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  1. Re:2G? How can this be? on In Rural UK, Old 2G Phones Beat 3G Smarphones For Connectivity · · Score: 1

    Well someone's got something wrong, because we don't have 4G in the UK. Nor in any parts of western Europe that I noticed.

    They don't have it in the US either.

    ("4G" is American marketing speak for 3G)

  2. Re:With chargers everywhere, battery life not impr on In Rural UK, Old 2G Phones Beat 3G Smarphones For Connectivity · · Score: 1

    With micro USB as the standard mobile phone charger, every computer is effectively a mobile phone charger. If there are chargers everywhere, is battery life that big a deal?

    Yes.

    Next stupid quetion?

  3. Re:They weren't thinking about it though on United States Loses S&P AAA Credit Rating · · Score: 1

    To be clear, the US went from an ultra-exclusive AAA rating to a still-respectable AA+ rating.

    Belgium has an AA+ credit rating.

    Interesting. Belgium doesn't have a functioning government either.

  4. Re:Bendis is writing it. on Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement · · Score: 1

    Uh, Jesus probably wasn't what you might call "white".
     

  5. Re:PC? on Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement · · Score: 1

    In the USA, the PC rules for what makes you Latino are simple. If you are a descendant of anyone who came from a Spanish or Portuguese speaking country, you are Latino

    Including Spain and Portugal?

  6. Re:You should had compared on Is Free Software Ready For E-publishing? · · Score: 1

    XHTML, generated by some code I wrote[gna.org], with hyperlinks and cross references and semantic markup in the code listings generated by clang for [Objective-]C[C++].

    Dude I am NOT clicking a GNA link on a Slashdot post. </oldskool>

    No, it's the other GNA, Gna's Not Axis, basicaly the home of the French FSF (starterd by some guys working for a company called Axis - gave me my first newsfeed in return for a 2nd hand v.32 modem a long time ago).

  7. Re:It's the risk you take on SFPD Arrests Suspect In Airbnb Rental Trashing · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they hav low overheads because they provide (almost) no service.

    Shit, no identity checks? No liability? No insurance?

    Fuck 'em.

  8. Re:It's the risk you take on SFPD Arrests Suspect In Airbnb Rental Trashing · · Score: 1

    Since temporary home renting schemes have existed for years you seem to be arguing gut feeling against reality.

    This tells us more about you than about the subject under discussion.

  9. Re:This is the reason .. on Aircraft Made From 3D Printing · · Score: 2

    bitcoin is to slashdot what gold was to Glen Beck.

  10. Re:Duh. on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    You wearing a seatbelt?

  11. Re:Of course! on Followup: Anti-Global Warming Story Itself Flawed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Frankly, the libertarian position of "leave me alone" works either way

    Your right to wave your fist around ends at my nose.

    You can burn as much fossil fuel as you want if you don't put the waste into the atmosphere.

  12. Re:And many of the "climate" scientists... on Followup: Anti-Global Warming Story Itself Flawed · · Score: 1

    How about we wait for the NASA data, I guess I can trust that.

    What's to wait for? All the data is publicly available.

  13. Re:And many of the "climate" scientists... on Followup: Anti-Global Warming Story Itself Flawed · · Score: 0

    What observations would falsify your hypothesis that human emitted CO2 is causing warming of the earth that will have catastrophic consequences for humanity, assuming you exclude all proxy data?

    Say, 15 years of no statistically significant warming, but continuously rising CO2 levels?

    Ok, that attempt at falsification failed.

    What's your next one?

  14. Re:Duh. on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    :) Call me old fashioned but I miss those old Caddys and Olds 98s. In '79 I was driving a Buick Electra V8. Now that was a car. You crash into a SmartCar in one of those, you'll need some Kleenex to wipe that little thing off your front bumper.

    Dream on. Crash something designed before '79 into somthing modern = oldie dies.

  15. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish on Microsoft Dilutes Open Source, Coins 'Open Surface' · · Score: 1

    Zero points for comprehension. He's not defending Microsoft, he's attacking "open source" (as opposed to "free software").

  16. Re:Biased summary on Release of 33GiB of Scientific Publications · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I am all for civil disobedience when it is merited, but don't go crying when you get arrested and charged for that disobedience.

    Yeah, that Rosa Parks, stop whining, bitch.

    (Yes I know it's a ridiculous comparison, I'm reacting to your words, not the case at hand).

  17. Re:What I did. on Ask Slashdot: Best Connect Scheme For a 2-ISP Household? · · Score: 1

    I bet you don't understand why some people might want more than 640k either.

  18. Re:On landlines? on Phone Customers Pay $2B Yearly In Bogus Fees · · Score: 1

    You don't get phone on your ADSL?

    Here in France most ADSL comes with "triple-play" - Phone, TV and internet.

    Usualy the phone gives you free national calls, often free to Europe, US and other places.

  19. Re:Scotland a nation? Not yet.. on New Scottish Wave Energy Generator Unveiled · · Score: 1

    By the accepted usage, Scotland (England, Wales, etc) is not a nation. The nation is the United Kingdom.

    Sorry, but the most important international organisation, FIFA, disagrees with you.

  20. Re:Unfortunately... on New Scottish Wave Energy Generator Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Why would you need to be tricked into eating haggis? It's delicous fried. (Steer clear of boiled haggis).

  21. 64 bits. nice. What architecture on Adobe Released 64-bit Flash For Linux · · Score: 0

    There are a lot of 64 bit architectures. Whch ones does this thing support.

    Mips? Sparc? Alpha? Power? z/Architecture?

  22. Re:Pentium Pro? on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 1

    "I keep a Pentium Pro CPU on my desk underneath my monitor because it reminds me of simpler times."

    You kids and your new shit. Nothing simple about a 32-bit CISC chip. When I was a kid we had 8-bit CPUs and liked it!

    I had a 24 bit mainframe with 128Kwords of memory. And loved it.

  23. I run ICL George 3 on a 1900 on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 1

    (Emulated of course).

    See http://www.icl1900.co.uk/ for info

  24. Re:Lutz is dead wrong on Have American Businesses Been Stranded By the MBAs? · · Score: 1

    So, are you Econ2020?

    If so, what is your problem with Safeway?

  25. Re:There are like 20 of them left on Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach' · · Score: 1

    Al Qaeda were defeated before they existed.