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Comment Re:The Pentagon is more important than climate cha (Score 4, Insightful) 163

Is that parody or is that news? I cannot believe that one-sided, war-mongering, short-sighted propaganda piece is called 'News'. It packs more lies, ridicule, non sequiturs, and manipulation into three minutes than I've even seen before. Are people really expected watch that and then form their own opinions? If that is how Americans get their news, it explains so much about American ignorance, xenophobia, and thirst for war.

Comment Re:What does he mean? (Score 3, Interesting) 450

What does he specifically mean?

He means that Debian, like many other FOSS projects, needs Giving Trees to drain.

Joey was one such tree, and all that is left now is a stump. Others are at various stages of being just a trunk, or perhaps having a few branches left. The Giving Trees are being chopped down faster than they are being planted.

Comment Re:we need more detasils on this "big data thing" (Score 1) 147

I'm out of modpoints but I would like to stress that _this post_ is an example of why Ask Slashdot is so successful at answering questions that boil down to "I don't know what I need to know to get this job done". This is the type of answer that will put the OP on the right track to figuring out what he needs.

Comment Re:I would never give Home Depot my address... (Score 1) 99

It depends how fast you throw them away. My slashdot throw away address has been valid for 10 years at least. Still, I can throw it away without impacting anything else if I want and yes all addresses end up in the same inbox and I can edit the sender in my email client to enter anything I want.

You are going to love this:
https://www.absorb.it/virtual-...

Virtual Identity is a Thunderbird addon that automatically puts the right "sender" address when you send an email. It is the reason that I'm married to Tbird.

Comment Re:HA! (Score 1) 102

The thing that always amazes me in that story is they put Captain Bligh on a row boat in the Pacific and somehow he made it back to England.

From what I understand he did it the same way the Polynesians did it: stellar navigation. Not to England, but to some island he knew about, most likely due west. He was the ship's captain, familiar with the nearby islands. Think about those crazy Polynesians who use stellar navigation to travel between Hawaii and Tahiti!

Polynesian: The race of many islands

Comment Re:Do what Amarok 1.4 does to MP3 tags. (Score 1) 41

It might be rendering the tags in UTF-16, which for code points \x00 - \x7F look just like ASCII with a NULL byte \x00 before (Big Endian) or after (Little Endian) each printable character.

Can you give an example? I'll take a look. Run Unix "strings" on the file, run it through "hd" and post it as a reply here.

$ strings file.mp3 | grep "known text" | hd

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