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  1. Re:Good news for Libre Office! on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Re:Good news for Libre Office! on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 0

    Did you copy this from the Ubuntu web forum? I swear I've seen this same conversation over there in regards to Linux.

  3. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    >>>If Obama doesn't thump some Arab leader with a big stick, he's an apologist pussy. If he does thump some Arab leader with a big stick, why he's a warmongering Congress defier.

    I had the same opinion of Bush.
    Killing a bunch of innocent people is not justified. War, like pulling your gun from you holster, is only justified as an act of self-defense (kill, or else you'll be killed). The decision to go to war should lie with the People's Representatives in congress, because it is the people who have to fight & die in the war. And later payoff the gigantic bill.

  4. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    >>>You're an idiot. Umm, what if you're not launching a nuclear war? Ooops, that ship is USELESS. Again, you're an idiot.

    Oh look. My anon. coward stalker is back. (See my signature.) And to answer you question: Carry non-nuclear Tomahawks in your arsenal like the boomer submarines do. Also ship-to-air defensive missile, so the antiradar missile cannot get anywhere near your ship.

    >>>Or, you can tell the fanatics shouting "Death!" "Can't we all just get along." while you grovel.

    Yes. Because 0.1% of the country is nuts, that justifies killing the other 99.9% of innocent persons, including children. Can you imagine if Timothy McVeigh had bombed the Eiffel Tower instead of the OKC building? By your logic the French are justified to start dropping bombs and killing people in the U.S.

  5. Re:Not sure about the thesis of the article, but.. on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 0

    >>>They cannot perform surveillance.

    Yeah actually they can. Tomahawks come with cameras too for surveilling the terrain.

    >>>They cannot defend themselves.

    They don't need to. They are cheap and disposable. Just like bombs, except self-piloting. I really don't see why we need human pilots anymore when we have missiles that can deliver themselves to the target w/o human help.

    >>>They cannot adapt to changing targets (ie if the ground target manages to get airborne, you have to have a completely different missile to take it out).

    That's why you launch both Tomahawks and ship-to-air missiles at the same time. The 'hawks takeout the ground and the air missiles takeout any airplanes that managed to get in the air.

    >>>They have no linger time.

    Also false. Tomahawks can fly for hours-and-hours on their cruise engines. (Honestly why did you even post? You demonstrated you know little about modern missile technology.)

  6. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Give Obama four more years and his foreign opinion will drop just as low as Bush after his 4+4 years.

  7. Re:Oh, Google is fine with anonymity... on Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >>>Some of us like the higher level of civility that results from real names.

    Unfortunately multiple studies have shown using Real names doesn't make conversations more civilized. It just invites more revenge scenarios from those who feel insulted & strike back in real life. So real names actually make things worse.

    Anonymity is also important for one's longterm sanity. Nothing sucks more than to have an employee dig-up an old postings from 1990-something and say, "Do you really feel Michael Jackson should have been castrated for his abuse of children? I'm sorry but we can't hire such a vocal person. You would be a liability for our company."

    A worse scenario is if the government comes after you because they think you might be a terrorist. "What did you mean when you posted in 1997 that you think Clinton should be shot for raping Monica Lewinsky?" - Remember a guy just recently spent 4 nights in jail for saying things far less damaging on non-anonymous facebook. Anonymity goes as far back as the Founders who posted anonymous flyers in order to avoid arrest by the UK Government. It protects you from blowback from those desirign revenge.

  8. Re:Not sure about the thesis of the article, but.. on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 2

    >>>their MAIN weaponry is the planes that they carry

    Better yet: Just eliminate the men and the planes. They take-up too much room. Replace them with self-guided missiles that don't need to eat or sleep. You can carry thousands of them in the space of an aircraft carrier and project power as quickly as you press a button. No need to wait for waking-up the men, fueling the planes, moving them into position, et cetera. Missiles are ready near-instantly.

     

  9. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes. Aircraft carriers == countries grandstanding about how big & strong they are. Politicians like Romney brag about "showing strength to discourage attack" and the voters eat it up.

    Of course a better projection of power instead of obsolete battleships or airplane carriers would be the Arsenal Ship I worked on in the 90s. It was filled with nothing but self-guided missiles & required very minimal staffing. Just enough to watch the radar and load targeting solutions. Nothing says "power" like a ship that can launch 500 nuclear-tipped tomahawks in less than ten minutes. Or a barrage of ship-to-air missiles to shoot aircraft carrier attacks from the sky.

  10. Re:"Might have" on Judge Preserves Privacy of Climate Scientist's Emails · · Score: 0

    >>>Are you fucking kidding me? you think it is OK for anyone to abuse the public power to prevent academics from doing their job?

    Are you fucking kidding me? you think it is OK for anyone to hide their crimes just because they are "academics"? I don't care about Mann but this judge set bad precedent. Mann is now an employee of PSU. The judge's ruling means his fellow PSU employees Jerry Sandusky, Gary Schultz, Tim Curley, and Grahm Spanier can also hide their emails. These child abusers/accomplices can coverup their emails and hide their potential crimes by simply saying, "We're college administrators and immune per the Virgina v. Mann ruling." Way to go judge.

    In my opinion ALL government employees should be subject to the FOIA. Perhaps impose a time limit of 7 years to protect current info, but otherwise everything should be open for review by the Taxpayers who are funding whatever goes-on behind closed doors (or in lockerroom showers).

  11. Re:"Might have" on Judge Preserves Privacy of Climate Scientist's Emails · · Score: 0

    I really don't care either way. As an employee of the government (first of UVA now PSU) the guy should have NO more privacy of his emails than does Jerry Sandusky, Gary Schultz, Tim Curley, and Grahm Spanier. If this Mann fellow can claim "private emails" to hide his communcations then so too can the other guys I listed..... and that would be wrong. The judge has set a bad precedent that will allow these child abusers/accomplices to coverup their emails and hide their potential crimes.

  12. Re:Budget cuts should not be imposed on NASA To Face $1.3 Billion Cut Next Year Under Sequestration · · Score: 1

    The problem is that a lot of those "NASA inventions" actually came from private companies & private individuals (like the guy who discovered velcro while hiking & then developed it on his own). So we would have had these inventions even without the space program, and for far less money than the trillions spent.

  13. Re:Windows is behind Linux on Intel Details Power Management Advancements in Haswell · · Score: 1

    Yeah except it says "..... something Linux has HAD working since 2007". i.e. functional dynamic ticks.
    And my comment was about how I'm not surprised another OS is ahead of windows.

  14. Re:Well, naturally... on Switching Tasks Changes Worker Bee DNA · · Score: 1

    >>>or that they've lost $15,000 in loans to Goldman Sachs and Solyndra

    Thanks for demoing how easily people are duped. Solyndra went out of business (as did almost all the other green companies that received loans). That money is GONE and the taxpayers will never get it back. As for Goldman & other banks they still exist but they also still owe the U.S. Treasury (i.e. the taxpayers' treasury) trillions of dollars.

    And no TARP was not paid back. I wish people would stop repeating that myth. All the companies did was borrow money from a *different* loan program and then use that second loan to pay off the original loan. It's called accounting trickery. Similar to how Hollywood claims no movie ever makes a profit.

    READ: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/242731/did-tarp-money-really-get-paid-back-kevin-d-williamson#

  15. Re:Here's an idea on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Typing With Limited Electricity, Computers? · · Score: 1

    >>>My kids are in their twenties and I doubt either one ever saw a typewriter, period, let alone a manual one.

    They've never watched old movies with secretaries typing-away on their manual or selectronic typewriters?

  16. Re:Windows is behind Linux on Intel Details Power Management Advancements in Haswell · · Score: 0

    >>>Rather off-topic considering this is about an Intel processor and not Windows though.

    Not off-topic at all. I was merely responding to this part of the /. article: "It's mildly amusing that Windows 8 is the first version to gain dynamic ticks, something Linux has had working since around 2007." (I'm not sure how you missed that sentence.)

  17. Re:Windows is behind Linux on Intel Details Power Management Advancements in Haswell · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >>>Lol, behind Linux? Right. Who gets better battery life? I shouldn't even argue, your desperate desire to "beat" Microsoft seems to be all you cling on to

    I will never comprehend people who look at Micrsoft and believe it's a good OS. Maybe they are Xbox fanboys and that love is spilling-over to all the MS? It's a workable OS but certainly not the best. It was hard-to-use when it was invented in the 80s, crashprone in the 90s, buggy in the first decade of 2000s, and even now still has major flaws (mostly with security holes and illogical behaviors that confuse users... like claiming "there's no USB drive" just because the drive went into a low-power energy-saving state).

    You'd think after 27 years of development they'd finally eliminate the flaws & make it near-perfect like Apple did with OS X. But no. ALSO: I was merely responding to this part of the /. article: "It's mildly amusing that Windows 8 is the first version to gain dynamic ticks, something Linux has had working since around 2007." I'm not sure how you missed that sentence.

  18. Re:Genetically encoded thoughts? on Switching Tasks Changes Worker Bee DNA · · Score: 1

    Your post led me to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics#DNA_methylation_and_chromatin_remodeling

      "Chromosomal regions can adopt stable and heritable alternative states resulting in bistable gene expression without changes to the DNA sequence. Epigenetic control is often associated with alternative covalent modifications of histones.[23] The stability and heritability of states of larger chromosomal regions are often thought to involve positive feedback where modified nucleosomes recruit enzymes that similarly modify nearby nucleosomes. A simplified stochastic model for this type of epigenetics is found here"

  19. Re:Well, naturally... on Switching Tasks Changes Worker Bee DNA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Problem with Brave New World, 1984, THX-1138 and other dystopias is that no society like that would ever emerge. People won't allow themselves to be suppressed so readily. Instead you have to TRICK the people into believing their suppression is actually freedom & democracy. For example:

    - Convincing people that private profits and shared losses is a good thing. - When the rich corporate managers "win" they get to keep the money for themselves, but when they "lose" then the loss is spread across the entire taxpayer base. (TARP and Stimulus Bills and QE1/2/3 are what I'm talking about.) Many people actually believe making the workers bear the burden of the loss is a good thing!

    Somehow I fail to see how my losing ~$15,000 funding Goldman Sachs and Solyndra with free cash is benefiicial for me, but millions of other people think it is. That's a True dystopia. Rob from the poor/middle incomes and give to the rich.

  20. Re:Windows is behind Linux on Intel Details Power Management Advancements in Haswell · · Score: 0

    I was merely responding to this part of the /. article: "It's mildly amusing that Windows 8 is the first version to gain dynamic ticks, something Linux has had working since around 2007." That was the point and I'm a bit surprised I had to explain it to you. I know most readers don't RTFA but I've never met one that didn't RTFS either.

  21. Re:would like to see a hollywood accounting study on A Glimpse At Piracy In the UK and Beyond · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most contracts aren't even readable. The artists don't realize that the contract often stipulates they don't get paid until they make a profit (which rarely happens).

    QUOTE: "The royalty rates granted in every recording contract are very low to start with and then companies charge back every conceivable cost to an artist's royalty account. Artists pay for recording costs, video production costs, tour support, radio promotion, sales and marketing costs, packaging costs and any other cost the record company can subtract from their royalties. Record companies also reduce royalties by "forgetting" to report sales figure, miscalculating royalties and by preventing artists from auditing record company books." http://www.gerryhemingway.com/piracy2.html

  22. Most piracy happens in person. on A Glimpse At Piracy In the UK and Beyond · · Score: 3, Informative

    Only about 20% of copying happens over the net. The majority comes from swap parties between friends as they copy MP3s or AACs from one drive to another. (Yes there's a source for this. It was published here on /. but I can't find the article.)

  23. Windows is behind Linux on Intel Details Power Management Advancements in Haswell · · Score: 0

    Wow.
    I am shocked.
    (yawn)
    Windows has always been behind the curve. It didn't get a decent GUI until it blatantly copied the Mac OS in 1995 (trashcan, shutdown procedure, shortcuts tied to the desktop). Didn't get decent preemptive-multitasking until 10 years after the Commodre Amiga in 1985. Didn't have a web browser until 1996, Now it gets "dynamic ticks" almost six years after Linux. Wow. Surprise. Shock.

    Microsoft has never been about innovation. It's about *watching* other innovators and then copying the idea. It's the "embrace" part of their EEE motto.

  24. Re:Absolutely not. on Can Anyone Become a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    >>>because you keep acting like an immature child instead of a mature adult

    Even if we assume that's true Mr. AC, it's no reason to moddown my original post. While I can certainly understand why some might not like my view, that's no reason to slap me across the face with a -1 hit.

    Oh and as for "acting immature" I would assume you mean when I tell people to fuck off. BUT I only do that to people who insulted me first..... Someone calls me an "idiotic asshole" and I don't think they deserve to be treated with anykuind of respect. YOU are one of those people.

  25. Re:Budget cuts should not be imposed on NASA To Face $1.3 Billion Cut Next Year Under Sequestration · · Score: 0

    GPS wasn't even a NASA project.

    Please justify NASA's existence. What on earth have the trillions of dollars spent since 1980 accomplished? Pretty pictures. A few minor changes in science textbooks ("Saturn has dozens of rings not just two big ones"). Anything else? The money would be better spent feeding the hungry, creating more jobs at home, studying the earth's climate, or simply paying down the insane ~$190,000 per American home government debt. (Add another $100k for personal mortgage/credit card debt.)