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  1. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    I just found etherape, which can display download speed graphically.

  2. Re:*shrug* on Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death · · Score: 1

    Why would Kevin Costner do that?

  3. Re:Okay, but there are bigger questions on Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death · · Score: 1

    Yes. I have her rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the official CD. I also like her cover of Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman".

  4. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    Nor on OpenSuSe 11.4. But using ethertool isn't going to help, as it isn't even in the repos. :-(

  5. Re:and where is exactly the problem? on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 1

    Did it really mean to trash religion?

    According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov

    Since its publication, it has been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud,[2] Albert Einstein,[3] Ludwig Wittgenstein,[4] Martin Heidegger,[5] Cormac McCarthy,[6] Kurt Vonnegut[7] and Pope Benedict XVI[8] as one of the supreme achievements in literature.

    Yeah, the Pope is really into novels that trash religion.

  6. Re:OK, so... on Germany Delays ACTA Signature, Wants More Discussion · · Score: 1

    Did the German government as a whole get to discuss the treaty?

  7. Re:China on Germany Delays ACTA Signature, Wants More Discussion · · Score: 1

    Dostoevsky

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky

    The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

    But the Acton quote is also correct

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_Acton

    The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

  8. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    Given that there is only one command to move/rename a file, what would you call it? You could always do

    cd /bin
    ln -s mv ren

  9. Re:Virtual desktops on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    Why does an app need to "expect" multiple desktops? What compatibility problems?

    Even if it is a crude hack, is it worse than not having it?

    I can't use LaTeX on the computers at work, either, but you'll get my laptop copy when you pry my cold, dead hands off it.

  10. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    I may be using ethertool, but I only have to type ifconfig.

  11. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    Multitasking is sort of prevented but most people,

    Except that Unix has multiple consoles.

  12. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    But that's not how my mind works.

    Why doesn't it work that way?

    and in my mind, a location in the file system is a folder.

    Files are locations in file systems. They're where the bytes are.

  13. Re:Take some responsibility... on If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. I created my own job. I have control over my own life.

    Until nobody buys your product.

    Which is why people who take responsibility for their own lives and future succeed, and those who blame everything on everyone else fail.

    Do you have any data on this? George W. Bush seemed to blame other people, but he succeeded.

  14. Re:Take some responsibility... on If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language · · Score: 1

    But the problem with this whole "internal locus of control" meme is that it's false. You cannot control having a job. You can control how well you do it, but even people doing a good job can get fired by assholes. We cannot control reality.

    However, if you consider that a large part of perception is really projection,

    That does apply to your own perception?

  15. Re:LIAR on Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues · · Score: 2
  16. Re:"Loaded and inflammatory" on RIAA Chief Whines That SOPA Opponents Were "Unfair" · · Score: 1

    That doesn't spell anything. How do you expect people to pronounce "POICTPKP"?

    Now, Ably Protecting People from Listening Erroneously to Popular Internet Entertainment. What US politician is going to oppose APPLEPIE?

  17. University of Boulder? on Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not the University of Colorado at Boulder?

  18. Re:Wow on German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser · · Score: 0

    The part I cited was in the article.

  19. Wow on German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser · · Score: -1, Redundant

    and urged citizens to use Windows' Auto Update feature to keep their PCs abreast of all OS security fixes.

    Windows Update can apply Linux kernel fixes? Damn, I'm impressed!!

  20. Re:Maybe... on German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the GP posted anonymously because of a previous moderation?

  21. Re:gazillion dollar counter prize on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible · · Score: 2

    Take a look at the Bacteria flagellum. You'll see a full motor inside of it. 27 unique parts that none can have a purpose outside of it being an entire motor.

    I'll see your Michael Behe and raise you some scientists who actually understand evolution.

    http://www.talkdesign.org/faqs/icdmyst/ICDmyst.html#bactflag

  22. Re:gazillion dollar counter prize on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible · · Score: 1

    (Darwin stated in his own theory that if it could be proven someday that there is some irreducible complexity of an organism, that his theory would fall apart. That has been found.)

    Cite please. And in any event, saying "God did it" is not an explanation.

    When you take what we know today, the reason stands that there is something that has brought everything into existence with intelligence. You must now deny the evidence that there is God by providing it. There is proof that there is intelligent design behind everything.

    Intelligence is the awareness of antecedent facts; intelligence presupposes existence, not the other way around.

  23. Re:Why bother? on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 1

    Unless every read does a checksum ( they don't or it would kill performance )

    How does that relate to using the journal checksum option on ext4?

  24. Re:How does it compare to Chrome? on Firefox 10 Released · · Score: 1

    The difference between the two (on multiple machines, across multiple versions, with multiple operating systems) is that on a system with 12gb of RAM and one to two dozen tabs (just averaging, here), Firefox grinds to a halt.

    I have 25 tabs open with only 3 gb of physical RAM. I also have 6 gb of swap, very little of which is being hit.

  25. Re:Why not in America? on Thousands Take To the Streets To Protest ACTA · · Score: 1

    I wasn't claiming that those cities didn't deserve it.