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  1. Re:"open source nature of Autodesk's platform" ??? on Autodesk Unveils 3d Printer As It Aims To Become Industry's Android · · Score: 1

    you are funny, AutoDesk has 85% market share, they are the de factor standard. The are certainty The Relevant ones. The cost of their software is nothing to the companies that use them to make millions to billions a year in profits.

    The open source CAD alternatives are crap, sad to say. There is no credible threat to AutoDesk on the horizon for at least the next decade

  2. Re:Allow me to introduce folks to the bell curve on Orca Identified As 103 Years Old · · Score: 1

    yes, there is one more thing that needs to be said. here is a second bell curve, looks very much like your bell curve, but it isn't the same one.

  3. the evidence for universes age is much stronger than for that than the assumptions about the existence of black holes, we only know there are massive objects, and quantum mechanics may not allow the formation of black holes

  4. Re:repressive regime, ha on The Fight To Uncover Spyware Exports To Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    sure, but the UK first did cruder approximations, e.g. chasing after electrician on his commute to work, knocking him down, and shooting him in the head

  5. Re:What does this mean? on Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP · · Score: 1

    well known to hams, and those who listen to shortwave, and those who try to listen to stations far away that normally can't be heard (used to be called DXers, maybe they still are) the ionospheres properties change by day and night, by seasons, by geomagnetic and solar activity.

    HAARP explored those changes and propagation, and also changes by injecting RF into ionsphere (on a tiny, tiny scale compared to natural forces)

  6. Re:repressive regime, ha on The Fight To Uncover Spyware Exports To Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    I think the UK tests oppressive tactics before being deployed in the USA, kind of like oppression beta version test site.

  7. Re:Isn't it a bit ironic on Samsung Apologizes For Workers' Leukemia · · Score: 1

    there are less deaths caused by digging other natural substances out of the ground?

  8. repressive regime, ha on The Fight To Uncover Spyware Exports To Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    Many here consider the UK an oppressive regime

  9. of course, we don't even know that black holes exist, quantum gravity might preclude it, or dense enough matter instead forms quark stars, q stars, preon star, etc. instead of black hole. Care should be taken to see if one of these alternatives to black holes can be detected by GRAVITY findings

    we don't know wormholes exist, certain solutions to General Relativity have them but again we don't know if physically possible to form.

  10. Re: KDE 3 on KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace · · Score: 1

    more awesome at what, eye candy?

  11. Re:KDE 3 on KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace · · Score: 0

    no, squatting and pinching off one plasmoid in the punch bowl pretty much means everyone forgets whatever good time they had at the party up to that point

  12. Re:What advantages? on OpenRISC Gains Atomic Operations and Multicore Support · · Score: 1

    You have not even answered the question with all your ranting and hot air. Again, what problem does an open source CPU format solve? I cannot think of a one, my open source software works fine on x86, sparc, MIPS, ARM7 (and anyone interested can get the specs for most of those architectures). I'll even make a claim that open specs are good enough for a CPU, irrelevant whether the particular mask patterns are known.

  13. Re:It probably depends on... on Your Old CD Collection Is Dying · · Score: 1

    depends on the manufacturer, my USA made ones from 1980s are fine. some of my wife's asian made ones have died, but she's moved on to file based media anyway

  14. Re:Too Many Comments from the Basement on 7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated · · Score: 1

    but articles like this should mention the truth that half the people in this world do not have mobile devices at all

  15. Re:What advantages? on OpenRISC Gains Atomic Operations and Multicore Support · · Score: 1

    oh? what problem does it solve?

  16. misleading on 7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated · · Score: 1

    about half the world's population has at least one mobile device. about half have zero mobile devices. Of course, you see shithead-targeting stats like "six billion people have access to a mobile device", which means exactly nothing.

  17. Re:Guy who makes $150K a year... on Ask Slashdot: Minimum Programming Competence In Order To Get a Job? · · Score: 1

    you are wrong about the Java EE jobs for over $100K, we certainly have those where I work. Those are with 7+ years on the big EE platforms such as WebSphere or WebLogic on machines that handle money. Yes, the work is complex, tedious and boring as fuck.

  18. Re:Wayland on OpenBSD 5.5 Released · · Score: 1

    no it doesn't, just X

    so far wayland has less features than X, but who knows about the future

  19. Re:Mathmatics is the single most important field on Mathematicians Push Back Against the NSA · · Score: 1

    more likely math was made to solve barter and wealth issues

  20. Re:wtf, sabotage of a diesel engine? on Security At Nuclear Facilities: Danger Likely Lurks From Within · · Score: 1

    don't worry, you can't. that's in the realm of Hollywood and TV bullshit, not reality.

  21. Re:Mathmatics is the single most important field on Mathematicians Push Back Against the NSA · · Score: 1

    you're confused, the materials we us don't exist in nature; they come first, and then much later the maths. bronze and steel made long before anyone did shear, moment, displacement calculations using them. buildings with wood and stone and mortar existed long before we did analysis of structures. with just math we'd have nothing.

  22. Re:"Still in use by the US military" on U-2 Caused Widespread Shutdown of US Flights Out of LAX · · Score: 1

    they used to do that

  23. Re:Heartbleed not fixed in 5.5 by default on OpenBSD 5.5 Released · · Score: 1

    by "automatic" I mean you type in pkg_add -u and it then updates all packages that have updates

  24. Re:Heartbleed not fixed in 5.5 by default on OpenBSD 5.5 Released · · Score: 1

    some caveats, that only does i386 and amd64. the package manager in openbsd automatically updates packages anyway, as for the openbsd binaries despite what that mtier.org says it's very simple and fast to update, in less than four minutes I had applied all outstanding patches to a system I brought up today.

  25. Re:"Man who invented Linux" - nonsense. on Linus Torvalds Receives IEEE Computer Pioneer Award · · Score: 1

    you know nothing of software development, and so spew ignorant tripe. Linus *invented* software to a specification (a pile of headers and expected behaviors). That is the hard part, any moron can read posix specs (doubtful you could even do that)

    Unix had to work on pre-existing hardware too.