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  1. Copy-pasted recipes from Bing (i.e. Google) on Ex-Microsoft CTO Writes $625 Cookbook · · Score: 0

    Seriously, I really hope he actually wrote and did not copy-paste texts from Bing (i.e. Google). Cook book authors tend to reuse others' recipes.

  2. The rule of the people is a public matter on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    The rule of the people is a public matter

  3. Re:It is NOT a piston driven engine on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    I read both. The point is that the piston driven engine doesn't propel the vehicle. Some records may be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel-driven_land_speed_record

  4. It is NOT a piston driven engine on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    It is NOT a piston driven engine, so who cares about a grounded jet engine.

  5. That author had not counted with Slashdot... on Disarm Internet Trolls, Gently · · Score: 1

    That author had not counted with Slashdot... The comments here are already lsdhfipuhdfpibf

  6. The Hoover loon published it already in 2004 on Making the Case For Microscopic Life In Meteorites · · Score: 1

    http://www.panspermia.org/hoover2.htm

    Richard B. Hoover of NASA/NSSTC announced today the discovery of evidence for the detection of a fossilized cyanobacterial mat in a freshly fractured, interior surface of the Orgueil carbonaceous meteorite. Many of the images presented were obtained 21-23 July 2004, using the Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The announcement was made in Denver, Colorado at the "Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology VIII" (Conference 5555) at SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology (its 49th Annual Meeting).

    This is part of the postmodern craze where all views all allowed to be heard with undue respect. We are heading for some serious disaster unless it is halted.

  7. Almost 2/3 of the distros are based on Debian on Debian Is the Most Important Linux · · Score: 1

    "323 currently active distributions listed on Distrowatch, 128 are based on Debian, and another 74 on Ubuntu. In other words, just under 63% of all distributions now being developed come ultimately from Debian. By comparison, 50 (15%) are based on Fedora or Red Hat, 28 (9%) on Slackware, and 12 (4%) on Gentoo."

    Almost 2/3 of the distros are based on Debian, as it includes Mint and Ubuntu. Given the assumed popularity of Ubuntu, that is a lot.

    However, should you turn your head to commercial server space, I guess RedHat based systems like Fedora, Oracle, and CentOS would give another picture. The Suse distros would probably climb in such a list too.

    Still, the metric is valid in its own setting.

  8. peek-a-boo, I can see you on World's Most Powerful Optical Microscope · · Score: 0

    peek-a-boo!
    I can see you
    and I know what you do
    so put your hands on your face
    and cover up your eyes
    don't look until i signal
    peek-a-boo! peek-a-boo! peek-a-boo!
    the way that we weren't is
    what we'll become
    so please pay attention
    while i show you some
    of what's about to happen
    peek-a-boo!
    I know what you do
    cause I do it too
    laugh if you want to or
    say you don't care
    if you cannot see it you
    think it's not there
    it doesn't work that way

    mother's baw knows it too
    didn't he so do?

  9. Al Gore, again?! on WikiLeaks, Internet Nominees For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 0

    Al Gore, again?!

  10. Top 5 Ways to Cause a Man-Made Earthquake on Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dams do this do, e.g. the Hoover Dam and the recent quake in China. Read more at "Top 5 Ways to Cause a Man-Made Earthquake": http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/top-5-ways-that/

  11. cracks of the crackpot on Cracks Showing in the Libyan Firewall? · · Score: 1

    "Gaddafi's rants in 140 character chunks."

    What else do you expect from a strange person (still not necessarily a legal crackpot)? My guess he was so filled with self esteem he lost touch with the outside world, in a sense Salvador Dali did. I am not convinced either of these were "legal madmen", just bizarre. Unfortunately, Gadaffi still has some power left power but Dali never did.

  12. And I thought Office 2010 was hard to use on Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And I thought Office 2010 was hard to use. The new Excel is a nightmare to learn well. And now, "bubbles"?

  13. I perfectly agree with your reasoning. on Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? · · Score: 1

    I perfectly agree with your reasoning. Ten years ago I had friend who refused to run Linux "because it was too mainstream", he was running some BSD variant at the time.

  14. and lack of time to listen on Music Execs Stressed Over Free Streaming · · Score: 1

    It is expensive and I don't have the time to listen. I don't need to have music around me any longer. I used to like it, but me thinks it's a distraction now. My behavior has changed during the last ten years, I simply don't listen to as much music as I did ten years ago.

  15. Fincancial realities? Stick with Debian on Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? · · Score: 1

    Fincancial realities? Stick with Debian (www.debian.org), they have showed that their commitment is consistent. BTW, Ubuntu is a slightly rewoked [sic] version of Debian. RedHat created Fedora so they wouldn't 'taint' their commercial version. Again financial realities. No news in that.

  16. Poor interoperability on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 1

    The article or the linked pdf:s don't specify which programs cause the poor interoperability.

    In view of that, it may just be some (illegal?) lobbying from other OS owners.

  17. Poor interoperability on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 2

    One of many reasons I don't run Windows is, in fact, the poor interoperability with some of my favorite Linux only programs. That extends very few programs however.

    It would be relevant to see which programs lack the stated poor interoperability.

  18. Points taken on Milky Way Stuffed With an Estimated 50 Billion Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    Points taken.

    My error in expecting 'worlds' to be 'inhabitable'.

  19. Error: 50 billion, but not in Milky Way on Milky Way Stuffed With an Estimated 50 Billion Alien Worlds · · Score: 0

    The articles headline doesn't make sense "Milky Way Stuffed with 50 Billion Alien Worlds" when the article says less, 500 million.

    Do they 'borrow' Slashdot editors?

  20. those who have on Oracle's Open Source Identity Reborn At ForgeRock · · Score: 1

    "'Having principles and having profit are not mutually exclusive.'""

    Principal profits is exclusively for those who have.

  21. you mean reading the entrails? on Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks · · Score: 3, Funny

    You couldn't possibly seriously mean we should start reading the entrails? That is soo medieval.

  22. When was this first announced? on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    I am sure IBM didn't want to lose this. So they had to decide when to go public with this project, and also be sure they win.

    Does anyone know when it was first announced?

  23. Think of it as on Watch IBM's Watson On Jeopardy Tonight · · Score: 1

    Think of it as someone asking Watson "Who is Nerdfest", and you can guess how many will pay for the system.

    Using all the Internet logs, I'm sure Watson could identify just about anyone on Earth.

  24. Re:If Algeria is next, we can hope for Libya too on Is Algeria Deleting Facebook Accounts? · · Score: 1

    Out of two bad ills, I prefer the Itialian system.

  25. Dive marriages, are they geek? on Geekiest Marriage Proposals Ever · · Score: 1

    Dive marriages, are they geek? Or perhaps nerdy? Perhaps not really, but I have read about quite a few dive marriages.

    Strangely, I just about attended a dive funeral, where a former diver's cremated ashes were solemnly released at 15 fathoms.