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  1. Re:And OP is retarded. on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 1

    Silver is just as worthless in an environment where nobody has anything. If things really go to hell, it'll be whomever has water/shelter/food, so don't bother hoarding precious metals as they won't be so precious if you can't get clean water.

  2. Re:Seriously? on Learning About Constitutional Law With Star Wars · · Score: 1

    The Monroe Doctrine is dead. You're thinking the US as the world's police force and try to feel good about ourselves while we kill brown people (and Obama is trying to get us out of that role too, see Syria and Ukraine).

  3. Re:Does not understand the market, obviously. on Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value · · Score: 2

    Yeah, we're done with this article.

  4. Re:Seriously? on Learning About Constitutional Law With Star Wars · · Score: 1

    If all you see of that universe is the military, it does kinda look that way.

  5. Re:Julian Assange should probably remember ... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    No, I cite the New York Times reporter quoted there.

    So why not just quote the NYT? Oh right, the NYT has a financial interest in the book, so their opinion is a bit tainted. But do go on.

  6. Re:When Nixon did that... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    I'm still looking for a crime here.

  7. Re:More proof the media is controlled by Republica on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 0

    But it is the republican's race to lose if the dems nominate Hillary.

    So you're just trolling. Well done.

  8. Re:Julian Assange should probably remember ... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    And you cite Hot Air? Deflectors engaged!

    Well, I guess we'll see what emerges over time.

    Well, it's turning out that the book should be recategorized as 'fiction'.

  9. Re:When Nixon did that... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    Nixon was derailed in just a few years. Meanwhile Hillary has gotten away with this for 35 years (by your count). After the hundreds of millions of dollars spent, they haven't found one. single. thing. that she's been convicted of.

  10. Re:More proof the media is controlled by Republica on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 0

    When you say most it is little different from all.

    I'm being generous. I'm sure there's some Republicans out there with what are probably valid concerns. Most of the public ones ("Benghazi!!!' 'sniper fire!!!' 'where's the e-mail') is all covering up for the fact that she's been an effective first lady, senator, and secretary of state and such leadership and background makes her a qualified candidate. If tribalism blinds people to that, then that's their problem.

  11. Re:More proof the media is controlled by Republica on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 0

    In this case, saying that everything negative about Hillary is just republican propaganda is idiocy.

    Everything negative? Sure. There's Democrats that don't like her and have legitimate reasons. But most of the republican propaganda about Hillary is indeed idiocy.

  12. Re:When Nixon did that... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    One of those deals resulted in Russia owning 20% of US uranium production.

    Yeah, about that

    Meanwhile, we keep hearing about $2 billion dollars in 14 years. Let's call this what it really is: $133 million/year.

  13. Re:More proof the media is controlled by Republica on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no. Reporters are only part of the equation. What about owners and editors? How do they vote? How about representation on sunday news shows? Shouldn't they be in church rather than in front of a camera if they're trying to be holier than thou?

    At best, the media is neither liberal nor conservative. It's driven by getting eyeballs. Conservatives have used this to their advantage for years while playing the ref and screaming 'liberal media' whenever things don't go their way.

  14. Re:When Nixon did that... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 0

    I never accused Sec. Clinton of anything

    Then this is a thought exercise that goes nowhere. Make an accusation or shut it.

  15. Re:Julian Assange should probably remember ... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    Clinton Cash has errors removed

    Since 2001, the Clinton Foundation has amassed a staggering $2 billion, mostly in chunks from globally powerful individuals, multinational companies and foreign countries.

    including prominent conservatives and conservative groups

  16. Re:When Nixon did that... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    Unless there's some sort of major crime that was committed by Sec. Clinton, I'm not sure what the missing e-mails will tell you. What she wanted for lunch?

  17. Re:When Nixon did that... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    When Nixon did that, he was impeached.

    No, no, no.

    Nixon wasn't impeached (articles of impeachment were written up, but weren't passed before Nixon resigned)
    Nixon's crimes was far worse than just the coverup and there was plenty of other evidence of the crimes that he either ordered or was involved in. So far the only crimes that Hillary is accused of is Campaigning While Democrat(ic), which I'm sure some would consider a crime, but isn't (yet). You might be referring to some vague hand waving about Benghazi, but multiple investigations have repeatedly cleared the Obama administration and Sec. Clinton of wrongdoing.

  18. Re:More proof the media is controlled by Republica on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    If the media were controlled by liberals then FNC wouldn't exist. It does.

    FTFY

  19. Docbook? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Open Document Format? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Docbook allows you to separate out the content from the presentation. You write in XML and define paragraphs, chapters, images, etc. and then leave it to the various stylesheets to drive how it looks like when it comes out the other end - PDF, HTML, Word, whatever, and the stylesheet makes sure that if some features are supported (hyperlinking from the table of contents to the chapter) it'll be included in there. Since the content is in plain 'ol XML you can use any kind of XML processor to go through it..

  20. Re:OSS needs technical writers more than coders on RTFM? How To Write a Manual Worth Reading · · Score: 3, Informative

    TLDP had a lot of problems and they weren't all internal to TLDP. I think the biggest one was that we were trying to balance between documentation style and authoring while trying to make it easy for people with little documentation skills to write. It isn't as easy as writing a word doc and uploading it - we were trying to make it so you could read documentation on any format: PalmOS, PDF, Word, printed, HTML. Docbook and linuxdoc made that process easy, but it was a markup language and the best way to write it was as by doing the markup yourself (think writing HTML by hand) and there was a lot of infighting about going back to linuxdoc. As the documents became more complex it was difficult to do technical reviews since a lot of the people were more documentors than technical. As Linux grew and advanced, nobody was available to update old documentation because they were working on new ones, so much of the existing content became stale.

  21. Re:"from Gizmodo to Lifehacker" ? on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    This, and they're both competitors to AOL properties (Engadget at least)

  22. Re:Competition on Amazon's Profits Are Floating On a Cloud (Computing) · · Score: 1

    Honestly, ML and integration with other MSFT products is all that Azure has going for it. I knew AWS first, but really got more into each of them at about the same time. Azure's API is pretty convoluted and doesn't handle multiple actions at the same time (so in opening a firewall port you have to wait for the first action to fully complete before adding the next firewall opening on the same system, and each action takes a few minutes). On the plus side, they do support a number of Linux distros.

    It's been described to me as AWS being IAAS whereas Azure is more as a PAAS. If you're already tied into Microsoft and know PowerShell really well, you'll do fine with Azure.

  23. Re:And it's gonna rain on Amazon's Profits Are Floating On a Cloud (Computing) · · Score: 1

    They're three separate services (and only three of the zillion that AWS provides).

    Cloud storage is just that: storage in the cloud (usually object storage, so you can access files using HTTP)
    Computing is having a virtual system available, so take your laptop or desktop and move it somewhere else. Very handy if you need compute power some of the time but don't want to go through the hassle of getting rack space/networking/etc. You still have root on it, so the entire system and all provisioned resources are yours.
    Web hosting is usually shared, so it's you and a bunch of other people on the same server, probably sharing the same hardware and storage. You don't have root and have limited ability to make changes. Lowest cost, but lowest capabilities. If you have a basic wordpress or flat HTML site it would work fine for you. If you want to get into more demanding sites or introduce failover or load balancing you need to step up to computing.

  24. Re:We can learn from this on Copyright For Sale: What the Sony Docs Say About MPAA Buying Political Influence · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Instead... on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That should be an even lower ranking. Especially bad when it's local TV stations that do it.