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  1. Re:be there, done that, barely survived... on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    RedHat Enterprise makes a poor desktop, too much tweaking needed. Ubuntu is better desktiop but the UI which is the main focus of the distro sucks ass. Why not go with Mint where they have good desktops (MATE, Cinnamon, and to somewhat lesser extent KDE) as focus

  2. Re:This guy supports it. on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    I"m an adult male and I can read between the lines. Google execs just want more available pussy in the workplace for their golden years.

  3. Re:Shoot The Moon! on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    you're committing the sin of Jules Verne which he later used as plot device in second part of his moon journey novel. A ballistic flight from gun inside the atmosphere will lose a great deal of energy to the atmosphere, and so projectile needs *more* velocity than a rocket continuing to accelerate to needed velocity outside the atmosphere

  4. Re:So is this evidence for or against Lisi's theor on LHCb Confirms Existence of Exotic Hadrons · · Score: 2

    Lisi's theory predicts fields and the kind of particles known as bosons, it's a field theory that hasn't even been refined enough to include quantization. It doesn't predict mass of particles either.

  5. Re:I don't understand the anger on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 1

    you should look at the stats of researchers with honeypots who break down the OS run, windows XP by far the greatest chunk of the pie

  6. Re:strange on LHCb Confirms Existence of Exotic Hadrons · · Score: 4, Informative

    it is believe to be made of quarks, but instead of the usual two or three it has four, c c_ d u_

    that means it has charge of negative one

  7. Re:So what is it made of? on LHCb Confirms Existence of Exotic Hadrons · · Score: 1

    they call those "tetraquarks" in particle physics,

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

  8. Re:Theo? on OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks · · Score: 1

    correct not their project but OpenBSD does use openssl and if you run OpenBSD 5.4 you can apply patch here:

    http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/Ope...

    5.3 here:
    http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/Ope...

    5.5 (to be released next month!) patch is here:
    http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/Ope...

  9. Re:Test your servers ... on OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks · · Score: 1

    works for some things but not this particular cisco ASA

    Connecting...
    Sending Client Hello...
    Waiting for Server Hello... ... received message: type = 22, ver = 0301, length = 74 ... received message: type = 22, ver = 0301, length = 3380 ... received message: type = 22, ver = 0301, length = 4
    Sending heartbeat request...
    Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "ssltest.py", line 136, in
            main()
        File "ssltest.py", line 133, in main
            hit_hb(s)
        File "ssltest.py", line 86, in hit_hb
            typ, ver, pay = recvmsg(s)
        File "ssltest.py", line 71, in recvmsg
            hdr = recvall(s, 5)
        File "ssltest.py", line 61, in recvall
            data = s.recv(remain)
    socket.error: [Errno 54] Connection reset by peer

  10. MaryAnne Wolfe has another problem on Online Skim Reading Is Taking Over the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    she just hasn't been reading quality books, so abilities grew rusty. The issue has nothing to do with the internet. I still read large well-written books and have no such issues, everyone else should do the same, it's good for your brain 8D

  11. Re:I don't understand the anger on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 1

    there are legions of old infected machines that are a nuisance to everyone, making botnets and spamnets and other malware infection injectors.

    A properly maintained and adminned XP machine won't be doing this, but less than 1% of people are competent enough to do that

  12. Re:obsolete on Seagate Releases 6TB Hard Drive Sans Helium · · Score: 2

    yes. as you will find out in a couple years, SSD are more reliable in the first 2-1/2 years, then they go to shit faster than hard drives after that.

  13. Re:internet sminternet on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    it's a joke, He creates them with curiosity, they finally evolve enough to make a LHC, then the look on their faces when they make a quark star out of their system - priceless!

  14. Re:British phone box in Summary? on A New Robo-Soldier Will Test Chemical Warfare Suits · · Score: 1

    and why is that TARDIS red hot?

  15. Re:it's false on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 1

    there is bullshit, it is between your ears.

    what are you running, an old IBM pizza box with 30 bios devices to scan?

  16. internet sminternet on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    I'm blaming hard science fiction for myself.

    led to interest and hobbies and then career in science and engineering.

  17. Re:And next up, they claim to have cured cancer. on "Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology · · Score: 1

    correction, the claim was "we treatment that nearly cures cancer".

    have your checkbook ready, get it at the ground floor!

  18. it's false on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 1

    I tested and windows had no substantial improvement booting from SSD, nor working on my usual apps. Windows must do a lot of writing during boot compared to most OS.

    Linux benefited tremendously, from 90 second boot to 13 seconds. Usual apps were loading in less than three seconds.

     

  19. Re:Shocked and saddened on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    no, not a modest amount of effort at all. Pushing bill through current Congress from subcommittee to passing is like rolling boulder uphill. A Herculean effort.

  20. Re:while we're playing God. on Department of Transportation Makes Rear View Cameras Mandatory · · Score: 1

    driven by Johnny Cab?

  21. Re:And so this is Costco's fault? on Million Jars of Peanut Butter Dumped In New Mexico Landfill · · Score: 1

    smuckers makes "no salt" versions of their natural peanut butters. Ingredients: 100% peanuts

  22. Re:And so this is Costco's fault? on Million Jars of Peanut Butter Dumped In New Mexico Landfill · · Score: 1

    pure peanut butter has some weird properties the average U.S. consumer might not like.

    that said, it's awesome

  23. Re:Perhaps this is insurance for FB on How Facebook and Oculus Could Be a Great Combination · · Score: 1

    You underestimate the marketing scum: just as with all the sites with the FB logo, of occulus will require you to have FB account with your real name

  24. Re:Enough with the Climate Change Articles Slashdo on Famous Paintings Help Study the Earth's Past Atmosphere · · Score: 2

    the climate has never been "stable" on this globe. We are not in an "ice age", you'll notice the lack of kilometer or two of ice over N. America. We are in an "interglacial" that is 12,000 years old, and that has nothing to do with humans. All that time the sea level has been rising, and if you look it up charts you'll see even the rate of rise for much of that time has been much faster than today's rate

    Really, get a grip on your imagined phobias.

  25. Re:Shop smart on Famous Paintings Help Study the Earth's Past Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    and people with halos, which might have been an early form of what we now call a glowstick, bent into circle and levitating above the wearers head by yet unknown means.