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  1. Ecomental imperialism on The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany · · Score: 1

    The panels and turbines will be constructed in China in factories powered by coal fired plants. They're just moving the problem somewhere else.

  2. Re:AWESOME! on Monthly Ubuntu Releases Proposed · · Score: 2

    Bingo. This is not hyperbole. 11.04 did indeed break WiFi and graphics drivers for me, again. I mean, actually regressed. Well, screw that, I'm going to need a whole lot of reassurances before moving beyond 10.04 LTS again. I wonder if we'll look back on that as the XP SP3 of the Ubuntu releases - the best it ever got.

  3. And thus dies support, and corporate usage on Monthly Ubuntu Releases Proposed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because who is going to work on last month's version? "Oh, just upgrade you'll get all the new fixes." And all the new bugs.

    Bleeding edge is fine for hobbyists, but grown ups? We need a version that's going to start solid and get steadily better.

  4. Irrlicht 3D engine on Ask Slashdot: Best Programs To Learn From? · · Score: 1

    Linky. It's easy to build, well structured, covers a wide range of discretely organised functionality, has simple demo apps, and you can immediately see the result of tinkering with it.

  5. Re:Wait a minute on British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market · · Score: 1

    Employed as what though? Most IT skills (there are vanishingly few real computer science courses left) are already obsolete by the time you graduate, and only stagnate after that.

    I'd like to see average earnings, not just whether they're flipping burgers or stacking shelves.

  6. YaWho? on After Firing CEO, Yahoo Puts Itself Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    For historical reasons, I have a Yahoo! Messenger account, plus Freecycle for some reason uses Yahoo! Groups. I can't think of any other interaction I or anyone that I know has had with them in half a decade. If they went dark tomorrow, it would be a minor inconvience at most.

    For them to still be valued in the billions just goes to show how much our personal information is worth. That purchase price? That's what buyers think that they can recoup from our pockets.

  7. Project Gutenberg needs your donation! on Michael Hart, Inventor of the E-book, Dead At 64 · · Score: 1
    More Info.

    You know what you doing. For great justice.

  8. Re:If it does, is it bad? on Could New Rover's Wheels Deliver Germs To Mars? · · Score: 1

    The other is in say 30 years, we find a small colony of life, we need to be sure that it is truly native to Mars, not something we left there

    How do you intend to study those bacteria without, you know, going to Mars?

    Of all the retarded navel gazing non-arguments I've ever heard, the ecomental self flagellation over contaminating dead environments with our wicked imperialist Terrarist organisms must be the saddest and most pathetic.

    We're up against the Fermi paradox here. We can either own the galaxy, or die silently and alone on our tiny little globe. I know which one I choose.

  9. Re:Is this suit actually filed? on TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger · · Score: 1

    creates what is called "administrative law" and has the full effect of any other law.

    I can create what is called "Rogerborg's law" and say that it has the full effect of any other law, but it doesn't make it so, any more than it did for Nixon.

    You may be confusing what the administration thinks and asserts that it can do with what courts will allow it to do. Remember, the TSA sprang forth from the ideology that the value of power is in wielding it to the utmost extent to which you are permittted: it's better neither ask forgivness nor to seek permission, but simply to press ahead relentlessly.

    As can be seen by your belief in "administrative law" that's actually quite an effective strategy.

  10. Re:Yahoo! - Time to Grow Up on Carol Bartz Is Out As Yahoo's CEO · · Score: 1

    "YaWho?"

  11. Sony were hacked for being megacorp dickweeds on Sony Hires Former Homeland Security Infrastructure Protection Chief · · Score: 1

    So their response is to ramp that up a notch by hiring Yaley McTrustfund there?

    Why don't they just do a press release saying "All hackers are whiny pussies. P.S. your moms agreed while we were ass pounding them last night." and be done with it?

  12. OnLine can't work - I proved it years ago on Cloud Gaming Service OnLive Unofficially On Linux · · Score: 1

    It's outrageous that they refused to listen to my detailed objections about the insurmountable barriers to provide such a so-called "service", and surmounted them. How dare they have satisfied customers whose only response to my withering criticism is "LULZ can't talk, having 2 much fun."

    I do not understand this! This angers me! Cease your operations immediately, OnLive, or I shall be forced to produce yet more charts and diagrams that provide incontrovertible evidence that those sheeple who believe that that are having fun are sadly deluded.

    From my parent's basement in Wyoming, I stab at thee!

  13. Re:For those unfamiliar with the service . . . on Cloud Gaming Service OnLive Unofficially On Linux · · Score: 1

    Sheeple are having fun! I don't understand how this is possible! Don't they understand that I have objections to their enjoyment? This angers me!

    EFA.

  14. Sounds very reasonable. on .UK Registrar Offers To Let Police Close Domain · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But just before you go ahead, Nominet, could you be a love and identify, oh let's say three examples of where a .uk domain has - ever - caused "serious and immediate consumer harm" before due process resulted in a court order shutting it down?

    That's all I'd want to see. Three clear examples of harm, actual harm, not theoretical, and that ended in a court order. An actual court order, that was upheld, of course.

    Nothing sub judice about that, court proceedings are public, so of course it won't be a problem to provide those three examples. Will it?

  15. Re:Time to shift focus to another kernel? on Linux Kernel Moves To Github · · Score: 2

    So, your definition of "more than Linux" is Windows NT?

    Sell it to me. What does ReactOS aim to provide that a modern Linux based distro doesn't already give me? Games? Bleeding edge graphics drivers for, uh, games?

  16. Re:K&R C on What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh, and don't forget the abomination:

    int *foo;

    ...and its mutant offspring...

    int foo, *bar;

    IIRC, K later recanted and said that permissiveness (allowing "pointer to" to shack up with the symbol rather than type) was the biggest single mistake they made in the C syntax.

  17. Re:Adroid tablet price avalanche ? Oh yes! please. on Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet · · Score: 1

    Uh, so you're saying that tablets are bought by balding 40-something men with frigid wives? I'm not sure, these car analogies are kind of hard to follow.

  18. Re:Every week... on Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet · · Score: 1

    OK, now compare a $399 refurb iFad with the cost of a refurb Lenovo. That's a lot of hookers and beer money left over.

  19. Re:Spin on Kernel.org Attackers Didn't Know What They Had · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We totally hadn't detected any intrusion!

    Uh... then we did.

    But we totally haven't detect any meddling with the sources

    Uh...

  20. Re:EDDE on Report Warns of Space Junk Reaching a Tipping Point · · Score: 1

    Vacuum Extruded Snake Oil. Get in quick before the smart money pushes the share price up!

  21. So, IPCC Druids versus Creationists? on Journal Editor Resigns Over Flawed Global Warming Paper · · Score: 0

    Two words: Cripple Fight.

    If only 'twere possible for them both to be wrong. Actually, I'd settle for "wrong for the right reasons" and vice versa, which I think is where we're about at.

  22. Re:No case on Drunkeness and Sexual Harassment Alleged At Microsoft UK · · Score: 2

    In short: the jocks and cheerleaders picked on him for being a nerd. Wow, Microsoft. Wow.

  23. Re:University research paper. Bad Slashdot on Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    The Chinese have a hive mind. What one thinks, they all think. That's just one of the many ways in which they are superior to us.

  24. MEME_1 gets a MEME_2 in new vapourware project on Mario Gets a Portal Gun In New Indie Game · · Score: 1

    Lawks, if I'd known that all it takes to get free marketing for a no hope project is to rip off not one but two other companies' lovingly crafted ideas, I'd have announced Sonic the Star Fleet Ensign years ago.

  25. Put the money in escrow then, Mr Big Talk on Tesla CEO Wrong About Model S Timeline? $1,000,000 Says Yes · · Score: 1

    Oh, right, it's one of those "figurative" bets.