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  1. Re:This just in.... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    funny, your math teacher didn't understand bell curves and accepted methodology of using standard deviations for grading then

  2. anyone even use red hat ent desktop any more? on Red Hat Confirms GNOME Classic Mode For RHEL 7 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    so many other distros have such superior and polished desktops. And other distros, not redhat, allow access to their repositories by anyone since paying customer pay for *support* and having public access to repos is way of advertising, marketing and getting community goodwill. All have which became foreign concepts to Red Hat long ago. I haven't seen a RedHat enterprise desktop in a decade. and that's a good thing.

  3. Re:People who liked GNOME 2 and want... on One Week With GNOME 3 Classic · · Score: 2

    xfce is a very good desktop and also works well on 1GB RAM machines; but I find MATE more Gnome-2 like (need more RAM)

  4. Re:I'll speak for the ones who will be silenced. on Groklaw Turns Ten · · Score: 1

    so the people (including a couple reporters more or less famous in IT tech world for decades) who claimed to know her or have met her were lying?

    you might want to loosen the clamps on your tin foil hat

  5. Re:If we can't manage a planets resources... on Stephen Hawking Warns Against Confining Ourselves To Earth · · Score: 1

    the entropy increase, maintenance or decrease due to dark energy is an ongoing debate. there can be change to quantum vacuum energy, the masses accelerating are in gravitational potential

  6. Re:Blacklists are evilu even for spam filtering on Maintaining a Publicly Available Blacklist - Mechanisms and Principles · · Score: 0

    blacklists are awesome and who gives a shit about the occasional lost mail every now and then? neurotic obsessed people, that's who.

  7. Re:If we can't manage a planets resources... on Stephen Hawking Warns Against Confining Ourselves To Earth · · Score: 1

    wrong, the masses of the universe are accelerating away from each other at in increasing rate. that very much is in the realm of thermodynamics. that very much is an addition of real energy.

  8. Re:CORRECTION on Stephen Hawking Warns Against Confining Ourselves To Earth · · Score: 1, Insightful

    nonsense, human population growth will peak in 60 years. almost all the resources we "used" are still around, and moreover the crust of the earth is miles thick (we won't run out of anything, not helium, not rare earths, not minerals). there's an xkcd cartoon for your type, you must think pregnant women will be one mile in diameter after two years.....

  9. Re:If we can't manage a planets resources... on Stephen Hawking Warns Against Confining Ourselves To Earth · · Score: 1

    no, there is dark energy being added to the system

  10. Re:Buried with it on Ask Slashdot: What Should Happen To Your Data After You Die? · · Score: 1

    you might just be making a case for later warrant to have your corpse and data exhumed. save your family the trauma, torch your shit

  11. Re:Current naming system is going to fail anyways on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    not unique. there are quite a few catalogs in common use though, and moreover stars visible to the human eye already have many, many names. if a few hundred million internet users come up with a name for a star, of course that would, for the common people, overrule any catalog number the IAU makes. we don't call our elbow an olecranon either.

  12. Re:And... it's gone on North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official · · Score: 1

    Fat spoiled child declared war on US and south Korea at the end of March. sorry you missed it.

  13. Re:Everything is connected on Organic Pollutants Poison the Roof of the World · · Score: 1

    do you have any proof for your assertion? those people have to deal with poisons already, the world has had arsenic, lead, mercury, etc. since the dawn of time, and no doubt their lifestyle with less than ideal sanitation introduces more. anyway, average lifespan has almost doubled there in 20th century to 67 years, modern times can't be all bad for them

  14. Re:Missiles on DARPA Develops Non-GPS Navigation Chip · · Score: 1

    the semiconductor ones are decades old too, at least to 1980s

  15. it IS existing systems in smaller package on DARPA Develops Non-GPS Navigation Chip · · Score: 5, Informative

    nothing new about gyroscopes and accelerometers in a package, even an integrated circuit one.....this might be smaller or perhaps more accurate than some I've seen over the DECADES. but definitely no new tech or ideas here.

  16. Re:And... it's gone on North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official · · Score: 1

    No relation to anything the Shrub did; the North has already committed acts of war against our ally South Korea, and moreover declared war on the USA. Attack is therefore completely justifiable and would do the world a favor.

  17. Re:U.S. off the hook for this one on Organic Pollutants Poison the Roof of the World · · Score: 1

    And you are from a part of the world with poor reading comprehension (I'd guess Kentucky); the article gives an example of a POP as Agent Orange, but does not say that compound was found.

    most protocols of the geneva convention haven't been ratified in the USA so it is not bound by them; signing is irrelevant, the Constitution is the supreme law of this land.

  18. U.S. off the hook for this one on Organic Pollutants Poison the Roof of the World · · Score: 0

    looking at origins of these pollutants in the article, neither from China nor USA. w00t, we can keep pumping out the stank

  19. Re:fuzzy time eh? on Ars Technica Goes Close Up With the Pebble Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    just wait till his little one variously pisses, shits, barfs, snots, spits and whatever else onto his fancy clothes, that'll kill that line of thinking. yes, I have children and experience.

  20. Re: fuzzy time eh? on Ars Technica Goes Close Up With the Pebble Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    so my month and day dials are the fourth and fifth hand? when do we get to the hand that the watch is on? I've been jacking with the seventh hand?

  21. Re:And... it's gone on North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official · · Score: 1

    in point of fact there is way to halt surprise attacks, with a pre-emptive surprise attack. our ability to "bust bunkers" with many types of weapons has evolved far beyond what the ancient soviet-era doctrines the N. Koreans can imagine possible. 50+ year old methods including bunkers are useless, even the concrete of that era is a joke by modern standards

  22. Re:Export control on computers needs to stop on US Gov't Blocks Sales To Russian Supercomputer Maker · · Score: 1

    it's not the contractors that say so, it is the reality of aging explosive lenses, initiators, neutron reflectors, etc. the alternative is live testing.

  23. Re:Money on North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official · · Score: 1

    that's what we should done in Iraq, let them busy themselves rebuilding. instead we continued to destroy things to make contractors rich. one things for sure, stupid idea to think "we'll impose democracy at gunpoint". that same mentality is why afghanistan such a failure, now we're negotiating with Taliban groups.

  24. Re:No sources quoted - none. on North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official · · Score: 1

    I've seen plenty of quotes right from the ruler of NK himself. nothing more needed.

  25. Re:The right thing to do... on North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official · · Score: 1

    we have it, and what a great opportunity to test new laser systems with complete plausible deniability. NK would never know