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  1. Re:As usual for the media on Scientists Boycott NASA Conference Because of Ban On Chinese Participants · · Score: 1

    Who cares, there probably isnt anything at this conference worth stealing or preventing the theft of

  2. Re: As usual for the media on Scientists Boycott NASA Conference Because of Ban On Chinese Participants · · Score: 1

    These politicians arent incompetent, they are corrupt. Theres a difference.

  3. Re: As usual for the media on Scientists Boycott NASA Conference Because of Ban On Chinese Participants · · Score: 1

    Linux philosophy then

  4. Id hardly call it a cloud service on Qcloud Puts Quantum Chip In the Cloud For Coders To Experiment · · Score: 1

    More like the way supercomputers are run. Youve got to submit a job to be done, and then the jobs are arranged by priority and it may take a while before your code runs on it.

  5. Re:Too little too late on Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop · · Score: 1

    You can change it if you have admin rights. But Windows is mostly used by businesses still, which dont let their users control anything. Also, Windows isnt a cheap operating system. If Im gonna pay for something, it better be useable. When I use Linux, I expect it to be basically unuseable out of the box and need a lot of changes to get it working, but thats ok because I didnt pay for it

  6. Re:Too little too late on Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 was mediocre? Sure, its not as good as Linux, but its by far the best OS Microsoft has ever made

  7. Re:I still would like Benidict Cumberbatch on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    I don't really think he's going to ever be a ginger. not until his last life, anyway.

  8. Re:yes, but will it block the important ones? on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 1

    pr0n: yes, that's porn h4xX: probably wrz: copyright infringement. So yes TPB: Same Goatse: porn Rock Astley: copyright infringement Cat videos: cat = pussy = porn

  9. Re:Just like 1984. on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 1

    Having 2 young girls also makes it your job as a parent to do this, not the government. This "save the children" shit is getting really irritating

  10. Why would you subject anyone to that

  11. Re:War! on Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected · · Score: 1

    And yet you're the one that brought it up.

  12. Re:Why? on Critical Security Updates Coming To Windows XP, 8, RT & Server · · Score: 1

    There's a nice thing about Linux. You don't like a particular program your distro of choice came with? Replace it. There's plenty of alternatives for just about any part of the system, and it's generally not very hard to swap them out. As for drivers, I've never had any major problems on Linux with drivers for my stuff (though Windows 7 did refuse to use the driver for my graphics card for a while). Not sure what to tell you there.

  13. Re:here is a nickel, buy a real language on Modeling How Programmers Read Code · · Score: 1

    Why? It's a reasonably good language for most high level stuff

  14. Re:Different code == invalid results on Modeling How Programmers Read Code · · Score: 1

    That's a rather odd scale.

  15. Re:War! on Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected · · Score: 2

    Nothing. The idea is more of "get a few thousand people and as much information as possible to mars". A few thousand people wouldn't be all that difficult to transport (compared to billions, at least) And would be enough to carry on humanity without too many genetic issues.

  16. Re:War! on Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected · · Score: 1

    Huh? Star Trek and Doctor Who are bad examples. In Star Trek (though im not sure of any episodes when German was spoken) they have universal translators. In Doctor Who most species have something similar (TARDIS translation matrix for time lords), and in one episode a Dalek was shown speaking German using whatever their equivalent is.

  17. Re:Star Trek did it on Ask Slashdot: Permanent Preservation of Human Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    Is there any known method of error checking DNA? Like a checksum sort of thing where if it doesn't match the organism dies?

  18. Re:#1 reason to use Android on Motorola Is Listening · · Score: 1

    Right, because a company that goes to the effort of putting custom ROMs on 50 phones is very likely to not bother to uninstall a few apps

  19. Re:Solution in extensions on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    I don't think you know what web 2.0 means.

  20. Re:Exciting on Canonical To Ship Mir Display Server In Ubuntu 13.10 · · Score: 1

    I've never had trouble using multiple windows in Unity?

  21. Re:Unity... on Canonical To Ship Mir Display Server In Ubuntu 13.10 · · Score: 1

    As someone not keeping up with most of this stuff, in what way are they trying to cause disunity?

  22. Re:Open source equates to freedom. on The IRS vs. Open Source · · Score: 1

    I can only assume that is sarcasm. America isn't even in the too 20 freest countries

  23. Re:I've seen Dollhouse on US and Russia Set Up Cyber Cold War Hotline · · Score: 1

    Did I fall asleep?

  24. Is this legal? on MySQL Man Pages Silently Relicensed Away From GPL · · Score: 1

    I was always under the impression that, once licenced under the GPL, any later versions or forks of it would have to be GPL as well?

  25. Re:There must be something wrong on How the Linux Foundation Runs Its Virtual Office · · Score: 1

    Businesses still have issues with people holding files? Why not just have it on some network storage that Jim can access from anywhere, and all changes get saved to that. Then Jim can go do whatever he wants and everyone already can access his files