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  1. bipartisan? on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item (heatst.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What does "bipartisan support" mean in a system with 7 (*) parties governing the various legislative organs and a federal government of a coalition of 3 parties?

    Do the US American journalists have no vocabulary to describe the reality outside of their country?

    (*) I hope I haven't missed any party.

  2. linearbookscanner on Ask Slashdot: State-of-the-Art In Amateur Book Scanning? · · Score: 1

    If you are able to build this thing, look at linearbookscanner. This would be my preferred method of digitizing but to build it is above my ability :-(.

  3. 3-prong electrical plug? on Switzerland Moves Toward a Universal Phone Charger Standard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    standard household 3-prong electrical plug

    I have never seen this standard in my life. It may be a standard in your country but as worldwide standard this is a fantasy.

    The only 3-prong electrical plugs I've seen are computer power-cable extensions. My standard cables for standard 230V have 2 prongs, possible with an additional slot for earthing.

  4. subtitles are obnoxious on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    more than a few scenes with subtitles are obnoxious because you can't really see the movie anymore if you are constantly reading the subtitles. The next thing is you can't relate the various speakers to their text, especially if there is a heated discussion with multiple people. To add insult to injury subtitles are mostly a severely condensed version of the spoken text because the average reader simply can't read with the same speed as hear the words.

    It may be more a "realistic" (what ever this means within fiction ;)) story but it isn't a realistic story device.

    I have read a few books where after a few paragraphs with translation of foreign language there was an explanation that for the convenience of the reader from this point on all was shown in the language of the reader. maybe this could be used in movies as well.

  5. Falling into a star on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    I cringe if a spaceship without propulsion is in danger of falling into a nearby star (or planet).

    There are only 3 reasons to fall into a sun:
    1) the course is already so
    2) drag from friction with the outer heliosphere
    3) application of the *missing* propulsion to counter the orbit velocity

    Nearby a black hole are 2 more reasons:
    4) at close distance there is no stable orbit
    5) loss of energy by gravitation waves

    If one of the two black hole options apply, the tidal force would transform the crew into reddish paste.

  6. Re:And yet, no one understands Git. on 10 Years of Git: An Interview With Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    You have to understand the data-structure, how files, directories and commits are all content-addressable objects. The linkage of the commits by means of their id's must be understood.

    To understand merging you should have used diff and patch a few times.

    This is all.

    With these few concepts anybody, who can write a program, should be able to understand git. To invent new use-cases or work-flows is another thing, but comprehending a given usage of git should be straight forward.

  7. Re:In Finland on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    And to answer the original question: 3 short power-outages within 24 years.

  8. Re:In Finland on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    Wooden houses as opposed to what?

    Wooden houses are an anomaly in my country, there are TV-documentaries abort this curiosity. There are not many companies with expertise to build houses from other materials as brick or concrete.

    Anytime I see in the news about an american huricane the splintered houses, I wonder why would anyone build such cheap houses?

  9. Re:How are we covering the shortfall/defecit? on MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate · · Score: 1

    easy

    $ echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_chocolate

  10. Re:Is there a way to prevent this? on Verizon Injects Unique IDs Into HTTP Traffic · · Score: 2

    In my jurisdiction is altering data (stored or transmitted) without censent a felony. The action of Verizon is hacking and would here be punishable as such.

  11. traitor or not is irrelevant on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 1

    It's irrelevant what kind of people a law is targeted at. If you can't prove them guilty in proper style you have to let them go. If they (or the jury) are denied relevant information, they can't be prosecuted.

    This asssumes you are living in a country with proper free government under the law. Apparently the USA doesn't qualify.

  12. skewed results on E-Books That Read You · · Score: 1

    The results are skewed because the population of e-book vs paper-book readers is different. I hope the books I read won't be altered to match the apparent short attention span of e-book consumers.

  13. Re:Romances go fast... on E-Books That Read You · · Score: 1

    Eroticas go faster because people are skipping over the pages of badly written sex trying to find more plot.

    If you want plot over sex don't buy erotica. Probably the plot of erotica is skipped to find more hot carnal sex :-)

  14. Re:It's not only RAM on Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind · · Score: 1

    But you just compile with 32bits losing all the advantages of x86-64?

    Yes. Our data-structures are very pointer-heavy and thus not cache-friendly. The most critical hardware part of our servers is the cache.

  15. It's not only RAM on Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind · · Score: 4, Informative

    The company I work for compiles almost all programms with 32 bits on x86-64 CPUs. It's not only cheap RAM usage, it's also expensive cache which is wasted with 64 pointer and 64 bit int. Since 3 GB is much more than our programms are using, x86-64 would be foolish. I'm eager waiting for a x32 SuSE version.

  16. Re:This settles the matter. on RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money · · Score: 1

    They said they didn't do it intentionaly. Why being specific about intention? This smells.

  17. Re:Digg version 2.0 on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    And you have NO visual perception where you are in the comment-section. Scrollbars are a concept of the past, WEB 2.0 can do without. This new "design" is retarded.

  18. users choice on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    If I like small columns I can make the browser-window small. If a site patronizes me about column-size I feel disregarded in my preferences. This is patronizing attitude is found more often in the last years.

  19. Why illegal? on Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide · · Score: 1

    Why would suicide be illegal? Where I live it isn't. How could be someone prohibited from suicide save livelong incarceration in a padded cell?

  20. Btrfs send/receive on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Btrfs send/receive should possible be doing the trick. After first cloning the disk and before every subsequent transfer create a reference-snapshot on the laptop and delete the previous one after the transfer.

    $ btrfs subvolume snapshot /mnt/data/orig /mnt/data/backup43
    $ btrfs send -p /mnt/data/backup42 /mnt/data/backup43 | btrfs receive /mnt/backupdata
    $ btrfs subvolume delete /mnt/data/backup42

    I havn't tried this for myself, so the necessary disclaimer: this may eat your disk or kill a kitten ;-)

  21. Re:buy DRM free books on DRM: How Book Publishers Failed To Learn From the Music Industry · · Score: 1

    From time to time, if you are into using ebooks, you will find that there are titles you want that are not available in non-DRM versions.

    It's a matter of principle for me. Buying any DRM-contaminated book is a sign to the publisher that this abomination is acceptable.

    There are e-books with DRM from authors I have all published paper-books from. It sucks there are stories from my favorite authors I can't read but DRM is a red line I don't cross.

  22. Re:depends on what you're going into on Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    I couldn't even cut&paste the right user ;-). I meant Machtyn.

  23. Re:depends on what you're going into on Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    You are sure you could write flawless in the native language of mattack2?

  24. Re:buy DRM free books on DRM: How Book Publishers Failed To Learn From the Music Industry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I love paper-books and wouldn't buy any DRM encumbered e-book because some 30+ year old books I'm reading once a while and I don't trust any DRM-server to last that long.

    But if a paper-book would get me a download of the same as an e-book I'm willing to spend a little bit more to have a significant chunk of my 4 digit number of books during travel.

    I'm considering to build a scanner linear-book-scanner to make my portable library but question my ability to build it ;-). This scanner seems to be able to scan a book without any human help. Start one book before going to work, one coming home and one before going to sleep gives more than 1000 books a year. A few years of minimal efford and all is done. If one could buy such a scanner for 1000-2000 eur I would start building my e-books tomorrow.

  25. Re:Gravitational tides will kill you on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    That depends on the rules of the known universe. in 1915, Karl Schwarzchild transformed Einstein's theories of relativity into a form that would require black holes. This means that Einstein's formulas can only be correct if the universe allows black holes. If the universe does not allow black holes, then Einsteins formulas must be wrong - though less wrong than the aether theory they replaced.

    If some (not yet understood) quantum effect would prohibit the mass-density required for a black hole, e.g. the minimum radius of a mass would be 1 ppm above the Schwarzschild Radius, general relativity would have no defect without existence of black holes.

    Black holes have been observed many times.

    Strong gravitational fields have been observed but no black holes. If the radii of the generating masses are 1 ppm above Schwarzschild Radii the observed effects would be the same as with black holes. There are indications for black holes but no real proof a sure observation would be.