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  1. Re:Governor Appointed on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I Disagree. Publically funded research is essential because there are many fields that private companies would not research (ironically, like climate change) and where monetary interests influence the results. The main problem here is that it seems that there are no checks in place to prevent (obvious) influence from eg. lobbying groups, or prevent bogus research from being funded (like the "only cyclic" climate change that is the topic here)

  2. Re:The Problem on 1.8 Million-Year-Old Skull Suggests Three Early Human Species Were One · · Score: 0

    well ... for population control (which would reduce ressouce need) there is nothing better than having people either starve, kill each other or die of dissease (black death) - or preferably all-in-one.

  3. Re:B-O-O H-O-O. on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1
  4. Re:B-O-O H-O-O. on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    If I write something wrong dont flame me, I am just a guy who reads various news and by no way any expert.

    Essentially SystemD is not just doing a startup script runner but does way more in terms of system management, mostly based on existing kernel features (cgroups to name one). As far as I understood it that allows - as an example - for way better ressource management and control (because processes cant escape *hrhr*).

    The main grief that people express is that SystemD decided to implement startup scripts as native code rather than scripts (though sysVInit scripts are supported) for various reasons (eg. because shell script sucks to read (can relate) and explicitly expressed dependencies for parallel starup) which other people think is bad for other various reasons (because its not "easily editable" without a compiler ... though what normal user edits his startup scripts anyway)

  5. Money needed for surveilance on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    because GCHQ, MI6 and all the cameras in london are not cheap!

  6. Slashdot downtime on Has Flow-Based Programming's Time Arrived? · · Score: 1

    Can anyone tell me what October 18, 8 pm to Saturday October 19, 1 am (Eastern Time). is supposed to be in UTC so people might actually be able to calculate their local downtime-frame?

  7. We have something similar since ages on Finland's Algorithm-Driven Public Bus · · Score: 1

    at night when the normal busses dont travel any more you can call a special cab which picks you up at a bus station and drops you off anywhere you want (in the city limits) for a fixed price. However here the lead time is much longer (30 minutes).

  8. Looks lame ... on New High Tech $100 Bills Start To Circulate Today · · Score: 1

    and doesnt sound like any of those security measures is any new ... heck, even the not-even-5€ lunch vouchers I get at work have color-shifting ink, watermarking and a "3d" surface ...

  9. Lets rock this topic like its the 90s! on When Does the Universe Compute? · · Score: 1

    after all that's roughly how current it is ... I remember learning about these topics in bio (slime mold) and physics (quantum computing) back in high school (or rather the equivalent in my country), and the material was already some years old - and already claiming "10 to 15 years" ... well, that timeframe was over last year iirc

  10. m2c on What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? · · Score: 1

    3 rules
    - stay interested in anything and everything
    - strive for simplicity, clarity, beauty, transparency (that also includes your progress when you develop stuff for someone)
    - concepts, not implementation details (eg. understand OOP, not what the exact syntax for defining an object in language X is)

    everything else is just details. Nobody should care about Language A vs. Language B or SQL vs. NoSQL as long as you pick what fits.

  11. Re:all patent license terms should be public on Apple and Nokia Outraged That Samsung Lawyers Leaked Patent License Terms · · Score: 1

    I second this notion. How else does one actually want to guarantee FRAND?

  12. What is this doing on /.? on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    As if anybody gives a crap ... esp. anyone outside the US

  13. Intent... on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 1

    and what is if my intent is to give the world some seriously awesome amateur porn?

  14. No cool on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    sorry, but looks like any boring blog from a default template
    how about smaller, incremental updates (like finally cleaning up the border-madness in the comment section a little bit) instead of trying to break everything at once?

  15. in winter ... on New Headphones Generate Sound With Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    crank the volume to the max to get heated earphones? ;)

  16. Re:Real news: chips exist in only one dimension no on 3mm Inexpensive Chip Revolutionizes Electron Accelerators · · Score: 1

    is that the diameter, the radius or the length?

  17. Real news: chips exist in only one dimension now on 3mm Inexpensive Chip Revolutionizes Electron Accelerators · · Score: 0

    "3mm" ... nuf said

  18. hypocritical on Google's Scanning of Gmail To Deliver Ads May Violate Federal Wiretap Laws · · Score: 1

    considering the current NSA scandal...

  19. Conversion ... on New Zealand Converting Old Phone Booths Into National WiFi Network · · Score: 1

    And why not just tear them down entirely? that scrap metal surely is worth something ...
    I dont remember seeing any phone booth here for ages -> all dismantled in the early 2000s

  20. Re:2% of a Cubic Foot is 2 Pints? on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    a cubic foot is close to 30 litres, 2 pints are 1 litre, so you have a 30:1 ratio which is 3.3...%

  21. can we get useful measurements? on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    a cubic foot is around 30 liters (0.03 m^3) and 2 pints is around 1 liter (or 0.001 m^3) ... so in short you have a 30:1 ratio dirt water

  22. Re:Wtf? That thing is really expensive on Big Box? Nissan Note the First-Ever Car You Can 'Buy' On Amazon · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit on that. This gets esp. clear once you have a look at non-consumer cars which are easily 25% cheaper with the same features. Also did you check what the price of an inbuilt gps is? I can assure you the tech is not worth close to 1k € ... that's just pure greed.

  23. Wtf? That thing is really expensive on Big Box? Nissan Note the First-Ever Car You Can 'Buy' On Amazon · · Score: 1

    seriously, barely smaller than a tincan and starting at 13k? Wtf is wrong with you car people?

  24. The point is not excluding the US on Can There Be a Non-US Internet? · · Score: 1

    it is simply breaking the dominance where "stuff on the internet" means in 99% of all cases that stuff is in the US or at least under US jurisdiction

  25. In other news: hell froze over on NVIDIA Begins Releasing Documentation For Nouveau · · Score: 1

    news at 11