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najati83
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Comment #14060489
> it's worth more to me to keep it private as I'm placed at a disadvantage in negotiations if I name a number first Can't you just... lie about it? Make up some high number so you'…
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Comment #14058770
Does Windows 10 for Education have the same features as the normal version?
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Comment #14050112
I don't blame Microsoft, as they are supposed to curate their app store and therefore could be found liable of... whatever crime it is to emulate an old system. You can still run a…
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Comment #14036242
If that's the case, I have to say that for the political views of many people, an LGBT flag is as disrespectful or dangerous to society as a swastika can be to any individual or gr…
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Comment #14035407
A swastika, an LGBT flag and a hammer and a sickle are all political symbols. I found it funny admins only banned one of them.
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Comment #14034451
Yes, me too. Admins were fine with a hammer and a sickle and an LGBT flag, though. We all have biases, after all. ;P
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Comment #14030781
You can still do that using msg.exe
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Comment #14028322
If you are reading this: I installed Fedora recently because I wanted to try it and I found the partitioning process to be absurdly complicated, compared to that of Debian or Ubunt…
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Comment #14028176
People in this thread don't remember the NET SEND spam from Windows Messenger. (Which was a system service and had absolutely nothing to do with MSN Messenger) You could basically …
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Comment #14024747
Spain.
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Comment #14024187
The point of the "Linux on the desktop" meme was that everybody would start using free, preferently GPL'd software for everything. Android is far away from that.
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Comment #14024141
Sending an MMS is very expensive and many people don't even bother to configure their mobiles to send them because they've never used them.
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Comment #14021994
I am not being sarcastic and I use it and I have used it for years. I consider myself a "hardcore greybeard", or a neckbeard, which is what you actually meant ;P I don't agree with…
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Comment #14021982
>as soon as you try to measure how well people are doing, they will switch to optimising for whatever you’re measuring, rather than putting their best efforts into actually doing g…
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Comment #14016915
My recommendation for any kind of serious desktop use is always Gentoo. Problems like the one you mention are much easier to solve when you can pick which versions of all packages …
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Comment #14016887
It's an article signed by nobody claiming three distros to be "the best distros of 2017" without any kind of serious arguments.
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Comment #14016873
How did this rubbish make it to the front page? Botnet of voters?
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Comment #14013401
This is exciting not only because of the Tor project itself but because this will set an example for other projects to follow.
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Comment #14013350
There's a karma threshold for it to appear, for some reason.
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Comment #14009391
That's why I mentioned intelligence. You need proxy wars, coups, espionage, state-funded terrorism, etc etc in other countries to maintain your power. The US excels at that.
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Comment #14008674
Well... that's actually true. The US are where they are because of their military power and intelligence.
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Comment #14004023
Backports are virtually useless. http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-backports/allpackages PPAs are a very good idea but they are almost always managed by third parties and I don't t…
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Comment #14003517
- FLAVOR: All? - HEADLINE: Stop releasing every six months. Instead, have an LTS, like you already do, and then a rolling release that is conservative and battle-tested, like Gento…
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Comment #13998282
I'm not the kind of person who hates changes, but everything that Twitter does certainly irritates me. I liked the service ten years ago when it was IRC-like. This is just one step…