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  1. Re:Microsoft controls compoter booting on UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Rewritten To Boot All Linux Versions · · Score: 1

    If this has legs I'm sure you could work with the EFF to get an action item going for contacting our disconnected elected.

  2. Re:I don't understand on How Proxied Torrents Could End ISP Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    This is a post about privacy when using P2P. How you choose to use the technology is up to you.

  3. Re:Forget the Terms of Service war... on Instagram Loses Almost Half Its Daily Users In a Month · · Score: 1

    That's what killed the app for me. Different friends have different social media accounts. Posting a photo in Instagram covered 3 of my bases. I was hoping they'd add Google+ integration for the few holdouts. Instead, it went Facebook-only at which point...there was no point.

  4. Re:Arsehole on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 1

    Also there's no one developing Linux kernel code that isn't aware of Torvald's style in this respect.

  5. Re:It begins..... on Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not sure why we Linux users need Steam. There's only two games: TuxRacer and "Find the Dependencies."

    But seriously, I'm really looking forward to what Steam can do for Linux.

  6. If AdBlock is blocked on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    We'll just go back to editing the HOSTS file.

  7. Re:Well... on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1

    Niche is the secret. In Norfolk, VA there's a place called Naro Expanded Video. I've only been in there once but I was incredibly surprised than in 2005 I could walk in and buy a like-new copy of Mickey's Christmas Carol (albeit on VHS) from 1983. I believe it was finally released on DVD in 2009.

  8. Taxes rates should be competitive! on Apple Pays Only 2% Corporate Tax Outside US · · Score: 0

    If a country wants to lure more businesses inside its borders, it needs to make it worthwhile for the businesses. Taxes are simply an expense. Like any other part or material, a business is likely to shop around for the best deal. Rather than trying to use the law to penalize businesses for sound business practices, a country should seek to make its tax rates competitive on the global scale.

    As a business, it takes work and costs money to reduce your tax burden. Clearly Apple has been quite successful at this but it didn't happen for free. Compliance costs might even make a rate here in the US higher than 2% make sense for them and save them money. Clearly our unreasonable 35% rate is enough to make most large businesses jump through myriad hoops to save money and makes for an inhospitable economic environment for many companies who used to be based here.

    We need to find what rate would allow companies like Apple to keep their money here and adopt that rate immediately.

  9. Re:Nothing to see here on US Agricultural Economists Say Bacon Shortage Is Hogwash · · Score: 1

    That's not a shortage - that's just market forces. And the cost of a given product has to rise in order to maintain the profit involved in creating said product. If people can't make money doing it, they won't do it. Then we'd have a shortage.

    Bacon bacon bacon! We're making the moves on you! You're bacon!

  10. Windows or Linux? on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 1

    If it's Windows, you should be able to boot any Linux distro off a thumb drive and chew up any directories you'd like.

  11. "Cancelled by Congress" on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 2

    With every virtually every federal election lies the possibility for massive changes. The fact that such important research was based solely on the availability of government funds shows exquisitely poor planning.

  12. Despite being a Slashdotter... on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    I work outside. I'm pretty well acclimated. I just adjust my fluid consumption accordingly. 85 on up all feels the same to me - although one friend suggested that was probably neuropathy.

  13. Despite using FOSS, It comes down to money on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 1

    My 10-year old single-core P4 plays best with lightweight stuff. Mint 13 with Mate is a pretty perfect fit for my antiquated hardware. I'm getting married in October, honeymoon in November, then shelling out for Christmas. Sometime the first of the year I hope to build a Hackintosh so I can run whatever I find works best.

  14. Re:360 degrees of obsolescence on Linux Mint 13 (Maya) Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    Mint developers have also created Cinnamon, which has wide adoption rates from those on Ubuntu, Debian and even Fedora-based distros.

  15. Re:I have HBO... on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    Made me think of a new justification: if you're buying your internet access from your cable provider, any video you download is just using an alternative method of delivery for the content you've already paid to view.

  16. Re:NOOOOO! on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    You could always get it like you want it and stick a copy of your profile directory in Dropbox. Skip the cache directory, however.

  17. Re:NOOOOO! on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    STOP CHANGING THINGS AROUND! PLEEEAAASE!!!

    The first thing I do after installing Firefox on a new machine is turn off Tabs on top, move the Home and Reload buttons to where they belong then hit about:config's browser.tabs filter and change insertRelatedAfterContent to false and closeButtons to 3.

  18. Quote from Neil Chenoweth on Murdoch Faces Allegations of Sabotage · · Score: 1

    "Listen, all of y'all, this is sabotage."

  19. Re:What about OpenGL ? on Nouveau Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Achieves OpenCL Support · · Score: 1

    That's a good reason as is the fact that many systems can't boot or boot and hang after loading X without acpi=off while using the Nouveau drivers.

  20. Re:If you want the short answer on Why Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux · · Score: 1

    "Hardware" in this case meant specs - hardware capable of displaying KDE 4 with all its eye candy.

  21. Re:It's not the code, it's the talent on Why Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux · · Score: 1

    The only people who would pay for Linux are already using it...who would also know how to get it for free.

  22. Re:If you want the short answer on Why Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux · · Score: 1

    Is KDE 4 good? Probably, if you have the hardware for it. One of the main selling points Linux touts is that it works on older hardware but KDE 4 and Gnome 3 seem to be just as demanding as something from Redmond.

  23. Unions prevent the US from competing globally on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Despite the fact that there are people who would happily take a high-tech manufacturing job, working weird hours and living in dorms when pulling multiple shifts, Apple would find itself stumbling across Union regulations if it tried to find service like that in the US. Union rules and other labor laws are keeping the US from competing globally. It's the reason for the recession and why there are so many out of work. The US has legislated itself out of providing the services modern employers require.

  24. Re:Not vapourware! on Raspberry Pi Has Gone To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Obviously Linux is no proper OS as evidenced by the dozens of desktops, laptops and other little projects like Android phones and TiVo.

  25. Re:First Anecdote! on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 1

    I was doing the same thing with an 05 Corolla for a significantly lower purchase price. In a modern small car, which isn't driven as if stolen, 40+ mpg should be easily achievable. For the premium one pays for a hybrid, you should expect to be bumping against 60 mpg on a regular basis.