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  1. Re:Thunderbird too on An Open Source Pitfall? Mozilla Labs Closed, Quietly · · Score: 1

    thunderbird doesn't need any new features, works fine and only needs patches (which are still done)

    That's the ideal kind of living software.

    Somehow people have the wrong idea that needless feature churning and color scheme changes are needed and the norm.

  2. Re:Huh? on Mystery Signal Could Be Dark Matter Hint In ISS Detector · · Score: 4, Informative

    The hypothetical "neutralino" is a family of four particles the lightest of which is considered to be a dark matter candidate. Neutralinos are their own antiparticles (similar to how photons are), and a pair of them can sometimes annihilate to form other matter-antimatter pairs of particles.

  3. Re:No, It Won't on New Study Projects World Population of 11B by 2100 · · Score: 1

    especially since their saying africa is what throws estimates off. news for them, population will not outgrow food and water supply. looking at 2nd derivative of population grow is better tool, we'll reach 8.5 billion around 2075 and then decline. problem solved.

  4. Re:As a hobby yes, as a job NO on Ask Slashdot: How To Pick Up Astronomy and Physics As an Adult? · · Score: 2

    there is more than traditional astronomy, cosmology and astrophysics have teaching jobs, and the various national labs have job openings

  5. Re:Please See: on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    The only thing false is how you selectively link to a site that ADMITS CO2 follows warming, they even try linking to shady study that tries to arm wave that away:

    http://www.skepticalscience.co...

  6. Re: real computer systems? on US Military Aware Only Belatedly of Chinese Attacks Against Transport Contractor · · Score: 1

    oh, but for 9/11 those agencies really were watching the perps to see what they would do. And we all saw what they did.

  7. Re:Yes, Voyager on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: 1

    we're just joking; lighten up, Francis

  8. real computer systems? on US Military Aware Only Belatedly of Chinese Attacks Against Transport Contractor · · Score: 0, Troll

    were these merely successful attacks against Windows machines, or were the systems running a real operating system?

  9. Just now they're getting virtual desktops? on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 1

    The Amiga had virtual desktops in 1985.

  10. Re:One of the best programmers I've known had a BA on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    I know so very many people in IT with degrees, in pre-law, history, theology, psychology, teaching, economics that I think the question is humorous. The positions held including development, admin, system architecture, management, operations.

  11. Re:Please See: on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    absolutely false, look it up, in ancient times CO2 increase followed global warming

  12. Re:Yes, Voyager on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: 2

    You're close, Voyager was so that both copies of that godawful song were flung out of the solar system to the stars.

  13. Re:Not always on Sci-Fi Authors and Scientists Predict an Optimistic Future · · Score: 1

    many people inspired Van Braun: http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/v...

  14. Re:Please See: on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    If your poorly constructed argument were correct, then the Earth's temperature would be increasing year upon year. However it is not, as the warmest year in recent records is 1998. We know from the fossil record that increased carbon dioxide levels are a response to global warming, not a driver

  15. Re:RIP, you cold cypherpunk on Hal Finney, PGP and Bitcoin Pioneer, Dies At 58 · · Score: 1

    No, brain death is the legal criteria. Cessation of heartbeat is NOT a consideration. Research the phrase "beating heart cadaver" which is medical technique sometimes used to preserve organs prior to transplant.

    Those people were dead, meaning brain dead. No hope of recovery or ressurection.

  16. Re:As a FreeBSD user on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 1

    "Linux users" haven't chosen systemd. Instead some young ignorant and inexperienced hobby users with no understanding of proper engineering or the Unix Way imagine a convenient service that might be of benefit to those desktop or mobile users with no sysadmin skills, should be a standard for server systems.

    Serious system admins shun and mock systemd as needlessly complicated and bloated mess.

  17. Re: Er? on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Because people who prefer OpenBSD want to run Windows software on it? You are hilarious; in fact OpenBSD developers were chatting a bit about scrapping the Linux compat mode in the newsgroup recently since there is little demand or reasno for that

  18. oblig. Futurama quote on Intel Unveils MICA "My Intelligent Communication Accessory" Smart Bracelet · · Score: 3, Funny

    "This thing I wear on my wrist says they're not poisonous" -- Leela

  19. Re:bummer on White House Names Google's Megan Smith As CTO · · Score: 0

    not Bush's fault a damn hurricane showed up and spoiled that tried and true means of appointing cronies. You have to admit that vacant "deer in headlights" look Brownie had while corpses floated behind him in the street was priceless. Community activism is almost as good a criteria, can't wait to find out if Obama really wants to destroy ISIS or just "manage" them, or maybe just continue to tease us with the waffling.

  20. Re:And do you know what caused THAT? on Cause of Global Warming 'Hiatus' Found Deep In the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Winning? Losing, this admission is that models were useless, shameful the billions of dollars and euros wasted on climate models that are a farce. Finally there is hope of producing a rational model and decent science instead of the agenda driven propaganda of the IPCC

  21. Re:Hiatus? When? on Cause of Global Warming 'Hiatus' Found Deep In the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Be careful of multi-year averaged graphs; they are useful but the reality is 1998 was the hottest year on record. After that many near-record years happened, moreso in past. But the point is global average temperature has not been increasing year after year. Today's article is first intelligent thing I've ever seen on Slashdot in a year on climate change; most people just ape the more hysterical claims of the IPCC and their ilk.

  22. metric tons, thanks for clarifying on Giant Dinosaur Unearthed In Argentina · · Score: 4, Funny

    A creature weighing 59 short tons of course would be wimpy and easily bullied and not at all impressive.

  23. Re:Better idea on How the Ancient Egyptians (Should Have) Built the Pyramids · · Score: 1

    Not useless, important concepts taught from it at the time, for example action and reaction. It was a physics experiment

  24. Re:RIP, you cold cypherpunk on Hal Finney, PGP and Bitcoin Pioneer, Dies At 58 · · Score: 0

    No worries, cryopreserved people are dead forever. They will not and can not be revived and the industry is a scam going on for now 47 years. I'll bet some of those early adopters thought they'd be thawed and "cured" (nevermind they died before freezing) by now. suckers.

  25. Re:Ineffective advertising on Dell's New Alienware Case Goes to Extremes To Prevent Overheating · · Score: 1

    Wow, festooning a computer case with weeds harmful to grains, to bring it apart. That's very novel compared to something as mundane as tearing one apart.