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  1. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Dumb, Should have put 40Mph - 65Km/h then everyone would have switched to metric instantaneously.

  2. Re:So, the other side? on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    If one of the top-10 richest people in the world would distribute half of his personal wealth to the poorest one billion, it would be a months salary for each of them.

    Ok, that's 10 months salary dealt with. Now what do we do?

    (Not that I disagree with you, but don't confuse wealth, a measure of amount of stuff, with income, which is a rate of change in amount of stuff).

  3. If your lynx can't show photos it must be misconfigured.

  4. Shame on samzenpus for thinking everyone is a lemming, especially on Slashdot.

    Come off it, everybody on Slashdot is a lemming.

    Just a different flavoured one.

  5. Re:How is this a shuttle? on India Targets July/August To Test Its Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    The term shuttle in murican terms is a piloted thing that lands under control.

    So the STS wasn't a shuttle? (The "pilot"s job consisted of pressing the de-orbit button, then when close enough to the ground pressing the "wheels down" button).

  6. Re:Ultra Power Saving on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? · · Score: 1

    2) Traveling to a foreign country where the requisite power adapters have not been acquired or failed to make it into the pack. Bonus for traveling through intermediate countries that have different plugs than your source or destination.

    Brute force can often deal with this problem. (French "type C" plugs can be forced into quite a large number of sockets that they're not supposed to be. http://www.worldstandards.eu/e... ).

  7. Re:FAQ on Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone · · Score: 1

    If I'm wrong and a light tap will always work, and a swipe will never be broken up into multiple gestures or ignored altogether, and so on, then I'd be delighted, albeit surprised the technology isn't being used anywhere else.

    The N900 does have a stylus, but, personally, I only used it for non-mobile versions of some websites or running X programs that weren't written for touch screens.

    Probably the reason the technology is not used elsewhere is that the screen is pretty fragile -- it's plastic, not glass, and soft plastic at that. Scratches do build up, and screen protectors do reduce sensitivity.

    Also the N900 is single touch -- the dual touch "magic" didn't exist when the N900 was made.

  8. Re:Hmm on Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone · · Score: 1

    An E90 is pretty good for protecting anything -- it's one of those phones that double as a PDW.

    The N900/Neo900 keyboard is not as good as the E90, but it's about the 2nd best phone keyboard.

  9. Re:FAQ on Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone · · Score: 1

    Nobody in their right mind uses their cellphone to "paint" pictures. But everyone uses it to dial numbers, browse websites, and other activities that require a finger, or two, rather than a stylus.

    Fingers work perfectly well on the n900 resistive screen.

    The neo900 should be better (dual-touch).

  10. Re:Hardly "Open" or Free Software Friendly on Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone · · Score: 1

    'd want them to have at least produced a distribution or version of a distribution without the non-free pieces. That way I'd at least know that its unlikely anything is spying on me (other than tracking when the phone is on).

    You can, AFAIK, do non-accelarated graphics with no closed code. Don't know about WIFI.

    I'm also assuming here the GSM modem doesn't have access to the CPU, ram, or flash on the device.

    Your assumption is correct.

  11. Re:Cost on Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone · · Score: 1

    The point is that the modem chip, even when on, has no access to the phone's memory. It's an external device.

  12. Re:and dog eats tail on Feds Order Amtrak To Turn On System That Would've Prevented Crash · · Score: 1

    Urgh. I hate stupid made up names.

  13. Re:Seriously? on Learning About Constitutional Law With Star Wars · · Score: 1

    The Queen can't veto a law by withholding her assent, because it's just not done.

    And, just to remind her of this, there is a statue of Oliver Cromwell just outside the house of Commons.

  14. Re:Amtrak's existing signal system on Feds Order Amtrak To Turn On System That Would've Prevented Crash · · Score: 1

    A locked cockpit door could have prevented 9/11

    And, since 9/11 has been a contributory cause to at least two crashes. (Helios Airways 522 and Germanwings 9525).

    (P.S. before somebody trots out the old "9/11 was the last time a plane could be hijacked" meme check it out --- there have been 10s of hijackings since 9/11).

  15. Re:and dog eats tail on Feds Order Amtrak To Turn On System That Would've Prevented Crash · · Score: 2

    Nobody rides trains.

    Hey, I've ridden that train.

    It's a reasonable way for getting between Washington and New York, 3 hours and 20 minutes for $86 (vs 2h46 for $158 on the Accela).

  16. Re:In class is a problem- not so much at school on Schools That Ban Mobile Phones See Better Academic Results · · Score: 1

    You are rejecting the results of an empirical study because you don't like the conclusion. What "logic".

  17. Re:Affirmative Action on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In Japan, in Korea, in China they do not have AA --- and their economies are growing leaps and bounds and everybody can attest to their technological achievements

    In Japan? Economy growing leaps and bounds? Where have you been for the last 20 years?

  18. Re:Fight! on Larson B Ice Shelf In Antarctica To Disintegrate Within 5 Years · · Score: 5, Informative

    OP:

    I recall NASA predicting complete loss of arctic sea ice by 2013, and the navy predicting the same in 2016.

    You:

    after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: "At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions."

    US Department of Energy-backed research project led by a US Navy scientist predicts that the Arctic could lose its summer sea ice cover as early as 2016 - 84 years ahead of conventional model projections.

    Are you unable to see the difference?

    One NASA climate scientist said "the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012", not "NASA predicted complete loss of arctic sea ice by 2013".

    As it happened we hit the lowest sea ice extent since 1979 in September 2012.

    A US Navy scientist predicted that "the Arctic could lose its summer sea ice cover as early as 2016", not "the Navy predicted complete loss of arctic sea ice by 2016".

    As it happens we're currently only just inside 2 std deviations of the average, looking much like 2014 and 2013.

    Anyway, to see what's happening go here http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/.

  19. Re:Logs via network on Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart · · Score: 1

    The humourectomy was a success, I see.

  20. Re: Does this really affect that many people? on Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix · · Score: 1

    Move somewhere civilised. In Champigny sur Marne, a fairly poor suburb of Paris I have a choice between 20Mbit ADSL and 50Mbit cable.

    Netflix works great.

  21. Re:I like how this got marked troll on Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart · · Score: 1

    I'm getting bored of asking this, but, once again:

    That's a disingenuous thing to say when important packages have come to depend upon it.

    Which important packages?

  22. Re:Logs via network on Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart · · Score: 1

    Randomly swapping system components to see what's broken? Where have I heard that one before:

    Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire?
    A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.

    Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas?
    A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.

    http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/field-circus.html

  23. Re:Logs via network on Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart · · Score: 1

    Which means if there's a problem with journald, a component which I can not replace, then I don't get any logging.

    Why can't you replace it? It has a defined API, just write your own.

  24. Re:Logs via network on Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart · · Score: 1

    Found pretty much what I was looking for - the journal library mmap()s the requested journal file and watches for additions using inotify event queues. So, everything is going through the disk before it goes out to the network.

    No, going to memory -- even if it's written sync the in-memory cache and inode will get updated before the disk write is done, so the write to the network should happen in parallel with the write to the disk.

  25. Re:Logs via network on Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart · · Score: 1

    Ah, so the Unix way is using monolithic binary blobs instead of small carefully crafted tools connected by pipes.

    Thanks for that insight.