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  1. Same here. At the moment I remember the change from gnome2 to unity after upgrading. It was horrible so I tried gnome3, it was worse and there was no easy way to go back to gnome2 (no mate at the moment). So I went to awesome WM. I've some complains but the WM just stays out of your way, it's awesome.

  2. Re:"prices spike" on Bitcoin Becomes Legal Payment Option In Japan, Prices Spike (investopedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Come to live a year in Argentina, then we may talk about bitcoins worth.

  3. Are you trying to argue that the clusterfuck of javascript and PHP are "easier" than Java ?

  4. Conditional Probability on Women Still Underrepresented in Information Security (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    So only 11% of workers are female but 10% of managers are female and 20% of C level workers are female and somehow that proves information security female under-representation is because gender discrimination on the field. Who makes this articles?

  5. Re: No on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Javascript is, sort of, ok for what it was originally created for.

    Then all the webapps craziness came up and javascript had to cope up with it.

    Then someone thought that it was smart to use javascript as a programming language, probably because all those webdevelopers turned programmers.

  6. And that's different from bios updates besides available space exactly how?

  7. Re:Obligatory XKCD on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an actual attack for plain text passwords using string compare for validation. You can measure the response time to guess the characters one at a time.

  8. Re:Dead Pixel normal in 2017 on Nintendo Switch Owners Complain About Dead Pixels, Nintendo Says They're 'Normal' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This would qualify as "I changed my mind item"

  9. Re:Step-by-step impressions (intro + downloading) on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    2012 brings c++11 support.

  10. Re:inverse foreign law legislature on ISIS Is Dropping Bombs With Drones In Iraq (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Citizens in those countries were, at least, as free as you were. Otherwise explain vietnam drafts.

    Also US may not be the bad guys, but having "bad guys" as enemies doesn't make you part of the good guys.

    Explain bombing the shit out of violent dictator on country A while having good relations with neighbor violent dictator in country B (Gadafi vs al-Ásad)
    Explain supporting de facto governments in LATAM.
    Explain Cuba.

  11. Re:Doubtful on China Says It Will Shut Down Ivory Trade By End of 2017 (go.com) · · Score: 1

    But there is a market for elephant leather, ie on Mexican exotic boots.

  12. Re:Retaliatory measures based on no evidence. on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It did, just it never killed US citizens, ie

    Involvement of UK and France on WWII.
    DeFacto governments in LATAM.
    Bengal famine of 1943.

  13. Re:Where's a telco when you need one? on The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Where's a telco when you need one? on The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you work with multiple generations rising the arsenic levels little by little, you could build up tolerance by natural selection. I remember reading about some natives tribe that used a water well with lethal concentrations of arsenic.

  15. Re:I'm still waiting for blockchain-bucks and -gol on Bitcoin Circulation Hits Record High Of $14 Billion (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's government backed, why do you need the blockchain? Wasn't the point of the blockchain the decentralization? of is it possible to implement p2p transactions with blockchains?

  16. Re:so is there a good theory? on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I've heard of 3 theories.
    1 The law of conservation of energy is wrong.
    2 Ether is real
    3 There is something not being measured.

    So it's obvious the scepticism of the scientific community.

  17. Re: America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Stupid question, but couldn't you just split the electoral votes, instead of splitting a state that's been working fine so far?

  18. From an strict academic point of view, advocating for the "brownization" of American and European whites IS genocide.
    Not that the lunatics from the Feminist should ever have taken that flag, nor that the lunatics from the alt-right are not racist.

  19. Re: The First Rule... on Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes he does, how would you avoid Usenet spam to keep a thread relevant?

    Think of spam specially crafted only raise the noise threshold and effectively making it unusable, so it'd be harder to block than mail spam.

  20. Re:invite-only on Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But the dark-net is SLOOOOOOOOOOW

  21. Re:Lots of love today... on Google Joins Microsoft's .NET Foundation (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine that you're playing basketball for the presidency, and Trump wins by 2 points, but he has more triples during the match.

    After the match you say, Hilary scored more shots than Trump.

    Everybody sane argues that they were playing basketball to decide, and that the winner is decided by points not shots scored. In an alternate reality where the game is decided by shots, Both teams would have played different and you don't know who would have won.

    You called that people Fuckface, and shout that the game is rigged.

  22. That's the alt-right point, Non-Hispanic Whites are 61.8% of the population, they're not an overwhelming majority and "they may be outbred" faster than new immigrants can be assimilated.
    By 2040 they will stop being majority using official projections http://www.census.gov/populati...
    The argument is that if there can be a gay pride, and a black pride, there must also exist a white pride and people being ashamed of being whites should go fuck themselves. The argument is consistent.

    Disclaimer: Mexican, not living in US, not Nazi apologist.

  23. Supposing they want to embrace... on Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The only important stuff on from the Linux Foundation is the LSB, and I see it mostly as a "Do everything the redhat way".
    What evil could they do inside there? The real evil should be inside the kernel development community, and nobody is screaming against MS submitted patches.

  24. Re:I don't get it ? on WhatsApp, Used By Over One Billion People, Gets Video Calling Feature (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatsapp makes no sense on US where SMS have been free for multiple years. That's not the case in most of the rest of the world.
    The convenience of having all the account details hidden from the user by creating usernames from phone numbers made it gain traction over username oriented messengers.
    At the time ios and blackberry alternatives are platform specific, it's not clear for most android users that their android device is linked to a google account, sometimes autocreated so google talk never worked even if it was preinstalled. Skype mobile was shit, MSN messenger was dead and Facebook requires to "friend" your contacts so was never a viable SMS replacement.
    I too thought that whatsapp was a bad choice and tried to resist on google talk, that was jabber compatible. Then they fucked it up with hangouts so I gave up and accepted the defacto standard messaging platform.

  25. Re:I feel like there can only be two on Samsung Really, Really Wants Developers To Build Tizen Apps (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    At least on the Maemo hype the argument was that you could trivially port all the existing linux libs, then just redesing the GUI.
    It's a good Idea, but if there's no money there won't good / attractive GUIs (linux is ugly, embedded linux is worse).