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  1. Re:Erh... I don't get it on What Northern Hemisphere Astronomers Are Missing From the Southern Hemisphere · · Score: 4, Funny

    You might have noticed it's a slow news week...

    A young Brazilian woman discussing science - what's not to like?

  2. Re:Escort on AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore · · Score: 1

    His point was that MH17 was shot down in Ukrainian airspace, half a world away from Malaysia or Indonesia.

  3. Re:Not very funny? Is anybody surprised? on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 2

    I'd say Last King Of Scotland but that's hardly a comedy...

    relevance to Slashdotters: Dana Scully is in a supporting role! :)

  4. Will it run on Nokia's Back In the Tablet Business, With the Android Lollipop-Based N1 · · Score: 2

    Maemo?

  5. Re:Posted at 12:17AM on Study: Light-Emitting Screens Before Bedtime Disrupt Sleep · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, I get

      Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @04:17PM

    What weird, obscure timezone are you using? :)

  6. Re:Open-source is no longer a threat to them on What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? · · Score: 1

    Yes, if they open source it, the community can maintain it.

    Let's say they release .NET 5.0 *only* for Windows 10. If there's demand, a third party will back-port it to 7 or possibly as far back as XP.

  7. Re:Patents on What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? · · Score: 2

    Perhaps it's 1 reason device makers are shipping devices without removal storage.

    No sd card, no fat patent licensing required.

  8. Re:Sales on What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? · · Score: 1

    There's #develop and monodevelop.

    Neither have the polish of VS.Net, obviously. But with the release of the .net box and dice, integration may become sweeter.

  9. Bordered by a rising Pacific Ocean on 11 Trillion Gallons of Water Needed To End California Drought · · Score: 1

    Desal...

  10. Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS = No Skype for me on Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator · · Score: 1

    My apologies, I've been bitten by a troll. Not you but the GP that suggested Skype didn't support 12.04 LTS.

    The download page explicitly says Ubuntu 12.04 multiarch as one of the download options.

  11. Re:No linux video conferencing on Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator · · Score: 1

    Skype needs to 'value-add' or facebook/google+, via webrtc, will make them redundant.

    Tieing it to windows is no surprise given its owner.

  12. Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS = No Skype for me on Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator · · Score: 1

    14.04 is an LTS release.

    Any reason you can't/won't upgrade?

  13. Re:how about no on Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator · · Score: 1

    Compatibility with MS applications has historically been a driver for implementing Wine.

  14. Re:Made in America! on Apple and Samsung Already Working On A9 Processor · · Score: 1

    norteamericano, estadounidense, yanqui, gringo...

    americano can also refer to a weak black coffee.

  15. Re:ARM for desktop/laptop on Apple and Samsung Already Working On A9 Processor · · Score: 1

    Apple would want to avoid a Windows RT debacle. Rebadging the mac mini as an ARM HTPC might work, where there's no confusion it'll run amd64 Photoshop.

    If developers are (have been recently) still producing fat binaries for PPC, adding a checkbox for ARMv8 in Xcode doesn't seem a stretch.

  16. Re:Muslims? on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    Christians too.

    Like the time the western church was on the way to palestine, took a wrong turn and conquered the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire at Constantinople. (4h crusade)

  17. Re:Imagine that! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    It surprises me that Google doesn't actually have their own online 'newspaper'. They could employ an editor to create a mashup of the best stories online, with a profit-sharing arrangement on ads.

    I'd prefer a dedicated web page than, say, facebook injecting clickbait through their universally hated 'Top Stories'.

    my two local newspapers have introduced paywalls, with a minimal number of free articles a month. One is fairly decent, the other is Rupert's trashy tabloid, complete with celebrity gossip and miracle weight loss cures. Syndicating the former through Google could reach an international audience, along with selected articles from other online sources and Google's ubiquity would ensure those articles chosen need not be subscription only.

    But usually I stick to abc.net.au via RSS for news, despite the vandals in the federal government wanting to destroy it. 8 cents a day...

  18. Re:Why are taxi drivers all so horrible? on French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber · · Score: 1

    Immigrants, often on student visas, are the only ones willing to work for taxi companies on "shitty" pay?

  19. Re:Let's compare these advantages to Haskell on Kawa 2.0 Supports Scheme R7RS · · Score: 1

    since exactly when is Java-integration zero overhead?

    When the organisation you're developing for is a 'Java shop'. The selling point here for Kawa over, say, Racket is that a solution can be deployed to a Java EE container.

    c.f. jruby, nashorn/rhino, jython

  20. Re:THERE HAS NEVER BEEN CLIMATE STASIS! on The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse · · Score: 1

    commie fascists

    Oxymoron?

  21. Follow the money on Australia Pushes Ahead With Website Blocking In Piracy Fight · · Score: 2

    It all leads back to Rupert and his Foxtel service.

  22. Asteroids on BitTorrent Launches Project Maelstrom, the First Torrent-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    I remember Maelstrom.

    It put Andrew Welch on the map as a game developer, 22 years ago.

  23. Re:Wha?!?!!! on Just-Announced X.Org Security Flaws Affect Code Dating Back To 1987 · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that NTVDM isn't supported in x86-64 because "long mode" won't execute "8086 Virtual Mode".

    Yet supposedly MS could resurrect the software for 64 bit Windows by running the software via the VT-x CPU extension present in most recent x86-64 CPU revisions.

    But I guess the effort to make the NTVDM subsystem 64 bit clean isn't worth it...

  24. Re:Xorg? on Just-Announced X.Org Security Flaws Affect Code Dating Back To 1987 · · Score: 1

    a Start menu, didn't Microsoft remove that for security reasons?

  25. fashionably late on Unity 8 Will Bring 'Pure' Linux Experience To Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    Sorry Canonical but haven't Jolla already stolen your thunder?