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  1. Re:Blablablabla on Getting Lost In the Scientific Woods Is Good For You · · Score: 3, Funny

    "No blah blah blah!" -- James T. Kirk

  2. Re:It's not first and foremost about you on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 1, Interesting

    systemd allows distributions a better default experience.

    If it were simply a case of being a DEFAULT experience, there wouldn't be all this hue and cry. Systemd insists on being the ONLY experience, indeed, the ONLY way of *thinking* about init. Its tendrils are *everywhere*, and spreading every day. And as for applications, the NOTION that an application has a dependency on which init system is running is enough to have Dennis Ritchie (and most admins) spinning. The 'two factions' argument comes down to laptop users saying "faster boot times!" and server admins saying "who cares?". As for VPSs, (or daemons, for that matter) how often do you start/stop them that faster boot times becomes an issue?

  3. Re:How about we hackers? on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 1

    Parent is what moderation is FOR, and here it languishes at 0.

  4. Re:So they got their reservation using deception? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is there always a different set of rules the smart people are supposed to adhere to? Obviously the facts, logic and argument didn't silence these people, or the clowns trying to get Intelligent Design into elementary and middle-school schoolbooks. And they ARE attempting to silence the truth with a political process. "Silencing a dissenting view" IS "healthy for scientific discourse" when the view is completely preposterous nonsense that flies in the face of overwhelming EVIDENCE. This whole notion of "teaching the controversy" is wrong and anti-science. We shouldn't give it any more credulity than we do alchemy in a physics department.

  5. Re:Sounds legit on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 3, Informative

    University officials say they have no plans to interfere with the event. "Free speech is at the heart of academic freedom and is something we take very seriously," said Kent Cassella, MSU's associate vice president for communications, in a statement. "Any group, regardless of viewpoint, has the right to assemble in public areas of campus or petition for space to host an event so long as it does not engage in disorderly conduct or violate rules. While MSU is not a sponsor of the creation summit, MSU is a marketplace of free ideas."

    I think I've found the place to book my next neo-Nazi homeopathic phrenology conference.

  6. I run Gentoo on Building All the Major Open-Source Web Browsers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So it's simply emerge --update world* but I always groan when I see Chromium has a new version, which it does almost weekly, because it takes approximately FOREVER to compile. Firefox and Seamonkey take a long time, sure, but Chromium, yikes, come back tomorrow.

    *Actually, it's: emerge -v --deep --newuse --with-bdeps=y --update world 2>&1 | tee update-world-deeper-`date +%F`.log, but that's just me.

  7. Re:more on EU Sets Goal To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 40% By 2030 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's roman_mir. He always goes full retard.

  8. Re:http://www.ezdictionary.net/arabic/index.html on EU Sets Goal To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 40% By 2030 · · Score: 0

    Heh. Here, let me just download an MSI installer whose instructions are all in Arabic. What's the worst that could happen?

  9. Re:Bullshit, This is the Lamarck Theory on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Bullshit, This is the Lamarck Theory on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    Of course it's evolution. Here we have a classic example of an arms race, where if they don't change both behavior and morphology, they are literally killed and eaten. Evolution does not imply immediate overnight (or 20 generations) speciation. And your comment about Lamarck just shows that you don't understand Lamarck OR evolution.

  11. Re:Sign me up on British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks · · Score: 1

    You do understand that it isn't the Slashdot editors that are recruiting for this position don't you?

    Of course not -- it's their Dice overlords.

  12. Re:Performance issues? on Ask Slashdot: Smarter Disk Space Monitoring In the Age of Cheap Storage? · · Score: 2

    Given a spherical cow of uniform density...

    That isn't how First Fit works. Ever.

  13. Re:Performance issues? on Ask Slashdot: Smarter Disk Space Monitoring In the Age of Cheap Storage? · · Score: 1

    Picture this:

    You're pulling into the parking lot at work, and you know that there are only 5% of the spaces free. How long will you have to drive around before you find a place to park?
    Now picture pulling into the parking lot at Disney World, and you know that 5% of the spaces are free. Now how long will you have to drive around?

  14. With apologies to Michio Kaku on Machine Learning Expert Michael Jordan On the Delusions of Big Data · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that and the fact that Kurzweil is the biggest hack on the planet.

  15. Sounds nice on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if it only included a text editor.

  16. Re:Your firstborn on Oracle Database Certifications Are No Longer Permanent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Clearly you don't know Oracle. The cost has always been your soul.

  17. Re:Speakeasy Speed Test on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 2

    return ArtistFormerlyKnownAs(ArtistFormerlyKnownAs(Prince));

  18. Re:Meaning on Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over US Spying Will "Break the Internet" · · Score: 2
    And by "more federated" we really mean "more feudal". What Schmidt is worried about is Google's loss of world hegemony, which is inevitable as the rest of the second and third world gets wired and/or broadband. When he talks about concerns about US spying, he's really worrying about the loss of Europe.

    "It's a harder problem to solve because it's seen as personal," he [Schmidt] said. "We're very concerned that there will be a sort of 'Buy European' movement."

    He doesn't really need to worry about that as much as he needs to worry about Net Neutrality. That's what's going to "break the Internet", when Comcast gets their wish of charging different content providers different rates, everyone, down to the ISP (last mile) level will eventually follow suit. Schmidt will end up paying a different rate to deliver YouTube to each individual customer. Eventually he'll have BIGGER server farms dedicated to billing, cross-licensing, etc. than he has for content today.

  19. Re:My Ass on Solar Could Lead In Power Production By 2050 · · Score: 1

    In other news: "too cheap to meter" fusion power available ten to twenty years from today. Whenever "today" might happen to be.

  20. Re:Why not create a new API version function? on Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fuckin' PHP programmers! You guys need to die off. How about a GetReallyFor ReallyHonestThisTimeIMeanItVersionNumber()? Or are we going to be using a GetVersionEx47() at some point?

  21. This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard on Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility · · Score: 2

    So you're telling me that Microsoft decided/had to skip a version number because of existing Java code? Rly? Srsly?

  22. Re:Elon Musk had nothing to do with this on A Garbage Truck That Would Make Elon Musk Proud · · Score: 1

    Good to know. I know that nobody on Slashdot is interested in what Paul Allen might be up to.

  23. Re:Low hanging fruit on A Garbage Truck That Would Make Elon Musk Proud · · Score: 1

    Sure, but then there's question of miles driven per day. I think there's a lot more bang-for-buck in school buses.

    What starts with "F" and ends with "U-C-K"? Fire truck.

  24. Low hanging fruit on A Garbage Truck That Would Make Elon Musk Proud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SCHOOL BUSES. Usually low-speed, frequent starts & stops, usually only out for 2-3 hours at a time. Time to recharge between morning and afternoon routes. Current diesel models get terrible mileage. Perfect for teslafication.

  25. Re:speculating on Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes In FBI's Story · · Score: 1

    ... the NSA (or some other spooks)...

    I thought I touched that base. Meanwhile, the NSA is still the most likely source.