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  1. Re:What distribution left for developers? on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    You don't have to use Unity. Mark Shuttleworth will never know.

    He will if you install popcon.

  2. Re:What distribution left for developers? on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    Dselect is the most confounding piece of software I've ever used. Debian sucks.

    Real Debian users install everything using dpkg -i.

  3. Re:Gnome capabilities too well hidden on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    Firefox/Iceweasel (what's w/ the latter?)

    Answer.

  4. Re:"sudo everywhere" alternatives on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    sudo -s

    Also, run "visudo" to edit /etc/sudoers and change this:

    %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

    into this:

    %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

  5. Re:What distribution left for developers? on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    +1

  6. Re:Hold on on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Who... on UN Bigwig: The Web Should Have Been Patented and Licensed · · Score: 1

    ITU seems to be doing a fair and neutral job of running the phone network

    Look closer. Like, compare any IETF standard with any telephony standard. Telcos brought us ASN.1, OSI, GSM, and a bunch of other vastly overcomplicated technologies. Not to mention the ridiculously dense patent thicket...

  8. Hold on on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Plum Consulting claims the cost per additional gigabyte of data for fixed-line ISPs is between €0.01-0.03 per GB

    Is that €0.03 or €0.0003 ?

  9. Re:Oracle: on Oracle: Proud, Self-Reliant, Increasingly Isolated · · Score: 1

    But it totally makes sense that an empty string and NULL mean the same thing... sometimes.

  10. People who tell you that CLIs are hard are wrong on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    not a chore to manage and preferably not completely CLI

    In my experience, you spend more time & headaches trying to avoid CLIs and config files than you would need to spend just learning how to use those tools.

    Debian does a *really* good job of making it easy to work with the CLI and config files. Don't fight that; just learn it. The knowledge is very reusable, and it remains useful for years (even decades?) rather than months.

  11. Sure! Why not? on Italy Prepares '"One Strike" Anti-Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    What difference does it make, anyway, whether it's three strikes or one strike, if a "strike" is just an unproven allegation?

  12. But how do they work? on Study Suggests Magnets Can Force You to Tell the Truth · · Score: 2

    But how do they work?

  13. Re:Or maybe on Kernel.org Attackers Didn't Know What They Had · · Score: 1

    Or maybe, just maybe, the hackers wanted to appear that they didn't realize what they had gotten their hands on. I'm not trying to cause any tinfoil hats to come out, but I would still check everything.

    git fsck

    Done.

  14. Re:SkyNet on James Gosling Leaves Google · · Score: 1

    What newer version? It's still there in Java 6.

  15. Re:Anyone have a link to the decision? on Injunction Blocks "Don't Be Friends" Law For Missouri Teachers · · Score: 1

    4. No teacher shall establish, maintain, or use a nonwork-related internet site which allows exclusive access with a current or former student.

    Any forum software that allows private messages between users (e.g. Facebook) would fall under that, wouldn't it? It also doesn't say, "you may not interact with students", it says (to paraphrase) "you may not use a website that might let you interact with students". It looks like a huuuuge first amendment violation to me.

  16. University of North Dakota on Space Elevator Conference Prompts Lofty Questions · · Score: 1
  17. "Dr. Lixia Yang (above) and her co-author, Ralf Krampe of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany, found that seniors were able to retain 50 per cent of concepts they learned almost a year before."

  18. Re:Kind of said it all on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    That's what I get for not RTFL. You are correct. Carry on.

  19. Re:Unlikely on Finding Fault With the Low, Low Price of Android · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's not a new legal theory. It's a failed legal theory. See Wallace v IBM.

  20. Re:Why? on Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hack · · Score: 1

    I all the time hear these both theories, that it is or it is not good to keep the battery always plugged. Maybe the results even vary per device (and its charging patterns) and not only battery type?

    Do you have any evidence for that? You can't just take two competing theories, find some arbitrary "middle ground" and have that be the correct answer.

  21. Re:Kind of said it all on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    Privy : Means Private ...

    In this case a group of Ex Cabinet ministers and MP's all appointed by the Prime Minister ...so an arm of the government ...basically a group of politicians

    In Canada, the Privy Council Office is the means by which the Cabinet exercises its executive power. It isn't so much an "arm" of the government; it *is* the government.

  22. Re:Notice: "Department of Fisheries ..." on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    How do you prevent corruption, institutionally, with an attitude like that?

  23. Re:Ping times on A High-Bandwidth Interplanetary Connection · · Score: 2

    Speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second, not km per second.

    Sure, but by the time these machines get built, Moore's Law will have sped it up by the necessary amount.

  24. A message from Morbo on Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet · · Score: 1

    Unlike .com, .xxx and other new domains now proliferating the Internet, .secure would require visitors to use certified credentials for entry and would do away with users' Fourth Amendment rights to privacy.

    TLDs DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!! GOOD NIGHT!

  25. Re:there is no way to disprove a person's religion on Idle: File-Sharing Is Not a Religion, Says Swedish Government · · Score: 1

    the world would be far better off with no religion at all.

    A world with no religion would not be a world populated by humans, since every single culture has come up with some form of it. While a world populated by non-religious non-humans might be better than the current one, it's not a change that can be done in isolation: you need to change human nature to get a world without religion, which will result in any number of other changes as well, the end result of which is impossible to even guesstimate.

    Considering what history has taught us about what happens to governments that actively trying to stamp out a religion the end result is fairly easy to guess.

    That's because the idiots tried to do it by force, and you evidently can't force people to believe something on a large scale. You can, however, properly educate people about how not to get fooled by charlatans, and they should eventually figure out how to apply that knowledge to religions.