Gavagai80 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:The 1.0 release notes say it did (Score 1) 40

by Gavagai80 on Monday May 19, 2014 @02:25AM (#47036141) Attached to: Mozilla Launches Student Coding Program "Winter of Security"

0.1 you mean. Firefox 1.0 was years later long after most of us had started using it.

Comment Re:yachts (Score 1) 46

by Gavagai80 on Saturday May 17, 2014 @02:01AM (#47023649) Attached to: Apple and Google's Motorola Unit End Patent War

Well they won't need customers anymore if they patent the propeller.

Comment Re:More government control, that's the ticket (Score 1) 160

by Gavagai80 on Friday May 16, 2014 @02:27PM (#47019679) Attached to: Proton-M Rocket Carrying Russia's Most Advanced Satellite Crashes

In America, the life support machine stays on until the bank account runs dry. That's not a good thing. Length of technical "life" is not the goal, quality of life is the goal. And of course, the life expectancy still ends up being longer in Europe as well.

Comment Re:Sacramento is nice and all, but it's still... (Score 1) 190

by Gavagai80 on Thursday May 15, 2014 @03:44PM (#47011781) Attached to: Could High Bay-Area Prices Make Sacramento the Next Big Startup Hub?

According to city-data.com, the cost of living in Sacramento is cheaper than the national average cost of living. And it's certainly cheap for me, though I can't speak to taxes on 6 figure incomes.

Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 1) 138

by Gavagai80 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @06:40PM (#46994355) Attached to: Can Google Influence Elections?

Proof? Go to http://news.google.com/ and observe how each story has numerous different versions of it linked.

Comment Re:Assad (Score 2) 43

by Gavagai80 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @06:36PM (#46994319) Attached to: Journalist vs. the Syrian Electronic Army

Remove a dictator with a revolution and you're likely to get chaos and extremism, unless it was a short term dictator in a country with a strong history of bureaucratic institutions. Not unique to the middle east, the DRC after Mobutu is an obvious example.

Comment Re:Comparative advantage is BS (Score 1) 522

by Gavagai80 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @04:27PM (#46993295) Attached to: Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches

Pre-WWI prosperity... where even the richest countries had massive child labor and 15 hour work days in squalid conditions that make a modern Chinese factory look like a worker's paradise? Right.

Comment Re:Space programs as a crowbar? (Score 1) 522

by Gavagai80 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @04:15PM (#46993189) Attached to: Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches

The majority of people were born much more recently than 40s. I gather your solution to the middle east is to move all the Israelis back to the countries their grandparents lived in 70 years ago, too... no more humane than Stalin.

Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 1) 138

by Gavagai80 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @03:21PM (#46992607) Attached to: Can Google Influence Elections?

Google News is just the opposite, though -- it presents you with versions of a story from many different papers/slants/countries so you can see all sides of the story when you normally wouldn't. Of course, you still have to click.

Comment Re:So a bicyclist is safer..... (Score 1) 490

by Gavagai80 on Sunday May 11, 2014 @12:34PM (#46973225) Attached to: Traffic Optimization: Cyclists Should Roll Past Stop Signs, Pause At Red Lights

no one gets away paying no tax at all

Well, homeless shoplifters do.

Comment Re:How is Burying Africa Under PCs Going to Help? (Score 3, Informative) 201

by Gavagai80 on Saturday May 10, 2014 @10:24PM (#46970127) Attached to: $7 USB Stick Aims To Bring Thousands of Poor People Online

A multiparty democracy whose president is wanted by the ICC for war crimes relating to the deadly ethnic riots he caused in the last election.

Comment Re:time for a new public licence (Score 1) 197

by Gavagai80 on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @04:44AM (#46937357) Attached to: US Military Drones Migrating To Linux

If knife developers had the option of adding a license clause forbidding the use of their knives in muggings, perhaps they would.

Comment Re:Lore (Score 1) 179

by Gavagai80 on Friday May 02, 2014 @06:56AM (#46897807) Attached to: Physics Students Devise Concept For Star Wars-Style Deflector Shields

They're all clones of Jango Fett, but clones degrate over the years and the later generation clones lose the aiming gene.

Comment Re:Expect complaint to FAA in 3, 2, 1... (Score 1) 143

by Gavagai80 on Thursday May 01, 2014 @11:09AM (#46889123) Attached to: Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions

First complainant is automatically volunteered for the business opportunity of flying a helicopter into a tornado.

Comment Re:It depends on the hat you're wearing (Score 0) 143

by Gavagai80 on Thursday May 01, 2014 @11:02AM (#46889039) Attached to: Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions

Impeachment isn't a criminal charge, you can only be fired not go to jail. And Nixon illustrates the immunity from real consequences for illegal acts, if he'd been anyone but the president he'd have gone to jail.

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