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  1. It's an obvious attempt at disinformation.
    Snowden answers a simple question that everyone semi-skilled in IT knows, how long deduplication takes.
    This gets blown up to the retarded conclusion that 650k emails were duplicates. In the process trying to drag Snowdens and Wikileaks reputation through the mud.

    This is quite obviously the state propaganda-machine ar work.

  2. Re: Article blocked on How Big Was the Universe When It Was First Born? · · Score: 1

    Actually in most of the world it's called "American football" maybe it's time to adopt more global terminology, and while at it, why not a more global system of measurement?

  3. What did you do to my harddrive?! on Western Digital Announces World's First 10TB Helium-Filled Hard Drive (techgage.com) · · Score: 1

    And why is your voice so funny?

  4. Re: Give me a raise on 'First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses' -- the Zappos Management Experiment · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that what they said (and still do) about democracy?

  5. Re: Money on 1 In 3 Data Center Servers Is a Zombie · · Score: 1

    You can't access your server?
    Oh, we shut it down because it didn't receive any connections for a week.

  6. Re: Would every web browser have to be a news rea on HTTP/2 Finalized · · Score: 1

    Sure and I can use just about every protocol from the console except the Web since most websites do useless dynamic crap that doesn't work with links2.

  7. Re: A wild noscript purist appears on HTTP/2 Finalized · · Score: 1

    I really don't care what you do, I prefer a Web without all that shit, unless you implement it properly ie. create a suitable standard, and implement it natively if you really have to.
    The current spaghetti of dynamic nonsense has lead us to every single bad design decision ever made in software development being made mandatory on every pc.

  8. Re: Would every web browser have to be a news read on HTTP/2 Finalized · · Score: 1

    It'd be many times easier than implementing the current mess, which no browser so far has been able to do properly.

  9. Re:Finally some people get it on HTTP/2 Finalized · · Score: 1

    I'd rather that a comment feature used a protocol that was designed for the purpose. Newsgroups perhaps?

  10. Re: Numerology on Theory of Information Could Resolve One of the Great Paradoxes of Cosmology · · Score: 1

    The first time we stumbled upon pi or any one of the constants, they were also just arbitrary numbers.

    But sure, it's way too premature to be making any sort of publications about analysis like this.
    If this value starts popping up when doing various unrelated research, it may warrant a closer look.

  11. Re: Numerology on Theory of Information Could Resolve One of the Great Paradoxes of Cosmology · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The idea does actually work if the assumption is that we are living in a simulation, similar to ours. ;)

  12. Finally some people get it on HTTP/2 Finalized · · Score: 1

    Finally, a Web standard that isn't total shit.
    I was starting to lose hope in humanity altogether.
    Now, let's also improve html by removing all JS and other VMism from it, and make it binary.

  13. The age of security via obscurity. on New Encryption Method Fights Reverse Engineering · · Score: 1

    These kinds of "feel good" measures only amount to more work for devs, and stuff not working when they should.
    I'd rather people spent their time writing better and more secure code.

  14. Re: So much for stability and uptimes... on Greg KH Favors Rolling Release Distros · · Score: 1

    That's the thing, the features that interest me, are high amounts of code auditing = security, and good multiplatform which also proves a high level of workmanship and modularity of the code.
    That's also why I like ext3, which is among the most well audited code in Linux. It actually goes further to protect you from many types of buggy drivers and disk hardware implementations.
    ZFS and btrfs style multilayer filesystems only interest me insofar that they offer online dynamic multidrive spanning, but these types of features are still much lower priority for me.

  15. Re: So much for stability and uptimes... on Greg KH Favors Rolling Release Distros · · Score: 1

    The one thing that keeps me from using obsd is that each time I remember the close to non-existing fs support even for the most common ones such as ext3.
    no journal, no deal for me.

  16. Nazis on FAA Could Extend Property Rights On the Moon Through Regulation · · Score: 1

    Damnit, now they're gonna bring down the Nazis living on the moon.

  17. Re: That's a nice democracy you have there... on Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed · · Score: 1

    Public elections are an aristocratic practice, not democratic.

  18. Re:faster then speed of light? on Scientists Slow the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Maybe he meant that if as in this case the "speed of light" is modified, then light travelling at the normal rate would in fact be traveling faster than the speed of the before-mentioned light.

    I'm also wondering if this mean c will continue to be a constant?

  19. Re: Hmmm ... on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 1

    Come on, this is like a trillion times more interesting than "Ubuntu releases new version of the same thing they did last month" or "Security hole found in Windows!"

  20. Babels tower on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 1

    This is so cool, a modern day Babels tower!

  21. Re:Built-in differences on Code.org: Blame Tech Diversity On Education Pipeline, Not Hiring Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of Google? took me one try, top hit.
    http://www.math.kth.se/matstat...

    You don't get to call someone a liar without rudimentary research on your own part.

  22. Re:Systemd integration counted as a positive thing on Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop · · Score: 1

    Ah, the nostalgia of Windows ME

  23. Re:Binary logs on Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop · · Score: 1

    Such a radical change, like binary logs should at least require a couple of years of maturement time as an RFC, while it gets implemented by all relevant tools across the board. And even then, it should always be optional, and support multiple formats.

    Text parsing isn't all rosy either, there are large amounts of security/performance problems that are neatly hidden.

  24. Re:So, systemd integration is suddenly a good thin on Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop · · Score: 1

    But will the system be systemd-free in the future?

  25. So, systemd integration is suddenly a good thing? on Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop · · Score: 1

    Systemd is the main reason NOT to use gnome, another reason is that it sucked long before the other *DEs started sucking.
    Seems to me like a good reason not to use Debian, if they won't cater for power users.