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  1. Re:Any advice for Peter Norton? on Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will · · Score: 1

    Answer: get an impossible reputation for a testimonial, like having a foreign country looking to imprison you, so that they will have to drop the name without even needing a letter from you, duh.

  2. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. on MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet · · Score: 1

    He's referencing a sizable portion of what we call literature, drama.

  3. Re:anecdote=truth on Research Suggests Pulling All-Nighters Can Cause Permanent Damage · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't go as far as that, but considering that sleep is garbage collection, that a lot of living creatures risk their life every time they go "offline" to perform it, and that it's the only occasion for nerds to have satisfying interaction with the other sex (in their dreams, that is), I am sure treating sleep with RESPECT.

  4. Re:Reinventing GPL wheels on GNU C Library Alternative Musl Libc Hits 1.0 Milestone · · Score: 0

    Yes, people who want to avoid the requirements of the GPL, which asks simply for letting people get advantage of the code you distribute as you got advantage of the code you modify. "Freely you have received, freely give" (Matthew 10). Therefore if you love Jesus you follow the GPL, if you don't believe in god you follow the atheist Richard M. Stallman's license. Else you are obviously wicked.

  5. Re:Weev = Miserable Internet Troll (New York Times on Is Weev Still In Jail Because the Government Doesn't Understand What Hacking Is? · · Score: 1

    BTW The New York Times is a troll generator, it causes imitation by feeble minded losers by devoting articles to these rookies.

  6. Re:Advantages and disadvantages on Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Libreoffice does not require java for most commonly used functionality. It will just complain when launched by terminal.

    Three years ago I installed libreoffice without java thinking: I will put java when it's necessary. Still not happening.

    A lightweight install of libreoffice (only writer and calc and dependencies, no java) is also a good idea in many cases.

  7. This is irrelevant.
    A troll jailed for no reason is a fitting punishment for a troll anyway, so there.

  8. name? on UK To Create Alan Turing Institute · · Score: 1

    The Alan Turing Institute For Automated General Spying, nice acronym too.
    Cheap shot I know, except that the real name will be more hypocritical.

  9. Mathematicians, pls on Lego Robot Solves Rubik's Cube Puzzle In 3.253 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I am afraid other posters have given you the wrong answer.
    The longest possible sequence of moves is infinite when the initial state involves swapping two colored stickers.
    Source: personal experience.

  10. Re:O RLY on Overuse of Bioengineered Corn Gives Rise To Resistant Pests · · Score: 5, Insightful

    YA RLY
    And the corporations selling this stuff cannot care less about it, all they care about is that we transition to patented and sterile seeds so we perpetually depend on them. All the fuss surrounding GMO is about this.

    Needless to say, the corporations should be prosecuted as fraudsters unless those buying the seeds sign a contract which clearly states they assume all responsibility for what the seeds do to their environment and the nearby fields. Because if something bad happens it's the fault of either one.

  11. Re:Laughable on The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly · · Score: 1

    No, he is right, the rise of _not the first_ social network which wanted your email password to suck up your contact list was an anomaly.

    He does not likely admit that another anomaly is the disfunctional windows OS, the unusable as storage ipod, the locked down iphones and androids, secure boot.

    Not that I expect consumers to make informed choices since they are badly influenced by advertising and doctored stats.

  12. Re: 35 GB of uncompressed audio? on Measuring the Xbox One Against PCs With Titanfall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >>(35GB of uncompressed audio)
    > It was so that lower spec PCs can run it.
    OMG have you thought your answer through? that would be effective only for a PC which is powerful enough to manage the graphics and engine and does not spare the cycles for audio.

    Given that a 166mhz pc from twenty years ago effortlessly decoded mp3s in realtime, that in the meantime people have improved decoders, encoders, formats that audio playing is parallelizable, that uncompressed audio requires uncompressed IO, I think "aliens wanted that" is a better explanation. The best of course being that a 45gb game is less piratable than a 10gb one.

  13. Re:Cut them off on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    > No vaccination? Forbidden from attending school. Forbidden from visiting a doctor. Forbidden from visiting any public facilities like libraries, train stations, or airports. Forbidden from riding a bus or train or taxi.

    Young people reading this are now wondering: "So, where's the catch?"

  14. Re:This could be good news... on Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    More precisely, I wish the transition will not fragment the system between a lot of still potentially useful apps that cease working and the new stuff that will take years to mature to the point of old apps. Think about the transition between kde 3 and 4, or end up like people running classic unix apps under OSX.

    Network transparency is a MUST to me, but if it is important for many it should end up getting implemented into any solution eventually.

  15. Re: Mr. Snowden, we need your help on Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics · · Score: 1

    Snowden might be a Sealand double agent for all I know, the point is: were his revelations made up or he spit the truth? The truth is way more damaging of course. Well, a strange kind of damage. Knowing about the excesses of surveillance state is a benefit to the people and does not hinder in any way the agencies to keep doing what they do, because they always de facto operate above the law in every place. So you have a double agent aiding the enemy. Hmmm?

    Besides... If there had been the hint of the smell of a convoluted link between snowden and russians, it would have been all over the news in an attempt of damage control.

  16. Re: How are those kind of things patentable? on Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents · · Score: 2

    And by the way, 40$ for 5 patents seems to fall in line with the rest of Apple pricing, so Samsung better STFU and be thankful for the privilege.

    No, seriously, give me a dumbphone that acts as modem with standard AT commands and a 5 to 7 inch tablet with standard linux on it, and you can shove all your apple win and android smartphones you know where.

  17. Which means on Genome Pioneer, X Prize Founder Tackle Aging · · Score: 1

    You're getting your pension 40 years later. Enjoy!

  18. Re:Look to the geological record on Dinosaurs Done In By... Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    If you look over the past 500 billion years, the geological record shows that there is a mass extinction event roughly every 62 million years. Even though there is some give and take, on that timescale it's almost like clockwork. Since this discovery, scientists of many disciplines have been trying to figure out what could be causing it.

    Computer scientists think about it for about two seconds. Then they mutter "Must be the garbage collector" and go fetch a beer.

  19. Re:Bad on Should Newsweek Have Outed Satoshi Nakamoto's Personal Details? · · Score: 1

    Here's your little class

    Class Journalist : public Writer, public Investigator, public Liar, private Servant;

  20. Re:In fact, on Should Newsweek Have Outed Satoshi Nakamoto's Personal Details? · · Score: 1

    1. invent bitcoin
    2. wait for mainstream
    3. claim to be the inventor of bitcoin, faking ignorance and offering insufficient proof
    4. ???
    5. Profit!

  21. HEY on It's True: Some People Just Don't Like Music · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't know there were so many fans of Bieber.

  22. Re:Embedded player on Getty Images Makes 35 Million Images Free For Non-Commercial Use · · Score: 2

    Maybe it works for them without other advertisement than a Getty logo. Every image becomes a banner for their site, after all. And it possibly boost their search engine ranking.

  23. Re:This is new ? on Website Simulates Amiga OS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Black/red is my default browser theme, is it not the same over there? Try reformatting.

  24. Re:only 50Kg? on Italian Researchers Demonstrate 'Powerloader' Suit · · Score: 0

    Dude, it's from a *public university* lab in Italy, you know how things are around here? if they tried fitting more powerful stuff the principal would have stormed the room and made them pay the electric bill.

    JK - nice achievement, guys.

  25. Re:This is new ? on Website Simulates Amiga OS · · Score: 1

    Uh and do not forget a somewhat accurate emulator of the early Amiga OS, source below:
    <h1>Guru meditation #000001321.8378471<\h1>