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  1. Re:Cuz Minix Dude Was A Old Guy on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 1

    BSD-licensed code gets used, while GPL'ed code doesn't get used, for commercial purposes

    And why would that be an upside? Please tell me how did BSD win from OS X using it as a code base. They don't give back, and attempts at cooperation ended up wasting some time of BSD developers.

  2. Re:Suck it on Canadian Town Outlaws Online Insults To Police and Officials · · Score: 3, Funny

    What a bunch of ciboired osties de tabernacs!

  3. Re:What Changed? on Native Hawaiian Panel Withdraws Support For World's Largest Telescope · · Score: 1

    Bribes have sort of an expiration date. It's hard to negotiate a new bribe too soon after getting the previous one. The OHA got their concessions in 2009, they feel they can score some more today.

  4. Re:Who cares? on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Installing joomla/wordpress implies installing PHP, and that means your security is dead right there.

  5. You forgot the majority of the world. In fact, among 10 most populous countries, only one limits it to military only (Brazil) and one has a temporary moratorium (Russia), the rest retains death penalty in active use. These countries hold more than half of world's population.

  6. Re:Must hackers be such dicks about this? on FBI Accuses Researcher of Hacking Plane, Seizes Equipment · · Score: 1

    Well, I do have a tool that can be used for rape, and I'd be able to rape someone if I wanted. By your logic, they should cut off and seize my tool.

  7. Re:MS is still hostile to open formats on UK Forces Microsoft To Adopt Open Document Standards · · Score: 2

    ZFS has a terrible license that was intentionally designed to be incompatible with GPL. So don't expect integration nor even good support, especially out of the box. People at zfsonlinux are trying hard, but without much success. And all of that could be avoided if the sole copyright holder (Oracle) decided to relicense.

  8. Re:Not using social media is like never using a kn on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Social Media In 2015? · · Score: 1

    ... a chainsaw that has teeth on the handle, but not on the business end.

  9. Re:what about Linux on Ex-NSA Researcher Claims That DLL-Style Attacks Work Just Fine On OS X · · Score: 1

    Yes, .so are exact equivalents of .dll, but as all major distributions sign packages as whole, this attack can't be used.

  10. Re:start by not going flat win 2.0 icons on Microsoft Has Received 1 Million Pieces of Feedback For Windows 10 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Windows 3.1 already had a 3D look and far better icons. This is Windows 2.0 at most.

  11. Re:OK, but... on Mike Godwin Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Stalin (3 times as many victims), Mao (2 times as many) and Kim Il Sung do have worshippers to this day.

  12. Re:Circumcised at age 18? on World's 1st Penis Transplant Done In South Africa · · Score: 1

    By that logic, why won't you chop off your dick and replace it with a piece of wood? Even less sensation, and it will stay erect forever!

  13. Re:Circumcised at age 18? on World's 1st Penis Transplant Done In South Africa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not so far ago, somehow my foreskin slipped off. I couldn't adjust it immediately, and chafing was so bad I was hardly able to walk. This makes me think: those circumcised must be bereft of nearly any feeling in their penises due to callusing.

    Those who suffered genital mutilation as newborns don't know the difference, but men in tribes like this that practice circumcision on adults should have known better. Is the religious custom so strong to force them anyway?

  14. Not the first on World's 1st Penis Transplant Done In South Africa · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to the very article, there was a medically successful transplant in 2006 that was later removed only because of the patient's severe psychological reaction.

  15. Re:SJW is the new Godwin on Linux Might Need To Claim Only ACPI 2.0 Support For BIOS · · Score: 0

    So you say SJWs are as bad as Hitler? I'd say... not as bad, just more annoying. But then, with further levels such as Mao or Stalin, there's plenty of space for them to grow.

  16. Re:this is 2015 on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 1

    It's 2015, you want xlennart instead of xbill.

  17. Re:Classic Slow News Day article or what? on Daylight Saving Time Change On Sunday For N. America · · Score: 3

    Except that ntp doesn't handle time zones at all. What ntp does is synchronizing clocks to UTC, the operating system then adds a local offset. While distributing whatever changes to tzdata your politicians in their wisdom did this year (or worse, this week) is an interesting problem, it has nothing in common with ntp.

  18. Re:Just recycle the energy! on New Concept Tire Could Recharge Car Battery · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unless your destination is higher than the place you started, every single bit of energy used for driving is waste. So you can get arbitrarily close to zero expenditure.

  19. Re:Adblock on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Adblock and Ghostery work on an opt-out basis, which is semi-adequate for ads and totally inadequate for tracking. Request Policy is my #1 mandatory extension.

  20. Re:This is (sort of) good news for Americans on Russia Seeking To Ban Tor, VPNs and Other Anonymizing Tools · · Score: 1

    How come, in Litvinyenko's name, ladoga's post got moderated "troll"? Comrades, didn't you get the memo? The First Secretary is ok with people knowing that. He would use a speeding car or a dose of that invisible "100% natural cardiac event" poison, rather than polonium you can't get without being a state actor. Instead, the message sent means "yes, we did it, and if you fuck with us the same can happen to you".

  21. Re:This is (sort of) good news for Americans on Russia Seeking To Ban Tor, VPNs and Other Anonymizing Tools · · Score: 1

    For now, Transnistria is only occupied, what's brewing is full annexation.

  22. Re:This is (sort of) good news for Americans on Russia Seeking To Ban Tor, VPNs and Other Anonymizing Tools · · Score: 2, Insightful

    oh, so Putin invaded three countries

    You mean, Georgia, Ukraine and (brewing) Moldova? With functional takeover of a number of ex-USSR countries as well (Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova differ only by daring to stand up to Russia)? And aiding bloody coups elsewhere?

  23. Re:Lasers are easy to stop on The US Navy Wants More Railguns and Lasers, Less Gunpowder · · Score: 1

    Apart from targets over the horizon.

    That's only because current railguns are not powerful enough. Yet. :-p

    (Could some physicist give us an estimate of the energy I'd need to shoot downwards and kill some bastard in Australia?)

  24. Lasers are easy to stop on The US Navy Wants More Railguns and Lasers, Less Gunpowder · · Score: 5, Funny

    How is that fancy laser going to work when the enemy uses a smoke screen? Or a mirror?

  25. Re:rm on Ask Slashdot: What Tools To Clean Up a Large C/C++ Project? · · Score: 2

    rm "-rf *"
    rm: invalid option -- ' '
    Try 'rm --help' for more information.

    Neither the asterisk nor the space are valid options.