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Comment Re:Interesing... (Score 5, Insightful) 394

When Congress also demands "information from universities, companies and trade groups about funding for scientists who publicly [accept or] dispute widely held views on the causes and risks of climate change," then I'll care about what "prominent members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate" think about climate change.

It's not like members of Congress understand the "research or testimony" anyways. Nor do members of Congress care what others have to say; they use testimony as an opportunity for themselves to give speeches disguised as questions.

Comment Re:This made my day... (Score 1) 320

Put an end to the double Irish.

Again, the current government are already working to increase tax revenue from companies that try and siphon earnings overseas. This is an international problem and if you have a way to solve it that actually works, then HMRC would love to hear from you.

Eliminate income, payroll, and VAT taxes. Replace with retail sales tax.

Comment Re:Please tell me this is satire (Score 1) 320

You're surprised by politicians being scientifically clueless? I guess you can't be an American....

In America, most politicians are educated as lawyers (and rarely in an additional profession). They usually weren't good enough at being a lawyer to succeed in private practice. Then look at the typical undergraduate and graduate coursework a lawyer does (in America). Not one rigorous science course at all. Why do we wonder that politicians are "scientifically clueless" ?

Comment Re:Fridge door handle (Score 1) 162

The three laws demonstrates that morality cannot be codified, it's a critique of the 10 commandments and other such lists of rules that attempt to do the same thing for humans..

The 10 commandments are themselves a critique of a rules based approach. In less than 40 days since the commandments were audibly announced by God, to all Israel, they made an idol and worshiped it. As for Adam, he couldn't even follow ONE rule.

Comment Re:LOLWUT (Score 1) 65

Auto isn't obnoxious when it's self triggered. I love using HTMLKit for coding because you can setup custom rules based on the language you're using and just hit a key (your choice of which key) to trigger a pre-defined auto-behaviour. Saves so much time not having to fuss with auto-behaviours you don't intend and not manually entering every slow detail every time. Even places the carat where you want it.

In other words, you use macros.

Comment Re:Oh, really? (Score 1) 393

[2] It has to run the programs people want to run, because in the real world they don't want to run some MS Office knockoff, they want to run MS Office. Ditto for Photoshop and the dozens of programs they rely on, some very big name products, some very obscure, to do work, have fun, etc.

What I want to run is Office 2003. But that is becoming less and less of an option thanks to Microsoft.

Comment Re:Remoting status using Wayland? (Score 0) 189

After it was announced a year or two ago, I have heard nothing about RDP support in Wayland. Is it getting to the point that Wayland will have first-class support for transparently remoting apps with RDP? Anyone know the status on this? There's precious little info about this on the interwebs, and no real information on what the workflow looks like, say with ssh forwarding.

Just to be clear, are you asking about Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol working with Wayland?

Comment Re:Numbers (Score 1) 149

This tunnel would be roughly the same length and complexity as the English Channel Tunnel. The combined metro area of London and Paris is 26 million people; Talinn and Helsinki combined are less than 1/10th the size. If you're thinking more in terms of connecting all of Finland to all of Europe the way the Chunnel connects the whole UK to Europe, the population of Finland is again less than 1/10th the size of the UK.

Then this rail project needs to estimate cargo profitability, and only continue if cargo on its own is profitable.

Comment Re:Six digit PINs? (Score 1) 101

The devices are installed by the oil company/credit card processor (yes, they're usually one in the same). The fuel stations are run by people (either owner/operators or corporate employees) who have skill sets in things other than network administration. They probably never read the manual that came with the devices.

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