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  1. Re:backup for 911 on Software Glitch Caused 911 Outage For 11 Million People · · Score: 1

    use your brain, you have no point

  2. Re:Largest single emitter of CO2 on Earth? on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 1

    There are and were nuclear powered commercial vessels, but using reactor tech that requires expensive maintenance, wouldn't scale up.

    There are self-contained reactors with 25 year service life that would be ideal

  3. backup for 911 on Software Glitch Caused 911 Outage For 11 Million People · · Score: 5, Informative

    have your local police and fire phone numbers in your cell phone and posted next to your land line.

  4. Re:Largest single emitter of CO2 on Earth? on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 1

    Power producing fusion reactors don't exist in this world, internal combustion engines do. Businesses aren't going to wait for magical farting unicorn, we live in the present. Intelligent alternative energy might be sail assist

  5. Re:Give it a name first on Ask Slashdot: Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    then it deserves to die. either step up and swing the bat or fuck off.

  6. Re:Systematic bias, but also something else on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    or you're being silly, and boys and girls on average really do have different interests naturally even if there is a certain percentage of exceptions.

  7. Re:Using emacs to edit code on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 1

    Someone made fun of your mediocre operating system with the crappy editor

  8. Re:Unity is rubbish. Systemd is rubbish on Ubuntu Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    Mint has achieved some mainstream success, non-geeks use it and like it. I haven't abandoned it yet, so answer is "probably not if Clem and the team keep paying attention to user needs and wants", which is totally the opposite of Ubuntu philosophy

  9. Re:Voting Machines on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Someone would have to check if dead people were getting tickets, early and often

  10. Re:Largest single emitter of CO2 on Earth? on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 1

    Coal in power plants is still the biggest sulphur offender, dwarfs the ship's contribution

  11. Re:Largest single emitter of CO2 on Earth? on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The world's 15 largest ships do emit more sulfur than all the world's automobiles. http://www.gizmag.com/shipping...

    However for carbon dioxide they only emit a third as much as all the world's cars.

  12. Re:Unity is rubbish. Systemd is rubbish on Ubuntu Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    Oh, people are turning against Linux Mint? Last I checked, they were abandoning Ubuntu for that, and for good reasons.

  13. Re:Pseudoscience Lunacy on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    Nothing dubious about IQ. Many people don't like it because there are racial differences in averages and so they try to denounce it, but that's merely emotional response to something that doesn't fit their made up world view. Funny some people in the past would attempt to explain low IQ scores of certain groups because of claim that "culture was different", but then foreign immigrants from certain lands scored high without the cultural background claimed to produce unfair advantage.

  14. Re:Is there no commandline? on ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards · · Score: 1

    Wrong, Stallman made that up. Android userland normally doesn't have that GNU stuff though it can be added. There are distros with BSD userland and Linux kernel.

  15. Re:Embrace, extend and extinguish on ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards · · Score: 1

    you don't have to use ext3 or ext4 with any common linux distro, they support XFS and JFS and grub can boot from them

  16. Re:Is there no commandline? on ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards · · Score: 1

    Last I checked the quality of living and technological progress was entirely due to those markets and companies. Remember, it doesn't matter what some lone individual invents, it takes manufacturing and distribution so you can actually have something.

      No company has to bleed money to provide features less than 1% of users would use.

    And in this case, anyone can put Debian or Ubuntu userland on a chromebook, or mount alternative filesystems with a little work. Fucking lazy whiners is the only issue here.

  17. Re:Made up "facts" on The Cult of Elon Musk Shines With Steve Jobs' Aura · · Score: 1

    link to the EPA in my other post trumps your rag, you lose

  18. Re:Really? on Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism · · Score: 1

    you are full of shit, the important stuff is not on windows and the infrastructure of the internet is not built using window

  19. Re:as the birds go on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 1

    not at all, this is well known biology fact of birds in the wild. Tough life being a bird

  20. Re:as the birds go on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 2

    certain based on what facts?

    Half of all birds in the world die each year, that's a fact. Coal is not even on the list of what kills birds in this world, even if you imagine some avian cancer or mercury poisoning is caused by coal.

  21. Re:This on The Cult of Elon Musk Shines With Steve Jobs' Aura · · Score: 2

    Yes this.

    Standards were fixed? Irrelevant! They don't matter,the fuel economy of real vehicles in that time frame do. And reality shows the fuel economy of vehicles in the last 30+ years rising year after year:

    http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/si...

    The only thing "fixed" in that link is the fuel economy of *imports*

    The new standards are merely the auto industry road map, made by engineers and codified by Congress.

  22. Re:Designing to the minimum on The Cult of Elon Musk Shines With Steve Jobs' Aura · · Score: 2

    Wrong, *standards* don't matter, the actual fuel economy of U.S. vehicles has risen year after year in the last 30+ years. That fact destroys your argument, you made up a world view between your ears that has nothing to do with reality.

    Obama's (actually Congress) new standards came from the auto industry, it is their roadmap. Your hero politicians accomplished nothing.

  23. Re:Embrace, extend and extinguish on ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards · · Score: 1

    nothing was extinguished, those who are not lazy gits can mount any Linux supported filesystem. But more than 99% of people don't want nor need to do that.

      No business has to waste time or money to support a weird niche market and a technically inferior and badly designed filesystem such as ext2 or 3. Filesystem design is not one of Linus' strong suits. Linux users should stop using the ext family, grub supports superior alternatives.

  24. Re:For those who said "No need to panic" on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 0

    Much money is already being spent, no real "spreading" outside the countries where people are very, very foolish and do disgusting things that spread this disease.

    We should just cut off travel from those places, that doesn't take spending money.

  25. Re:Ebola obviously spreads more easily... on Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    nonsense, more likely contaminated objects were not properly isolated to sick area and not disposed of properly. Carelessness can get one maimed or killed in the real world.

    By the way, "not airborne" does not included someone sneezing or coughing droplets right on you.