexmark Prospect Pro 205 (Printer, Scanner, Fax, Copier) about 2,5 years ago and it has served us really well. The printhead is not integrated in the ink cartridges and it has four separate ink cartridges, so one doesn't waste half empty colours. It's of course really for SOHO use, but has wifi, which we exclusively use to print from both Ubuntu (mostly) and Windows (occasionally). We scan quite a lot as well.

    It has a 5 year warranty and Lexmark support have been great the once or twice we needed it.

    The only problem we've had is that Lexmark in South Africa don't support Ubuntu, but in the US full support is available. So we've been using the US site for the Ubuntu drivers. The Linux support is not great, but the printer itself has served us really well.

  20. What happens if you ignore the government? on How To Foil NSA Sabotage: Use a Dead Man's Switch · · Score: 1

    As a non-US resident, I'd like to know what would happen if a business owner were to simply publish the secret request, ignoring the gag order? Surely this is a great instance for civil disobedience?

  21. Re:More government! on Why the Japanese Government Should Take Over the Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1
    I don't get what you don't get.
    1. 1. What about an "Israeli contractor" stocked by Mossad taking over the plant is unclear?
    2. 2. How do you explain the total explosion of an offline reactor? There is pretty graphic evidence of a major explosion, but supposedly no explosives?
    3. 3. Where did the Tsunami come from, since it's clear from the evidence that it was not from an earthquake. At least not from an earthquake that was supposed to have been 9.1 on the Richter scale. Do you have any idea what 9.1 means? And that's the simpliied version. 9.1 is more than 3 times 8.8 on the log10 Richter Scale and almost 800 Megatons! How can a single building remain standing, undamaged, when such an event occurs, yet none seems to even have cracks?!

    and many more questions to be answered, but most conveniently ignored by the ignorati-media...

  22. Re:Ken Thompson, Anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Is this a feasible project, ie can I start a new project on SourceForge to do this?

    I'm not joking! Surely this should be a priority, not so?

  23. It's not mass surveilance, it seems... on NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry · · Score: 1
    Form the original article:

    The material viewed by SPIEGEL suggests that the spying on smart phones has not been a mass phenomenon. It has been targeted, in some cases in an individually tailored manner and without the knowledge of the smart phone companies.

    At least for iPhones, it seems a user has to connect to his desktop before the crack can be applied...

  24. Re:Only 0.3% consensus on Global Warming! on 'Half' of 2012's Extreme Weather Impacted By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    meant to say: "seems to think Global Warming is indeed happening and caused by humans...

  25. Re:More government! on Why the Japanese Government Should Take Over the Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Going back to school and learning to read is an option. Have you considered it? The source is quite clear to me...