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  1. Re:But the price? on Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why is meat so cheap compared to vegetables when you need several times as much vegetables to feed the animals for the same abount of nutricion.
    Logic would say that vegeatians would be a financial choice. It is the same in Europe.

  2. Re:No answer will be given on Administration Ordered To Divulge Legal Basis For Killing Americans With Drones · · Score: 1

    History dictates that the sitting president will declare "executive privilege" or some other nonsense.
    Fixed that for you.

  3. Re:Works for dumb people... sure. on The Limits of Big Data For Social Engineering · · Score: 2

    It does not have to work on 100% of the people. Just on enough to make money of it.

  4. Re:Well .... duh. on Google: Better To Be a 'B' CS Grad Than an 'A+' English Grad · · Score: 1

    What? Now you tell me? I have an arts major. Hey, perhaps I can make images in milk foam or something like that.

  5. Quatity is not quality on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 0

    I do not care if there are 50 or 250 or 5000 commits. I want 1 that makes it secure. If anything, these commits will open a new insecurity, because they are so numerous.

    And if there are that many, would a new start not be better?

  6. Re:Get creative on Ask Slashdot: Hungry Students, How Common? · · Score: 1

    Instead of chicken filet, chicken legs or chicken wings, I buy a whole chicken and cut it up myself. The 2 filets I use to wok together with som vegetables and rice. Enough for 3-4 days.
    1 day is some potatoes, chicken legs and potates.
    The chicken legs and the carcass I cook and the meat I use for sandwiches. The water as stocking for soup. That is already 5 days of meat from a 4 EUR chicken.

    I know that one supermarket does 50% of meat on mondays, because that will be the last day before the expire day. I can keep it in the freezer for another few days easily (including the chicken).

    Look uo things about "living frugal. Don't follow everything, but instead see what you can easily do.

    What I also did was buy a book with many wok recepeis in a second hand book store. The advantage you have with using a wok is that it is fast. Chinese cooking is the world first fast food.

    Also always use a shoppinglist and don't go shopping hungry. A last is to NEVER buy bottled water. NOT EVER. And have a budget. Write everything down on what you sped it on. Or use any of the free programs or apps for whatever you use.

    If you like pizza, learn how to make your own. Making your own dough will spare you a lot and they taste better. Spagetti is the number one food for students where I live (Belgium) because it is cheap if you make your own sauce and it can feed many when you invite people over.

    As an extra bonus, when you have learned to cook, you can invite somebody over, which is cheaper then taking them out to dinner,and with a bit of luck they will have sex with you.

    So yes, learning how to cook will save you a LOT of money. It will also help you in the long run. You will be able to sit down with your kids and have a meal without having to make cooking a drag. And there is no price you can put on that, no matter how rich you are.

  7. Re:NSA is so annoyed right now on Heartbleed Used To Bypass 2-Factor Authentication, Hijack User Sessions · · Score: 1

    And even if they were, it does not mean it was their favorite. Perhaps there is something out there that they like even more. Talking about code, not 'social engeneering'.

  8. existing purpose-built headgear on For $20, Build a VR Headset For Your Smartphone · · Score: 1

    This project screams for a ready-made commercial version; does anyone know of existing purpose-built headgear?

    Seriously? This is a question after quoting: Not everyone can drop a few hundred dollars on a VR headset,
    This means that there IS purpose-built headgear.

    If you mean to say 'cheap' or 'not-expensive' or 'in a low pricerange' then say so.

  9. Re:Combination of both on California Utility May Replace IT Workers with H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    Let the market sort it out. Oh Wait.

  10. Re:always come back to MS Word on Apache OpenOffice Reaches 100 Million Downloads. Now What? · · Score: 1

    People do not like change. News at eleven.

  11. Re:Spare Change on GoPro Project Claims Technology Is Making People Lose Empathy For Homeless · · Score: 1

    1. The mentally ill.

    3. Homeless people who lived too close to the edge and became unemployed

    How can you be ok with the first group to exist as homeless? It is as if you are saying "You are not able tro be a productive part of any company, so fuck you."
    The other is also a group that should not be homeless. They are willing to get help and solve their issues. The same applies as above.

    I live in Belgium and when I see somebody who is begging (not even sure if he is homeless) I know it is because of his or her own choice. And this includes addicts. If you WANT to quit, you wil get help.

    If you are begging, to me it means there is some reason that you are not getting enough support (not even thinking about scammers). I am not giving you money, because you don't agree with the rules.

    If people who work need extra help (Wallmart) how bad can it be for the rest?

  12. Re:Rewarding the bullies... on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 1

    One person tried to intimidate me once. He told me to see him outside school and wait for him. I told him I won't do that. If he wants to fight he must wait for me.
    The only reason I would say that, HE thought, was that I was sure to beat his ass. He appologized the next day.
    My reasoning was different: I was not willing to wait to get a beating.

    The final result was that everybody had repect for me. It was scary. Think The Wave. I seriously hope that I never abused that power. It was very hard for me to see the difference between respect, fear and blind adoration. The last one is the most horid one. Having people following you without asking any questions and without thinking is extremely frightening.
    Having nobody to talk to concerning at a young age was terrible. How do you explain that you are afraid because people respect and like you?

    Sorry for ranting. It is the first time I put this fear into words after 30+ years.

  13. Re:Are you kidding on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Citation needed? some is here

  14. Only 52 million? on 52 Million Photos In FBI's Face Recognition Database By Next Year · · Score: 1

    That is about 174 facebook accounts for 1 month. Unless they had a baby, then it is just one account one weekend.

  15. Re:Maybe that's intresting trivia to you... on First Glow-In-the-Dark Road Debuts In Netherlands · · Score: 1

    This would be great in those parts of Germany that are road but not Autobahn e.g Bundesstrasse. I had NO idea where the road was in Shleswig Holstein. (Which is flatter then The Netherlands) If there were no other cars, I had my high beams on, but if there were, the sight dropped enopurnously.
    Sure there were lights at the crossings on one side, but which side?

    Also: do not forget that this is a test. Itis only 500m. They will probably be testing if it sticks to the road or if it is pulled out after a few thousand cars. Also testing if it still works after a year and how well.

  16. Re:Useless for Electricity shills on First Glow-In-the-Dark Road Debuts In Netherlands · · Score: 1

    They did, but all the pictures were over-exposed.

  17. Re:Useless on First Glow-In-the-Dark Road Debuts In Netherlands · · Score: 1

    You call it useless. Do you have a study to show that it is indeed useless? Or should we wait for the actual results?

  18. Re:Why do people listen to her? on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    The only issue is: Are existing vaccines safe and could they be made safer?

    No, that is not an issue. It is a typo of questioning that Fox "News" would use.
    A similar question would be "Are kids safe from duckinthefaces rape attempts or should we do more to protect them?"

    What she does now is trying to safe face, while still telling people she wasn't wrong. What she SHOULD do is say "Shit, I was wrong."

    People have been put in danger and proably even died because she told it was unsafe to take vacines and you call that nit-picking? She should be held resposible for what she did and put in jail.

  19. Re:Can the writings be read? on Is Germany Raising a Generation of Illiterates? · · Score: 1

    ALL languages are stuck in where it comes from to where it is heading to. Language is a live thing (except for e.g. Latin and others) so it changes. In most languages not only will the pronounciation and even the meaning of words change, but also the spelling.
    The latter does not seem to happen in Egnlish.

    e.g. a word starts as a loan word. e.g. quasi.Next you will have a prefered spelling of quasi, but kwasi is allowed as well. Next it will be prefered kwasi, but quasi is allowed. The last stage would be only kwasi.

    And that is just for a single word.

  20. Re:Bicycle! And motorcycle. on The Best Parking Apps You've Never Heard Of and Why You Haven't · · Score: 1

    In Europe many cities have a 'parking route' that will let you drive from parking to parking and they even often indicate how many places are available.
    So the use of an app to find a free place is less urgent.
    Also public transportation is pretty good in most places.

  21. Re:Can the writings be read? on Is Germany Raising a Generation of Illiterates? · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are some rules that don't make a lot of sense, but they are what they are and mostly need to be adhered to in order to ensure that communication can happen.

    Dutch has had several changes over the last 100 years. This is to follow the evolution of language.

    I do not believe English has had the same done to it. Otherwise you would not end up with something like:
    Dearest creature in creation,

      Study English pronunciation.
      I will teach you in my verse
      Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
      I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
      Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
      Tear in eye, your dress will tear,
      So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

      Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
      Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
      We say hallowed but allowed,
      People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
      Mark the differences, moreover,
      Between mover, cover, clover;
      Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
      Chalice, but police and lice;
      Camen, constable, unstable,
      Principle, disciple, label.

    The trest can be read right here. Read it out loud the first time you read it. You will start to wonder what is so adhered in the language.

  22. Re:If you can learn to put a beer down while drivi on The Case For a Safer Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Or if you drive too fast in places where you should not, like on many parts of the autobahn.

    All the other things you named are against the law as well. So basically if you do something illegal and they catch you, you are fined (and loose points). If you don't do anything illegal, you are fine.

  23. As always, it depends. on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 2

    The distro is up to you. The desktop is up to them. Give them all the possible options.

    If you use a distro like openSUSE, you can easily add KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE, Enlightenment and others. I would probably stick with the main three, with a personal like to XFCE.

    Alxso see if there are people who use excel intensivaly, because that could be tricky.

    So you choose the distro, they choose the desktop. Takea distro that you already use. The desktop should be available for it.

    And don't forget that installing it is the easy part. Maintaining it and the next 10 years (with upgrades and new hardware) will be the hard part. One last tip. Don't talk about free as in gratis, because management will then asume that there is no cost and the moment anything computer related shows up on budget, it will be confusing and you will be called a liar.

    You can also play around with SUSE Studio so you easily can make images that contain not all applications, but only those that you need, including anything you made yourself.

    The builds could be used as beta for the final release for yoiur company.

  24. Re:The department gives the hint. on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Isn't Mint a distribution? So you should be able to make ity look like anything out there. I believe XFCE would look the most familiar.

    For the user, look at the desktop. For the admin, look at the distribution.

    As an admin, I would probably use something like SUSEStudio.com, because it would mean I would be able to easily make an installable image that looks likeI would want it with the programs I desire.

    A bit of extra work and you have something that is really tailord for your company. You can make two images. One for clients and one for servers. Or go evebn further and edit YaST so you have only one image for several options. Portable, desktop, software selections per department, ...

    Obviously the work you put will depend on how large the company is.

  25. Please come back when ... on Rover Curiosity Discovers Australia-Shaped Rock On Mars · · Score: 1

    Please come back when you see a roch with the dimensions 1x4x9. Untill then don't show us this kind of drivel.