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  1. Re:First posting? on Samba: Less Important Because Windows Is Less Important · · Score: 1

    If you want the same level of authentication, then no, it is not easier.

    And if you don't care about authentication, then you can run nfs4 without kerberos, which is not harder than deploying samba without authentication.

  2. Re:First posting? on Samba: Less Important Because Windows Is Less Important · · Score: 1

    No it's not. If you want the full functionality of NFS4+Kerberos, you need to set up your Samba server as a full Domain Member server in an Active Directory domain, which is quite a task in itself.

  3. Re:About time! on Postal Service Pilots 'Federal Cloud Credential Exchange' · · Score: 1

    Oh dear. You are not just a libertard, you are an illiterate as well. I claimed no such thing; I claimed a post office with universal service had the non-monetary benefit of supporting the legal system; you do realise why it is that mailing a legal document is considered the same as presenting it in person, don't you?

    And your second point remains a stupid logical fallacy, so I'm not bothering to answer that. And since you're too stupid to see why that is, you've earned the epithet 'libertard'.

  4. Re:About time! on Postal Service Pilots 'Federal Cloud Credential Exchange' · · Score: 1

    Your last post contained a non-sequitur and a logical fallacy so immediately obvious that the only thing I get from it is that you are almost as bad a libertard as roman_mir.

  5. Re:About time! on Postal Service Pilots 'Federal Cloud Credential Exchange' · · Score: 1

    So how do you explain the civil court principle of "loser pays court costs."

    Diversion noted. You libertards are so predictable; every time someone demolishes your little fantasies with facts, you change the subject.

  6. Re:About time! on Postal Service Pilots 'Federal Cloud Credential Exchange' · · Score: 1

    No, that's common Libertard dogma you're spouting.

    Society has more than a monetary benefit from a working post office with universal service. As an example, it enables the smooth functioning of the courts, by being a universal carrier for legal documents.

    If you really think that all benefits from a public service can be accounted for in cash, then that serves only as proof that you're a basement-dwelling teenager with walls full of Ayn Rand posters.

  7. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    You don't even have to go into detail. 'Salvation by faith alone' is a Protestant doctrine, not supported by the Catholic church. That gives you about, what? 50% of all Christians?

  8. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 0

    Shut the fuck up until you've taken Theology 101. Your statement is flat out invalid for the largest Christian denomination out there.

    I really am starting to detest the flat out ignorance, flouted proudly, on religious issues here on Slashdot.

    I am not in the least bit sorry to take it out on you: you, sir, are a complete idiot.

  9. Re:About time! on Postal Service Pilots 'Federal Cloud Credential Exchange' · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is pretty crazy to expect more than mere monetary value to come out of an investment.

    If you're a libertard, that is.

  10. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    And bugger all, I made a mistake here. 1 liter is 1 dm3, not one 1m3. OK, you may have a point, that's a bit silly at first sight. The conversion is still simple, but your point stands.

  11. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    So, how many cubic meters in a liter (in your head, please, and quickly)? How many grams of water in a cubic meter of water? And why aren't either of these 1?

    1 and 1000 respectively. So where you get your 'either of these' is a riddle to me.

    As to why 1000 grams, that's because the SI unit of weight is the kilogram, and what do you know, one liter of water is 1 kilogram.

  12. Re:Obvious things to check on Teenager Makes Discovery About Galaxy Distribution · · Score: 1

    No, that's what Americans keep telling themselves to find an excuse for their obesity epidemic.

  13. If you encounter rudeness from open source projects as a matter of course, I would, in your place, start looking if there's a common factor.

  14. Re:Sex and Gender Differences and Classrooms on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 1

    Wait, so you admit there is a cultural conditioning for boys to become disruptive little assholes, and it's the teaching methods that have to change?

  15. Re:Feminization of US schools on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Stripped of its scientific political correctness, all this study does is say that (American) boys are raised to be aggressive, disruptive little assholes.

    The misogynistic ranting on this discussion seems to confirm that observation.

  16. Re:It's not dead. on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    One minute of Googling gave me the answer that you set this in your default mime settings, in .local/share/applications/default.list and .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

    Now, this is rather arcane I admit, but that was not my argument. My argument is that anything beyond daily operation (and changing the default file manager is beyond that) requires specialist knowledge, but the Windows fanbois always pretend that this is not true while slagging off Linux.

    Of course I was merely joking. I find it rather typical that you seem to take it as an attack of sorts.

  17. Re:It's not dead. on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    And yet the common argument in favour of Windows is that it is so easy to administer; so easy in fact that administrators are easier to come by than *nix admins.

  18. Re:It's not dead. on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 4, Funny

    It isn't terribly tricky to script an invocation of "explorer.exe shell:::{3080F90D-D7AD-11D9-BD98-0000947B0257}" on login;

    And ever since 2001 people have been telling me that that Linux thing would never catch on because it relied on too many arcane command invocations...

  19. Re:Dude needs to read Dale Carnegie... on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 1

    The problem is not that Mauro screwed up. The problem is that he made excuses and blamed someone else for his screw-up. That is flat-out unacceptable in a professional situation.

    Focusing on the tone of Linus' argument is missing the point. Linus is right here.

  20. Re:Distaste of C++ on GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project · · Score: 1

    How about Ada?

  21. Re:Anybody using Ada? on Ada 2012 Language Approved As Standard By ISO · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let me add a note for the community: yes, they are almost as bad as Apple fanbois when it comes to advocating Ada, but aside from that it's the friendliest community I've ever met on the Internet.

    When I as a hobbyist, who dabbles a bit in Ada, can ask questions and get answers from professional industrial programmers with multiple large mission-critical systems to their name, and get these answers in a friendly supportive tone, I think I am justified to say that this is a nice community.

  22. Re:Anybody using Ada? on Ada 2012 Language Approved As Standard By ISO · · Score: 1

    I write the occasional hobby project in it.

    Contrary to what people tell you, it is not a complex language at all, it's a fairly standard Algol descendant. It does have an intricate type system that you must get used to to get anything done, and it is a bit wordy, using actual words as identifiers for everything except for some operators, but aside from that it's a very elegant language, and surprisingly fun to work with.

  23. Re:Interview this guy for Slashdot on Ask Slashdot: Gifts For a 90-Year-Old, Tech-Savvy Dad? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know way too many people in their 50s and older that refuse to learn anything new

    And as Slashdot proves, there are plenty below-30s that refuse to learn anything new because they think they know best already.

  24. Re:Not the real question on Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    Pebble Bed is the cheapest, safest and cleanest Nuclear Energy solution ever devised

    This is only true as long as you don't care about Strontium-90 dust all over the place.

  25. Re:"Outrage" WTF? on Outrage At Microsoft Offshoring Tax In the UK, Google Caught Avoiding US Taxes · · Score: 1

    You really should think things through before posting.

    The theory you are defending states that a tax increase on businesses will be discounted immediately in prices. I'm simply saying that elementary economics says that if such a potential increase could be discounted without loss of revenue and/or marketshare, a rationally led company would have already priced its goods at the higher level, because to do otherwise is to forego profit.

    In other words, no, companies can't discount taxes in their final prices without consequences. Raised taxes on corporations are therefore not by definition paid by the end customer, as you state.

    Even shorter: you're wrong.