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  1. Re:Rules for posting? on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 2

    Why do we have to mention Bennett in the non-Bennett posts? can we just have a break please?

  2. Re:The Cloud! on Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records · · Score: 1

    if the data has any value, it could (SHOULD) be anonymized (names changed to protect the innocent)...

  3. The Cloud! on Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is the data public information? if so, why not just make it publicly available, and whoever cares can download it. If the data is valuable, it will be mirrored and survive. if not, it won't.

  4. Re:On other words ... on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 1

    History. the current Microsoft app store is a mess.

  5. Re:if app store only then this will be next to use on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 1

    RTFA...it doesn't look that way

  6. Re:Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    Ok, i'll bite. If not here, where are 'good doctors' bred?

    *disclaimer -- my wife is a nurse at a transplant hospital, which has patients that fly in from countries all over the world that have inferior healthcare systems*

  7. Re:On the other hand... on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 5, Informative

    Overall it would be better if USB had just created a standard for this class of devices.

    You mean like the USB CDC standard? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...

  8. Re:even back then.... on Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public · · Score: 1

    you're technically wrong (the worst kind of wrong)

    the screen is always oriented so English text goes from left-to-right (not top-to-bottom). the fact that the monitor in the image happens to have a 1 aspect) does not mean it's 'oriented left', it's actually built this way.

  9. Re:New langauge on Fighting the Culture of 'Worse Is Better' · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between linking C libraries (Many non-c++ languages can do this) vs Stroustrup's insistance that a c++ compiler must be able to compile C code. this requirement is one of the reasons C++ is such a mess.

  10. Re:Distance on Samsung's Wi-Fi Upgrades Promise Speeds Up to 4.6Gbps · · Score: 1

    ios too.

  11. Re:Err... Wait a minute... on Samsung's Wi-Fi Upgrades Promise Speeds Up to 4.6Gbps · · Score: 1

    How does the ISP have any say about my internal network? they can pry my cat6 from my cold dead hands.

  12. Re:Alright smart guy on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    whatever new OSX is released 7 years from now.

  13. Re:Alright smart guy on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    it would be MUCH easier for the camera, or bluetooth, to *always* work in cyanogenmod if the project had access to specifications for the hardware. a lot of the hardware interfacing in cyanogenmod is reverse-engineered because datasheets just aren't available to the general public.

    Manufacturers don't have this issue; they have specifications for their hardware.

  14. Re:Cool project on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Port it to what? I'm not sure you understand the article.

  15. Re:Same reason blu-ray didn't take off on Dell Demos 5K Display · · Score: 2

    Problem is, there is no ideal ppi, there's an ideal ppr (pixels per radian) which varies with screen-to-eye distance. so 1080p is ok across the room, but not right in your face. GP is lying, a monitor would have to be pretty huge for 8k to not be ok...

  16. Re:Dammit! Adam you rolled over... on Adam Carolla Settles With Podcasting Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    They are not Nielson, but they are a significant (if not perfectly distributed) sample of podcast listeners, and one of very few centralized sources of data on the subject.

  17. Re:The obvious /. question... on New HP Laptop Would Mean Windows at Chromebook Prices · · Score: 1

    of course it will...only a matter of time.

  18. Re:The golden question.. on Raspberry Pi Gameboy · · Score: 1

    Not to be a grammar nazi, but why did you single-quote the word 'emulating'? Did you mean it ironically or something? The word itself seems to be used correctly...

  19. Re:No exhaustive.. on The World's Best Living Programmers · · Score: 1, Troll

    Stroustrup isn't really a great programmer, he's a guy who did a great job marketing a really terrible programming language.

  20. Re:Perl says your garbage is just that on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 1

    He did. look at the end of the line.

  21. Re:Misguided on Ask Slashdot: Is It Feasible To Revive an Old Linux PC Setup? · · Score: 1

    True, but not for under 10 watts...
    it's all about trade-offs.

  22. Re:Easy. on France Cries Foul At World Cup "Spy Drone" · · Score: 2

    Non-damaging to the drone

    These inexpensive toy drones are pretty lightweight. I doubt a paintball *wouldn't* damage the drone...

  23. Re:No word on cost on Samsung Debuts Thin Galaxy Tab S With Super AMOLED 2560X1600 Display · · Score: 5, Funny

    But without anything like iTunes behind it.

    Not having iTunes sounds like a feature...they should charge a premium.

  24. Re:Simple. Wonder why no-one's thought of this bef on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    but why should I do all the work?

    Not sure if this joke was intentional or not...

  25. Re:Tizen can run Android apps on A Different Kind of Linux Smartphone: Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z · · Score: 1

    Which is amazing, considering that android apps are mostly emulated when they're run *on android*