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  1. Re:pcworld = crap on Gene Roddenberry's Floppy Disks Recovered (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The "stuff that matters" thing is clearly tongue-in-cheeck, witness how many articles about video games and Linux get posted here.

  2. Re:pcworld = crap on Gene Roddenberry's Floppy Disks Recovered (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought as well

  3. Re: That is why standards are so useful on The Winner-Take-All Trend In Tech (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    USB won over FireWire.

  4. Re: Use APPS, not LUDDITE services! on Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Much like "distro" which makes me cringe.

  5. Re: What? on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 1

    I added a photo a few years back to an existing article. I had to go figure out some entirely different web site to host it, get an account, figure out how to insert it. Took me like an hour. Compared to the three clicks it should have taken.

  6. Re: Probably a lie on How a Young IRS Agent Identified the Man Behind Silk Road (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    International pharmacy ?? WTF are you on about ?

  7. Re: Probably a lie on How a Young IRS Agent Identified the Man Behind Silk Road (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Curious. The only bit I see is a reference to not wanting radicals to falsely accuse them of that.

  8. Re: Won't work on Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? · · Score: 1

    Magic Lantern for Canon cameras

  9. Re: Doesn't anybody have a sense of humor these da on Federal Circuit Overturns Prohibition On "Disparaging" Trademarks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What about the 90's band The Breeders?

  10. Re: When you miss a metric... on Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Like when SCO claimed to be the most popular UNIX because of all the promo CD's they'd pressed?

  11. Re: Wonder if this can be used for some more items on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 1

    They have been used in Antarctica I think, eg. by the USSR

  12. Re: Need to protect it well. on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 1

    Obviously the rad deer are not a fixed population, they get continually contaminated by something that should be found and cleaned up. They shame really is that they don't let the hunters keep them, psychopaths deserve to be poisoned.

  13. Re: just wait until these folks hear about it on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 1

    One would think that an intensive search would be made to recover landfall units, both for safety and reprocessing. Wouldn't aerial thermal imaging find them?

  14. Re: Need to protect it well. on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 1

    It's still toxic, no?

  15. Re: Trust? on Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a decades-old CRC book that listed an element that does not exist

  16. Re:Going to be keeping my car for a while... on Software-Defined Vehicles Will Dominate At CES (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Cars are already riddled with software, I don't know that this means much of a change. Easier to update, but electronics have a way of costing more to repair than analog components. Hell, I've had to had the friggin' *motherboard* replaced in my fridge. The cloud part is what scares me. Features that only work with connectivity? So we have to pay for cell service for cars, and hope we never drive anywhere without a usable signal?

  17. Re:But think of how good it will be! on Microsoft Fails Windows Phone Fans Again By Delaying Windows 10 Mobile (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't the Windows Mobile UI already basically Windows 10 ??

  18. Agreed. I never even heard of it until earlier this year when I saw it on someone's list on IMDB or something. The name as well is horridly generic, as the next poster notes. A movie with that name could be damned near anything, even a Buckaroo Banzai spinoff!

  19. Re: rsync and zfs do different things on ZFS Replication To the Cloud Is Finally Here and It's Fast (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I found zfs send to be bursty -- periods of little or no output interspersed with blasts saturating the channel. I ended up running it through mbuffer compiled with a larger buffer, which smoothed out the traffic nicely.

  20. Re: I still use Pine and Lynx on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't me, I rarely bother posting, but this *is* /. after all

  21. Re: taking China's word for it on China Launches Dark Matter Space Probe (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    In what way is carving up Falun Gong practitioners for organs good for them?

  22. Re: I still use Pine and Lynx on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    Did we? OP would be well-served by Apple's bundled Mail.app

  23. Re:who gives a Trump Soundbite? on Wired Thinks It Knows Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Rather the parallel with DeBeers and diamonds.

  24. Re:BLANK noun. on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    Yet all beer/ale all tastes the same: like ass. I like some of Stross' work: the Laundry series, Jennifer Morgue. Rule 34, not so much. But... glass houses. Computational demonology? I love those stories, mind you, but the pot denigrates the kettle.

  25. Re:It's time to let the HDD's go. on SSDs Approaching Price Parity With HDDs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Storage capacity is fixed by simply buying more SSD drives. Yes it means I have to keep track of what I put where but that's not a big deal.

    And those drives go where? How many chassis and CPU cores are needed to house enough small SSD's for a 2PB-usable Ceph cluster? There's a whole world beyond your personal collection of barnyard.