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  1. Re:Yet another Ted Cruz bashing article ! on Politics Is Poisoning NASA's Ability To Do Science · · Score: 5, Informative

    AFAIK what he's pointing out is that NASA was chartered to explore space

    Oh, yeah?

    The National Aeronautics and Space Act

    SUBCHAPTER I--SHORT TITLE, DECLARATION OF POLICY, AND DEFINITIONS

    Sec. 20102. Congressional declaration of policy and purpose

    (d) Objectives of Aeronautical and Space Activities.--The aeronautical and space activities of the United States shall be conducted so as to contribute materially to one or more of the following objectives:

            (1) The expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and of phenomena in the atmosphere and space.

  2. Re:Unicomp Keyboard on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 2

    Yup, the only two keyboards I've ever liked are the unicomp model-M copies or the (abandoned) Dell L100.

    The model M also has the advantage of doubling as a PDW and generating sound effects for building demolition.

  3. Re:Better Arguments Needed on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Which clearly explains why countries without the death penalty have lower murder rates than countries with the death penatly.

    Except they don't.

    The plural of anecdote (especialy made up anecdote) is not data.

  4. Re:Probably not acceptable to the hive mind on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Science Appear To Be Getting Things Increasingly Wrong? · · Score: 1

    There are repeated examples of conflicts, concerns, and debates which are carefully hidden from public view, not because they are too esoteric for public consumption, but because it would dilute the message.

    Cite one?

    Oh, no, you can't.

    "Hide the decline"? Not hidden -- they wrote fucking published papers about it.

    "Keep things out of the literature" -- It would have been nice, but the excrable papers were not just published but cited by the IPCC AR, even though they turned out to be the crap they looked like being.

  5. Re:Your justice system is flawed, too. on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    That's easy - just move to the Cayman Islands. There's no income tax there at all.

    Are you, or the person you are replying to, an American.

    'Cos if you are be aware that that is not true.

  6. Re:Better Arguments Needed on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You think you should kill people without remorse because they killed people without remorse.

    It's psychopaths all the way down.

  7. Re:Probably not acceptable to the hive mind on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Science Appear To Be Getting Things Increasingly Wrong? · · Score: 2

    Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.)

    No more needs to be said.

    How sad.

  8. Re:But that's the problem... on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Science Appear To Be Getting Things Increasingly Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Where's your proof that "meta-analyses are shit.". Do we just take your word for it?

    He did a meta-analysis of all published meta-analysises to prove that meta-analyses are shit.

    Seems cut & dried to me.

  9. Re:time_t on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1

    Who said 'program' -- you said 'used'.

  10. Re:Doubtful on New Crop of LED Filament Bulbs Look Almost Exactly Like Incandescents · · Score: 1

    Use more red-balanced LEDs and something like f.lux or refshift to change the monitor's color balance.

    I misread that as "redshift" -- I though that you were proposing to launch the monitor into space at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

  11. First intelligent antivirus on Panda Antivirus Flags Itself As Malware · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yow! I'm malware.

    Well spotted, panda.

  12. Re:time_t on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? Do you know what sizeof time_t returns on your phone?

  13. Re:ESR's doing something related to NTP right now. on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1

    At least accordingly to a comment of his on his latest blog entry.

    So I expect that the fate of NTP isn't so uncertain as all that

    You mean that NTP is certainly dead?

  14. Re:This is so Republican on Linux Might Need To Claim Only ACPI 2.0 Support For BIOS · · Score: 1

    The lunacy around here gets stronger every day.

  15. Re:I've been through this myself. on Linux Might Need To Claim Only ACPI 2.0 Support For BIOS · · Score: 1

    So maybe you should RTFA.

  16. Re: This is so Republican on Linux Might Need To Claim Only ACPI 2.0 Support For BIOS · · Score: 1

    You are replying to an insane person. You are wasting your time.

  17. Re:Trello...ello...ello...ello.. on Ask Slashdot: Issue Tracker For Non-Engineers? · · Score: 1

    Got a citation for that? 'cos it sounds like a pretty solid endorsement.

  18. Re:The one thing I admired about the C64 on The 2015 Vintage Computer Festival East is April 17-19 (Video) · · Score: 1

    So use a live cd.

  19. hardware support? on Kali Linux On a Raspberry Pi (A/B+/2) With LUKS Disk Encryption · · Score: 2

    Does the SOC in tbe Rasbery PI 2 have hardware encryption support? 'cos it's going to be pretty slow without it.

  20. Re:I love how the systemd guys ignore bugs! on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    illiterant? what the fuck does that mean. Illiterate.

    memo to self -- stop posting to slashdot from idiotphone.

  21. Re:I love how the systemd guys ignore bugs! on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't you illiterant cretin. I tells you that, since you have modified the unit file,start may not be doing what you think it is.

    Anti systemd trolls seem to be getting stupider as time goes by.

  22. There have been "race wars" between two groups indistinguishable by genetics--e.g. Tutsi and Hutus (who started as two political classes but whom the Victorian English categorized as two distinct "races" , which evolved into a series of genocides)

    Yup, the Victorian English from Brussels. Mostly we call them Belgians.

  23. Re:I love how the systemd guys ignore bugs! on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    You are misreading the message. systemctl is telling you that the unit file has changed, and you should probably do a daemon-reload before doing the systemctl start. It is not a bug.

  24. Re:So much for Debian 8, then... on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: 1

    One distribution that has not gone systemd only is, of course, Debian.

  25. Re:So much for Debian 8, then... on Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Frankly, I'm not associated with the Debian project, but, if I were, hearing that yet another lunatic troll was promising not to use their system would make me very happy.