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  1. Re:Malala and Change on 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay · · Score: 1

    Ensuring that everyone enjoys, equally, the same basic human rights is not "imposing our religion" on anyone. No. Your chosen collection of religious dogma does not trump those rights. The failure to grasp that is why ignorant fundamentalists in northern Pakistan (and elsewhere - I'm looking at you, red states) fight. Malala is a hero, because she's challenging such ignorant "culture".

  2. Re:Really? on 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay · · Score: 2

    Education, and the education of women in particular, begets peace. Well demonstrated fact. Find another way to attack her credibility. You've failed here.

  3. Re:The perspective on this from Norway on 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay · · Score: 1

    So, because you disagree with one man's politics, The Nobel Peace Prize is shit. Got it. Nice reasoning there.

  4. Re:It's okay when I do it... on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 2

    If you took money for a service, and then arbitrarily cut off paying customers of that service, it's most certainly not okay.

  5. Not a seriouse review on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1

    The word "codswallop" appeared in the first paragraph of TFA. I figured right then that this was going to be superficial review. Then again, I should have known from the summary that anything purporting to determine "The Best Linux Distro" is probably not worth my time. Yes, I read TFA. Yes, it was a waste of my time. The meaning of "How long is a piece of string?" still escapes TFA's author.

  6. You should be buying a vm image, not a piece of hardware. Unless you're trying to do something like put an IPMI port behind a firewall. A VM running on the machine to be protected won't be of much use there.

    Yeah, well, some people can't see outside their little box. To be fair, there are places where that model works, but fronting a remote virtualization stack, alone with a few pieces of dedicated hardware that must be available even when the virtualization stack is down, is not one of them.

  7. Re:Your bed, lie in it. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Unresponsive Manufacturer Who Doesn't Fix Bugs? · · Score: 1

    You chose your vendor poorly. Hope you learned from it. Next time choose a standards based VPN solution that works across many different platforms and clients.

    Perhaps. Three years is a long time. Companies change hands and I am here to tell you that the importance that one vendor places on supporting their product often becomes an expense to be trimmed when that company is acquired by another. May you never have to learn just how bad that can get.

  8. Re:The name on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Unresponsive Manufacturer Who Doesn't Fix Bugs? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was thinking the same thing. At least give us a hint. Something like, "A major security appliance vendor, who was recently acquired by major tech company which is based in Austin..."
    Full disclosure: we own some of those and have several very similar issues with their support offerings, so the OP's complaint definitely resonates.

  9. Fail on A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month · · Score: 1

    It is a lovely design, from an aesthetic point of view, and as automobile, it's no worse than some conventional cars in many respects (probably not crash worthy at all, but that's a given in flying cars). As an aircraft, however, it's a recipe for disaster. It appears to be extremely short coupled, making it more than a little twitchy in pitch and yaw, as is obvious in the video. In an aerobatic aircraft, again, that's not a bad thing, but in something aimed at this (supposed) market, it's a killer.

  10. This is an old argument... on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    That "recreation" is responsible for "wasting gas" or "adding to the carbon debt". While both cases are arguably true, a little perspective is in order. On any weekday in the city where I live, I can count thousands of commuters driving to work, one to a car. And I can't count fast enough or high enough. Weighed against that, the "extravagance" of motor racing, for example (and the one that gets trotted out every time fuel gets the least bit scarce), is insignificant. The same goes for electricity, the few kwh I might spend on watching TV or driving my PC for recreational purposes, are dwarfed by many other day-in, day-out uses of electricity. Yes, yes. It all adds up, but the key word is "all", and it's the big stuff that could make the biggest difference if we were to get serious about conserving.

  11. Re:College admissions is not a life-value system on Is It Time To Throw Out the College Application System? · · Score: 1

    overlooking talented C students. Those with less than perfect grades might go on to dream up blockbuster films like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg or become entrepreneurs like Steve Job"

    They may be talented, but college admissions is supposed to measure students' likelihood of success at tasks they will be graded on.

    Yes. And...?

  12. Let me fix that headline for you... on Man Walks Past Security Screening Staring At iPad, Causing Airport Evacuation · · Score: 1

    "Self-Absorbed Asshole Walks Past Security...."

  13. Re:Gobernator on California Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Warrants For Drone Surveillance · · Score: 2

    I guess they would be better off with the "Sperminator".

    Because this single issue is the only thing that matters, right? No, wait. Abortion is the only thing that matters. No, I mean gay marriage is the only thing that matters.
    Single-issue voters deserve all the bad things that happen to them because of their narrow-minded, short-sighted choices.

  14. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    Well, in all fairness, things like a certain stem cell paper recently published and retracted does a hell of a lot more to convince me of corruption in academia than anything Fox News has ever published.

    Oh my. Did you really mean to compare the peer review process that is a fundamental part of "good science" to Fox News? Seriously? That's just pathetic.

  15. Re:Fun Question on Lenovo Set To Close $2.1 Billion Server Deal With IBM · · Score: 1

    Fun question - who would you rather have spying on you? The NSA or the Chinese?

    Personally I would rather have the Chinese spy on me because I never go there, and am not too worried about them shipping me off to prison on trumped up chargers because I disagree with whatever government is in power. The NSA on the other hand....

    You've neglected an obvious problem. All that "useless" information on the decadent Americans is highly marketable. The NSA would gladly pay the Chinese to have a look at it.

  16. Re:Ironically, blame HIPAA on Medical Records Worth More To Hackers Than Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    So much of health provider's budgets have been consumed in the past ten years by HIPAA and Obamacare they didn't have any money left over to upgrade those "old legacy systems".

    Right...., 'cause the security requirement imposed by HIPAA compliance are such a frivolous waste of money. [/dripping sarcasm]
    Doing it right is more expensive than not doing it right, regardless of the business driver. Get over it.

  17. Re:LEDs on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Department of Energy had a pretty rigorous test regimen set up for testing LED bulbs. http://www.lightingprize.org/6... What is needed is a good (and trustworthy) rating agency to test and qualify the bulbs.

    Yeah, like the FDA...
    [rimshot]
    Jeez, I crack myself up.

  18. Re:I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last as long as they are sposed to. Of course they still save money in power costs

    A net increase in expense is a net increase in expense. I have yet to see a CFL lamp reach ROI. Ever. I hope that this shit gets sorted out before my horde of 60 watt incandescents is used up.

  19. Re:Forest Circus. on Forest Service Wants To Require Permits For Photography · · Score: 1

    doesn't the public already own public land?

    No, citizen. Your corporate overlords own that land, and the government agencies that regulate it. Get with the program.

  20. Re:OK on IBM Solar Concentrator Can Produce12kW/day, Clean Water, and AC · · Score: 1

    We're running out of fossil fuel. Things are going to change, some more. Get used to it.

  21. Re:DAESH, not ISIL on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    The KKK are Christian.

    Why? Because they self-identify as such? I believe that their Messiah would agree with me when I call "bullshit". Their rationalization may be use religion, but their motivation is as base and worldly as that of any group of thugs. Same goes for ISIS.

  22. Re:I'll just let my sig do the talking on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    "War is a racket."
    (circa 1935) - Maj. General Smedley Butler, USMC, Retired.

  23. I was outside yesterday. It was a nice day and I didn't seen any climate change protesters. In fact, I have seen any all year. I think that the whole "climate change protester" thing is just a myth, started up by some gubamint researchers tryin' to make sure their research gets funded next year.

  24. Re:There is no "controversy" on Nobody's Neutral In Net Neutrality Debate · · Score: 1

    This, precisely and completely, is what's really going on here, and you'd better believe that there is a lot, and I mean a staggering sum, of money being spent by the ISP's and cable companies to ensure that things go their way. "What is your stance on net neutrality?" should be the question most frequently asked of aspiring and incumbent politicians because this is a very, very big deal.

  25. Re:The people on Nobody's Neutral In Net Neutrality Debate · · Score: 1

    What you describe, in typical quasi-Libertarian fantasy manner, is a recipe for chaos. Let everyone who wants to string their own copper, or fiber, or fire up their own wireless infrastructure. Right? What could possibly go wrong?