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  1. Not news! on Study: Space Rock Impacts Not Random · · Score: 1

    Someone already said that God doesn't play dice. But I cannot remember the name ...

  2. Re:Blabbering on Open Consultation Begins On Italy's Internet Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    Rights exist apart from law.

    Maybe that's true in your country. In mine, law is to enforce rights (and duties).

  3. Re:Blabbering on Open Consultation Begins On Italy's Internet Bill of Rights · · Score: 2

    Any person shall have the same right to access the Internet on equal terms, using appropriate and up-to-date technologies that remove all economic and social barriers.
    The fundamental right to Internet access must be ensured with respect to its substantive pre-conditions, not only as the mere possibility of connecting to the Internet.
    Access shall include freedom of choice with regard to operating systems, software, and applications.
    The effective protection of the right to Internet access requires appropriate public intervention to overcome all forms of digital divide - based on cultural, infrastructural or economic factors particularly as regards accessibility by persons with disabilities.

    It's just blabbering without explicitly adding something like:

    All authorization to operate will be withdrawn by the Italian Parliament, by means of the AGCOM (Agency for the Communication Warranties [but not freedoms]) from whoever will act against these rights and will prosecute it with criminal files.

    Because of a typo in a database I had to wait two years before getting my ADSL.
    My rights were thrashed and there has been no way for me to defend them.
    The incombent telco simply ignored any communication of mine and never paid for that.
    No law, no right!

  4. Blabbering on Open Consultation Begins On Italy's Internet Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    I cannot read anything really interesting (despite being Italian myself). Just words, no plans, no actual decisions. Just words.
    Sounds like philosophy. Which we don't really need without a clear plan for actual actions.

  5. Maybe there is a simple answer on OpenBSD Drops Support For Loadable Kernel Modules · · Score: 0

    Once you know why loadable kernel modules have been introduced.
    But this requires you to turn your brain on first.

  6. Re:easy but inaccurate on Taking the Census, With Cellphones · · Score: 1

    They simply think you simply don't exist without a cellphone.
    And if you don't exist, you can be ignored in the census.
    Sorry, I have a call... later!

  7. Technology breakthrough! on Taking the Census, With Cellphones · · Score: 2

    Scientists have figured out how to map populations using cellphone records.

    This is a fast forward advancement in technology! Wooow!

  8. It's all about the data prouction rate on Ask Slashdot: Smarter Disk Space Monitoring In the Age of Cheap Storage? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You insensitive clod! In the age of MBs, we were producing KBs of data. In the age of GBs we were producing MBs of data. And in the age of TBs we are producing GBs of data. And so on. Thus a 90% full filesystem is as bad as 10 year ago. Unless you are still producing KBs of data.

  9. Call Italy! on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 2

    We are having the opposite problem: too many people in too few prisons.

  10. No news! on PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB In New Round of Tests · · Score: 2

    Whoever did serious performance tests against PostgreSQL already knew!

  11. Re: WTF is 14.02??? on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    Nope! He wrote 14.02 'cause he meant 14.02. WTF!

  12. Non-piratable == Non-copyable == Not working. Forget about it! Unless you want your music playing only within closed architectures (like the iPhone prior to jail breaking)!

  13. WTF is 14.02??? on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 2

    Ditto!

  14. Re:Unfeasible on UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor · · Score: 1

    The ISS is almost dead ... and cannot even deflect a baseball sized body ... yet it costed billions ...

  15. Re:Impossible technology. on UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor · · Score: 1

    None of the mentioned technologies costed the mankind billions per year for years. But I could be wrong.

  16. Unfeasible on UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor · · Score: 1

    We would need:
    1. A system to track "anything larger than a certain size"(tm) moving within out solar system and within "a certain maximum amount of time"(tm)
    2. A reliable way to deflect/destroy "anything larger than a certain size"
    3. A system to implement that way within "a certain maximum amount of time"(tm) available 24x7
    4. The same as above multiplied by 2 or maybe 3, just in case.

    It would take not less than 100 or 200 years, just to reach the agreement about who is going to look into it.

  17. Easy Things Made Complex Dept. on Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? · · Score: 1

    This department is highlky active in every big company and government. They like it this way. That's it.

  18. Thieves on Time Lapse of Endeavour's Final Ride · · Score: 0

    That was posted on Astronomy Picture of the Day long ago.
    This is another side-effect of the shutdown: online media theft.

  19. Thiefs! on Finland's Algorithm-Driven Public Bus · · Score: 0

    That was put online long ago on Astronomy Picture of the Day. Thanks to a bunch of stupid people (you name them) we cannot see that any more!

  20. I only buy hardware where OpenWRT can run. With USD 50.- you can buy a TP-Link box and get a great router later on.

  21. Sadly and badly wrong! on Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades · · Score: 1

    surfing the net or checking email [...] reduces concentration

    Surfing the net or checking email defies concentration.

  22. 360 degrees only? on OmniCam360 Camera Cluster Lets You Choose the Viewing Angle · · Score: 1

    Do those persons know we live in a 3D world?

  23. Re:Weird! on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 0

    So what'd be "encrypted email" for? Horny partners? Surprise birthday parties?
    I am really curious what they think about it.

    Me english to be bad. Sory!
    If I establish an internet activity to provide encrypted email service I am supposed I know what encryption is for and that I won't be bale to snoop into it.
    If later I say "I shut down the service not to help terrorists, as my service was meant only for horny partners and surprise birthday parties, not to really get un-snoopable communication", then I show everyone I am an incompetent and a simpleton.

  24. Re:Weird! on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    judging by your UID you are probably of the facebook generation

    Your wrong, sir! If you're UID if dividible by 47 you be on faceboek. M'ine is not.
    I be from the whazzup generation as I be divided by 1217537 and 2 alone.

  25. Weird! on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 0

    So what'd be "encrypted email" for? Horny partners? Surprise birthday parties?
    I am really curious what they think about it.