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  1. Re: Science for Profit on The Billionaires Privatizing American Science · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So we can't trust private citizens to guide science, but should have complete faith in appointed government beueaucrats and regulators?

  2. Re: Hard to believe on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 4, Informative

    They did. It's called Linux.

  3. Re:Uh huh on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 1

    But GNU/Linux is POSIX-compliant, and that's what people mean when they lump Linux with UNIX or call it "another UNIX."

  4. Thank you LastPass! on Ubuntuforums.org Hacked · · Score: 0

    Now I *know* the gobbledygook password you generated for me is not compromising me anywhere else on the net. I have no financial interest in LastPass; just a big fan.

  5. False Alternatives on How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality · · Score: 0

    Privatizing good health, among other things IS " and a central component of a fair society and well-functioning economy ". For an example of the alternative, see this recent article from the Telegraph: http://bit.ly/12htACN "Equality," in the post-modern sense, is one of the most unjust ideas of our time.

  6. They shouldn't on Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity? · · Score: 0

    Put up the people that they think will add the most value. Period. Who would get to decide what consitutes sufficient diversity? The population of the hosting country? State? My personal circles? And how much will diversity weigh against merit?

  7. My order on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 0

    Slackware (Yeah Walnut Creek!) --> Red Hat --> Gentoo --> Ubuntu (sharing with family)

  8. Re:mac is linux on The True Challenges of Desktop Linux · · Score: 0

    Can we agree that they are "POSIX-Compliant"*? That's what underlies them all, whether OSX, Linux, or BSD. * I know, by compliant, I really mean "mostly kinda sorta ish" compliant

  9. Market Share Monopoly on Apple Fires Back At DoJ Over eBook Price Fixing · · Score: 0

    Amazon having a large share of the market does not in itself prove a monopoly, as Apple asserts. Amazon had other competitors just waiting for them to stumble. It seems to me that Apple's ability to enter the market, and to do so on terms as different from Amazon as they claim, tells me that Amazon did not have "nearly absolute" power.

  10. Ubuntu put in the furry section? on Ubuntu TV: Coming Soon To a Living Room Near You (Video) · · Score: -1

    Two obersrvations: 1. It may be the nerves of the camera, but if you are asked to explain your product and your first response is "uhhh...," that'sa sign the product goal isn't clear. He has trouble explaining this despite havinf presumably done it a hundred times already. 2. What's with the giant 6-foot insect in the corner? It's quite the distraction. It looks like the ubuntu tent is in the corner of the hall with the insect infestation.

  11. Is this April first? on Canonical To Remove Sun Java From Repositories, Users' Machines · · Score: 0, Troll

    WTF? I'm no fan of Java (we all know the logo is coffee because you have time to get some while your app loads), but this is another challenge for the Linux desktop.

  12. Re:Don't worry Citizens! on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    Seriously.

  13. Re:Safe-mail because it's safe? Why trust it? on First Look At Chrome 10 · · Score: 1

    I hate to start a fanboy thread, but not enough not to do it. I have been using http://www.fastmail.fm/ [Fastmail] and love it. Not free, but is freaky fast and extra features that make mail management easier.

  14. Re:Rand on The Logical Leap: Induction In Physics · · Score: 2

    Better; she grew up in a decidedly non-lassiez-faire system and learned that reality all too well.

  15. Re:Only one? on Firefox Search In Ubuntu 10.04 Changed To Google · · Score: 1

    You're not the only one. I set my home page to Google years ago when MS was trying to trump up hit counts for MSN. Too lazy to ever adopt to the search bar. My search bar is "CTRL-T." Using Chrome is making me re-think that too - the Speed dial page would make a nice home page (hat tip to Opera).

  16. Why not? on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    He hasn't done anything to deserve it, which seems to be the standard these days.

  17. Re:Temperature on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    I do want to discredit the parent. If the ice melts, it's global warming; if it doesn't, it's global warming. The inability on the part of those proposing global warming theory discredits them itself. They can't stick to a single story, except to invent new explanations along the way in a religious way.

  18. Like a Zahn short story on How Do Games Grow Up? · · Score: 1

    This is reminiscent of a short story by Timothy Zhan for the once great Space Gamer (I think it was called "The Challenge." In it, a adult gaming champion plays through the greatest new world, only to find it rehashed and tiresome, and in the end turns to a community of physics theorists for new challenges.

  19. Apropos on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Great for my absent-minded moments, apropos keyword will get me to my wanted command quickly every time.

  20. Of course; just ask Aldous Huxley on 85% of Chinese Citizens Like Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    This is why the future of "Brave New World" is more frightening that that of "1984." It's hard to control beings who have a nature to resist it; it's far more effective to change the nature of those people to want to be controlled.

  21. ext3cow versioning FS on Apple's "Time Machine" Now For Linux... Sort Of · · Score: 1

    A less GUI-driven but probably more robust implementation of a similar idea is ext3cow.
    If you want the GUI for it, add on The Time Traveling File Manager.

  22. Re:G0d@|\/|N smokers! on Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette · · Score: 1

    http://www.dragonmead.com/ Non-smoking and fantastic beer!

  23. In short, no. on Can Technology Fix the Health Care System? · · Score: 1

    The fix is not technology - it is to extract government as the middleman and favor dispenser and put it back in the hands of the free market. Technology won't improve government health care any more than it "helped" build German census machines. It only takes you where you are going more quickly.
    Why is it people acknowledge that socialism is bad as a whole but fool themselves into thinking it's OK if approached in small increments? I'll concede, I've never understood that.

  24. Similar to Mailshell on Easy Throw-Away Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Mailshell http://www.mailshell.com/, a commerical offering, has in the past offered limited (10MB) accounts with throwaway e-mail addresses. It will accept any e-mail to whatever@yourname.mailshell.com, and you can approve or reject any such e-mails. I've been using it for years very effectively. I don;t get anything for the plug; it's just a very nice service.

  25. Re:With friends like these... on Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1