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  1. Re:MS, Apple, Canonical Shills - Can Has Real News on Canonical Announces Ubuntu App Showdown · · Score: 1
  2. Re:MS, Apple, Canonical Shills - Can Has Real News on Canonical Announces Ubuntu App Showdown · · Score: 1

    You might as well start your relatives on Arch, or with an assembler and instructions to write all their own code.

    An assembler? Pure luxury!
    Did Roy Nutt have an assembler when he started? Oh no!
    But he was a hacker and not a loser.

  3. Openly Post Listings? on Pentagon Contractors Openly Post Job Listings For Offensive Hackers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I'm glad that they're posting the job listings openly.
    Secretly posted listings don't usually have a great response rate.

  4. Re:Department of Redundancy Department on Pentagon Contractors Openly Post Job Listings For Offensive Hackers · · Score: 2

    The original name was the Department of War, which sounds way cooler.

  5. Re:Bonobo Chimpanzee on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 1

    That doesn't say anything like what you said.
    There is no indication in that that quote that Bonobos share genes with humans that they don't share with chimpanzees, which is what you asserted.

  6. Re:MS, Apple, Canonical Shills - Can Has Real News on Canonical Announces Ubuntu App Showdown · · Score: 2

    If starting off a relative on Linux, I'd probably use pure XFCE debian, or possibly mint...

    Well if I were starting off a relative on Linux, I'd give them a printout of the source code and a computer with freedos installed and tell them to get at it.
    If they're not willing to put in any effort, they don't have any business using Linux.

  7. Great for non-bathers on Pentagon Contractors Openly Post Job Listings For Offensive Hackers · · Score: 3, Funny

    For that exquisitely offensive hacker smell...

  8. Re:Pro-tip: on Online Pharmacy Pioneer Arrested In Florida · · Score: 1

    For the hard nuts, we have extraordinary rendition.

  9. Turn that boat around on Intel Dismisses 'x86 Tax', Sees No Future For ARM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Intel spent many years chasing performance with little thought of power draw.
    Now they are putting all their engineering muscle into minimizing power requirements, while maintaining high performance.
    I don't see any reason to think they won't succeed, and if they do, then ARM will end up a niche architecture.

  10. Re:Bonobo Chimpanzee on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 1

    Those two species of chimpanzee are diffierent species from one another for the same reason any other two species of animal in the same genus are, they can't reliably produce offspring that can themselves reliably produce offspring.

    Got any citation for this?

  11. Re:Too late, but hey, thanks for trying GV. on Skype 4.0 For Linux Now Available · · Score: 1

    Thanks, this is helpful.

  12. Re:I'll remain firmly in the past, thank you. on Skype 4.0 For Linux Now Available · · Score: 1

    Was that the Linux version of Excel?

  13. Re:Apple's extortive prices on Time Inc. Signs Magazine Deal With Apple · · Score: 1

    30% is absurd. Amazon charges 15%, and I think even that's too high.

    Good to know we can hear something authoritative from a subject matter expert, you publishing magnate, you!

  14. Re:Too late, but hey, thanks for trying GV. on Skype 4.0 For Linux Now Available · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ok, but I don't need an external device or a foreign landline to do this with skype...

  15. Re:Too late, but hey, thanks for trying Microsoft on Skype 4.0 For Linux Now Available · · Score: 1

    Honest question: What's the SIP solution for receiving calls on my PC/Cellphone in America that were placed to a foreign telephone number by people in that foreign country?

  16. Oh Linux... on Skype 4.0 For Linux Now Available · · Score: 0

    For video specifically, Skype has spent time implementing support for a much wider range of webcams, so if your camera didn't work before today you might be surprised to find it does in Skype 4.0. And if not, Skype is providing all the API hooks you need to roll your own drivers. "Most people won't even have to recompile the kernel more than once," said Cimmino proudly.

  17. Re:Makes sense... on Time Inc. Signs Magazine Deal With Apple · · Score: 3, Funny

    And your proof is? Mike Daisy's narratives?

    Nah, Mike Daisy wouldn't know a rosy-cheeked Chinese slave girl if she slapped him in the face.

    And your proof that Apple is doing anything worse than its competition is? The competition's reports on their contractors' work conditions?

    Apple's competition is much worse: they buy slaves from Apple, after they're old and tired, no longer full of energy in the bloom of youth.

  18. Re:Makes sense... on Time Inc. Signs Magazine Deal With Apple · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but who wants to hear about sweaty mexican dudes scraping plates?

  19. Re:Apple's extortive prices on Time Inc. Signs Magazine Deal With Apple · · Score: 2

    have been the issue all along. And Time have done the right thing by holding out for better terms. Thirty percent (though not sure if that's on a continuing basis, regardless) is absurd.

    Nothing has changed there. Time will be paying 30%, at least according to Apple:

    Neither Apple nor Time Inc. would discuss the exact financial terms of the agreement, but Mr. Cue said Time Inc.’s heft did not influence them. “We offer the same terms to everyone no matter how big or how small,” he said.

  20. Re:Just like Australia on Rockstar Creates 'Cheaters Pool' For Game Hackers · · Score: 1

    With respect to the state of Georgia, I'm pretty sure you spelled penal incorrectly.

  21. Makes sense... on Time Inc. Signs Magazine Deal With Apple · · Score: -1, Troll

    After all, Apple's products are assembled by enslaved teenage Chinese girls, sweating for 16 hours a day in steamy, dimly-lit, factories.

  22. Re:Bonobo Chimpanzee on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 2

    When I'm the one posting, it makes sense to assume troll.

  23. Just like Australia on Rockstar Creates 'Cheaters Pool' For Game Hackers · · Score: 5, Funny

    the company has created a 'cheater's pool' (sort of like the populating of Australia with criminals)

    And just like Australia, the cheater's pool will become a lawless hellhole, where might makes right, as biker gangsters fight for supremacy in the irradiated wastelands.

  24. Re:Bonobo Chimpanzee on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 2

    Is this an accurate depiction of the genetic situation, or did you just make it up?

  25. Re:Bonobo Chimpanzee on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 2

    Irrelevant. Geographic separation is a direct cause of speciation. Gene pools stop mixing, genetic drift pushes two similar groups far enough apart that they are no longer compatible.

    Yeah I get that, but if the physical separation has not existed long enough to allow genetic divergence, then they would just be isolated populations.