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  1. Re:Who wasthen postdoctoral fellow? on Astronomers Find Star-Within-a-Star, 40 Years After First Theorized · · Score: 2

    I thinkyou mean:

    "It isnot exactlyEnglish, but definitelyin theGermanic family."

    It isokay noteveryone is goodat grammar.

  2. Re:You guys are always entertaining! on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    Well, we are, on the aggrigate, delusional and self aggrandizing.

    Very, very delusional and very, very self aggrandizing. You see it in every topic.

  3. Re: Apple not in my best interests either on Why Apple Should Open-Source Swift -- But Won't · · Score: 2

    I've heard Apple uses it....

  4. Re:it's means it is on 3D-Printed Car Takes Its First Test Drive · · Score: 1

    Damn, it Carl! Do you job or you won't get my recommendation for your post doc!

  5. Re:it's means it is on 3D-Printed Car Takes Its First Test Drive · · Score: 1

    Can they print a car body as quickly as the company did in the article? Have they?

    If not, then that's the point.
    If they have, then well the story sucks as much as everyone says it does.

    Step back from the myopic meaningless look at the details, and see how the small dots form the larger picture.

  6. Re:it's means it is on 3D-Printed Car Takes Its First Test Drive · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No one said you couldn't. But no one has previous printed such a large piece, so precise, and so fast. Its an engineering milestone, not the discovery of radioactivity.

    If todays geeks were alive to see the first model t the'd be bitching about how much better other cars were, and how it was nothing new. The new-ness is how it was made and how cheaply it was made.

  7. Re:Why is this legal in the U.S.? on Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla · · Score: 1

    These are state taxes. As such, its up to each individual state to determine. I suppose its possible that some states do not do this, however the whole reason why it is done is due to competition amount the states for employers.

  8. Re:Essential on Ask Slashdot: What Smartwatch Apps Could You See Yourself Using? · · Score: 1

    And with in that clock app, I should be able to choose the back ground to be generated by the app of my choosing.

    So maybe my twitter feed changes every 10 s or so, maybe texts pop up in the back ground for a sec or two givng me the oppretunity to look at them and full, and send back a cave drawing indicating where the buffalo are.

  9. Re:FTFA on Mozilla 1024-Bit Cert Deprecation Leaves 107,000 Sites Untrusted · · Score: 1

    "So are you saying that money buys trust"

    No.

    "The whole SSL ecosystem is based on the fact that you can absolutely trust the certificate authorities."

    No, it isn't. Trust is not absolute. Learn this. Please.

  10. Re:FTFA on Mozilla 1024-Bit Cert Deprecation Leaves 107,000 Sites Untrusted · · Score: 1

    I really don't understand people's hang up with the fee. Certs are cheap as hell. I understand they don't really do that much to verify any one's identity, but its so freaking cheap.

    How much abuse is there with fake certificates being issued? I've only heard about a couple of cases. Its better than nothing, and certainly worth the small amount of money.

  11. FTFA on Mozilla 1024-Bit Cert Deprecation Leaves 107,000 Sites Untrusted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    “All major browsers will alert users of a site using an expired certificate, and of the 107k affected, only 30k were not expired, and so would no longer be trusted by Mozilla as a result of their recent change,”

    So not 107K, only 30k. And that's not a real issue. The browsers are correct, the connection isn't secure at 1024. People can complain as much as they want, trust is not something that is eternally granted without condition.

  12. Re:Troll much? on You Got Your Windows In My Linux · · Score: 1

    Exactly. SystemD is more than just init, but not all of it is in PID 1. The whole desktop thing is just crazy. Its pretty clear thats as accurate as crazy tea partiers who think Obama is a Muslim. No rigor, no research, no thought from those people.

    Now there may be some very legitimate complains about systemd. However, they get drowned out by the BS. It would also help if someone who doesn't like SystemD to actually work on an alternative Services management system that solved some of the same problems that systemD does.

  13. Re:this would expose an enormous state secret. on US Government Fights To Not Explain No-Fly List Selection Process · · Score: 1

    Ah, the old, If this secret would be revlealed then the populace would rise up, idea.

    Of course most people won't care. I don't. I know what they are doing and why. I wouldn't do things exactly as they are, but I'm not that upset over what they are doing to activley try and change anything.

  14. Re:Slashdot comments indicative of the problem on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    Wow.

  15. Re:Developers prefer Ubuntu? on How Red Hat Can Recapture Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    Uhm, Ubuntu also did Unity, Upstart and Mir. All home grown NIH projects.

  16. Re:Slashdot comments indicative of the problem on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    If you accuse her of doing it, you still look terrible by claiming that abuse doesn't exist. It does. I don't think anyone wins, here.

    Except those that honestly acknowledge problems and resolve to make things better using the resources at their disposal.

  17. Re:Slashdot comments indicative of the problem on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    No, he's not asking if you stopped beating your wife. He's asking you" why do you beat your wife? " While the question presupposes guilt ( entirely justified in this case as the first few comments are proof), it does not force you into a situation where any valid reply forces your admission to the presupposed crime.

    Some people just don't understand language. /pet peeve

  18. Re:so why is intel's 14nm haswell still at 3.5 wat on Research Shows RISC vs. CISC Doesn't Matter · · Score: 1

    Well, the power consumption of various processor architectures are a *bit* more complicated than RISC vs CISC which is the point of this story.

  19. Re:Docker & RedHat's Software Collections on How Red Hat Can Recapture Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    Agreed on all points. I especially feel good supporting RedHat as it really does help drive the Gnu/Linux Ecosystem forward. Ubuntu has tried doing the same, but when it does there are always stings attached or development is behind closed doors.

  20. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    Here's the bonkers thing: Systemd can do more *without* scripts than SysV can do *with* scripts.

  21. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    Oh, now I understand why you hated my posts. You yourself rely on "systemd is not unix, therefore bad". Oh, well, then sorry for killing your sacred cow. Steak sandwiches anyone?

  22. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to make sure that the real issues are discussed. Nothing more.

  23. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    An honest conversation about it would list those issues, rather than just stopping at KISS. Its like a one word answer to an question meant to spark a conversation. That's the annoying part about systemd discussions.

  24. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    You're interpretation of what is Simple, is. Simple is a piece of paper or an abacus. That's simple. Has you abacus ever crashed on you? QED.

    Life is full of trade offs. Admitting that when discussing a complex engineering decision is a prerequisite.

  25. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    Yeah, stupid me. Injecting X11 contraversies into one already about systemd.

    While, I'm at it Vim users are smarter than everyone, and obviously I'll take Joel* as the superior host over Mike (good writer, sucky performer).

    *Seriously watch the getting coffee in cars with comedians episode with him in it. Hilarious. He out does Seinfied.