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  1. Re:Google WTF are you doing? on Google To Support Windows XP Longer Than Microsoft · · Score: 1

    "The only way to keep an XP machine safe from attacks after April 2014 is to unplug it from the internet completely."
    SO when MS stops support, their going to also turn of my firewall and AV programs? No? STFU.

  2. Re:for most retired people, up-to-date Chrome (no on Google To Support Windows XP Longer Than Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The GIMP

    You don't get used to Gimp. You get beaten by it until you submit.

  3. Re:for most retired people, up-to-date Chrome (no on Google To Support Windows XP Longer Than Microsoft · · Score: 1

    An OS is neither the UI nor the applications.

    The decision about what OS to use can be influenced by the Apps and interface.

    Anyways, he is talking abut a community center. So it's likely all they need to do can be done through Linux. And he also said some machines are set to dual boot.

    You need to put the caffeine down for the rest of the day and relax. He didn't say all windows can be replaced with Linux.

  4. Re:for most retired people, up-to-date Chrome (no on Google To Support Windows XP Longer Than Microsoft · · Score: 0

    "Why would anyone pay for Windows if this is free?"

    Because moving to Linux is not free.

    You're experience the community center has been the opposite of mine. How do you get people used to the change?

  5. Re:Google WTF are you doing? on Google To Support Windows XP Longer Than Microsoft · · Score: 2

    That's becasue its a server/browser issue, not an OS issue.
    Has there been a successful XSS attack on a fully patched XP in the last 2 years?

    Basic Home systems used casually where people don't click on pop up ads, go to trusted site are pretty safe. The risk analysis show pretty clearly that a patched XP behind a NAT is pretty safe, and certainly not worth the cost of upgrading.

    IF they poster has set them up with auto back-up, then there is no reason for them to change.

    IF we are talking about 100's of machine in an organization where the data is extremely valuable, and the recovery process is expensive, then the cost of upgrade can be worth iit.

  6. Re:Oh boy on ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By 2028 · · Score: 1

    Low temperature?
    huh.

  7. Re:Oh boy on ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By 2028 · · Score: 1

    Out right denial and pessimism is not skepticism. Hell, it' snot even good opinion when ti isn't based in any real facts or knowledge.

  8. Re:Improvement on ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By 2028 · · Score: 1

    No, they weren't trivial at the beginning.

  9. Re:Improvement on ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By 2028 · · Score: 1

    Thanks for letting us know you don't know how science works!

  10. Re:Improvement on ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By 2028 · · Score: 1

    no, it isn't far off.
    Insurancd companies are already using them.

    "Climate Change: we're still right even without warming!"
    since it's still warming, the only point I can see is that you want to show off your ignorance.

    We know how ice ages work, so I'm not exactly sure you know what you are talking about.

    A) Increasing CO2 is poisonous to us.
    B) a run away green house effect means we die. Not hyperbole.

    Of course, anyone who calls the Quaternary Glaciation the Quaternary Ice Age clearly doesn't know what they are talking about.
    Also, are are in an ice age.

  11. Re:Improvement on ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By 2028 · · Score: 1

    Are you an expert in fusion? no? then you opinion is shit.
    Keep that in mind.

  12. Re:this is excellent news about generating power. on ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By 2028 · · Score: 1

    You just need to control the normal inter-particle scattering, something like IEC.

  13. Re:forbidden to open-source ? on Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    Firewall security.

    Seriously dude, try to think.

  14. Re:Huh? on Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company · · Score: 1

    Then they aren't judges, are they?
    Judges, judge based on criteria that can not put put into law. Tying judges to specific and strict rules has turned out very bad for American system.

  15. Re: We beat them because the EU has no DMCA on Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company · · Score: 1

    "by distorting the in game economy."
    That just shows the WoW econimic model is broken. Also, you don't need to use the auction house to gain anything.
    IT doesn't impact your game play at all, and it's AH impact helps you.

    The fact that you don't like it does not make it malware. Fuck dude, malware has an actual definition.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware

    Let me know when it attacks your computer.

  16. Re:Cookies on No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine · · Score: 1

    No, an it depends.

    Hershey Bars don contain Wax, and some bars are still made with cocoa butter.
    For example, Hershey's Special Dark still contain Cocoa butter

  17. Re:Here's how you know it's bs on No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine · · Score: 1

    There is a strong difference between Fox News, and other news. Well documented, strong and direct link to the Pubs and tea party.

    Grow up and stop thinking everything is equal.

  18. Re:Mice = Calorie Hunters on No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine · · Score: 1

    They did use cocaine. They used cocaine, a saline solution and Oreos. The brain chemistry in eating Oreos and the drugs they used, morphine and cocaine, had the same results.

  19. Re:Press release from a not even published poster. on No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine · · Score: 1

    Don't confuse the media with the study. for example:
    "Our research supports the theory that high-fat/ high-sugar foods stimulate the brain in the same way that drugs do,"

    and if you read the actual link you will find they did use controls, for the drug; the control you talk about wouldn't work as an actual control for the actual test.

    I'm not defending the study, but lets at least read the link and not fall in to the journals hyperbole.

  20. Re:ALl you need to do on Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company · · Score: 1

    People with one arm, or Parkinson, or..well a great many.

  21. Re:Bottable == boring IMO on Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company · · Score: 1

    All game can be botted.

    Studies show game that are a skinners box are the most profitable.

  22. ALl you need to do on Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company · · Score: 4, Interesting

    is label it an aid for disabled players. Get ADA, Blizzard won't stand a chance.

  23. Re:Slashdot Officially Sucks on 1.5 Meter Long Meteorite Fragment Recovered From Russian Lake · · Score: 1

    The only thing that doesn't add up is the amount of knowledge you have on the subject.
    For example:

    ". it would have vaporized a ton of water and blown the ice away for at least several hundred feet."
    no, no it wouldn't of. Not even close.

  24. Re:Obligatory on 1.5 Meter Long Meteorite Fragment Recovered From Russian Lake · · Score: 1

    Of course we read it. Usually twice. Then we fix it, send a note to the manufacture with correct instructions, then use whatever it is the manual was for. Now you geeks like to blow off the manual, and then whine about the device and how its no good becasue you don't understand it. Nerd on the other hand, actually like to know what they are doing.

  25. Re:Obligatory on 1.5 Meter Long Meteorite Fragment Recovered From Russian Lake · · Score: 2

    Prohibition was very successful. IT's goal was to drop domestic crime, and it did. In fact domestic crime reached very close to 0(Zero) percent.

    Even including the violent crime committed by the mob, it was still down. It was very successful.

    Interesting note, anything with any violence at all was splashed on the front page by newspaper who lost money becasue they lost liquor advertising.