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  1. Re:I've been saying this for years. on Are US Hybrid Sales Peaking Already? · · Score: 1

    you can help them outgrown their little problem with a ball peen hammer

  2. Re:Water is wet on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1, Insightful

    bullshit, most the dramatic increase in human life and health of the last 500 years has been driven by and is the result of profit-seeking. The only solutions to mankinds problems will be produced and distributed that way

  3. Re:Seriously? on Unicode 7.0 Released, Supporting 23 New Scripts · · Score: 1

    there is no standard from which to make Unicode, fans have made the most popular versions of various klingon alphabets

  4. Re:Replying AC to avoid undoing mods on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 2

    what moron thinks you need a special appliance to cook anything? AC on slashdot, apparently. With just cast iron pot and you can cook meat, rice, bake cakes, etc.

  5. Re:And hippies will protest it on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    the parts of the world (on land) with the most biodiversity are very hot

  6. Re:And hippies will protest it on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    actually, the winter stops bacteria from totally breaking down organic matter in the soil, so the soil is rich and can support grains.

    In a warm climate the soil gets depleted of most nutrients, and different kinds of vegetation flourish which do not depend on a rich soil. The two places on the planet with the richest soils are in a parts of Illinois and the Ukraine.

  7. Re:affordable insurance for $300 a minute guy on Interviews: Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    ha, meant 300 an hour, "$5 a minute" was part of Bruce's sales pitch

  8. Re:Earth is 6000 years old on Why the Moon's New Birthday Means the Earth Is Older Than We Thought · · Score: 3, Funny

    protip: he'll light up easier after closing time Saturday night

  9. Re:Origin story sounds familiar on Why the Moon's New Birthday Means the Earth Is Older Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    all those chicken-lovers have been banging the wrong bird??!!

  10. Re:Python on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    I am talking about compared to Perl and Python and say Java (not the *script) libraries, and even Ruby which is somewhat lesser by that measure

  11. affordable insurance for $300 a minute guy on Interviews: Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Bruce, appreciate your open source work very much, however about 8 years ago you mentioned you billed at $300 a minute plus your wife has a good job. What is so great about Obamacare forcing insurance companies to deal with someone with your lavish (compared to average) income? Even if someone like you had to pay $20,000 or $30,000 a year out of pocket for medical issue, so what? that still leaves your family with far more money than most. Why do you feel its great to be able to mooch on the $30 an hour guy for insurance rates by force of law?

  12. Re:Python on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    yes, that would be an example of pile of libraries some of which are very new and immature

  13. Re:Python on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    yes, one group at work that has jumped onto the node.js bandwagon has indeed found that some of those packages are poor crap. you are the idiot, or at least inexperienced, maybe having very recently jumped onto the bandwagon yourself

  14. Re:Converting to "simple strings" itself takes tim on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    in those extreme cases ofttimes the objects (or data structures) and messages are handled in libraries called by python (e.g. the popular science and engineering analysis packages)

  15. Re:Networking 101 on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 1

    95 out of 100 people are far too ignorant and stupid to handle that task. Where I work, managemnet just put out memo that we can no longer talk over the cubes about how untrainable and foolish the users are, clicking on the same scam links in emails and web pages that infect their pc again and again. Yes, managers, that's the problem, we the IT people. If we don't talk about those things the problem is solved.

  16. Re:This Presupposes you'll let your items connect. on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 1

    you play your movies from a plastic disk? wow, just like grandpa's LPs? yet they require internet to authorize them?

    why don't you just get your movies from the internet anyway?

  17. Re:Wat on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 1

    glassholes are always full of shit

  18. Re:What a joke.. on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 1

    no, infecting my gateway (router) does not mean the machines behind it can be controlled or infected. In fact, my home network is specifically designed to make that statement false.

  19. Re: This is what happens on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 1

    we cannot, we do not have the technology to do that and will not for many decades if not centuries. the ISS, by the way, comes closer to you than most cities in whatever state you live in.

    we have to re-engineer the way we do things right here on earth for the rest of the 21st century at least. Funny thing is, our major problems already have known solutions: energy, resource including fresh water, etc.

  20. Re:Global Interpreter Lock on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    you can use alternative (and faster) threading systems with python too, but have to custom compile the interpreter to disable some of Pythons mechanisms that won't be needed. Still, for some hypothetical high performance multi-threaded application that shouldn't be out of the question. No need to pickle objects for IPC if you are forking, pass simple strings of JSON or whatever.

  21. Re:Python on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    link please to the mature libraries that let javascript be used for any purpose whatsoever? I see lots of amusing test / beta quality crap efforts on sourceforge, but they aren't production grade. X11 server in javascript, there's a cute one

  22. Re:Type of applications on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    I do all of those languages in my daily job, but awk/sed/sh is inferior because of the chances for bugs are greater in a script with any complexity due to the arcane rules and syntax, and topic is of languages good for "programs" not just dozen-liners. I don't see how maintaining Perl scripts is any more painful than effort required for any other scripting langauge. Note the built-in tools packaging and admin are already done in Perl and Python in most (most being all the dozen or so I deal with 8D ) BSD and Linux distros.

  23. Re:3,458? on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 0

    not eradicated as long as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States and the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR in Koltsovo, Russia have stockpiles of the virus. They have refused to destroy them even after WHO scientists and other groups have said no good purpose for humanity is served by keeping them, they present only a danger. makes one wonder....

  24. Re:Mexico Vaccinates Better Than The US on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 0

    for the ones that stay in Mexico, yes. How about the illegals here, what is their immunization rate?

  25. Re:Let gay men donate on Human Blood Substitute Could Help Meet Donor Blood Shortfall · · Score: 1

    just looked and in my state it is illegal for sex worker to donate. also, anyone that travelled to certain countries in certain years.

    looks like people just want the "feel good" of blood donation at any cost and with no regard to others, that they should be entitled to do that. screw that thinking, go enjoy your newly conferred gay marriage right and employment rights and to be able to be "out of the closet in society", etc.