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  1. Re:We need a US base in the Ukraine on Russian Army Spetsnaz Units Arrested Operating In Ukraine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, what? Are you comparing defending of a sovereign state to staging of an election within an all-of-a-sudden-separatist region in order to justify an invasion?

    Yes I'd nip it in the bud. Once the American colonies wanted to become separate and just look where that got us ;-)

  2. Does anybody know on Brazil Blocks Foreign Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    Will it affect roaming or only sim swaps?

  3. Re:Fortunately for Jobs on St. Patrick's Day, March Madness, and Steve Jobs' Liver · · Score: 1

    Organ donation was open source.

    I know this is a joke, but I'm sure that there were patent royalties on many of the drugs, tests, and much of the equipment used in the treatment and that Steve Jobs probably didn't object to this cost being passed on to him.

  4. Re:Practical application is the only way on Ask Slashdot: Can an Old Programmer Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Name a program you could make in C or perl that you know well

    Actually I think you should take this a step further, not just taking a program you could write, but one you have written already. This turns the exercise from a programming-from-scratch to a porting one: All logical problems were solved when you wrote the original version. Now you can concentrate on the details of the new language/framework/whatever.

    This will work well except when you are switching to a new programming paradigm. If you rewrite a program you originally wrote in a procedural language in a mixed or object oriented language (python, java, scala, ruby, etc.) you will have to work very hard not to code a procedural solution. Similarly with a functional language - but you are more likely to struggle to write something procedural in haskel or ocaml.

  5. Re: And the US could turn Russia into vapor on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    Unprecedented? Just look back to WW2.

    Yes of course you are right - i was thinking of more recent history.

  6. Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    this is not possible,i am from east . if they do this , their own economy will fall

    It would certainly hurt both countries. But arguably Russia could survive in "economic lockdown" easier than the West, it would be like going back to just before glasnost. For the West it would be something unprecedented.

  7. Re:she's a nutcase on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There was a party at Github headquarters attended by employees and their friends. There was music and probably alcohol. Also, hula hoops.

    Two women, one of whom I work with and adore, and a friend of hers were hula hooping to some music. I didn’t have a problem with this. What I did have a problem with is the line of men sitting on one bench facing the hoopers and gawking at them. It looked like something out of a strip club. When I brought this up to male coworkers, they didn’t see a problem with it. But for me it felt unsafe and to be honest, really embarrassing. That was the moment I decided to finally leave GitHub.

    Yes, those MEN had the GALL to WATCH two women hula hooping. Which made her feel unsafe. In other words, she's a lunatic and you can safely ignore anything she says.

    This is very strange. If you have activities like hula hooping, karaoke, etc. at a party then people do it because they want to be watched. If everyone looked the other way it would be very strange - if that's what they wanted they could have set out a "hula hooping cubicle" where people could do it in private - but its not very party like!

  8. Re: Plane probably hijacked for jihadi ops on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 1

    Except that Americans don't take exception to the quotes because we see the flaws and hypocrisy. Contrarily, Muslims believe their religion truly is a religion of peace and don't see how it's lies

    exactly. Most American's would be amused by the use of quotes where as most Muslims would be annoyed and many would kill you over it.

  9. Re:Plane probably hijacked for jihadi ops on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 0

    I read on Debbie Schlussel how she thinks the plane was probably hijacked by Muslims on board to one of the Jihadi hotspots in the world, like maybe Somalia or Pakistan.

    i would be very surprised if this wasn't more work of the "religion of peace"

  10. Re:Don't get it on XKCD Author's Unpublished Book Has Already Become a Best-Seller · · Score: 2

    Conjecture: everything that has been told by Xkcd has already been said at least once by someone on Slashdot prior to it.

    By the number of "obligatory xkcd" posts we see a lot of what is said on Slashdot has already been said on xkcd. .... this could be circular!

  11. Re: Summary is wrong on How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan · · Score: 1

    Maybe the Japanese have learned not to bother other people with their iPhones on the train?

    If so I wish they would teach the commuters in the UK!

  12. Re:BULLSHIT! on How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan · · Score: 1

    What chart are you refering to?

    yes a direct link would be useful for those of us who can't read Japanese!

  13. Re:Another on Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again · · Score: 2

    Hurd vs Linux ? Awesome! Not..

    At the moment this is looking more like Hurd vs Plan 9. Neither wayland nor Mir have mass appeal or momentum.

  14. Re:This could be good news... on Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    But remember Wayland was floundering until just after Mir was announced. Only once all the righteous indignation kicked in did it start going anywhere. Without Shuttleworth we'd all be stuck in the 70's.

    I was going to say the same thing. without competition Wayland would have moved very slowly, if at all.

  15. Re:Malaysia - a country which is filled with lies on Engine Data Reveals That Flight 370 Flew On For Hours After It "Disappeared" · · Score: 2

    Malaysia is a country which is filled with lies.

    Really what do you expect from an Islamic state? Name one that isn't!

  16. Re: Happy Thursday from the Golden Girls! on Power Cables' UV Flashes Apparently Frighten Animals · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Confidant.

    only because the golden girls are too old to have cosmonauts as friends. That would make no sense.

    I don't know Valentina Tereshkova is a golden girl herself now!

  17. Re:Just call the credit card company and tell them on Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases · · Score: 1

    Oh, yes, you surely thought that through with a clear mind. Let's teach those 3-5 year old children a lesson and delete their parents' accounts.

    Personally I would not give a 3-5 year old child a phone, and certainly not on my account.

    You stupid racist* bastard. *(read this racist bastard's comment history - he is the scum of the earth).

    Yes read my comments and you will see that I oppose Islam and its adherents of all colours, who have a stated aim of destroying Western society and subjugating or killing those who do not convert. I am just as racist as those who opposed the Nazis were

  18. Re:Just call the credit card company and tell them on Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases · · Score: 1

    Just make sure you don't value the Google account that the apps were bought on - they would probably shut down the account in retaliation for any chargebacks.

    Of course that's true. Personally I think it would teach the kid a lesson if their account was deleted and its not hard to set up another which would be totally unconnected to your credit cards.

  19. Re:Just call the credit card company and tell them on Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases · · Score: 1

    Given that Google will likely have a very clear record that you did indeed authorize the payment this action could very quickly land you in hot water.

    No - because if you read TFA people are authorising a payment and google is taking more without authorisation.

  20. Re:Just call the credit card company and tell them on Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just call the credit card company and tell them that you didn't authorise these payments, then tell google you've done that. This puts the ball in google's court - the payment goes into dispute and they need to decide whether to claim that you did authorise the purchase or give you a refund. My money would be on the latter.

    Doing this you would be committing fraud against the credit card company and get you in trouble. You did authorise these payments because you logged in your child with proper credentials to shop using your card. That you didn't understand the consequences isn't good enough enough defence. Though I would love to be able to reverse the charges when my wife starts shopping with my logged in credit card enabled account.

    It would not be fraud - you authorised one payment then google took the rest without authorisation. I have done this previously with unauthorised follow-up payments and it really goes smoothly, it goes into dispute - the company has a chance to appeal - decides not to - terminates service and refund stands

  21. Just call the credit card company and tell them on Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just call the credit card company and tell them that you didn't authorise these payments, then tell google you've done that. This puts the ball in google's court - the payment goes into dispute and they need to decide whether to claim that you did authorise the purchase or give you a refund. My money would be on the latter.

  22. Re:presence of water deep within earth, and more.. on Diamond Suggests Presence of Water Deep Within Earth · · Score: 1

    A lot of people still not aware that deep within earth is lots of water and vegetation. Forget what you heared in school about earth inner structure, those are simply provided to misguide you. Deep within every planet is an eco system much better than what we have on the surface of the earth.

    vegetation?

    Yes what else do expect the underground civilisation to live on?

  23. Re:Thanks, Tim on As the Web Turns 25, Sir Tim Berners-Lee Calls For A Web Magna Carta · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thanks for fucking up the Internet.

    He certainly did - Just like Ford fucked up the roads by making cars cheap enough so that almost anyone could have one.

  24. Nice idea but.... on As the Web Turns 25, Sir Tim Berners-Lee Calls For A Web Magna Carta · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nice idea but to get the original Magna Carta signed took a rebellion, and getting it accepted meant overthrowing the king. I don't accept the NSA, GCHQ, etc. to just accept this one either!

  25. Re:Hmmm... on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to this site 2560 Meters = 1 Meg. So that would be 20,000,000 times 2560 = 51,200,000,000 metres = about a third of the way to the sun