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  1. Re:You would be quite shocked on Open-Source Intel Mesa Driver Now Supports OpenGL 3.2 · · Score: 1

    Well, actually Valve will release SteamBoxes with AMD cards too: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ4Mjc
    Just the first batch of prototypes focuses on Nvidia.

  2. Re:No video in the link on Collapse of Quantum Wavefunction Captured In Slow Motion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did you really expect to see a video of a quantum wavefunction?

  3. Re:Obamaphone on Obama Administration Refuses To Overturn Import Ban On Samsung Products · · Score: 2

    So does Samsung.

  4. Re:Or alternatively on Microsoft Takes Another Stab At Tablets, Unveils Surface 2, Surface 2 Pro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Two words: no apps.

  5. Re:In other news on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Think different.

  6. Re:Yet another story... on Work Halted On Neal Stephenson's Kickstarted Swordfighting Video Game · · Score: 1

    On Kickstarter you make an investment, you don't buy a product.
    If you want to fund someone once they've aproduct to deliver, there's a place for you: Amazon.

  7. Re:Wow, we've come so far. on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaFerrari

    (2013...top speed, 220 mph)

  8. Re:... on account of their languid temperament on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    If that was an attempt at flamebait, t was a lousy one.

  9. Re:Oh, really? on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 2

    Well eventually Italy promulgated racial laws in 1938 that, while not encouraging physical elimination like the German ones, strongly discriminated against "inferior races" (mostly Jews), by forbidding interracial marriage and excluding from public office and higher education. Later, in 1943, with the creation of the Italian Social Republic in Northern Italy, actual deportation of Jews o German death camps started, but at that point it was Germany ruling over Italy.

    As for the first act of aggression: Italy's colonial politics started before Fascism and were not much different from those of other colonial powers like France or the UK. Italy's colonial empire eventually comprised of Albania, Lybia, Somalia (in part), Erithrea and Ethiopia.
    The first act of aggression of Italy as part of WW2 was against France.

  10. Re:Because... on NASA's LADEE Rocket Mission To Launch September 6 · · Score: 2

    Definitely yes, even if it explodes on launch, it's still $280 millions less spent blowing up people.

  11. Re:Inuit also used iron meteorites on Ancient Egyptians Made Iron Jewelry From Pieces of Meteorite, Archaeologists Say · · Score: 1

    Dinner.

  12. Re:Why can't it be patched? on MS: Windows Phone 8 Wi-Fi Vulnerable, Cannot Be Patched · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Luckily, there's not such thing as a "business where a lot of WP8 users are", except maybe for Microsoft itself, but I wouldn't bet my life on it...

  13. Re:Some day... on Plants Communicate Using Fungi · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, vegetarians have no problem in eating mushrooms. Once I tried to explain a vegetarian the difference, to no use.

  14. Re:what? on Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups" · · Score: 1

    Are you even aware of what we're talking about here? Do you really think Windows got so popular because its kernel development was kept "simple and explicit"?

    Let me put it easier for you: it's a nickname to a kernel version that is aimed at all those who have a little interest in the Linux kernel development. No "Linux customer" is ever going to see it. If Android was to fork kernel 3.11 for its next version and consequently sell a billion devices with it, only a tiny percentage of the buyers would be aware of what Linux even is, and even less would be aware of this tiny joke. And if even one of them would interpret it as "Linux finally reached the level Windows was, 20 years ago", he would need his brain checked, by a good one.

  15. Re:what? on Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No sorry, we don't wish to appease humorless morons.

  16. Re:Yay.. more bloat ! on Google Adds Microsoft Word, Excel Editing To Latest Chrome OS Build · · Score: 2, Informative

    We're talking of Chrome OS here, it's the operative system of the Chromebooks.

  17. Re:Still not Stallman-approved. on AMD Overhauls Open-Source Linux Driver · · Score: 2

    Storing the binary firmware on the user's PC makes it way easier to be updated.

  18. Re:Prior art on Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture · · Score: 1

    If you're referring to the Edict of Milan, it happened in 313 AD and it just declared freedom of religion in the Empire.

  19. Re:And water is wet on Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dude, you beheaded your own king...

  20. Re:Three factors of dealing with radiation on Decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Plant May Take Decades · · Score: 2

    In doubt, better invade.

  21. Re:Why should it be any different? on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't even tell me about long distance relationships, my wife and I are from two different countries (I'm Italian, she's Polish), and had to fly to each other for 3 years... $deity bless low-cost flights!
    Actually I accidentally stumbled on her on ICQ while I was looking for another girl, figures. We were teens back then and we were just good online friends for years, while both of us had other relations IRL.
    Then the year I started working I was left home alone for summer while my parents were on vacation, so I decided to invite her to stay at my home. I really didn't have plans, I just wanted to meet an interesting person I've been interacting with for years. One year later we were engaged, but had to wait another two years before getting married as she was finishing her studies.
    We're now happily married for 4 years, I know it's not long enough for drawing anything conclusive, but it feels good and I'm not regretting anything.
    On a side note, we're pretty different people, she's not really the geeky kind, even though she has a great interest in literature and language (she's got an MA in English Philology), but I find having someone with such different points of view to debate with actually stimulating.

  22. Re:Okay on Mars Explorers Face Huge Radiation Problem · · Score: 3, Funny

    My eyes just popped.

  23. Re:Visual Studio for ASP.NET on The Forgotten Macro Language of HTML: XBL 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Man, among shills, you are king.

  24. Re:That's how they will do it on Iran Plans To Launch an 'Islamic Google Earth' · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are aware right, that Iranians are not Arabs?

  25. Re:Are You Kidding Me? on Korea Tensions Lead To Delay Of Minuteman III Test Flight · · Score: 0

    Oh yes, the usual "world's saviours and protectors" rethoric...
    Reality check: you're there because it's the closest to China you can be without starting a war.