While I do remain skeptical, I don't see why this "obviously won't work". I'd like to see proof of it working, or a more in depth discussion of the physics and engineering involved. It kind of sounds like it would need a lot of electrical energy, which may render it unfeasible in the field.

Man, that was a tough moderation decision. On one hand, you did recognize the problem with what /. has become. On the other hand, you went there. So thats maybe a + 2 for the compliment, -1 for the betrayal.

Dog bites man -- not news.
Man bites dog -- news

So in this case

Circa A year a go..
Private Mars Org sending people to Mars -- News Build story
Crazy un believable un famous people saying they can send people to mars sending people to Mars -- Not story, Don't report on it.

Now, a year later of reporting on the story so people understand what you are talking about:
People we gave credibility to by reporting insane reports as if they were facts -- News! Story! Report on how great journalists are for exposing fraud! Ignore the fact that journalists created the story in the first place!

MSE is possibly the one exception I would make to "no free antivirus". But I'd leave Symantec on, if they had it. Its not as bad as it used to be with resources. If they have it and maintain a subscription to it, that's fine by me.

I would try to remove McAfee, however unlikely the success of that particular operation may be...

Yes, the best part of USB was getting away from PS/2 ports. Those stupid pins kept breaking off. I lost many a good mouse to broken pins. USB is much sturdier of a connection,

I think "theoretically wanted program" makes more sense to me. In theory, someone at some point thought that some one would want the program. Although in the case of superfish, I really have to bend reality to come up with some potential use of that crap.

You just shouldn't use free anti virus programs.

Turn Off, isn't good enough, IMHO. I don't want the code path to even exist. Would you be okay with a government backdoor in your computer, that was shipped on your computer but "turned off" ?

But they were both out before windows 7. KDE can be configured to be a os x clone, but that speaks more to its configurability than anything else. You could make it work like XFCE, if you wanted as well.

Eh, technophobic technophiles. Trying new approaches are good, IMHO, but I understand the desire to keep the current work flow that works well for you. I'm both glad that gnome and KDE are going crazy new places, and that xfce is still here to have as a fall back.

Seriously, Gnome3 is pretty sweet. I understand why they've done what they've done. Its kind of like switching to a functional programming language. Its a breath of fresh air. A new way to do things, but we still need the older iterative/procedural approach in some cases too.

AOSP or even Replicant is probably what you want then. You can get android without google or any other company involved, if you wish.

If something is for the enterprise, its not secure enough for me as an individual for my personal phone. I want a phone with *no* remote wiping even possible. No hooks. I don't want anyone to have control over any aspect of it, other than myself, to the extent that its possible.

I think we'll probably see a crash in sporting leagues tv contracts. They've been high as the cable companies have been able to raise everyone's rates ( everyone has epsn, right?) in order to accommodate. But as more people cut the cord or drop sports channels, the base will be smaller and end up more price sensitive.

I'd rather go to a bar for 16 Sundays and get a drink and some food, than to have higher bills throughout the year.

They keyboard is very awkward on the phone for me. To use the keyboard comfortably for my thumbs, I have to have the phone on the verge of falling out of my hands.

For years, I used gnash or other open source flash implementations to view homestar. They worked well enough. Everynow and then there was an artifact. I wouldn't be surprised if shumway didn't have similar issues. Reverse engineering the format and implementing action script with all of its versions and variants isn't trivial.

I can't believe they used geo-ip lookup as part of their safety check up. They wildly missed on where my phone and tablet last logged in from. My ISP often assigns an ip address that was once assumed to be in a different section of the country. If I didn't know that, I might have been unnecessarily freaked out. I mean these are nexus devices that have location sharing turned on, and were connected to wifi. Google knows *exactly* where they were, and it wasn't what they reported because the just used geo ip lookups. Dorks.

Define Reliable. For my desktop and dev server, its perfectly reliable. No ill behavior or crashes. The servers I wouldn't trust it on, are the ones I really want to but I'm not sure how to test it reliably enough yet ( if that makes any sense).

Define Reliable. For my desktop and dev server, its perfectly reliable. No ill behavior or crashes. The servers I wouldn't trust it on, are the ones I really want to but I'm not sure how to test it reliably enough yet ( if that makes any sense).

Why would anyone buy one right now? What is the use case? They want to start small and build up, but how do you start at all if you're selling a worse phone than is out there?

Hurd, seriously? There is less development on Hurd today than was being done on Linux was back in 1993.

A lot of the complaints I hear about SystemD are eerily similar to the ones I used to hear about linux in general from Sun/HP Unix/ IRIX guys back in the day. While its not without its flaws, there is too much development behind it to slow it down now. Things that appear to be fatal flaws will get fixed. Reliability will improve. Even segmentation of the various parts may happen ( a useless D reemerge wouldn't be that surprising).

Yup. Maybe I shouldn't editorialize in summaries That was supposed to be a subtle dig. It was half all of those things at one point. Or its parents/ grandparents/great grandparents were. Does a single code base evolve or does each big code merger result in a new child of the original? In any case its complicated. Imho, it was never really finished in any of its iterations. Maemeo was close. I think Nokiia would have been more successful not merging with Moblin to create Meego. I'm also confused as to why Samsung didn't just keep Bada going, other than the merge with Meego allowed them to say it had Linux foundation backing? I remember hearing war stories of Intel guys that were working on Meego when Samsung got involved and they were working towards tizen. Basically Samsung did giant code dumps ( from Bada) that completely wiped out code intel engineers had been working on for months. So apparently by all accounts Intel isn't really involved anymore.

I might go far enough to say that code base is cursed. I once really desired its promise in several forms, but now I'd only take a device running it , if it were free.

I think he was looking for a link on a comment that would bring the user to the comment that it was in reply to. Looking at the situation now, it looks like clicking on the comment link isolates the conversation and shows the parent as would be expected by a parent link.

That's really good, and makes a lot of sense, but I think its one of those things that is so good, people are missing the worse solution because it was more familiar and discoverable.

Is that it reminds me of substance D.

You've made a better technical version of slashdot was. I think the biggest problem with this site has nothing to do with the code. I think we as the community ( Myself included) need to do a better job of submitting stories. Considering I've submitted zero, I think I need to get on that...

Starting to wonder if I'm a milk sommelier. Some people really can't tell the difference between two buck chuck and a superb vintage, I wonder If I just have a crazy milk discerning palate. I guess that's what happens when your baby sitters are dairy farmers.

Oh, they do. Not nearly in the volume that they do in other countries. I HATE UHT milk, with a real passion. Its terrible taste and texture compared with fresh normal temperature pasteurized milk. If you think I'm just crazy, try making cheese out of UHT milk .. you can't the proteins are all messed up. It won't come together to make a solid curd.

I don't know, I can only speak from my experiences, and they've all been horrible with unfrozen milk and great with full fat powdered milk.

With powdered milk, you have to make sure you get full fat powdered milk. Most of the stores in the US only sell skim powdered milk, which is terrible. Most of the time you need to go to a specialty ethnic store to get the full fat powder.

Oh man, I would go out of my way to buy never frozen milk, if that should ever become common place. I don't know why, but when it unfreezes it doesn't look or taste the same. Seriously, I'd rather have powdered milk. Speaking of which, why not just powder all milk? Take the weight and volume of water out shipping, easy to contain.

Yeah, chugging isn't probably the word he should be using there. But I get what he's saying. Its not a $100 bottle of wine that you're supposed to store for a min of 3-5 years before drinking. Its a "enjoy soon" wine. But, they should be very careful of what wine they actually put in there, otherwise there will be a stigma attached to the package forever. Right now boxed wine is in the same category, some of it is very good, but the first available wine in it was kind of terrible. So most people associate it with bad quality. I wonder how the cost of this cardboard bottle compares to the current milk carton style package wine is sold in. Is it cheaper, better for the environment? Or just different.

If they didn't outlaw the deauth attempts, the only reasonable recourse would have been for affected persons to return the favor to hotels that do this. Which would mean no wifi for anyone. If the hotel chains are smart, they won't challenge this. Better to make some money off of people without access, than to not be able to have a basic service available to anyone and sell nothing.

As in will not fall off?

Or

As in will not stop working?

The former makes a lot of sense, and is quite obvious. The latter is an interesting claim. Is it really difficult to damage the etching's properties? Can I take a sharp knife to the finish over and over again without damaging the finish?

Also, is it oil proof? Most of what I cook has some of that too. IF its impervious to water souluble messes and sucks at oil, well thats better than nothing, but not worth much.

Its only Tonga. I'm, sure they have a wonderful army/navy/marines/airforce. But Billshooter Nation has a fiercely loyal subject with no combat experience since kindergarten, no training, no weapons, the strength of 1/10 th of a normal man, and a budget of $10. So I think we're good.

Good point, I guess I know which government's officials I need to bribe "lobby".

Can I just plant a lava proof flag and claim the island as my own? The nation of BIllshooter can finally arise!

Just *slowly* bond it to some oxygen. That works pretty well, in my experience.

But, It will be 20 x funnier if you fill the tubes with helium.

Edit: and maybe 20 x less explosive-ier.

Well, the summary says 30 meters, so I'm guessing our wonderful education system here in the states taught him that a meter was a French word for foot. The 98 ft that immediately precedes it was obviously a french trick to take away our freedoms.

Ah, then the blood turns anyone who eats anything inside the grocery bag into cow zombies. Got it.

I do carry meat in those on a weekly basis, as well as Dairy. What's the problem exactly? They're cloth. They can be cleaned easily. I have a dedicated machine in my basement for doing so, with another one dedicated to drying them.

I understand as I have the same use cases ( minus the packaging stuffer). However, if 99% of the bags are recycled and 1% of them end up in the ocean creating a garbage island the size of texas ...

Well, then I think you have to seriously consider methods to prevent them from forming a garbage island, or include introduce a tax in their price that would cover the cost of clean up. I don't models that privatize benefits and socialize costs.

Why are people so against the advertisers? I'm not a huge fan of most web ads, but fighting click fraud seems like a nobel goal. If I pay for advertising, I'd like to ensure that I'm paying for the right number of views.

On the otherside, if your ad is being distributed widely enough to enough sites, advertisers aren't being stolen from. They are just paying higher rates than they realized. Instead of paying 0.10 US per ad view they may actually be paying 1.00, if 1 out of every ten views is fraudulent. Like any kind of ads, they have to do their own calculations to see if they are getting enough return on their spending.

well, we're imagining a space suit that could keep you alive under normal conditions in space in the neighborhood of earth. So this theoretical space suit never runs out of air, and could indefinitely keep you alive in the same area of space that earth orbits. So no crazy heat shield other than that required around earth.

The point is that you probably wouldn't reach the sun ( think this is also true of any gas giants) , so how bad would Venus have to be to kill you before you hit the ground.

Extra credit if you show your work or conduct any experiments near the sun.

Ok, what about being shot into the sun? Assuming you're in a space suit capable of like support in open space, leaving from earth, at what point would you actually die? I imagine you wouldn't make it alive to the sun's corona, right?

Oh, yeah good point. It does have a lot less lactose than milk. Of course, it depends on the cheese.

Well, its usually said to imply that food allergies are somehow psychological in nature. Implying that if you had no other choice, you would discover that you really aren't allergic to foods. Often said about people who say they have gluten intolerance ( while that's a different topic, they do get lumped together).

Either die from their food allergies or figure out how to survive them. It doesn't mean they don't have them.

There is a crazy part of our population that thinks that what ever we did before we had civilization was better. Like "modern medicine" is somehow worse than eating some crazy diet that people think (despite double blind tests to the contrary) solves the same problem. This "starving people have no food allergies" is of the same thinking. Its like people forget how high our mortality rate used to be, and how short our life expectancy was.

With flash you could have a call back at the end of the video to indicate that it was played all the way through. Of course if you know that it calls back at the end you could just simulate that call back...

The visibility of it is kind of impossible to enforce, as far as I know. At the end of the day you are sending software to run on a random, foreign environment, its not going to be easy to make sure it does what you want it to, especially in a sand-boxed environment.

I imagine its a back and forth cat and mouse between those trying to simulate views and those paying the advertising bills.

I guess if the question is if a human is present, you'd need a captcha. But Who the hell want's to fill out a captcha in order to view an advertisement?

So you have people you want to view your ad actively trying to avoid it, while those you don't want to see the ad ( robots ) want to see the ad. That's a tough nut to crack.

Comment was used for testing more obscure, utf-8 chars. They were all stripped. I thought they were legit, but probably not needed. No one really speaks those languages much these days.

Disagree about the ease in pronouncing. If it were on a Chinese menu, sure I'd probably pronounce it correctly. But English is my first language, and its pronunciation rules are F'd up beyond belief. Its completely out of context in a tech setting, and you can be certain that many people will mispronounce it, just like every other name for things we have. So while its no worse than others, its certainly not any better.

Yeah "too soon", but not in the way you're thinking...
Give them a year or two.

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I was into FreeBSD before Linux. I'm still interested in its development, as its an alternative development to LInux. I think we're all better for having different operating systems exploring their own paths. I really only switched off FreeBSD, due to some performance issues it had running common FOSS applications due to its threading library.

I think Linux is still very much ahead in os design. All of the "problems" that you listed, I think are actually quite good developments ( except Unity ). But I trust FreeBSD to come up with something cool, none-the-less. BSD's always do great stuff. Just not as fast to keep up with Linux.