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  1. Re: Do what everyone else does in this situation on Ask Slashdot: Switching To a GNU/Linux Distribution For a Webdesign School · · Score: 2

    ... Krita (which originated from Gimp) ...

    I really doubt that this is true (of course, I may be wrong). Krita is a KDE application (so QT-based) and it has a very different focus and approach. I can't imagine that the two projects share much code, if any.

  2. Re:Banks vs Manchester. Law, no. Indexes by publis on Georgia Lawmakers Sue Carl Malamud For Publishing Georgia Law · · Score: 1

    Plus, it doesn't solve any known problem. Fraud didn't go down in the places that required IDs. There were just fewer Blacks voting.

    Well, for the one state that I happen to have read anything about this matter (Georgia), black voting participation increased after the voter ID law passed (source: Atlanta Constitution). So, you're wrong.

  3. Re:Likely misdemeanor mishandling of classified in on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    She redacted the contents of each and every email that she provided by not printing the email headers (here's an example - https://twitter.com/davelevint...). As to the binary attachments, did she print a hex dump? Because, that's about the only way to completely reconstruct a Word document from a printout.

  4. Re:Poor choice on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    There is no way that Trump will survive the primary. His negative ratings are just awful. The only thing that he has going for him is name recognition. Once the field narrows, the other candidates will easily pass him by. I'm actually surprised that he didn't run as a Democrat -- he could have shared time with Hillary at the debates. They are rumored to be friends, so this may be why he's running as a Republican. In fact, in 2004, he stated that he self-identified as a Democrat.

  5. Re:The Worst Thing Is... on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    No, we have the choice of Hillary or the winner of the Republican nomination. The Republican field is incredibly deep, varied, and competent (excluding Trump). The Democrat choices are unbelievably bad.

  6. Re:Likely misdemeanor mishandling of classified in on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    No. No, she did not. That has been clearly demonstrated.

  7. Re:What bothers me on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 2

    Furthermore, she only turned over printed versions of (a subset of) her emails and then claimed that was sufficient. I bet that she didn't print out the email headers, which are an important part of the email. Also, what about binary attachments (Word documents, etc)? Were those even included? There is a lot of potentially important information in a Word document that won't show up in a printed document.

    So, in short, even if you play by her rules as to whether she satisfied her record-keeping requirements, she almost certainly didn't. I'd love to see these questions asked.

  8. Re: Who? on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you're thinking of the band with members Bill Cosby, Beverly Sills, Johnny Cash, and Connie Chung? [credit: Saturday Night Live]

  9. Re:the other catch.... on Commodore PET Smartphone Comes Loaded With C64 and Amiga Emulators · · Score: 1

    Slightly bigger than the screen (5") on the portable/luggable Commodore 64, the SX-64. Imagine that.

  10. Re:Meh. on What Will Happen When Cascadia Subduction Zone Slips · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Astounding as it may seem, but the Democrats are clearly positioning former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro (that's right - Mayor) as their VP pick. http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/04/...

    Of course, that's not as astounding as the fact that the Democrats are hell-bent on nominating Hillary, in the first place.

  11. Re:Lots of options on Black Phosphorus Could Spur the Next Wave of Tiny Transistors · · Score: 1

    Instead of chopping the wafer up, you throw on interconnects Transputer-style.

    Well, that reference just made my day!

  12. Re:Sad on "We Screwed Up," Says Reddit CEO In Formal Apology · · Score: 1

    Is the rumor that the firing was forced on Reddit by Jesse Jackson credible?

  13. Re:trick question on How Much Python Do You Need To Know To Be Useful? · · Score: 2

    Well, I can certainly understand a preference, but you're going too far to imply that Python is not a "reasonable" language.

    Avoiding hard tabs in your code is all that you need to do and that's quite a simple thing for anyone able to actually write useful code. I've been coding in Python for years and years and have only run across that problem a handful of times, many years ago. Once the official guideline became "no hard tabs", the problem went away even for newbies.

    Python doesn't make you guess 'should "10" + "15" == "1015" or should it be 25'. It is a strongly-typed language.

    If you absolutely need a compiler, then Python is not a fit for you. You missed on all of your other complaints, however.

  14. Re:trick question on How Much Python Do You Need To Know To Be Useful? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, you're missing the point. It's not acting as a nanny, it's merely removing the redundancy of having both reasonably-indented code and start/stop tokens. That's it.

    One of the interesting things about Python is that very few new programming languages use required-indentation, probably due to fear of backlash by the narrow-minded. I suspect that this tends to help keep the Python community (for whom this is a great feature) from dribbling away to the "new hotness" and may be why Python keeps getting stronger and stronger (in contrast to old competitors like Ruby and Perl).

  15. Re:Projections. on NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set · · Score: 0

    Well, apparently ISIS wasn't even "Junior Varsity" when Bush left office. ISIS is on Obama, by his own admission. Of course, he wouldn't admit that on purpose.

  16. Slashdot should follow suit on SourceForge Responds To nmap Maintainer's Claims · · Score: 1

    Slashdot should get in on this game - take over "unused" user IDs for the purpose of posting comments ("secondary" opinions) to articles such as this. They could even monetize it by putting in endorsements and links to product.

    I jest, I jest - Slashdot is easily my favorite website. Hoping they keep it that way.

  17. Re:For future reference on SourceForge and GIMP [Updated] · · Score: 1

    I can only comment on stories that I've posted, as I don't see other submissions, but my posts have been edited many times (maybe every time). In my opinion, the editing always improved on what I submitted.

  18. Email Headers and Metadata on WSJ Crowdsources Investigation of Hillary Clinton Emails · · Score: 2

    I don't know the answer to this, but I suspect I know the answer: does Hilary's printed email dump (which is all that she will provide) include the email headers and associated metadata that comes with an electronic copy of an email?

    I rather doubt that she has; but, I ask because she claims that she has fulfilled her obligation by providing printed versions of the emails. So, even if we were willing to concede that incredibly dubious claim, has she really complied with the law by not providing the entire electronic record?

    Obviously, this part of the email can be quite important (just ask the NSA), so if she isn't providing that, what is her justification for not doing so?

    If the law doesn't specifically make an exemption for that, then it can't be omitted. When she received an email, the header is a part of the email that she received. Therefore, it is part of the official record.

  19. Name it "Baron Ünderbheit".

  20. Re:A conspiracy of academics? on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Having worked in academia for some time, I'd like to call bullshit on many of your points.

    ...

    Actually, though a minority, there are many Republicans (usually leaning more Libertarian) in academia.

    Interestingly, this article was in the news just a few days ago: Report: Harvard Faculty Supports Democrats a Whopping 96% of the Time

  21. Re:FTYF, Submitter on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 0

    You want to know why this shit is expensive? I saw a dozen "Non-emergency" patients in the waiting room ...

    Coincidentally, just read this article, today - Surprise: ER Visits Still Going Up Despite Promises Obamacare Would Bring Them Down .

  22. Re:All aboard the FAIL train on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House · · Score: 1

    Sure, because that is what happened. I'm not using "anointed" as a criticism of Hilary, I'm using it to refer to the lack of credible Democratic contenders. It's a term that is used to show that possible contenders have stepped aside and have ceded the field to one player. It very much described what has happened to the Democrat's nomination process.

    I suspect, however, that you really don't have anything to say about the substance of my post, so you choose to try to make an issue out of the way that I said it -- "it tells me to to ignore the person using it". And then, you go on to say that was my only serious critique - when that wasn't my critique at all. How droll.

  23. Re:All aboard the FAIL train on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House · · Score: 1

    Insightful? This is hilarious. The Democrats had practically anointed Hilary, who should be on trial for a felony for her email scandal. Now, even the NY Times is trying to get someone else credible to run for the Dems, as the extent of her corruption has been revealed to be truly enormous.

  24. Re:Left-handed sugar on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 2
    Responding to myself, I guess the original article that I had read was talking about tagatose

    Tagatose is a low carbohydrate functional sweetener, very similar to fructose in structure. It is naturally occurring and can be found in some dairy products. Tagatose has a physical bulk similar to sucrose or table sugar and is almost as sweet. However, it is metabolized differently, has a minimal effect on blood glucose and insulin levels and furthermore provides a prebiotic effect. Tagatose is especially suitable as a flavor enhancer or as a low carbohydrate sweetener.

    I wonder why it's not more popular.

  25. Left-handed sugar on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    Many years ago, I read in Omni Magazine (a source to be trusted, for sure) of a breakthrough that was dubbed "Left-handed sugar". The claim was that some lab had produced a compound that was essentially the same as regular sugar, but in some fashion, it's molecular arrangement was a mirror-image. The trick of it was that the taste buds thought it was sugar, but the digestive system would ignore it.

    For years, I expected to hear about some real product; but I guess that I was fooled.