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  1. Re:So far so good on Vint Cerf Warns Against 'Digital Dark Age' · · Score: 1

    so far so bad, the most important wares from the past run on the category you excluded, various non-IBM mainframe architectures that helped rule the business world in decades past, besides the pre-1964 IBM ones. Instead you are focused on geek toy/hobbyist/consumer ones.

  2. Re:That is what VM's are for on Vint Cerf Warns Against 'Digital Dark Age' · · Score: 1

    you're funny, take your version 1 disk description and volume files and put them in the lastest version and see what happens.

  3. Re:Yeah! on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    There are ways to need much LESS shielding. Hint, one of them involves distance. As for crash, shielding a reactor that has never been made critical is a very trivial thing compared to shielding nuclear fuel from one that has.

  4. Re:Not just Linux on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    eh? the purpose of BSD was to be a general purpose OS, which it is. OpenBSD scales from embedded controllers for elevators to at least 64 cores systems including big Sun/Oracle iron and x86-64 It runs the usual web server stacks, many modern desktops, multimedia apps, chromium browser, java, all the common scripting languages, gcc collection...how is it not a general purpose OS?

  5. Re:happy to comply! on The Blind Spots In the Nuclear Test Monitoring System · · Score: 1

    Blind spots don't matter; new nuclear powers want their stutus, prestige, saber-rattling ability. They'll be sure to let everyone know.

  6. Re:Not just Linux on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    Some general purpose modern OS aren't "too complex" and a human mind can "grok" them, such as OpenBSD.

  7. Re:This is needed on Firefox To Mandate Extension Signing · · Score: 1

    Plenty of "legitimate" software has done such things over the years too. The solution is NOT to dictate to me what I run on my machine and NOT to put my blind faith and trust in Mozilla's vendor vetting processes.

  8. Re:Of course they should have a choice on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    That would be an incorrect guess.

    Also, though not relevant to this thread, there are indeed vaginal vaccinations

  9. Re:They should switch it to "devuan" on Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 Will Be Rolling-Release · · Score: 1

    Funny, my linux box already does suspend and user switching. Daemon monitoring is hardly a one-solution-fits-all situation, if a daemon crashes that's because something is wrong, blindly and constantly restarting the thing is not the long term solution. In fact, that's what people who use garbage like mysql do.

  10. Re:Fine, but please on Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 Will Be Rolling-Release · · Score: 1

    Nope, no SystemD. It's Debian without the SystemD suck.

    "LMDE 2 'Betsy' received a lot of updates this week and its 'Mint' packages are now almost on par with Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca. The next step is to adapt the Debian Jessie base and port all the changes and fixes already applied for Linux Mint 17.x on top of Trusty. This should take a week or two and we might be in a position to open up a BETA some time in February and to start welcoming feedback from people interested in helping us test this new distribution. Similar to Linux Mint 17.x, LMDE 2 'Betsy' will be using the traditional sysvinit. The move to systemd could happen with Linux Mint 18 and LMDE 3, giving this new technology and the Linux ecosystem 2 years (or more) to mature and to iron out integration and compatibility issues. Cinnamon in particular is built without systemd support by default and the development team is planning to change this in version 2.6 to give the DE the ability to switch at runtime between systemd and consolekit/upower without the need to recompile anything." -- Clem, Linux Mint Blog 16 Jan 2015

    Unlike many distributions, Linux Mint cares about its users and doesn't cram untried new and shiny down their throats

  11. Re:Could have profound purpose on CrunchBang Linux Halts Development · · Score: 2

    Already done, Linux Mint Debian doesn't use systemd and it's an open question if it will ever have it

    "LMDE 2 'Betsy' received a lot of updates this week and its 'Mint' packages are now almost on par with Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca. The next step is to adapt the Debian Jessie base and port all the changes and fixes already applied for Linux Mint 17.x on top of Trusty. This should take a week or two and we might be in a position to open up a BETA some time in February and to start welcoming feedback from people interested in helping us test this new distribution. Similar to Linux Mint 17.x, LMDE 2 'Betsy' will be using the traditional sysvinit. The move to systemd could happen with Linux Mint 18 and LMDE 3, giving this new technology and the Linux ecosystem 2 years (or more) to mature and to iron out integration and compatibility issues. Cinnamon in particular is built without systemd support by default and the development team is planning to change this in version 2.6 to give the DE the ability to switch at runtime between systemd and consolekit/upower without the need to recompile anything." -- Clem, blog.linuxmint.com Jan 16, 2015

  12. Re:The credibility of science? on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    Wrong, you make up nonsense. The problem is carbs, manly sugars. That leads to insulin resistance and obesity. Intake fats are not involved at all. That is what serious peer reviewed science tells.

  13. Re:this is why people balk at climate change on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 1

    Addressing problem in 5 decades will be fine, really.

  14. Re:Paper is The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 1

    No, they're just making words. The real solution will be very different, and not decided by the government.

  15. Re:Still going strong on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 2

    You are funny, what with Amazon selling 10 packs of film in 35mm rolls, 4x5, 120mm.....and plenty of labs on the net to ship for development. Lots of photographers still into it and likely doing both film and digital.

  16. Paper is The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In 1894, it was realized by 1945 the streets of London would be under NINE FEET of horse manure, and no solution was in sight. There was the very first international urban planning convention four years later in NYC, that had to give up as unsolvable problem of how and where to transport and put all that horse shit!

    That way we live like maggots now in the big cities, burrowing through equine feces packed a hundred feet deep....oh wait, something changed everything.

  17. Re:this is why people balk at climate change on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 1

    Yes, owners those airports are going to do nothing in the next 7 decades but sit on beach chairs pointing at the water going "OMG, it's coming, it's coming!"

  18. "Cartoonist Mistakes Dumbed-Down News for Science" on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 4, Insightful

    better headline, fixed that for you.

  19. Re:The credibility of science? on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not even that, Scott Adams doesn't know a scientist from a self-proclaimed and popular expert. Most our "health advice" would cause real scientists to look for all the peer reviewed experiments and compare findings. For example, a long held "truth": "too much salt is bad and gives you high blood pressure", has been found to be false for normal healthy people, and the proper controlled study for that only done recently.

  20. Re:Of course they should have a choice on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    Guess again on where many parents often chose to have their daugther's vacinations given when I was young, so there wouldn't be visible upsetting mark.

  21. Re:That was quick on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 1

    Except those pre-chosen tasks weren't real world projects; study proved that tasks selected by group with agenda could be performed best by the kind of group that tickled the researcher's fancy. Wake me up when one of those PC oh-so-diverse groups writes a kernel or other major open source project.

  22. Re:Memories on RadioShack Near Deal To Sell Half of Its Stores, Close the Rest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    weird, the Radio Shacks near me still have the hanging stock in back with the resistors, caps, LEDs, transformers, ICs, voltage regulators......sucks to be where you live, I guess.

  23. Re:PG-13 on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 1

    it's a religious term, Political Correctness, a cult dealing with denial of reality and normal human behavour, and rendering taboo certain lines of discussion that are needful for a proper functioning of society. Beware the adherents, they are racist while claiming to abhor racism, sexist while epitomizing superiority of one gender over another, and intolerant of main subcultures in their home land while ignoring evil practices of favored ones.

  24. Re:Yeah! on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Losing dead weight is very much a thing that helps the rocket equation, configuring a nuclear rocket like a chemical one and then needing tons of shielding is such a fallacy

  25. Re:Hold it --- women lead in degress, after all. on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 1

    Logic has nothing to do with groups of people with agenda and chip on their shoulder. More female teachers by far than male too, but no one is pushing for males in education, the femi-nazis don't like competition and a level playing field, they want superiority.