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  1. Re:Ukrainian hackers? on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 1

    Or Russian Wodka. It would give them a good excuse to take over Ukraine by accident - sorry wrong turn!

    They've already used that excuse, without the vodka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_S-363

  2. Editing? Verbs? on Earth Barely Dodged Solar Blast In 2012 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Coronal mass ejections, with in 2012, according to researchers.

    Yea, researchers for the win. According to grammar researchers (with in 2014), no verbs in this sentence either!

  3. Examines government use of a truth drug.

    Bonus: Wikipedia links to a full digital English translation

  4. Dark on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Cover all the windows
    2) Passengers on high-class limo travel in the dark
    3) Install an infrared camera
    4) Sell film to adult and/or paparazzi websites
    5) $$$PROFIT$$$

  5. Re:Mc Donalds have beaten them on Scientists Create Pizza That Can Last Years · · Score: 1

    So does this mean that McDonalds will now be able to serve pizza?

  6. Re:On a TV show on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 1

    It's running the Matrix!

  7. Re:The hard part on Building an Open Source Nest · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, the hard part is writing a summary that doesn't leave the reader lost and perplexed at the third word.

  8. Re:Acronym abuse on Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value? · · Score: 1

    Those who put check-marks next to items on SOWs

    I assume you mean the first item on this list?

    At least the use of upper case let you assume that the items in question aren't attached on the backs of female swine.

  9. Re:People use outlook? on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 1

    TFA quotes the e-mail:

    In the rare case you do need Outlook, like adding a delegate for your calendar, you can still fire up Outlook for 30 seconds.

    Is that feature so important that it has to mentioned? It certainly doesn't seem like it should be months of work to add it to the in-house webmail client if Outlook can do it! I'd certainly press for having the feature added to the in-house solution *before* sending out an e-mail lambasting employees for not using it!

    What I find really funny is that Zimbra belonged to Yahoo, and Zimbra definitely can add a delegate to a calendar.

  10. Bernanke and Bitcoin on Meet the 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Searching for Ben Bernanke brings up as first news "BERNANKE: Bitcoin 'May Hold Long-Term Promise'
    Business Insider - 4 hours ago
    Ben Bernanke sort of endorses Bitcoin."

    Do you think he knew of the bounty?

  11. Not on your end on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're really being DOS'ed with more bytes per second than your little DSL can take, there isn't much you can do to mitigate it on your side. Either your ISP helps out, or you change your IP and they *don't* find your new one (how are they finding it?), or you make them stop (fat chance).

  12. Re:Just unprofessional. on Azerbaijan Election Results Released Before Voting Had Even Started · · Score: 1

    Lucky you don't have any elections this week!

  13. Re:the text is incorrect on French Police To Switch 72,000 Desktop PCs To Linux · · Score: 1

    Gendarmerie are not military police. They are not part of the French army. They are uniformed police.

    Wrong, see previous comments. To put paid to the discussion, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie has it right: "a military force charged with police duties among civilian populations", which is the case in France. There is also non-military police (uniformed or not depending on assignment and rank and whatever), and the French territory is carved up between these two police forces, mainly Gendarmerie in the countryside and Police Nationale in cities and towns (plus municipal police which do not have the same rights, usually not armed, etc.)

    I remember some gendarmes were already using OpenOffice (or something similar) over ten years ago, I've found references to an official announcement of migration to Openoffice in 2005, and to Ubuntu in 2010, so this is just the latest step.

  14. Re:GNOME: We don't want Microsoft to have all the on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    vi and clones have 26 named buffers + 9 delete buffers + 1 yank buffer. I actually remember one day using up some 10 named buffers. I have one mouse buffer that works everywhere and one Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V that only works in certain programs.

    I've read through the wiki page linked, and sure, they have a point, even several points. At least one won't have to use Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to copy (imagine the havoc in a terminal). However, it all falls down on the fact that I *like* having two distinct buffers, and that I *want* to paste with a single click.

    I also want focus-follows-mouse (I managed to do that in Gnome), and I'm extremely annoyed that when I click-to-select or click-to-paste(!) in a window Gnome seems to think that I also want the window to go to the front (never did manage to correct that in Gnome, but it was a breeze in KDE). I've yet to try out XFCE et al.

  15. Re:Averages on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    What's interesting is that they chased a lot of people off their island (most of whom went to Brazil)

    A lot went to Peru. That brought the world Nikkei cuisine, and the world is thankful.

  16. Averages on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 4, Funny

    So in 20 years, the average age went up by 11 years. That probably simply means that living in your mom's basement is not immediately dangerous to your health.

  17. Re:We can... on IBM Takes System/z To the Cloud With COBOL Update · · Score: 2

    Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

    You sure about that? I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the people using COBOL are the same people who pay insane amounts of money for a backup site thousands of miles away and offsite backups in nuke-proof shelters. If you want to get rid of COBOL, make something better. A nuke certainly won't do it.

  18. Re:Anyone? on IBM Takes System/z To the Cloud With COBOL Update · · Score: 1

    In my company I'd be very surprised if the mean age of the COBOL developers is over 35. But yes, of course, I work in a bank.

  19. What about the IP on Ask Slashdot: How To Track a Skype Account Hijacker? · · Score: 1

    Won't Skype tell you the IP that was used by the thief?

  20. The equivalent exists in France since 1978. There are quite heavy fines and even prison terms for inappropriate collection and use of personal data. There's even been at least one spammer convicted on the grounds that his use of a list of e-mails constituted illicit use of infringing data.

  21. Re:Density calculation? on Graphene Aerogel Takes World's Lightest Material Crown · · Score: 2

    TFA says it's "very strong and extremely elastic, bouncing back after being compressed". The application they project is swabbing up oil spills, but there have to be lots and lots of other applications out there.

  22. Re:I'd believe it if you added the word "solid" on Graphene Aerogel Takes World's Lightest Material Crown · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, it should be possible to make it less squishy (carbon makes diamonds, after all). Cover it with some other graphene variant in low pressure, and one just might manage to make a lighter-than-air solid. I'd avoid the torch, though.

  23. Re:Deep Hot Biosphere on Microbes Likely Abundant Hundreds of Meters Below Sea Floor · · Score: 1

    For fiction about intelligence under the sea, try Franz Schätzing's The Swarm: http://www.amazon.com/Swarm-Novel-Frank-Schatzing/dp/0060859806

  24. So can we have the list of things to do? on EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures · · Score: 2

    Over inflating tires maybe not, but taping over panel gaps for -10% in fuel would interest a lot of people.

  25. Re:Who is Adam Clark Estes? on Did Google Tip Off EU About Microsoft Browser Ballot? · · Score: 1

    Who is Adam Clark Estes? I'd really like to know, because his "article" reads like it was written like a 5-year-old.

    At five, it is true that children usually do not know the difference between "its" and "it's". I tried to parse "down" as "party-time" before my eyes went back and decided there shouldn't be a verb before "competitor". I thought it was the submitter, but it's from the TFA.