Nice ... you think the methane from these vents contributes to global warming ... except that it doesn't.

I knew when I saw this made it to slashdot there would be a bunch of AGW nut jobs relating this to AGW without bothering to understand the slightest thing about it.

It dissolves into the ocean water and never reaches the surface, never becomes a problem for AGW.

It does increase the acidity of the ocean and the question is how well does it get dispersed before it breaks down, but that in and of itself has 0 affect on AGW and its unlikely that it has any indirect affects on it as well.

No it didn't. Android did. GNU/Linux is still pretty irrelevant outside of cheap servers (nothing wrong with cheap servers, I use them myself). There is no Linux Desktop market share to be worth discussing.

All of the distros you listed combined add up to 'doesn't matter on the desktop' and most of what makes Android useful on a phone isn't the kernel either, they could almost as easily run it on NetBSD.

There certainly is very little other than 'fanboy' that keeps people on Linux, there are alternatives that are competitive.

If you really want to get technical, Linux in general is not really 'old guard' UNIX and never has been. Well, okay, Linux may be, but GNU/Linux not so much.

GNU is a bastardization of SysV at best, and breaks all sorts of things that would work on most SysVs that came before it.

To pretend Linux has an 'old guard' is a joke in and of itself. Anyone acting like they're 'old school' UNIX based on Linux is doing nothing more than what you say, 'my Linux is better than your Linux'

Stop pretending GNU/Linux is UNIX. It isn't. Its a UNIX-a-like-but-only-just.

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The media DID redefine hacker, which is why it has the criminal overtones you speak off.

It stopped being a private arrangement when it started being facilitated by a 3rd party.

Better than uber, in this situation these people can easily squat and the home owner would have to go through the full eviction process ... Which means in some locations that you can't have them removed for at least 90 days! And no, changing the locks while they are out isn't legal either.

Yet its still done, often, for reasons that are obvious if you've got a clue and the right requirements.

ActiveX has no sandbox and no security issues. No more than a DLL does.

ActiveX is nothing more than a method for a DLL to self describe its functionality to an application that loads it.

Your statement shows you have no idea what ActiveX is or what problems existed RELATED TO (not caused by) ActiveX.

The 'security' issues you are referring to are the result of programmers blindly downloading and loading any ActiveX on the Internet. This is no different than blindly downloading and executing EXEs and its not a flaw with EXEs or ActiveX, its a flaw with the application that is downloading and loading/executing them.

At no point was there a 'sandbox' for ActiveX. Its not part of the design and never was. It was expected that they would be used intelligently, but no one on the IE team was intelligent.

Internet Explorer was broken, not ActiveX.

Please learn WTF you are talking about before continuing to spew this ignorance. Its been 18 years since this ignorance started, you'd think by now you guys would have a clue.

No, they don't. They stopped a while back because no one cared. They tried making some instructions for generic JVM like environments after that, but those too have been deprecated.

ARMv6 added support, but ARMv8 removes support for any JIT VM instructions with the removal of ThumbEE.

That was 3 years ago.

The 'CS population is a "women aren't fucking interested" issue' Stop trying to make it out to be more than it is. Stop trying to make it 'equal'.

People are different.

Genders are different, if you don't realize that, you need to take sex ed over again.

Races are different, if you don't realize that, take a look at distribution of races in sports (All of them from chess to basketball).

Certain groups of people have certain attributes in GENERAL that make them prefer, not prefer, or have some general level of skill above or below the 'average'.

NOTHING YOU DO IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT SHORT OF GENETIC ENGINEERING.

Stop trying to turn it into a fucking social issue, its a god damn evolution issue. WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME.

That doesn't mean any particular person of a race or gender CAN'T do something or MUST do something, it just means they are predisposed one way or the other and most people of that particular group will behave in a similar way.

Most women don't want to spend all day dicking with computers. FULL STOP.

... Really? Since when? What fucked up part of the world do you live in that believes such a silly statement? Who are the 'upper class' then? Blue collar workers perhaps?

Its more likely that you'll just end up not being exposed to new items that may be useful to you.

Profiled advertising seems like a great idea, except (as it stands currently) you end up advertising to people who are already buying your products, and hence, theres not really any point in them getting your advertisements.

So how about you get off your ass and change the laws governing how ridiculous your taxes are?

No, you don't ACTUALLY want that do you? My guess is that you're happy to take all the benefits those taxes provide, but somehow think its okay to not actually participate in paying them.

Do you abstain from using public roads? Public transit? Public policing? How about water and power which are subsidized by taxes? Do you enjoy the protection of California's tough environmental laws or do you not?

You're just a freeloader to stupid to realize that you're happy to cut off your own nose to spite your face.

Except for NASA, 40-50 years ago. Reusable rockets certainly aren't new. This method isn't new. Electronics have made it far easier and more reliable, but they haven't invented shit.

SpaceX isn't doing ANYTHING new at this point, they are riding on the coat tails of work done by agencies like NASA, JAXA, Russia and the EU's space programs.

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Do you think this wasn't mandated as part of them getting approval to launch in the first place? If so you're pretty naive.

They do have oversight you know, they don't just get to do whatever they want.

No, it isn't.

Total cost for health care is far higher than before and the end result is pretty much exactly the same as before. The basic coverage you end up with on the low end is so shitty that its effectively useless for the poor people who need it, and to top it off, now the people who pay for it all, pay far more.

If you want socialized health care, fucking socialize it and take private business out of the equation entirely, it will never work as long as there greedy businesses mixed in with it.

Yes, for display on your wall or whatever its called. The archive the originals in their original form so they can be reprocessed later if they want/need to.