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  1. Re:No thanks Gnome on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    My goal is to have one computer running multiple interfaces. So when docked I want normal desktop linux, when in phone mode I want android.

  2. Re:Canonical's business model. on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Well the sysadmin should tell them No. They can install an X server on windows.

  3. Re:Legal on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    It is not a troll. It is an alternative.

    It does not matter if 100 of those spring up, once the price of bitcoins is too high there is a need for these to exist. There is no reason why more digital currency should not be minted.

  4. Re:Legal on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    Charging 100% mark up on gold is a scam. No reputable source does that.

    Marketing folks should take Bill Hicks sage advice.

    No, I have what is called morals and ethics, so I would never do that. Nor should others be allowed to take advantage of the elderly that way.

    Obamacare is not a scam, it might be ill advised but it is not a scam.

  5. Re:Legal on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    I never suggested gold in general was a scam. Just that the peddlers on FOX news were using it for one.

    So how much did you buy at over $1200/oz?

    If you want to invest in gold remember to compare it to platinum. When it costs more than that a correction is coming.

  6. Re:Legal on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    Not when you buy it at $1800 an oz and now it is down to $1336. Unless you are saying that is a sign of deflation. Gold like any other commodity has its ups and downs. There is no reason to suspect it will always be a good hedge against inflation. In hyper-inflation economies like Zimbabwe gold was worth comparatively little vs USD and Rand.

    I actually used Fox News because they were advertising it on that channel. It was that and some medicare scam type companies. I saw this at a doctors office in the middle of the day. I have never seen those ads on another 24 hours news channel.

    I am not sure how the president can set monetary policy, I think that is the Fed's job. He can select new governors for the board, but once appointed he is stuck with them. Bush selected Bernanke. Obama could select a new chairman but he is limited to those governors already appointed. The senate would have to confirm these though, so again not like he can demand change.

  7. Re:Filed a lawsuit, not arrested? on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    Because the mexican's won't extradite?

  8. Re:So 1000% annual return? on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    It does not matter if it worked out in their favor or not Ponzi schemes are illegal.

  9. Re:Legal on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    Which makes it no different than gold. Fox news talking heads were advertising shady gold companies during the commercials in their own shows.

  10. Re:Legal on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    They almost try to be though. What with mining paying early adopters more it has a bit of that.

    I think the shrinking supply of them and increasing price will lead to uptake for litecoin and its other competitors.

  11. Re:Representive Nugent? on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    I think that might also be due is thinly veiled threats to shoot the president. I believe he was also a birther, not sure on that last one. Which all of those are crazy since his mother being his mother was never disputed and as such he was a natural born US citizen.

  12. Re:Representive Nugent? on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 1, Informative

    Or maybe because he crapped his pants to get out of going to war.

    Real patriot there.

  13. Re:Sigh on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Non-Obnoxious Outdoor Lighting? · · Score: 1

    Preventing someone from practicing their hobby is surely damaging their quality of life.

    Light pollution has been a common phrase for a long time.

  14. Re:let me translate that into slashdotese: on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Non-Obnoxious Outdoor Lighting? · · Score: 1

    THAT'S THE JOKE!

  15. Re:No more SW Patents, but FW Patents.. yes on Nobelist Gary Becker Calls For an End To Software Patents · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why should firmware be any different?

    All your approach would lead too is software that requires a peripheral with some firmware in it to run.

  16. Re:Canonical's business model. on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Actually the default server CD. The Server alternate does what you are talking about.

  17. Re:No thanks Gnome on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    No real gain?
    Having the hundreds of thousands of applications available is no real gain?

    The entire point is to be able to hook up an external monitor and use it as a desktop. At that point you want a desktop interface.

  18. Re:Canonical's business model. on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    You can install X applications without full X. Then you run them remotely and X runs on the local machine instead of the server.

    Please tell me you just admin windows machines.

  19. Re:The reasons have disappeard. on Former WaPo Staffer Rob Pegoraro Talks About Newspapers' Decline (Video) · · Score: 1

    1. The papertowel you cleaned or seasoned your cast iron pan with.

    2. they sell really stuff for this at that pet store, likely cheaper than a modern newspaper.

    3. Internet

  20. Re:WANT on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    In 2010 that would not have been the fastest processor either. The specs were ho hum even then.

    I believe the GP was suggesting it today.

  21. Re:Canonical's business model. on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Last time we played around with getting service contracts for it we installed 10.04 and it had the splash boot, you could turn it off but that was a pretty bad sign.

    It also wanted to install X and a bunch of other horseshit that does not belong on a server. Since then I have played around with the alternate CD, but i am not sure they support that.

  22. Re:Time for TOP GUN 2 on US Air Force Reporting Pilot Shortage · · Score: 1

    I just figured no one with another opportunity would bother. Even going into the military there are better paying fields to deal with. That made me assume most just would not bother.

  23. Re:Time for TOP GUN 2 on US Air Force Reporting Pilot Shortage · · Score: 1

    Top 5% of what?
    I highly doubt the top 5% of any group apply to such academies. I am not disparaging their applicants, merely observing that these are not high paying positions most people know about or seek out.

    Needing nomination from a congress person again makes me doubt this top 5% thing. It sounds more like a way to keep these high prestige jobs for their friends and family.

  24. Re:No thanks Gnome on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a lot wrong with android.
    1. No good window managers, this means tiling and layering
    2. Sudo not built in
    3. Lack of normal linux desktop, including X. So I have to use VNC to get normal linux apps to display.
    4. lack of decent package management. This means repositories and debs/rpms. This means being able to support dependencies.

  25. Re:Looks nice but bridges burnt? on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Keys will not scratch a decent smartphone anyway. They are made of very soft metal. Gorilla glass is pretty brittle too. Harder than sand is what we need.