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  1. Re:Golden age of the web set to continue on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    Because by looking you would change the result.

  2. Re:PS3 not tier one? on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If MS paid them, why are they now porting to Macs?

  3. Re:Note: Apache ON WINDOWS on Serious Apache Exploit Discovered · · Score: 1

    although I have no idea why you would run Apache on a Windows server.

    Because sometimes you're forced to use a Windows server platform yet at the same time are under budget constraints and can't afford Microsoft's licensing models.

    Isn't that like being forced to go to work by car (rather than by bike), yet at the same time being under budget constraints and not be able to afford gasoline?

  4. Re:Microsoft on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    let's give MS some credit here. They went to court

    I always assumed they have a kind of a permament base there.

  5. Re:"East European" on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    Don't tell that to the lawyers. They might come up with EULAW.

  6. A new business model for MS on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: -1, Troll

    1. Write crappy software 2. Wait for it to get taken over by botnets 3. Sue to get the infected machines off the internet 4. ??? 5. Profit!

  7. UserFriendly already covered it... on NGO Networks In Haiti Cause Problems For ISPs · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Ubuntu on Which Linux For Non-Techie Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    They will probably use it only at home, so nobody will care about copyright.

  9. Re:YaST, YaST, and YaST on Which Linux For Non-Techie Windows Users? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most Windows users never configure their box. In most cases it only has to be done no more than once, and then it's usually done by a geek relative.

  10. Re:Ubuntu on Which Linux For Non-Techie Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    That might be true. However, at least the start menu is in the same spot.

  11. Re:Ubuntu on Which Linux For Non-Techie Windows Users? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The KDE UI is much closer to Windows than Gnome is

    That pretty much removes the first question anyone new to Ubuntu will ask, "Where is the Start Menu?". KDE is definitely the way to go here, because the whole desktop looks practically the same an Win7.

  12. Re:Brings back memories... on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 1

    That's the classical nerd trick. When the girlfriend thinks you're with the wife-to-be, and the wife-to-be thinks you're with the girlfriend, you can play Civilization in undisturbed.

  13. Re:zero risk on The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors · · Score: 2, Informative

    Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

  14. And I thought... on NASA Astronauts To Open New Space Station Windows · · Score: 1

    This was to be the year of Linux on the atmosphere-top. :)

  15. Re:Why does anyone use Adobe reader anymore? on Rogue PDFs Behind 80% of Exploits In Q4 '09 · · Score: 1

    It also can't override the evil^H^H^H^H printing protection bit.

  16. Re:more shallow than Windows on Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law · · Score: 1

    Presumably Microsoft employees do look at the source code but some days I have my doubts.

    Real programmers code blindfolded. (Where one of the more proper definitions of the term, that real programmer == one working for a large company, actually fits)

  17. Re:sounds ominous on The Wi-Fi On the Bus · · Score: 1

    letting bullies walk all over would-be students leads to things worse than medication.

    I wholeheartedly agree with your post. Unfortunately our moral/law system is so fucked up that criticizing someone on a blog is a crime while beating up others is "character shaping". Note that I'm not from America, and we don't have that many school fights here in Slovenia, but I suppose there are bullies everywhere.

  18. Re:Question on Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search · · Score: 1

    The search engines themselves are all proprietary, but as a company Google is certainly the more open-source-friendly. They give $5M/year to open source projects via the Google Summer of Code.

  19. In other news ... on Prison Bans D&D For Mimicking Gang Structure · · Score: 5, Funny

    The United States Supreme Court banned the government, using the justification that 'one player is denoted the President... [who] is tasked with giving directions to other players... [which] mimics the organization of a gang.' The court also cited some sparse evidence that a handful of other presidents once committed some crimes that allegedly were related to their governing.

  20. I, for one, on Futuristic Sex Robots Now Just "Sex Robots" · · Score: 0

    welcome our robotic sex doll overlords.

  21. Re:KIA IS an acronym! on KIA Bringing News & Social Media To Your Car · · Score: 1

    KIA IS an acronym, it stands for Korean Internet Automobile.

    And for all those years I thought it was the intelligence agency behind KDE's world domination plan.

  22. Re:Why doubt? on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Why doubt? on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    Maybe not, but he at least deserves the regular one.

  24. Re:Everything in the cloud... on Google Releases Source To Chromium OS · · Score: 1

    I believe the word you're looking for is nerdporn.

  25. Re:Everything in the cloud... on Google Releases Source To Chromium OS · · Score: 1

    Thank you very much for this link.