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  1. Re:Esperanto is much easier than English on Is D an Underrated Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Esperanto is much easier than English ....And yet very few switch

    That is a very good analogy. Unless you are a language enthusiast or have a niche requirement you probbly won't use Esperanto ... or D

  2. we will know if it makes the big time on Could Tizen Be the Next Android? · · Score: 2

    we will know if it makes the big time when Microsoft decides its worth suing for "unspecified patent infringements"

  3. What they need on Microsoft Researchers Use Light Beams To Charge Smartphones · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is "a laser capable of emitting a beam of pure anti-matter".

  4. Re:Sure. we believe you... on Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others · · Score: 2

    Explain the Apollo program then. What a joke this site has become. Nothing but Bolshevik propaganda, in one article after another. I'm surprised this one got through, as it doesn't mention 'climate change'.

    I wonder whether you would get a different result when "the shit hits the fan" rather than with "let's play some games". I have seen women who work very well under pressure, but anecdotally I think I have seen more women come to peaces under pressure than men. Mind you when I have seen men have caved in under pressure it has been catastrophic, like six months off work with stress related disease or getting fired for throwing a monitor across the room.

  5. Re: Stands to reason on NSA Hack of N. Korea Convinced Obama NK Was Behind Sony Hack · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The Sony hack was an inside job.

    I blame Fox Film Studios

  6. Re: One mile? on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    I was biking triple that distance when I was 11 in 1997 (obviously without a cell phone). The world is not so dangerous that all minors need continuous monitoring.

    At 12 I was allowed to take the train to London for a day out with school friends. We had all been walking home from school alone since about 7 or 8.

  7. Re:The Dangers of the World on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    Comparing the USA favorably to a 3rd-world shithole will not advance your argument.

    Sorry, but I'll nevertheless point out that the USA compares favorably to Europe, not to advance my argument, but because Europeans need to know.

    Certainly not in respect of allowing children to play outside then walk home.

  8. Re:They do it for us! on IEEE: New H-1B Bill Will "Help Destroy" US Tech Workforce · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm assuming working at a desk all day doesn't make them particularly qualified to work in the fields or do a proper job on my lawn.

    On the contrary, many Silicon Valley tech workers have a lot of experience with grass.

  9. followed by on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120

    followed by the government's quest to extend the pension age well beyond 115

  10. I agree on UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications · · Score: 5, Funny

    UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications

    Yes, literacy level in the government is appalling, something really should be done about it,

  11. Re:Why not Hustler Magazine? on Google Fund To Pay For 1 Million Copies of Charlie Hebdo · · Score: 1

    Well I think its great that more and more people are coming out on the pro freedom side rather than pro islam

  12. I've a plan on How Close Are We To Engineering the Climate? · · Score: 1

    Nuke the middle-east and the global cooling will stabalise the climate

  13. Re:Microsoft doth protest too much? on HTTP/2 - the IETF Is Phoning It In · · Score: 1, Funny

    I see no hidden agendas possible in this article. No, really..

    That's because you viewed it with an HTTP 2.0 compliant browser

  14. Vague article on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It doesn't say what new powers he wants. It makes it hard to decide whether this is good or bad, because general surveillance of everyone is very different from powers to monitor those who are already under suspicion - with prosper controls like court warrants, etc.

  15. Playing devil's advocate on FBI: North Korean Hackers "Got Sloppy", Leaked IP Addresses · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Playing devil's advocate, it's possible that it wasn't the North Koreans who '"got sloppy" and made direct connections, exposing their true IP addresses'. Another explanation would be that some other group is responsible and got clever, routing attacks via North Korea to shift the blame.

  16. Re: Why do I want to upgrade? on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Doesn't it include performance and power management improvements?

    I don't know if it was the OS or google play services (I got an update for both at the same time, but in KitKat google play services used 20% of my battery doing not a lot. Searches shown that a number of other people had this issue, but strangely not everyone. With Lolipop its down to a few percent. It also has "battery saver mode", which as far as I can work out disables background everything and dims the display. Useful if you want to ensure that your battery lasts for calls and SMS, but you won't get any facebook, email, or other notifications

  17. Re:Edge and Hide are two of the words they went af on Porn Companies Are Going After GitHub · · Score: 1

    Edge and Hide are two of the words they went after

    Well done, you have just got slashdot delisted

  18. Leaders in the west should make it clear that on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 2

    Leaders in the west should make it clear that those who want Sharia law should go elsewhere. There are plenty of countries with Islamic law, where those who hate freedom of speech, equality, and rights of others can live. True we cannot force them to leave but this would set their expectations for living in secular democracies

  19. Re:Killed, killed, killed on Finding Genghis Khan's Tomb From Space · · Score: 1

    He was far better than Muhammad.

    You are right, as we have seen in Paris today Muhammad's legacy of evil goes on and on

  20. Re:I can see it now... on The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun · · Score: 1

    That is not an alien I would like to meet, we would totally be like ice cream to them.

    Nah, the planets would be like sprinkles and the sun ice-cream

  21. Re:Killed, killed, killed on Finding Genghis Khan's Tomb From Space · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What a bastard.

    I'd count him along with Hitler, Stalin, and Muhammad.

  22. Re:Highly supported? on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    What good is identifying the threat, when you aren't allowed to defend yourself and the police aren't required to help you?

    I guess that depends on how good you are at running

  23. Re:huh? on Why We're Not Going To See Sub-orbital Airliners · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It certainly was loud. I was in the next plane to take off from the same Heathrow runway on several occasions and can tell you that it is the only plane I ever heard above the noise of my own aircraft (usually Tristar, if memory serves). It was worth it! One of the most beautiful planes flying.

    I lived under the heathrow flightpath, and in our school, which had sound-proofing, you could still clearly hear Concorde passing over. I remember one day in a lesson it got really loud, so loud that the teacher had to stop talking and some people put their hands over their ears. It turned out that the undercarriage of the plane landing before Concorde had collapsed and Concorde had to abort the landing, which meant using 100% thrust over the noise-abatement area, something that it was not normally allowed to do.

  24. Re:Your not going to block a sat connection... on Gmail Reportedly Has Been Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    just saying....

    Are you sure about that?

  25. Re:What... on Gmail Reportedly Has Been Blocked In China · · Score: 4, Interesting

    “Imagine if Gmail users might not get through to Chinese clients. Many people outside China might be forced to switch away from Gmail.”

    This isn't how the internet works.

    Its the way that many non net-neutrality lobyists want it to work. Except they have a capitalist vision of google having to pay to have people access gmail.