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  1. Re:Wait... on MAVEN Spies Mars' Atmosphere Leaching Out Into Space · · Score: 1

    Its got something to do with our molten core.

    True our spinning molten core creates our "magnetic shield" but that only applies to charged particles.
    I don't think everything the Sun throws at us is ionized.

  2. Re:Wait... on MAVEN Spies Mars' Atmosphere Leaching Out Into Space · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that some of Earth's atmosphere might be leaking out into space? If that is the case, I hope all the oxygen disappears so all the white people will die.

    Since Helium leaks I assume hydrogen does as well.
    But apparently that's OK because the sun peppers us with this stuff anyway.

  3. Re:IN OTHER WORDS? on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    Uh. We are talking about error logging, inter-process communication, etc.

    Are you sayning pipes, domain sockets or shared memory is dependent on the in-kernel VTY code ?

  4. Re: How many of you are still using Gnome? on Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop · · Score: 1

    I just wished XFCE had splitscreen/tiling like KDE/Windows.
    Dragging an application to the side and having it snap to the edge and resize to fit half of the screen.

  5. Re:Why not KDE on Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop · · Score: 1

    What are these "configurations" of which you speak?

    You never had KDE corrupt its plasmarc files ?

  6. Re:Systemd on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    In a world that is terribly out of control.
    Reply: A threat of violence and or sexual assault.

    That is never justified. And frankly that is what is happening here.

    Guess you didn't grow up in a worker class family ?

  7. Re:Jeremiah Cornelius & violence on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    True. All Hail Jeremiah !

  8. Re:Systemd on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    What am I kidding? The "open source" community stopped caring about the effects of their actions years ago. Much easier to just insult Microsoft (with added dollar signs) than worry about your own problems.

    I don't think this is particular to the open source movement.
    It's rampant all over the Internet.
    it's the result of the fact that actions on the Internet rarely have real-world consequences so people feel invincible.
    Couple that with this new generation of egotists. Who have grown up around the internet fulfilling their every want.

  9. Re:Not the remote exploit many are looking for on Building a Honeypot To Observe Shellshock Attacks In the Real World · · Score: 1

    He doesn't have to enumerate the whole keyspace.
    He's got the failed password values in cleartext in his /var/log/messages !

  10. Re:Not the remote exploit many are looking for on Building a Honeypot To Observe Shellshock Attacks In the Real World · · Score: 1

    Congratulations now someone can deduce your passwords from your failed attempts.

  11. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 5, Informative

    A tall person is over 6 foot. that has a nice ring to it. 1.8 metres is not human friendly. A foot is about the size of an adult foot, it makes sense.

    1.8 Metres is just as user friendly as foot when you're brought up in it.

    Also, our language, literature and petry is full of imperial words. We would lose a vital link with the past if we abandoned their use.

    And when was the last time you read ancient English scrolls ?
    By that logic we would still be writing glyphs and doing arithmetic without the 0.

  12. Re:Time to retire bash! on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    I guess you're part of the systemd team.

  13. Re:Soon to be patched on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 0

    Not to mention RedHat is not any kind of savings vs. Microsoft..

    Have you included hardware costs in your equation ?
    Windows Server does need beefier hardware more than not to provide the same level of service
    maybe that has changed with Windows Core. But I haven't used it yet, and using
    it instead of the GUI costs in ease of administration that Windows seem to offer in favor of linux.

  14. Re:Fuck That Shit! on NVIDIA Begins Requiring Signed GPU Firmware Images · · Score: 5, Funny

    - To implement a chain of trust.
    - To tighten their control.on the hardware you paid good money for.
    - To fight terrorism, childporn, illegal goods.

  15. Re:Most likely they are dumb to begin with. on Study: Multimedia Multitasking May Be Shrinking Human Brains · · Score: 1

    I agree, I do think it's all about the activities done on these "smart devices". I doubt
    somebody reading ebooks on his tablet is getting dumber. These test was probably filled with "media consumers".
    That new generation of couch potatoes.

  16. Re:quit interpreting statements on Study: Multimedia Multitasking May Be Shrinking Human Brains · · Score: 1

    I do find it entirely plausible, however, the idiots have short attention spans, and flit from distraction to distraction constantly.

    Everybody has a relative short attention spans these days, we're just bombarded with information day in day out.

  17. Re:can we have ONE non-dumbed down GUI please? on KDE's UI To Bend Toward Simplicity · · Score: 1

    Yes, polish your UI and fix those long standing bugs.
    Why does the tray area clobbers when I add something to it, why does session restoration
    doesn't work properly (different window geometries, applications on different virtual desktops), etc ...

  18. Re:Why do this? on Slashdot Asks: What's In Your Home Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    Why go the opposite direction, even if for some reason you really do have the need for those particular properties?

    Control, and for some me included maintaining home storage is a hobby.
    Some are also skeptical about putting some or all of their eggs in the hands of a corporate service provider.

  19. Re:Small setup on Slashdot Asks: What's In Your Home Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    Hence my question "What do you use it for", which you didn't really answer.

    Making backups of central storage.

  20. Re:3rd world on Ask Slashdot: Have You Experienced Fear Driven Development? · · Score: 1

    In the case of France, I would tend to disagree with you. They kidnap company executives, and generally make the place appear toxic for business. The French rail workers' unions have a simple rule when to strike: Whenever I am in France. Normal Slashdot Dogma states that correlation does not equal causation, but in the case of French rail workers . . . I just need to get near the French border, and a strike will break out.

    Hehehe, true. Same here in Belgium. There needs to be a balance on both sides.
    And these national rail unions as it is have too much leverage. Being able to
    disrupt public transport is immense power and they do abuse it.

  21. Re:bc trim is application- dependant. Their assump on Micron Releases 16nm-Process SSDs With Dynamic Flash Programming · · Score: 2

    You mean ~1000 full rewrites. Hardware.info once tested this and got ~707 TiB until the first error (SMART: 5) out of a Samsung TLC 840 250 GB http://us.hardware.info/review....
    Anecdotal yes, but nice to know it was 3 x bigger than the manufacturers specs.

  22. Re:3rd world on Ask Slashdot: Have You Experienced Fear Driven Development? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let us get to a point where most of our people have jobs, and then we can discuss more unions, until then unions are just yet another problem keeping us back in the dark ages.

    And you believe that disbanding the unions will make everyone happily employed
    In the midst of the Industrial Revolution we were in exactly the same position you are now
    And it took unions and other righteous men to break the situation.
    There has actually been a movie about this situation http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01.... See it and learn from it before you call me ignorant and pompuos.

  23. Re:3rd world on Ask Slashdot: Have You Experienced Fear Driven Development? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm a European, we've had fairly decent unions over here.
    That your unions were run by maffia front-man for decades reflects on them personally
    not on unions as a concept. I accept that you're skeptic.
    But somebody (unions, governement) does need to reach for and uphold a decent quality of living and good working conditions are crucial to that.

  24. Re:3rd world on Ask Slashdot: Have You Experienced Fear Driven Development? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Democracy Yuk. You end up with replacing machiavellian dictators with machiavellian (popular) politicians.
    But as long as the union bosses stand up for their members then yes a little fight fire with fire is acceptable.

  25. 3rd world on Ask Slashdot: Have You Experienced Fear Driven Development? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only thing I will say is that emerging economies need Unions !
    This machiavellian style of management is akin to slave labor.