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  1. Re:Someone say revolt?!!? on Elon Musk: 'We Need a Revolt Against the Fossil Fuel Industry' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Even better, gonna happen eventually anyway.

  2. Someone say revolt?!!? on Elon Musk: 'We Need a Revolt Against the Fossil Fuel Industry' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's do dis!!

  3. Re:Cable TV on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Also the #1 reason why I cancelled cable.

  4. why did they need the bailout then?

  5. Re:Email client software? Is this still a thing? on Mozilla Seeks New Home For Email Client Thunderbird · · Score: 1

    "Anybody concerned with privacy and security doesn't leave their entire life's email history sitting on some third party's servers"

    Well, not intentionally at least.

  6. Re:I've got an idea... on Mozilla Seeks New Home For Email Client Thunderbird · · Score: 1

    I use Thunderbird on Windows but since it we have Ubuntu now I guess that almost counts.

  7. Re:"Half a second" is a lifetime... on Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst May Be Linked To Gravitational Wave Find (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Could be wrong, but I believe that would be a plank length sized black hole.

  8. Re:The /. community does not hate Mozilla. on The Future of Firefox is Chrome (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Also, the new UI really is better. Copy or not the end result is more screen space for what's important and nothing of value was lost.

  9. GIG can save earth now! on Hacked Swedish Military Servers Used In Attacks On US Banks (securityweek.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    www.gig15.com

    hello . my name is charles webster baer of tianjin china . I want to tell you what gig is . gig is many things . gig is global internet government . gig is my web site . www.gig15.com . gig is the future of the world media . gig is a social network and news outlet . gig is the world government . gig is how my species , humans , are going to save the environment by peacefully decreasing the population to a sustainable level over the next few centuries .

    gig fully supports the international monetary fund ( I M F ) and the united nations ( U N ) . gig will monitor these and other intstitutions in a simple way for all people to understand and participate in and contribute to . gig will monitor all financcial transactions by all governments . this is freedom of speech and transparency . these numbers will obviously be unofficial and speculation . if the IMF and UN were doing their job then gig would not have to do it for them . gig will explain which countries support female reproductive rights and which countries do not . countries that do not are illegitimate governments and gig will help to quickly replace them with legitimate governments . gig supports the IMF and UN but gig feels the need to speed up the process a little bit and allow all people to know whats going on and be part of saving earth now .

    gig feels that it is now time for north , south , central america and the carrebian to become one economic commujnity , much like the european union . russia , india and australia would be welcome into this community . gig also feels that its time for asia to become one economic community . gig would like to assist the IMF in making this happen quickly , just like it happened in europe .

    gig would also like to assist the UN in bringing total freedom to all people now . the focus here will be on female reproductive rights . this means that all females have the right to total and free access to all forms of birth control . this means that all females have the right to decide for themselves individually if they want to reproduce or not . this means , hopefully , that the majority of females will decide not to have children . this means that the number of people on earth can decline and the environment can have an opportunity to heal itself and thus survive and thus humans can also continue to survive on earth into the next millennium .

    what Im really trying to say here is that Im sick of stupid people and Im sick of the lame media and its time for me , and other sane humans , to organize and save the planet why we still have the opportunity to do this . thats what Im really trying to say and it really does feel very good to say that because its true . I created gig in the spring of the year 2000 in portland oregon usa and I have been promoting it ever since . you can also promote gig on line and off line . so go ahead and do that please . thank you very much .

    charles webster baer

    president , founder and owner of global internet government .www.gig15.com

    tianjin china

    charlesbaer@outlook.com

  10. Re:Public performance on Music Streaming Service Exclusives Make Pirating Tempting Again (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    99% sure that large acts that play covers absolutely pay royalties, at least if they sell or distribute recordings of the show.

  11. Re:False Equivalence on Music Streaming Service Exclusives Make Pirating Tempting Again (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    "While understanding that streaming services have effectively brought the cost of music down to unprecedented levels"

    Maybe, but I've also spent more in my first few months of Spotify than I had on recorded media in the last 15 years or more.

  12. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... on Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere · · Score: 1

    it looks weird

    i want a crappy win95 clone and most likely will continue to want one in the future unless there is a really compelling reason to give it up, which i havent seen yet

  13. Re:huh? on Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere · · Score: 1

    Originally I think it was just debian that you didn't need to spend time messing with manual non-free codec and driver installs to get it working on desktop. Not sure how much that is still the case.

  14. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... on Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu is fine, it's Unity people bitch about. Their hand was forced after GNOME 3 I guess, but the Mint approach to the problem seems to be the clear winner. Glad to see Ubuntu Mate go official, though I'll prob stick with Xubuntu.

    You'll notice not many of the installs shown in that infographic would be using Unity.

  15. Re:Google+ on Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    well, throats and any and all other orifices they could find. unfortunate really. if you didn't get that impression then i'm not even sure what to tell you, it was pretty ridiculous.

  16. Re:Fuck him on Top FBI Attorney Worried About WhatsApp Encryption (usnews.com) · · Score: 2

    True, but before they could look suspiciously at whoever took the time to encrypt. Just sayin..

  17. Re:Name sounds familiar on Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    no it's the one that advertises in every commercial break of every tv show on every channel

  18. Re:The lack of technical precision in TFS is annoy on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Well ya, Linux is just the most commonly used kernel in the GNU operating system.

  19. Re:Fair's Fair on China Proposes Foreign Domain Name Censorship (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, just because it requires no blood doesn't meant there wouldn't be any. Or at least long stays in repatriation camps. Big brother doesn't give up without a fight.

  20. Re:Sugar is sugar... on Fruit Drinks Aren't Much Better For You Than Soda: Study (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    the place with the lead water, whatever it's called.

  21. Re:Sugar is sugar... on Fruit Drinks Aren't Much Better For You Than Soda: Study (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    or even, just water.

    yes, like they put in toilets, it won't kill you honest.*

    *residents of flynt michigan not included

  22. cheers!

  23. Re:What's the alternative? Precious metals? on Why We Should Fear A Cashless World (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    i mean, that is how it was done for thousands of years

  24. Re:Hosted On SourceForce? on Meet UbuntuBSD, UNIX For Human Beings · · Score: 1

    Well at least if you buy PC's directly from the Microsoft store they only come bundled with the Microsoft crapware, so I'll give them half credit.

  25. Fsck the haters! on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 1

    ssia!