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  1. Re:Slashdot, disappointing! on Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay · · Score: 1

    The comment you are replying to is copied from the story, and even referenced in the sumary. Overrated might be the wrong mod, the correct one would be redundant.

  2. Re:How about fixing memory management? on How Competing Companies Are Jointly Building WebKit · · Score: 2

    That is just the Safari Mac defaults. It is using up to 1Gbyte on JIT code, and even more on various caches, but it should throw it out when hit with a memory pressure event. The iOS defaults are much much smaller of course.

  3. Re:If you're not familiar with ACTA... masturbatio on Canada Launches ACTA Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It isn't bias if he is right. It may be unprofessional to call bad things bad names, but it doesn't make it biased or wrong, just unprofessional.

  4. Re:What?? on Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or you can show some mental flexibility, deal with the fact that not everything in the world has to be tailored to your particular quirks to be functional and adapt.

    Are you saying iPhone users are better at fitting the mold, adapting instead of changing the world?

    If you are, I would agree with you.

  5. Re:Get in line on Does the Higgs Boson Reveal Our Universe's Doomsday? · · Score: 1

    If I get to pick, I'm gonna go with hookers and blow. Boil yourself into atomic bits if you like, I'll take the low road.

    We were talking about our Universe's Doomsday. It would have to be some pretty sucky hookers if they are going to blow the universe.

  6. Re:Distance on Nature Vs. Nurture: Waging War Over the Soul of Science · · Score: 1

    Intersting side note. It almost sound like that they think diversity is possitive correlation. We might be reading it backwards, because the genetic diversity among humans is greater in Africa, especially south of Sahara than anywhere else in the world. So are they arguing the diversity is harmful, or are can the authors really be the retarded racists they sound like?

  7. Re:Mod Parent Up! on KDE's Aaron Seigo Bashes Ubuntu Phone · · Score: 0

    The question is, if all of you can see how obvious it is that the editors here are misleading people to sell a few ad clicks, why are you still visiting the site? I had considered making an account to post this but to be honest I'd really rather not bother. I'd rather not help the editors make a buck off another pointless flame-war that THEY FUCKING STARTED!

    I am not sure they did it entirely intentional. The story was just so flamy-delicious looking they forgot to check it was actually true.

  8. Mod Parent Up! on KDE's Aaron Seigo Bashes Ubuntu Phone · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is almost no correlation between this story headline and the actual content Aaron wrote. Among other things Aaron wrote:

    I want to make it crystal clear that I think Ubuntu Phone a great thing to see; more Free software mobile efforts, particularly ones using Qt/QML, warm my insides like a good bowl of soup on a cold winter's night

  9. Re:Novel solution, but not the right one. on Richard Stallman's Solution To 'Too Big To Fail' · · Score: 1

    Please understand a company can not pass a new tax onto its customers. If customers were willing to pay a higher prices, they product would already be higher priced. Additional tax always comes from the profit, or on the downside, if there is no or little profit, the new tax makes the busines unprofitable, and forces it to close.

  10. Re:"fan guards in the system" on Apple To Discontinue Mac Pro In EU Over Safety Regulations · · Score: 5, Funny

    Macs have fans?

    Yes, and they are hard to miss since they whine loudly if put to work. I am ofcourse refering to the the cooling fans, not the fanboys.

  11. Nice on This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A surprisingly good response. Perhaps they decided to answer this question to at least give one good answer on a petition no one took serious.

    So: Thanks for the nice answer: Now please answer the serious petitions!

  12. Re:First problem: Crank's length on Crowd Funding For Crank Physics · · Score: 1

    The length of one of the elements is innecesarily longer than the final crack length. I bet it's a nighmare to pedal thru irregular terrain, collisioning with the ground every second.

    That and the bears laughing at you for your retarded crank. This would be a nightmare offroad.

  13. A metric pint is half a liter. It is not an official unit, but it is common enough.

  14. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    It is highly relevant when speaking of air temperatures. If the temperature is below 0, it is freezing and ice and snow may form, if it is above 0, it is not freezing, and ice and snow will thaw.

  15. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    I think the most common units would be 1/4 liter cream and 1 liter milk

  16. Re:Not So Fast... on Google Backs Down On Maps Redirect · · Score: 1

    Nokia N9 with its WebKit based browser does the same. Seems to be a two part block, all windows phones and all Nokia phones regardless of rendering engine.

  17. Re:Here it comes... on Scientology On Trial In Belgium · · Score: 1

    I know, but the grant parent post used the term this generically, so it was too good an opportunity to ignore. Anyway if the point the grand parent post was making was that only a few religions have been aggresive and evil, pointing out multiple aggresive pagan traditions is a very relevant comeback. Very few (or possibly no) religions have ever _not_ been used for bad purposes, no matter how pure they started out.

  18. Re:Simple... on Adobe and Apple Didn't Unit Test For "Forward Date" Bugs. Do You? · · Score: 1

    I think all dates and times should be stored in UTC (not GMT). Storing them in anything that is affected by time zones and DST is just asking for trouble. DST and Time Zone are presentation problems ... not storage problems.

    Unless they are user alarms, opening hours etc. A lot of things need to _not_ be adjusted for DST, if you stored them in a absolute format, you would suddenly need to adjust them.

  19. Re:leap year on Adobe and Apple Didn't Unit Test For "Forward Date" Bugs. Do You? · · Score: 2

    Yeah, basic mobile phones deal with this problem much better than Apple, probably by doing nothing and just asking the GSM net what time it is. Why handle DST when the network can tell you what the local time adjusted for all recent legislation and leap seconds is?

  20. Re:Here it comes... on Scientology On Trial In Belgium · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Buddhism? I think not.

    Think again.

    Paganism? I think not.

    Maybe not recently, but mass sacrifices, blood rituals and canibalism has all been part of various pagan traditions.

  21. Re:Be fair on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 1

    I think his point was that pulseaudio _is_ a bug, which would be correct. The second observation is that the bug commonly known as pulseaudio is groving even bigger, since this issue is caused by pulseaudio trying to grab video drivers (breaking all other video applications) as it does with audio.

  22. Re:Conversion to Celsius on Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth · · Score: 1

    136.4 degrees is 58 degrees Celsius

    Isn't it closer to one a third of a circle? .. unless you are talking about Farhrenheit and not degrees.

  23. Re:Correlation not cause on Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways · · Score: 1

    Repeat after me:
    Doctors aren't scientists

    I do not repeat incorrect information, or sheer stupidity. I would suggest you shouldn't do it either, but I doubt you would listen.

    Medical doctors have a university degree in medical science and are medical scientists.

  24. Re:So on Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways · · Score: 0

    The only people more in the closet than homosexuals, are pot smokers. Scientists, judges, cops, doctors, lawyers, dentists, business executives, etc. smoke pot.

    Given the sheer amount of pot usage since the 60's I have to reasonably conclude this research is faulty. Otherwise, we would be seeing far more instances of psychosis directly related.

    Far more than what? Not everybody who smokes dies immediately from smoking either, but that doesn't mean smothing is not lethal.

  25. Re:Correlation not cause on Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Which is more likely: 1) People with psychological issues seek pharmaceutical drugs to help them stay calm and not screw up their lives even though they are hearing voices and other psychotic issues.
    2) Drugs cause the problems - but no one ever noticed before.

    2b) Marijuana causes the problem - and everybody has already noticed this before?

    The connection has been known as long as Marijuana has been forbidden, it is reason it is forbidden in the first place. If they could manage to prove the correlation worked the other way it would remove the main reason doctors still recommend not to legalize it completely. This has not been proven so far everything points to 1) or both like this one.