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  1. Re:Goodbye, Ubuntu. on Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me · · Score: 1

    You know, doing analysis on posts, using the word "shill", similar bolding and throwing links at the bottom, I know your actual slashdot id. Don't you feel somewhat in a rut, doing the same thing over and over again, yet no one cares?

  2. Re:Truly a 1st world problem on FCC Chief Urges FAA To Ease Airplane Electronics Ban · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Have you ever heard the bleep-bleep-beep-beep-etc sound coming out of your PC speakers when your cell phone is next to it and there is an incoming call/text? That is because the FCC requires pretty much everything "must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation". Do you want that kind of noise going through the cockpit electronic, even if you did some tests and found it should be safe?

  3. Re:HEADLINE: Scientists fear for their jobs, want on Ticking Arctic Carbon Bomb May Be Bigger Than Expected · · Score: 2

    Global warming is bad because the result is ultimately less habitable land, for both people and food production.

  4. Re:Fear Will Keep Them in Line! on Republican Staffer Khanna Axed Over Copyright Memo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are thinking small scale, sir. A software development team throwing shit at each other is a completely different scenario. Imagine, however, that you run the development team and one of your underlings published an article in The Washington Post/New York Times illustrating what a moron you are. Throw away your ideas of "what is fair". Neither business nor the government (or even life for that matter) is fair. He played the asshole, so he got served by an asshole.

  5. Re:Have They Addressed and Refuted It? on Republican Staffer Khanna Axed Over Copyright Memo · · Score: 1

    If one of my workers told the whole country why he thought I was stupid, I'd fire him too, regardless the merit

  6. Re:can you say hell no on ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No they won't. It is a matter of "national security"

  7. Re:You are not Nintendo's target market on Hackers Discover Wii U's Processor Design and Clock Speed · · Score: 1

    I suppose having arms and legs is cheating when going hunting

  8. Re:ISPs as well? on Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No. Your ISP probably does little more than route traffic properly to the next router. A TOR exit node is an actual entity distributing data to others. A good analogy would be, your ISP is a self checkout line, and the TOR exit node is a physical employee walking the transaction through to completion. One is dumb, one is not

  9. Re:My prediction for this discussion on Grim Picture of Polar Ice-Sheet Loss · · Score: 1

    I have my solution! Want to hear it?

    Just like every good hero, rather than slaying the beast, we defeat it by letting it do what it does, but not matter. So let the ice melt, so long as we can displace the extra water. Build autonomous drills that just crawl the sea floor and start poking holes, giving the water somewhere to go

  10. Re:No, it won't gain a strong following. on In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad · · Score: 1

    I use my TI because I always have, and I am comfortable with it. I tried an HP after graduating high school, but it felt as foreign as a Windows user trying to use a Mac. It may be better, but I had a tool that worked and I was intimately familiar with. TI-BASIC was/is much easier to write and read over RPL. An HP48 right now goes for 3x the price of a TI8x. Modern TI8x calcs have flash memory and can run machine language code, so there are alternate OS roms, language interpreters, etc. This is where you unlock the power of these things

  11. Re:No, it won't gain a strong following. on In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad · · Score: 1

    Personally, I carry my TI-83+ with me everywhere. I don't even do that with my phone. The major major advantage to these things over a PDA or similar, is my TI calc will run on batteries so drained, they wouldn't work in a remote control. It does this without losing integrity.

    Now, as for uses, I do a bunch of statistical analysis, and it's nice to be able to pull out a programmable state machine from my pocket (waiting in a doctors office) and get my ideas actually moving

  12. Re:Random Numbers on Ask Richard Stallman Anything · · Score: 1

    I have a large suspicion that this is not the comment you wanted to reply to

  13. Random Numbers on Ask Richard Stallman Anything · · Score: 1

    Just how random do you like your numbers?

  14. Re:America's hand is being forced... on US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom · · Score: 1

    It makes quite a lot of sense. Perhaps its implementation needs some work, but the underlying principle is a valuable one; take care of those who can't take care of themselves, because you don't want them roaming the streets with nothing to live for. It is in everyone's interest, except those who think they can live in a walled city, to never see these people

  15. Re:How much more disk is static linking anyway? on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    Or use a binary diff patch to update the singe executable

  16. Re:America's hand is being forced... on US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are pounding your head against the wall because you are a loon as much as the rest of them. Your facts are incomplete and they point the finger at a problem which ISN'T the problem. Do you understand what the core meaning of "Social Security" is?

    Social - Of or relating to society or its organization
    Security - The state of being free from danger or threat


    Social Security is there to ensure better living for society as a whole. That is its purpose. On paper, it looks like a money pit, but only if you are willfully ignorant. Speculate what would happen if we just stopped taking care of those who depend on such a system. It would be bad for EVERYONE

  17. Re:Hacking is now Terrorism? on Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    So hacking into a Corporation will now get you labelled as a Terrorist

    It has been since the DMCA hit the books. This is why I left goofy crap like "hacking" back in my college years.

  18. Re:Nullified on Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    Where's your gun? When are you planning on being cannon fodder for your ideals?

  19. Re:I can understand her on Judge Issues Temporary Order Blocking Expulsion For Refusing To Wear RFID Tag · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You took the ball and ran the wrong way. This has nothing to do with fear of radio transmissions of any kind. It is about privacy and principle

  20. What am I missing? on Mozilla Dropping 64-Bit Windows Nightly Builds For Now · · Score: 1

    lack of windowproc hooking

    What? SetWindowLong[Ptr] hasn't gone anywhere in 64 bit Windows. If they are using SetWindowsHook[Ex], the bitness of the injected code has to be the same as the process, but this would be such a horrible approach anyway, I can't imagine that is what they are doing

  21. Re:Cue the excuses on German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft · · Score: 0

    I will tell you what is wrong. I have Office 2*** edition and I try to open a file sent to me saved from OpenOffice. Oh shit, it won't open it because it is in a format of a previous version of Office, so I have to add its path to a trusted file location. Sure, a pain in the ass, but I'll do it. After multiple registry edits and multitudes of reboots, I can finally open this bastard. It looks like crap. Half of the formatting that should be there is missing. Fuck it, I give up.

  22. Re:Is this the same for "contractor" companies? on US Justice Dept. Sues eBay For Anti-Competitive Hiring Practices · · Score: 1

    They do this because the law allows them to. Do you know why the law is in favor of such shitting? Because the govt would crumble having to pay a fair wage to these folks

  23. Re:Take down notice from ZeniMax Media on Emscripten Compiler Gets Optimizations, Now Self-Hosting · · Score: 1

    The reason is, there is no one at iD that knows who owns the copyright to what on the Doom era games. It would take way too much effort and resources to just figure that out, just to let some indy license it for a loss

  24. Re:DOOM on Emscripten Compiler Gets Optimizations, Now Self-Hosting · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with that. The code is "free", but the resources (textres, models...) are not

  25. Re:what is the point of this article? on Nike+ FuelBand: Possibly a Big Security Hole For Your Life · · Score: 1

    I suppose I didn't put enough "troll markers" in my post to be detected by your sarcasm detector. I'm on the same page as you