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Comment Re:Nvidia has NOTHING to lose at this stage (Score 4, Insightful) 66

If you can't compete, make your documentation open-source in the hope this will boot-strap some extra business.

Too little too late. For YEARS we have been screaming for nvidia drivers that aren't buggy, closed and unstable, to the point of writing Nuveau, an open source hack (remarkably good but still crippled). Rot in hell, NVIDIA - I have wasted enough money on your hardware.

Comment Productivity (Score 5, Insightful) 503

Everything has to do with productivity. Sure we all like a bit of novelty and it's fun to tinker with new features of a desktop or user interface, but the majority of these innovations are never used (if the user has the choice), but the recent Linux desktops (Gnome mostly) have forced a new set of heuristics on a user base that increasingly uses Linux for productivity and not just tinkering.

It's a waste of time to have to learn a new way of doing everything when the existing ways work already. That is why 'classic desktop' is favored. It works, and although new things might work, they have not proven to work better.

Comment Re:Classified (Score 1) 94

REALLY stupid question. It is not like they are going to wave them about for everyone to see. They most likely exist.

Yes, the weaponization is built into every Intel processor, and probably most other processors and controllers. The weapons in cyber warfare start with the smart phones we point at our own heads and will shortly be the cars which can crash us into the next tree or fail to stop at the next busy intersection.

Comment Re:Not good news (Score 2) 92

I doubt much of our honey comes from bees in the wild and bee farmers have no reason to starting using plastic nests

The bees don't ask the farmers where to find their building materials, unless the farmed bees are in an area devoid of plastic for several miles around the hive, there is nothing to say the bees won't harvest rotting plastic bags or building materials that might be lying around in the brush. Read the article!

Comment Re:2014 (Score 2) 109

I think it's prudent to question whether this bug in Google's browser is intentional or unintentional.

I think it is safe to assume, for any verbal discussion of importance, that all smart phones in the room have their microphones on with voice recognition running. Sure, most of the time they are not, but:

1. They are the perfect bugging tool.

2. The person you are talking to might be recording everything anyway

and 3. if you are in any kind of position that could possibly be envied, someone is bound to be doing this to you.

Comment Re:Work on the basics (Score 2) 387

Javascript/jquery front ends, php/python/ruby/sql backends.

Don't forget to learn SQL and libbdb/BerkeleyDB for databases; Qt for user interfaces; Davlik for Android. Java.... Java EE... Java JUnit.... C#. C++... Objective-C OCUnit, Cedar. Behavior-driven test tools, JBehave. Selenium framework; Cucumber, RSpec, and Capybara for testing: Javascript jasmine; Python Lettuce or Splinter . C# MSpec, SpecFlow, WaitN.

Sounds easy.

Comment Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... (Score 1) 1038

How about my proposed execution method that's more likely to be painless than all other "popular" methods:

Nice method. However what is the purpose of this method? If murder means you get to die instantly and painlessly, then it's a better exit than most people get who die naturally. It will deter no one.

Comment Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... (Score 1) 1038

Actually it's not cruel at all, at least not to the subject. He would not have been conscious of his death at all

And you know this how?

'Substantial risk'? Quantify that. The guy would have felt punch drunk after 30 seconds, or even less if he was anxious, and at peace by a minute, then pretty much unable to process any meaningful thought after that, let alone lay down any memories. The appearance of his death is everybody else's problem and not his.

The 25 minute saga is because they got the opiate dose wrong. That has little to do with consciousness.

Comment Re:People still pay for porn? (Score 1) 216

I suppose if you have a really uncommon and specific fetish, maybe? Or maybe it's a 'support the artists' thing? Show them their work is appreciated, and they'll make more.

That's an interesting fetish... maybe there should be porn where the artists are spending money on porn whilst watching porn of people spending money on porn (recurring).

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