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  1. R3eason is right. on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 0

    We need a free market in internet provision, not some government regulations.

    To institute a free market, we need to unbundle the local loop.

  2. All's I can say. on Why CSI: Cyber Matters · · Score: 1

    She won an Oscar?????

  3. Re:Whatever happened to the sexual harrassment chi on 10 Years of Git: An Interview With Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Her name is Julie Ann Horvath, and she was at github not git.

    She went to a company called &yet and then left a while after apparently to strike out on her own. AFAIKS she doesn't have any clie nts though.

    Make of that what you will.

  4. A usefull Easter Egg. on Is This the Death of the Easter Egg? · · Score: 1

    At one place I worked every new file would contain a constant variable with the value "RCS_filename_rev_no".

    filename and rev_no were generated by RCS on a checkout.
    That way whenever we looked at old executables we could generate them from source by looking in the executable and getting the right version of everything.

  5. Re:It's that damn cancer! on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: 1

    Microsoft's tools for multiple desktops have always been pretty crappy. Howewer there were 3 party tools going back to NT4.

    In fact, Borland even included something called Dashboard in Delphi 1 which worked with Win3.1 IIRC.

  6. SIgh. on Madman: Proximity To Black Hole "Not a Big Deal" · · Score: 1

    I an tolerate the jokes made out of fiction plots, but a from a crappy movie based on science that came from a tabloid--No.

  7. Re:Sounds familiar on The End of College? Not So Fast · · Score: 1

    The teachers that will teach students that are hard to find nowadays.

  8. Now I understand her record at HP on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 2

    when I see how she thinks she has any possibility to win, especially given her tenure at HP.

  9. Before the US does that it should update on Russia Wants To Work With NASA On a New Space Station · · Score: 1

    it's fleet of trampolines.

  10. Re:One more view. on Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Gender Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

    Holding up the Sheldon Cooper sarcasm sign.

  11. Re:That seems correct. Mod parent UP. on Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Gender Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins · · Score: 1

    I think it is an unfair to say a woman dresses to be respected. It's more that some women refuse to dress in ways that get them disrespected.

    How much respect would you earn if you wore assless chaps?

  12. Re:Damage has been done on Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Gender Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins · · Score: 1

    Are you equating a book written by Leonard Cohen with an issue of Penthouse?

  13. IIREC his name is also on some elisp files.

  14. One of KP's biggest area of investment is Tech. Hell Bill Joy is a senior partner.

  15. Latest news! on Win Or Lose, Discrimination Suit Is Having an Effect On Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Ellen Pao just accused John Doerr of KP of sexually harassing her when he gave her a print of "The Birth of Venus"

  16. Re:Linux? OS X? Chrome OS? Nope. OpenBSD! on NJ School District Hit With Ransomware-For-Bitcoins Scheme · · Score: 1

    Lest anyone think there is a distro called ASN, that is a typo for "any".

  17. Re:Linux? OS X? Chrome OS? Nope. OpenBSD! on NJ School District Hit With Ransomware-For-Bitcoins Scheme · · Score: 1

    ASN Linux with SELinux running in nonpermissive mode.

  18. Why net neutrality will become a thing of the past on First Lawsuits Challenging FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules Arrive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Simple, it has become a political thing. Despite my warnings ( as loud as I could make them but OK not that loud ), to keep arguing it as a nonpartisan issue. THe opponents of net neutrality have an advantage that we who support it do not. Once net neutrality is gone, it will be hard to bring back. The ISP cartel knew this and were fighting very hard for politicization to happen.

    Instead of, for example, arguing that this action swaps in one set of regulations for another, ( In fact the old set gave all the power to the ISP cartels, and they took us from #1 internet service to middle of the rtoad. ) some proponents let the ISP cartels make it a political issue. The fact is that some people would rather have Title II as a political argument instead of actually having the ISPs be controlled by Title II.

    So here is what will happen, the ISP cartel will tie up the implementation for the next two years in court. Then who becomes President? Hillary? Seems to be imploding right in front of us. John Kerry? The guy who helped bring back the cold war. and Al Queda in the form of ISIS and who couldn't win before? Joe Biden. The guy whose interactions with women is so creepy he makes BIll Clinton seem normal.

    here is an interesting fact for you , since World War II there has only been one person elected as President that came from the same party as the sitting President-- Bush (41) (following Reagan).

    So we have a Republican, who when the next seat on the FCC comes up names a Republican FCC member who replaces a Democrat. The new Chairman becomes Ajit Pai. Bye bye net neutrality.

  19. Re:John Hilder lives. on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 1

    I see a big plume of smoke and steam, accompanied by a lour roar. What is that? Oh yeah. It's the space shuttle taking off -- over your head.

  20. Re:By Neruos on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    I don't think many British are actually offended, it's just that higher caste Brits don't want to admit they are not.
    I mean have you ever seen British humor?

  21. John Hilder lives. on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 1

    This story brought to you by the AntiWaster party of the People's Republic of California . Because we all know it's the almond tree growers who are wasting the water. Not the millionnaire Hollywood crowd decrying the 1% while filling there private pools with tyhosaunds of gallons of water per year. Oh the vinyarder's who sell there $100 a bottle wine to the Hollywood crowd. PS: Shame that most modern /. readers don't get the reference and haven't yet made it. SF once again predicts the future.

  22. Re:New AnitMicrosoft campaign. on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 1

    At which point I would suggest that they talk to our states attorney general.

    I don't know that many store managers who would in the first place.

    BTW make sure to get the clerks info, store id, name whatever.

  23. New AnitMicrosoft campaign. on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 0

    Walk into the store with your phone recording. Ask the clerk if the computer's UEFI is locked, because you want to install Ubuntu.

    If the clerk says yes, buy it. If it turns out you can't install Ubuntu then return it. Demand no restocking fee. If they balk play the recording.

    Even better if the clerk says, yes I run Mint ( or something ) on the same computer at home. As if anyone believes that anymore.

  24. Re:It is time to get up one way or the other on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    You are incorrect in understanding.
    In the final round of voting, you get to choose from the candidates of each party. Democrats and Republicans are the primary vote getters and usually the only significant vote getters. There is a third party called libertarian which usually get betweeen 5% and 10% of the vote.

    Then there are the very small parties. My understanding is the Communist party fields a candidate but they only receive >1%.

    Occasionally there is another party which shines for one or tqwo elections.

    Before the main election each party must choose their candidate. The usual way of doing this is by "primaries or cacuses". Primaries are straight votes, cacuses ( which are less common ) are something like that but the people meet in "voting areas" and debate each other till the end of the night when they vote..

    So you first vote for a bunch of candidates, then from that bunch you vote for one of effectively two.

  25. Re:Graphics tablet. on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Laptop To Support Physics Research? · · Score: 1

    First let me make clear. I do not suggest a Cintiq which is expensive as hell. I suggest a Cintiq clone which are a lot cheaper. Hell if the Galaxy Note Tablets were a bit bigger and could work better with a laptop I would recommend them.
    A starting grad?
    Let's see. She is still going to have to do some serious studying. At least GR and QFT. She's going to need to take notes and annotate her books. She is going to need to annotate her LaTeX documents ( probably as pdf ) for editting. She is going to need to mark up electric homework of her students ( assuming she is doing some sort of teaching as a grad ), She is going to need to mark up journal articles. Since most of that will all be electronic, if for no other reason then to save the space.

    Seems like something she can use quite a bit.