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  1. Re:mutation trees on English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language · · Score: 1

    that is the general thrust for people pushing long and deep

    Look, do whatever you want, but could ya close the drapes, *please*?

  2. Re:What about getting drivers from Windows Update on It's 2013, and Windows Activation Is Still Frustrating · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 downloads drivers for all of my hardware

    Yep, here too. And every time I've tried using Windows Update for my hardware drivers it breaks my PC.

  3. Re:That's nice on The First Fully 3D-Printed Gun Has Been Successfully Test-Fired · · Score: 1

    All they need is to fix voting districts which Republicans created to win House despite popular vote going to Democrats and then it's over for gun lovers.

    Perhaps you should worry about being able to get a bill through the Senate before you start worrying about fixing the House.

  4. Re:I honestly don't understand why.... on UK Benefits Claimants Must Use Windows XP, IE6 · · Score: 1

    No, the vendor will be when all their customers abandon the ancient unsupported systems provided.

    This works well when the customers have a choice. When you have niche software with high barriers to entry--usually because it's stuff that has to work the first time, so nobody wants to take a chance on anything that's not already in wide use--you often pretty stuck. Of if it's say, a *government website* where you naturally have no choice to go elsewhere. Like in this case.

  5. Re:in line with typical Google policy on Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map · · Score: 1

    According to Wikipedia, Macedonia's population is over 64% Macedonian. Almost all of the rest is Albanian (who aren't Slavs either). Less than 3% of Macedonia's population is Slav.

  6. Re:I honestly don't understand why.... on UK Benefits Claimants Must Use Windows XP, IE6 · · Score: 1

    ...we even still have this problem. Seriously, stop being short sighted fuckwits. Stop using vendor specific code.

    Fine. Who's paying to rewrite it all? You?

  7. Re: Actually this is a good thing on UK Benefits Claimants Must Use Windows XP, IE6 · · Score: 1

    I don't care if she's got pillz, I'll just settle for the beer. Hopefully she still has some.

  8. Re:BlackBerry approved same as Knox on Pentagon Approval of iOS and Samsung KNOX Is Bad News for BlackBerry · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't understand how the takeaway from this is bad news for Blackberry. The same announcement that Samsung's Knox was approved said that Blackberry 10 is approved.

    Okay, we'll take it slow. Blackberry phones have been approved in the DoD for years. Android phones were never approved until this decision. Where Blackberry had a monopoly, they now have competition. This is not good news for them.

  9. Re:Spiderweb on Robot 'Fly' Mimics Full Range of Insect Flight · · Score: 1

    But can we fit the required speaker so it can cry, "Help me! Help me!"?

  10. Re:Ridiculous on What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Infantry, and even light armor, perhaps. Close air support, not so much. The technical term for close air support that's not in proper communication with the ground troops is "friendly fire."

  11. Re:Ridiculous on What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    Modern war - that is, every war the US has fought in the last decade, has been fought largely by infantrymen, light armor and close air support.

    I guess close air support must work by telepathy.

    In any case, every war the US has fought in the last decade has been fought largely by infantrymen, etc., because each has been an asymmetric conflict, where the main difficulty is locating and identifying the enemy while avoiding ambush. Command and control (i.e., networking) is more critical in this kind of anti-insurgent fighting than in almost anything else you can name.

  12. Re:Sexist on So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms? · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Whats better, two 18 years old... on Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will · · Score: 2

    I'd advise against four 9 year olds.

  14. Re:This BYOD stuff is just getting ridiculous. on Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Should I be buying my own desk? My own chair? Hell, my cubicle walls are clearly my responsibility too, right?

    They're moving towards that. It's called "telecommuting."

  15. Re:Battery life is directly proportional to dorkin on Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Actually, the first thing I thought of was a power lead down to a battery that clips on your belt.

  16. Re:We Wish on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1

    His argument seems to be mostly, "We will run out, we will, we will, we will, and you're all stupid dum-dum heads for thinking we won't!"

  17. It costs them over 750 Euros to reimage a PC? on German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection · · Score: 1

    Really?

  18. Wow. on Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office · · Score: 2

    Guess who's never getting a patent approved again, *ever*?

  19. Re:Physical Keyboard FTW on BlackBerry Looking To Quench 'Insatiable Demand' For New Smartphones · · Score: 1

    You can have an Android with a physical keyboard: both my Androids do, it's a feature I insist on. iPhone, you're kinda stuck, yeah.

  20. Re:ZFS on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    Maybe not on servers. But we install the nVidia binary drivers on approx 3000 Debian-based diskless clients in our district. Have been for almost a decade now.

    Apples and oranges. You can do things on workstations you can't possibly do on production servers. When a workstation goes down, one person can't work. When a production server goes down, it's possible that *hundreds* of people can't work.

  21. Re:This is a good idea. on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 1

    Of course I have. But, not being an idiot, I know the difference between "a joke", "a prank" and "an incredibly stupid and cruel prank."

  22. Re:Not to mention not nice on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 2

    Without any evidence?

    There is evidence: your texted confession. Enough to convict? No. Enough to get you arrested and spend some time in a holding cell? Oh yeah.

  23. Re:criticisms on Eric Schmidt: Google Glass Critics 'Afraid of Change,' Society Will Adapt · · Score: 1

    Glass is not an 'invention', it is a manifestation of the reality of where microelectronics are today.

    All inventions are manifestations of the reality of where the technology is at the time, almost by definition.

    Google isnt breaking any terribly new ground here hardware wise. The real innovations for them are software, how it functions, what they learn from the interactions etc.

    So new software isn't an invention?

  24. Re:Dinosaur on Electronic Arts Slashes Workforce · · Score: 1

    EA has basically sucked ass ever since their first day in business.

    I'm going to guess that you're under thirty years old. EA, when it was first starting out, was famous for fresh, innovative game design. Archon. Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator. Pinball Construction Kit. M.U.L.E. (God, that game was such a classic) The Bard's Tale. Then, in the 1990s, the suits got control, and everything went to hell.

  25. Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 1

    Why would I want to own a gun?

    Guns are primarily weapons of offence.

    They are not primarily defensive devices.

    Let's see if you can complete this quote: "The best defense is..."