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  1. Shall we maintain the flying license of airline pilots who insist the earth is flat? If you insist of maintaining your prior beliefs in face or tremendous documented evidence, then perhaps you should consider some other profession.

  2. Re:Checklist marketing on Canon Unveils EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR (canonrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    What kind of menu do you want? There is a lot of information and settings that have to be presented to the use

    There really isn't. Not on the camera itself anyway. 95% of the menu setting never get touched or get set once and never touched again so why do they need to be in a crappy interface at all? One could remove most of the menus on any given camera and nobody would even notice because they never get used. Those "features" exist on the camera because it provides a checklist for marketing purposes, not because it makes a better product.

    I think we found the Gnome 3 user!

  3. No... on Has The NSF Automated Coding with ExCAPE? (adtmag.com) · · Score: 2

    ... they did not.

    The software engineers are required to extract the problem out of customers, who often don't know what they want.

  4. Windows 10 Pro, meet Virtual Machine on Windows 10 Anniversary Update Borks Dual-Boot Partitions (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Last Friday, after one too many "Microsoft disabled X" and "Microsoft changed Y", I have moved my two Windows 10 Pro licenses from the hardware to virtual machines. They can bork themselves all they want, the worst it would happen I have to scp the backup back and untar it. This is getting too far...

  5. "And that, my lord, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped."

  6. Next Step: Clone Army of the Republic on Military Robots Expected To Outnumber Troops By 2023 · · Score: 1

    Even holy Yoda was tempted, and he should have known better...

  7. Re:It's up to the US citizen. on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    You may make the case, but you won't win it when you argue in front of people whose lives and family became "collateral damage" because of the leader's "honest mistake".

    How many WMD's were in Iraq?

  8. Re:UI/Process Stability on Why Your Users Hate Agile · · Score: 1

    In actual newly designed buildings, the architect cost is 20-25% (source: Fred Brooks). Not talking about McMansions here that are built like refrigerators on the assembly line. And plenty of large buildings (either residential, commercial or industrial) run over money and time budget.

  9. Re:Brilliant on New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices · · Score: 1

    Sure, Linux (and BSD) allows you to maintain (or to pay somebody to maintain) old kernels on old hardware (without allowing a third party to interfere). It does not mean that whatever you need will fall from the sky, on the back of a unicorn.

    Free as in freedom, not as in beer.

  10. Re:And it begins on Noodle Robots Replacing Workers In Chinese Restaurants · · Score: 1

    The restaurant owner now has more income, so he maybe buys a nicer car.

    Or

    The customer now spends less on food, so now he buys some nicer shoes.

    You forgot the third clause, "and the former cook is now starving".

    The money does not disappear, but if they move away from the cook, what is the going to live on? "Find something else?" you say - then the money has been moved around a bit more, but did the general happiness increase?

  11. Re:rs-232 on BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45 · · Score: 1

    No, the signals on the headers are TTL level, not 12V needed for RS-232. You need a TTL to Serial adapter or one of the FTDI CDC USB-to-TTL adapter such as this: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9873

  12. Re:Second half of the phrase.... on IT Positions Some of the Toughest Jobs To Fill In US · · Score: 1

    That is false. They pay all the taxes, including social security tax, without any expectation they will receive any of the benefits if they don't became permanent residents or citizens.

  13. Re:RIB: Religion Is Bunk on Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science' · · Score: 1

    Before you make that claim, are you going to drink your own medicine and present us with some evidence? Have you conducted long-term studies that show that prayer is useless?

    That's easy. Two football teams pray to win. Only one does. Obviously prayer had nothing to do with the result.

    The team who won prayed harder! Duh'

    Providence is on the side of the big battalions.
          -- Sevigne

  14. Re:dmr on Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away · · Score: 1

    Just wait until the second...

  15. Re:First it was NORTEL... on An Inside Look At the Rise and Fall of RIM · · Score: 1

    Hey, my Honda Civic was built in Ontario, you insensitive clod! I can switch the odometer to km/h if I want to.

  16. Re:Terrible question on Italy Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Mod the parent up!

  17. Re:Name on Nvidia Demos 'Kal-El' Quad-Core Tegra Mobile CPU · · Score: 1

    He's just being silly - the guy's name is actually Khalid not Khalel.

  18. Re:4th on Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would those giant platforms not become US territory and be subject to the same laws as the mainland?

  19. Problems with 'unsigned drivers' (libusb-win32) on Half of Windows 7 Machines Running 64-Bit Version · · Score: 1

    I installed Windows 7 on my three year-old Thinkpad and it worked fine, until I had to install drivers for some microcontroller development boards that I'm playing with. The problem was that they used drivers that ran on top of libusb-win32 and as that is a free software project, it does not have signed drivers. With Windows XP through Vista, when the device manager complained that you were installing unsigned drivers, you could push the 'trust me, I'm an engineer' button. That button no longer works for Windows 7 64 bit. You can no longer install whatever you want on your own hardware using a legit copy of the operating system. The brave new future is here, on your PC.

    I spent two days trying to get it to work, then gave up and went back to XP/32 bit.

  20. Re:Just Interviews? on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    Oh, no! He also bought some private information from Facebook.

  21. I'm waiting for Goo... on Google Go Capturing Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    or whatever they call Go++.

  22. Re:Strikers Vow on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    The "states"? Oh my, and what are those states other than other form of government? They also tax and spend - they aren't at all the bastion of freedom.

    If you mean "the people", that would mean something different indeed. But as you see in referendum after referendum "we the people" cannot agree on anything, and even getting 60% on something requires lots of monies to be poured into advertising.

  23. Re:What's the point? on Examining the Ethical Implications of Robots in War · · Score: 1

    Another good example is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  24. Re:So where is the source code on Startup Offers Instant-Boot Windows Alternative · · Score: 1

    There is no source code. Just a couple of small patches. I expect the GNU police to go after those guys any time now, since they released the binaries in November but no source for busybox, glibc & other GNU bits.

  25. Re:That is pretty sensitive.... on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 0

    Yes, that's twenty-six thousand, five hundred. Don't ask me how or why they did it, but they did.


    The trick is not to "do it", but to do it in a way that produces a usable photo, without too much noise. The first hands-on reviews, are not that great however: they are papering over the increased noise by using the standard blur filters.