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Comment Re:Any regrets? (Score 1) 573

Not exactly a regret, but I bet you he cries himself to sleep at night when he sees the reverses in software openness that the IT industry has made (going mobile, going cloud, etc) and the steps backwards we've made in the last few years.

It's gotta be hard to see the open source movement snatch defeat from the jaws of victory...

Comment Re:Diversity (Score 4, Insightful) 757

. I think a presidential election is something that matters.

And you're wrong. The whole plan for the republicans is to lose the presidency, but remain an obstructive (or destructive) legislative force in the senate, congress and supreme court.

The whole race is just bread and circuses; even more so once you consider that both parties are right wing by any sane standard...

Comment Re:We can learn from the termites how to fix Socie (Score 2, Insightful) 158

>How has India managed to survive without Security Insecurity for the ~4,000 years prior to 1952?
By not caring if most of the people starve in the streets and being a 3rd world hell hole?
Seriously, if your go-to comparision is fucking India, maybe you ought to rethink your comparisions? Or your attitude.

Comment Like RMS, Theo De Raadt is right when everyone (Score 5, Interesting) 391

else is wrong.

Sadly, MS has the power to take control of our computers away from us --and with secureboot they're doing exactly that. This is a direct attack on personal computing and the freedoms of the end-user to control the software on their computer.

RMS and Theo De Raadt are both right on this --but neither one of them has the influence needed to avert this attack, so it doesn't matter.

The era of personal, general-purpose computing is over.

Comment *YAWN* (Score 4, Interesting) 365

who cares?

Remarkably, we've pretty much had the Earhart mystery solved ever since partial remains were found on an island... in 1940. That's right, 70 years ago. Only four years after she vanished.

Read more: 6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (That Have Totally Been Solved) | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_18718_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-that-have-totally-been-solved.html#ixzz1wlalcIS3

Comment Stop being an embarassment (Score 1) 763

Seriously. The combination of heavy-handed bias of many editors, the sensationalistic "wind people up for ad impressions" approach to stories and the total lack of professionalism (eg even basic spellcheck) makes slashdot a complete and total joke to the rest of the internet.

Recommend slashdot to anyone -are you fucking kidding me? Slashdot has become such a joke I'm more likely to deny that I read slashdot rather than recommend it!

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