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  1. Re:Wait. on 2013 Will Be a Big Year For Private Spaceflight · · Score: 1

    No, seriously: what do you think will power those flights software-wise?

  2. Re:In sovjet russia ... on Russian Space Industry To Receive $69 Billion Through 2020 · · Score: 1

    You must be from one of the satellites to spell it "sovjet", though...

  3. Re:Joygasm on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 2

    You're not a Linux user, you're an Anonymous Coward. I, OTOH, am I Linux user, and I just realized I could not care less about this story. Good job there's no clickable link to it or I'd have wasted more time reading it.

  4. Re:Black-and-white? on NASA Releases New Photos of Saturn's Rings and Clouds · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure which orbiter took the most recent Jupiter & its moons photos, but I did wonder if the colors were at least nearly accurate. Especially when it comes to Europa.

  5. oh well all the same on Origin of Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step' Line Revealed · · Score: 1

    Turned out it was one giant leap for Armstrong, one largely irrelevant step for mankind.

  6. Re:Grub? on Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Irrelevant - this would be a problem if people were actually buying and using "surface tablets".

  7. les miserables on Russia Says Next-Gen Spacecraft Design Ready · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some poor folk would rather see no progress in space exploration than have Russians get us there. I pity those folks from the bottom of my heart - and fingers crossed for Russians, and anyone else willing to invest money, knowledge, experience and time into these projects. Good luck!

  8. bad bad droids on Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close? · · Score: 1

    I didn't know Krugman did clickbait. Anyway yeah robots will put us all out of work. I vote we start smashing up the looms right now while there's still time to prevent this bleak future from ever happening. Science, technology and progress are all scary after all.

  9. Re:I hope Ubuntu becomes viable on tablets on Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 · · Score: 1

    "Presumably" is exactly that. Also, this "easily" thing is getting old real fast. Hunting down a dozen packages in order to remove Amazon from my device is not exactly easy. "Opt-in" would be easy. Everything else is not. Btw I imagine one of the first things Ubuntu users do when they install the distro anywhere is login to their Google account.

  10. Re:Hahaha - Unity even fails mobile on Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 · · Score: 2

    They cannot do this because that shell (Unity is shell on top of Gnome 3) has for several years been the entire focus of the entire company. They are now hostages of their own mistakes and I doubt it they will recover.

  11. Re:I hope Ubuntu becomes viable on tablets on Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 · · Score: 1

    Why would you rather have your device tied to Amazon via Canonical than to Google? What's the advantage from your POV? At least Google has a bunch of useful stuff. For example I use Google Apps extensively for work. Amazon and Canonical on the other hand I find useless.

  12. sad but funny on Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 · · Score: 1

    So Unity was designed for tablets, but it now has to be redesigned to actually work on tablets? And which tablets? Devices tailor-made for another OS? Comedy gold from Canonical.

  13. good. on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 0

    We in Europe think that you should eat this.

  14. woulda coulda on NASA Plans To "Lasso" Asteroid and Turn It Into Space Station · · Score: 1

    Yes, and I *would* be a science officer on this new, thusly lassoed, space station. Or I could just be a gas jockey, seeing how the place will be used for refueling purposes. Really I *would* take either job... but will I? I just don't think there's enough money in the world for space exploration of any serious kind to be done by governments. All those bloody wars are expensive. Unless, that is, commercial entities with commercial interests prod governments to do it. After all they prod them to bloody wars.

  15. Re:on an android tablet... on KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 · · Score: 2

    Then we’re both in luck. I can buy hardware that is tested and fully compatible with the software it ships with, and then use it that way, you can buy the same hardware and then put OpenBSD on it. The difference between us is you seem to be angry for some reason.

  16. Re:on an android tablet... on KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 · · Score: 1

    It is not easily removable. I tried, there's at least half a dozen packages to remove all those ridiculous shopping "suggestions" completely from my desktop. I believe some were introduced before Amazon, music-related, for instance. I should have said though, "unusable to me". I just won't have that sort of thing on my machine, other than an opt-in. Opt-out's not good enough. Other people may love it and more power to them.

  17. Re:on an android tablet... on KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 · · Score: 1

    I use Linux only on my laptops (have no other PCs) and I do suffer with unsupported and untested (for Linux) hardware. That's the only reason.

  18. Bits from comprehensive study from Common Sense: on Specific Gut Bacteria May Account For Much Obesity · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Overeating junk and sedentary lifestyle account for the obesity epidemic. Beyond these two facts, there's nothing important, or even interesting, to be learned about the obesity epidemic.

  19. on an android tablet... on KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... all I want to run is Android. That being said, I'm interested to see that KDE tablet they've been announcing. There I'm sure plasma active will make all the sense in the world. Unity per se was not bad on a laptop, but they really blew it with that Amazon thing. That rendered Ubuntu totally ridiculous and unusable.

  20. Re:Are we any smarter than we were 2000 years ago? on Google Brings the Dead Sea Scrolls To the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    The trouble is not that they believe but that they're also very ready to discriminate, abuse, hate and kill. So my question would be, are we more humane?

  21. Udoubtedly true. on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    People can adapt to a range of misfortunes, from bad weather to living without limbs. The question is, would they, unless they had to? And if they would, what does that make those people?

  22. Wait: on Dell Gives Android the Boot, Boots Up More Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Dell makes phones and tablets??