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  1. Re: Twice nothing is still nothing. on Croatian Party Advocates Government Adoption of Open Source · · Score: 1

    For those of us not intimately acquainted with Croatian politics, a citation is much more useful than an AC's "is known for". Cheers.

  2. Re:Do Croats Even Have Computers? on Croatian Party Advocates Government Adoption of Open Source · · Score: 1

    It's true, my colleague in Zagreb has only a very primitive computer at home. It has only 128 cores and only half a TB RAM.

  3. Re:That's some BM! on Uber Hires Hackers Who Remotely Killed a Jeep · · Score: 2

    Are you stoned, demented, or just a shill for Uber?

  4. Police and prosecutors care, which is sort of the whole point of this discussion, you boneheaded cretin.

  5. Re:The summary makes me quiver on Harshest Penalty for Alleged Rapist Was For Using a Computer To Arrange Contact With Teen · · Score: 1

    Dammit, now I'll have to change my sig back.

  6. Re:U.S. Naval Map & Edgar Cayce prophecies... on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    Well, Cayce was right about Piltdown Man, wasn't he?

    No... wait... it was exposed as a hoax for which both Cayce and his trance-medium "other" fell for--hook, line, and sinker.

    Alex, you must be leading a very sad and empty life, if you've nothing to do other than troll Slashdot and read your mom's old supermarket-checkout paperbacks written by someone who was discredited 50 years ago. (Amongst other things, they asked him to give readings for dead people, with most entertaining results.)

  7. Re:Plasma 5 breaks a lot of stuff on KDE Plasma 5.4 Released · · Score: 1

    One! In basic black, of course.

  8. Re:Written on Court: FTC Can Punish Companies With Sloppy Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    Me, too. Since I'm opposed to capital punishment, let's start with life in the electric chair for anyone who thinks it's anywhere near acceptable to store credit card info in plaintext.

  9. Re:censorship on Proposed Rules Would Require Gov't Registration For Malaysian Press Sites · · Score: 1

    Do not attempt to summon up that which you cannot put down again.

  10. Re:America is an Oligarchy, and Not a Democracy on In Baltimore and Elsewhere, Police Use Stingrays For Petty Crimes · · Score: 1

    I agree! I've read every volume of Marx and Engel's 'Das Kampf'...

    And we'd almost be inclined to believe you if you could at least get the TITLE right. TFP. HAND.

  11. Re:The Wire on In Baltimore and Elsewhere, Police Use Stingrays For Petty Crimes · · Score: 1

    Hey, I know that one!

    HOT L BALTIMORE!

    So what do I win?

  12. "...many Firefox developers are ticked off..." on Big Changes From Mozilla Mean Firefox Will Get Chrome Extensions · · Score: 1

    No shit, Sherlock.

    XUL and XPCOM were supposed to be the very foundation of Mozilla apps in the first place. Instead, they've been one long drawn-out bait & switch.

    So Firefox is turning itself into Chrome. But we've all known that for a couple of years already.

    I'd be pissed off too, if I were them.

    Hell, I've been pissed off just as a user watching this slo-mo train wreck from the sidelines.

  13. Re:Does it support Fon? on Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router · · Score: 1

    Wow, it's been about 5 years since I last encountered a Fon hotspot. They're still around?

  14. Re: Linux and Bloat on Linus Torvalds Isn't Looking 10 Years Ahead For Linux and That's OK · · Score: 1

    I just happen to have fairly 2 representative models handy.

    2005 laptop: 1.6 GHz Celeron. 1 core. 1GB RAM. 350GB disk. 100 Mbps Ethernet.

    2013 laptop: 2.6 GHz i7. 4 physical cores, 8 virtual. 8 GB RAM. 750 GB disk. 1 Gbps Ethernet.

    I could easily bump up the latter to 16GB RAM and add an SSD. (But I'll probably just buy a new one, as the warranty on this one expires in January/February.)

  15. Re:Contrary to my experiences on Italian City To Dump OpenOffice For Microsoft After Four Years · · Score: 1

    I used to work for a company where the use of MS Office was allowed only on a case-by-case basis (and required VP approval) and Outlook was completely forbidden. Good times...

  16. Re:Fake List of Cheaters on Hackers Publish Cheating Site's Stolen Data · · Score: 1

    Looks like someone's started mod-bombing him, probably in retaliation for this post.

  17. Re:Yeah, right. on Hackers Publish Cheating Site's Stolen Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've always assumed that GMail isn't really private, either.

    For most of the last 25 years, I've followed a little rule I learned in my radio days: "Don't say it on the air if you don't want to read about it in the paper." It's yet to be proven wrong.

  18. Re:Lets calculate that ... on "Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation · · Score: 1

    If you're telling the truth, then we all owe you our thanks. You've got mine.

  19. Re:not just NTP on "Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation · · Score: 1

    OP said "give back", not "pay for". Meditate for a week or two on the difference between those, then come back and try again.

  20. Re:Most people who say on "Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation · · Score: 1

    What's rubbish is that you're projecting your own laziness onto others.

  21. Re:http://www.openntpd.org/ on "Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation · · Score: 1

    As a matter of fact, I do work with multi-master distributed systems, so I do worry about it.

  22. Re:Simple on "Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation · · Score: 1

    There's yer problem. Using a server as a client is never a good idea.

    Proof positive that God provides us with a never-ending supply of idiots.

  23. Re:Bus Factor on "Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation · · Score: 1

    The phrase you're looking for is "single point of failure". And yes, Harlan Stenn is a single point of failure. And no, that's not good.

  24. Re:He uses Linux? on "Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I first heard that joke at summer camp ca. 1972. It wasn't anti-Semetic then, and it isn't anti-Semetic now. Geeez.

  25. Re:Nature of open source on "Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation · · Score: 1

    I got a suggestion for you: engage sarcasm detector before posting.

    I think you and several other folks just got righteously whoooshed.