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  1. Gnome was briefly controlled by Pro-MS Novell on Valve Starts Publishing Packages For Its Own Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    A lot of the Gnome mistakes happened during brief window Novell had a lot of influence on Gnome development at the time Novell was trying to kiss up to Microsoft. Novell got bought out since then and SUSE is running it own ship again.

  2. Prenda puts Orly Taitz on retainer on EFF Jumps In To Defend Bloggers Being Sued By Prenda · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Prenda found someone to represent them. Orly Taitz.

  3. Ubuntu Unity worst phone/tablet OS alpha test ever on Canonical Announcing Ubuntu Tablet Tomorrow? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Mark Shuttleworth wanted to develop tablet & phone OS with touch. He didn't have any way to get that built and tested, though. Shuttleworth just lied and said he wanted his "desktop of the future" to have huge buttons on it. Sure he did.

    I can't believe so many people defended Unity as a desktop OS. Can't believe so many suckers bought it.

  4. Blizzard Warcraft original ripoff of GW Warhammer on Games Workshop Bullies Author Over Use of the Words 'Space Marine' · · Score: 1

    Warhammer came first, and Blizzard blatantly ripped off Games Workshop Warhammer when the Blizzard released Warcraft.

  5. Wrong. "Truth About Aaron Swartz "crime"" on MIT Investigating School's Role In Swartz Suicide · · Score: 5, Informative

    "-Aaron did not “hack” the JSTOR website for all reasonable definitions of “hack”. Aaron wrote a handful of basic python scripts that first discovered the URLs of journal articles and then used curl to request them. Aaron did not use parameter tampering, break a CAPTCHA, or do anything more complicated than call a basic command line tool that downloads a file in the same manner as right-clicking and choosing “Save As” from your favorite browser.
    -Aaron did nothing to cover his tracks or hide his activity, as evidenced by his very verbose .bash_history, his uncleared browser history and lack of any encryption of the laptop he used to download these files. Changing one’s MAC address (which the government inaccurately identified as equivalent to a car’s VIN number) or putting a mailinator email address into a captured portal are not crimes. If they were, you could arrest half of the people who have ever used airport wifi.
    -The government provided no evidence that these downloads caused a negative effect on JSTOR or MIT, except due to silly overreactions such as turning off all of MIT’s JSTOR access due to downloads from a pretty easily identified user agent.
    -I cannot speak as to the criminal implications of accessing an unlocked closet on an open campus, one which was also used to store personal effects by a homeless man. I would note that trespassing charges were dropped against Aaron and were not part of the Federal case.

    http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartzs-crime/

  6. Unfair to Israel for Arabs to cover news on Arabs? on Al Jazeera Gets a US Voice · · Score: 1

    Just because most news about the Arab world IS news about Israel doesn't mean all those Arabs involved should get to have anyone ask a what their opinion might be, right?

  7. The Gene where apes and humanity meet is... on Research Suggests Apes and Humans Separated By a Single Gene · · Score: 1

    ... Gene Simmons

  8. Those documents showed US committing war crimes on Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court · · Score: 1

    USA signed the Geneva Conventions. US Treaty obligations to Geneva Conventions Treaty superseed all other considerations.

    The US cannot commit war crimes or hide evidence of war crimes behind false legal constructs

  9. Big data PROVED 2000 and 2004 elections stolen too on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The opinion polls entering election day and exit polls proved the Karl Rove and the GOP stole both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections for George W Bush.

  10. Want Humble Pay-what-you-want Prime Rib Buffets. on Facebook Tests 'Want' Button To Hoard User Data, Save Its Stock Price · · Score: 1

    There is much potential for awesomeness here.

  11. In Soviet Cuba... on 15 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    ...Tacos command you!

  12. Eaten by secret Nazi space sharks over Austria on Austrian Skydiver Prepared to Leap From Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    Nobody told Baumgartner about the Secret Nazi Space Shark lab still in low orbit over Germany near the Austrian border.

  13. FreeRepublic.com is far far worse on EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks · · Score: 1

    You want to be REALLY afraid, go read freerepublic.com sometime.

  14. Geting covered in pigblood makes one go "Carrie" on EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks · · Score: 0

    Christians and Jews just splatter Arabs with pig blood. So much more mature.

    You known anyone who got covered in pigblood that didn't go "Carrie" at the end of the prom.

  15. Flinging pigsblood at Arabs mature and reasonable? on EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks · · Score: 1

    Christians and Jews flinging pigs blood at Arabs is the act of a mature and reasonable person. Like we all keep pigs blood in the fridge, right?

  16. The USA definition of privitizing means... on NASA's First New Spacesuit In 20 Years Is Its Own Airlock · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...the government pays 3 times as much for private business to provide half the service that was being provided, and a few Anglo-Saxon guys pocket the rest of the cash.

  17. Only suit fabric protecting crew from hard vacuum? on NASA's First New Spacesuit In 20 Years Is Its Own Airlock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Leaving a spacesuit docked on a ship and now having nothing but the structural integrity of that suit between a crew and hard vacuum doesn't sound like a particularly bright idea.

  18. Duke - University built from Tobacco fortunes on Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims · · Score: 4, Informative

    Duke - Historical center of the attack against medical evidence proving smoking and second-hand smoke was hazardous to one's health

  19. More powerful home PCs aren't going anywhere on Preparing For Life After the PC · · Score: 1

    Home PCs have pushed back game consoles. Home PCs are now the platform of choice for gaming. There's going to be lots of mobile computing, but people will keep using one computer at their main work desk, and one at home that more powerful with all those less mobile accessories that make a home pc more comfortable to use for long periods of time.

  20. Don't worry about health of billionaires. on Google CEO Larry Page Says "Nothing Seriously Wrong" · · Score: 2

    Billionaires get GREAT heath care

    Worry about everyone else's health care.

  21. There is no discussion of rape charges. on Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador · · Score: 1

    You don't have your facts correct.

  22. Load it in their head (ala The Matrix) on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Teach Programming To Salespeople? · · Score: 1

    The only way you'd teach the sales people I've known programming skills is to figure out a way to put it on a Game Boy cart and physically shove it their head.

    Remember "WKRP in Cincinnati"? How would you have taught programming to Herb Tarlek.

  23. 12.4 Precise Pangolin should have been Pretty Pony on Fedora 17 Released · · Score: 1

    The Gods cried when 12.4 wasn't named Pretty Pony.

  24. I'm not paying for you to deliver me ads on Free News Unsustainable, Says Warren Buffett · · Score: 1

    You want subscription money? You're gonna deliver a product free of ads.

  25. Vision signal could be intercepted on Wireless Implants Promise Superior Vision Restoration · · Score: 1

    One could find out what person wearing the implants was looking at