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  1. Re:Standards on Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > Anyone remember Ubuntu circa 2008?

    It was awesome. And remained awesome until - I think - October 2010. That is when Gnome 3 and Unity came out. Then Ubuntu completely barfed all over itself with systemd.

    What a massive disappointment. I used to anxiously await the upgrade, because Ubuntu just got better and better.

  2. Re: Standards on Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Gnome 3 drove me away from Gnome. Now I use MATE.

  3. > Making the next ones have an all white male cast wouldn't fix anything, if that's all you changed.

    The races, or genders, of the cast has nothing to do with whether Star Wars was ruined by SJWs.

    For example: the new sequels strain to make all females absolutely perfect beyond belief, while all the male leads are stupid beyond belief. It is obvious PC BS, and it gets very tiresome.

  4. Re:Wow. So Hillary is the entire DoD??? on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Those laws apply to US citizens.

    Also, the MSM publishes classified leaks all the time.

  5. Re:Wow. So Hillary is the entire DoD??? on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1) Assange is not a US citizen, and is not subject to US laws.

    2) Assange does not have a security clearance. He has never promised to keep US secrets. And there is no expectation that he keep US secrets.

    3) MSM publishes classified leaks all time. Do you think the MSM has some special rights?

    4) Is Assange "pretending" to be a journalist? Has he called himself that? What exactly makes somebody a real journalist?

  6. Re: Wow. So Hillary is the entire DoD??? on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is that supposed to be a crime or something? MSM does that all the time.

  7. Re:Actions have consequences on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    > In this case he knew those leaks were classified and he chose to publish them.

    So? Is that supposed to be illegal or something? The MSM does this all the time.

    Assange does not have a clearance, and is not even a US citizen. Those who gave him classified information may have committed crimes, but Assange did not.

  8. NY Times releases classified leaks all the time on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody remember Pentagon Papers? Then there was the Bay of Pigs.

    More recently, NYT and other other leftist MSM have released mountains of classified leaks to smear Trump.

    Why should wikileaks be treated differently?

  9. How many people subscribe to youtube tv ? on YouTube TV Costs $50 Per Month After Another Price Hike (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I am guessing around 8.

    But I would honestly want to know.

  10. Bundling may have something to do with it. on Cord-Cutting in America May Have Already Peaked (fool.com) · · Score: 1

    Eventually: internet will cost $80 a month and internet + cable bundle will cost $90 a month.

  11. Microsoft networking is crap on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 2

    I have heard that Microsoft used the BSD stack for their networking. If so, msft must have worked overtime to make it suck. BSD has good networking IMO.

    Workgroups, homegroups, only having selective versions of Windows that can join a domain. It's a mess, and getting worse.

    Aside from that, in my experience, msft networking just does not reliably work. Copy a large number file from one box to another, and many of the files may get dropped; or it may crap out halfway through. There are ways to do this more reliably, but you should not have to use special hacks.

    I was recently asked to help somebody move her files from an XP box, to a Windows 10 home version box. She wants the XP box set up so she can go through it, and copy what she wants where she wants. Should be nothing to it, but it's actually a pain. Put both versions of windows on a workgroup, have full admin privileges. But windows will not allow some directories to be shared. I am not the only person who has noticed this. Windows forums are filed with similar complaints.

    Msft offers help pages on this sort of thing. But msft's documentation simply does not work. Msft instructs users to follow a particular procedure, but the OS will not allow it. Crap documentation for a crap OS.

    I am not looking for help on this. Just posting my opinion.

  12. It's mostly about the apps on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    One must have is all it takes to reject linux in favor of windows.

    Other factors:

    Windows comes pre-installed on every laptop you buy, so why remove the standard OS?

    Windows is used in schools, and at work, it is more familiar.

  13. Re:correlation on The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com) · · Score: 1

    > The longest lifespans are in Japan.

    Specifically, the traditional Okinawa diet. This diet is very low in any kind of animal product, or processed food. I doubt there is any dairy.

    I am not sure about the sodium content of that diet.

  14. Prove that youtube videos cause violence? on Australia Passes Law To Punish Social Media Companies For Violent Posts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or prove that heavy metal music, or video games cause violence.

    Does the Koran cause violence?

  15. Free college for gender studies students on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Not as if they will ever earn anything with that degree.

  16. Anybody remember freedom of speech? on Australia Threatens Social Media Laws That Could Jail Tech Execs (cnet.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That was awesome. Too bad freedom of speech is dead now. Ah well, it had a good run.

  17. Re:Quick, Move Them!! on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Duh. Reports do not convict or exonerate.

    Reports only present what evidence was found. In this case, no evidence was found.
     

  18. Also healthcare benefits.

    I used to work with an Indian visa worker. He could hardly believe US healthcare expenses. Even with health insurance he could barely afford the deductibles and the stuff the insurance would not pay for.

    Healthcare in Mexico is much more affordable.

  19. Any environmental benefit? on China's E-Buses Dent Oil Demand More Than Electric Cars Do (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe we need to have that little talk - you know: about where electricity comes from.

    If the electricity comes from a diesel, or worse yet, coal plant, then I doubt there is any environmental benefit.

  20. Use Devuan on How Debian Almost Failed to Elect a Project Leader (lwn.net) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Works like Debian without the systemd.

    https://devuan.org/

  21. Re:Desiderata verus Requirements on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    1. Secret ballot so no one can tell how you voted.
    2. Secret ballot so you cannot prove to anyone how you voted even if you want to. (too often ignored)

    So thousands of extra votes show up after voting closed. Are they real? How do we check?

  22. Re:Voter ID not relevant on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Source?

    Evidence?

    After two years of this unbelievable extensive investigation, so you a shred of evidence to back up your absurd conspiracy theory?

  23. >> All you need to vote is a driver's license, and illegals have those.

    > You know how I can tell you've never registered to vote?

    You know how I can tell you have no idea how sanctuary cities and states work?

  24. I was thinking more like the *massive* voter fraud in California and Florida.

  25. > You'd think with 22 million cases of voter fraud, the Republican would be able to find at least one case of it. Still waiting on that.

    I did not say 22 million cases of voter fraud. I said there were, at least, 22 million illegals living in the USA.

    And I think they have found cases of voter fraud.