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  1. Re:Mistake in Article on US and Israel Test Missile As Syria War Tensions Rise · · Score: 1

    You mean Weapon of Mass Democracy.

  2. Re:Apache httpd on Has the Apache Software Foundation Lost Its Way? · · Score: 1

    Cherokee.

  3. Apache httpd on Has the Apache Software Foundation Lost Its Way? · · Score: 1

    Where's the progress on Apache's httpd server? It's still mostly configured from a monolithic, messy text file with .htaccess files sometimes strewn around random directories. There is no web-based configuration even though it's a *web server*. There's no other GUI configuration, and building one to work with Apache's text file is very hard at best.

    I've now switched to Cherokee and I'm not looking back. I'm not sure what happened to progress with Apache.

  4. A better way on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    Here's a better way: don't have close buttons on tabs. They're freaking annoying. If I'm in SeaMonkey or Firefox I disable all tab close buttons and use ctrl-F4 or middle-click to close a tab.

    Chrome's interface is shitty and one of the shittier things about it is having a close button on every tab which makes me close them accidentally sometimes. Good job I don't use it as my main browser.

  5. Re:Proud? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    most people I know aren't frightened. They just don't see any practical way to get rid of the bastards in charge.

    Out of interest, do any of them ever vote Republican or Democrat? If so, do you tell them they should start by never voting for these parties?

  6. Re:Proud? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    What if Lincoln had let them secede though? By now they might've realized the error of their ways and be a lot more respecting of individual liberty. But we just don't know how it would've panned out.

  7. Re:50,000 GCHQ documents? on Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Money and age on International Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty On Warming · · Score: 1

    You just need to convince people that subsidizing is a sign of communism and let them weigh their fear of communism against their symbol of freedom and independence.

    The other thing you could do is somehow get both major parties in the US to support raising taxes on petrol. There's virtually no chance for other parties to get in so the people wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

  9. Re:Public opinion doesn't matter on New Zealand Parliament Votes To Extend Spying Powers · · Score: 1

    They have nothing to fear.

    But plenty to hide. :-)

  10. Re:It's not about Assange, or Wikileaks on Wikileaks Party Making Questionable Deals In Attempt To Win Senate Seat · · Score: 2

    Fuck Julian Assange. He's nothing, nobody. He's not 1/100th as significant as the least of the leakers.

    What the fuck are you talking about? He had the guts to publish valuable information on the US government's wrongdoings through his organization, and is now likely being persecuted by the US (and UK in cahoots) government for doing so. His situation is extremely significant in my opinion. His and Bradley Manning's actions may even have inspired Edward Snowden and if it hadn't been for them we would be none the wiser today about the expansion of the surveillance state.

  11. So build integral fast reactors that can use nuclear "waste" as fuel. Win-win.

  12. This can't be right, solar doesn't work

    I am interested as to how Germany is powered during the calm nights.

  13. Re:Pardon my troll, but... on Google Chrome 29 Is Out: Omnibox Suggestions, Profile Resetting · · Score: 2

    my computer keeps crashing completely when I try to go to Facebook or Wired in Chrome.

    Full on, mouse frozen, nothing moves, must hold button down for 10 seconds to restart computer frozen. I don't know what the hell it's trying to look for

    Sounds like it's trying to do you a favour.

  14. Re:It was a myth on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    I was brought up in Scotland, and I think I'll continue to live here because 1) It's pretty and temperate, 2) Australia has too many deadly creepy crawlies, 3) the US is too smug.

    You have Alex Salmond, which pretty much makes up for all of the USA's smugness combined.

  15. Re:How many people don't know a 2nd search engine? on Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40% · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, when Google crashes it's no problem for me; find some other search engines and bing! I'm surfing again in no time.

  16. Re:Do more for less on The Decline of '20% Time' at Google · · Score: 1

    Google has already defeated Microsoft and Apple

    Yep, that must be why MS and Apple are bankrupt and about to go out of business...

  17. Re:Sigh... on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 1

    Panem? How can you eat a TV programme?

  18. Re:Wrong, it's a trade-off on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    Sperm? Egg? Stem cells? Embryology?

  19. Re:pandora's box on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    And until we've gotten a permanent civilization off this Earth, let alone one that will absorb vast increases in population, we have to think of the Earth as the limit of what we have with which to sustain ourselves.

  20. Re:Two years to go on Forrester: NSA Spying Could Cost Cloud $180B, But Probably Won't · · Score: -1, Troll

    And do you know how to use a question mark.

  21. Re:A European perspective on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 2

    Besides, a typical European contract has a similar notice for both employer and employee.

    Yeah, to give another European perspective: I'm in the UK and I've never had an IT employment contract without a minimum notice period. They generally start at 2 weeks for either side, rising to a month's notice after the sucessful completion of a trial period.

  22. Re:Cool, But... on Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experiences · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't believe it myself if not for the fact that I, personally, have had inanimate objects hurtle towards me inexplicably.

    Kids are a bitch, aren't they?

  23. Re:Analogy needs one fix on Photocopying Michelle Obama's Diary, Just In Case · · Score: 2

    The analogy would be better if the diary was left out in the open, but closed, mind you, for everyone to see

    What about HTTPS or other encrypted communication? Do you think the NSA aren't working on decrypting that too? That IS the equivalent of a locked diary.

  24. Not me - I actively tried to find something other than Apache and stumbled upon Cherokee.

    My issue with Apache is configuration. It's a clusterfuck mess. Whatsmore there's no half-decent graphical configuration to get you up and running quickly, just a huge messy conf file and if you're really unlucky, a bunch of .htconfigs scattered about the place. Cherokee basically forces web-interface-based configuration and makes a decent interface for you to do so. It would be nice if it based its config on XML so you could choose between web config and XML text editing, but oh well.

  25. Re:Abandon all Hope, all ye who voted here. on Obama on Surveillance: "We Can and Must Be More Transparent" · · Score: 1

    I agree with the other poster, vote third party and stop giving a shit about whether it will make a difference to the outcome. It's about increasing other parties' percentages over time and sending a message to the big two.