Comment: Why TPB? (Score 1) 94
Comment: Re:The Manchurian Candidate (Score 1) 240
Comment: Re:Raspberry Pi with camera (Score 2) 93
Comment: Re:Linux needs more desktop forks (Score 1) 185
This is all pretty much exactly why freedesktop.org (formerly XDG) was formed.
n+1 standards and all that, but the major specs have been adopted by every DE that I'm aware of.
As to when it will all filter down to distros to split out unnecessary package dependencies, I have no idea. I'm not familiar with a whole lot of packaging systems, but AFAIK there is no package installer which can mirror the compile-time --enable-feature and --disable-feature behaviour of configure scripts such that you only draw in packages dependencies based on the optional features you select, and don't end up installing pulseaudio because you wanted a lightweight notepad-like text editor (for a made-up example).
Comment: Re:Read their website (Score 2) 268
Comment: Re: 9 month test required + uniform radial flux (Score 2) 314
FTA:
There is no fee for applying for Energy Star certification, nor for using the label.
I have no such optoelectronics experience, but I am as skeptical and cynical as the next guy and curious about where the "pay-for-play" aspect comes in.
Comment: Re:It was called RSS Reader (Score 1) 287
Basic simple interface: List of feeds on the left, headlines on the right. That's all I want.
Out of curiosity, what exactly needs updating if it already meets all your requirements?
Comment: Re:Epic Corruption: Operation Snow White (Score 3, Insightful) 540
Baader-Meinhof
I've seen that name before.
Comment: Re:Novel (Score 2) 232
Comment: Re:For those of us alive when this was launched, (Score 1) 271
Comment: Re:And the next step? (Score 1) 249
Comment: Re:Kill the Electoral College please... (Score 1) 1576
The state of California has about 12% of the country's population. Not quite the same thing as a "vast majority".
Comment: Re:What happened to those election monitors? (Score 2) 386
Comment: Re:lawsuit time? (Score 1) 770
Only real assholes use them instead of cuffs.
That's funny, I only ever see the police using them.