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  1. Something to do with the quality of the films? on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 1

    Starring in crappy films with shitty stories and idiotic directors harms actors careers?

    Who'd a thunk it.

  2. Re:And why not? on Nation's Biggest Nuclear Firm Makes a Play For Carbon Credit Cash · · Score: 1

    Eight of 17 reactors have been shut down, so you're right, it's not "most", it's just "half of them".

    Where do you get "two or three"? Are you confusing Germany with Belgium?

  3. Re:And why not? on Nation's Biggest Nuclear Firm Makes a Play For Carbon Credit Cash · · Score: 1

    Most isotopes are poisonous ... regardless how active they are.

    Runner up for dumbest statement ever, only beaten my "most food contains chemicals".

  4. Re:And why not? on Nation's Biggest Nuclear Firm Makes a Play For Carbon Credit Cash · · Score: 1

    When it goes wrong, it renders a different large area of land [uninhabited].

    FTFY.

  5. Re:Complete article on Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient · · Score: 1

    The Earth's climate is always on a continuum and humans have always survived.

    Thare have been "climactic" conditions in the past that humans might not thrive in. (Like lack of free oxygen in the atmosphere for example).

  6. Re:It depends on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    They prove that string concatenation (in memory) is slower than writing to buffers (in memory).

    I.E. that :

    char *s, *new;
    new = malloc (len + 1);
    memcpy (s, new, len);
    new [++len] = 'x';
    free (s);
    s = new;

    is slower than:

    buf [len] = x;
    if (++len > sizeof buf) {
      write (out, buf, len);
      len = 0;
    }

    What a fucking joke.

  7. Re:It depends on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    No, in the case of the "paper" cited it depends on the gross stupidity of the algorithm.

    They're comparing:

    string s = "";
    for (1..1000000) {
      s = s + "x";
    }
    write (x);

    With

    for (1..1000000) {
      write ("x");
    }

    For fucks sake!

  8. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    Please, do elucidate -- how is the code a mess?

  9. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    That many packages are hard depending on an interface to an init/whateverthehellitis that may not be present (all though it takes some trying) is 'bad',

    But why is it bad?

  10. Re: Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    That is totally untrue -- classic unix had all tools on the same source tree. Not that that had anything to do with philosophy, it was just the way it was done.

  11. Re:Not really needed on MIT Debuts Integer Overflow Debugger · · Score: 1

    That was the way it used to work, and in C at least the way it's exposed is the unsigned type.

  12. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    You still haven't explained what sucks.

  13. Re: Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    Why not?

  14. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 0

    If you don't want systemd then don't install systemd.

    libsystemd isn't systemd. It's a library which is a no-op if systemd isn't installed. In fact one of the main reasons for it's existence is to make sure that packages don't need to depend on systemd.

    If you're worried libsystemd will do something bad to you then just review it's code -- it's tiny.

  15. Re: Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    Fuck off you idiot troll.

  16. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 2

    So what?

    libudev1 doesn't depend on systemd. It installs perfectly well om machines were systemd isn't installed and it runs perfectly well on machines where systemd isn't pid 1.

    Why do you care what directory the source code is in?

  17. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    libudev1 is a systemd library and maintained by the systemd maintainers.

    libsystemd1 is a no-op if systemd is not installed. What is your problem? Do you think you'll catch systemd cooties if the name of any package on your system contains the letters d, e, m, s, t or y?

  18. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    Naturally they say that libsystemd0 is not systemd just an interface to it,

    Naturally they say that because it's true.

    but still try getting rid of it.

    Try getting rid of libselinux1 (and that was written by the NSA!)

    Just what exactly do you think libsystemd0 does if systemd is not pid 1?

    A do-ocracy became a paid-to-do-ocracy and those involved seem to think that that is the same thing.

    Who do you think is paid to work on Debian? (LTS aside)

  19. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    What has been renamed? udev is still called udev.

    udev doesn't depend on systemd.

  20. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    So far as I know, gvfs is dependent on udev, not systemd.

    It depends on libudev1. libudev1 doesn't even depend on udev.

    libudev1 and udev come from the same source package as systemd. Maybe people think they can catch cooties from it?

  21. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    At least on Debian the GVFS has a hard requirement on systemd.

    R U Sure?

    $ apt-cache show gvfs | grep Depends
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.43.2), libudev1 (>= 183), gvfs-daemons (>= 1.23.92-1), gvfs-daemons (<< 1.23.92-1.1~), gvfs-libs (= 1.23.92-1), gvfs-common (= 1.23.92-1)

    Nope, no depenancy on systemd.

    I get tired of saying this, but it's true. The only Debian package that depends on systemd is gummiboot.

  22. Re:Obligatory Discussions on GNOME 3.16 Released · · Score: 1

    So, now it's "flamebait" to say that Gnome 3 is pretty good. Hahaha.

  23. Re: it always amazes me on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    Even the USSR at its high point would not have been able to kill 90% of the US population with massive missile strike.

    France currently has around 300 warheads. If it had delivery mechanisms for all of them capable of hitting the US that could mean at least one bomb for every city with over 100,000 population.

    That's about 88 million people in the cities hit.

    The USSR had rather more that 300 warheads deliverable.

  24. Re:Journalists being stonewalled by Apple? on Developers and the Fear of Apple · · Score: 2

    So a journalist becomes persona non grata with Apple, can't get information about The New Big Thing until long after their competitors have published articles about it, so they get a reputation for being slow to publish about new stuff and probably end up with a reputation for recycling other peoples information because they can't get anything from Apple.

    The famous example was El Reg.

  25. Re:"Free" with restrictions is not Free! on Pixar Releases Free Version of RenderMan · · Score: 1

    Come on, this is Slashdot, I mention TANSTAFL and everyone is supposed to bow down the old man.

    What are you, some kind of heretic?