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  1. Me? No. Russia or China? Probably... on Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover? · · Score: 1

    While I'd love the chance to try, I doubt my skills are sufficient...but take a country with literal armies of penetration experts (giggity), and they could probably take it down if they have a dish and transmitter available.

  2. Someone With A Backup Should Move it to TOR on Demonoid Domain Names Up For Grabs · · Score: 1

    Host it on TOR and they can't take it down...I've been wondering if Pirate Bay had a mirror up in that manner yet as well...using magnets just slapping these sites on TOR would prevent them from ever really going away.

  3. Locked Bootloaders Suck... on Motorola To Cut 4,000 Jobs, Focus On High-End Devices · · Score: 2

    Which is why I switched to a Nexus...pray tell, WHY does Moto not wanting me running a custom kernel that's not old and full of holes? I don't know, but the Droid2 was and will always be my last Moto phone until this changes.

  4. Re:x86 port? on CyanogenMod 9 Achieves Stable Release · · Score: 2

    ...although, porting isn't that difficult if the device specific stuff is out there for the version of android the build is based on. That said, I'm pretty sure x86 is one of the build targets, in a qemu image.

    I think you'll be able to google and find premade VM's of x86 android. It does exist, and I'm not sure but I think it does for CM as well.

  5. Re:Did the grownups prevail this time? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ubuntu is the Windows of the Linux world, with Canonical being equivalent to Microsoft.

  6. Anyone on /. Actually Use Ubuntu? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I thought this was a hardcore tech site, but Ubuntu is a pile of crap, and anyone who has tried other distros (crap like CentOS doesn't count) usually likes the other distros better. Debian, Archlinux, Gentoo - these are distros that don't suck, don't go into dependency hell every upgrade, and don't make a gui for everything, with ads and daemons and useless crapp tossed in.

    If I wanted my mom or dad to use Linux, I'd give them Ubuntu, but for anyone who knows what their doing, anything but would be a better choice.

  7. Too Bad I don't Take Medications... on Beware the Nocebo Effect · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And even if I did, I wouldn't get my info about them from the freaking commercials that list off what it's for, the horrendous side effects, as it shows a happy family playing outside, and then says "ask your doctor..." WTF?

    The US is the only nation that allows pharma ads, and they're really harming our society because people go to the doc and demand certain meds as a result of these commercials. Enjoy your diharrea, heart palpitations, mild depression and thoughts of suicide.

    This all relates back to the article, as these nocebo effects are a result of stupid people taking advice from even more idiotic marketing people about what drugs they need, for fake diseases like restless leg syndrome, and miracle cures that don't work and just cause you to die like the numerous discontinued drugs caught up in class action lawsuits for wrongful death.

  8. Re:Coward APK dishonors his family on CyanogenMod 9 Achieves Stable Release · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dafuq is this? The worst Markov I've ever seen!

  9. AOKP Is Better on CyanogenMod 9 Achieves Stable Release · · Score: 3, Interesting

    AOKP tends to be more polished/slick it seems. I realize there's Liquid, etc, but I've tried several roms including CM on my touchpad, Droid2, and VZW Nexus, and I always come back to AOKP.

    AOKP

  10. Re:The what? on Debian Changes Default Desktop From GNOME To XFCE · · Score: 0

    I'll just leave the fact here that the dual architecture Archlinux image is ~384MB.

  11. Re:The what? on Debian Changes Default Desktop From GNOME To XFCE · · Score: 1

    Maybe the "default" desktop is just the one that's used for the GUI on the LiveCD/DVD? It still doesn't install anything short of the base system and dependencies without the user who is installing selecting the packages, last I checked...

  12. Android + Tablet + FreeNote on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? · · Score: 1

    In the market, there's FreeNote, which rivals OneNote, and it's just great. I usually put it into ideographic mode - it let's me write with my finger or a stylus in large text, and then it shrinks it to fit on each line. Allows for freehand drawing, image, hyperlink, typing, etc...
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.suishouxie.freenote&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd

    I don't even have a "real" android tab - I just have an HP touchpad - only downside is that there's no pressure recognition or anything, but using my finger works best for me so far...you have to use the larger point stylii with this type of screen, anyway.

  13. That's No Moon! on Windows 8 Is Ready · · Score: 1

    It's Billy Gates on a tricycle.

  14. Re:Nvidia rotten to the core on Proprietary Nvidia Linux Driver Contains Privilege Escalation Hole · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you ran a distro that didn't suck, you wouldn't be having issues... Archlinux, gentoo, slackware...I mean, Arch would work best for you here - you just "yaourt -S nvidia-beta-all" and done.

  15. Re:Open Source Advantage on Proprietary Nvidia Linux Driver Contains Privilege Escalation Hole · · Score: 1

    It's hard to run GL based apps in Wine or use VMWare machines with nouvau...I've tried...that's all it lacks for me to use it all the time.

  16. Climate Change is a Natural Cycle on Is There Still a Ray of Hope On Climate Change? · · Score: 1

    While humans do effect it, mother earth always manages her ..erm...cycles... Let's call it "those times of the millenia..."

  17. So much for free enterprise on Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets · · Score: 2

    I've got the nanny state blues, man.

  18. Pirates and Copyright Trolls Will Eat This Up on US Regaining Manufacturing Might With Robots and 3D Printing · · Score: 2

    *inserts Linux LiveUSB, downloads schematics from PirateBay physibles
    "Now printing "Apple MacBook Pro - By 1337 Warez Group." Approximate cost: materials only.

  19. Dirka Dirka on Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOo06EOLBuY Baka-bakalaka dirka dirka, Mohammed Jihad! :)

  20. Bunch of Lungers... on Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years · · Score: 1

    Doc Holliday back from the grave and sleeping around? He's your huckleberry.

  21. Ubuntu Still A Steaming Pile on Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland in Quantal Quetzal · · Score: 1

    Not trolling, but I think that it's interesting that Ubuntu has the same kind of fanboy nature these days that Apple does. In reality, while it does fill the two niches of "I need a linux box setup ASAP," and "I'm a n00b and what is Linux?," Ubuntu as it is sucks.

    If you want something that's lightweight, not running 50 daemons from a fresh install, and something that's actually custom as you want it all the way down to the source, is Archlinux, Gentoo, or Slackware not a better option?

    Then, even Debian is better than Ubuntu - and it covers both markets of new users and people who just need to get a box up and running quickly.

    Ubuntu is really just linux for n00bs and lazy people.

  22. This is Wrong, Not Due to the Subject... on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    In the US at least, this isn't something that should be decided by the federal government, just like many other things. Our retarded federal government has a long history of deciding things for everyone in it's bounds instead of following the constitution (the law of the land!) and allowing states and their subsets to determine rules and laws regarding things not specifically delegated as powers of the federal government.

  23. Re:Regardless of Personal Opinions... on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Of course, I post referring to my own country. To each their own, but it's wrong for corporations to lobby like this anyway.

  24. Regardless of Personal Opinions... on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Unilaterally deciding something like this on a federal/national level is wrong and illegal, just as was the income tax, Obamacare, No Child Left behind, etc etc.

    These issues aren't defined in the constitution as powers of the federal government and thus should have and should be left to the states and their subsets to decide.

  25. Good Luck on Will ISPs Be Driven To Spy On Their Customers? · · Score: 1

    I'm behind 7 proxies...and several VPN's.