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Re:Comparing 2 different things... by girlintraining · 2012-09-22 17:23 · Score: 0 · on iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours

False. No iOS products even have an "auto-update" ability.

Giggle. whatever you say.

Re:AOL Used to.... by Cinder6 · 2012-09-21 14:42 · Score: 1 · on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You

There was also that Amazon bug a few years ago that made it so capital/lowercase in a password was treated the same.

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/01/31/amazon-login-may-accept-password-variants/

They also used to drop anything after the 8th character:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Eight-Character-Password-Bug-Identified-on-Amazon-181109.shtml

Re:more privacy oriented Bing search engine by hairyfeet · 2012-09-21 07:58 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing

Well I agree you can just use a proxy and beat all of the above, but when it comes to drivers...WTF are you doing man? Seriously what the hell? you are using a search engine to find fricking drivers?

Let your friendly neighborhood repairman Hairyfeet help you out there grasshopper, learn how us old greybeards get a system from blank drive to up and running with NO effort in less than an hour and a half, here we go.

1.- Go to Driverpacks and download the packs for any OSes you are gonna be installing, you can even put them all on a thumbdrive or DVD for ease of use.

2.- Go to WSUS Offline and download their update generator. Again simply check the boxes for what you want, they have XP-7, 32 and 64bit, you can even get all the MS Office and .NET patches while you are at it. I personally have every patch from 2K-Win 7 X64 on a shared drive, couldn't be easier to use and the nice thing is you'll never have to waste bandwidth downloading a patch or service pack twice, one time takes care of it

3.- Once you have the machine up and running, after you have run the driverpack and WSUS so you have it all patched and set up nice and neat go to Ninite to take care of most of your third party stuff, your flash and codecs and the like. Again just check the boxes for whatever you want and run it, couldn't be simpler.

4.-The final icing on the delicious cake is to go grab a copy of Comodo Time Machine and when its installed have it make a snapshot and lock it. That will give you your own "roll back to factory state" just like the big OEMs but with all the patches and drivers and third party softare installed. Then set it to make a snapshot daily and if your user bones anything, even if they make it unbootable, they can be back up and running in 15 minutes or less, easy peasy.

Well there you have it, 4 simple little steps that will take you from blank drive to running system hassle free. Your actual interaction time? less than 10 minutes since the majority of its completely automated so you only need to make the selection and go do something while it runs. But don't hunt for drivers on the net, that's just a waste of time and you are just as liable to get a trojan pretending to be a driver as not.

Re:Fall in line by hairyfeet · 2012-09-11 09:17 · Score: 1 · on The Linux Desktop and ISVs/OEMs

Why bother with all that and have the extra load of running a VM on top of the system when you can just slap Comodo Time Machine set to take snapshots at startup and just call it a day?

Its the perfect cure for the clueless users that break their machines, just have them hit the home key on boot, or pick the little clock icon if its running, send it back to a snapshot before they borked it and voila! Hell you can even lock a clean and loaded snapshot so its like having your own factory restore for any machine you want. Its free, its simple, what more could you want?

Re:what about cost of charging iPad? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-11 04:15 · Score: 0 · on FAA Permits American Airlines To Use iPads In Cockpit "In All Phases of Flight"

Cost to charge an iPad every other day for 1 year: $2

Cost to carry 1 pound of payload 1000 miles on a 777 is : $0.04

Average number of miles a 777 flys in a year : 150,000
In 1 year it takes the 150000/1000*0.04 $60 bucks to fly 1 pound of play load.

The weight of the iPad is 2 pounds
In 1 year it takes $120 to fly an iPad.

30 pounds of flight manuals takes 30*60=$1800

Replacing 30 pounds of flights manuals with an iPad saves $1680 every year. Of course this is just a rough back of the envelope calculation.

Re:it's APPLE by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-05 10:25 · Score: 0 · on Why Apple Should Stop Censoring Apps

There are lots of things Google should do. But it's GOOGLE. They will do whatever it takes to maximize their profits and profit margins, and if that takes censorship or lying they will do it, just like they have no qualms about misusing the patent and trademark systems.

It was GOOGLE that 'lent' some patents to HTC to attack apple. And it didn't work.

Fact check and fixing it for you

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Lends-Helping-Hand-to-HTC-in-Legal-Fight-Against-Apple-220889.shtml

Re:Which Gnome? by McSnickered · 2012-08-30 07:26 · Score: 3, Interesting · on GNOMEbuntu Set To Arrive In October

Looks like Gnome 3.6 Desktop Environment:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/GNOMEbuntu-Will-Be-Released-on-October-18th-289041.shtml

Re:It's too bad by Dr_Barnowl · 2012-08-29 01:42 · Score: 1 · on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop

Given that WinXP is rather old (don't laugh, our organization is still on XP until next year), it can't cope with a lot of modern storage hardware - and yes, you either have to have a 3.5" floppy disk drive (USB will work, thankfully), or you have to go through the process of rolling your own OEM install disk.

Vista and up do support loading drivers from a USB flash drive, which is a step up.

On Linux, I've never had to have any driver disk ready. Of course, when you DO have driver issues, it's a total PITA. But I research my hardware before I buy it.

Re:Now I'm scared by VortexCortex · 2012-08-20 07:07 · Score: 1 · on Bill Gates To Develop a Revolutionary Nuclear Reactor With Korea

Honestly, when was the last time you got a blue screen of death? Honestly?

Honestly, it's been a while since it's now a Black Screen of Death, Honestly!

A lot of electronics "recycling" is a fraud by JDG1980 · 2012-08-14 01:39 · Score: 3, Informative · on Electronic Retailers In Europe Now Required To Take Back Old Goods

In many cases, electronics that are supposed to be recycled really aren't. Instead, they are dumped in the Third World where they cause all kinds of environmental problems.

Even when some actual recycling is done, it is likely to make the impact on the environment worse, not better, than if it was just dumped in a landfill. See this article for some details (with photos) of how an electronics "recycling" operation in China threatens both the environment and worker safety. Of course, it's all about the Benjamins: "Sending a monitor to China costs about ten cents. Actually recycling it costs several dollars."

If the European Union wants this regulation to have a positive impact, they need to stipulate that the equipment be recycled locally under EU safety and environmental standards – not just exported to Ghana or China and down the memory hole.

Re:Don't I know it (warning post contains grumpine by hairyfeet · 2012-08-02 06:54 · Score: 2 · on Demonoid Down For a Week, Serving Malware Laden Ads

Let old Hairy show you how to seriously cut the time down on a boot and nuke there friend. First go to WSUS Offline and have it download the patches and/or service packs for whatever version of Windows it is, you can then put 'em on a thumbdrive or DVD and have them ready to go once the OS is installed. Once the patches are all installed just go to Ninite on the now clean machine and check the boxes for any third party software you need, AV, flash, media players, codecs, etc.

And then finally once you have it just the way you like it slap in Comodo Time Machine and have it set to make a snapshot on boot. personally depending on how stupid the user is I have CTM take up 10%-20% of the drive, this way next time they do something stupid you can walk them through restoring the system in about 15 minutes. Nice thing is even if they hose the machine so badly it won't boot you can tell them to just hit the Home key on boot and run Time Machine from there. With these little tricks you are talking maybe an hour and a half, maybe six clicks all told, and once set up it'll be damned hard for them to pwn it again. Personally if it were me I'd use Comodo Internet Security for the AV as its not only free it plays nice with time machine, although I've also used Avast and its played nice too.

As for TFA its not like there aren't a bazillion and one warez sites out there, i'm sure if Demonoid goes tits up another will take its place by the end of the week. You'd think they'd learn its like whack a mole with those things but if the *.A.As want to pay some Media Pretender to play whack a site? their money to blow I guess.

Corporations like HBGary, right? WRONG! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-29 09:54 · Score: 1 · on Will Real Name Policies Improve Comments?

Tried to profit by creating sockpuppets galore and anonymous coward usage too! Proof? Ok, here goes (lots of it):

HBGary who got caught in the act doing it:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All

PERTINENT QUOTES/EXCERPTS:

"According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online... And all of this is for the purposes of infiltration, data mining, and (here's the one that really worries me) ganging up on bloggers, commenters and otherwise "real" people to smear enemies and distort the truth... "

&

"The Chinese Water Army"

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Water-Army-Posts-Comments-For-Anyone-Who-Pays-236294.shtml

* Each doing the same bogus sockpuppet crap, & they're ALL/EACH scum too - just like trolls like you that do the same here...

However - the BEST source of evidence of that going on, especially on /., is probably the words of Mr. Bruce Perens on it:

"It just takes one Ubuntu sympathizer or PR flack to minus-moderate any comment. Unfortunately, once PR agencies and so on started paying people to moderate online communities, and to have hundreds of accounts each, things changed." - by Bruce Perens (3872) on Friday July 30, @03:55PM (#33089192) Homepage Journal

SOURCE -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33089192

* Want MORE? I can show evidences, hard evidences no less, of far more than just a few idiots around here doing it too (tomhudson = barbara, not barbie being one of the worst).

APK

P.S.=> How's that, vs. what you said? The problem imo @ least, is that the sword cuts BOTH ways, but I have a REAL problem with idiots saying "it's freedom of speech" well, not when it's used to harm others untruthfully... when it's truth, you should have NO problem posting it as your REAL self, period, because as the saying goes? "The truth shall set you free!"...

... apk

Re:Makes sense. Somebody is buying Nanos still. by 666999 · 2012-07-17 14:14 · Score: 1 · on Credible Reports of a 7.85 Inch iPad Mini Emerge

they never compete on price

Really? I was under the impression that they did just that with the first iPad. There were no ~10" tablets in "Android land" at that price at the time.

"Tablet PC makers shaken up by iPad pricing - Surprised by iPad's low $499 price tag"
Apple iPad: The Low-Price Leader?
Apple iPad Cheaper than Notebook Vendors Would Like

Re:thickness by alva_edison · 2012-07-17 07:42 · Score: 1 · on Sony's Thermal Sheet Good As Paste For CPU Cooling

http://news.softpedia.com/news/SONY-Demos-Best-Thermal-Pad-in-the-World-281342.shtml
The quoted thermal resistance is about 6-13 times worse than Arctic Silver.

Re:Functional is not ugly either. by zippthorne · 2012-07-14 01:50 · Score: 1 · on Why Is Wikipedia So Ugly?

An apple designed wikipedia would be even more simplified. In fact, it would probably look something like this.

It wouldn't be editable, though...

Re:They expect OEMs to lock machines down? by hairyfeet · 2012-07-06 06:33 · Score: 1 · on Ubuntu Can't Trust FSF's Secure Boot Solution

Ya know, either the community needs to admit they are paranoid or that they think Linux users are really really REALLY dumb. because the doom scenario you are expecting us to believe is that someone who 1.-Even knows what Linux is, and 2.-Decides they want it and have the skills to install their own OS as well as 3.-Download and burn their own installation media is 4.- Too fucking dumb to flip a single switch in BIOS/UEFI. I'm sorry but you can't have your cake and eat it too, either they are smart enough to install Linux and thus smart enough to flip a single switch or they are not, can't be both at once.

Look the ONLY ONES that are gonna give a rat's ass about having Secureboot on is the corps okay? it gives them one more level of CYA if something nasty happens on their network whereas the home users that want to run linux will have to go into UEFI/BIOS ANYWAY to set the DVD/USB as first boot so flipping that single switch? really not a problem. WinARM is not gonna allow you to turn it off because MSFT is most likely gonna take a fricking bath to the tune of hundreds of millions on the hardware, just as they did on the X360, by going for the razor and blades model in the hopes they can make it up with the appstore (they won't, but they can hope all they want) and we all know the net would be ass deep in "How to remove that fugly ass Win 8 and make that tablet into a cool Android tablet".

Look its not like you don't have choices here, if the very thought of UEFI makes your panties get twisted? Then do the smart thing and buy AMD which frankly every damned FOSS users needs to do anyway as they have been bending over backwards to open their code, because AMD chose Coreboot over Intel's UEFI which is of course FOSS so hack away friend.

so would everyone stop getting their panties in a twist over something that is gonna be as easy to switch as whether you boot from IDE or SATA already? it makes everyone look like a bunch of nutters and frankly that's RMS job and I hear he don't like the competition.

Texas Scientist would have lost the contest anyway by gedeco · 2012-07-04 21:37 · Score: 1 · on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest

First they discovered timetravelling at LHC
http://news.softpedia.com/news/LHC-Could-Allow-Matter-to-Travel-Through-Time-189936.shtml

Rewrite history!

Re:Obviously by Korin43 · 2012-07-03 11:08 · Score: 1 · on Linux Users Banned From Diablo III Servers

You don't go to the press and write an article about Linux users being banned for using Wine. That's definite proof imho that they were guilty.

Yes, you should just stay quiet like a good victim. It's not like Blizzard has ever made this mistake before.

Re:I suppose the ultimate solution is... by hairyfeet · 2012-07-02 06:37 · Score: 4, Interesting · on FSF Criticises Ubuntu For Dropping Grub 2 For Secure Boot

Well if you are worried then the answer is simple, support AMD who has switched to Coreboot instead of UEFI as the replacement for BIOS. Since I doubt VERY seriously MSFT would have the brass balls to try to ban AMD systems from running Win 8 (and most likely risking another antitrust investigation) they will have to allow AMD systems to use Coreboot which means if you don't like it? The source is right there, help yourself and flash away.

But whether FSF likes it or not MSFT seems bound and determined to get rid of Windows piracy not with the carrot but with the stick, since its common knowledge that Win 7 is completely cracked wide open thanks to bootloaders that even allow the machines to get all updates without so much as a WGA warning so like it or not MSFT is gonna push this. At least AMD is supporting an open tech that you can flash yourself, although you always have the option of just turning the damned thing off and not using Secureboot.

Personally while i think offering Win HP for $50 and the Family Pack for $100 (which there is one of the family packs being offered right now on deals.woot for $95 and free shipping, its on page 4 i believe) to end piracy ultimately its their OS and they can be as tarded as they want with it. I think everyone is getting their panties in a wad over nothing myself, the amount of backlash I've seen at the shop over Win 8 is 10 times worse than Vista so I have a feeling its gonna be the new MS Bob and the OEMs are gonna be killing secureboot and shipping Win 7 as fast as they can get them out the door. Don't forget Vista had crazy anti-piracy shit in it too and it BOMBED like Michael Richards at an NAACP fundraiser so I really think we don't have anything to worry about here.

Re:stopped using it? by hairyfeet · 2012-06-28 09:23 · Score: 1 · on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button

Shit, mod the parent up to 11, because if I was to pin every damned thing to the taskbar? I'd need a 70 inch screen bare minimum. Not only do i use the pics and docs folders in the start menu, i have a half a dozen programs pinned there that I use often, including 2 Popsel buttons which are like the best thing evar. With the popsels i have a red&black A/V icon along with a blue and yellow util which when i click on them gives me ALL my audio video programs and utilities, man if i had to pin those? Hell I even have all my share drives under the util popsel.

So I don't know where they get their info from, maybe the old folks home, but I have a grand total of 5 icons in my taskbar and two of those are defaults, the Explorer and WMP, the other 3 are two browsers and a burner. And I can tell you from working all day with average folks that the taskbar? don't get used at all, in fact many don't even have it on in Win 7, they just dump every damned thing onto the desktop, icons, folders, you name it it ALL goes on the desktop. I swear i've seen some of them where you can't even see the backgrounds for the amount of shit they pile on the desktop.But even those folks when they want to find something hit the start and go to all programs, so i just don't see what users supposedly aren't ever using start.

Personally i think its that old saying about lies and statistics because MSFT don't have the balls to just come out and say "Look we just wanna sell cell phones okay? We are gonna give you a shitty cell phone OS so we can trick devs into working on the WinPhone, so here ya go, its the supergigantic smartphone that you don't want and we don't care, because dammit we just want to be Apple!" although frankly I'd have more respect for them if they did just be honest.

List of available open-sourced Beat / Drum Machine by Taco+Cowboy · 2012-06-26 13:36 · Score: 4, Informative · on Hip Hop Artists Developing Open Source Beat Making Software

Okay, here's the list that I can find:

Hydrogen
http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/?p=main

OrDrumBox
http://www.ordrumbox.com/

OpenBeatBox
Mac
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/Open-Beat-Box.shtml
Linux
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Open-Beat-Box-4095.shtml

Koblo
http://koblo.com/beta

Free Cycle
http://freecycle.redsteamrecords.com/

Anymore?

Please feel free to tag on ...

List of available open-sourced Beat / Drum Machine by Taco+Cowboy · 2012-06-26 13:36 · Score: 4, Informative · on Hip Hop Artists Developing Open Source Beat Making Software

Okay, here's the list that I can find:

Hydrogen
http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/?p=main

OrDrumBox
http://www.ordrumbox.com/

OpenBeatBox
Mac
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/Open-Beat-Box.shtml
Linux
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Open-Beat-Box-4095.shtml

Koblo
http://koblo.com/beta

Free Cycle
http://freecycle.redsteamrecords.com/

Anymore?

Please feel free to tag on ...

Re:I agree by GodfatherofSoul · 2012-06-06 15:07 · Score: 1 · on An Asian Origin For Human Ancestors?

You left out that we have huge peckers!

Re:That's not funny by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-31 05:15 · Score: 0 · on Backyard Brains Can Help Satisfy Your Inner Frankenstein (Video)

Some trees communication when attacked to give their 'friends' time to prepare a defence.
I don't know if that is an indication of feeling pain or not, or even if nerves are necessary to feel pain. (The sensations could very well be transfered by different means in other species.)
Just because the pain doesn't behave like it does in humans doesn't mean that it isn't pain.

I guess it is more a matter defining what pain is rather than trying to measure it.

ants by surd1618 · 2012-05-17 08:40 · Score: 1 · on World's Subways Share Common Mathematical Structure

http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/CT-Scans-Reveal-Ant-Colony-Architecture-Patterns-2.jpg/

Re:Call it the Microsoft method by Surt · 2012-05-10 10:23 · Score: 2, Insightful · on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix

1000 / 3.5 ~= 285. Of course, that assumes you believe the OP's billions vs millions claim.

Sources claim 650M for windows 7:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-Approximately-650-Million-Sold-Licenses-by-the-End-of-2011-202026.shtml

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ADBE+Key+Statistics
If 100% of Adobe's 4.2B revenue comes from $700 Photoshop sales, that's 6M units/year, call that 24M units over the lifespan of windows 7 since release in 2009.

So for every unit of Photshop, you have at least 27 units of windows. Factor in the 3.5X price and you still have about 8 equivalent units of windows for every photshop over which to amortize costs.

It happens on /. so, I agree w/ proofs... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-22 23:28 · Score: 0 · on US Journalists Targeted By Pentagon Propaganda Contractors

HBGary who got caught in the act doing it:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All

PERTINENT QUOTES/EXCERPTS:

"According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online... And all of this is for the purposes of infiltration, data mining, and (here's the one that really worries me) ganging up on bloggers, commenters and otherwise "real" people to smear enemies and distort the truth... "

&

"The Chinese Water Army"

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Water-Army-Posts-Comments-For-Anyone-Who-Pays-236294.shtml

* Each doing the same bogus sockpuppet crap, & they're ALL/EACH scum too - just like trolls like you that do the same here...

However - the BEST source of evidence of that going on, especially on /., is probably the words of Mr. Bruce Perens on it:

"It just takes one Ubuntu sympathizer or PR flack to minus-moderate any comment. Unfortunately, once PR agencies and so on started paying people to moderate online communities, and to have hundreds of accounts each, things changed." - by Bruce Perens (3872) on Friday July 30, @03:55PM (#33089192) Homepage Journal

SOURCE -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33089192

APK

P.S.=> Then there's "trolltalk.com" & tomhudson = Barbara, not Barbie on /. itself... proof? Ok:

barbara.hudson@unjava.com from http://slashdot.org/~Barbara%2C+not+Barbie = barbara.hudson@barbara-hudson.com from http://slashdot.org/~tomhudson

Why 2 /. registered 'luser' accounts? Easy - to troll/stalk others, and to mod down opponents and to mod herself up with.

Which proves that statement from myself, & he/she stalked, harassed, & libelled myself here repeatedly:

"Wait until he starts on another kick, then reply to him as an AC. It's the new meme". - by tomhudson (43916) on Sunday May 09 2010, @08:29PM (#32150544) Homepage Journal

QUOTED FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1646272&cid=32150544

Where tom/barbara told others to troll/harass/stalk ME, for MONTHS via AC posts - which IS A VIOLATION OF SITE POLICY and laws as well... apk

As predicted: std. 'effete moddown' by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-12 03:15 · Score: 0 · on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare

All via your reg'd 'luser' acct., & troll by AC, + call me 'crazy' too... how "original' (not) & 'effective' (again - not).

Yes, the "logical mind" (lol, NOT) of /. trolls NEVER ceases to amaze, off-topic ad hominema attacks & more (how boring & unoriginal).

All that, AND, minus your PhD & a valid license in the psychiatric sciences, as well as a formal examination of my "alleged mental state" from you, Dr. Quack, the "SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk of /."?

(LMAO - that's also libel you know minus those things to your name/credit (hence the ac trolling no doubt)).

* I mean, do you HONESTLY *THINK* that type of crap actually works? Guess again... in fact, I'll even cite others thoughts on it, & respected others + sources of like repute:

It's not even ORIGINAL thinking for Pete's sake, lol!

---

E.G.-> There's HBGary who got caught in the act doing it:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All

PERTINENT QUOTES/EXCERPTS:

"According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online... And all of this is for the purposes of infiltration, data mining, and (here's the one that really worries me) ganging up on bloggers, commenters and otherwise "real" people to smear enemies and distort the truth... "

---

"The Chinese Water Army"

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Water-Army-Posts-Comments-For-Anyone-Who-Pays-236294.shtml

* Each doing the same bogus sockpuppet crap, & they're ALL/EACH scum too - just like trolls like you that do the same here...

---

However - the BEST source of evidence of that going on, especially on /., is probably the words of Mr. Bruce Perens on it:

"It just takes one Ubuntu sympathizer or PR flack to minus-moderate any comment. Unfortunately, once PR agencies and so on started paying people to moderate online communities, and to have hundreds of accounts each, things changed." - by Bruce Perens (3872) on Friday July 30, @03:55PM (#33089192) Homepage Journal

SOURCE -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33089192

---

Above ALL else perhaps though? Think that doesn't go on here?? Ok - ASK tomhudson = Barbara, not Barbie, or clone53421=clone52431, & MichaelKristopeit (with his 500++ registered 'luser' accounts)

* So, ac troll: That "all said & aside"? "I rest my case"... since that says it all!

APK

P.S.=> LASTLY? Hey - Keep on wasting your time trolling me to no good results on your part cowardly ac troll - lol, "it's noble work you're doing" (you know - instead of say, learning to code to BETTER your OS of choice from the *NIX world which you ought to be doing instead)...

... apkb

Downmod by reg'd luser acct & troll by AC? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-10 03:27 · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: Experience Handling DDoS Attacks On a Mid-Tier Site?

As you did to my post here -> http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2775589&cid=39629997

?

* Real "big trick" that - now, tell us why you downmodded my post instead, and, on computing technical grounds - no other trolling b.s. is acceptable!

(Which you'll doubtless do via your registered 'luser' account because logging out of it after doing a downmod burns the cookie tracking mechanism here, so you won't screwup your registered 'luser' account "karma").

I mean, do you honestly *think* people here don't KNOW the puny tricks trolls like you use to pull that off?

Guess again!

Plus, there's those here that use multiple alternate registered 'luser' sock-puppet accounts galore too... ask tomhudson = Barbara, not Barbie (that's one I KNOW does it around here using multiple accounts to do so).

It's not even ORIGINAL thinking for Pete's sake, lol!

E.G.-> There's HBGary who got caught in the act doing it:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All

PERTINENT QUOTES/EXCERPTS:

"According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online... And all of this is for the purposes of infiltration, data mining, and (here's the one that really worries me) ganging up on bloggers, commenters and otherwise "real" people to smear enemies and distort the truth... "

&

"The Chinese Water Army"

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Water-Army-Posts-Comments-For-Anyone-Who-Pays-236294.shtml

* Each doing the same bogus sockpuppet crap, & they're ALL/EACH scum too - just like trolls like you that do the same here...

However - the BEST source of evidence of that going on/b>, especially on /., is probably the words of Mr. Bruce Perens on it:

"It just takes one Ubuntu sympathizer or PR flack to minus-moderate any comment. Unfortunately, once PR agencies and so on started paying people to moderate online communities, and to have hundreds of accounts each, things changed." - by Bruce Perens (3872) on Friday July 30, @03:55PM (#33089192) Homepage Journal

SOURCE -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33089192

APK

P.S.=> Good luck showing anything 'bad' on technical grounds in my original post, and apparently?

My later telling you better things to do than trolling here:

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2775589&cid=39630545

Quite evidently "Got to you", & enough you had to "effetely downmod me" in retaliation, lol... weak!

... apk

Re:Extended Support Release by cpu6502 · 2012-03-29 08:51 · Score: 1 · on Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility

I thought Firefox 10 ESR was good for one whole year? So I'd not need to upgrade until April 2013?

As for other browsers, I recommend Opera for speed & minimal memory usage though compatibility is an issue (web developers routinely block anything not IE or Firefox). I wish there was a global "Mask as Firefox" or "Mask as IE" setting instead of having to do each webpage one at a time.

The non-google Chromium is also an option. (executable link) http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Internet/Browsers/Portable-Google-Chrome-Chromium.shtml

Re:who cares by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-26 22:01 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger

A lot of those who were using MSN have since moved to Skype, which is now also owned by MS...

Allthough MSN is still surprisingly big in terms of usage, hundreds of millions of active users according to ComScore and the like (much bigger than Skype), the real big trend is that the users moved to Facebook for what they used Messenger for (chatting and updates). And btw. Facebook Chat blocks Pirate Bay too. All the major IM services have been running automated malware blocks for a very long time. I'm surprised people are surprised that Pirate Bay is on the list (regardless whether you think it is "right" or not).

Re:3rd Parties Need not Apply by walkerp1 · 2012-03-18 08:51 · Score: 1 · on Google Is Planning To Penalize Overly Optimized Sites

softpedia.com

arstechnica.com

redsauce.com

Just because they don't make money doesn't mean by manekineko2 · 2012-03-10 11:58 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable'

It's not Android that's unsustainable. It's their business that's unsustainable.

Which is why they're making good money on the Apple market, right?

Of course, other developers have had the opposite experience. For example, Angry Birds makes more money from Android than iOS:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Angry-Birds-Makes-More-Money-from-the-Free-Android-Version-than-from-Paid-Ones-170596.shtml

While their business model may work fine on Apple market, sometimes it takes changes to make money in a different environment.

It's not Android that's unsustainable, it's their business model on Android that appears to be unsustainable.

Re:I use Chromium by causality · 2012-03-07 14:47 · Score: 3, Insightful · on Chrome Hacked In 5 Minutes At Pwn2Own

Modded Troll??? Why? I was stating a truth (I don't use Google Chrome; I use the open source chromium).

Chromium LINK - http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Internet/Browsers/Portable-Google-Chrome-Chromium.shtml

The one time the Slashdot groupthink is actually against Open Source code and privacy and software freedom ... is when it makes a statement against Google.

Since this particular statement cuts to the core of how Google makes its money, namely through acquiring marketing data from mostly hapless and unsuspecting users who have no idea how much information they are "contributing", and wouldn't if they did, it's too fundamental of a comment to be tolerated by the fanboys.

So you're being punished by the more impotent and bed-wetting type of mods for telling the truth. That's a badge of honor.

I mean, it's not like they were going to take you on with facts and explain why you're completely mistaken. They can't. So, like all other cowards, they lash out the only way they can. That's all. Nothing hard to understand about it.

Re:I use Chromium by cpu6502 · 2012-03-07 14:02 · Score: 1 · on Chrome Hacked In 5 Minutes At Pwn2Own

Modded Troll??? Why? I was stating a truth (I don't use Google Chrome; I use the open source chromium).

Chromium LINK - http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Internet/Browsers/Portable-Google-Chrome-Chromium.shtml

Re:Switch away from .com? by dyingtolive · 2012-03-06 08:07 · Score: 5, Informative · on US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains

Can you please cite some sites which do not participate in illegal activity who have suffered? AFAIK, the list is exactly zero. And in either case, can you please show where due process was denied?

dajaz1.com
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mistakenly-Seized-Hip-Hop-Blog-Returned-to-Owner-After-One-Year-239685.shtml

Re:A better question may be by crutchy · 2012-02-19 20:51 · Score: 1 · on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hollywood-Loves-Linux-45571.shtml

Because I also know how to make a google search

apparently not

Re:Please, by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-12 15:34 · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM

android and not ios is heading towards the largest marketshare in the world (see india custom tablet for example).

Nah, it just isn't, in fact when apple releases a device it always clobbers android sales.

Windows has been on a gigantic decline

200 million iOS devices sold since 2007, 200 million android devices activated since the project began, even if you went to the ridiculous point of doubling that for devices that for whatever reason aren't activated through google and you still fall short of the approximately 650 million Windows 7 licenses sold since late 2009, a much shorter timespan than the lives of iOS and Android.

but has pushed hard to not have studies that mix mobile and desktop OS marketshare as windows is heading towards irrelevant whereas ios will remain relevant.

Nope and the reason why is that most people aren't replacing PCs with tablets and smartphones, they are augmenting PCs with tablets and smartphones. Otherwise we would see a marked decline in Windows sales - corresponding to a rise in mobile device sales - which quite simply is not happening.

Re:Slashdot is dead by madmark1 · 2012-02-10 05:59 · Score: 5, Informative · on After Rewrites, Google Wallet Still Has Holes

This is going to be one of those moments where I wonder why I bothered, but...

Yes, Google was investigated for the wifi data collection. The FTC investigated, and determined that nothing had been done intentionally, and Google agreed to improve their privacy policies accordingly. You can read that here, should you choose to actually know what's going on.

Yes, Google required real names on G+, and used it as an 'identity service'. What I fail to understand is how that differs than every website in the cosmos requiring me to log in via Facebook. It sucks, but they all do it.

Microsoft used a 90+ percent monopoly in the desktop market to try and dominate the web. Google uses a 60 some percent dominant position (but hardly 'monopoly', given there are several hundred other search engines that could be used) to fund development of a free phone OS no one is required to use. People use it because it works. If Microsoft had provided a browser, but not bundled it in, but given it away for free, there would have been no case against them, just like there isn't against Google now. You aren't required to use Android, there are other options, and you aren't handed a free phone when you visit their search page.

Yes, they injected G+ results in their search results. They did NOT however block results from anyone else like Twitter or Facebook from appearing. They were still in the results. Were G+ results returned with higher rankings? I don't know, never turned that on, and never used G+. Because of that, I never got back search results relating to G+ at all, and as far as I know you can still turn that off, so you don't get them either. I can see why Twitter and the others were butt-hurt about this, it cuts directly into THEIR money, but why are you? Don't like it, SWITCH IT OFF. It hardly constitutes evil to allow you to opt out of something.

Yes, Apple surpassed Android in market share at the end of the year, primarily due to them releasing a new phone. If you want reporting on how the front runner changes every 12 seconds, I am sure there are places for that, but I personally don't care to read how a new vendor 'owns' a half a percent higher share of the market every single day. The first time someone passes the front runner its news. The 27th time they change places, it just isn't.

Perhaps you get modded down on posts like these because you engage in name-calling, present a closed-minded position, assume a victimized attitude, lash out with hate, and refuse to present a reasoned, well argued position? Just a thought.

Re:Thanks to DRM, I stole your FIRST POST by derfy · 2012-02-03 11:29 · Score: 1 · on Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week

Like Ubisoft did?

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubisoft-Cracks-Own-Game-with-Reloaded-Fix-90318.shtml

Re:let's hope that... by hairyfeet · 2012-02-02 11:31 · Score: 4, Insightful · on AMD Says It's 'Ambidextrous,' Hints It May Offer ARM Chips

The problem with ARM is there are literally millions of x86 programs that have become an integral part of peoples lives, this is also why even though Linux has been getting better each year it fails to find any real gains. Everything from that camera that came with the photo software your Aunt Sue loves to Corel and Photoshop, from that bain of Linux geeks MS Office to Quickbooks/Quicken which is God in small business and rightly so.

The reason ARM is able to gain so much in mobile is because frankly geeks have never understood how normal users think, as someone who has to understand their needs or go out of business i think i can shed some light. you see to a geek that Droid or iPhone is a general computing device, to a normal user it doesn't even have an OS, its just "A screen with buttons i can google and play games on that I'll chunk when the contract is up" and that's it. they have been conditioned that nothing is compatible so assume when they chunk the phone the only thing they'll keep is the SIM card and that's that. Creates a lot of waste but is great for the carrier. Tablets to the consumer is the same, its a large mostly disposable flatscreen TV that can let them Google. There is no real attachment there, no real desire by the majority to develop long term rapport with programs. this is why ARM netbooks went nowhere because to them a netbook is NOT just a general computing device, its a "baby laptop that should do everything my big laptop does only slower, because babies are smaller than grownups" see how that works?

I think where AMD is on the right track and has a real shot is Fusion. Not 3 years ago i could walk into the local Walmart or staples and i'd be lucky if there was a single AMD machine, usually the cheapest machine in the house. Now I see AMD Fusion netbooks, laptops, all in ones, and even desktops, some going up to nearly $1000 in price and talking to some of the guys that i know working there they are brisk sellers. More and more the PC is not only the office machine, its also an entertainment center With the AMD Fusion chips not only do you get great battery life/lower electric bills, like my EEE E350 that gets 6 hours playing 720p and lets me HDMI into any 1080p set and watch videos, but you also get to have all your programs that you know and are familiar with and which frankly there is often no FOSS equivalent and probably never will be. There is no FOSS software that matches the features of Quickbooks or photoshop, and certainly nothing like the little quilting app I installed the other day for a customer on her new Acer AMD C60 netbook. while FOSS users would probably think its stupid and not waste time for her its a "must have" because it helps her to work up the patterns she is gonna use on her next quilt and to visualize what it will look like.

So I think the future is bright IF, and that's a BIG IF, AMD continues to play it smart. the new Vector based GPUs will lower the power footprint even lower while letting the APU use the GPU cores like a super fast floating point which will give any program using floating point a nice kick in the ass, and considering they've had to lower desktop output to keep up with all the orders for the Bobcat chips shows the OEMs think its the right path too. you can now get those chips in every form factor you can name, from HTPC to iMac style to netbooks and laptops. While i'm sure AMD never considered it a desktop chip the OEMs found that its more than good enough for the average user and its selling quite briskly so they made a good call there.

Finally there is one place where AMD has already fucked up, and that's the recent killing of the entire AM3 line. While consolidating to a few chips would have been smart IMHO killing the AM3 Stars chips when Bulldozer has neither the yields nor performance to take its place was just stupid. if you have an AM3 board I'd suggest you pop over to tigerdirect where they are selling Thu

Re:usage scenarios by hairyfeet · 2012-01-09 11:47 · Score: 1 · on Shareholder Fight Threatens Mandriva SA

You think YOU'RE weird, I've been using this little program called popsel for years and years and just use it on any machine I use. I made three folders in my tool folder called "Popsel Games' and "Popsel AV" and "Popsel Utilities" and then cooked up three little icons, a red AV on black, a green G for games on white, and a yellow Util on blue and then I just have shortcuts to popsel pinned to the start menu. That way there is never more than 3 clicks to get to ANY app I use, click start>click correct popsel>click name of app. This makes the desktop nice and uncluttered and neat while giving me quick access to everything and of course in Win 7 explorer has a jumplist and that takes care of the folders i use most, makes it all easy peasy.

As for the clipboard I'd recommend you just use Hamsin clipboard as it only take a couple of Kb, you can throw it on a stick and run it from there, and gives you as many clipboard slots as you want. I have mine set to 10 which i think is the default, make it all easy and simple as each clipboard has a key, like Winkey+1, Winkey+2, etc. really makes copy paste fast fast fast. The final tool that is a "must have" for me is simple disc cataloger which if you burn discs is a must. again it'll run from a stick, only take a few Mb depending on how big your Db is ((I have about NINE 100 count spindles on it going back to 2000 and the whole thing is only 33Mb) and it supports wildcards, makes it beyond simple to find where you put something. Now whenever I burn a disc i just fire it up and I label my discs using joilet as (month-date-year) using the excellent IMGBurn and now its trivial to find anything I want when i want it, no matter how far back I need to go.

anyway i hope you enjoy, been using these tool for years and they are rock solid and malware free. i learned years ago there ain't no point in waiting for MSFT to add a feature to Windows because they'll probably half ass it anyway, better to use simple tools designed for simple jobs. All of the above BTW will run on anything from Win2K- Win 7 X64 so it doesn't matter what you are on it all "just works". Enjoy and if you have some weird task you need a tool for just shoot me an email and I can probably point you in the right direction, with my customers constantly wanting software for this job or that I've become pretty good at finding little tools for little jobs.