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  1. Re:Not the same as the rest of us .. on Windows 10 To Be Installed On 4 Million US Department of Defense Computers (betanews.com) · · Score: 1
    Microsoft has even given code access to all the windows source code to China, over a decade ago. And they're far from the only ones:

    Last month, it announced GSP agreements with Russia, NATO and the United Kingdom. Microsoft is in discussions with more than 30 countries, territories and organizations regarding the program.

    That too was more than a decade ago. This is old news.

  2. Re:Java, utter bloat to sink your boat on Kotlin 1.0 Released · · Score: 0

    Dream on. NOTHING is instantaneous, and certainly not Eclipse. Make too many edits too quickly, and have fun typing while it tries to catch up. Not all of us are hunt-and-peck typists.

  3. Re:But they're not white, so it's OK on Indonesia Moves To Ban Same-Sex Emojis On Messaging Apps (thestack.com) · · Score: 1
    1, Medical science says otherwise. The name has been changed from gender identity disorder to gender dysphora, and it will probably be completely removed from the DSM in DSM6. So who am I to believe - some fundamentalist dweeb with no medical background, or a team of medical specialists?
    The law also says otherwise. Even if I agreed with you (which I don't), who are we to argue with all the evidence to the contrary?

    2. Since you're a bible thumper, I suggest you read Genesis. The proposition there is Adam and Eve were normally-functioning human beings, and there were no kids around. It was only after the fall that they were told to "go forth and multiply."
    Not that I believe such fairy tales, but there is no reason to say that sex should not naturally be recreational as well. I know when I see two dogs going at it, they're both having a good time, Enjoyment is a survival matter - those who enjoy it are more likely to reproduce, not less.

    Also, dolphins enjoy sex. They really, really enjoy sex.

    3. Once any woman reaches a certain age, they can't naturally reproduce. So what's your point again?

    I've got two great daughters, and that's alll I want. So how have I been tricked? If I wanted more, I could have banked sperm, as others do, as I pointed out and you refuse to acknowledge because it's a huge flaw in your claims.

    Breeders like the Duggers are irresponsible parents, as we've seen from then covering up their son's sexual assaults on their daughters. And in a world of shrinking resources, people like you are a problem on several levels, trying to impose false beliefs from a god, that has no evidence that it even exists, on others.

  4. Re:Seagate SHOULD be good at that on Backblaze Dishes On Drive Reliability In their 50k+ Disk Data Center · · Score: 1

    I said they were made by a subsidiary of Western Digital, not Western Digital themselves.

  5. Re:What's holocaust? on Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    My grandparents died in the Holocaust when they were six. Show some respect.

    How did people that died at 6, which is well prior to the age at which homo sapiens achieves sexual maturity, become your grandparents? How did the child of these miraculous 6 year old parents survive, or was it born to them at 3 and didn't get taken to the camp?

    Nazi experiments. :-)

  6. Re:Not the same as the rest of us .. on Windows 10 To Be Installed On 4 Million US Department of Defense Computers (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the DoD has access to the source code. This is a long-standing practice.

  7. Re:Seagate SHOULD be good at that on Backblaze Dishes On Drive Reliability In their 50k+ Disk Data Center · · Score: 1

    What's even weirder is that the HGST drives are from Western Digital subsidiary.

  8. Re:It's not a $4 smart phone on Ringing Bells' India-Only Android Phone To Run About $4 (freedom251.com) · · Score: 1

    Then how come Japan failed?

  9. Not the same as the rest of us .. on Windows 10 To Be Installed On 4 Million US Department of Defense Computers (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can be pretty sure that the version that the DoD gets will not be the same wrt phoning home as us plebes are getting.

  10. Re:It's not a $4 smart phone on Ringing Bells' India-Only Android Phone To Run About $4 (freedom251.com) · · Score: 2

    Please keep in mind that India made it to Mars orbit on the first attempt. Neither the US, Russia, China or Japan can say that - only Europe and India.

  11. Re:I must be missing something... on Lens-Free Flat Cameras Make Use of Pinhole Technology (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    A pinhole camera is more than adequate for taking pictures of eclipses of the sun, etc. It's also good enough for taking stills (longer exposure time) or objects lit with a very bright light (like a flash, maybe?).

  12. Re:I must be missing something... on Lens-Free Flat Cameras Make Use of Pinhole Technology (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I remember reading this in a dead-tree scientific american in the (irc) 70s. After reading TFA, it's exactly the same thing. Hope they don't get a patent on it :-)

  13. Re:Don't know if you'll see this... on Interviews: 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke Responds · · Score: 1

    He was using a manual typewrite for much of that (and hated word processors when they first came out). So yes, 1500 is doable. Just remember, you also have to go back and look at the previous day's work and make any edits to stuff that "looked good at the time" before you write the next chapter :-)

  14. Re:But they're not white, so it's OK on Indonesia Moves To Ban Same-Sex Emojis On Messaging Apps (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Never said I wasn't assigned male at birth. So what's your point?

    2. The victim stories are from the patients and their parents. Anyone who knows how "reparative therapy" is practiced would know that it is abusive and exploitative. There is absolutely no proof that the porn industry is involved in any way. And you've been watching too much porn.

    3. I have two daughters. Caitlyn Jenner has 6. There are also transsexuals who don't have children who store their sperm before treatment. And seriously, we already have 4-6 billion people too many. But if you want to talk about evolutionary sustainability, maybe we're the next step in human evolution, in nascent form? Got any proof otherwise?

  15. Re:But they're not white, so it's OK on Indonesia Moves To Ban Same-Sex Emojis On Messaging Apps (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't argue with that :-)

  16. Re: Java, utter bloat to sink your boat on Kotlin 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Come on, tell us how you REALLY feel ...

  17. Re:Don't know if you'll see this... on Interviews: 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke Responds · · Score: 2

    Isaac Asimov would write 1,500 words each morning - I guess it worked :-)

  18. Re: Trolled? on Interviews: 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke Responds · · Score: 1

    stderr is an out of date concept. systemd is correct in dropping that cruft.

    Lame effort, even for a troll.

  19. Re:Linux Demographics on Interviews: 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke Responds · · Score: 1
    They don't need a keyboard - they can just dictate it. Works great for email on my android phone. And it will also read that same email out loud. Don't really need a keyboard nowadays.

    one example

  20. Re:Cam shafts work without the battery on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Wankel engines don't have valves, so no cam shaft.

    Also, small two-stroke model airplane engines (the type with glow plugs that run on nitromethane fuel) don't have valves, so again, no camshaft.

  21. Re:Java, utter bloat to sink your boat on Kotlin 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    gedit, gmake, and bash, with a few perl scripts to take care of versioning. That's not an ide. And no, I don't use macros or syntax highlighting.

  22. Re: Java, utter bloat to sink your boat on Kotlin 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Lame comeback. Is that all you've got?

  23. Re:Java, utter bloat to sink your boat on Kotlin 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    You would expect a developer to become more proficient as time goes on (unless you're jumping from one language fad of the week to another, which is poor planning, and the supervisor should be fired, along with whoever hired them). Training wheel IDEs mitigate against developing said proficiency.

  24. Try again - house ownership is declining for the latest generation, and the foolishness of McMansions has baked in higher costs for those who bought them, leaving them less free money. That's why we say people are "house poor." They have to drive further to work (costing $$$), they have to pay more for heating, etc, and more in taxes.

    Also, "average hours worked for persons engaged" totally fails to make the distinction between part-time and full-time jobs. In other words, it doesn't account for job quality. It also doesn't count for lost benefits, etc, with full-time employers over the last 40 years. You simply can't make the comparison.

    However, if you dig a little bit and look at this graph from the same link, you'll see that share of labor compensation as a percentage of GDP is at a historical all-time low. Part-time and mcjobs, plus more people dropping out of the workforce, helps explain a chunk of that.

  25. Re:Probably won't work in the US on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    but you're a fool if you give someone two apples now in exchange for one apple in the future

    Really? So if we have plentiful stocks of apples now, but I have information that a disease is going to kill off most of the apple trees, I'm a fool to hedge my apple supply?

    Negative interest rates are used because in theory when a bank chooses to park their money with a central bank, rather than the central bank paying interest, it's charging for the privilege, goading the bank, in theory, to instead lend out the money even at a very low interest rate.

    Of course, this is theory, and it doesn't work, because it doesn't put money into consumer's hands to buy things, just more debt, so consumers won't be stimulated to buy things if they know that they won't have the monthly income to cover even a portion of the principle on an interest-free loan, and it will probably be either the same price or cheaper in the future as deflation sets in.

    We've seen this plenty of times in, for example, electronics. Why buy a new computer or tv when you can wait 6 months and get an even better one for less, unless you either absolutely need it or you're one of those "early adopters", or your business can write it off?