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  1. Re:Bit of a hatchet job on RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el · · Score: 1

    >> BSD doesn't force anything on you, but it DOES give you the FREEDOM to release closed source binary distributions

    Yep, shure. But that is clearly contra-productive for the whole community, and also for the poor users of your software. it benefits only to you.

  2. Re:Bit of a hatchet job on RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el · · Score: 1

    "Frankly the way Apple has acted since Jobs came back..."
    The prophet came back to earth ???

    "Frankly the way Apple has acted since Jesus came back..."
    Corrected that for you.

  3. Re:"radical left-wing" on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 1

    >> It is also too left wing by European standards.

    Only for a minority of people here.

  4. Re:Will they be cut off after 6mo-1year on Automakers Move Toward OTA Software Upgrades · · Score: 4, Funny

    You will get new versions of a car :
    - Home basic car : will only start 10 times, until you get an upgrade. Can only take a single passenger
    - Home premium car : start always, but there are no brakes
    - Profesionnal car : has brakes, but they break often
    - Enterprise car : has reliable brakes, but lacks a radio
    - Ultimate car : you get the radio for 5000 Euro extra.

    I have to put the obligatory GM-Microsoft :
    http://mistupid.com/jokes/msvg...

  5. BS on Automakers Move Toward OTA Software Upgrades · · Score: 5, Informative

    >> What could possibly go wrong?
    Nothing. There are hardly any firewalls between ECUs. Firewalls do not exist on CAN.
    The article is written by someone with no insight in car architecture :

    >> First, however, carmakers must deploy more open OS platforms
    Nothing to do with the reflashing

    >> remove hardened firewalls between vehicle ECUs
    There aren't any firewalls

    >> and deploy networking topologies such as Ethernet, with proven security.
    Ethernet is already widely deployed in cars for data hungry applications ( infotainment) For other uses, ethernet is absolutely not suitable ( price, power, wiring constraints, EMC, safety, .....)

  6. Re:I can't wait! on Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader · · Score: 1

    Yep. If systemd lacks a good init system and emacs lacks a good editor, just integrate emacs in systemd.

    By the way, in french, "systeme D" means bricolage ( making something work by slapping together the things you have lying around)

  7. Indians on FAA Could Extend Property Rights On the Moon Through Regulation · · Score: 1

    >>Technically the US does since we landed people on it first

    Technically North America is owned by the american natives ( also called Indians)
    So if the USA is owned by the indians, and the moon is owned by the USA,

    then the moon is owned by the Indians.

  8. Re: No critical mass on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    I never said it would make a nuclear explosion. But we would all inhale it the stuff when dispersed in the athmosphere.

    >> uranium (or plutonium!)
    makes quite a difference. at least from the chemical side of the lethality when inhaling it.

  9. Explode on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    "NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explode the Solar System"

  10. Security risk on Dell Continues Shipping Fresh Linux Laptops · · Score: 1

    Thunderbolt is basically an incompatible security risk

  11. No critical mass on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    >> , an NTP rocket could generate 200 kWt of power using a single kilogram of uranium for a period of 13 years
    That is wrong. A single kilogramm of Uranium can not do much. The critcal mass is 56 kg.
    And that's for a perfect sphere of highly enriched U235. With this configuration it's also a nuke bomb, not really an effective means of travel in one piece.

    For a nuke reactor operating reasonably, you need 500 kg/ many tons of uranium.
    And that's a risk to the whole mankind to put that in a rocket. A launch failure with a ton of fissile material would realistically kill everyone on earth.

    That's the signe reason why this was not done in the first place.

  12. Re:Not always a good thing. on Microsoft To Invest In Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen · · Score: 1

    >> OpenSource, even if not generally publicly available.
    You mean it's close sourced then....

  13. Cat ? on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 2

    Cat exists under Linux.
    You can do that natively :

    make a box :

    if (( RANDOM % 2 )); then echo "Cat is dead">/tmp/Box; else echo "Cat is alive">/tmp/Box; fi

    open the box :

    cat /tmp/Box

  14. Re:Screenshots on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    I don't understand your single sentance

  15. Re:Predicting the future? on Verizon, Cable Lobby Oppose Spec-Bump For Broadband Definition · · Score: 1

    " 1 Mbps ought to be enough for anybody. "

    Seriously, 120 kB/s stinks.

  16. >> Me too. It's a hell of a lot harder to bug every man, woman, and child in the west than it is to intercept and crawl their communications

    You don't need to do that.
    You just put a worm or backdoor in all these peoples smartphones :)

    >> bug every man, woman, and child in the west

    The east attempted that before '89, didn't work so well

  17. >> WTF happened to Office 365

    It will be renamed "Office 362" when the statistics will show 3 days downtime per year :))))

    Or perhaps "Office 363" on leap years :)

  18. Re:$1 million? on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 1

    >> Clearly they don't expect much to come out of this research.

    No, they don't expect mankind to head in a better direction for it to be worthwile to live longer.

  19. Re:Wow on Inside North Korea's Naenara Browser · · Score: 1

    Nope, unfortunately, a big chunk of NK laptops are under windows too

    See here for a much better insight than the article :
    http://media.ccc.de/browse/con...

  20. Re:Time to Pause and Rethink on Space Policy Guru John Logsdon Has Good News and Bad News On NASA Funding · · Score: 1

    >> "reduce manned launch costs by 95% and increase launch reliability by 500%".
    Use soyuz.
    Already done.

  21. Re:Microsoft benefits from this on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 1

    >> The only way to recover (other than pay the ransom) was to...yes...buy a Windows 8 install disk and reformat.

    Or install linux :)

  22. Re:Joshua on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 1

    >> Two of the largest mining pools combined would have enough to say "NO!" to these guys forever.
    That does not work.

  23. Re:Best of a bad bunch KDE openSuSE. on Ask Slashdot: Linux Distro For Hybrid Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 desktops, are just irritatingly ugly and not practical to do your work on. Non-crisp looking misty Windows icons, hidden away in icons. If you work with a Windows 8 desktop, for more than a couple of years you will end up with bad eyesight. If you are determined to make the Windows 8 desktop, work then you will spend hours on it customising it to make it usable for a work environment. Once you have achieved that and get used to it you will be told you need to update, it to the latest version which will make it look ridiculous again it will drive you fucking mad! You will spend even more time trying to make it look like a work environment again to the point where you are so sick of it you won't upgrade and you end up not using it. They all want to be a smart phone OS on a desktop.

  24. Re:Keep Windows on Ask Slashdot: Linux Distro For Hybrid Laptop? · · Score: 1

    >> 8.1 is the best OS they have done
    you must have been sleeping the last two years.

  25. Re:DistroWatch! on Ask Slashdot: Linux Distro For Hybrid Laptop? · · Score: 1

    This is the only advice which will still be valid in 4 years :)