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  1. Re:also goal of 2009 stimulus program on Datacenter Gives Internet To 70 Percent of Navajo Nation · · Score: 1

    Probably about as well as every other telecom bill since 1996 designed to basically do the same thing.

  2. Re:Back to BASIC on Remember the Computer Science Past Or Be Condemned To Repeat It? · · Score: 2

    it sucks if you just want to get work done

    So pick a language you're good at and get work done. The existence of other languages doesn't prevent that. The one true language is never going to happen.

  3. Re:Never heard of them. on The H Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    How can you say it was a great resource if you've never heard of them?

  4. Re:Shred of dignity on New Moons of Pluto Named Kerberos and Styx; Popular Choice 'Vulcan' Snubbed · · Score: 1

    I approve of this message.

  5. Re:I thought on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    But banks are evil and will steal your money.

  6. Re:big trucks on With an Eye Toward Disaster, NYC Debuts Solar Charging Stations · · Score: 1

    You can shut your laptop down and remove the battery you know. In fact, you should have.

  7. Re:Fee to use? on With an Eye Toward Disaster, NYC Debuts Solar Charging Stations · · Score: 1

    How many riots broke out around gas stations after Sandy? New Yorkers seemed to keep it pretty much together.

  8. Re:Out of touch on ITIF Senior Fellow Claims "America's Broadband Networks Lead the World" · · Score: 1

    Where? I don't even have a library within 40 miles of where I live, let alone one with a $20,000 router in it.

    West Virginia

  9. Re:Don't Do The Dig ... on Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton · · Score: 2

    The way these things are handled leads people to do this. If they are deemed important to society then society should be making sure that it is protected, not the individual member of the society who has the bad luck of stumbling on it footing the bill, not just related to the excavation of the objects but the costs related to work being stopped.

    This article is the perfect example of the issue, they have to by law have it excavated and documented because the find may be of historical importance to the country. They, however, have to foot the bill themselves. It is set up like a punishment for finding and reporting. Surprisingly, people will just simply not report finds in the future.

  10. Re:No updates in 6 years? on FLAC Gets First Update In 6 Years · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it couldn't build with modern GCC releases without patches. It is a solid piece of software, but even solid software needs to be maintained.

  11. Re:only 1 build in SDD card? and no E-sata? on Apple Shows Off New iOS 7, Mac OS X At WWDC · · Score: 1

    Thunderbolt - Everything is external to this thing.

  12. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1
    There is no chance of this working. The Whitehouse petitions are a theater to let the Whitehouse look caring and connected to the people. It's not in place to get anything done.

    What this does is give the Whitehouse yet another platform to respond to make their case that everything they do to this guy is in everyones best interest. Some people will believe it, some people won't and the world will go in exactly as if it had if no one had signed this petition.

    Even doing something which doesn't have much of a chance to help is better than doing nothing at all

    This is basically never true. This action makes people feel like they have done something without actually doing anything at all. Because they felt like they have acted, they don't feel the need to act any further. Donating just $5 once to the EFF or the ACLU would be actually doing something, funding groups that actually do things. A whitehouse petition is the same as doing nothing at all, but damn if you don't fell like you did something.

  13. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If you think that is an appropriate course of action you might as well just pray that he is pardoned. It has the same chance of success and is just as useful.

  14. Re:oh jeez; let's all discover agile again on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder how many meetings we'll have this time around.

  15. Re:someone's spying on you on Ask Slashdot: Is GNU/Linux Malware a Real Threat? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know it was more likely a misbehaving application polling the webcam and not anything nefarious right? As another poster said, Flash is probably a leading culprit.

  16. Re:Not good enough on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 2

    Just FYI - The Remote Management tools for Windows Server 2012 ONLY run on Windows 8.

    It would seem MS thought of a way to get at least some people in enterprise environments to upgrade to Windows 8, PowerShell uptake among Windows admins has been disgustingly slow.

  17. Re:Gnome3 on Fedora 19 Beta Released: Alive, Dead, or Neither? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    systemd is pretty much here to stay, I'm betting that in about two years every major distro will use it. No, I don't think that is a good thing.

  18. Re:check the weather out west on Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms · · Score: 1

    or from the Atlantic. So it comes from the west, except all the times that it doesn't.

  19. Re:The signaling aspect is more important on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 2

    A company stressing the perks they give does not send the message 'the company values its employees' it tells me the company has decided to attempt to try and wow you with the cheapest things it can get a hold of in lieu of actually doing anything for it's employees (read: raises). It looks like the company is treating you like a little child, that they expect you to be happy because they gave you a shiny object.

  20. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not looking forward to listening to the sister-in-law and father-in-law if they do anything other than give it a huge thumbs up.

    Not that SIL and FIL are right, but damn they're loud about being wrong. So damn wrong.

  21. Re:Meh on Firefox 21 Arrives · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And yet you felt the need to comment on it. It would appear you care about Firefox more than you let on.

  22. Re:Service pack on Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users · · Score: 1

    I don't think too many can complain if Windows 8.X releases are free service packs and you don't have to buy a new license until Windows 9.

  23. Re:Won't happen on N. Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent "Unfair Competition" · · Score: 1

    Hasn't stopped any other franchise law.

  24. Re:Who votes in those bozo politicicans? on N. Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent "Unfair Competition" · · Score: 1

    What makes you think RTP holds any political power in the state? It's such a small part of anything.

  25. Re:Oh come on Bill on Bill Gates Opens Up About Steve Jobs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you suggesting wallowing in misery was a better way to spend their time together?