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  1. why am i not surprised on Debris From India's Anti-Satellite Test Poses Threat To ISS, Says NASA (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Indians have a problem (putting it extremely lightly) with pollution, garbage, littering, and all sorts of fun, unsanitary stuff on their streets and even in their most holy river -- in their own country. Did anyone think they'd actually respect the rest of the planet? Or even space?

  2. So... just how many of these consumers also shun the use of facebook, google, linkedin, instagram, etc., etc., etc.?

  3. Re:As an American who's born the brunt on Fish Are Eating Lots of Plastic (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This raises the question: is one short-sighted because he lives paycheck to paycheck, or does one live paycheck to paycheck because he is short-sighted?

  4. Re:Of course just knowing is gross, but... on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Warning: graphic and disgusting pictures ahead. Hang on to your dinner.

    Hello!

  5. why not just desalinate? on XPrize's New Challenge: Turn Air Into Water, Make More Than a Million Dollars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Israel has been doing an excellent job of it. And India has more landmass directly adjacent to the ocean.

    https://www.scientificamerican...

  6. Re:No systemd on Slackware on Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? · · Score: 1

    I'm still on Slackware 11 (released in 2006) with some major packages updated from source and installed in /usr/local. Tis pretty modern for me.

  7. Re:"Redneck" is a racial slur. on Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you were thinking of the word "redskin"?

  8. srsly? on After 6-Year Beta Test, All Gmail Users Get 'Undo Send' · · Score: 1

    6 years in beta test for silly "undo send", and yet still no option to disable automatic top-posting when replying to messages, or proper quoting of HTML messages.

  9. one burning question on How Windows 10 Performs On a 12-inch MacBook · · Score: 1

    How is testing windows 10 on a macbook "the most logical performance evaluation of all"?

  10. Re:Support the developers! on Dragon Age: Inquisition Reviewed and Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    The decision to integrate nasty DRM most likely always comes from upper management, so the programmer rank and file have little to no say about the issue.

    That's why i pay for the programmers' salaries by buying legit copies of games, and playing with cracked, patched, and 110% working bootlegs.

    I even keep my purchased copies unopened, so later down the road they'd be worth something to collectors.

  11. Re:All right, allow me to expose my ignorance on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    Now that is scary.

  12. Re:Room for further research.... on Jackie Chan Discs Help Boost Solar Panel Efficiency · · Score: 2

    That's ok because their panels deliver... HIGH VOLTAGE.

  13. Re:just... on Mars (One) Needs Payloads · · Score: 1

    Yes, this one! Throw in other, more complex plants and spread them around. Awesome idea.

  14. Re:Well, yes, I was there... on Whom Must You Trust? · · Score: 1

    Hello Cliff, awesome to see you on here. I read "The Cuckoo's Egg" at least once every two years. Never gets old and it's truly a story for the ages. :-)

  15. short answer on Ask Slashdot: Can Star Wars Episode VII Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    No.

    Long answer: Fuck no.

  16. Re:How about "no thanks" .... on Google Testing Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    It's nice to see google focusing on the Real Important Stuff, instead of things like proper message quoting in replies -- fixing top-posting, which only idiots use.

  17. Re:Code names on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr Released · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for Priapic Penis.

    It's gonna be big.

  18. Re:social engineering flaw on How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? · · Score: 1, Informative

    so 'git' is just unhackable...its perfectly secure...no way someone could've put a gun to the guy's head while he sat in front of his computer to make these changes...

    with a hot chick giving him a blowjob, can't leave that part out.

  19. Re:No turning back the clock. on Chrome Bugs Lets Sites Listen To Your Private Conversations · · Score: 1

    I believe the voice recognition feature was added as a user interface for the browser, not the web pages themselves. Why or how the audio could get captured by another listener is the question.

  20. Re:Fixeds thats on Chrome Bugs Lets Sites Listen To Your Private Conversations · · Score: 1
  21. speak to them in the language they know best on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Convince Management To Hire More IT Staff? · · Score: 3, Funny

    A lot of graphs and charts showing correlations between more IT staff and productivity, revenue, downtime, and output. :-)

  22. Re:My how things change on Linux 3.12 Released, Linus Proposes Bug Fix-Only 4.0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean General Failure. The same guy who reads your drive A. I hate that guy.

  23. Re:Fedora community effort on Fedora Project Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    I started out with Gnome when i first discovered Linux in 1997. In my first job in 2000, my time was split between KDE, which i used at work, and Gnome, which i used at home. Soon after i switched to Fluxbox and never looked at anything else.

    It's a shame what's happened to the Linux desktop. All that potential slowly going to waste, what with the "let's clone the windoze UI" and big egos and community squabbles and no sense of direction.

  24. Re:Question for John McAffee on Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will · · Score: 1

    This. Fucking this.

  25. Re:Depends if that coding pays the family bills on Alan Cox Exits Intel, Linux Development · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hear it was a hatful.