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Comment The oldest known Galaxy today! (Score 1) 51

I think this is cool and all but it seems like every other day I see this exact same thing in the news but with a different galaxy. With how many times we keep finding the "oldest known Galaxy" and the way it's reported it isn't even exciting anymore. It just feels like calling the last galaxy discovered as the oldest was premature.

Comment Re:What's needed is installer as good as the kerne (Score 1) 34

Yeah this sounds like problems with nvidia. A lot of other distros have an option when booting specifically for nvidia graphics cards. Though ubuntu is a more popular distro, so the fact it doesn't have an option for this I concede would be frustrating as hell and would turn off people. I could go on about how this is nvidia's fault and why don't they open source their drivers and blah blah blah, but you are right. So with newer nvidia cards, we have a hard time loading graphics install. That does suck. I'm sorry about your experience there.

Comment Let me get this straight. (Score 0) 279

A for profit company does something to continue to make profit. Now they are monsters? They want to not give away as much free stuff so they are monsters? I love the fairy tale people live in these days. Yes Corporations make millions and billions but it costs millions and billions to operate. These aren't charities either. Do you operate solely on charging the upper classes? Hell, how many people do you even know are rich? Rich is even relative because annual salary of $75,000 might be a lot where you live but not in other places.

Comment Not just Gawker (Score 1) 199

I have seen the documentary. This documentary isn't all about Gawker. I am not going to comment on the Gawker situation. However, no one here seems to be mentioning what happened to the Las Vegas Review-Journal or how Billionaire Adelson, bought the paper and ordered someone not to write about him. Adelson even brought suit against him and t hen offered to take care of the journalist's kid's medical bills and drop the suit if he would retract his earlier comments. The journalist refused. However, almost everyone that wrote the article about Adelson's family acquiring the paper no longer work for said company. While the legality of this is up for debate it does go to show that with enough money you can silence anyone. Free Speech and Freedom of the Press only work if you have the funding to back your side.

Comment Bit of a Contradiction? (Score 2) 79

Is it just me or is there a bit of a contradiction? From TFA: "It turned out that Miles had noticed something no-one else had - including the Nasa experts." "Nasa said it was aware of the error, but believed it was only happening once or twice a year." So he noticed something no-one else had....then in the very next line state that NASA was aware just they believed it wasn't as common as he pointed out. So NASA did know about the negative readings but didn't quite know the extent of the mistake. I guess, he noticed something they didn't but this seems a little click-baity. I mean good on the kid for noticing a pattern but the wording is just grandiose.

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