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  1. Re:Here, Let Me Save Them Some Time on Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events · · Score: 1

    You forgot "Lance Armstrong movie set to break previous sales record", and "Windows 9 releases classical desktop edition earlier than expected".

  2. Machiavelli's theory on Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events · · Score: 1

    Was that nothing had essentially changed from the beginning of man, so you could scientifically use Greek or Roman battles to navigate the contemporary wars with Pisa and Cesare Borgia.

    Usually, though, such an enterprise would only be fruitful after the event (e.g. no scientific predictions) on account of Fortuna. Notably, Machiavelli died bitter and beaten.

    Point of this is that you cannot predict the future; perhaps at best a possible outcome with some better chance than other counterfactual scenarios, which everyone will say was completely obvious after the fact.

  3. Re:Completely Predictable on Dozens Suspended In Harvard University Cheat Scandal · · Score: 1

    Yes. But with integrity comes an air of cool indifference of what "others" think.

    I have some of that too. Just ask my mother. Still, the coolest stuff I have experienced people do, didn't care for praise nor blame. I hope I can inspire someone the same way.
    So University is more of a self-challenge to me. That's _learning_. Social manoeuvering is simply strategy, and lost when you are alone or in front of a mirror.

  4. Re:Internet is need, not a want. on Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' · · Score: 1

    Both arguments are speaking of different things. Survival and living and easy living are three different things.

    Technology makes things easier if you learn how to use it. If not it's just something else to worry/ bother yourself about.

    People who say you can easily survive without these technologies have usually a conviction of personal experience, and wholly misses the point; society has expectations (having a phone #) and many of these expectations rely on infrastructure you must get access to.

    Survival doesn't enter into it. It's like joining a monastery. It's not for the majority, and has little to do with the expectations and opportunities in society. By becoming a monk you effectively move yourself out of or to the fringe of society. A conviction.

  5. Re:It seems to me that a few days is more than eno on Ask Slashdot: How Long Do We Give an Online Service To Fix Issues? · · Score: 1

    So there's no people working in the businesses on your planet, sir?

  6. Re:You're doing it wrong on Typing These 8 Characters Will Crash Almost Any App On Your Mountain Lion Mac · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Two // 's should be enough for anyone.

  7. Bluetooth Operated Dildos on Turning the Belkin WeMo Into a Deathtrap · · Score: 1

    I rest my case.

  8. Re:glad they opted for 3D... on Architecture Firm and ESA To 3D Print Building On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Deep Space Extra Glossy Sepia Station.

    Let's just hope they include the highly distinguished inappropriately military-suited HP printer guy in the crew!

  9. Re:Huh? on Microsoft Phases Out XNA and DirectX? · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean PMA is the ROAE?

  10. Re:Wow on Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' · · Score: 1

    A handful of insanely wealthy aristocrats does not raise the general income of the population. This is reflected in education and health as well.

  11. Re:Microsoft controls compoter booting on UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Rewritten To Boot All Linux Versions · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't love the idea of singing motherboards if you had the night to learn the BIOS beep codes for the 10 year old mail server (without backup). It would make a great alarm clock!

  12. Re:Wow on Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' · · Score: 1

    Being poor and making bad decisions usually go hand in hand.

  13. Re:The obvious answer on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 1

    You are right, and I have notably not read the works of Marx and Engels. Not sure if I'd like to, the history of commentary seems more interesting (take Althusser's ideological state, for example).

    I remember reading that currency was invented (a number of times), but it actually took reading about it to make me understand what a great technology it is. The fact that currency is convenient is proved by its parasitic counter-examples, like how some cultures (e.g. the Spartans) controlled economies by making the unit of exchange so large and cumbersome great wealth, or wealth greater than what the higher ups approved, was practically impossible. Today I use digital currency 99% of the time, which is akin to "credits" in the Communist utopia in "Looking Backwards: 2000-1887" by Bellamy.

  14. Re:Go with usernames. on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    And implementation and adaptation would prolly be similar to Esperanto :P

  15. Re:a few ideas on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Optionally, just go for one e-mail address for the entire university.

    Joking aside, I've seen many small businesses doing just this. Invariably, one unknown employee has used it for porn and signed up for spam.

  16. Re:Go with usernames. on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the IPA phonetics system "solve" this "problem"?

    Yes, it must allow variants of vocal placement, but if you know the system you will pronounce the same.

  17. Re:"Needs"? on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 1

    Well, to maintain peace at home, you'll need a vacuum cleaner and a vibrator.

  18. Re:Renewable Energy vs Waste of Energy on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 2

    More energy hits the earth in solar energy in about 8 minutes than the entire world uses in an entire year

    8 MINUTES!? And you tell us NOW?!

    I must call my mother! And my lawyer! .. ..nah, forget the lawyer.

  19. Re:The obvious answer on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 1

    You seem to forget about capitalism reaching a "perfect state" before True Communism can break out.
      (Dubious science, I know. Unfalsifiable according to Popper. But be fair.)

    However, there is a tangible difference between socialism and capitalism; the former evens the playing field while the latter makes it uneven.
    Historically it is tempting to compare capitalism with aristocracy and feudalism.

    I don't know, but no communist text I have ever read indicates that no form of currency will exist. Currency is a convenient invention, but this invention is not what capitalism is about either.

    It's to what aim and ideology the currency will be used, its role, that differs.

    Disclaimer: IAN a communist nor a libertarian ("capitalist").

  20. Re:"One time"? on Linux: Booting Via UEFI Can Brick Samsung Notebooks · · Score: 1

    Samsung notebooks can be turned into a brick if booted just one time

    Why do people say "one time" when there's been a shorter word for it for hundreds of years? Damn Fugees...

    Why do people say "hundreds of years" when there's been a shorter word for it for centuries?

    Because ONCE upon a time I could control myself!
    Mmmyeah!
    ONCE upon a time I could lose myself
    ONCE upON a time I could love you yeah-eh-eh-eh-ah!
    ONCE!
    ONCE!
    ONCE!

  21. Re:Typical Samsung... on Linux: Booting Via UEFI Can Brick Samsung Notebooks · · Score: 1

    Without any evidence to back you up this is just paranoia.

    Wouldn't Samsung benefit from all the cool coffee shop kids using their laptops to do a Hackintosh or Ubuntu YouTube success?
    Or from the sales of these people?

    I haven't bought a PC with Windows since 2006, but I have bought a lot of hardware.

  22. LibreOffice on Ask Slashdot: Best Free and Open Source Apps For Android? · · Score: 1

    I remember reading that LibreOffice has a HTML5 edition of its Writer (or perhaps entire suit). Should be possible to run in a HTML5 friendly browser.

  23. Re:Pigs in space! on Iran Says It Sent Monkey Into Space and Back · · Score: 1

    There's a reflector on the moon. If you know the coordinates, you can actually bounce a laser off of it back to Earth.

    That's what the Moon Nazis want you to believe!

    Mmmmm... Gouda.

  24. Machine 2 Machine on Ask Slashdot: Best Pay-as-You-Go Plan For Text and Voice Only? · · Score: 1

    I'd see whether you could get a telemetry subscription. It's GSM text messages only and people use it for alarm systems and heating up their cabin.

    In Norway you get a subscription for 20NOK/month (3.6$USD/month) + .6 NOK (10 cents) for each SMS. If it's too many SMSs you need a regular sub.

  25. Re:CNC machine on A Robot With a Chainsaw! · · Score: 1

    tl;dr : CNC is useful, but a ROBOT WITH A CHAINSA is _Freagingly amazing mothaFUCKA COOL!!!

    Added some emphasis there ya.