Comment: Re:Seems like printing w/ CUPS is still not fixed. (Score 1) 90
Ah, I wasn't aware of the fact it wasn't developed within the community process. At any rate, great to see Qt devs paying attention to things like Slashdot comments :)
Comment: Seems like printing w/ CUPS is still not fixed... (Score 5, Interesting) 90
I was hoping that they might finally get a fix in for this bug (and the likes thereof), which has been making printing under KDE a pain in the butt for the last couple of years (the 4th most hated KDE bug out there) - but nobody seems to care, even tho a patch is available. Nice going with that community process... sigh.
Comment: Re:what's going on in italy lately? (Score 4, Funny) 302
Don't forget the most unlikely event of them all - Berlusconi's gone!
Comment: Re:Loss of archives is going to be bad (Score 2) 80
it always saddens me when data that could be preserved isn't preserved
Is that you, Mr. Zuckerberg?
Comment: Re:Both are terrible! (Score 1) 397
In Opera, navigate to the website you want to use as a search engine, right-click the search form, click "Create Search", and add a shortcut, say "ende" for the English-German dictionary. Presto, I type in "ende <word>" in the location bar, and I get my translation back. I have shortcuts for Google, Bing, Amazon, IMDb, one for AllMusic artist search, another for AllMusic album search, German, French and Italian, dictionaries, etc... gets quite addictive.
I know that Chromium has the same feature, but it's buried somewhere in the configuration. For Firefox you can probably get it through an add-on...
Comment: Re:Socrates, not Aristotle (Score 1) 402
The only mention of Socrates on the page you linked to is this:
In Plato's Apology, Socrates recounts an incident in which the Thirty once ordered him (and four other men) to bring before them a certain man for execution. While the other four men obeyed, Socrates refused, not wanting to partake in the guilt of the executioners. By disobeying, Socrates knew he was placing his own life in jeopardy, and claimed it was only the disbanding of the oligarchy soon afterward that saved his life.
That certainly doesn't suggest that they were his pupils.
Comment: Re:So let me get this straight (Score 1) 125
In reply to this, I'd like to quote a rather famous computer scientist:
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Comment: Re:How are we supposed to understand this? (Score 1) 1671
what sort of tactics had the bad guys been using
They were driving around in helicopters and blowing unsuspecting news reporters and Good Samaritans to smithereens?
Comment: Re:The VM is decent. The language sucks. (Score 1) 667
They gave up on removing the GIL, and their work is accepted for merge into Python 3.3.
Comment: Re:so how big is it? (Score 1) 265
No, just the usual Slashdot fail of neglecting to RTFA.
"As far as mechanical objects are concerned, the dividing line was at around 60 atoms," Professor Cleland said. "With this experiment, we've shown that the dividing line can be pushed up all the way to about a trillion atoms."
Comment: Re:WiFi (Score 5, Funny) 395
How is an infinite stream of 0s random?
Comment: Re:The most dangerous C programming error (Score 1) 534
Here's a bulletproof way of fixing that:
typedef enum {red, yellow, green} color;
Comment: Re:Darn you, slashdot! (Score 1) 126
You mean like, both hands at once?
Comment: Re:Not an issue (Score 1) 300
The $27 million, Italian-built
Ah, that explains it. You know the old joke:
Heaven:
The police are British
The cooks are French
The engineers are German
The administrators are Swiss
The lovers are Italian
Hell:
The police are German
The cooks are British
The engineers are Italian
The administrators are French
The lovers are Swiss
Comment: Re:No one will find me... (Score 1) 228
From my earlier job I still have a wide selection of uniforms, one of them is always convincing
I'm beginning to see how you earned your nickname.