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  1. Re:Open source failed on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    Great, buy some closed source software, and you will have no idea when such a bug is found, at least here once it was found, everybody knew, and a fix was made available quickly, no attempt to cover it up or pass it off as nothing important

  2. Re:Why stream? on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 1

    Because most people only want to watch it once. Any they don't want to wait for the whole thing to download.

  3. Thanks for clearing up that minefield of unclarity on Hyperlinking Is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules · · Score: 1

    must of been a really difficult decision, long live the pirate bay!

  4. Re:Old fashioned idea... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You To Tell Your Client That His "Expert" Is an Idiot? · · Score: 1

    The one time i need them, and i dont have any mod points

  5. Re:she on The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US · · Score: 1

    Actually its more normal to use 'they' when the gender is unknown.

  6. Re:Teenagers on Analyst Calls Russian Teen Author of Target Malware · · Score: 1

    it will/would if the usa ever get their dirty hands on him - really for just being smart enough to point out the flaws in a multinational's software.

  7. Re: The race is on on Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Same experience, when map editor came to my town I thought great, but it's been more than a year a just a simple correction of my house number is still not on gmaps

  8. Re:The race is on on Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    You just proved the advantage of OSM, you can fix this! If you found the same problem on gmaps, you would be stuck with it until they decided to notice.

  9. and then Ed Snowdon told us... on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    .. all about their dastardly plan

  10. Re:No. on EU To Allow 3G and 4G Connections On Planes · · Score: 2

    Face the music, planes are public places, people will talk. Also people will use the internet!

  11. Re:markdown is great on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use Markdown and Pandoc? · · Score: 2

    Its actually called Mou, sorry, its a markdown editor with instant rendered preview

  12. markdown is great on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use Markdown and Pandoc? · · Score: 1

    I use markdown all the time. Mostly moc on Mac to edit it.

  13. Re:Left GoDaddy Years Ago on Imgur.com: Why We Dumped GoDaddy · · Score: 1

    and I'm incredibly unlikely to be affected by it, so who cares?

    I think that is quite a nieve statement, unfortunately what the americans do affects all of us, whether we like it or not, not least because they set a precedent for everybody else but because all the core parts of the net are in america.

  14. Re:phone lines? on What’s the Internet? (on 1994's Today Show) · · Score: 1

    they shutdown the mobile networks as well. if they hadn't most phones with bluetooth will connect to your computer as a dial up or gprs modem

  15. Re:15 Days? on Netflix Signs Deal With Disney-ABC · · Score: 1

    don't people pay to watch on netflix? so on the one hand they might get money from ads, and people get a poor viewing experience, the other people watch what they want, when they want, ad free, and disney gets garrenteed money for every watch

  16. Quick? on Netflix Signs Deal With Disney-ABC · · Score: 1

    too late is what that sounds like, i imagine most people will download within hours of it being broadcast. and really, what are they gaining in those two weeks?

  17. Re:BS on not being near 48 cores... I have 34 alre on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 1

    thats presisly the problem of distributed caches and trying to put threads of the same job on the same phycial chip so they share caches

  18. Who's intellectual property? on NAMCO Takes Down Student Pac-man Project · · Score: 1

    Other than the name, which is a trademark, not intellectual property, what are NAMCO claiming they own? the programming language, the program, presumably all the graphics, were all created by the students

  19. america has a way to go... on The Fastest ISPs In the US · · Score: 1

    3.6mbps is the national average in the uk, including rural areas, and the uk is far from broadband leader.. http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/features/brspeeds

  20. Re:Only 1.23 Mbps? on The Fastest ISPs In the US · · Score: 1

    is that a joke? virgin media are starting to deploy 200mbps fibre, there is 50mbps on copper cable.... my house in a rural area gets 8mb and soon to be 24mb... see there is a long way to go... as i see it, its not broadband until its over 2/3mbps cause thats what you need to stream good quality tv and do some browsing on a couple of computers...

  21. MPG in uk on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    anyone else love the way in the uk we use mpg, but petrol is sold in litres, so a gallon is utterly meaningless to most britions...

  22. Re:One more thing... on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    Used on skype lots, not used on the network because they seriously rip you off for it, 10p per minute for regular calls, 50p for video, and thats not changed since it first came out 5+ years ago. Also not included in contract minutes

  23. Reinvented Video Calling on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    Various 3G phones have supported video calling from the outset of the 3G network, phones from a variety of manufactures, on different networks, even in different countries. Why do they have to reinvent everything?

  24. Re:NOOOOOO! on Australian Schools To Teach Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    you realise that democracy is about the views of the people being heard? and not just those of the atheists, but of the 1/3 of the worlds population who are christian as well

  25. Re:"Faith Science Basis?" on Australian Schools To Teach Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    true, its a shame the word theory is put with 'of evolution' often enough...