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  1. Re:You gotta understand ... on 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight · · Score: 0

    The airplane belongs to the Malaysian Airline System (MAS). The plane took off from the KLIA airport, again, of Malaysia. That radar which did the tracking (actually there were 4 radars doing the tracking) were all operated by ... Malaysians.

    Were they all graduates of MARA too?

    Everything points to the same thing - Malaysia - a country whereby RACE means everything.

    Wrong word.

    MARA takes in people who are NOT qualified to go to college any where else, and award them college degrees even if they can't do anything right.

    I'm beginning to think you might be a graduate of MARA...

  2. Re:weapons of mass destruction on Youtube and Facebook May Be Banned In Turkey, Again · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid you've drunk the Atatürk kool-aid. It wasn't pretty. There was no equality in the Turkish republic (look at the Kurds, Greeks, Armenians, Jews and yes, even the women). It wasn't a democracy. And changing the alphabet just meant that future generations were condemned to a life without any concept of their history, the good or the bad. The republic was founded on the principle of deportations, massacres and forced assimilation.

    It would really be a sad loss for humanity, if all those enlightened thoughts of Atatürk get stomped into the ground, and Turkey is forced into the shackles of Islam in their place.

    It'd be a boon to humanity if the thoughts of Atatürk were finally let go: the authoritarianism, the fanatical nationalism, the militarism and so on. The only sad bit were if the modern conservative Islam of the AKP were to be what replaces it.

  3. Re:And yet apple sells more tablets than anybody on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 2

    For all intensive purposes premium android is as removed from white label android as it is from kindle.

    A link for you: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

  4. Re:my daughter on Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? · · Score: 1

    Oh.. one more thing... do those "unlimited" texts include international?

    Can't speak for the OP, but my Canadian plan offers unlimited text messages to domestic and international numbers. And it's a $25 / month plan, so on the cheap end (for Canada).

    I only pay if I'm texting from outside Canada.

  5. Re:Thank You Slashdot on Debian Technical Committee Votes For Systemd Over Upstart · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The problem is the drunk one is the barkeep. The patrons told him to stop before he wrecks to whole place, but there is no stopping him. Every day he gets drunk and wreaks half the bar. Soon he'll be drinking alone. And it all started with that damn game of Dice.

    So leave. If the new redesign is as bad as promised, I'll leave when the time comes. No need to ruin Slashdot ahead of schedule.

  6. Re:Herpin' the Derp on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    Approval or consent, English-American, verb: To use. To accept the licensing terms. To look at. To think about.

    Approval? Consent? Nouns, both of them.

  7. Not a heatmap on Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US · · Score: 1

    That's not a heatmap guys. It's a Choropleth map.

  8. Alternative visualization of census data on Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US · · Score: 1

    If you don't want the heatmap approach, this is a good way of exploring the data: http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/tutorial-censusmap/_static/code/censusmap.html

  9. Re:what? on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 1

    Try, as old as theaters, and not just movie theaters, either. There are lots of people who don't need a cell phone to babble on anywhere and everywhere.

    Yeah but with phones you only need one in the audience.

  10. Re:packages on Slackware Linux 14.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Installing things on slackware was/is almost always 'tar xvjpf source.tar.gz && cd source && ./configure && make && make install', aside from the initial system install, of course

    Slackware is never that. Slackware is all about packages. Always.

  11. Re:packages on Slackware Linux 14.1 Released · · Score: 2

    The problem with automatic dependency checking is that because the computer is doing that checking for you, you are less likely to personally know what, exactly, what all those dependencies are for packages that you've installed, unless you've installed them very recently... which means that if you want to uninstall a package, and you don't want to keep around any other packages whose only purpose for being installed was to support the package that you no longer want, if you had to manually install those dependencies in the first place, you are in a good position to be able to know which packages you should be removing as well.

    The problem with automated dependency checking is that when it breaks you are often fucked. So it's not so much that dependency checking is bad, but that it is very hard to get absolutely right, more so when you throw in extra repositories into the mix.

  12. Re:USA vs. Canada on Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other · · Score: 2

    Contest to see who can be the most ridiculous. "Tag! You're it."

    Rob Ford.

    We win.

  13. Re:Ever seen...? on Gate One Will Support X11: Fast Enough To Run VLC In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    Never used Swype or one of it's copycats?

    Now you're just trolling, aren't you :)

  14. Re:Mozilla is not free on Mozilla Backtracks On Third-Party Cookie Blocking · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia?

    All of a sudden Jimmy Whales' huge face would appear over your entire browser window begging for money.

    Yeah, and he'd be asking you to stuff it into his blow hole!

  15. Best Big (Small) Car? on Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm looking for contradictory things.

  16. Re:And.... on Facebook Isn't Accepting New Posts, Likes, Comments... · · Score: 1

    The verb "to be" is very irregular in Turkish. But in reality other verbs are also irregular but to a lesser degree.

  17. Re:Scarrrring !!!! on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 1

    "Some" is at most "half" so there where apparently 33 333 conversations related to terrorist every day ... shudder ....

    If "some = at most half" then there would be less than or equal to 33,333 conversations related to terrorism every day.

    You've mixed up "at most" and "at least".

  18. Re:Erm, ok... on Inside the Guardian and the Snowden Leaks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And that's where you biffed it. The Guardian is as heavily biased as Fox News is. But you tend not to see biases towards things you agree with as clearly as things you disagree with, so I forgive your temporary bout of insanity in making that statement. Maybe they got this one instance right, maybe not. An entire slashdot thread has been created just so we can scream at, er, I mean, debate, the veracity of that statement. But... the Guardian is biased. Sorry man.

    You don't have to be a post-modernist to agree that all media (hell, everyon) is biased. However, I don't think it is fair to compare the bias of the Guardian with the bias of Fox News. There are degrees.

  19. It seems NSA is the most popular buzzword for people to bitch about when 90% of the nerds posting here would actually secretly give their left net to get a job at.

    I know I'd give my left, right and inter-net to work at the NSA.

  20. Re:Freenet, I2P, Tor - darknets on Schneier: The US Government Has Betrayed the Internet, We Need To Take It Back · · Score: 1

    Status.net and Pump.io are already distributed, open-source replacements for Twitter.

  21. Re:Rebels released the chemical weapons. on Making a Case For Cyberwar Against Syria · · Score: 3, Informative

    And anyway, what is American Military going to do, team up with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah to attack Syria and kill hundreds of thousands more people in the middle east?

    Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah are not on the same side.

  22. Re:Firefox makes cache clearing difficult on Cookieless Web Tracking Using HTTP's ETag · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or you can press Ctrl+Shift+Del. One of the options (which should already be checked if you used it last time) is to clear the cache. A three-key combination and a button click and you're done, with no plugins needed.

    I also like the Ctrl+Alt+Del option. I've yet to see a website that can track me after that.

  23. Re:xkcd is overrated on Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Back-story of His Epic, 3,099-Panel 'Time' Comic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From the BBC article you linked to ...

    The Harappan language died out and did not form the basis of other languages.

    Dr Meadow: "The earliest inscriptions date back to 3500 BC."
    "So probably we will never know what the symbols mean," Dr Meadow told BBC News Online from Harappa.

    What historians know of the Harappan civilisation makes them unique. Their society did not like great differences between social classes or the display of wealth by rulers. They did not leave behind large monuments or rich graves.

    They appear to be a peaceful people who displayed their art in smaller works of stone.

    Their society seems to have petered out. Around 1900 BC Harappa and other urban centres started to decline as people left them to move east to what is now India and the Ganges.

    So in this case, the civilisation lasted for less than 5000 years...

    (Just for reference, here's the original quote you had an issue with: Every civilization with written records has existed for less than 5,000 years.)

  24. Bad Science on Unique Howls Are What Wolves Use As Names · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Dolphin story debunked (twice):
    Dolphin naming?
    Dolphins using personal names, again

    I'm going to assume that the wolf story is as much nonsense.

  25. Continuity on Describe Any Location On Earth In 3 Words · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm sitting at beach.country.pineapple and my co-worker is at closing.rheumatoid.begin. How does that help someone find out if he's 6 feet away or 6000 miles away?

    And how do you spell "rheumatoid" again?