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  1. This will kill KDE on Nokia Announces Qt 5 Plans · · Score: 1

    As kde developers will start thinking about and switching to kde5. I see another wave of bugs and instability, the same that made me switch from kdev4.1 to xfce. These architects get excited by new technologies and loose the focus on stability and usability. Let's see what will happen.

  2. That's a trivial thing! on Alabama Nuclear Reactor Gets 'F' Grade · · Score: 1

    There's no secure energy source in the world.
    Even your fire place and a match box are not secure.
    As a rule of thumb, the more energy they produce, the more unsecure.
    Then if you take into account the byproducts of a nuclear power plant these considerations rise even more issues.
    Even solar panels have drawbacks and generate pollution during the fabrication and the disposal phases. Not to talk about the needed batteries which are not part of the panels, but are a needed part of the setup. And a polluting one.

  3. RS232 on Tech That Failed To Fail · · Score: 1

    RS232 communication will disappear soon (from January 1996, the birth of commercial USB).
    And infact all major professional networking devices have a ... a ... RS232 console, packaged in some way!

  4. One more missing on Tech That Failed To Fail · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is doomed to the scrap heap.

  5. So you mean that ... on Mickos Says MySQL Code Better Than Ever Under Oracle · · Score: 1

    ... Oracle funded the further development of MySQL?
    And that they made MySQL better that it was?
    Oracle, the leader od commercial DB put money in one of the most popular opensource DB?
    That's possible of course, but it sounds quite weird as far as marketing and sales policies. Ha!

  6. We have solutions, plenty of! on Ubuntu Unity: The Great Divider · · Score: 1

    Start by giving XFCE a try.
    Open you horizons, as stated in a number of previous posts.

  7. Rather unlikely! on Is Canonical the Next Apple? · · Score: 1
    Apple is whatever it is because of its long story in taking unorthodox choices and consequent revolutions.
    Which means a lot of work, a lot of betting and a bunch of wins.
    What I've seen so far is changing a default color schema, a "new" font and a new naming schema.
    Not even the "new" desktop is really new as

    Unity is a shell interface for the GNOME desktop environment

    (Very first line in Wikipedia)
    Ubuntu, like Unity, is a shell around something else (Debian) with very limited value added.
    Just "going to the clouds" (tm) doesn't make a winning company (alo because everyone else is going there).
    No, I don't think Canonical will be the next Apple (or even Microsoft). It's more likely it will be the next Mandrakesoft.

  8. It's the other way around on Nintendo Chief: Consumers Don't Understand 3DS Yet · · Score: 1

    Nintendo doesn't understand consumers, you insensitive clod!

  9. Read carefully your contract on New Houses Killing Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    There's no warranty the mobile phone will work inside buildings!

  10. they are almost the same on GNOME vs. KDE: the Latest Round · · Score: 1

    As far as bugs.

  11. Re:Answers on NYT Paywall Cost $40 Million: How? · · Score: 1

    Backhander? Insider business?

  12. Answers on NYT Paywall Cost $40 Million: How? · · Score: 1

    1. Stupidity
    2. Ignorance
    3. Stupidity + Ignorance
    Fomr the highest company levels (C*O) down to the managers.

  13. Too easy! on Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo and Grml Merge · · Score: 1

    Nonetheless a nice one. Ubuntu and slackware was missing, though.

  14. Haven't you the master copy or just any copy? on 'Zodiac Island' Makers Say ISP Worker Wiped an Entire Season · · Score: 2

    Backup is a very big word, guys.
    I mean, haven't you any other copy?
    Who designed your production processes, Pinocchio?
    Information technology is not just a bulb light that just works by plugging it in. It's (just a little bit) more complicated and yet (much) more powerful.
    Shame on you, then!

  15. Of course no! on Can You Really Be Traced From an IP Address? · · Score: 1

    You should have the exact IP assignment time table from the ISPs.
    Then you need to be sure about the exact time drift among all the involved systems.
    And finally you need to be sure about the person using that vey device using that very IP.
    And even so, you still need to make sure about another dozen of constraints like NAT and open/broken WiFi access points.
    So, of course you cannot. Apart of a very limited number of cases. Very, very limited.

  16. That's insane! on Aussie Police Probe Virtual Worlds For Money Trail · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't it be enough to check bank money transfer and credit cards?
    Or do they think the bad guys can get real money from virtual worlds in some other way?

  17. IE will survive, while firefox will die on Firefox 4, A Day Later · · Score: 2

    Also E. Coli and HIV will. While Leonardo, Bach and Einstein already died.

  18. Issue? on Google Accuses China of Interfering With Gmail · · Score: -1

    Google doesn't own China Internet. China gov does.

  19. Just one dimension! on Was the Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? · · Score: 1

    At the very beginning there was just one dimension.
    Time is an illusion, big bang doubly so.

  20. What's the problem, in the end? on AT&T Cracking Down On Unofficial iPhone Tethering · · Score: 1

    As long as the customers pay for the services I don't see any problem with tethering (whatever medium they sue).
    It could be an EULA issue. But then it'd be an issue between Apple and the users ...
    What's the problem, in the end?

  21. A new hope on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 2

    The hope is that the developers will put more attention to the meat by fixing the numerous bugs that are lurking into the GNOME suite.
    Otherwise they'll end up with a new KDE 4.0 fiasco.
    Anyway, hiding buttons is not a real great advance in my humble opinion.

  22. It's all about maths, you insensitive clod! on Contemplating Financial Trading At Picosecond Resolution · · Score: 2

    1 picosecond (ps) is 10^(-12) secs.
    You can run a single instruction in a 1000 GHz CPU (please scale to your favourite multicore system) during 1 ps.
    In 1 ps you can go as far as 0.03 cm at the speed of light in vacuum (wich is more than the speed of light in the fibers and the speed of electrons in a copper wire).
    So are you insensitive clod designing such a system?
    All this at zero latency along the full data path.
    In the end there will only be random things happening. As random as the trading market.

  23. How many people? on Sizing Up the Daedalus Interstellar Spacecraft · · Score: 0

    It looks like 99% of the room is used for tanks and engines.

  24. Re:Fr1st Prost ! on Sizing Up the Daedalus Interstellar Spacecraft · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nt0 r3llay!

  25. What the h**k! on Fedora 15 Changes Network Device Naming Scheme · · Score: 1

    1. ethX works fine as long as X fits into 1, 2 or 4 bytes counter.
    2. the MAC address for each ethernet is the thing that allows you to discern among all of them, 1, 2 or 65536!
    3. Good move, Fedora. Then you can change also the /proc filesystem conventions, the sdXY SCSI disk names convention and so on