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  1. Re:Great but... money better spent elsewhere on Indian Mars Probe Successfully Enters Sun-Centric Orbit · · Score: 1

    you are confused. the people must produce the means to feed themselves, not be handed money taken from others. investing in technology is one way to accomplish that end.

  2. Re:his point is what he said, US and EU news all f on Indian Mars Probe Successfully Enters Sun-Centric Orbit · · Score: 0

    Nonsense, the American space program is far ahead of the rest of the world. Who has rovers on Mars? who has done massive inventory of planets around other stars? who has craft half way to Pluto? Who has craft orbiting Mercury to map the planet, that discovered ice and organics at its poles?

  3. Re:What the heck has happened to the West ? on Indian Mars Probe Successfully Enters Sun-Centric Orbit · · Score: 1

    What the heck happened to your news feed? these baby steps India is taking we did decades ago. We put landers on Mars in the 70s.

  4. Re:Well on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    beer is the approved intoxicant. did you here about the two cases of Mounties who died drinking milk? In the one case, fifty years ago, the cow fell on him. In the next case, forty years ago, the bull got angry for having his pecker and balls yanked.

  5. Re:Well on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    the POTS line limits how far he can ride with his horse while talking

  6. Re:Answer: None on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    I get 12 Mbit/sec on my POTS line, and higher speeds are available. the analog only uses 0 to 9 KHz anyway

  7. Re:Cell phones are better in a disaster on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    because cell towers aren't hooked to land lines? in large city where I lived the cell service was out for days after major storm, but the land lines which were under street were fine.

  8. Re: It is a terrible idea on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    telephone, of course

  9. Re:Diabetics on Digital Taste Interface · · Score: 1

    maybe he's gay and complaining about a different orifice

  10. Re:Elementary OS on The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    I only said it sucks less. It's like living on the street that borders two counties with high sales tax. going south and paying 13% sales tax sucks, going north and paying 9.5% sucks but sucks less.

  11. Re:Tax on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    you are not anonymous when you "cash out", to turn bitcoins to cash or goods. the government can find you then

  12. Re:wow its a vortex board on $39 Arduino Compatible Boardset Runs Linux On New x86 SoC · · Score: 1

    not a problem at all, forget that bloated penguin and get the beastie or blowfish on there.

  13. Re:900 bucks on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 2

    Iranians aren't arabs. Do any Iranians other than Sunni Jundullah members even do suicide attacks?

  14. Re:Non-American - also Chanukkah this year on A Real-Time Map of Travelers Suffering From the Thanksgiving Storm · · Score: 1

    bet you have Jews wherever you are, this Thanksgiving is a Thanksgivukkah, last one was 1888 and next one won't be for 79,000 years

  15. Re:TSA Misery Map on A Real-Time Map of Travelers Suffering From the Thanksgiving Storm · · Score: 1

    so your hunter friends never fly to go on hunting trip? Canada is huge. how about competition target shooting? those are reasons to fly with a gun, though when I did target shooting decades ago I would drive because the gear is heavy (gun case with spotting scope, cleaning tools, ammo...who wants to walk through large major city airport with 60+ lbs. box)

  16. Re:Choice overload. on The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    every time you want to do something on windows, you have to buy something. $100 utility here, $400 office suite there. out of the box, windows has almost no functionality at all.

      installed windows for a relative last week, took three hours including downloading drivers and rebooting a few times, including putting in some malware protection. I can whip up a Linux Mint system in less than 30 minutes with everything I need

    and what's with the "overload of choices", the number of huge major Linux distros can be counted on one hand. the major softwares can be run on any of the major desktops

  17. Re:How about this? on Ask Slashdot: Top Black Friday Tech Picks? · · Score: -1, Troll

    haha, while *watching football*. you are so funny, you head is crammed so far up the ass of the hyped consumerism mass entertainment bunghole you don't even notice the stink.

  18. Re:900 bucks on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 5, Informative

    tech.slashdot.org still has the $900, hardware.slashdot.org story has the $900M

  19. Re:Elementary OS on The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    NFS is hardly tried and true. NFS always has had numerous issues where a mounted filesystem isn't quite like a local one (AFS is better for the 'unix way', as aside)

    anyway, use Samba. it sucks less than NFS, and I speak as LONG time unix admin. I'm older than Unix.

  20. Re:Debatable decline? on The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu · · Score: 2

    do you have sources for that assertion? Googling "ubuntu in decline" pulls up a number of interesting recent articles that claim the opposite from polls, distrowatch, etc.

  21. Re:Not a Linux User Then on The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu · · Score: 2

    not true, most issues and fixes are found in the entire Debian -> Ubuntu -> derived distro (e.g. Mint) space. Use Mint at home, we have Ubuntu and Debian servers at work.....no problem to find answers to anything that has come up thus far.

  22. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then on The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    if latest kernel is so important, Debian experimental repository has them or just follow instructions to compile from source from the big yellow "latest stable" button from kernel.org

  23. Re:900 bucks on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    who'd have thunk it, the editors came alive today and corrected the amount, and probably went back to their resting place

  24. 900 bucks on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 5, Funny

    wow, only $900 to write that stuff off? I would have cut them a check years ago to enable that

  25. Re:90% of students... on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 1

    most of my classes in early 80s did not require the textbook to be present, has something changed?

    I sold the textbooks of subjects for which I did not care, and have a couple dozen of the useful ones in bookshelf three feet to my left