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  1. Re:It will be an uphill struggle on Ubuntu Touch: The Other Linux OS For Your Phone · · Score: 2

    That is indeed an issue, but if I can clean everything up in 10 "apt-get remove" lines, then it's a huge step forward with respect to Android.

  2. Re:It will be an uphill struggle on Ubuntu Touch: The Other Linux OS For Your Phone · · Score: 2

    As a niche person who wants to be sure that metrics are not sent to google, I am looking forward to Ubuntu phone.

  3. Re:Bloat on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If everything has no dependencies, then all of the dependencies must be included in the install. I wounder how many copies of each low level program would be on a given machine.

    And, especially, good luck installing a security update on *all* your copies of a core library.

  4. Re:Words Handed Down on English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language · · Score: 1

    Winter is coming.

  5. Re:The brightest minds of a generation on How Facebook Built Natural Language Into Graph Search · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't forget all those bright minds trying to syphon truckloads of money out of meaningless microsecond virtual financial transations. This should give you a more thorough picture of how screwed up this world is.

  6. Re:Forcing strong passwords in the first place. on Mitigating Password Re-Use From the Other End · · Score: 1

    At least for Firefox, you can easily sync your passwords on their servers, and everything is encrypted client-side so they'll never know it. You can even more easily get those passwords out (edit->preferences->security->saved passwords). The problem of the security of the browser/keychain program itself still stands though.

  7. Re:Forcing strong passwords in the first place. on Mitigating Password Re-Use From the Other End · · Score: 1

    And, let me add, Firefox and Chrome can act as "keychain programs".

  8. Re:Sounds like a cool idea. on BitTorrent Opens Up Its Sync Alpha To the Public For Windows, Mac, and Linux · · Score: 1

    I've recently tried OwnCloud 5, but the sync part seems broken ATM --- it seems to be a known issue.

  9. Next generation parents on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Timmy, stop slouching off and come play some video games! You need some exercise!"

  10. Re:Fiat Currency on Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money · · Score: 1

    What what exactly is the value of the US dollar?

    Exactly one cheeseburger at McDonald's.

  11. Re:Excel error? on Excel Error Contributes To Problems With Austerity Study · · Score: 1

    I never understood why a language can't provide both 0-based and 1-based indexing, letting the user choose the one they prefer.

  12. Re:mixed feelings on Extended TeX: Past, Present, and Future · · Score: 1

    * multiple ways of doing things. should i use \begin{center} or {\centering text text tex}. probably they both work fine, but each of them breaks something else in some obscure case.

    Use \centering inside an environment that already handles its own spacing, such as a figure. Rule of thumb: if you need to put curly braces manually around \centering, you're probably using the wrong one.

    why are some things \command{text text text}, some {\command text text text} and some \begin{command}

    Most {\command text} (such as \bf, \tt, \it) are deprecated. Forget about them and you'll be happier. \begin{command}...\end{command} is mainly meant for things that can contain newlines, but I agree with you that there is some inconsistency here.

    * the interactive mode when it hits an error. i am sure there is nothing productive i can do in that shell. why is it so hard to get out of. why is -halt-on-error not default?

    Press x, enter. Took me a lot of time to figure out, too.

    * can the output be cleaned up? when i run pdflatex i get several screen-fulls of messages. really it should be showing me errors and optionally warnings. * why do i have to run pdflatex twice? why can't it figure out if a reference has changed? latexmk (or a good makefile) helps, but it took me years to find it.

    +1 --- I'd love it to be a bit more third-millennium, too.

  13. Re:Uhm, no. on Researcher Evan Booth: How To Weaponize Tax-Free Airport Goods · · Score: 2

    As my former boss used to say, "if you've never missed a plane, you arrive to the airport too early".

  14. Re:What about pictures? on Extended TeX: Past, Present, and Future · · Score: 1

    The latest versions of pdflatex support eps (and convert it automatically to pdf).

  15. Re: the numbers game. on The 'Linux Inside' Stigma · · Score: 2

    So Linux should be called "Free OS 12".

    You mean GNU/Libre OS 12, right?

  16. Re:So? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 4, Informative

    Definitely fewer than hydro I guess: check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure

  17. Re:Suddenly... on North Korea Declares a State of War · · Score: 1

    I didn't know what "Zergling rush" is so I googled it. What the hell?

    This can't be still at +0 points... it made my day

  18. Suddenly... on North Korea Declares a State of War · · Score: 5, Funny

    Suddenly, Zergling rush!

  19. Re:".vermögensberater"? on ICANN Reveals Regional Winners of New gTLDs · · Score: 1

    *meineweltanschauungistganzherabgesetzt

    (Grammar nazi jokes coming in 5,4,...)

  20. Re:Not true. on Fukushima Cooling Knocked Offline By... a Rat · · Score: 1

    Inconceivable!

  21. Re:Er, what? on CCTV Hack Takes Casino For $33 Million · · Score: 2

    2) Why would casinos need to do this? The casinos already have a edge and all they need is for you to keep playing. In the long run they win.

    A casino staff is essentially composed of several humans, each of them with a variable amount of greed and honesty. The house might not benefit from the scam, but all it takes is one employee.

  22. Am I the only one? on Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise · · Score: 4, Funny

    I first read that as "they were not stupid, british creatures".

  23. Re:Total on Ask Slashdot: How Many Time Standards Are There? · · Score: 2

    xkcd comics are like standards. You think there's only one that applies, but...

  24. Total on Ask Slashdot: How Many Time Standards Are There? · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are in total 863 different time standard, including historical ones. That's the good thing about standards, there are so many to choose from.

    Now, please someone post a link to that xkcd comic and we can move on to the next question.

  25. Re:This will be the year!!! on Contiki Turns Ten · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More like "the year of the Contiki refrigerator".