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  1. Re:Isls de los dadrones on Atlas of US Historical Geography Digitized · · Score: 1

    Considering it was taken off the native Americans, all of the modern Americas could be described as that... ;-)

  2. Re:Dreaming of code? on The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer · · Score: 1

    On top of that, it's a relative measure, as employees are comparing with their peers at their current job

    You obviously live in the US. I've received a pretty hostile reaction here in the UK any time I've ever tried to even suggest asking how much someone else at my company earns.

  3. Re:Not going go down well on UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source · · Score: 1

    This is why when an official entity, like the UK gov, goes for OpenOffice, ie something open, that will push companies to do the same.

    What's the latest thinking on this, Slashdot crowd? Is it still better to get LibreOffice than OOo, or has OOo gotten better again?

  4. Poor Hiroshima on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 0

    Looks like his account got nuked.

  5. Re:squashed eyeballs on The Human Body May Not Be Cut Out For Space · · Score: 1

    Or maybe just *not* having gravity drag your eyeball the wrong way?

  6. Re:Nuclear dangers... on Megatons To Megawatts Program Comes To a Close · · Score: 1

    So little uranium needs to actually be mined for IFR fuel (not to mention the fact that there's a load of nuclear "waste" lying around that could be used as fuel first anyway); surely mining could be done carefully to avoid water runoff problems.

  7. Re:Nuclear dangers... on Megatons To Megawatts Program Comes To a Close · · Score: 1

    Both nuclear and coal are crappy options.

    Bullshit.

    List the non-leathal health issues of storing safely a small amount of nuclear waste of a half-life of a few hundred years that you get from an integral fast reactor.

  8. Re:*Not* news. on Edward Snowden Says NSA Engages In Industrial Espionage · · Score: 1

    "We already knew it all anyway!"

    So why weren't your news channels reporting this outrageous stuff before? And why do many members of your political establishment want to kill or lock up Snowden if he's not releasing any new info?

  9. It's OK, but... on Fancy Yourself a Tycoon? OpenTTD 1.4.0 On Its Way · · Score: 4, Informative

    For me OpenTTD has lost a lot of the fun of the original TTD. The graphics and music are all replaced and I just prefer the original graphics and music. The signaling is now way more complex and while I'm sure that makes the train tracks much closer to real life, it makes it a lot harder to get into the game than the original by Chris Sawyer. I also think that unfortunately the development team have an extremely stubborn attitude to porting nice new features over to the main codebase. Last I checked, the copy/paste functionality wasn't ported in because "it's cheating". Sorry, no it isn't; it means you don't have to keep creating the same boring complex junctions over and over again.

  10. Re:even a broken clock... on RNC Calls For Halt To Unconstitutional Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Now the popular claim by Democrats is that the Republicans are obstructing normal process, but it is the Democrats that have not been doing their duty in amending spending bills and sending them back. They don't amend them. They don't bring them to a vote. They just bury them. But its all the Republicans fault, right?

    Kids, kids, relax! Stop arguing. You're both... just awful.

  11. Re:"The Justin Bieber of chess" ?! on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Aronian is doing a massive jump these days due to Tata Steel.

    Huh? How does a company make the guy better at chess?

  12. Re:Chrome Remote Desktop on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that with LogMeIn, both sides connect a central server that has its own IP, and communicate that way. It defeats NAT, but requires an annoying amount of infrastructure to exist for it to work. The best solution is to get rid of NAT.

  13. Re:Chrome Remote Desktop on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    To get through NAT and overly restrictive corporate firewalls? That's why I would use LogMeIn. My boss even recommended I use it.

  14. Re:Chrome Remote Desktop on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it looks like they have no plans (see "known issues") to allow you to remote into Linux desktops. So this lets you go from Linux -> Windows, but not Anything -> Linux.

  15. Re:This sucks on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    Much easier to go to your IT dept. and say "please allow access for IP address X to IP address Y on port Z" than "please do that, and allow a hole to be poked in the NAT setup through port ABC".

  16. This sucks on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    I used to use LogMeIn Free a lot in my last job for remote desktopping to my work machine, and it worked well. Luckily I no longer currently have that need, but I may do again in future. Trying to ge through a NAT setup to VPN into a box is an utter nightmare, if not downright impossible without admin access to and a full understanding of the company's firewall/NAT setup. What we really need of course is widespread IPv6 (I'm in the UK and IPv6 availability is still fucking abysmal) so we can just directly connect to remote machines using their IP.

  17. Re:As an Australian, those rates seem obscene on An Iowa ISP's Metered Pricing: What Will the Market Bear? · · Score: 1

    In the UK we can have unmetered internet access at perhaps 60mbps/20mbps speeds: http://zen.co.uk/business/broadband/fibre-optic-broadband/fibre-and-phone-packages.aspx#unlimitedfibre2

    Our telephony is heavily regulated. Good job you guys deregulated. :-)

  18. I don't get it on Ask Slashdot: Configuring Development Environment On a Shared Workstation? · · Score: 1

    Why are you sharing a workstation with someone else if you're doing all this stuff on it? With whom are you sharing it? For all my jobs I have had my own workstation and so have any other developers. Are you only coming into work 50% of the time or something?

  19. Re:eh, it's not that bad on Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse · · Score: 1

    I don't know how americans deal with that small enter key. It drives me mad. So much nicer to have a big enter key I can easily press with my pink without accidentally pressing the wrong key.

  20. Re:Disconnect the Updates on Adware Vendors Buying Chrome Extensions, Injecting Ads · · Score: 1

    SeaMonkey's browser is as "lightweight" as you need. I use it for my standard browsing and I don't find it slow, mainly because it uses Gecko, which isn't slow. It still has a proper browser interface, and it doesn't have some bullshit centralized account system where you automatically get a bunch of extensions installed on any machine you insall it. Whatsmore, it's straightforward to turn off auto-updating or make it non-silent.

  21. Re: PHB's strike again on Previously-Unseen Photos of Challenger Disaster Appear Online · · Score: 1

    I'm sure I heard it was a flaw in one of the O rings that would've broken in the hot too.

  22. Re:What if it only recognizes Arabic ? on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 1

    Also it would not matter who was caught in the cross-fire because (as the 9/11 bombers said) "any muslims will go straight to heaven".

    The problem with that logic is that you should just immediately shoot all your friends and loved ones, then commit suicide. That ensures you will immediately all go to heaven.

  23. Re:The hands down winner on The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech · · Score: 1

    Is there a Stylish style somewhere to get rid of that width restriction? I could've sword I hacked one up myself but annoyingly I don't seem to have uploaded it to userstyles.org.

  24. Re:Sorry Apple. on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    Also, it looks like the NSA basically require companies to say "we don't have anything to do with the NSA". If anything, the company's feeling the need to come out and say it so publically is a red flag that they may have worked with them.

  25. Re:Failure to pick up dog waste on UK Introduces Warrantless Detention · · Score: 1

    So when's someone gonna pick up the new Slashdot design then? :-D