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  1. Re:but useful software is not cheap to make on The Malware of the Future May Come Bearing Real Gifts · · Score: 1

    "We were unable to detect your operating system." Well, shit, it's Mint 17, is that so hard? Where can I go to get some of that swell CNet spyware for Linux??

  2. Re: climate change on AIDS Origin Traced To 1920s Kinshasa · · Score: 1

    Somebody should sit down with you and explain this, because you are seriously fucked up in your thinking.

  3. Re:Windows XP on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    They can be upgraded to Linux!

  4. Re:costs on South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early · · Score: 1

    If only Hawai'i had sunshine, wind, hot rocks or rain.

  5. Re: Enlightenment on Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop · · Score: 1

    I run Cinnamon on a cheap HP laptop, and an emachines desktop.Now and then (mostly when I'm in the middle of something long and tedious that I haven't saved) Cinnamon locks up and I have to logout then in.

    Both run Ubuntu or openSUSE like ringin' a bell.

  6. Re:Nova on Catholic scientists on "Big Bang Signal" Could All Be Dust · · Score: 1

    Fr. Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian.

  7. It's coming out on 8-track on U2 and Apple Collaborate On 'Non-Piratable, Interactive Format For Music' · · Score: 1

    Let's see you pirate THAT.

  8. Zorin has the Windows look. Just be sure to use their old wallpaper and put the icons in the "right" spot, and change the menu icon to a windows one. Tell them that you're "upgrading their Windows".

  9. Re:Engineers and Legislators on Technological Solution For Texting While Driving Struggles For Traction · · Score: 1

    He's an entrepreneur who sees a large audience of suckers to sell his gismo to.

  10. Re:What about other devices? on Windows Tax Shot Down In Italy · · Score: 1

    Not if you're an American. Because we believe in Freedom, yee hah!

    Well, for companies, anyhow.

  11. Re:Hangouts is, in turn, part of plus, right? on Google Hangouts Gets Google Voice Integration And Free VoIP Calls · · Score: 1

    You've described me pretty well. I have a cellphone somewhere, but I have to remember to charge it every couple weeks.

  12. Re:Equivalent to the energy of 20 atomic bombs? on Newly Discovered 60-foot Asteroid About To Buzz By Earth · · Score: 1

    I've been to Managua, and I prefer Detroit. If it blew up the city, it would be an improvement.

  13. Re:great state of New York on "Net Neutrality" Coiner Tim Wu Is Running For Lt. Governor of New York · · Score: 1

    "New York is well called the Empire State ... not only because of the vastness of its resources, but because it so conspicuously illustrates the imperial power of law-abiding liberty among the people." Alexander Flick, 1902.

    Now it refers to entrenched political cronyism, Cuomo's promises notwithstanding.

  14. I live in Rome, New York on "Net Neutrality" Coiner Tim Wu Is Running For Lt. Governor of New York · · Score: 1

    You mean, recumbents.

  15. Re:Republican? on How Big Telecom Smothers Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    There's two in New York, but I only counted those within range of my wifi.

  16. Cause of the drought: on Drought Inspires a Boom In Pseudoscience, From Rain Machines To 'Water Witches' · · Score: 1

    Too many people making Orgonite and clearing the sky of clouds and chemtrails.

  17. Two questions on Microsoft Surface Drowning? · · Score: 1

    When's the fire sale?

    How well does it run Linux?

    Oh, and why don't they just sell it with Ubuntu Touch on it? I'd get one.

  18. Re:Pick your poison on Microsoft Surface Drowning? · · Score: 1

    Canonical thought that too. They probably can, but the market was uninterested.

  19. Re:Translated into English on Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Us too in NY. If only we were near a large source of cheap hydropower....

  20. I hate FB... on Facebook Seeks Devs To Make Linux Network Stack As Good As FreeBSD's · · Score: 1

    ...slightly less, now.

  21. Re:Small-scale, real-time. on Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company · · Score: 1

    I've been to Shema Island, near the end of the Aleutians, where they have traffic lights over the doors to go outside. Green, under 50 knot winds, safe. Yellow, 50-75 knots, you go out in pairs so the survivor can inform the next of kin that somebody blew off the island. Red, hope you got some food stashed because you're not going to the chow hall for a while.

    The Wind doesn't blow there, it sucks. Yet they had to run the place off huge diesels and fuel barged in during the summer.

  22. Re:Move along on MicroxWin Creates Linux Distribution That Runs Debian/Ubuntu & Android Apps · · Score: 1

    Maybe they learned promotion from Mark Shuttlesworth.

  23. Re:So Windows 9 on US Senator Blasts Microsoft's H-1B Push As It Lays 18,000 Off Workers · · Score: 1

    "Threshold."

    Whatever. It's not the drop, it's the stop at the bottom you gotta watch out for.

  24. I pay PBS... on Dealing With 'Advertising Pollution' · · Score: 1

    ...not to put ads on during Downton Abbey.

  25. So Windows 9 on US Senator Blasts Microsoft's H-1B Push As It Lays 18,000 Off Workers · · Score: 1

    ...is code named Precipice, or Cliff, or something like that. Fitting.

    Hasta la Vista, Microsoft!