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  1. How many Linux users have kids who use Linux?! on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 1

    How many Linux users have kids who use Linux?!

    Ok, I mean among those who actually have kids.

    So, does your kid like Linux?

  2. Dreadful summary? on Opa 1.0 Released · · Score: 2

    Opa Mongo Node Mongo!

  3. Is this leaked to show Obama has stamina? on Schneier Calls US Stuxnet Cyberattack a 'Destabilizing and Dangerous' Action · · Score: 0

    Either way, this shows Obama has stamina, like it or not.

  4. Only good experiences, using the binary blobs on Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have had far less issues with any nVidia card than ATi/AMD. i have had both for more than ten years.

  5. Are we back to Beowulf cluster comments? on 12-Core ARM Cluster Beats Intel Atom, AMD Fusion · · Score: 1

    any time soon?

  6. The 5'9" oneno on "Muthuball": How To Build an NBA Championship Team · · Score: 0

    Imagine, a 5'9" oneno teaching all the short guys how to beat the tall guys. One of the short guys tells his friend, Jemima's baby tall brother Jenkins, all about it. Jenkins, who is 6'7" know knows all the shit the 5'9" oneno knew, and beats him big time.

  7. Re:Nokia always made the best hardware on Nokia To Cut 10,000 Jobs and Close 3 Facilities · · Score: 1

    It may well be a huge temporary cost if they will have to repay Microsoft for the billions they already received.

  8. I've met Vint Cerf on Honoring Alan Turing, "Father of Computer Science" · · Score: 2

    I've met Vint Cerf, who unlike Turing is alive.

  9. This is probably how Darwin's finches came about on Invasive Species Ride Tsunami Debris To US Shore · · Score: 1

    This is probably how Darwin's finches came about, via a big storm or tsunami along South America's west coast.

    Think of the big tsunami in Chile a few years ago. It is in fact perhaps more likely that a tsunami brings more debris than a storm, even if I'm not sure which is more prone to bring out debris into the open sea.

  10. Could it be an entity with a TLA? on Researchers Say Flame and Stuxnet Share Common Authors · · Score: 1

    Could it be an entity with a TLA?

  11. Re:I left KDE for GNOME... on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 1

    "I didn't want easy of use, I wanted control"

    Can you mention specifically what kind of control you lack in KDE that you find elsewhere?

  12. Re:BS comparison on Earth's Own Mars, the Atacama Desert Yields Amazing Extremophile Microbes · · Score: 1

    "So pack some sunscreen and antioxidants. Big whoop."

    You meant Big pop? Popcorn actually contains large amounts of antioxidants.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/antioxidants-in-popcorn-polyphenols_n_1380334.html

    Still, probably not enough for the Martian summer.

  13. Re:Don't let religious people have a say here on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    "The thread heading is bone-headed by the way."

    Agreed... I chose it to get attention to the argument. Some would call it being an "attention whore", which, by the way, is an entry at http://www.urbandictionary.com/, but not in http://www.wikipedia.org./ ;)

    Still, the abuse here is fairly innocent. It is just a disgusting picture of someone have a toothbrush next to the genitals or something along those lines. People won't get seriously harmed in that. What is a worse abuse I guess are those subtle astroturfing changes which have political motifs, or, the pathetic self-aggrandization uses of the term "prominent family".

  14. Imagine what the military have! on New Modeling Algorithms Bring More Detail to Google Earth's 3-D World · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If this is the consumer grade version, imagine what the military have, and must have had for years.

    This is impressive technology, even if it has been done before!

  15. Get a life on Will IBM's Watson Kill Your Career? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey! Get a life, a Half-Life. Work for Valve.

  16. Re:Law of big numbers? on Taking Issue With Claims That American Science Education is 'Dismal' · · Score: 1

    "This kind of logic is why America is failing
    The standardized tests are taken from grades 3 to 12 (8 to 18 years old),
    I found some census numbers, which are 5-9 years, 10-14 years, 15-19 years.
    So I'll go with 10-19 years: 42,165,000
    1% = 42,165"

    1 % of 42,165,000 is not 42,165.

    Does your foot still hurt?

    Never mind. 1% of the entire population is 3 million and the 1% brightest students are among those.

  17. Law of big numbers? on Taking Issue With Claims That American Science Education is 'Dismal' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Could it be due to the Law of big numbers that the United States of America keeps the pace?

    First, the average student still is among the top 20, which is not bad considering the number of nations.

    Second, the number of students in each class is drawn from a population which is about 300,000,000 citizens...

    So, the best one percent still boil down to 3,000,000 people. That is a lot of bright people.

    So, just from the sheer size of the US there are many more good students in absolute numbers than most other of the top 20 nations, combined!

  18. Re:Don't let religious people have a say here on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    In a way I get what you mean. No, I don't think those searches were what the people searching for "tooth brush" were after.

    Moreover, on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Masturbating_with_a_toothbrush.jpg one can read "No pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file. (Pages on other projects are not counted.)" which makes it even more unexpected the search engine finds it.

    However, someone searching for "masturbation" may well find it relevant.

    So, it seems to be more of an issue of the search engine searching full texts and some form of moderation. And, the moderation seems to be working. That page also has the text:

    "This media file has been nominated for deletion since 25 April 2012. To discuss it, please visit the nomination page. Do not remove this tag until the deletion nomination is closed."

    So, I think the system is working and see no immediate need to change.

    But, I think as there are policies for living persons one could also have it for offensive ones, like those two examples. Still, I am not entirely convinced...

  19. Debian is 250 % more effective than MyCleanPC on Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Debian is 250 % more effective than MyCleanPC, already the first millisecond. Debian then just goes on and on, beyond the pathetic performance of MyCleanPC.

    Check out www.debian.org.

    Debian makes MyCleanPC look like a virus.

    Debian wipes the floor with MyCleanPC.

    Check out www.debian.org.

    Debian has about 30,000 apps for free.

    There is no need to use MyCleanPC.

    Debian makes MyCleanPC look really bad.

    Check out www.debian.org.

  20. Gabe, I'm thinking of becoming gay, just for you on Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nope, just kidding. Still, excellent news!

  21. Re:Don't let religious people have a say here on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if there is enough "protection" in Flickr, YouTube or Google. I guess these protections are quite easily overridden.

    In articles which cover aspects of porn I can't think of why it shouldn't contain the subject matter.

    Both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck are well written, with an academic aspect.

    So is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt, the vulgarism for women's genitals. But, the vulgarism "cock" for men's genitals, the mighty penis, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock is absent as a distinct subject matter. Actually I think the linguistic aspects of it is interesting per se, as a vulgarism or otherwise.

    Should we allow the words thigh, foot, or anus? What makes porn porn? I don't know, but I typically recognize it as such if I see it.

  22. Re:So.... on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 1

    So Canada and Europe have a different culture from the US and Mexico.

    Which pair would you like to change the culture in, given what you just told us?

  23. Don't let religious people have a say here on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    Don't let religious people have a say here

    Let Academic reasons be the golden standard in porn. Otherwise someone will say Shiva has a bigger dick than Yahve and that that is an issue or that Thor's pubic hair is not black like Jesus' is racist.

    Keep out the priesthood per se when discussing porn. Let them contemplate elsewhere and discuss the matter porn using academic terms.

  24. Not necessarily on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not necessarily. I don't think Netanyahu, Hitler, the Pope, Negroes, Presbyterians, Gays, or Albanians are/were dumb either, in an intelligence sense.

    They may be ignorant or have a lower rate in tests due to social reasons, but that is not necessarily the same as dumb, as in low intelligence. Uneducated may be cause. BTW, the Pope and Netanyahu are not uneducated, so, they must be stupid, or dumb as you put it.

  25. See these player reactions on Humble Indie Bundle V Released · · Score: 1

    See these player reactions

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1RKuM57nPA

    Real men... uh... get scared, too...

    (No, I don't dare to play it)