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  1. Re:Common knowledge...firefox? on Chinese Security Site Under New Kind of Attack · · Score: 1

    You know you've lost when you can't trust your OS to run user apps and you think the VM will save you.

  2. Re:Pretty obvious, wasn't it? on EBay Admits To Bad Call On Skype · · Score: 1

    When you lose X, you gain lots.

  3. Re:Well on Torvalds On Pluggable Security Models · · Score: 1

    wanking = self indulgence

  4. Re:Well on Torvalds On Pluggable Security Models · · Score: 1

    funny, insightful and old

    though the version I know is "don't anthropomorphize $objects, they hate that"

  5. Re:Pretty obvious, wasn't it? on EBay Admits To Bad Call On Skype · · Score: 1

    task bar, pop-ups. Sorry I don't use a V-Tech OS, mine's for grown ups.

  6. Re:ZDNet? on The Linux Identity Crisis · · Score: 1

    I guess you missed the part about the Completely Fair Scheduler.

  7. Re:Thank you, Daniel on Daniel Lyons of Forbes Admits Being Snowed by SCO · · Score: 1

    You were doing alright for a bit but cunt is from the german for prostitute, hence the name of the road the Bank of England stand on : Gropecunt Lane now known as Threadneedle Street, an amusing turnaround imho.

  8. Oh noes, now I CAN'T see them on Google Unveils Flash Ads · · Score: 1

    Google has turned me into a thief and leech and I'm going to be locked out of websites.

    No flash here, what am I going to doooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

  9. Re:Support(Vista, OpenGL) == SLOW_FPS on Is id Abandoning Linux? · · Score: 1

    That's funny, it's a IndirectX then. The Direct bit was to skip the last Windows HAL.

  10. Re:Long-term on Is id Abandoning Linux? · · Score: 1

    Our business must have different needs because our Win2k pro desktops will stay there until they die.

  11. Re:Long-term on Is id Abandoning Linux? · · Score: 1

    Sorry but the first usable NT based Windows was NT 4 Service Pack 3

  12. Re:Ledgerlines on False Ad Clicks Cost Google 1 Billion Dollars A Year · · Score: 1

    Except that I pay for keywords and know how that is billed and recieve payments from adsense keywords and know how that is paid.

    The assertion to which this was a response was that clicks build debt for Google, but that's not how it works. There is no fiat advertising. Google are ad brokers who take a cut of each transation.

  13. Re:Ledgerlines on False Ad Clicks Cost Google 1 Billion Dollars A Year · · Score: 1

    Er, well done. I htink you misunderstood. I meant every cent in your Adsense account is real money already in Google's coffers, the system does work as you suggest. You commit to spending $x and once that's gone you drop out of contention for ad rotation.

  14. Re:Ledgerlines on False Ad Clicks Cost Google 1 Billion Dollars A Year · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People probably have that idea because every $0.01 of every click in your unpaid Adsense account was paid for, up front, by the advertisers, with real money.

  15. Re:Ms, your case is lost on IBM Challenges Microsoft with Free Office Suite · · Score: 1

    The ODF would mean that one could write an external script to create an eps/svg/whatever version of the grapoh you want.

    While Windows users stare dumbfounded at the screen and curse the brick wall they just hit, we crazy unixers quickly solve shit like that all the time, it's no biggy.

  16. Re:Just make your own, if you're nerd enough on The Rise of the Linux-Based Cellphone · · Score: 1

    I think you'd be pleasantly surprised how easy the electronics would go together.
    I consider the greatest hurdle to be that by the time I made it, it would be bits of wood and gaffer tape (as US duct tape is known here).

  17. Re: "Unix in Linux" on Half of SCO's Accountants Quit · · Score: 1

    man diff

    but you'll need a copy of all the source code. Got an AIX lying around?

  18. Re:Almost done. on Half of SCO's Accountants Quit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    yeah, what could possibly go wrong :

    1985 SCO delivers XENIX 286 for Intel 80286 processor-based systems.

    1998 Caldera Inc. Split off into two new companies Caldera Systems and what was to become Lineo. Caldera Inc. continued to exist until 2000. Following the settlement of the Microsoft litigation, Caldera Inc. was merged into The Canopy Group. ...
    2003 SCO Suspends Distribution of Linux Pending Intellectual Property Clarification; Announces Greater Focus on UNIX and SCOx Strategy

    Xenix was once the OS a certain B.G. insisted everyone used on their terminal in Redmond.
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/20/bills_vision_for_the_future/
    http://openacademy.mindef.gov.sg/OpenAcademy/Learning%20Resources/Microsoft/bio/bio_6.htm
    Microsoft Announces XENIX OS 8/25/80

    So now they are in bed with another Unix vendor, in fact THE Unix vendor.
    Unless the leopard has significantly changed its spots, expect that relationship to go sour.
    Microsoft can't do friends.

  19. I want to pay for content too!! on The Rise of the Linux-Based Cellphone · · Score: 1

    > In the cell phone market, consumers will pay for content

    Yeah, where's my Linux Phone, I got spare $ to burn on ringtones and wallpapers.

  20. Just make your own, if you're nerd enough on The Rise of the Linux-Based Cellphone · · Score: 2, Interesting
  21. Re:Ignoring the Human Factor is not Bliss on Workers Cause More Problems Than Viruses · · Score: 1

    When you employ the sort of sales team with a "winner takes all" attitude and "anything to get on" type thinking you sometimes have to protect them from themselves.

    That's why you would employ an IT security specialist.

    Putting a lock on a vending machine seems resonable but none if your employees are thieves right ?

  22. Re:Stupid waste of time on GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC? · · Score: 1

    The correct solution is a world with more than one compiler in it.

    The only place progress takes us is death.

  23. Ken Thompson's also on the way to Lunix on GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC? · · Score: 1

    http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/kencc/

    How to Use the Plan 9 C Compiler (html ps pdf)
    Rob Pike
    The starting point for C programming under Plan 9.

    Plan 9 C Compilers (html ps pdf)
    Ken Thompson
    The design and some internals of the compiler suite.

    Man page

  24. Re:Neither submitter nor editor RTFA...? on Attacking Multicore CPUs · · Score: 1

    There was a summary ?

  25. Re:So what? on Attacking Multicore CPUs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just wait until people run non-Windows machine as web servers and the like, it's gonna be chaos !