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  1. Denmark has a bigger problem than that on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  2. Re:Great in the winter .. on Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Do you also have shocky monkeys where you work?

  3. Re:Darmok on 25th Anniversary: When the Berlin Wall Fell · · Score: 2

    You swanned past the Reichstag to the Berlin Wall
    In chiffon - Christian Dior
    Gazing at the debris through electrified barbed wire
    So grey - what an awful bore

    Burma-Shave

  4. Re:Stop developing 64bit on OEM Windows 7 License Sales End This Friday · · Score: 1

    32 bit cannot utilize more than 4GB ram. These days most new PC's come with 8GB as standard, and some even 16GB.

    That's the big reason to move to 64 bit.

  5. Re:die by taser or gas? on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 1

    Do the police employ oracles or futurologists?

    It certainly seems so.

  6. An interesting documentary on Ask Slashdot: Best Books On the Life and Work of Nikola Tesla? · · Score: 1

    I found this documentary very entertaining.

  7. Re:Consumer Reports: on Consumer Reports: New iPhones Not As Bendy As Believed · · Score: 1

    in your pocket the phone will eventually hit a place where the smaller force will be applied in the "right" spot and it will bend.

    You're putting it in your pocket wrong.

  8. Re: Australia voted... for a kick in the nuts. on Australian Senate Introduces Laws To Allow Total Internet Surveillance · · Score: 2

    And Denmark, and Norway, and Germany, and... many, many more.

  9. Re: Australia voted... for a kick in the nuts. on Australian Senate Introduces Laws To Allow Total Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Please educate yourself about Islam (from first principles).

  10. Old news on Munich Council Say Talk of LiMux Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 2, Informative

    SN already covered this four days ago.
    https://soylentnews.org/articl...
    I'm going to bed.

  11. Re:haven't watched it... on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    To not be ignorant.

    Basically this member of ISIS (with an East London accent) is explaining exactly what he believes, what his religion dictates, how he views the actions of the US, and why he feels justified in doing what he is doing.

    The video cuts away prior to any actual gore being shown so it's not really that offensive (compared to some other videos I have seen).

    If you really want to try to understand the whole complex mess of Islam in the 21st century, then there is a whole bunch of disturbing things you need to see, including this video (okay, you can stop about 30 seconds before the end for the 'sanitised' version.)

  12. Re:Motive? on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 1

    and stupid people like easy explanations, no matter how wrong they are

    So tell me...

    What is the 'right' explanation for looting the "Blood-stained mattresses, bedding and medical equipment" from a quarantine center set up specifically to deal with Ebola?

  13. Re:12% of the population is Muslim on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 0

    At least they have to kill some unbelievers as well...

    Spreading the disease is a pretty effective way of doing just that.

  14. Re:Niggers. on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now, if the authorities in African countries are smart,

    I suspect that the authorities are usually just as much RFSP as everyone else.
    And calling for flame-throwers will invoke outrage from the PC RFSP in every other part of the world.
    And you and I will now be called 'racist'.

    Wasn't there enough information posted and published everywhere in the mass media in Liberia to inform even the dumbest people not to do that at all?

    There is never enough information to inform willfully ignorant people.
    And now I'll be called 'racist' again.

  15. Re: Betteridge on The IPv4 Internet Hiccups · · Score: 1

    Brought peace?

  16. Re:If you didn't know what you were doing ... on The Quiet Before the Next IT Revolution · · Score: 2

    WTF is 10Base-2 doing there? I haven't seen that since the mid-90's.

    That was probably the "or so" that came after the word 'decade'.

    A "decade or so" could be taken to mean 2 of them, which puts it back in the mid 1990's.

    I think you're just being Captain Pedantic, when all the GP was really trying to say was that things move pretty quickly in IT.

  17. Statistics in isolation mean nothing on Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested in seeing the percentage breakdown of job applicants in comparison.

    Hypothetically, suppose that on average 2 out of 10 job applicants are female. In order to achieve a '3 out of 10' female employee ratio means that Apple must have gone out of their way to hire more females than males.

    Without knowing the demographic breakdown of the applicants, then the number of employees is meaningless.

  18. Re:You're welcome to them. on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    I don't know your personal circumstances, but for me learning vi was one of the wisest things I ever did.

    At university I hated it and ignored it, but in my very first real computing job after university I had the opportunity of watching somebody who was proficient in vi editing some code. He was touch typing editing commands and making text fly around the terminal faster than I could follow, so I put all my prejudices aside and bothered to learn how it was possible.

    Yes there was a learning curve, but in very short time I was far more productive using vi than anything else.

    But... you need to know how to touch-type. The biggest advantage of vi comes from the fact that you don't need to move off the home keys. Someone who can type without actually looking at the keys can understand how valuable this is. Hunt-n-peckers will never understand this.

  19. Re:One init on CentOS Linux Version 7 Released On x86_64 · · Score: 2

    We are the knights who say... init!

  20. Boards or ROM's on Grandmother Buys Old Building In Japan And Finds 55 Classic Arcade Cabinets · · Score: 2

    Is it the boards that are really so interesting, or the ROM chips thereon?

    Many years ago I remember playing some of my favourite childhood arcade games on my PC with MAME, and the hardest bit was getting hold of the ROM chip images.

    Even way back then most the games mentioned in the article seemed to be available, so I wonder if this anything more than sentimental value.

  21. Re:3 is a "swarm"? on Satellite Swarm Spots North Pole Drift · · Score: 1

    a misery of ex-wives.

    I think that works for the singular case too.

  22. Re:Not likely. on Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 1

    If you think the controls on Metro are unintuitive, you're a certified idiot.

    I am a very experienced software developer, and I work with a bunch of very talented systems programmers who progam in things like Perl etc.
    I have sat there in stunned disbelief about how bad an interface could possibly be when these very same people got stuck on the 'Seattle page' for about a half hour trying to figure out what to do with the mouse. Ummm. Etc....

    Ahh. What's the point. You're obviously religious about this. Nobody can make you understand.

  23. Re:Dead on arrival on Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle · · Score: 0

    Bikers such as myself appreciate the engine noise their bikes make.

    Anti-social fucktards like you need to be eradicated.

    Are you so retarded that the only thing you can contribute to society is to annoy an entire suburb of people (literally) with your 'fat pipes' at 1:00am? Seriously, go look up 'sociopath' in the dictionary. There's a picture of you on your motorcycle happily making people deaf.

    Go do in a fire Wanker!

  24. Re:Good on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 1

    I've been banned from having glass lenses since I was in high school.

    What? Can you elaborate on this please?

  25. Re:What's the penguin doing on the television set? on Monty Python To Bid Farewell In a Simulcast Show · · Score: 2

    How you remember it.
    ================
    Standing
    I can see that but what's it doing there?
    How should I know I'm not Doctor Bloody Bronowski
    "The penguin on your television set will blow up in 5 seconds"
    ***kaaboom***
    Well....how about that!

    How it actually was
    ==============
    Second Pepperpot I can see that!
    First Pepperpot If it lays an egg, it will fall down the back of the television set.
    Second Pepperpot We'll have to watch that. Unless it's a male.
    First Pepperpot Ooh, I never thought of that.
    Second Pepperpot Yes, looks fairly butch.
    First Pepperpot Per'aps it's from next door.
    Second Pepperpot Penguins don't come from next door, they come from the Antarctic.
    First Pepperpot Burma.
    Second Pepperpot Why did say Burma?
    First Pepperpot I panicked.
    Second Pepperpot Oh. Perhaps it's from the zoo.
    First Pepperpot Which zoo?
    Second Pepperpot How should I know which zoo? I'm not Doctor bloody Bernowski.
    First Pepperpot How does Doctor Bernowski know which zoo it came from?
    Second Pepperpot He knows everything.
    First Pepperpot Oooh, I wouldn't like that, that'd take all the mystery out of life. Anyway, if it came from the zoo, it would have 'property of the zoo' stamped on it.
    Second Pepperpot No it wouldn't. They don't stamp animals 'property of the zoo'. You can't stamp a huge lion.
    First Pepperpot They stamp them when they're small.
    Second Pepperpot What happens when they moult?
    First Pepperpot Lions don't moult.
    Second Pepperpot No, but penguins do. There, I've run rings around you logically.
    First Pepperpot Oh, intercourse the penguin.
            On the TV screen there now appears an announcer.
    TV Announcer It's just gone 8 o'clock and time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode.
            The penguin on top of the set now explodes.
    First Pepperpot How did he know that was going to happen?!