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  1. Re:Such innovations on Gateway Computer Co-Founder Mike Hammond Dead At 53 (siouxlandnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a Gateway laptop. It's under the desk somewhere. 233MHz CPU, 5G hard drive - the top of the range at that time.

    I know now that extended warranties are a rip off, but in this case it paid off. It died with about a month remaining and when it came back it was more or less a new machine. Only the CD drive (which I'd added some strips of burn dressings to for sound dampening) was original.

    Anecdotal, but I can't complain.

  2. Stewiepam on GE CTO On Moving 9,000 Apps To the Public Cloud · · Score: 1

    Ooh look, a link to enterprisersproject.com. It's almost enough to make you think there's a shill around.

  3. Re:And there's still a year to go. on Larry Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign, Citing Unfair Debate Rules (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's the same in Oz and the UK, election campaigns run for ~6 weeks and voting is compulsory.

    Voting is not compulsory in the UK.

  4. Re:this is why we have crap for politicians on Larry Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign, Citing Unfair Debate Rules (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He looks like he's trying for "one s, one apostrophe".

  5. Re:What's up with the ' on Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    Actually it is. Take "Beethoven's symphonies are better than Mozart". Do I need to explain why that's wrong? Hint: better at what?

  6. Re:Why is this limited to It? on US Government IT Outsourcing Is Poorly Managed (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    No other parts are outsourced too.

    Wrong. Some definitely are.

  7. Ob on Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    The crux of the matter comes down to this: is it a burning issue?

  8. Re:A: Because it breaks the flow of a message on US Government IT Outsourcing Is Poorly Managed (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure. I think it's something to do with usenet.

    > Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly annoying?

  9. Re:Enough Already on Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    just go 100 years into the past and ask yourself if anyone was predicting a future that looked even remotely like the one that actually happened.

    Here is a hint, the answer is always "no".

    Always? Tripe. Given that they didn't all predict the same thing at least some of them would have been close.

    Now it might be down to pure dumb luck, and of course the difficult part would be - without hindsight - to work out which.

    Still, your assertion that ALL predictions are wrong is a bag of knackers.

  10. Re:No Shit Sherlock on US Government IT Outsourcing Is Poorly Managed (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 herp derp gubmint, ah'm a votern fer Trermp.

  11. Don't let Linus see it, or he'll call you a cunt on Ask Slashdot: How Can My Code Help? · · Score: 1

    What's to lose? Worst case, it acts as a bad example.

  12. Re:They have no plan on Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares (digitaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Can they not be pulled[1] manually? Is there enough warning to do an orderly shutdown?

    [1] I realise they aren't like the ones in my basement, but I know you can take a line out of the grid intentionally for maintenance.

  13. Re: Basic income on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Your figures don't add up. Unless by "30% of total votes" you mean "30% of potential votes". Trying to claim anything based on those who don't vote is like saying the goalie kept a clean sheet in a game where he didn't play.

    You also seem to be assuming that elections only concern a single issue, which they don't for people who aren't nutters.

  14. Re: Soulds like they are a bunch of whiney bitches on Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? · · Score: 1

    I see what you did there.

    By that I'm not meaning any respect to those who are visually challenged, or to imply in any way that my optical faculties make me in any way superior to them or more valid as a person.

  15. Do the TV series follow the odd/even rule, or is that just the movies?

  16. Re:It's time to take a stand on Mexican Senator Drafts One of the World's Worst Internet Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody remembers that. Does anybody talk about Mitsubishi's unintended acceleration problem these days?

    (Not that I buy the premise that running a business is like running a country anyway).

  17. Re:Learn a bit of history between Napoleon and WWI on Mexican Senator Drafts One of the World's Worst Internet Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I dare you to try and take my right to have an opinion away.

    I dare you to try and take their right to have an opinion away. You can't, haha, they already did it. Sucks to be you, keyboard ninja.

  18. Re:Learn a bit of history between Napoleon and WWI on Mexican Senator Drafts One of the World's Worst Internet Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    And the Kingdom of Germany was just one component of the Holy Roman Empire

    Until you grok the difference between Germany the cultural/linguistic entity and Germany the political one you're going to keep embarassing yourself.

    just like there are a lot of Celtic people and a lot of Saxon people. But I assure you there is no Celt nation that can tie itself as a direct continuation of some original nation.

    Relevance to the matter at hand: zero.

  19. Re:It's time to take a stand on Mexican Senator Drafts One of the World's Worst Internet Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    We have a similar situation in the UK, except it's been going on for 300 years.

  20. Just the tip, to see how it feels on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 1

    It's only a little, lightweight framework. You worry too much.

  21. Re: But what about HP-UX? on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    It was the preferred platform for enterprisey stuff like SAP and Oracle back then.

    Now you can get them for Linux is there any compelling reason to stay with it?

  22. Re:What language is this written in? on Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo · · Score: 1

    Does it have an unsemantic meaning?

  23. Re:taught grades 4-8 in 1960s new math on Celebrate the 200th Birthday of George Boole With Logic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    The 1960s New Math movement was similar to the 2010s Common Core: alternative ways of teaching math make you learn it better.

    Wrong. Common core is NOT a teaching method, it's a specification for what kids ought to be able to do at various ages. The "how" is up to the teacher.

    http://www.corestandards.org/a...

  24. Re:Basic income on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    It does if the alternative is for them to rob you.

  25. Re:I can tell you one thing... on Celebrate the 200th Birthday of George Boole With Logic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    There should be a day that isn't this day or that day or his day or her day.

    International "it's just an ordinary fucking day" day.