Comment: Re:Very impressive (Score 2) 77
Yes, as he threw a real power supply at it instead of using the crappiest USB adapter he could find.
Comment: Ghostbusters anyone? (Score 1) 1
"What's 3 plus 2?"
"Uh..."
"WRONG!"
**ZAP**
Comment: Re:No big deal (Score 2) 135
Sure, but if you're going to throw the book at them, make sure you've highlighted all the relevant sections first.
Comment: Re:many want a realy linux hand-held device. (Score 1) 69
Nothing is preventing anyone from packaging all the GNU tools into a
+ - English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language->
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sciencehabit writes "If you've ever cringed when your parents said "groovy," you'll know that spoken language can have a brief shelf life. But frequently used words can persist for generations, even millennia, and similar sounds and meanings often turn up in very different languages. Now, a new statistical approach suggests that peoples from Alaska to Europe may share a linguistic forebear dating as far back as the end of the Ice Age, about 15,000 years ago. Indeed, some of the words we use today may not be so different than those spoken around campfires and receeding glaciers."
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Comment: Re:Am I misunderstanding this? (Score 2) 56
The fact that you in turn save encrypted copies of their data.
Comment: Well... (Score 1) 5
To be fair, they probably started off crazy; it wasn't the sites that made them that way.
Comment: Re:"Science"? (Score 1) 1078
A bomb is a bomb, regardless of what your gender, age, or skin color is.
Comment: "Science"? (Score 0) 1078
"Science" has a precise meaning; it's not something you can just bandy around whenever the hell you feel like it. Mixing two chemicals together isn't "science", it's "mixing two chemicals together". And if the results happen to break the law, then you just might get what's coming to you.
Comment: Re: Art doesn't need remuneration (Score 1) 684
It is selfish and full of shit! If you create a product or service that people use - then you do have a right to get money from it.
Unless there is a legal contract, written or otherwise, there is no such thing as a "right to compensation".
Comment: Re:Art doesn't need remuneration (Score 1) 684
WTF? Of COURSE the creation of art (or anything) is dependent upon remuneration - or payment of some kind.
If you can't make a living doing it, you can't do it.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you probably didn't/won't get any remuneration for that post.
Comment: Re:"Needs"? (Score 1) 586
People who need food might not be able to afford genetically engineered crops once they're all that exists. And as always, the problem isn't producing food, it's getting it to the people that need it.
Comment: "Needs"? (Score 4, Insightful) 586
No one *needs* genetically-engineered crops, they simply result in a higher profit (and possibly various unknown health risks).
Comment: Re:Yay! (Score 1) 177
Non-LTS. But it's still shorter than other distributions.
Comment: Re:You lost me at... (Score 4, Informative) 83
No one offers GNOME 2 because it's effectively dead. MATE is the replacement.