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  1. Re:you wait for a new planet... on WHO: Air Pollution 'Killed 7 Million People' In 2012 · · Score: 1

    I think you need to wait for a supernova for everything beyond iron.

  2. Re:Too bad it won't apply to everyone on EU Votes For Universal Phone Charger · · Score: 2

    Is UK in EU?

  3. It's pronounced 'nucular'. on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    Nucular.

  4. Do asteroids really have what we are looking for? on NASA's Garver Proposes Carving Piece Off Big Asteroid For Near-Earth Mining · · Score: 1

    Moon seems does not have much.
    Why we are so sure asteroids do?
    I read somewhere all "heavy metal" stuff is mostly in Mercury/Venus/Earth zone, the further away, the lighter the "metals".
    Are we so desperate for chondrite and iron?

  5. Re:This is the internet, man... on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    According to Godwin's law, we are still missing a "Hitler" word.
    So here it is.

  6. Re:A malicious APK? on Code Released To Exploit Android App Signature Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    nonono! We need to assign a governmental agency to watch all our traffic and block all malicious content.
     

  7. Re:Hating Oracle on Java 6 EOL'd By Oracle · · Score: 1

    Being old and in hate == big chance of death (stroke, cardiac arrest).
    Learn to love Oracle and live long! /OK, that last bit was a tasteless joke/

  8. Re:first world problems on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 1

    Finally a good reason to be an insensitive clod!

  9. Win 32bit only? Meh on Google Security Expert Finds, Publicly Discloses Windows Kernel Bug · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The code is clearly targeted for x86 only, not for x64 (__declspec(naked)).
    I don't have x86 PC.
    On Win7x64 the code plainly crashes.

    Unimpressed.

  10. Re:Dinosaurs closer to Birds on Experiment Will Determine Dinosaur's Skin Color · · Score: 1

    Birds ARE the Dinosaurs.

  11. WMD? on Bruce Schneier On the Marathon Bomber Manhunt · · Score: 1

    I guess the feds are worrying about a hypothetical chain "Chechens - Russia - WMD".
    I am not informed enough to judge their merits.

  12. Licensed under the GPLv3 or later on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 2

    Can it be used for non-OSS development and releases of compiled binaries to a customer?
    It's not trolling, I really need to know (embedded dev here).

  13. Over-specking... on West Virgnia Auditor Finds Cisco Router Purchase Not Performed Legally · · Score: 1

    I would not judge the guy from Virginia who did the speck *before hearing his version*.

    My employer often indirectly black-mouthed by media (including /.) for over-specking sins and it's hard to read totally unprofessional charges and keep silence.

    I always over-speck our embedded gear RAM at least by 2.
    If I know the HW spec is frozen forever and the SW one is not, I over-speck by x4 and sometimes even more.
    Usually such HW freeze happens on gov orders.
    I am ready to defend my approach before a Senate Committee.

  14. Re:Now we know on Earth May Have Been Hit By a Gamma-Ray Burst In 775 AD · · Score: 1
  15. Impact punch down tool, cable tester... on Ask Slashdot: Server Room Toolbox? · · Score: 1

    A boot-able USB floppy drive (to do firmware upgrades). USB boot-able DVD drive just in case. Kill-a-watt or something alike. IR thermometer. LED flashlight.

  16. Re:Politically incorrect anthropocentrism detected on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    Dude, ancient Greeks invented solipsism like 2500 years ago.

  17. Re:Politically incorrect anthropocentrism detected on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    no way, dude. Think aout it: if my VM guest will ever rebel, I'll turn OFF the VM host at once.

  18. Politically incorrect anthropocentrism detected! on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    It's assuming we do matter.
    But what if the whole purpose of the simulation was to learn more about reproductive cycle of some rare moth?
    Or worse, it's a novelty toy in Junior's room (err, Universe).
    Even more worse: a cheaply made crib mobile for a newborn baby deity.
    Important point: when my kids have grown up enough to reach such a mobile, it lasted mere hours.

  19. Re:Mammoths? on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    Still a-good eatin' in remote Siberia and Alaska them places.
    Tastes a bit like a roadkill, though.

  20. Re:Very Disappointed! on Slackware 14.0 Arrives · · Score: 1

    Then do it again, in Cygwin.!

    I successfully did it (CLFS x86), BTW.
    The trick is to switch NTFS into case sensitive mode and be patient during all the ./configure scripts (cygwin's fork is like molasses).

  21. Re:Does it support Intel's Quick Sync? on FFmpeg 1.0 MultiMedia Library Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, now I'm pissed off.
    Let's take a closer look.

    1. A certain company (organisation) shouts in every nook and corner how its product is superior to everything else and how evil competitors screw them unfairly and deny them wider market share.

    2. A clueless customer (me) asks whether he can have this wonderful product plus a certain feature. The company's answer is firm "no" because The Balance of The Force will be tipped in a wrong way.

    3. The customer complains that's this is a nonsense. The company issues a press release saying that Jose the Customer is a troll.

    Now we have to find a way for this company (organisation) to increase its market share.
    They have a brilliant business plan: Kill off all Jose the Clueless Customers! Only wise bearded customers will survive and the market share will soar!

    Either bend over to customers' needs however stupid they are or stop moaning about evil competition.
    Meanwhile I will continue to suffer with my paid copy of inferior TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works.

    ----
    Q: How do you know if someone is a FOSSie?
    A: Don't worry, they'll fucking tell you.

  22. Re:Does it support Intel's Quick Sync? on FFmpeg 1.0 MultiMedia Library Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, now I understand why an average pretty girl won't go out with an average geek.
    She instinctively knows she will hear someday "Honey, you won't get that pretty car (ring, sofa, pony) because a) it's incompatible with my Linux server and b) Saint Stallman does not approve it too".

  23. Does it support Intel's Quick Sync? on FFmpeg 1.0 MultiMedia Library Released · · Score: 0

    I overheard they had some ideological(?) issues with that in the past.
    As a consumer I really want this feature, even if a kitten suffers somewhere because of this feature.

  24. Re:Groan! on Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It · · Score: 3, Funny

    People for the Ethical Treatment of Smartphone

  25. Re:meh on Apple Announces iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    Smartphone users about brain implants: meh, whatever
    PC users about smartphones: meh, whatever
    Minicomputer users about PC: meh, whatever
    Mainframe users about Minis: meh, whatever ...
    Prokaryotes about eukaryotes: meh, whatever ...
    Protobionts about prokaryotes: meh, whatever