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  1. Re:Texas! on California In the Running For Tesla Gigafactory · · Score: 0

    You Texans really need to invade Marshall. Kill everyone and then make it a Ghost Town.

  2. Re:Warrants are supposed to be narrow on New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account · · Score: 2

    But they are not asking for evidence of anything. They are asking for everything. This type of search allows "Search First, the find something to bust you on." That is bad.

  3. Re:Ahem: Bullshit (Android IS a Linux variant) on Gameover ZeuS Re-Emerges As Fast-Fluxing Botnet · · Score: 1
    And this movies is Based on that story.

    Again. People with Android phones are not Linux users. This is proven by the quote you pulled.

    Thanks for playing. You lose.

  4. Re:Third hand? on Wearable Robot Adds Two Fingers To Your Hand · · Score: 2

    I would prefer a third hand, with one more hand you can do much more than with just two additional fingers.

    I am sure you are correct but controlling an extra arm may not be as intuitive as the extra fingers. It looks to me as if the programming kinda makes the fingers work with your natural movements to give you a little more capability.

  5. Re:But scarcity! on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In what world do you live that Level3 is a "much smaller ISP"? Level3 is a global tier 1 ISP, FFS.

    In a world where schnell and shill sound a lot alike.

  6. Re: Too long on Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997 · · Score: 2

    Microsoft Bob!

    We don't speak of Bob here.

  7. Re:Too long on Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997 · · Score: 4, Informative
    You forgot to have it told to you in a car analogy.

    You must be new here.

  8. Re:Soon... on X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration · · Score: 1

    There is no standard working-out-of-the-box desktop linux.

    /quote>

    There is no standard working-out-of-the-box desktop Windows.

    To use pre installed windows. ...

    Boot the machine. Activate it. Spend 4 hours updating and rebooting while uninstalling the shitloads of crapware and Norton that come pre installed just so I can finally install the stuff I need from 8 different sites.

    Or

    I can put in a burned DVD 2 min later I am in a live Linux environment. Install Linux ... 20 min later it is installed, updated and has the stuff I want on it.

    Linux actually goes from zero to a workable system really quickly.

  9. Re:Pairing? on Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh · · Score: 1

    Because agenda driven people rarely have time to actually understand what they are talking about.

  10. Re:This is not how you inspire confidence on LibreSSL PRNG Vulnerability Patched · · Score: 4, Interesting
    What they did though was point out that the bug has almost no ability to really be exploited and then fixed it anyways.

    I thought they did quite well.

  11. Re:Yup, just like I thought... apk on Gameover ZeuS Re-Emerges As Fast-Fluxing Botnet · · Score: 1
    Android is not Linux. It is forked off of Linux then has all kinds of phone only no security crap loaded. Still you could get really pedantic and state it is Linux anyways.

    But what you can not do is state that everyone with an Android phone is a Linux user. Just as people with a smart TV are not Linux users. Trying to equate people with phones to Linux users in order to "Destroy" my point only proves you have no leg to stand on.

    So go back into your parents basement and cry.

  12. Re:ANDROID proves you wrong on Gameover ZeuS Re-Emerges As Fast-Fluxing Botnet · · Score: 1
    All I hear is ...

    "I'm a big man. Don't fuck with me. I can take out anyone. I am smarter than all."

    from an AC.

    Ok. You are awesome.

    Feel better?

  13. Re:Windows or everyone? on Gameover ZeuS Re-Emerges As Fast-Fluxing Botnet · · Score: 1
    To be fair though. A huge part of Linuxes good security is the ability to remove or never put in things you have no use for,

    Not always so easy with windows.

  14. Re:Windows or everyone? on Gameover ZeuS Re-Emerges As Fast-Fluxing Botnet · · Score: 1
    People who say that shit are not using Linux. They are using Windows and trying to sound like they know something about tech.

    Linux users are fairly smart, and value security.

    I do not have to worry too much about viruses and bot nets but that is because I harden my systems so that people looking to get in can not. We all do it. Install only the components we need. Whitelist where possible. External firewalls and compartmentalizing.

    Any decent Linux guy has a system that is fairly secure.

  15. Re:Buy Surge Protectors on Insurance Claims Reveal Hidden Electronic Damage From Geomagnetic Storms · · Score: 2

    And using filed claims to "prove" causation is questionable, at best as scientific proof!

    Really?

    Seeing a 20% rise in insurance claims on electronic equipment during the time of highest geomagnetic activity over 10 years seems to me to be almost everything but actual, rigorous proof.

    I would go so far as to say that you are just being difficult due to the fact that you recently got schooled on the difference between causation and correlation. Now you feel the need to take down a scientific study using your new awesomeness,

    I would go there but we all already know the sadness that is a pedantic AC.

  16. Re:Cry Me A River on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 1

    If you have perl you have the world.

  17. Re:Seems appropriate on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1

    I am just stating that taking money from a police force, a city, a county, state or the feds does nothing to stop the behavior. These people have unlimited funds.

  18. Re:Seems appropriate on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1

    The prisoner should sue the City, the district attorney's office and the judge for everything they have for wrongful imprisonment, falsifying charges, and basic ass-hattery.

    They have nothing. You can only take money from your community.

  19. Re:Cry Me A River on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 4, Funny

    All you really need is Perl and PHP!

  20. Re:Property Tax? on California Property Tax Exemptions For Solar Energy Systems Extended To 2025 · · Score: 2

    Who told you that? Our society was built on the idea people should be free, meaning free from government, meaning free from politicians and muscular interests that could twist their arm to twist everyone's arm.

    Correct. It was built on exactly those things.

    It will be destroyed on the idea that rights are given, not recognized. That responsibility is only for the rich. That freedom is only important till someone is offended. That making everyone have an equal amount of stuff trumps recognizing that everyone is equal. That government knows best and every person and every government is equally exceptional.

  21. Re:We're all Terrorists on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 1
    I never do. I was just specifically pointing out that everyone is a terrorist.

    The NSA should look more deeply into my grandson. He is quite good at terrorizing sometimes.

  22. Re:We're all Terrorists on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 4, Funny
    Oh.

    Thank you for your comment. I really appreciate the way ACs are not only so free with their opinions, but I have noticed that almost without fail they always offer tons of well researched supporting facts to back up their opinions.

    That coupled with their awesome grasp of humor and their perfect recognition of sarcasm makes me value opinions of ACs like you so very much.

  23. C-x M-c M-butterfly.

    The best way to program for sure.

  24. Re:We're all Terrorists on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 1, Troll

    Snowden was a part of the USA' "Military-Industrial Complex", and he is a terrorist.

  25. Actually they are all just in fear of our /root powers.