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  1. Re:Not a very exciting name on 'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand · · Score: 1

    Nothing to argue about, see
    item n. 7 or ask google.

    If Lucchesi practice the other meaning too much is not really my business.

  2. Re:Not a very exciting name on 'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand · · Score: 1

    And for the funny part:
    Being a "sega" is slang for being inept in Italy, so when the arcade machines displayed a full screen "Sega" some time after game was over, it was an insult to the guy who just lost the game, and was taunted by his fellows with that word.

    Having said that, they market everything under the Sega name and people don't care much anymore.

  3. Re:That's all we need ... on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 1

    Debian goals are incompatible with a systemd-only system, that's the reason.
    Removing mandatory systemd dependencies is what debian has to do. The technical committee can choose systemd as default init system, but from there to only init system means they can all go home and install redhat.

  4. Re:Sounds nice on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 2

    They won't react badly unless emacs gets pulled as a dependency and renames network interfaces. Which it won't do because it is not cancer.

  5. Re:do one thing and do it well on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 1

    vi is pretty much the best example to push in the face of systemd apologists.

    vi is default in every distribution, nobody bats an eye.
    systemd tries to do the same and everybody lose their mind.
    The reason is simple. You don't have to deal with vi at all if you don't choose so. And if you really really do not like it...

    # aptitude search vi | grep ^i ...
    i vim-common
    i vim-tiny ...

    # aptitude purge vim-tiny vim-common
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
        vim-common{p} vim-tiny{p}
    0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1093 kB will be freed.

    vi is not cancer.

  6. Re:Sounds nice on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 1

    Why should emacs depend on systemd when it can reimplement it?

  7. Re:They are all going down the toilet on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 2

    Ubuntu Unity seems to be the only cool-looking UI left.

    I can't say it's not cool looking. As long as all you have to do is look at it, you're set.

    My 2c on the topic. Apple knows what to do, the objective is not to make the best looking hi res desktop, it is to make the lower res desktop look like sh1t. Marketing 101.

  8. Re: I don't follow on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 2

    I could switch to whatever typeface in macos, at my own risk of course, but it seems strange this ability went away.

  9. Re:Remove It on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    In a way, Red Hat cares about linux users. You see, when linux users have a distro working perfectly out of the box, RH's business model crumbles.

    A systemd based, never fully defined, never fully complete Linux, is what RH Canonical and hardware makers need to do the desktop linux transition. Devs who jump on the train will do like devs on win and osx, always work to adapt the new versions to the changes and fuck the old versions and its users.

    New users are even more fucked up because they might look up howtos on the web that have worked for more than a decade, until systemd and similar projects obsoleted them for no compelling reason.

  10. Re:yeah, going with not creepy. on Facebook 'Safety Check' Lets Friends Know You're OK After a Major Disaster · · Score: 1

    There is no OK in FaceboOK.

  11. Re:are the debian support forums down? on Ask Slashdot: Stop PulseAudio From Changing Sound Settings? · · Score: 1

    Have you tried using pulseaudio just for skype? like identifying which libraries gets used, put them in (folder), starting manually the pulseaudio daemon if there is one, and invoke skype from terminal prefixing it with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=(folder)?
    Failing that, I had 32 bit skype in a chroot because the rest of the system was 64 it worked. One day it keep failing authorization, and then i got an email telling me i was using an outdated skype version. That must be the microsoft way.

  12. Re:What? on Microsoft Partners With Docker · · Score: 1

    Helpful? you kidding me? For example, what's a platform? Don't push your niche knowledge on the rest of us, nerdling.

  13. Re:Of course! on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 1

    They use radial coordinates to calculate the space needed for a reactor, because you gotta be taking radiation into account, of course.

    Or maybe, once they were told the notorious E CAT mystery reactor was working, they dusted off some prototype and announced they are onto something too, the CAT is out the bag :D

  14. Re:Robocoin has 44 operational ATMs worldwide on The Great Robocoin Rip-off · · Score: 1

    You should recognize them easily too from the prominent OCP logo. And if somebody enters the PIN wrong three times, a belt comes out, imprisons the guy and zaps him dead.

    Captcha: coolly

  15. Re:I don't buy it on Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism · · Score: 1

    a couple of years after Oracle assumed control of MySQL, people left in droves. Why? Because when it was open source it was better maintained, security flaws were patched faster and more often, etc.

    It is not the best example, one could object that MySQL was bought to be eventually snuffed.
    On the other hand this highlights the very problem with non-free software. All considerations, including security, are secondary to the corporation's mission. So, there needs to be free software no matter what, else security will get worse.

  16. Makes perfect sense to me. on NSA To Scientists: We Won't Tell You What We've Told You; That's Classified · · Score: 1

    By not releasing the list they passed on a golden opportunity of spreading more disinformation, which is their bread and butter.
    In good old times, secret services were not so damn lazy.

  17. Re:I should be pretty safe... on The CDC Is Carefully Controlling How Scared You Are About Ebola · · Score: 1

    > the geeks, nerds, and dorks shall inherit the earth

    Briefly.

    Unless they discover how to spawn, given that there will be no chicks in sight.

  18. Re:UseLessD on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    If bash has been found vulnerable after being available in source the past 20 30 years, how likely is it to find probs in systemd? You trust a project with an unclear scope (it is clear, not officially so, though) to be better?

  19. Re:I'm shocked on Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Xbox One Controller Support · · Score: 4, Funny

    Torvalds tried to joke and call it linux 3.18, but that broke the kernelversiond of systemd, which in turn messed the /dev tree so his printer started DDoSing his cellphone.
    All in all, a very windowsish experience.

  20. That's the Italian way for you on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 5, Funny

    A guy who is reported as traveling in China in fact was getting into America 200 years before a guy who bumped into America when trying to reach India using a shortcut which in fact was much longer.

  21. Re:I've been impressed with IE lately on Internet Explorer Implements HTTP/2 Support · · Score: 1

    > Microsoft isn't quite the microsoft of the past.
    Because it hasn't quite the market share of the past.

  22. Re:Hardware isn't Progressing on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    Yes, they can't mess with the minimum requirements, else desktop linux becomes the only choice for that PC that you prefer not to get rid of yet.

    Besides, a 1ghz intel performs better than a dual core arm tablet with the same freq, in the real world use. I have seen better games on a 166mhz than a 1ghz phone but it's a software/developer skill problem.

  23. Personally I'd wait to be retired before going public with suggestions done as a police officer. It is true that everybody can suggest laws, but those whose task is enforcing it should stay well damn separate. Separation of legislative, executive, judiciary power, do you remember?

  24. Re:Stallman would be proud on Apple Yet To Push Patch For "Shellshock" Bug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Moron: Yeah I wanna redistribute your software but not abide to the license it comes with it, because it's not freedom enough! I mean, give my source modification to everybody who asks? Avoid patenting and so effectively closing up the work you intended for the world? Why should I do that?

    Dev: how about you write your own damn code and license it as you please? And I suppose you are perfecly fine when your own licenses are being ignored?
     

  25. Re:Of course it does. on Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun · · Score: 1

    Obtuse people are obtuse, eh?
    God had an iWatch, obviously.