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  1. Re:Sigh on Over the Antarctic, the Smallest Ozone Hole In a Decade · · Score: 2, Insightful
    economics imposes constraints on any solution to the problem of anthropogenic climate change

    anthropogenic climate change imposes constraints on all solutions to the problems of economics

    FTFY

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  2. Re:Geeks, get to work. on Surface Pro Sold Out; Was It Just Understocked? · · Score: 4, Informative
    I want this thing running linux before the month is out.

    https://plus.google.com/106631699076927387965/posts/4fcZhWrKyg3

    "Linux Mint on the Surface Pro. WiFi and touch don't work out of the box, but pen and Type Cover work great. "

    There you are.

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  3. Re:What's with the name, dude? on Rapiscan's Backscatter Machines May End Up In US Federal Buildings · · Score: 1
    Stephen Colbert beat you to this joke over a week ago.

    Given that I, stationed in Europe, do not watch anything Colbert, this only shows me how undervalued a genius I am.

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  4. Re:Done right on John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way To All-Digit Dialing, Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    Unicomp seems to be well off, Wikipedia: "Recently, Unicomp has begun expanding their product line. Due to customer demand showing that this was no longer a special request, Unicomp now sells beige, black, and colored key caps, with printing and without. In addition, Unicomp sells replacement parts for older IBM/Lexmark keyboards, and will repair just about any keyboard manufactured by themselves, IBM, or Lexmark." (emphasis mine)

    No wonder if you are based on the Model M (I own two, both from the beginning of the 90ies).

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  5. Re:What's with the name, dude? on Rapiscan's Backscatter Machines May End Up In US Federal Buildings · · Score: 1
    So is it Rapiscan as in "add" or Rapiscan as in "ape"?

    Think rape.

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  6. Insight on John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way To All-Digit Dialing, Dies At 94 · · Score: 1
    TFS: behavioral sciences could answer some questions about telephone design

    Kudos

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  7. Re:Indeed, you follow the money, you find the crim on How a Chinese Hacker Tried To Blackmail Me · · Score: 1

    Go to a financial power center, find the center of crime. Well dressed, groomed, prepared, by an army specialists in PR, marketing, design, security, privacy, and secrecy. But it is laying around there, somewhere. Most surely, the evidence and main coverup is in the security, legal, and accounting divisions. Enron was never alone.

    Bad thing that the criminals are those who are seen as successful. Somehow, values clarification did not work in the past century (so the starting point, strangely, coincides with the establishment of the Federal Reserve System - no, i will not mention the air of the "Elders of Zion" - forgery or not - except in a side note).

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  8. TLAs on How a Chinese Hacker Tried To Blackmail Me · · Score: 1
    I recall that there were rumours that TLAs scanned e-mails for certain keywords which gave birth to sigsalikes containing lists of them. I am too lazy to determine the time this was (can't remember exactly, perhaps a decade ago), but I think the Chinese were not (really) on the net yet, thus did not invent the path to destroy privacy.

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  9. Re:It cuts both ways I guess on iOS 6.1 Leads To Battery Life Drain, Overheating For iPhone Users · · Score: 1
    From your ID (erroneus) I infer that this must be a fine piece of sarcasm.

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  10. Faster Release Cycles on iOS 6.1 Leads To Battery Life Drain, Overheating For iPhone Users · · Score: 2
    Obviously, the release cycles have to be accelerated in order to avoid poor quality control, as faster cycling cycles will ensure that bugs will be found earlier.

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  11. Re:Product design mentality on Woz Says iPhone Features Are 'Behind' · · Score: 1
    the concept of "more features == better"

    ... is there to press you into buying the most expensive instance to get all features that you need, besides a lot of gimmicks you'll never use. At least, this is my experience, especially with cars, but also with hifi-equipment as well as a variety of household appliances, among others.

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  12. Re:Oops-near miss on Russian Search Engine Yandex Beats Bing · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Wikipedia sometimes helps: "The name initially stood for "Yet Another iNDEXer". The Russian word "" ("Ya") corresponds to the English personal pronoun "I", making "ndex" a bilingual pun on "index". ...".

    A pun indeed.

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  13. Re:Bullshit. on DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS · · Score: 1
    So once soap box, ballot box, and jury box have failed, what is left?

    Imagine the FED goes bankrupt, not able to pay the military.

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  14. Re:Oh give them a break on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 3, Insightful
    everything you say is the exact opposite of the truth

    Interesting, as this assumption worked for me as a child when I had to read books from "East Germany" (family circumstances) though living in "West Germany".

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  15. Re:Oh, give Slashdot a break on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 1
    But without mosquitoes and maple syrup.

    But with gnats, be sure. Granted, maple syrup only for those who avoid refined sugar and don't take brown sugar.

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  16. Re:Eat me, Euroskeptics! on European Court Finds Copyright Doesn't Automatically Trump Freedom Of Expression · · Score: 4, Informative
    The EU isn't that big.

    Wikipedia: "With a combined population of over 500 million inhabitants, or 7.3% of the world population, the EU, in 2011, generated the largest nominal world gross domestic product (GDP) of 17.6 trillion US dollars, representing approximately 20% of the global GDP when measured in terms of purchasing power parity."

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  17. Re:Eat me, Euroskeptics! on European Court Finds Copyright Doesn't Automatically Trump Freedom Of Expression · · Score: 4, Informative
    European Convention on Human Rights

    Just for some thoughts, quote: "The Convention prohibits in particular: torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, slavery and forced labour, death penalty, arbitrary and unlawful detention, and discrimination in the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set out in the Convention."

    (to be found at http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/The+Court/Introduction/Information+documents/ )

    How is that in the US of A?

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  18. Re:Perhaps we're the first on No Transmitting Aliens Detected In Kepler SETI Search · · Score: 1
    reality is only 14.7 billion years old

    Perhaps.

    Quote: "Instead, plasma cosmology assumes that, because we now see an evolving, changing universe, the universe has always existed and always evolved, and will exist and evolve for an infinite time to come." ( http://www.bigbangneverhappened.org/p13.htm ; )

    That is, we believe (have faith in) the correctness of the most popular current set of theories, though we probably know nothing.

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  19. Re:Science is the antithesis of religion... on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 1
    science is antithetical to faith since it requires that you test everything

    Axioms? e.g. as simple as Peano or as complex as Choice?
    Regards Peano: http://numberwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/is-one-two-many-a-myth/

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  20. Re:Interesting idea on Discourse: Next-Generation Discussion/Web Forum Software · · Score: 1
    I've done both, but I'm not a great programmer yet.

    Almost same with me (without the silver attachment). But I am sure it helped me to improve in my days (made it to a LISP machine). What was missing was endless exercises with proper guidance by a master of the field.

    But I could also say that I never was a programmer in the first place.

    Besides, I am suspicious regards people claiming to be *great* anyway.

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  21. Re:Interesting idea on Discourse: Next-Generation Discussion/Web Forum Software · · Score: 1
    Forgot this one: I think most programmers could improve their programs considerably if they programmed in LISP

    ... and would read "The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition [Paperback]".

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  22. forced timelag on Discourse: Next-Generation Discussion/Web Forum Software · · Score: 1
    the option to carry out serious conversation without distraction or undue influence

    A forced timelag netween interactions would probably help. Could create a difference one in the old days could observe between correspondence chess (by surface mail) and blitz chess.

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  23. Breakpoint on Tim O'Reilly Steps In To Debate Open Government and Linux · · Score: 1
    TFS: The "open" democracy experiment of 1776 is still ongoing;

    From what I learned here it has failed.

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  24. Re:Great! on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 5, Informative
    Probably a move to Scandinavia would help.

    Quote:"Every year, Sweden publishes everyone's income tax returns. So do Finland and Norway. And nobody really cares." ( http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-06-18-salaries_N.htm )

    Not quite the same, but still.

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  25. Re:Who knows, I'm not a lawyer... on Piriform Asks BleachBit To Remove Winapp2.ini Importer · · Score: 1
    They're indestructible, after all.

    Agreed, though I have one spare; quite sure both will outlast me.

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