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  1. Re:The spokesman for the AHA said... on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hindi is a language, Hinduism is the religion I think you meant. Hindi is spoken by many (not all) Indians, regardless of their religion.

  2. Re:Dear God on US Academy President Caught Embellishing Resume, Will Resign · · Score: 2

    I don't know whether to laugh or to weep. We really do need a 'Funny but Insightful and tragic' Mod.

  3. Re:Congrats on Launch of India's First Navigation Satellite Successful · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, satellites launch you, with help from Indian Tech support ?

  4. Re:3, 2, 1 on Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do realize that they were the ones who sold MySQL to Oracle in the first place, right ?

  5. Re:there's always Joda Time... on Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates · · Score: 1

    As a tech lead, that's the only mandate I've in place for our team. Always use joda time. ALWAYS.

  6. Re:I have a suggestion on Georgia Tech and Udacity Partner for Online M.S. in Computer Science · · Score: 2

    Yes, that's why most of the "Sanjay"s I see , drive around in BMWs, and Acuras, and Audis. Seriously try finding a single "Sanjay" imported in US, who works for those wages.

  7. Re:Pilot, Engineer, Professor .. A Real Role Model on Astronaut Neil Armstrong Has Died · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not just a role model for kids in USA, but all through out the world.
    For once here we have a true world hero.
    A million thanks Mr. Armstrong.

  8. Re:Only 53% of South Koreans claim any religion on South Korea Will Revisit Plan To Nix Evolution References in Textbooks · · Score: 1

    The only thing theyre "behind" in India / China is evangelism. Theyre not exactly the sorts of countries where you come out and say "hey Im a Christian"; the government and culture tend to look rather poorly on it.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_Christians#Government_and_Politics

  9. Re:Only 53% of South Koreans claim any religion on South Korea Will Revisit Plan To Nix Evolution References in Textbooks · · Score: 4, Informative

    American Evangelical churches have money to burn, and are mostly the ones, who are behind this sort of nonsense. This sort of stuff is happening in many other countries too, including India, China (albeit in deep secracy), and many other Asian/African countries.

  10. Re:Wow, atheist materialism? on South Korea Will Revisit Plan To Nix Evolution References in Textbooks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Atheist will twist theory to fit facts, and theist will rather twist facts to fit theories. Where does materialism come in to picture ?

  11. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And as a fellow Indian, let me correct you a bit....
    Everyone's a racist. It's just human nature, not some deep rooted evil as it is made out to be by politically correct people.

  12. Re:ZFS on Linux on Making ZFS and DTrace Work On Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting
    +1, After having used linux daily for more than 14 years, I have recently ventured in to the BSD land. And I like it a lot.

    If you've been playing in Linux land, and never bothered with any of the *BSD, do yourself a favor and install one of the BSDs in a VM. You'll not be disappointed.

  13. Re:KeepassX in a Dropbox folder on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Multi-User Password Management? · · Score: 1
    Okay, keepass could have a backdoor as well.

    Keepass is opensource, if a backdoor existed, it would have been found out , reported , and closed for good. That's what open source is good at.

  14. Wow on Getting the Most Out of SSH · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Wow, ssh tunneling, and a few command line options , and screen, that's your ultimate SSH guide ?
    I am impressed, not!

    How about
    - ssh master connection, for svn+ssh ?
    - ssh agent forwarding
    - opening ssh ports using knocking
    - auto blacklisting with something like sshblack

    I think the above are more advanced options than the ones mentioned in the article, no ?

  15. Re:Hope and Change on U.S. Gov't To Keep Data On Non-Terrorist Citizens For 5 Years · · Score: 2

    And replace him with an even more draconian one ?

  16. Re:Not an issue for Dropbox on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: 2

    Sigh, redundancy and backup are two completely different things. Don't believe me, delete a file from one of your dropbox synced PC, and see that file disappear from all the dropbox sync PC, when those PCs sync up.

  17. Negative comments on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 1, Insightful
    What's with all the negative comments ?
    My initial impression seems to be, this is very fast as compared to 7.0.1. Good work Firefox team, some of us still appreciate your hard work.

    Now only if my company would switch from the horrible HP Quality Center to Jira, I would be set.

  18. Pascal v/s C on Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than · · Score: 2
    When I first started learning Pascal, I had a real hard time wrapping my head around the concept of a Pointer, and struggled with pointers and related concepts like linked-lists etc. throught out the time I had to use Pascal. I was using the Schaum's book on Pascal.

    But under 'C' it felt somehow very natural and easy to understand, never had a problem with 'C' pointers, and data structures. R.I.P. DMR, your book really opened my eyes to the wonderful world of computing.

  19. Re:This is why I don't use facebook on Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants · · Score: 1

    Who modded this insightful ?
    As if every single person in the world has a unique name, that they can trademark and sue everyone else for using it without their consent...(unless you're named parah salin of course), Secondly are you supposed to monitor all social networking websites to check if some one else is using the same name as yours.

  20. Re:Ultrafast search and metadata filesystem on File Organization — How Do You Do It In 2011? · · Score: 1

    My only problem with Everything is that the at every boot I have to click YES on the UAC prompt. Really annoying.

  21. Re:X through SSH... on Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited · · Score: 1

    A lot of commercial software installations on Unix require a X session. e.g. Oracle. Not that I am condoning using X on servers, but sometimes it's a necessary evil. Secondly if you have memory overhead issues due to a few X sessions, may be it's time you took a good look at your infrastructure and consider an upgrade of equipment.

  22. Re:Eheh, been following the news lately? on China Views Internet As "Controllable" · · Score: 1

    No but it counterpoints fox news very nicely.

  23. Re:I second this, OpenGL and QT are both great. on What 2D GUI Foundation Do You Use? · · Score: 2, Informative
    About the only downside is that there aren't current C# or Java bindings for it.

    Umm... Qtjambi (QT's Java bindings) has been available for ages, although recently Nokia transferred the ownership to community, but from the looks of it, the community is very active and the releases are on track.

  24. Facebook invites ? on Google Challenges Facebook Over User Address Books · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good , now also block those annoying facebook invite emails and I'm a happy camper

  25. Vendor confusion on G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS · · Score: 1, Informative

    You mean HTC G2 ?