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  1. Re:Better than cubes on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 1

    But Star Trek, come on. He doesn't even have photon torpedoes. How lame is that?

    Wrong meeting room. You want DARPA down the hall for the boom boom.

  2. Re:Set course for accountability... on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let the NSA geek feel like he's Captain Picard. You know you would too if given the chance.

    I can say with complete assurance that I wouldn't be spending other people's money on such an embarrassingly obvious teenage power fantasy. It belittles the man rather than imbuing him with authority.

  3. Re:He needs to grow up on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 1

    "my posts are always polite, no swearing, no threats, no personal attacks" "most people are brainwashed cretins who can't think for themselves" "for the cretins who can't think, words on a computer screen are too much for them to bear, so they have to BAN people for making them think."

    One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong...

  4. In his final days Ernst Röhm made a speech seriously underlining the 'socialist' aspect of it within the movement. And if you ever read in detail, it becomes impossible to extract socialism from its involvement. Wether it was nationalisation, class war, the power of state over individual, - the party was born from the German workers party, the list is long.

    In his final days [before being assassinated on Hitler's orders for reasons of political disagreement during the Night of the Long Knives] Ernst Röhm made a speech seriously underlining the 'socialist' aspect of it within the movement. Put like that it sounds less like the party was left wing, no matter what the Northern branches wished.

  5. Re:Yeah, right! on British Foreign Secretary on Surveillance Worries: '"Law Abiding Citizens Have N · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "a party like the national socialists" = left wing

    It's an expansive definition of left wing that includes Hitler.

  6. Re:bets? on $200 Intel Android Laptops Are Coming · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ubuntu's Mir server will work with Android SurfaceFlinger drivers, so assuming root can be gained there's instant hardware and graphics support.

  7. Re:Not a Placebo on Most UK GPs Have Prescribed Placebos · · Score: 2

    It's a placebo in the context of the problem space, as it has no effect on it.

  8. Re:Could Linux on there skip the "retina" part? on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know. None the less, I have a USB stick that I've previously used on a MB Air.

  9. Re:Could Linux on there skip the "retina" part? on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I deeply wish to know this, and shall take an Ubuntu usb stick into the Apple store to find out.

  10. Category error on Chemists Make Olympic Rings On a Molecular Scale · · Score: 2

    Trademark infringement. Trademark.

  11. Medical issues on Subdermal Magnets Allow You To Wear an IPod Like a Watch · · Score: 1

    Any doctors around to comment on possible blood flow issues due to a build-up of metals in the veins behind that intense a magnetic field?

  12. Re:"Starting with the Nazi military during WWII" on The Vortex Gun Coming Soon To a Protest Near You · · Score: 1

    Waffen-SS [...] were arguably the finest elite troops anywhere in the history of the world.

    The SAS laugh at this claim.

  13. Re:Fantasies about ideologies on Vatican Attack Provides Insight Into Anonymous · · Score: 1
    "In Europe you have people (yes, today, not 50 years ago) calling Nazism the only ideology that is peaceful over the long-term (because genetic improvement will lead to perfection which means no wars, get it ?). It is scary to see that this portion of Europe's political landscape is much bigger than, say America's communists, and they certainly exceed 5%, maybe even 10% of all Europeans."

    [citation really very much needed because this is complete bollocks]

    Also please note that Christians don't see war as a disaster no matter the potential rewards. Aquinas explicitly endorses the concept of the just war, and Aquinas was was central enough to Catholic ethics that he was both mentioned as the most important Catholic theologist by JPII and was previously made the Catholic saint of the tuition of priests. He also believed that heretics should be put to death both inside and outside the Christian nations, lest the similarity to Islamic holy wars should not be clear. Aquinas' thinking on just wars combined with the argument that heresy was a capital offence underpinned most of the crusades and the anti-Protestant wars.

  14. Re:Core count obsession on Asus Transformer Drops Quad-core In Favor of Dual-core · · Score: 1

    Uh, presumably they'd be doing that because tablets are at the same resolution. And yes, thanks to Moore's law phones are approaching PS3 level graphics. Does this surprise you? Even on a 4-5 inch display that makes a difference, so it becomes acceptable for both. Tegra 3 is pretty much ps3 level visuals, and fits in phones that are this size. That's small enough, light enough and can do it the job. Given that it drops down to one lower powered core for the majority of the time and has good batter life, why wouldn't I want the extra high quality game use case and general ability to ramp up processor performance if required? It also means stuff like Google Goggles can do real time image analysis and identification and runs smoothly. And as for relevant games? Sure, there are some already coming. And what it gives me? Same games wherever I am, ability to maintain game state, ability to not buy a console for more money, access to my mobile casual style games on the big screen, an open platform I can develop for and games that last more than one hardware generation. YMMV on these things, I guess.

  15. Re:Core count obsession on Asus Transformer Drops Quad-core In Favor of Dual-core · · Score: 1

    I've been searching for someone to answer to a simple question: what are the tasks at which you feel your high-end smartphone should be faster, that are not attributed to things like network roundtrips where a faster proc is irrelevant? "Four times faster than good enough" just does not equal to "four times as good" to me, especially if it comes with a larger price point.

    Gaming at sufficient graphics quality to make full HD gaming possible when I hook up to larger displays. I want PS3 level graphics at the least, and that's coming via a) lots of GPU CUDA cores and b) lots of CPU helping out as with known hardware much of the effects rendering (physics etc) can be pushed back on the CPU cores. It's not like consoles don't use them, and that kind of customisation is the whole benefit of having known SoCs used widely.

  16. Re:No comparison whatsoever on Spanish Company Tests 'Right To Be Forgotten' Against Google · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only we could tell which was most important to people. But wait! We could check by seeing the most useful information via the amount of links. Although we might want to add other metrics like social network mentions and such. We could make some kind of ranking system...to rank pages...if only there was some word for this.

  17. Re:Profit & Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    Are you planning never to answer my question? Please explain how the decision to make a refutation was determined, given that it is a legal statement.

  18. Re:I for one on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 3, Funny

    Crash on the M25: A bus has collided with a grue.

  19. Re:Profit & Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Again: Your company lied on the review, and tried to claim birdsong as your own whilst defaming eeplox by accusing him/her of being a pirate. I hope you feel ashamed of the place you work for, and the way in which it just tried to misappropriate revenue from work you had no part in. I only wish there were criminal sanctions for the person at your company who made the false counterclaim refutation; it isn't at all reasonable to have believed it was copyrighted/represented by yourselves. Please explain how the decision to make a refutation was determined, given that it is a legal statement.

  20. Re:Profit & Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your company lied on the review, and tried to claim birdsong as your own whilst defaming eeplox by accusing him/her of being a pirate. I hope you feel ashamed of the place you work for, and the way in which it just tried to misappropriate revenue from work you had no part in. I only wish there were criminal sanctions for the person at your company who made the false counterclaim refutation; it isn't at all reasonable to have believed it was copyrighted/represented by yourselves.

  21. Re:So... on Leaked Heartland Institute Documents Reveal Opposition To Science · · Score: 0

    Fuck you, shill.

  22. Re:Ugh on Rackspace: SOPA "Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legislation" · · Score: 1

    I'll make you a deal -- I won't tell you who you can marry or what drugs you can take if you don't tell me what to believe, or not believe. OK?

    I'm not religious, but I love you for this comment. Let everyone stick to their own business, and a wall between personal affairs and the business of state.

  23. Re:Where is your license mentioned? on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Deal With a GPLv2 License Infringement? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jesus... It's amazing what crap a first poster can say. No, you can not sell GPLed software you didn't write

    Ironic. Yes, of course you may.

  24. Re:With the expected Chinese requirements. on Dell and Baidu Introduce a Smartphone With Forked Version of Android · · Score: 1

    I think it is a pretty safe assumption that no matter where MightyYar is from he or she is happy to not be speaking German....

    This assumption may be untrue if MightyYar is from Germany, of course.

  25. Re:And... on Facebook More Hated Than Banks, Utilities · · Score: 1

    Google is impossible to remove from the internet, and Facebook too.

    I wonder what surprises Google's and Facebook's internal emails will show us. Gee, maybe they will prove that Google and Facebook aren't THAT innocent.

    Heh. Of course, this is a terrible analogy. A more appropriate analogy would be imagining that Google Search was impossible to use without a copy of Chrome. Antritrust requires using a monopoly illegally, or using an existing monopoly to create another. Part of me suspects you are paid not to understand this, however.