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  1. Re:Enough with the proprietary ... on Lenovo Patches Serious Vulnerabilities In PC System Update Tool (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes that would be nice, to forbid this sale of a computer + OS as an inseparable package.
    The manufacturer can sell the OS as an add-on and we as consumers can decide to take it or ignore it.
    A good manufacturer would for a competitive price offer an auto starting disk or USB drive that would just require a simple boot up and ask for a user name and password.

  2. Re:Why doesn't Slashdot report on systemd's bugs? on Lenovo Patches Serious Vulnerabilities In PC System Update Tool (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, the Thinkpad W and T lines of Lenovo are among the most 'compatible' laptops out there.

    . Earlier crap like their intrusive ads were a specific Windows thread and the Linux community would shake it's head.
    This Thinkvantage stuff is again a Windows specific problem, a good reason for the OEM's to supply these updates as stand-alone packages, if it has to be with a DR-DOS or similar OS.

  3. Re:But will unity suck any less? on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Ship With Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS · · Score: 1

    And KDE is about the only one left that you can configure to your own taste, including non-flat.

  4. Re:Did the moon form after the earth? on The Moon's Two Sides Look So Different Thanks To 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Physics (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fortunately we send a few missions to the moon that brought back soil samples.
    With these samples and a lot of remote sensing it became fairly certain that the moon is made up of similar material as the earth's mantle or crust.
    An (logic) extrapolation of this points to the moon being ripped out of the earth after the separation between core and mantle had already taken place.

    Even the creationists have it from their own source: http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-...

  5. True, scarily close to the subject but while in parliament it was diluted to something still obnoxious but pretty much without teeth.
    German MP's are often quite close to economic powers, luckily the EU MP's (MEP's) are more independent.

  6. Re:This is what you get. on The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink (juliareda.eu) · · Score: 1

    And you have a very limited definition of the 'Representative Democracy'.
    Scary.
    Just like readers of The Sun and it's ilk.

  7. Re:This is what you get. on The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink (juliareda.eu) · · Score: 1

    If it suits better in your limited world view, call it a job in government, you know, like a government minister or his deputy.
    Over here we elect a parliament and it's members select the persons making up the government, they could be parliamentarians or professors or from the commercial world, what ever the elected parliament can agree on.
    That's why we call the parliament the 'Legislative', they decide on new laws, the government is the 'Executive'.

  8. Re:Self-certified insane on The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink (juliareda.eu) · · Score: 1

    Oh?
    That big rock you've lived under for the past 50-60 years must have damaged your brain.

  9. So you can't give us a link?

  10. Re:This is what you get. XXX on idea exchange on The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink (juliareda.eu) · · Score: 1

    I feel I have to repeat myself:

    The commission is appointed by the democratic member states, a bit like how in many countries the government is appointed by the elected parliament.
    See, outside of the UK you don't need to be a member of parliament to get a seat in the government, get used to it, it works fine.

  11. Re:This is what you get. on The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink (juliareda.eu) · · Score: 1

    The commission is appointed by the democratic member states, a bit like how in many countries the government is appointed by the elected parliament.
    See, outside of the UK you don't need to be a member of parliament to get a seat in the government, get used to it, it works fine.

  12. Re:Dumb + "smart" ~= lock-in on LA's Smart LED Street Lights Boost Wireless Connectivity (philips.com) · · Score: 1

    So where does it read this stuff is not going to be modular?

  13. This morning I was reading an article about Amsterdam going to move 130,000 poles to LED.
    The same story explained that addition savings were going to be made because the lights would in the absence of traffic dim.
    I spend a lot of time in Denmark living on a private road, the local council has mandated we need to change any lights containing Mercury (fluorescents) to LED and they need the ability to dim.

    What these stories have in common is Philips.

    Running fiber along the power lines is probably a good insurance for the future and putting 4G or some sort of broadband up the poles could help paying for the conversion.

  14. Re:Which plugins does this version kill? on Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators · · Score: 1

    Strange, I see it just the other way. I believe the address bar belongs to the tab that's opened thus the tabs should be above it, the tool bar is so small it resides right of the address bar and again, it's main functions are for me on the active site/tab.

  15. Re:Why does every site try to open video now? on Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators · · Score: 1
    I agree, it is not why I go to the site.

    On the other side, this year I haven't had my TV on, the net gives me (almost) all I need.

  16. (read: porn sites) on Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators · · Score: 0
    Timothy let is know:

    The new private browsing mode goes further than just not saving your browsing history (read: porn sites)

    Oh really?

    Don't tell your mom...

  17. Invest in a 4G account on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 1

    In the UK you can be forced to hand over keys so keeping anything, encrypted or not, on the laptop is a no-no.

    Get yourself a 4G account and mail the Veracrypt file to a safe country.

  18. Re:How about this... on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 1

    What do you mean, 'budding' fascism?

    Have you forgotten in the late 1930's the UK had the largest Nazi party outside of Germany?
    And it's leader was a member of the royal family.

    Yes I know there is a small difference between Nazism and Fascism.

  19. That's what you get with all this GMO crap!

  20. Re:We should hate farmers, right? on Farmer Coalition Offers $250K Prize For Blueberry Picking Robot (robohub.org) · · Score: 1

    You pulled quite a feat by comparing a filthy habit (smoking) with the worthy cause of keeping our food free of artificial gene combinations.

  21. Re:Googl translate is wrong on Mexican Senator Drafts One of the World's Worst Internet Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1
    Although you were not entirely correct there is absolutely no reason you are modded -1.

    Personally I believe the law was originally written in the US and the senator used Google for the translation to Spanish.

  22. Re:It's not the Earth's fault on Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    When the markets are closed, may I remind you earth is a globe and markets are everywhere, not just on Wallstreet?

  23. Indeed, and transfer from GTK to something with a future like QT.

  24. Re:I learned my lesson, dont want ubuntu on Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' Released (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Where?

  25. Re:What's the big deal? on The Bizarre Reactor Scientists Hope Will Save Fusion Research (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Are you both illiterates that you need assistance in comprehending such writings?