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  1. Re:The solution to the Linux email clients questio on Darling: Run Apple OS X Binaries On Linux · · Score: 2

    even more awesome, we can now run Outlook for Mac on Linux! standard at my work, it sucks even worse and harder than outlook on windows

  2. Re:Hardware Requirement: 24 GB RAM on Spaun: a Large-Scale Functional Brain Model · · Score: 1

    I agree Python is a wonderful language, and of course ForTran (the most optimzable language for number crunching) libraries can be faster than java's in some cases.

    Being old, I spelled the name meaning FormulaTranslation the old way for amusement.

  3. Re:Health and safety? on How Peer1 Survived Sandy · · Score: 1

    most people killed in fires initially sucumb to smoke inhalation. and you're worried about the fucking stairwell materials.....

  4. Re:Hardware Requirement: 24 GB RAM on Spaun: a Large-Scale Functional Brain Model · · Score: 1

    you imagine python is faster than java at common scientific computational tasks? it's about 20 to 50 times slower

  5. Re:My mind is melting. on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    we're talking about the FBI in Saipan, the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. no surprise they wouldn't be cyber experts nor have one, and that the parent would just take a school's laptop to a computer shop for a wipe before returning it to school. not a government computer, not U.S. government concern.

  6. Re:Hah! on IPv6 Deployment Picking Up Speed · · Score: 1

    what kind of obsolete junk do you have on your home network. the concerns are the same as with an ISP. use encrypted traffic for things you care about, firewall ports you care about at the tunnel endpoint. it's easy, everything in my house runs IPV6 and IPV4 with no issues and no increased security risk over IPV4 via ISP

  7. Re:You are not Nintendo's target market on Hackers Discover Wii U's Processor Design and Clock Speed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the hardcore bleeding edge gamers I know build their own PC for > $3K

  8. read what you cut and paste on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    did you read the footnote #2 at the end of the words "damnable doctrine"

    2. Mrs Darwin annotated this passage (from "and have never since doubted"... to "damnable doctrine") in her own handwriting. She writes: -- "I should dislike the passage in brackets to be published. It seems to me raw. Nothing can be said too severe upon the doctrine of everlasting punishment for disbelief -- but very few now wd. call that 'Christianity,' (tho' the words are there.) There is the question of verbal inspiration comes in too. E.D." Oct 1882. This was written six months after her husband's death, in a second copy of the Autobiography in Francis's handwriting. The passage was not published. -- N.B.

  9. Re:I disagree. on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    children can be taught about the various religions in "social studies" and "history" classes,

  10. Re:What if.... on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 2

    that view makes God a liar, deceiver and prankster. Especially the bit where light from stars that never existed have light waves from their explosions hitting earth right now.

  11. U.S. christians and muslims and jews -not issue on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most educated christians and muslims and Jews have no problem with evolution, despite the stereotypes thrown about on slashdot by people obsessed with a certain minority. While establishing his theory of evolution, and for many years after Charles Darwni himself continued to be a practicing Christian

  12. Re:Hah! on IPv6 Deployment Picking Up Speed · · Score: 1

    hard? sudo apt-get install miredo

    or get a free account with tunneling broker, maybe six steps to set up your whole house with one of your machines supplying tunnel and addresses for the others.

    my AT&T DSL supports IPv6 too, but with the broker I get static addresses

  13. Re:I love cinnamon but only in food on Fedora Adds MATE and Cinnamon Desktops to Main Repository, Releases Beta · · Score: 2

    blah blah blah I made a mistake and I'm blaming cinnamon blah blah blah

  14. Re:Fired? on Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team · · Score: 1

    TomTom said, "don't ask steve-steve, he's dead as a nail-nail."

  15. Re:GlovePIE on Ask Richard Stallman Anything · · Score: 1

    your terrorist is my freedom fighter. your traitors to the crown are my country's Founding Fathers.....

  16. Re:you can get rid of it yourself on Companies Getting Rid of Reply-all · · Score: 1

    in the corporate world, we're talking about MIcrosoft Outlook + Exchange. What rule would discriminate the "reply-all"?

  17. Re:correct me if i'm wrong? on FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom · · Score: 1

    news for you, they can step onto your property and claim they were in "hot pursuit" or had "probable cause". if they have it in for you, you're fucked. there's a reason we called them "pigs" back in the day....

  18. Re:Sources of improvements? on A.I. Advances Through Deep Learning · · Score: 1

    we already had the analog / bio version, Cheney's and mega-corporate's meat puppet. But now we've upgraded to Barack the Empty Suit, another mega-corporate bitch.

  19. Re:Mod me troll but on The Internet Has Transformed Modern Divorce · · Score: 1

    gay marriages don't last longer, and there is more "cheating", at least according to the few studies done in Netherlands.

  20. Re:not so sure about the sound analogy on The White Noise of Smell · · Score: 1

    I too am one of those males that has hearing extending above the normal human high range described as belonging to "children and some young women". I grew up hearing the scream of 17.5kHz flyback transformers in TV, but now it is the 20-25kHz ballast in more than half of the flourescent bulbs that annoys the hell out of me. I'm 48 years old

  21. Re:Sources of improvements? on A.I. Advances Through Deep Learning · · Score: 4, Insightful

    no, that first sentence pretty much sums up digital neural nets over two decades ago. So more likely the over two orders magnitude processing power per chip improvement since then, with addressable memory over three orders magnitude bigger....

  22. drop in the bucket on Using Winemaking Waste For Making Fuel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    so the 100,000 tons, times 2000 pounds per ton, divided by 13 (as per article only half the yield of dry corns 26 lbs. per gallon ethanol), gives 15 million gallons of ethanol. the USA uses 380 million gallons of gasoline per day.

  23. Re:What the fuck are you going on about? on Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS? · · Score: 1

    false, Windows Embedded is a real-time operating system, not the same as the desktop. and Windows Mobile is yet another one. If you are going to be a microsoft shill, get some facts straight.

  24. Re:What the fuck are you going on about? on Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS? · · Score: 1

    1988 called, they want your tired old tale back.

  25. Re:School is worthless... on Ask Slashdot: Is Going To a Technical College Worth It? · · Score: 1

    law degree & passing bar will get you unemployment here in chicago. hundreds of those people compete for $45K a year job opening. going to take them a awhile to pay off $250K+ in school debt....