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  1. Serviio worked fine for me on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: 1

    I installed Serviio on an existing Gentoo box, added a couple of packages (ffmpeg, etc), and it has worked fine with my Sony BlueRay player for a couple of years now with no problems. I don't really do playlists or anything, just navigating folders and watching a couple movies or shows at a time.

  2. Re:Isn't this the ultimate goal? on If I Had a Hammer · · Score: 1

    Over half the population doesn't work now. Which is at the core of our economic problems.

  3. Re:Good parenting on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    Most humans throughout history never experienced freedom. Ours has been on a steady decline since at least the early 20th century, and hugely so since the 70s.

    Frankly, most people won't notice or care that the remnants are gone. They're happy being "safe" sheep. Their lives won't noticeably suck, because they won't know any different.

  4. Re:I don't care on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    There is no way you can drive any distance or with any frequency without breaking the law.

  5. Re:Meaningless on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    As long as the execs live in the US, the company will do whatever .gov wants them to do.

  6. Re:Its counter productive on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

  7. Re:Cue the climate change deniers ... on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    Or the land masses were in different places. Or ocean currents were different. Say, because the Isthmus of Panama was open, you know, like up until about 3 million years ago when the current series of glaciation periods started.

    Comparing anything in geological history to the current period is far more complex than "it was warmer".

  8. Re:Slightly misleading. on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The anti-Harperites are generally not anti-government. They just want the NDP in charge.

  9. Re:how would it work in the real world? on Google's Plan To Kill the Corporate Network · · Score: 1

    We haven't bought desktops or laptops with mechanical drives in over 3 years. SSDs everywhere.

  10. Re:What would you expect? on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 1

    Then you follow a long arc through the air and eventually splat down somewhere else. Oops.

  11. Re:TL;DR on Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Talk to Harry Reid. The scientists figured it out decades ago, but some politicians refuse to act.

  12. Re:The article is BS on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    Well I definitely wouldn't suggest doing it that fast, but yes, lots of exercise and healthy eating gets rid of the weight.

    And yep, once you're fat, it seems it will always be a fight to keep it off. Sucks, but true.

  13. Re:The article is BS on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    I'm more like you than I am like your brothers, and it's still true.

    Eat better, exercise more. It's not rocket science. And I bet it would work for 95% or more of obese people. It works for everyone on Biggest Loser, for example, and those are the fattest of the fatties anywhere.

    I've never going to model swimwear, but I lost 40 lbs over 2 years and have mostly kept it off, with minor ups and downs. If I could cut out the muffins and ice cream I bet I'd drop 20 more.

  14. Re:What would you expect? on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 2

    If gravity stops, you won't have to jump. Your inertia from the Earth's rotation will take care of things.

  15. Re:Good to see Justice Prevails on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because South America was such an awesome place in the 1800s.

    South America is screwed because the way the Spanish divided the land created permanent lords and peons, and most of the countries never fixed it.

  16. Re:Oh noooos! on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Lots of women are in IT. Just not in North America. Apparently women in Asia have their brains wired more like men.

  17. Re:Equality on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No ... "social justice" (what the cool kids are calling communism these days) requires equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity. Everyone must be equal! Or else "the system" is not working properly.

  18. Re:And if all else fails, trump up some rape charg on NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits · · Score: 1

    See also: fraud charges against S&P after downgrade of US debt rating.

  19. Re:Lie a little on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 2

    Paid for by who? Oh right, the people who go to work every day and do their jobs.

  20. Re:What a nonsense post... on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    China is closing coal plants and building nuclear power plants like there's no tomorrow.

    Citation needed. Chinese coal consumption continues to increase YoY.

    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58482

  21. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    That's probably because you don't export oil, but some talking heads claim you do for some inscrutable reason.

  22. Re:hemoglobin test on Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies · · Score: 1

    It's because the medical industry in the US has had laws made that exempt them from antitrust. They actively collude to restrict supply and drive up prices. The whole industry is a scam.

    http://truecostofhealthcare.org/

  23. Re:I do this on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    Actually, people on phones on trains and buses are super annoying. I approve this plan.

  24. Re:For those who want a $15 minimum wage in the US on Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! · · Score: 1

    Yes, like all the people pumping gas, filling grocery store bags, etc. Full employment!

    Or ... not. If you a make a job economically unproductive, it goes away. Businesses don't pay to lose money.

  25. Re:Wow on Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't worry, they still do. Socialists never let a little reality get in the way of their ideals.