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  1. Perhaps it doesnâ(TM)t matter but that link to the TLDâ(TM)s country always made me reluctant to use bit.ly. Libya never felt like a great basket to put any eggs at all, and keep in mind when that URL shortener came around Khadaffi was still in power. Greenland should be safe by comparison, at least until the seal rise up.

  2. Wasn't he trolling? on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I saw the post on ServerFault, and while the original scenario could have happened, the OP's follow-up blunder to reverse the input and output parameters of dd when trying to preserve the disk seemed just a wee bit too unlikely. I looked at the article to see if there was any additional data to suggest this was real, but it seems entirely based on the SF thread. Until corroborated, I'm going to call bs.

  3. Re:VMware vSphere Web Client need to go HTML5 on After Twenty Years of Flash, Adobe Kills the Name (thestack.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Arguably off-topic but that won't keep me from breaking out in a heartfelt "god yes!"

  4. Re:Email is an alternative to facebook on Facebook Shuts Down @Facebook Email System · · Score: 1

    One doesn't have to rule out the other though. If I want to discuss recent events in the news or plans for the summer with my family, I'll e-mail them. If I want to have a go at the way the International Olympic Committee for screwing up a certain recent doping test before the ice hockey final, to get input from whoever cares to join in and perhaps even raise awareness in my wider circle of acquaintances, I'll post it on Facebook. Or Google+. I wish I could list Diaspora as an honest third possibility, but at the moment I'm afraid that would be slighlty dishonest. Anyway, social networks and e-mail don't necessarily always compete with one another. They also complete each other. It's all about context.

  5. Re:Because people already have E-mail addresses? on Facebook Shuts Down @Facebook Email System · · Score: 1

    You don't, it will simply send you a friendly encouragement to go ahead and get on Google+ too. Think it arrived a week or three after creating the e-mail account, but it was a secondary (tertiary, etc) account and I wasn't paying that much attention.

  6. Re:conspiracy theories on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    The UK is grossly unfair in its extradition process but it has one rule that it does stick to; It won't extradite where there is a chance of the person being extradited getting a death sentence. The UK is strongly against the death penalty.

    That is why Sweden is involved in this.

    Sorry, but no. Like the UK, Sweden - who abolished the death penalty in 1921 - will not extradite a person to a country where they risk facing capital punishment. There is no support here for the notion that Sweden (or the UK) would be conspiring to nail Assange for anything other than the alleged crime he is suspected of. Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.

  7. Re:No please. on Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps if you'd taken the time to RTFA before rushing to get first post, you'd have realized they're cremated first.

  8. Re:Oh my! All those sweaty geeks in one place. on Inside the World's Largest LAN Party · · Score: 1

    On the positive side, a LAN would be a fairly 'round the clock thing, wouldn't it? Much less so than a sporting event, or even a music festival. Mind you I'd imagine you still have queues - and more than the odd stinker. But then I guess some would say that's part of the atmosphere.

  9. Re:Worlds largest sneakernet on Inside the World's Largest LAN Party · · Score: 1

    I don't strictly know, but to be honest it has got that much easier (and faster!) to get your fill of "all things digital" since the 90s, that if I went I'd probably not give it a second thought but rather enjoy actually being there for the occasion.

  10. Re:We won't get to read about a truly "epic" CME on Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts · · Score: 1

    True enough. On a related note, the word "epic" in the headline really does nothing for me. Maybe I'm anal but I don't think it's appropriate language to use in news reporting. "Large" or whatever would be sufficient. Or simply omitting the adjective entirely.

  11. Re:My $0.02 on Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Cheers for that, some well juicy stuff on there that's tempting enough for my eventual upgrade. Would it be safe to assume that companies like these, selling dedicated Linux laptops, will have picked hardware that is thoroughly well supported by open source drivers? Obviously I would expect it to work with the pre-installed system, but over the years on my Thinkpad I've gotten used to having to work out occasional kinks every so often. No biggie, but if I could believe that will happen significantly less frequently, or dare I say not at all, that would make it worth it on a whole new dimension.

  12. Credit where it's due on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    I'm not a fan of Apple, but there's no denying Jobs was one of the greatest legends of the IT era. RIP Steve, far too young.

  13. Re:measuring browsers by speed alone is retarded on Tom's Hardware Pits Newest Firefox, Opera and Chrome Against Each Other · · Score: 1

    You didn't even read the summary, let alone TFA, did you?

  14. Re:Windows only benchmarks? on Tom's Hardware Pits Newest Firefox, Opera and Chrome Against Each Other · · Score: 1

    The final page of TFA notes somewhat off hand that on OS X "[Safari] is still king". But yes, I would also be more interested in reading a similar benchmark, or be given an option of several ones, taking into account different platforms. Linux, and on the mobile front Android, would be most relevant for me personally. That said it's still a fairly interesting article, even if I contented myself with the summaries of the final two pages.

  15. Another humble thanks on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    While I can rue not discovering Slashdot until a long time after it was born and became great, I've immensely enjoyed the site and continue to do so since that day when I finally got around to checking it out. So nothing fancy, just, thanks a lot for making this possible.

  16. Re:Editing Needed... on Steve Jobs Questioned In iTunes Monopoly Suit · · Score: 1

    Thought that. It's not even ambiguous, it's actually flat out wrong. "Steve Jobs To Be Questioned..." would have sufficed.

  17. Re:Probably been there for ages on Two Huge Holes In the Sun Spotted · · Score: 1

    They've hardly been around for years and years. The Sun is much more dynamic than that, and these things form and disappear basically all the time. That doesn't mean they're any reason to be alarmed though. It's simply part of the Sun's normal behaviour.

  18. Re:Bad Article on Two Huge Holes In the Sun Spotted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, went to post exactly the same thing. Not to bash the submission as such since it's nice to see people take an interest in my field of work, but surely it's not that much to ask to find the referenced article. Mind you, the space.com piece although better also doesn't go very much in depth of the subject. Then again one of the reasons for that is likely that it simply isn't a very big deal. The Sun is a very dynamic object, always has been and always will be. And that it spills stuff into space is hardly news, or cause for concern. They're still nice pictures though, from a great mission.

  19. Choice is good on Microsoft Offers H.264 Plug-in For Google Chrome · · Score: 2

    Hard to argue with that, surely. I'm very far from a Microsoft fan, but credit where it is due.

  20. Re:Where's the linux love? on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Noticing this as well. While the install page happily states "1.0.10 for Linux", clicking on to the actual files listing the downloads all seem to be version 0.6.7 - for Ubuntu and Fedora binaries as well as for the source package. Suppose it will come up soon enough, still, they could've finished uploading before they announced it too.