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  1. Re:Bill Nye..... I'm not your serf on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    Even when the belief system officially encourages and endorses the forced imposition of the belief system?

  2. Re:The reason on The Chinese Telecom That Spooks the World · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dan Quayle, is that you?

  3. 5,4,3,2,1... on Surfacestations: NOAA Has Overestimated Land Surface Temperature Trends · · Score: 1

    Let the bunfight begin.

  4. Re:Now he joins "The Skeptical Environmentalist" on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 2

    The problem with this logic is that America is only 5% of the world. All rich countries combined are less than 20%.

    Only 5% population, but 18.7% of consumption. And the US+EU makes 33% (Numbers from here.)

  5. Re:lost? on Microsoft's Lost Decade · · Score: 2

    The first computers to have true preemptive multitasking were Commodore (1985).

    Unix has had preemptive multitasking since 1969. And even for home computers, the Sinclair QL since 1984.

  6. Now mod me to hell.

    OK, it seems hell is "+5 insightful".

  7. Re:armhf? on Debian Derivative Optimized for the Raspbery Pi Released · · Score: 1
    From the raspian faq:

    The port is necessary because the official Debian Wheezy armhf release is compatible only with versions of the ARM architecture later than the one used on the Raspberry Pi (ARMv7-A CPUs and higher, vs the Raspberry Pi's ARMv6 CPU).

  8. Re:Unfortunately, Nokia has no Steve Jobs on It Costs $450 In Marketing To Make Someone Buy a $49 Nokia Lumia · · Score: 1
    I tried the solar. Not robust enough. The panel was fine, but the wires tore out going through brush and I didn't have my gas soldering iron.

    And someone has designed a phone that looks to suit seemingly not-so-unusual needs like mine. And those of the poster I replied to. Which was WHY I REPLIED. Yeah, the quoting of the previous post got goofed up - I need a backpackable phone (or a ham rig), and the parent needs a car phone. A charger cable might work for the parent, until the reason to need to make a call is that the car's flat.

    I haven't tried this phone myself, which is why I said it was on my to-get list, rather than recommending it.

    Please lower the SNR - this thread got dumber when you posted.

  9. Re:Go for it on Firefox OS Will Win Big With Developers - Mozilla · · Score: 1

    A bad experience coupled with heaps of denial is hard to forgive.

  10. Re:Unfortunately, Nokia has no Steve Jobs on It Costs $450 In Marketing To Make Someone Buy a $49 Nokia Lumia · · Score: 1

    I backpack. The 12V charger is useless when the trunk (and the car) is a week-long walk away.

  11. Re:Unfortunately, Nokia has no Steve Jobs on It Costs $450 In Marketing To Make Someone Buy a $49 Nokia Lumia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I want a phone that can stay in my car, turned off, and work after three months, for emergencies.

    Claimed to last, turned off, for 15 years. It's on my list of gadgets to get.

  12. Re:Why civil? on How the Inventors of Dragon Speech Recognition Technology Lost Everything · · Score: 1

    That debt has been repaid ... with money borrowed from the treasury.

  13. Re:What's best on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 1

    44 weeks of bughunting??? That's one huge festering load of crap piled up, no wonder firefox sucked. And started in 2011? I gave up on it in 2009.

  14. Re:Logo on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Trends swinging back on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    PHP the language is just the sucky side of adequate. PHP the runtime library is written by muppets on crack. Sometimes it's bazfoo(a,b) and unbazfoo(b,a) but you'd better check the documentation, 'coz it may well be unBazFoo(b,a), unfoobaz(a,b), de_baz_foo(a,a,b,opts) or something even stranger. So why's php even on the charts? Well, no matter how brain dead the library, it's available the same on many different platforms. It probably includes the functionality you need without having install a compiler (thanks ruby_gems!) It might not be the same version, but the functionality won't have changed without recognition (again ruby_gems), and won't be wildly different (sigh, ruby_gems). But the documentation is absolutely brilliant. Whatever braindeadness the library does, it's documented. Fully. With examples. And probably with comments by programmers who have seen just how nuts it is and have helpful tips. (Even if it's just "Use python, dude!").

  16. Re:More government propaganda on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Greece isn't in the toilet because the people with jobs and lived withing their means are consuming. It's in the shitter because the government supported those who are not by giving them free things.

    Those who are not living within their means are generally called "bankers".

  17. Re:There's always a downside on Canadians Protest Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    When the sun shines through the blades onto a building, the blinking light is believed to be an epileptic risk.

  18. Re:Extended Support Release on Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Amen

  19. Re:That's what America needs to be competitive! on Bring Back the 40-Hour Work Week · · Score: 1

    Einstein claimed to sleep up to 11 hours a night.

  20. Re:ground effects lighting on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    I had to fill my car, and took along the can for my mower. I went to a card pre-auth station (ASDA). 70UKP limit. That didn't fill the car, never mind the can. Think they've raised it to 100UKP now.

  21. Re:It's better than Ruby's "best practices". on PHP 5.4 Released · · Score: 1

    I love the language and my copy of "The Ruby Way" is just about my most read programming book. But the direction ruby's been going... Get good UTF support. Get real multithreading. Get a core of libraries ("gems") that have descriptive names but don't break every other week. Stop trying to be too clever or you'll end up like perl. And how about a GUI library that works on Mac, Win and Linux without having to compile QT and that doesn't look as crap as TK. I've just about given up on C ruby, now that jruby is useable. And python seems to have everything I want in extra libraries, just a shame the language isn't, well, ruby.

  22. Re:Oh Frack! on US Wants Natural Gas As Major Auto Fuel Option · · Score: 1

    From T.O.D., shale gas wells yield approx. 70% value in the first 5 years of life.

  23. Re:The internet doesn't "route around it" on Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    How's 802.11s - the mesh networking one - how's that doing?

  24. Re:So says the religious guy. on Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science' · · Score: 1

    The Muslims believe in Christ, they just believe he was a great prophet, not an incarnation of God.

    Citations here.

  25. Re:So says the religious guy. on Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science' · · Score: 1

    In my view, if you take the gospel story and subtract away all the miracles, wisdom sayings, and mythical archetypes, you're left with nothing but a collection of proper names.

    The New Testament, stripped of what he termed "artificial vestments" and "nonsense" is Jefferson's Bible.