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  1. Re:There's hope yet on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    X's deficiencies are in its architecture rather than any noticeable performance issues. In many ways its similar to the whole pulse audio thing. The code is going to be much better, provide better capabilities, and introduce a bunch of annoying bugs and other issues along the way.

  2. Re:"We believed we knew better what customers need on How BlackBerry Blew It · · Score: 2

    According to Balmer, they didn't because they needed all hands on deck to deal with xp security issues and the rewrite of longhorn into vista.

  3. Re:Apple succeeded purely BECAUSE of function on How BlackBerry Blew It · · Score: 1

    The parent has a different definition of functionality than yours. His term probably has a huge 'ease of use' fudge factor. There were obviously other phones with more features like tv reception, full keyboards, fm radios and such. I guess his argument would be something about the primacy of the web browser and the unified experience of it all. Which sounds like crap, but IMHO, in this case it was true. Chalk it down to whatever you want, people enjoyed using iphones more than the phones you mentioned.

  4. a better day? on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Oh, I don't know maybe some day in the early 90's. Back when it would have been useful to me. /kidding only a little.

  5. Re:Uh... on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    Ok, for those of you that didn't RTFA,

    The way it works is this deadline for public release 2:00 PM.
    The reporters are ushered in to a locked room at 1:30PM
    They are handed the report at 1:45 pm, giving them time to digest the complex report and write a summary of it for release to the outside world at 2:00 PM.
    They can call their newsrooms just before 2:00 PM just to have the line open before 2:00 PM.

    If CNBC really did transport it out of the locked room before 2 pm that sort of goes agains the spirit of keeping everyone in a locked room.

  6. Re:Uh... on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, not at all. The first link mentions another possibility a grey area.

    3) CNBC is suspected of transferring the information before the 2pm to chicago, but not releasing it to the outside world until 2pm. No faster than light speed needed. The rule was stated as disclose from the room to the public. Is a server in chicago public? No. Is it outside the room ? , yes. So my understanding is that CNBC might be in trouble, or might not if the rule was ambiguous enough.

    Never break laws or regulations that can simply be bent to your will.

  7. Wait.. What? on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 2

    Are you trying to tell me that some parents... are not good ... at being parents?!? Or maybe some parents believe different things are ok for their kids than other parents?!?

    In related news, Americans hate republicans, but on the other hand some Americans vote for republicans? What can be done to solve this mysterious behavior by Americans? Clearly, this could be interpreted as a problem.

  8. Re:Fedora's out-of-fashion problem on Fedora Project Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    Or, if you are coming form arch, I could see it being a bit old.

  9. Re:Ah, Fedora on Fedora Project Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    You have a lot of moving parts to keep in sync to keep binary blob video drivers working in fedora, kernel updates, xorg updates and the drivers themselves. I don't see why a distro should reward a binary driver company for their bad behavior and punish firms like intel ( and amd which occasionally does some work on the open source driver) that publish source. As a user of the source drivers, I'd rather not have them coordinate anything. If nvidia wants to keep up, they should all fedora development is in the open. Its not a mystery when they are doing things.

  10. Re:Fedora community effort on Fedora Project Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    Konq can use webkit, or it can continue to use KHTML. Its a config option. I'm not sure what the default is.

  11. Re:Not controlled by Red Hat? on Fedora Project Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    I felt the same way ten years ago. I've come to accept the state of affairs. Fedora isn't bad at all for a workstation, and in fact, much more useful than RHEL Desktop, due to the newer packages available.

    Out of curiosity, what are you switching all of those servers to?

  12. Re:Serious question on Intel Rolls Out Raspberry Pi Competitor · · Score: 2

    No, sharpened rocks would be absurd. They used razors made out of coconuts.

  13. Hindsight on NYT Publisher Says Not Focusing on Engineering Was A Serious Mistake · · Score: 1

    He's looking at two successes ( twitter, facebook), ignoring all of the failures in the same vein ( myspace, friendster, plurk, etc) and assuming that if they had just hired enough engineers they would have had the the successful companies and not failed like the other companies trying to do the same thing.

  14. Re:All? on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    " then the need for privacy becomes obvious."

    No it doesn't. It still assumes a set of morals which are supposed to be universally upheld and a specific way of upholding them.

    Some might see your list and think " don't have an affair, be honest with your lovers" or " lobby for better anti stalking rules, your sister has a right to not have a stalker". There are always alternative actions that can be taken.

      Plus, this is the internet, people will disagree and argue anything to death.

  15. Re:All? on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 2

    If its not up to anyone what the reasons should be, don't present a list of reasons that people will disagree with.

  16. Re:Singularity on SkyOS Now Free (As In Beer) · · Score: 1

    Of course any new operating system would be perfectly coded, free of all bugs and security concerns.

  17. Re:Freeman Dyson on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 5, Informative

    He also admits, he doesn't know what the heck he's talking about:

    "my objections to the global warming propaganda are not so much over the technical facts, about which I do not know much, but it’s rather against the way those people behave and the kind of intolerance to criticism that a lot of them have."

    http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2151

    He's not an expert on the current science. Taking his advice is like asking a guy who wrote COBOL in the 60's about something like open stack.

  18. Re:B effing S on First Gear Mechanism Discovered In Nature · · Score: 2

    What you are proposing is inherintly anti science. Instead of trying to figurout why things the way they are, you would have us just accept that they are. Not only is it creationism bad science, but also lazy theology.

  19. Re:Nothing too exceptional. on First Bay Trail Windows 8.1 Convertible To Start At $349 · · Score: 1

    But does it have more space than a nomad?

  20. Re:why this news? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    Not sure. The puddle it was sitting in was 65 proof. So I'm not sure if that was a Manhattan gone wrong, or scotch done right.

  21. Re:Welcome to how SSDs fail. on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    Oh man thats scary. Any *good* solution? I've heard Raid is a no no on SSD as it will shorten its life. Maybe regular BTRFS/LVM snapshots exported to a spinning disk ?

  22. Re:why this news? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    A hard drive failure is proof that he's a jerk?

    Interesting personality test you have there...

    My mouse died last week, does that mean that I'm a bad person, or am I just a lush?

  23. Re:Meta review on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow. You butchered a butchered phrase. Truly, the student has become a more smart man- doesn't need school.

    Its " fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."

  24. Re:Of course the application wasn't free on Final Mars One Numbers Are In, Over 200,000 People Applied · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, too original. Needs a tie in to an exsiting franchise.

    Beverly Hills Chihuahua 4: Stars on Mars

  25. Re:2000 Wyoming (or Montana, or Nebraska) citizens on Humans Choose Friends With Similar DNA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I find your comment to be the same. Assuming that people in the city are more sophisticated than "rednecks who listen to country music and drink cheap beer and whisky"? How is that not an elitist comment? Cultural bubbles can also exist within large urban areas. This is how you end up with a Little Italy, China Town, etc sections in each large city. There are others not so visually apparent, I'm just picking on commonly known ones who's existence I wouldn't have to argue about.