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  1. Re:Israel hasn't vowed to "wipe Iran off the map" on Flash From the Past: Why an Apparent Israeli Nuclear Test In 1979 Matters Today · · Score: 1

    Because Judaism doesn't have the concept of dar al-Islam and dar al-Harb, nor does Judaism demand death or conversion for all kafirs .

    That's interesting. In that case, why hasn't anyone invaded Lebanon, a multi-faith country where at one point Christians were the majority? Anyone other than Israel, that is....

  2. Re:It's fine... from the ISO. on A Naysayer's Take On Windows 10: Potential Privacy Mess, and Worse · · Score: 1

    ...wait until MS gets their act together.

    I'm in my forties now. I'm starting to doubt it will happen in my lifetime.

  3. Re:Silicon Valley is about the only place... on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    At least he's not doing it based on "The Apprentice" and Alan Sugar...

  4. Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    London is great if you are on a high salary and you don't have kids. I could see myself living in London forever if it weren't such a terrible place to raise kids.

  5. Re:Seriously, Slashdot? on Internet Explorer's Successor, Project Spartan, Is Called Microsoft Edge · · Score: 1

    Developers will be able to take their Chrome extensions or Firefox add-ons and, with “just a few changes,” bring them to Microsoft Edge. Belfiore demoed a Reddit extension originally built for Chrome, running on Microsoft Edge.

    I wondered why they'd bothered, but this might explain part of it. It's been ages since MS had a real go at EEE. Embrace other browsers' extensions, extend the standards so they no longer work with the original browsers and then extinguish them. I don't think it'll work this time though.

  6. Re:EPA has exceeded safe limits, needs curbing on Senate Advances "Secret Science" Bill, Sets Up Possible Showdown With President · · Score: 1

    How do you know there's no change? Is it because the "secret science" isn't actually secret?

    Here's the difference between climate science and political science: Climate science publishes the results and the data, and is open to criticism. Political science goes out of its way to obfuscate or hide unfavourable data or results.

    Are you by chance a political scientist?

  7. But they do seem to be abusing their power on EU To Hit Google With Antitrust Charges · · Score: 2

    I have found Google is now setting up Google Plus accounts for local businesses. Without their knowledge or permission. If you're a small business you had better start filling in your G+ profile, because it looks bad if the contact details are wrong or incomplete. If you have a website is irrelevant - the G+ profile appears first.

    Has Google decided to create a G+ account for me?

  8. Re:What's the name again? on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    I suspect every IT guy called Juan will quickly grow to hate this name...

  9. Re: LOL ... w00t? on "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon · · Score: 1

    I can't tell you the time I've had to waste rereading something when some author exhibits his stupidity...

    Or her stupidity...

  10. It depends on the amount of space you want to heat and how strong your roof is, but large gas bottles (200-500kg) can be bought in my neck of the woods, and there are multiple services that travel to my place to fill them. If access is an issue then multiple smaller bottles may do the trick - it all depends on how long you will be without gas.

    Oh, and insulate your place. Walls, ceiling, windows, even consider the floor.

  11. Re:I can already see it on Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own · · Score: 1

    I can imagine it now - you can buy a giant dial to fit to the right hand side of the monitor to get the authentic windows watch experience. Dial 2.0 will let you fit it to the right or left side of the monitor.

  12. Re:I've always thought that the best way for Israe on A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System · · Score: 1

    Ah, right, it was on a web site a few days ago but you can't provide a link? Are you sure you didn't make it up?

  13. Re:I've always thought that the best way for Israe on A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System · · Score: 1

    Regarding Hamas bringing children to the buildings designated for destruction: you should realize that their values are different than yours and mine. We value life, they value heaven.

    So you actually believe you are doing them a favour by killing their children? That's why you do it?

    I've heard some low-grade racism in my time, but this takes the cake. I'd like to see you offer a source for this "Palestinians bringing children into buildings designated for destruction" that doesn't come from the IDF's propaganda division.

  14. Re:Belief on A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System · · Score: 1

    Unguided missiles have no military value as they cannot be aimed at military targets, that is true.

    Is that true? I recall several cases where Hamas rockets have hit the IDF bases around Sderot.

  15. Re:Subject bait on A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System · · Score: 1

    But regardless of your personal motivation, why would you want to traumatize your children by having them grow up in the midst of such fear and violence?

    Because there is actually very little violence directed at them, as the vast majority is directed at the Palestinians. And they want the Palestinians gone. They get upset when the Palestinians fight back, but it happens so rarely that they don't leave Israel over it.

  16. Re:Subject bait on A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System · · Score: 0

    As an Israeli and a neighbour of Gaza I tell you: pity the Gazans.

    But not enough to stop bombing them....

  17. The forecast for Gaza today is.... on New Technology Uses Cellular Towers For Super-Accurate Weather Measurements · · Score: -1, Troll

    The forecast for Gaza today is large amounts of rocket-propelled precipitation.

    Looking at the article, which is shockingly badly written, it's a perfected method not in use anywhere in the world, including Israel, and the map they use for Israel includes the West Bank and Gaza, something that only Israel, in the whole wide world, does.

    Expect lots of PR bullshit from Israel over the next few weeks while they bomb the crap out of Palestinians in Gaza...

  18. Re:"fighting" crime? on Tired of Playing Cyber Cop, Microsoft Looks For Partners In Crime Fighting · · Score: 2

    You give them too much credit - it's more like bringing an egg whisk to a gunfight.

  19. Re:Those poor bastards on Australian Government To Standardise On Drupal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Coding a custom CMS is a start. Programming web-based systems isn't that hard. I do it for a living, but I use Wordpress or Joomla when the customer wants it.

    I'm a consultant, and you're not thinking this through. You shouldn't start writing a new CMS from scratch whenever you start a new project. When I start a new project, say for a moderately complex web site, I go back to the beginning and design a new CPU. The new system that the CPU will fit into has to be designed, built and tested, and then a new OS written and debugged. Next a new communications protocol has to be designed, written and tested. Finally, a new set of applications written for the new OS, and then, finally, a web site.

    This approach is the only reasonable way to turn a three month contract into a 15-year failed project. You've grasped the basic consulting creed of re-inventing the wheel at every opportunity, but you're not going far enough.

  20. Too Little, Too Late on Setback For Small Nuclear Reactors: B&W Cuts mPower Funding · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they think there will be any need for this by the mid-2020s, they're in for a rude awakening and a nasty financial loss.

    Solar panels have dropped in price by 65% in the last two years. They're expecting another 60% price drop by 2020, and efficiency isn't being sacrificed - it's only getting better, with 25% being achieved in the lab now. Research is also much cheaper - researchers ask for grants such as $5 million or $15 million, not the $1 billion mentioned in the article.

    Combine wind farms, hydro power, solar thermal, and the recent improvements with storing energy, both as potential energy and in batteries, and I doubt any one will want to invest in "small" nuclear reactors, either now or 10 years from now. Solar panels aren't the fix for everything, but they will make it uneconomical to put in place big, expensive nuclear reactors, which are only small and cheap by comparison to even bigger ones.

  21. Re:Someone call Ben Affleck on Declassified Papers Hint US Uranium May Have Ended Up In Israeli Arms · · Score: 1

    Actually, Israel is set to pass a new law that will effectively disallow Arab parties from running for elections. There is systematic anti-Arab racism in Israel, it won't end soon, and the Palestinians don't even have human right as far as Israeli courts are concerned.

  22. Re:Statistics suck on More Than 1 In 4 Car Crashes Involve Cellphone Use · · Score: 1

    It is a fact that in over 50% of all accidents there were at LEAST 2 breasts in the car at the time.

    If that were even remotely true then Saudi Arabia would be the safest place in the world to drive. Looking at the stats on wikipedia, the answer is a resouding "no." Mind you, compare US and UK traffic accidents and you start to wonder why two developed nations have such different fatality rates for traffic accidents...

  23. Re:Have you tried the software out on ReactOS? on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    I must now put my Unix hat on and say "When did the stable version of Linux come out?"

  24. Volve? on Apple To Unveil Its 'iOS In the Car' Project Next Week · · Score: 1

    Is that a new brand I've never heard of? Maybe the editors are so busy f*cking up beta that they no longer have time to introduce more than one obvious mistake into each thread...

  25. Re:They should require refund window on Apple Will Refund $32.5M To Settle In-App Purchase Complaints With FTC · · Score: 2

    Meanwhile, if a parent is idiot enough to let their toddler play with a somewhat-fragile glass-faced $500+ electronic device?

    You mean like a TV? And - toddler? There's a stage or two between toddler and adult that you seem to be unaware of...

    The parent(s) deserve the consequences, and should count themselves lucky that little Junior didn't slam it into the floor until the screen shattered.

    She keeps slamming toys into the screen, but she's not strong enough to break it. Yet.