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  1. Re:Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The job description of Pope includes believing at heart "if a man strikes you on the cheek, offer him the other cheek [to strike]." This does not preclude defense of others, but it also doesn't suggest an allowance of escalation in defense of others. If a man strikes my mother's cheek, I can strike his cheek to defend her, but if the same man merely calls her an ugly name, from where does the call to violent reaction spring? Righteousness or wrath? Hopefully Francis will think about that some more.

  2. Re:What a monstruous... on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 1

    Ask Slashdot: I want to dress up as systemd for Halloween this year. Do you have any costume tips for dressing or acting like systemd?

  3. Re:The longer you live...Cancer could be your rewa on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 1

    *YOU* aren't organized as you for more than the time of a fleeting memory... So what?

    Within a certain fuzziness, the cells comprising my body are organized as "me" enough that others recognize me as me and not as someone else.

  4. Re:The longer you live...Cancer could be your rewa on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 1

    Controlled cancer is the key because cancer cells in the right environment can live forever.

    But they can't live forever organized as you or me.

  5. Re:Not a bad idea... on Obama Proposes 30-Day Deadline For Disclosing Security Breaches · · Score: 2

    I have an email in my spam filter with a sent time of year 2060. Either it's really from the future, or email timestamps are largely worthless.

  6. conscientiousness and openness on Education Debate: Which Is More Important - Grit, Or Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    What does grit have to do with conscientiousness and openness? I would consider grit to be the opposite of both.

  7. Re:"An pseudonymous" - LOL - stupid Americans... on Sloppy File Permissions Make Red Star OS Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    It's only an human mistake!

  8. Re:Good ol' 777 on Sloppy File Permissions Make Red Star OS Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    change the group access to Apache's [group](sic). Once the group is correct, change the permissions to g+r if necessary.

    This is one of the reasons I would like nested groups for POSIX, but it will never happen because people think it's too Microsoftish.

  9. Re:Lost sounds on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Soon, the distinctive "tink" when a lightbulb filament breaks.

  10. Re:Lost sounds on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 2

    Static on the TV preceding thunder (now it just pixelates).

  11. Re:Joke? on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    It's an orchestra mimicking the sound of an extremely common (for the time period) piece of technology. There are also sounds that mimic trains, automobile traffic, and other technological wonders. They're not meant to be rip-roaring, slap your knees funny, but instead "oh my, how humorous a diversion from regular orchestral performances".

  12. Lost sounds on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The distinctive whine of an old SCSI drive. The whir-whir-whir-whir-click of a tape cassette rewinding. The flappity-flappity of a movie reel that has gone through the projector. Cha-chunk of a slide projector. The sound old beer cans used to make when ripped open. Dot-matrix printers. Floppy drives. Floppy drives forced to make "music".

  13. Re:Besides the blantant bloodshed... on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 5, Funny

    whoosh

    That's one fast vest!

  14. Re:"even with the best thermal paste" on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 1

    True, but there are usually sacrifices that are made in such setups. Usually the HDDs or other mobo components don't get airflow and end up cooking over time. If they made laptops a little more rectangular like servers and allowed more airflow over all the components then they'd be very cool. Of course they'd also be loud and ugly...
    I think what submitter needs is a luggable like from the 8088 days. A desktop computer with a laptop screen and a detachable input device. Perhaps a detachable UPS too.

  15. "even with the best thermal paste" on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 1

    Thermal paste isn't magic. I have a machine that's been running since 2005 without thermal paste. What you want is a way to remove heat quickly from the chips. That's not going to happen with the tightly packed frame of a laptop. I would suggest a custom frame of either copper and aluminum or aircraft aluminum with lot of holes and added fans. It'd be noisy, but wouldn't overheat as bad. You'd need to vacuum out the dust regularly. The best option would be to get a portable desktop.

  16. Re:I got it... on Heinlein's 'All You Zombies' Now a Sci-Fi Movie Head Trip · · Score: 5, Informative

    You didn't get it. One world. One timeline. A human that wasn't descended from the standard strain of humanity. It's a fulfillment "paradox" in that it's a paradox only if the main character would make different choices. But the character doesn't because the character didn't and the character won't. It can be argued that the character can't make different choices any more than George Washington can make different choices about what is already set in history. Once you accept the concept of time travel and reject the concept of "many worlds", all of history throughout time is set in stone. Predestination.

  17. Re:Bear Grylls on Bill Gates Endorses Water From Human Waste · · Score: 1

    Obligatory movie clip: Bear Drinks Poo Juice http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R...
    Don't watch before/during lunch.

  18. Re:There's one significant difference on Bill Gates Endorses Water From Human Waste · · Score: 1

    Future generations may look back on us and wonder how we could just waste water so easily.

    Because this isn't Arrakis, and most of the Earth's surface is covered in water, which will still be there for future generations as long as we don't find a way to effeciently fuse normal hydrogen for energy.

  19. Re: Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    then there is the whole *well-regulated* part: trianing, proficiency, responsibility, level headedness *BEFORE* you get a gun.

    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

    An investigative and communications body beholden not to the State, being necessary to the functioning of a free State, the right of the people to own and operate presses, shall not be infringed.

    The portion about the Militia is a reason for the right to not be infringed, but not a mandatory reason. If a well regulated Militia should demonstrably be no longer necessary for the security of a free State, then that doesn't mean that the right of the people to keep and bear Arms suddenly can be infringed willy-nilly.

  20. Re: Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    Actually that's not a reality but propaganda by people who want to sell more guns. Criminals are not stupid, they know people carry guns and change their behavior accordingly.

    Which means criminals also know when/where people don't carry and thus criminals change their behavior accordingly there too.

  21. Re:Seriously? on US CTO Tries To Wean the White House Off Floppy Disks · · Score: 2

    I was using boot floppies until about 2006. Currently CDs and USB thumb drives. I can see how govt would hate using thumb drives (a rogue thumb drive could mimic any USB device), but all the optical drives should be fine. Securely erasing them is impossible, so shred & melt...

  22. If ubuntu installed on Ask Slashdot: Linux Distro For Hybrid Laptop? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Then "apt-get update && apt-get install xubuntu" or "apt-get update && apt-get install kubuntu"
    Don't give up just because the default GUI blows chunks.

  23. Great minds think alike. Don't forget to include portable DVD players!

  24. Re:you need to kill the botnets on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 1

    How do you stop users from double-clicking miley_cyrus_nude.jpg.exe?

    Your link is broken. I double clicked it three times and... nothing.
    To answer the question, you do it the same way that Reginald Barclay is stopped from making Holodeck images of crewmates: psychotherapy, drugs, and a smattering of social pressure.

  25. Develop laser pistols first on Super-Sensitive Motion Sensor Could Be Used To Hunt For Extraterrestrial Life · · Score: 1

    We're going about this all wrong. Develop laser pistols before motion scanners. Doesn't help to know where the aliens are if you're shooting lead at them. I suppose you could load up on grenades... And don't bother with medkits until you get power armor.