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  1. Tried it before and it was bad. on Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
    I remember the French speaking ones trying before and when they closed the news sites down the publishers saw sharp decline in news.

  2. Re:I still don't 'get' realistic war simulations. on Two Studies Suggesting a Link Between Violent Video Games, Real-Life Behavior Have Been Retracted (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you seen these?
    "This War of Mine"
    "Beholder"
    "Papers, Please"
    "Valiant Hearts"
    etc etc

    A lot of people like the war games in game and real life. Paintball and laser shooting games being a good example. There's a lot of them just like there is a massive group that like football (european and egg-hand-ball type) who play the repeated EA releases.
    Playing realistic war is about as old as war itself and has too many explanations to be worth testing. Most people like realism because they can suspend belief.
    Veterans I've spoken with play wargames to unwind and deal with real life experiences that no-one really understand. I have never been big on the shooters myself but some of my sons enjoy some which always seems to relate to the immersive group experience just like raiding in WoW or a standard tabletop game of Risk.

  3. Re:I guess the lesson here on Peter Thiel's Lawyer Wants To Silence Reporting On Trump's Hair (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Gawker has a long and sordid history of outing people left and right while claiming to be a voice for all sorts of activism.
    Seems like they believe firmly in "But we are allowed to do this because we are doing it for good"

    Gawker is clickbaity gutter crap and Trump seems to be equally vile but I somehow can't dislike Thiel. Gawker almost always picked targets who didn't have the funds to respond. Thiel and Gawker both played the system and Gawker finally lost.

    This article makes me feel like slashdot is no longer worth reading. Sad to see but after 16 years the content is gone and the quality with it.

  4. Re:authors on 2015 Nebula Award Winners Announced (sfwa.org) · · Score: 2

    Nominations look fairly balanced and reasonable so it's probably just a consequence of the membership voting as they tend to do. Literature isn't really easy to quantify so you always end up with certain social biases in time.
    A bit heavy on the fantasy for my taste.

  5. Re:Why make a journalist suffer? on Four Weeks Without Soap Or Shampoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem there isn't the lack of showers but the repeated use of clothing.

  6. Does shower mean soap? on Four Weeks Without Soap Or Shampoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I ask myself if the showers that kill the flora is just water or use soap.
    Shampoo is something I long ago stopped using and after a short period I stopped producing excessive amounts of oil. The only times I have to shampoo is when because of a skin condition.

    Using soap in general isn't something I feel is needed since a regular rinsing leaves me non smelly.

    Question is if I am actually breeding these little microbes and my lack of soaping is why I don't smell or if it's simply because I'm not a smelly person as some of my friends and family asserts?

  7. Next job? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I learn things in my free time in order to beef up my skills for the next employer since the only way you can get a raise is to change jobs.
    Anyone notice you only ever get more responsibility but never more renumeration to go with all that extra work?

  8. Where are the bigger electric cars. on Another Elon Musk Bet: Half of All Cars Built In 2032 Will Be Electric · · Score: 2

    I can't see how this will work when not a single electric car is aimed at families.
    Living in London I am repeatedly told I should be driving a "green" car instead of my big Renault Espace diesel. The complaint I normally get is that diesel is dirty but as far as I can find while that is true for old diesels without modern filters (+10 years old) it isn't the case with the modern diesels.
    Also I almost never drive anywhere with less than 6 people in the car and walk whenever the distance is within a mile and there is nothing bulky to transport.

    I have done extensive research into available electric cars but they simply aren't big enough to fit more than 3 children or 4 in a pinch when they have grown out of the legally mandated child seats.

    Until we see 6 and 7 seater electrics I don't see it as being anything other than a DINK statement to show off the "green credentials".

  9. Re:Receptionist on Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras · · Score: 1

    The Electrically sensitive people have been known to suffer for persecution from people who have the audacity to expect them to have consistent symptoms along with some verifiable reactions to fields.
    Mostly the poor persecuted sufferers have been able to sense fields with less than 50% accuracy, less than the test group that simply guessed.

  10. Re:prior art irrelevant... on Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites · · Score: 1

    HTML 1.0 was never a standard but going with HTML 2.0 specifications puts prior art as early as 1995.
    I remember building a webpage in 1996 with a line of tiny clickable images at the top so I guess I have some prior art with timestamps available if needed.

  11. Re:Do socialist countries just hate big business? on Google News Found Guilty of Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    I am very sorry to break it to you but Belgium have several layers of government and the part of Belgium that copiepresse works is the French spoken part commonly known as Vallonia. Vallonias government is socialist even though the Federal government is a coalition since there are no single party big enough to run the country. Several partys in the coaliton are socialist.

    This is issue with google is more likely a stupid atempt at getting money from big business without understanding that it hurts their business. Their core readers buy the paper version like "normal people" and we need to remember that computer literacy in this part of Belgium is nothing like the north end of the country.

  12. Re:This isn't a film for geeks. on WarGames Sequel Now Filming · · Score: 1

    As a spouse of a doctor of philosophy I would like to point out that the Matrix is full of examples of existentialism. First movie is enough for examples since philosophers rarely find much material in fightsceens.

    An example of a good question posed by the movie is the multiplication of Agent Smith. Are they one person or do they become several.

    It might seem just deep but philosophy isn't always obvious.

  13. Re:Like everything, it depends on Microsoft Cheaper For Web Serving? · · Score: 1

    I agree.

    Another thing I was thinking was that they are mainly a MS company doing hosting for such sites as MSN.be
    With a much larger MS side the numbers swings to their favor. Having much less Linux usualy means that there is less experience and less skill in the organization. Result is that it simply takes longer for people to fix problems.
    I remember trying to manage colleagues in aa previous job. About 200 servers and about 1000 sites from a very large dutch company maker of lights and electronics. I was one of two sysadmins managing the europeean side of this beast of a setup with some lightweight outsorced frontend and first line support. Servers on Unix (Solaris) and Linux was almost impossible for the first line to handle but total cost was a lot less in grand total if they didn't try. Spending an hour trying to get unskilled helpdesk personel to understand your problem is useles.

  14. Re:I found myself wondering on Microsoft Cheaper For Web Serving? · · Score: 1

    In some ways they are much better than Linux. Mostly on giving graphical access to configuration and the stupider 1st liners can take care of a lot of easy issues if they get a good manual and a clear description of the fault.

  15. Seen it before... on Microsoft Cheaper For Web Serving? · · Score: 1

    This is the same old "Windows is soooo much easier to use"
    I have been working as a SA/DBA in webhosting environments for about 10 years now and this is mostly fud.

    My experiences are that Windows are quite easy to install and do some basic setup but operating MS boxes compared to Linux are tedious and absolutely more timeconsuming.
    The first problem is that connecting from remote location is slow.
    Working with a GUI is slow.
    Automation is either not possible or a lot more timeconsuming than on Linux.
    Searching in Windows is slow and if it's in a GUI it's often impossible.
    IIS is a retarded application that has crappy logging.

    Only reason they put the TOC at 20 more than Windows is that it is the ONLY item that is completely variable and depends highly on the enginners involved.

    This looks like they used the same windows expert for both estimates. // yendor

  16. Re:There is no such thing as bad publicity on Utube Sues YouTube · · Score: 1

    It seems trafic was almost non existant in Jan 2006 and before...
    When did youtube start again?

  17. Re:er... on New Worm Chats with Users on AIM · · Score: 1
    The virus replicates its self and sends its self out to user's buddy lists.


    To me it is quite clear that it picks people who have it in the buddylist.
    What makes me think is the fact that people actualy communicate like that.
  18. No this has nothing to do with perl. on Unpatched IE Flaw Extremely Critical · · Score: 1

    How exacly did you make the link to the webmin exploit?
    Webmin is a very specific management tool that will most likely get it's own posting soon. The difference between a browser that around 90% of clients use and a management interface that perhaps 5% of admins use is quite apparent to me.

    But thank you for bringing the perl exploit to attention.

  19. I.F.O. on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298093/
    It movie should not be destroyed on sight.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100468/
    Red Surf is barely less worse... although this is good material if you want to destroy Clooney fans.

  20. Some european ATM's do that. on History of the Automatic Teller · · Score: 1

    Here in the Netherlands we do have some banks that gives out other notes than 20 euro bills.

    They do it in this way.

    If I get 90 euros I get 1x50 1x20 1x10 and 2x5 witch is perfect since you might have problems breaking large bills. Some other banks of course tries to give as few bills as possible.
    For instance the ABN AMRO have removed the cash dealing by humans and have an ATM that does both withdrawls and deposits. This also reduces the risk of a robbery. However the main office still does human cash management.

  21. Waste of IP's on Tarpits for Microsoft Worms · · Score: 1

    I think this is a great tool for catching worms but mostly worms come from the outside where you _don't_ have IP's to spare but you will probably run it on the inside where it won't be that much use.

    There are no good way in blocking worms, the solution is a easy way to check if you've patched your servers against a central patch library..... like windowsupdate where supposted to work.

    // yendor

  22. Aw... I can't attend. on Linux Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    To bad I can't attend but it's my weddingday so the occation will be marked never the less.

    Another thing happening on the same day is the wedding of the norweigan crown prince. O.k. it's not realy an issue for amnericans but still it's a nice useless fact.

    I suggest we all have a great 25 of august.

    // yendor

  23. Snowball cam? on Mars-On-Earth Webcams Online · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if they got a snowball cam... anyone else remeber the old one at Rome labs?

    Most cams with a reasonable amount of viewers seems to have the following.
    1) Diary.
    2) Screenshots of "moments"
    3) The possibility of nudity.

    We'll see hpw it goes.

    // yendor


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    It could be coffe.... or it could just be some warm brown liquid containing lots of caffeen.

  24. Re:What about us North Americans? on Tenchi 3rd Season Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Better yet, when will it hit scandinavia?

    We seem to be a little backwards as far as animes concerned.

    At least "Sailor moon" and "pokemon" got here

    // yendor
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    It could be coffe.... or it could just be some warm brown liquid containing lots of caffeen.

  25. Re:Damm, that's expensive on 100Mbit Optical Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    100Mbit och 11Mbit is more for the performance fixated.
    As the article said this is technology where you don't "leak" all your network trafic.

    Although it seems like a nice thing to have I don't see myself running something like that at home. I don't think it'll catch on for the home consumer where securing the local LAN from leaks isn't imperative.

    // yendor

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    It could be coffe.... or it could just be some warm brown liquid containing lots of caffeen.