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  1. Re:A year later on Ubuntu 15.04 Received Well By Linux Community · · Score: 1

    hmmm if you can do better, then do it with your own distro and bandwidth... until then shut the fsck up...

  2. Re:Freeciv? on The Battle of 100 Freeciv AIs · · Score: 1

    this is not the civilisation clone you're thinking of... this one here is purely played online using a HTML5 capable browser...

  3. Re:Interesting, but that is all on Yellowstone Supervolcano Even Bigger Than We Realized · · Score: 1

    have a look at the ash fall at the recent eruption down in Chile... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

  4. Re:It's not about the cost, it's about convenience on iTunes Stops Working For Windows XP Users · · Score: 1

    yup... buy the physical CD and it's extremely likely it's available pre-ripped for download as well so you download it and be listening while the disc is still in the post...

  5. naff all to do with guns... on 3D Printed Guns Might Lead To Law Changes In Australia · · Score: 1, Insightful

    it's control of the 3-D printers they're after... ultimate aim is to have them DRM'd so you can't pirate shapes...

  6. Where's my Pink Ponies? on Invaders Demand Flu Shots · · Score: 1

    I want my Pink Ponies back... that was original... everything yesterday was so lame I just avoided slashdot for the entire day...

    http://www.metlin.org/content/...

  7. Me? I need to get an upgraded detector to catch the one asshole I found out there with a modern LIDAR.

    Perhaps not speeding in the first place would work better?

  8. Re:Pilot priorities during an emergency on A Year On, What Flight Simulators Can't Prove About Flight MH370 · · Score: 1

    Calling Mayday properly requires selecting the Guard frequency to transmit on. Everybody normally flies commercial and military aircraft with the guard receiver selected so anybody around will hear the shout... and perform relay duties if required. But to make a proper Mayday call requires actually selecting the emergency frequency on the radio to transmit on. Some aircraft also allow the pilot to set the Crash Position Indicator transmitter going as well in advance of the crash so the satellite systems can pick it up and triangulate on them...

  9. B0ll0cks... on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "A spokesman for Clinton defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the "letter and spirit of the rules.""

    So exactly what shady deals has she been concocting with her rich chums then? And leaving no email trail?

  10. Re:Armegeddon for indigenous marine life. on World's First Lagoon Power Plants Unveiled In UK · · Score: 1

    these will seriously fsck up the Severn Estuary ecosystem not to mention destroy the Severn Bore... and massively increase flood risk on the Gloucestershire flood plain... don't want another event like back in 2007 where we came within inches of the flood topping over the hastily constructed defences at the power distribution centre and killing power to most of Gloucestershire...

  11. Re:Who Cares on Canada, Japan Cave On Copyright Term Extension In TPP · · Score: 1

    but it does... pirate bay only caters to currently popular works... it does not run torrents of old stuff that is trapped in limbo and in danger of disappearing from the public when the copyright expires as there aren't any copies anymore of it to digitise...

  12. Gag warrants... on Site Launches To Track Warrant Canaries · · Score: 1

    "and if they later receive an NSL, they remove the statement, thus communicating that event to the public without violating any laws."

    all very well until the gag warrant is worded to prevent you from removing the statement...

  13. Re:Power Costs on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 2

    with any sense it would include it's own UPS to allow it to successfully write out to the discs all the pending writes and then spin down...

  14. Re:SimCity 2000 available for free on Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    it isn't going to get much information with me running it in DOSBox on Linux...

  15. Wide Eyed and Legless... on NASA's Robonaut 2 Can't Use Its Space Legs Upgrade · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Um, they just want to use Netflix. It adds valu on Netflix Begins Blocking Users Who Bypass Region Locks · · Score: 1

    We live in a very strange world when "piracy" has gone from "armed crews of criminal specialists seizing tonnage shipments of goods on the high seas with cannon and sword" to "a regular schmo paying the regular price to use a regular product in the regular way in his regular living room."

    the signs of the rot were there when they went after DVD Jon for having the audacity to provide a work around so that he could watch DVD's he'd legally bought on his own personal computer that just didn't have their blessing as it was running Linux...

  17. Gone "dark"??? on GCHQ Warns It Is Losing Track of Serious Criminals · · Score: 1

    The serious ones were already "dark" on the internet and phone networks... they had already taken steps to secure their comms channels... what the GCHQ are really complaining about is that a lot of the slow ones have now wised up and changed their ways...

  18. Re:More important: how is this happening? on Terrestrial Gamma Ray Bursts Very Common · · Score: 2

    looks like you just killed NASA's server...

  19. Re: I agree, except: on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    the first rule is nobody mentions the "Holiday Special"... the second rule refers to the first rule...

  20. Well of course... on Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ISIS will be running amok in the US... the FBI and CIA will be recruiting and funding gullible fools to do these "acts"... all so they can catch them and say look ISIS is running amok...

  21. Re:Cost nothing to run? on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    "Whooosh"....

  22. Short trips? on Will Lyft and Uber's Shared-Ride Service Hurt Public Transit? · · Score: 1
    "If you're traveling with multiple people over short distances, Lyft Line and UberPool can be quite affordable, but it's still not cheap enough."

    You should be using a bicycle for short trips of 2 miles or less...

  23. Re:Cost nothing to run? on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    current induced is proportional to magnetic strength... yes, but current induced is also directly proportional to the number of windings... the only reason high strength magnets are required is to reduce the number of turns in the coils and thus the size and weight...

  24. Cost nothing to run? on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: 2

    "The trouble is that while renewable power sources like wind and solar cost nothing to run, once installed,"

    bollocks... they require servicing and checking they're still putting out the correct frequency etc.

  25. Re:makes no sense on Australian Courts Will Be Able To See Your Browsing History · · Score: 1

    it's browsing history held in the ISP, not on your PC... that means anything accessed from your IP address will be available... the only way to do any private browsing now will be via a proxy or using a wifi access point away from your house. and what's the bets that use of a proxy is deemed to be suspicious?