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  1. Re:Just like the economy on How One Man Changed the Ecology of the Great Lakes With Salmon · · Score: 1

    Because splicing together foreign DNA in a lake worked so well last time

  2. Re:Yes please! on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core · · Score: 1

    Oracle's proprietary binaries are still the most common way of installing Java on operating systems without a package manager.

    Red Hat were planning on contributing resources to the Windows port, iirc.

  3. Re:why would I write to that? on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core · · Score: 1

    List<Integer> and autoboxing?

  4. Re: So what is it? on Google Hopes To One Day Replace Gmail With Inbox · · Score: 1

    Well the registration page indicates you need an ios or android device to complete the initialization

  5. Re:Who's their test group? on Google Hopes To One Day Replace Gmail With Inbox · · Score: 3, Informative

    (1) open gmail in a browser on work pc
    (2) type in shopping list, autosaved as draft
    (3) open draft email on phone while at supermarket

    turns out you don't need an app for that because draft emails sync to multiple devices.

  6. Re:So what is it? on Google Hopes To One Day Replace Gmail With Inbox · · Score: 1

    Well it's not strictly webmail.

    Google management are forcing users onto iOS or Google Play for Android in order to use the service.

    Maybe that's just the activation but I'm not installing Android in a vm (does android-x86 include google play) just so I can then later run their webmail in firefox.

  7. Re:Make drivers open on Samsung's Open Source Group Is Growing, Hiring Developers · · Score: 1

    Samsung? little, it's more for the FOSS tinkerer concerned with binary blobs that don't always work between OS revisions.

    phones based on the Qualcomm SoC seem of little interest to the GNU replicant crowd due to the sheer number of binary blobs.

    Freedreno seems to have some progress behind it based on a Gallium3D stack but afaik no one has deployed it on Android. The benefit being porting the latest Lollipop to an unsupported 3 year old handset rather than dumping it to landfill when its 24 month contract expires.

  8. History repeats on Chromebooks Overtake iPads In US Education Market · · Score: 1

    eMate 300.

  9. Re:These days I write in P on Attack of the One-Letter Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Huh, it's almost summer where I live.

    We even played cricket in the park today.

  10. Re:Corn Subsidies on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    Aren't cows a leading cause of CO2?

    If you paleos hunted cattle to extinction by 2040, we could meet our global emissions targets! :)

  11. Re:Problem? on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    Northern Hemisphere bias? The gist seemed to be that the wealthy '1st world' of the north is disrupting the carbon cycle. Less crops, more trees?

    Food miles and all but perhaps the north should focus on importing food from the agricultural powerhouses of Argentina and Australia (plus those NZ apples I've seen in supermarkets in Europe and North America). China just signed a FTA with AUS.

    (where I live, Australia is a bit of a dumping ground for excess production of Italian tinned tomatoes and Spanish olive oil, pricing locally grown alternatives out of the low end. But that'd require ending E.U. agricultural subsidies)

  12. Re:I used to want something kind of like this on Intel Planning Thumb-Sized PCs For Next Year · · Score: 1

    Well my OS boots off a USB2 120GB SSD but anyway... :)

    The point here is that there is no need for a terminal - all you need is a TV or monitor with USB and HDMI ports.

  13. Re:key words on Android Botnet Evolves, Could Pose Threat To Corporate Networks · · Score: 1

    Yeah there's no UI to configure "known sources".

    It'd be nice to trust a certain repository only. For example, I replaced the old 2.3.x stock rom with CM11. Google Play is too heavy for the device but f-droid runs fine. But you need to check the unknown sources option.

    (Google have no interest in encouraging users to go outside the play store, naturally. The checkbox is mainly there so developers can load an apk via adb over USB)

  14. Re:Drinkable? Are you sure? on Bicycle Bottle System Condenses Humidity From Air Into Drinkable Water · · Score: 1

    Before you leave the house, spoon a couple of scoops of powdered sports-water into the bottom of the container?

  15. Re:It's an Intel cpu on Nokia's N1 Android Tablet Is Actually a Foxconn Tablet · · Score: 1

    Well yeah, it's a Z3580 Anniedale with a PowerVR GPU.

    Some Atoms come with Intel HD graphics. This ain't one of them.

  16. Re:Can Apple Move to ARM on the Desktop? on Intel Announces Major Reorg To Combine Mobile and PC Divisions · · Score: 1

    How would that 3Ghz A8X benchmark against an Atom SoC such as the 14nm Cherry Trail?

    Sufficiently well enough to justify a switch away from x86-64 to ARM?

  17. In Jessie there's one mega 'systemd' package but 1 module that specifically invokes it is 'libpam-systemd', from which dependancies sprawl out.

    Maybe separate out logind via the 'systemd-shim' mechanism?

  18. Re:names.. on After Silk Road 2.0 Shutdown, Rival Dark Net Markets Grow Quickly · · Score: 1

    their top level domain is .onion

    theonion.com should sue for defamation :)

  19. Re:Alternative browsers? on Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads · · Score: 1

    Gnu icecat

  20. Re:On the trickiness of words on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, in my country 'Liberal' is a term for right-leaning conservative.

  21. Re:Why not use Verizon as your ISP as well on More Tor .Onion Sites May Get Digital Certificates Soon · · Score: 1

    Creating a login, Winston Smith (not your real name), and using tor to access facebook isn't sufficiently anonymous?

  22. Re:Convenience! on New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    1st world problems.

    Visa in my country has been quick to upgrade their pos terminals for contactless payment. Who needs an iPhone?

  23. Re:No thank you on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 1

    Cumberbatch's main claim to fame is playing a camp version of Sherlock Holmes.

    I liked the Robert Downey Jr version, so couldn't see why so soon the Americans had to make a TV series with Jonny Lee Miller, nor the BBC with Benedict.

    But then Moffat ruined Doctor Who also. :)

  24. Re:Perhaps someone can explain this on Australian Post Office Opens Mail Forwarding Warehouse In the USA · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, Chinese businesses don't pay a cent for international postage - yay, communism!

    Under international treaty, the receiving country delivers said small packages for free to the consumer.

    Hamburg to Berlin, well it's sender-pays.

  25. Re:I'm not clear on Australian Post Office Opens Mail Forwarding Warehouse In the USA · · Score: 1

    Yep the 2 biggest groups, by sales, here are

    (1) US ebay sellers.
    (2) Amazon, who ship books but not their complete inventory OS.

    Now they can just deliver to a regular US address.

    Personally I'd look forward to all those special offers, e.g. when HTC were recently having a one-day US-only sale on their new Android tablets.