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  1. Re:Native Client on Linux In JavaScript, With Persistent Storage · · Score: 1

    Salt and Pepper, PPAPI, are really cool if you write C/C++. I was talking more broad like Parrot.

  2. Makes me wish on Linux In JavaScript, With Persistent Storage · · Score: 2

    While jsLinux is cool, and this is a cool addition, it just makes me wish JavaScript wasn't the only languageVM embedded in the browser. The thought of what could be done if one could take advantage of what the various scripting languages do best instead of trying to fit JavaScript to everything makes me sad.

  3. Available since 2008 on Oracle To Bring Dtrace To Linux · · Score: 2

    It has been available for Linux since 2008. 02-Aug-2008 Work in progress port of Sun's DTrace system for Linux. It is actively maintained. http://www.crisp.demon.co.uk/tools.html I don't see anything new to the table outside of keyboard, mouse, and framebuffer recording. I'm not sure a lot of Linux users would find that an attractive addition.

    Built-in instruments can track

            User events, such as keyboard keys pressed and mouse moves and clicks with exact time.
            CPU activity of processes and threads.
            Memory allocation and release, garbage collection and memory leaks.
            File reads, writes, locks.
            Network activity and traffic.
            Graphics and inner workings of OpenGL.

  4. My Russian is a little rusty but on Russian Telco MTS Bans Skype, Other VoIP Services · · Score: 1

    It translates to either: Give me money or I f*** you comrade or Give me money I'm done f****** you comrade. I believe it is the later.

  5. Re:open ISPs on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 1

    Setting up a mesh network in heavily populated areas, like London, would be easy. It would simply require everyone use wireless routers with no password protection. The cost of connecting between heavily populated areas would be disgustingly cheap. The reason it isn't happening is there is liability attached to transferring content. Instead of a world free to communicate -- free of charge -- we have a morality laws and copyright laws and sensor-shit...

  6. Love the rebuttal on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 1

    Davies said this is especially the case for smaller ISPs who rent lines on a wholesale basis from BT.

    Nice how he compares being overcharged by an internet service provider as the cause behind the need to overcharge people for internet service provision.

  7. Re:Its the war on Neal Stephenson On 'Innovation Starvation' · · Score: 1

    I would say my memory of what was happing in my life during the 60's is five nines.

    Although NERVA engines were built and tested as much as possible with flight-certified components and the engine was deemed ready for integration into a spacecraft, much of the U.S. space program was cancelled by the Nixon Administration before a manned visit to Mars could take place.

    NERVA

  8. Re:Moderation system on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Reddit is better than /. because there is a ton of p0rn on reddit

    There are plenty of posts on /. regarding sexual relations. So what if they are mostly about the general population of some country getting screwed.

  9. Re:Moderation system on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Throw in a pony and you'll have my vote!

  10. Re:Moderation system on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    You can be snarky or sarcastic without being a troll

    I've never understood the connection between snarky/sarcastic and troll. I've always felt they leaned more towards flamebait. Troll's are trolling for info. Flamers are baiting you for a reaction. IMHO, It is hard to ask a question in a snarky or sarcastic way.

  11. Re:Moderation system on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    (I did not check if there exists somebody with the handle RandomUser on /.)

    Your not supposed to evade troll mods and post as a coward at the same time. Bad coward. Bad! Bad!

  12. Re:Moderation system on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I don't think meta moderation needs to be eliminated. I think it should go back to the way it was when you "voted" if a mod was accurate.

  13. Re:Moderation system on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I thought down modding someone gives the person modding negative karma. I post the truth, ...er negative things about Microsoft, and get +1 troll mods. I get a LOT of "fan" +1 troll mods because of my pro-democratic politics. However, when I receive mod points I very rarely mod troll or flame. My karma is excellent.

  14. Re:End of the reboot? on HP To Introduce Flash Memory Replacement In 2013 · · Score: 1

    I think most people Hibernate their computers these days. I definitely do. Ever since the Linux kernel could be updated without a reboot I haven't had to reboot my machines at all.

  15. Got to buy lots of stock! on HP To Introduce Flash Memory Replacement In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Man. I was going to put all of my savings into one of the new cold fusion companies that are going to be popping up at the end of the month. Now I'm going to have to split it with all the HP stock I need to buy.

  16. McDonalds? on Is the Creative Class Engine Sputtering? · · Score: 1

    “It’s sort of like job growth in Texas,” says Joe Donnelly, a former deputy editor at L.A. Weekly, laid off in 2008 and now pouring savings and the money he made from a home sale into a literary magazine. “Gov. Perry created thousands of jobs, but they’re all at McDonald’s. Now everyone has a chance to make 15 cents. People are just pecking, hunting, scratching the dirt for freelance work. Living week to week, month to month.”

    As a Texan, I beg to differ. The jobs were at WallMart, the industrialized prison system, the wars, building toll roads in Texas for companies abroad, and natural gas. How it equated to just %1 job growth and an 8% increase in State poverty levels boggles the mind.

  17. Bundled or Integrated? on Microsoft-Skype Deal Poised To Win EU Approval · · Score: 2

    Do the authorities know the difference? When Microsoft decides to discontinue skype, after it has completely been integrated into office of course, will this guy recognize it still exists?

  18. Re:Just in time. on Unreal Engine 3 Running In Flash · · Score: 1

    Right. "That Flash runs on". Flash isn't completely supported on OSX and is consistently 1 to 2 versions behind on Linux, Solaris, and the BSD's. Working on any browser as long as the OS is Windows is not cross platform.

  19. Re:Didn't Sound Optimistic to Me! on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    I was referring to the way he was talking in the videos. He is all over the place about "this is being patented and can't talk about it" and "that is being patented and I shouldn't tell you this because it is being patented", ad nausium. You have to watch the videos. They are a good example of someone locking something down in patent soup and counting ethereal dollars then wondering why nobody is interested.

  20. Re:Oh goodie! on Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark · · Score: 1

    LOL

  21. Re:Where is the Helium? on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    Oh. I don't know shit about nuclear physics and thought that was part of the "cold fusion" theory. That is why I asked.

  22. Re:Its the war on Neal Stephenson On 'Innovation Starvation' · · Score: 1

    I quoted the link to avoid peppering /. with all the data. And, as you pointed out, Nixon OK'd the space shuttle. To my knowledge, that is hardware. If I remember correctly, and I'm sure I do, NASA was moving from Apollo hardware to shuttle hardware so they restricted spending on additional Apollo hardware.

  23. Oh goodie! on Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark · · Score: 1

    An opportunity to slander our norther neighbors without retribution. :)

    Canadians can't play hockey! Canadian beer tastes like pee! Tree sap is not mothers milk!

    hahahaha naner naner naner. :P

  24. Where is the Helium? on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't helium seen as a mandatory byproduct in the theory?

  25. Request a search feature on freshmeat on Ask Slashdot: Spreading the Word About At-Risk Open Source Projects? · · Score: 2

    Send a request to freshmeat.net for a search feature allowing you to search for projects that haven't been updated for a long time.