Slashdot Mirror


User: zarlino

zarlino's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
108
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 108

  1. Re:Goodwin be Damned on Human Rights Groups Push To Save Condemned Programmer In Iran · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Religions are often just a "cover-up" ideology for economical interest and can be interpreted in many different ways. From the peaceful mystical one to the nationalist and revolutionary one.

  2. Europeans? on Optimizing Your Caffeine Intake With an App · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that Europeans drink stronger coffee than Americans.

    Believe me, you just can't group Europeans like that. I'm Italian. I simply cannot drink what they call coffee in any northern country. Spaniards, Greeks and Turkish have interesting ways of preparing coffee too. Northern countries are very similar to Americans in their coffee habits.

  3. Time for a ethics of dying on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even if medicine could keep me alive that long, I'd rather just live a normal lifespan and make space for my sons.

  4. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    I guess lp -n 15 quiz*.doc would have been enough.

  5. You don't look for an Open Source job... on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...most of the times, it's the Open Source job that will look for you. Create or join interesting projects. Let you skills shine. If you're good, someone will ask you if you're interested in applying for a job with them.

  6. But is it file "sharing"? on File Sharing In the Post MegaUpload Era · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Honestly, I never even thought of Megaupload-like sites as "file sharing". If that's file sharing, then every website is sharing with you lots of html, css and image files. I'd rather call that "File publishing". You upload a file to a server which is then published to the world. "File sharing" to me implies some form of P2P technology where users literally share local files and bandwidth with other member of a network.

  7. Re:Copyright from the past on Finding Lost Recording From the 1880s · · Score: 1

    Also it's a fact that many authors today create music not as nearly sophisticated as Brahms'. So there is hope that Brahms and other musical giants like him would have thought otherwise about copyright.

  8. No conspiracy on The Destruction of Iraq's Once-Great Universities · · Score: 2

    Rather then a conspiracy I interpret the US invasion of oil-rich countries as a kind of "blackmail" for other global competitors like China. Something like: "Hey guys, we control most of the oil. Let's sit and discuss it over."

  9. Not a language problem on Wikipedia Chooses Lua As Its New Template Language · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wikipedia could stick to PHP or switch to any other language. But that's not their problem. Their problem is the messy markup language they slowly created. I know cause once I tried to render their markup inside another app. Basically, they have all sorts of tags that reference obscure server-side behaviour and everything is so entangled that creating a new renderer is basically impossible. This is sad because they are wasting the work of volunteers.

  10. Re:I actually own some apple hardware. on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 1

    Have a look at Tranquil fanless PCs. I'm a happy customer, I honestly recommend them. http://www.tranquilpcshop.co.uk/

  11. It's called State capitalism on Some Critics Suggest Apple Boycott Over Chinese Working Conditions · · Score: 1

    Of course you can, it's called State capitalism and it is what the the USSR and other so-called "real socialist" economies were all about.

  12. Here's the full text: on Thousands Take To the Streets To Protest ACTA · · Score: 2

    http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/leaks/Anti-Counterfeiting%20Trade%20Agreement.pdf
    The most important part is Section 5: "Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Environment" at page 15

  13. At 1:47... on The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred · · Score: 1

    this song by Rise Against actually says "they pissed in his hands". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DboMAghWcA

  14. Re:Fragmentation on Ubuntu Tablet OS To Take On Android, iOS · · Score: 2

    I see it as a very positive development. Ubuntu is just a sugar coated Debian. Most of vanilla Debian is still there, from command line utilities, configuration files and GUI toolkits (GTK+, Qt). If the Ubuntu tablet preserves this, it would be light years ahead Android in terms of bringing the "Free Sotware" ecosystem to a mobile device.

  15. Re:Cobol on NYC Mayor Bloomberg Vows To Learn To Code In 2012 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The MBA's still think you can describe a piece of software in Word, and then it's a trivial process to make the software that customers want. Informal language is desirable to humans because it supports leaving out details - which is exactly what makes it useless for programming a computer.

    That's because software *is* the description of what the computer should do. Check this great article: http://www.osnews.com/story/22135/The_Problem_with_Design_and_Implementation

  16. It's all about copyright on Ask Slashdot: When and How To Deal With GPL Violations? · · Score: 1

    If they bought the company they are now the copyright holders and can do whatever they like with their software, including dropping the GPL version.

  17. Fetish? on PLAYterm: a New Way To Improve Command Line Skills · · Score: 1

    It's very simple. With CLI you do stuff that cannot be done (easily) with a GUI. Ever used rsync, grep, find or sed? If not, you probably don't really *work* with computers.

  18. The enemy is at home! on US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing · · Score: 1

    I'm reading a disturbing number of nationalist comment here on Slashdot. I would have thought nerdy people would have known better.

  19. Let me get you in touch with reality on Apple Bans Game App That Criticizes Smartphone Production · · Score: 1

    Your conspiracy theory is just ridiculous. People creating the game just meant to inform people in a funny way. Of course you can disagree (if you bothered to inform yourself first). I'm somewhat concerned by people like you who totally fail to see the dangers of letting Apple decide what can and cannot be published. It's time for new laws ensuring that owners of publishing platforms (in a broad sense) don't get to interfere with what Americans call 1st amendment rights.

  20. Re:Here's a hint - it's not the developers on Why Aren't There More Civilians In Military Video Games? · · Score: 1

    All your mod points are belong to parent. He spoke the truth.

  21. Type safety schizofrenia on Type Safety Coming To DB Queries · · Score: 1

    So everybody hypes languages that are not type safe (JS, Python, PHP, etc.) and at the same time type safe SQL is considered interesting. Make up your minds!

  22. Faster than "ping localhost" on LSE Breaks World Record In Trade Speed With Linux · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ping localhost
    PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.053 ms

  23. It's a WikiWikiWorld! on Simple CMS For Mixed Mac/Windows Team? · · Score: 1

    What you're after is called "wiki". There are many free software packages available.

  24. History repeating on Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea · · Score: 1

    Never heard about the Ferdinandea Island? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinandea

  25. Noob on Matt Asay Answers Your Questions About Ubuntu and Canonical · · Score: 1

    This guy sounds like a complete newbie to me. I'd rather see him asking basic question on the Ubuntu forums then guiding Canonical to success.