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  1. Re:Easy solution french media on Google Threatens French Media Ban · · Score: 1

    I'll give you the Canard. Now come up with another French newspaper worth the paper it is printed on to justify your "good independent newspapers". Unfortunately, the Canard is the only one consistently worth it (with a possible exception to La Croix).

  2. Re:But where to get it on Google Threatens French Media Ban · · Score: 1

    Paying in Francs works very well around Switzerland and not just close by either, Swiss Francs are easily used in Lyon. Who's the ignorant ass now?

    What, it's not fair bringing up Swiss Francs? Too bad, you needed to be more precise. Besides, which, the Swiss are not the only ones to continue using money called Francs.

  3. Re:Torrents != pirating on "New Statesman" Pirates Its Own Magazine · · Score: 1

    Were that to be the case the Ds would protest much less when Rs attempt to make sure that real live voters are the only ones that can vote. Apparently the undead are a minority that Ds must protect from disenfranchisement.

  4. Re:Torrents != pirating on "New Statesman" Pirates Its Own Magazine · · Score: 1

    The retirees in Florida vote mostly democrat so I'd say no...

  5. Re:Torrents != pirating on "New Statesman" Pirates Its Own Magazine · · Score: 2

    My God, I knew that the RIAA was evil but now they are using the Undead!

  6. Re:They die without warning and without recourse on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 1

    I'd also heard that SSD's normally fail by going read-only... Not so, or not for me anyway. The 256 Gb Crucial C300 drive I had in my Dell e6500 just refused to be recognized one morning. I figured it was just a problem with that drive or some wierd conflict with the drive caddy I placed the spindle drive in (replacing the CD) because for some reason other drives worked in the caddy but not the original HD & the C300.

    I bought a 256 Gb Crucial M4 to replace the failed drive which one morning started giving read errors on some files (unfortunately on the files used to store some critical data in a VM. I can see the files but cannot read them. The e6500 still runs & I may wipe it & see if the SSD lets me reinit but I no longer trust it. Right now it's serving me as a mere terminal.

    I now have a rMBP which transparently backs up to my NAS over Time Machine...

  7. Re:Most things still work on iPhone 5 Teardown Shows Boost To Repairability · · Score: 3, Informative

    The only thing I have ever seen a micro-USB on is phones. The apple dock connector however has become common on clock radios, speakers & a plethora of docks. As micro-USB does not have enough pins for some dock functions, is not reversible, cannot furnish the wattage necessary to quick charge an iPad & should not need to be changed to accommodate USB3, it looks to me to be a good move. Change now, give an adapter for the old devices & do not need to change for another decade.

    Do you really believe that the current Micro-USB connector has much longer to live given that it cannot do USB3? Have you seen the abomination that is micro-USB3 with a dual socket structure wider than a USB type A? Have you never had problems with micro-USB being hard to insert the right way? Hell, I've seen a number of normal sockets where the shelf holding the contacts was snapped off & micro-USB damaged by people inserting them the wrong way. USB is not a great connector & within a few years most phones will have moved on to something else anyway.The only thing I have ever seen a micro-USB on is phones. The apple dock connector however has become common on clock radios, speakers & a plethora of docks. As micro-USB does not have enough pins for some dock functions, is not reversible, cannot furnish the wattage necessary to quick charge an iPad & should not need to be changed to accommodate USB3, it looks to me to be a good move. Change now, give an adapter for the old devices & do not need to change for another decade.

    Do you really believe that the current Micro-USB connector has much longer to live given that it cannot do USB3? Have you seen the abomination that is micro-USB3 with a dual socket structure wider than a USB type A? Have you never had problems with micro-USB being hard to insert the right way? Hell, I've seen a number of normal sockets where the shelf holding the contacts was snapped off & micro-USB damaged by people inserting them the wrong way. USB is not a great connector & within a few years most phones will have moved on to something else anyway.

  8. Re:Also, Apple would need NFC in their phones on Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security · · Score: 1

    NFC Is not an "expected" feature. It is a feature hoped for by those pushing this unwanted immature technology. The rest of us do not want NFC in our phones.

  9. Re:Fuck Apple. on iPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission · · Score: 1

    You're referring to the host side of the connector which for your information is also an unchanged USB type A connector in current lightning cables. The device side of the micro-USB cable is not upwardly compatible so when phones other than new iPhones go USB3 they will need to change the device side connectors. The iPhone is just the first phone to change & from what I've seen of the future USB3 connectors, Lightning is clearly superior.

  10. Re:Is USB really better? on iPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission · · Score: 1

    Well then good for you but please don't attempt to generalize from just your own personal devices into that being the case for everyone.

    When passing through a number of airports this summer the charging stations had more dock connectors than micro USB connectors. Given the huge sales of iPods, then iPhones & then iPads & all the clock radios, speakers, etc that have been bought for them, the dock connecter is very widely available when I find myself in need of a charge.

    Other than phones, little else uses the micro USB connector & they are thus less widespread.

  11. Re:Fuck Apple. on iPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission · · Score: 2

    Current conjecture is that Apple will be able to migrate Lightning to USB without needing any physical changes so the future USB 3 iphone will not have to change connectors. USB 3 will not work over micro USB and there is a different, incompatible connector for this. Sooo...so when USB 3 phones from people other than Apple come out they will either need to leave micro-USB on for charger compatibility (highly unlikely), or they will need to use an adapter just like Apple does. I eagerly await the hyperventilated denunciations of these NON COMPLIANT phones...

  12. Re:Is USB really better? on iPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission · · Score: 1

    The probability that someone will have an ipod or other apple device that uses the dock connector has been higher in my experience than having a micro-USB...

  13. Re:Rounded corners! Rectangular Design! on Apple Announces iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    That's because the Samsung phone slavishly copied the iphone from 3 years ago as Samsung admitted during the trial

  14. Re:the US did grant political asylum in the past on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 2

    The US is not legally bound by the treaty as they have not signed it much as for the landmine treaty. However that does not mean that the US does not generally use the same behavior as that described by the text, just that there are conditions in which they do not wish to be bound by the treaty's terms (again much like the landmine treaty where the US refuses to eliminate it's well defined and maintained fields of landmines in the Korean DMZ which have not been the cause of any civilian casualties).

  15. Re:Of all the things to hide under floorboards.... on Medieval "Lingerie" From 15th Century Castle Could Rewrite Fashion History · · Score: 1

    French Catholic would have sufficed back then.

    The French catholics under Henri IV were closer in genocidal nature & had a long history by the time the clothes were made. "Kill them all, God will sort his out" were the words of a French Catholic...

  16. Re:AD Domain Services on Ask Slashdot: Stepping Down From an Office Server To NAS-Only? · · Score: 2

    When all your files are on a single server/NAS, and all you want are the services he asked for, an AD just adds complications & is no easier than just using the server's local authentication.

  17. Re:Raises the obvious question on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 0

    Over a dozen different replies you continued to attempt to apply crowdsourcing where it is clearly poorly adapted & even now you cannot admit it. Your refusal to answer a direct question implies that the least palatable response is correct. For you that appears to be that crowdsourcing is not the best solution to all possible problems. So here you go Flicka, here's a sugar cube...

    You should go tell your mom that videos of your crowdsourced conception by that herd of mustangs are outlawed in most countries though.

  18. Re:Misguided on JavaScript For the Rest of Us · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perl hard to read? I beg to differ!
    http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=963133

  19. This will not end well on JavaScript For the Rest of Us · · Score: 2

    Decades back I used a research OS that was developed pretty much along UNIX lines except that it was written in this Pascal variant where all the keywords were in French (Pascal was popular back then as a first language). It never achieved any traction & disappeared because neither the OS nor the language proposed anything really useful that you couldn't get already from Unix/C or just plain Pascal.

    On a more recent level, one of the biggest PITA I and many others have with Office in non-english locales is that they translate the function names.
    =sum(a1:a6) becomes =somme(a1:a6). I'ts easy enough to find websites that will help perform actions in Office, but I often spend twice the time finding out lust what wierd name MS has come up with for some VB function.

    Is "pour" so much better than "for" for someone who is not a native english speaker? No, as by the time you have become proficient in the computer language, the subset of a foreign tongue it uses become well known & the difference irrelevant.

    It looks to me that Babylscript is just a tool for the language bigots out there. Give it a few months & people will have forgotten it.

  20. Re:Raises the obvious question on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 0

    No, no, you have made it quite clear in previous posts that you believe that no matter what the context, crowd sourcing is globally & blindly applicable, Genetics is no different. Either admit that crowdsourcing cannot be applied successfully no matter what the context or that equine genes would have made a better you. Come on, I've spent at least as much time trying to make the very point you are running away from admitting.

    So which is it? Hee Haw or you overstated your case?

  21. Re:Raises the obvious question on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 0

    It is no more insulting to suggest crowdsourcing as a superiour solution to your genetic makup than your continued attempts to blindly present it as a superiour solution to areas where it is clearly inferior. You, as the person claiming that crowdsourcing can improve everything cannot deny this without also abandoning your blind faith in it.

    So which is it?

    Is crowdsourcing the best solution to everything or would your genetics & intelligence have been improved with some equine imput?

  22. Re:Raises the obvious question on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 1

    History would also show that the global gene pool would have been improved had certain of your female ancestors crowd sourced the conception of their progeny and included other species. You cannot disagree as for you crowdsourcing is the solution to all problems and being the half human offspring of a donkey could not have made you less obtuse.

  23. Re:Raises the obvious question on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 0

    The recent history of anonymous shows that they have been unable to make up their collective minds to do anything once the leaders were taken out & this is no different. But this is different because you have this shiny new hammer? Bull! You're just repeating the same old mistakes. I'm tired of trying to educate the ignorant. Go crack open a history book, just maybe you'll actually gain some wisdom...

  24. Re:thickness on Sony's Thermal Sheet Good As Paste For CPU Cooling · · Score: 1

    Please don't try to put words in my mouth, you overstate my position.

    Pads do have advantages as I've already said elsewhere yet verified claims that they are better for heat dissipation are not to be found in TFA, your URL or elsewhere. Your comment on pads "achieving optimal heat dissipation" is also clearly overstated. Pads needed only sufficient heat dissipation for AMD to recommend their use. However even this endorsement does not mean that pads have better thermals than correctly applied paste.

  25. Re:Raises the obvious question on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 1

    Your argument is akin to a child with a hammer thinking that his newly discovered tool can be used to solve all his problems.

    Crowd sourcing works in a narrow context. You need to learn how to recognize the boundaries where it can & cannot apply. Let me try to put this into a context you may be familiar with. Crown sourcing is like a strategy you have found to beat Starcraft in solo player mode through better long term management of resources. When you try that against a human opponent he recognizes the tactic & zerg rushes you into oblivion.