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  1. What a Joke on Kim Dotcom Raid - What Really Happened · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Firstly, the NZ Police for being such a nice lapdog. Pretty funny when NZ stands up over something as silly as a nuclear free zone, but then does this.

    Secondly, this is the time of when the government needs to smack the government, HARD, and award Kim damages. Nothing else is really acceptable.

  2. S.M. Stirling on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    He wrote the sequels to Terminator 2 as a trilogy, which was an astounding bit of storytelling in that universe. I would have loved for Cameron to make a 3rd film based on those stories, they were perfect.

    He also wrote Island in the Sea of time, Where Nantucket is blasted 2000 years into the past and the society has to learn how to cope.

  3. Re:The what? on Debian Changes Default Desktop From GNOME To XFCE · · Score: 1

    No, we use Slackbuilds or checkinstall or the equivalent.

  4. Re:The what? on Debian Changes Default Desktop From GNOME To XFCE · · Score: 1

    You were never a Slack user either. The command to install a slackpkg is installpkg.

    A slackware package is a lot more than just a tarball.

  5. Re:The long-term problem for Apple. on Samsung's Comparison of Galaxy S To iPhone · · Score: 2

    That, is fucking retarded.

    Judge an argument on it's own. That it is posted as AC means NOTHING.

    I have a pretty early account. I only started using it again in 2010, only because I wanted to force a preference after the horrible Slash 2.0 update.

    Before then I was still contributing, still getting high comments, without any bother of signing up(I forgot I had this account).

    Being an AC does not mean they forgot to login or even have an account. It isn't necessary, and means NOTHING.

    Stop making that fucking argument, you, hairy_oldfeet and every idiot who has some idiot rationale for doing so.

  6. Re:Too sexist and weird for me, sorry on Nuance Launches Siri Rival "Nina" · · Score: 2

    Siri can have a male voice, which makes your rant all but irrelevant.

  7. Siri is terrible on Nuance Launches Siri Rival "Nina" · · Score: 1

    I was amazed at just how bad Siri really is. It's at about the level of voice recognition software from many years ago before training.

    I thought Apple would take this existing technology and perfect it, bring it to the masses as they have before, but no. It's just standard voice recognition technology that isn't ready for primetime, yet Apple shipped anyway.

    Desperate for a new feature, or Job's health getting in the way?

    Either way, the numerous parodies of Siri and funny videos of the frequent mistakes it makes probably isn't good marketing....

  8. Re:Other Olympic blackouts on 'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games · · Score: 0

    ABC is far from the main broadcaster in Oz.

  9. Re:I don't see how this could be illegal on Apple Asks Court To Sanction Samsung; Samsung Fires Back; More iPhone Prototypes · · Score: 1

    If a cop did an illegal search how do we know the guy accused was not framed? Better to let a guilty man go free than an innocent suffer.

  10. Re:Is that a man or a woman? on The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gender is generally considered a separate thing from sex. This article about determining an athletes sex, in which a ladyboy would be considered male, whether they like it or not.

  11. Re:I call bullshit. on Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics · · Score: 1

    I'm from Australia, lived in the UK for many years and now live in the US. When I first went to the UK I could not understand anything, as I had no experience dealing with pounds or ounces. Feet are easy enough to pick up...but the UK is far from metric. If it were, I would not have had so much trouble being from a metric country.

  12. Re:I call bullshit. on Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics · · Score: 1

    All serious work is done in metric in the US. Imperial is used in everyday life stuff by the people, same as the UK.

  13. Re:Awesome! on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    Thanks for you clear and in depth explanation.

  14. Re:I'll be first in line on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    Yeah my mistake. I should have said "could be used" instead.

  15. Re:I call bullshit. on Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I find it funny that the US gets criticized for not being metric, when the UK isn't either. Officially sure, but they all talk in pounds and stone and ounces.

  16. Re:Awesome! on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    OK, Thanks. Was it only a specific type/line of dinosaurs that evolved into birds, or do different birds come from different lines of dinosaurs?

    I'm not familiar with biology so substitute line with order, or class or whatever is most appropriate.

  17. Re:I'll be first in line on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not as cute as all the nerds "in the know" scoffing at the graphical interface in the movie, despite it being the graphical interface used by IRIX (yes, it's a UNIX) at the time.

  18. Re:Awesome! on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 2

    Is it 100% certain that birds came from dinosaurs? I thought that was just a popular hypothesis?

  19. Re:No, it isn't. on Is Phoenix the Next Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like New York, except with the downside of it being in California.

  20. Re:Fantastic first impressions on Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  21. Re:Fantastic first impressions on Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor · · Score: 1

    No, it's not obvious. It's speculation because someone praised a product from 'the enemy'.

  22. Re:Fantastic first impressions on Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor · · Score: 0

    Do you really think Microsoft wastes time on Slashdot, trying to persuade an audience who are not worth the time, even if it were possible?

    Occam's razor infers that the account is just an account. Given the new service *is* quite nice, I don't find it hard to believe.

    But then, I'm not one for conspiracy theories.

  23. Re:Np such thing as free s[eech on Teenager Arrested In England For Criticizing Olympic Athlete On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Free Speech in the EU cannot be equated with free speech in the US. If it could, censorship would not be so rampant and unchallenged in many countries, i.e. Germany.

    Yes, I think people are far more free to speak their mind in the UK, for better or for worse.

  24. Re:CDMA2000; manufacture cost on How Will Steam on GNU/Linux Affect Software Freedom? · · Score: 1

    There is no increased functionality from an unlocked phone, only increased choice.

  25. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    What makes you think critical thinking ties into Algebra?