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  1. Re:Recipe? on Mushroom-Like Deep Sea Organism May Be New Branch of Life · · Score: 1

    NO WAI, this is one of those mushrooms grown in diapers. That's why it's so f*cked up, obviously.

  2. Re:The only lesson to learn from this on Intellectual Ventures Sheds At Least Part of Its "Patent Troll" Reputation · · Score: 1

    another lesson is that one who starts suing for patent infringement and than builds stuff with that money is apparently equivalent to somebody that build things and sues when somebody infringes on the relevant patents.

    Madness?
    This is PATENTS!!!

  3. Re:"Death to Gamers and Long Live Videogames" on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    What we need is... Geekism!
    *ducks*

  4. Re:Amiga on Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If a system can display an error message, it is not messed up enough.

  5. Re:What's wrong with Windows Server? on You Got Your Windows In My Linux · · Score: 1

    Next, go to an israeli forum and ask what's wrong with Hitler's EndlÃsung? only serious answers from people who actually enjoyed mein kampf please.

  6. Re:It's amazing on First US Appeals Court Hears Arguments To Shut Down NSA Database · · Score: 1

    > Imagine having to come up with an immutable law that will still have to be applicable after another two hundred years

    A law stating principles can do that and more.
    Matthew 22:36-40

  7. Wars have ended when a single system enveloped all the world. We now have destruction as an excuse to rebuild infrastructure and reset economic systems so that they cannot be proved as broken by design.

    Now this is merely a theory, but it explains more things than the many flags theory.

  8. Re:What's wrong with Windows Server? on You Got Your Windows In My Linux · · Score: 1

    I too would be wary of whatever comes out the likes of the pulseaudio guy, but this is an ad hominem. Systemd has already many questionable aspects without having to bring in Lennart's previous artwork.

    As of now, knoppix works on all my hardware, boots as fast as systemd distro (if not faster), so I plan to wait 'till systemd does the damage it was designed for (I know, others call it "innovation", by the fruit...), before NOT switching to it :)

  9. no real winners on Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? · · Score: 4, Informative

    My desktop power user workflow wrt video is:
    cat (unix command) to piece together the 2gb splices the camcorder makes (avchd)
    ffmpeg to change the container from whatever the camcorder uses to a more editor friendly mkv, you can use the copy option for blazing fast remuxing without reencoding.
    kdenlive or cinelerra. They are both prone to crash so save often. Cinelerra has best curves for fading but it's a very peculiar GUI.

    If you know your stuff, you can do pretty decent videos.

  10. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    > it is written in the US constitution that international treaties become part of US law. Where that introduces contradictions the treaty law applies.

    OT: we have a similar provision in Italian constitution, but I thought it was so because we lost the war.

  11. Fake audio is useful. on RAYA: Real-time Audio Engine Simulation In Quake · · Score: 2

    It is good to give devs the option of realistic audio, but for games in medium - big settings, the relative slowness of sound propagation is a problem. Getting a headshot and later hearing the sound is counter intuitive, at least for the hollywood generations. I guess that realistic effects with no delay in sound propagation is the way to go.

  12. Re:Err, if you're a system admin.. on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    Err, if taking a server offline, no matter the reason, is a serious problem, then you are not a good - or properly funded - sysadmin.

  13. Re:And I thought I was cool... on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I thought I was cool when I reboot servers around the world thinking I am rebooting mine.

  14. Re:Fork in the Road on Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles To Firefox Nightly's New Tab Page · · Score: 2

    yo dawg, I herd you'd like a fork of a fork of mozilla, so I recommend a fork of a fork of mozilla called seamonkey, which is basically mozilla. You get to keep many firefox extensions with it too.

    If people volunteered a couple more complete themes for it, that would be great.

  15. "It's simple.
    We kill the bitcoin."

    I would be less concerned about BTC and more about cryptocurrencies in general. If people get used to that concept, using money as a totalitarian weapon and keeping the pretenses of democracy will be quite difficult.

  16. Re:What's MediaGoblin? Do we care? on MediaGoblin 0.7.0 "Time Traveler's Delight" Released · · Score: 2

    > This seems to be a publishing system for people with nothing to say.

    Facebook and Twitter are now officially concerned about this newfangled competition.

  17. Re:So, 23 years ago he was trolling on Linux 3.17-rc2 Release Marks 23 Years of the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Ok, but then let's consider the fact that in 2002 you could install the powerpc port of linux on a powerbook and have everything, gigabit ethernet, 3d, wireless, sound, firewire, working with open source drivers (the modem required a blob). While now you have trouble with firmware, drivers, boot process, even finding the keys to boot into bios/uefi mode. No I am not talking about the crypto keys, the KEYBOARD keys are not so well documented for new laptops.

    In other words, if hardware makers hadn't all these advantages with OSes where upgrading is a commercial, not technical matter (windows, OSX, and possibly systemd/linux if I know my onions) you'd already have had a trouble free desktop linux experience 10 years ago. I switched around that time and am quite satisfied. Captcha: "prouder"

  18. Re:Prior art on Whole Organ Grown In Animal For First Time · · Score: 1

    > I have been growing whole, working organs in my own body since at least 1984.

    "Whole, working organs growing in your mom 9 months earlier" jokes in 3..2..1..

  19. Re:They're not gamers. on Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys · · Score: 1

    It's actually quite easy.
    Gamer : playing games = Photographer : taking photos.

    Actually for my definition, people who spend time in any game where rewards depend on investment of time or money instead of skill and time devoted to improve it, are NOT gamers. Your WOW stats are irrelevant, your tempest high-scores definitely not.

  20. Re:Someone with no brain is running NASA on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 2

    >> "The rover has reached its planned mission life, everything beyond this is a bonus."
    > I agree with the rest of your post, but this part is tricky to evaluate.

    This says "mission accomplished".

  21. Heresy! Alpha 64 is the bestest ever.

  22. Re:draws a lot of comparisons to Mac OS X on Elementary OS "Freya" Beta Released · · Score: 1

    > I'm not sure why Slashdot is bothering to cover a distro whose claim to fame is ripping off somebody elses design

    Because covering only xerox workstations would be painfully boring.

  23. Re:Ammonia fuel on New Process Promises Ammonia From Air, Water, and Sunlight · · Score: 1

    Another thing not mentioned is that ammonia and a lot of other useful fertilizing substances are quite prevalent in ... piss.

  24. Re:Unfortunately? on seL4 Verified Microkernel Now Open Source · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Man, what a pathetic troll style. Go to usenet and learn.

  25. Re:The scammer's dream. on US States Edge Toward Cryptocoin Regulation · · Score: 1

    > That's why Bitcoin needs regulation

    Regulation doesn't stop scams, it merely makes them more creative. Let's regulate 'till only lawyers can own a business? Scams could be not prevented but undone, by total transparency and traceability, which is easier to implement than you think ("the books have no trace of transactions involving you and this thing? then you don't own it").

    But, unfortunately, transparency would expose powerful people and their tricks, so the powerful people allow STASI-like spying and your children groped at the airport, so you rebel and seek comfort in privacy. Checkmate, you lose.

    I am against BTC regulation because every time you earn something real or money, from bitcoin or whatever, you should put it in the tax form else you're being dishonest. BTC, like virtual game goodies, fall in this category IMHO.