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  1. Re:Obvious reason on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That's actually strange, minesweeper is about the only piece of software on Linux that isn't broken after an update - well, most of the 350 versions of minesweeper on Linux that is.

  2. Re:The subs the least of our problems on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thank God they didn't choose an OS with less than 1% desktop market penetration, which has been designed for networking.

  3. Re:First informative post... mod parent up. on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is that a typical ratio on slashdot?

    No, normally it's worse, but this time the title includes Windows - so brace yourself for a flood of cliches.

  4. Re:This indexing fad should curl up and die on Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead · · Score: 1

    Well said. Where are those mod-points when you need them.

  5. Re:BD+ on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 1

    Scotland, where men are men and sheep are nervous.

  6. Re: evil empire on Network Neutrality Defenders Quietly Backing Off? · · Score: 1

    Let me correct that for you:

    Google is becoming the first open source evil empire

  7. Re:Getting Old on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: -1, Redundant

    streaming video != network drive

  8. Re:I'm amused and somewhat pleased on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 1

    the car can be started from outside but it's impossible to get in or drive it.

  9. Re:BD+ on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 4, Funny

    before 2008 they made a movie for every Welsh-speaking community per year, after that they went into Welsh porn and the whole thing kinda got commercial.

  10. Re:Getting Old on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you have access to a network or external drive ... than why not use your single BR drive on that network or as external drive ?
    You're just looking for excuses to allow cracking of copyrighted material.
    Let's try this approach:
    I don't want to spend x$ for y -> then don't buy it.

  11. Re:BD+ on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 3, Informative

    instead of making decent movies to begin with

    Learn a second language, you'll see there's no shortage of quality movies.

  12. Re:OMG! RLY? How will the human Race Survive?!?!?1 on Oops! Missed One Fix — Windows Attacks Under Way · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Replace OpenOffice with utter crap, dillhole.

    Wrote my thesis on it. OpenOffice is truly the king of all that sucks.

  13. It's not about the software on Should Apple Open Source the iPhone? · · Score: 1

    It's about the hardware.
    You all want that shiny spotless minimalistic big screen to put linux on.
    Regarding open source: you allready have android, you just want to port some stable new Gui/FX into these linux desktop failures

  14. Re:A remarkably bad idea. on Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web · · Score: 1

    yes, i did get past page 3. We'll see.

    BTW, I wonder if this environment is the reason for the stripped user agents described here

  15. Re:A remarkably bad idea. on Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web · · Score: 3, Interesting

    from page 3 in the paper:

    "In Native Client we disallow such [self-modifying code] practices through a set of alignment and structural rules that, when observed, insure that the native code module can be disassembled reliably, such that all reachable instructions are identified during disassembly."

    Ok, when I read the post I had to chuckle when I read the asm joke. I've been programming in asm for 16 years now and there are a few rules of thumb:
    - if assembly is allowed then the only real security is executed by hardware.
    - malware writers love a challenge like this.

  16. Videos here on HP and ASU Demo Prototype Flexible Display · · Score: 5, Informative

    They mapped their milestones with photographs & videos:

    Clink

  17. Re:Determining origin on Alien Comet May Have Infiltrated the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Indeed, was quite surprised myself to see all that crap wizzing and blimping through the video.

  18. Re:Determining origin on Alien Comet May Have Infiltrated the Solar System · · Score: 3, Informative

    overconfident

    Videos here illustrate the effects of the comet's (abnormal) very close trajectory to the sun. Collected dust is pretty much sandblasted away on a regular base.
    But since it doesn't contain assembly language I don't really know what I'm talking about.

  19. Re:Maybe read your contract and see what is says?? on Losing My Software Rights? · · Score: 1

    or better, read the contract before signing it.

  20. Re:They're just enforcing an NDA on HP Seeks to Block Competitor From Revealing Its Pricing · · Score: 1

    Here's a challenge for you: find me one post in the history of slashdot truly in favour of MS or in disrespect of LNX which has a score 4 or above - and I'm not talking about (funny) and the likes.

  21. Re:They're just enforcing an NDA on HP Seeks to Block Competitor From Revealing Its Pricing · · Score: 1

    I don't believe they were fooled by the company in any way. I don't believe that Groundwork takes advantage of backdoors or fools the developers. What I do believe is that this whole story is BS: the "poor little open source company" is portrayed as a victim of a mad greedy multinational. It's the kind of stereotypical reaction you get whenever a /. post has the words "microsoft" or "open source" in it. It's been going on for a couple of months, BTW. As what appears to be the rule here lately, /. is bringing stuff like this as a breaking news story when it is in fact old and cold. The crowd spits out some clichees and moves on to the next "article". There's no depth, novelty, insight or interpretation in this post. Have a look around the internets and you'll see that the story is "somewhat different" than how it is presented here. HP isn't the aggressor.

  22. Re:It isn't just targeting the US. on Significant Russian Attack On US Military Networks · · Score: 1

    Flashbacks to the days that rumours were rampant about McAfee installing viral software in printers for Russia ... Does anyone remember those stories?

  23. Re:They're just enforcing an NDA on HP Seeks to Block Competitor From Revealing Its Pricing · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's corporate BS like this that makes life suck for everyone else. Competitive pricing is one thing businesses try to hide as much as possible so that they can backstab others. I'm glad it's being publicized, and I hope it gets HP to lower their list price so they won't be able to fuck over so many consumers and will have to start actually competing fairly. How could you stand up for fuck-you-over corporate tactics when this information should be free and they shouldn't be able to do that?

    Which is off course much worse than selling software other people wrote for free and competing with companies that pay their programmers.

    /. is the unbeatable major-league BS champ when it comes to open-source marketing.

  24. Re:I know that classic theory on Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed · · Score: 1

    That's a chicken & egg philosophy. It's long known that genes code for different proteins - please scroll through the comments in that post and count the 'old news' remarks. You need protein expression profiling to uncover how those basepairs relate - among other things - but this does not shift part of the amount of heredity in sequences to protein level. In your reasoning, a transplanted liver introduces heredity information from the donor to the recipient. It doesn't. You just need DNA.

  25. Re:Sounds to me like Sabotage on Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station · · Score: 1

    Step 0: send women in space