Slashdot Mirror


User: characterZer0

characterZer0's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,462
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,462

  1. Re:This kind of upsets me on Iraq Swears By Dowsing Rod Bomb Detector · · Score: 1

    Democracy works when reasonable people come together and are willing to make decisions and sacrifices for the betterment of all the people.

    Oh, that that's why democracy failed in the US.

  2. Re:Professionalism on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    When something breaks in testing, it may take a few days or a week for the fixes to get moved from unstable to testing. If something brakes in unstable, the fix will be in when it compiles.

  3. Re:Professionalism on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts?

    Debian does go through great lengths, and people complained that the time between releases was too long.

    Then they switched to Ubuntu.

  4. Re:Americans on Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA · · Score: 1

    Running for office yourself.

  5. Re:See ya, free Internet on Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    See ya, unencrypted Internet, good riddance.

  6. Re:Americans on Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's more the fault of those who elect the lousy officials over and over.

  7. Re:What!? on Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker · · Score: 1

    To be safe, you better not sell bullets to the government.

  8. Re:Netbooks on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors · · Score: 1

    I just broke Slashdot rule 5, no criticism of Apple allowed, so I expect the fanfoys will mod me to oblivion.

    Criticism of Apple gets you -2, but claiming that criticism of Apple gets you -5 gets you +6.

  9. Re:How long... on Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You do not seem to understand what embrace+extend does. Once MS embraces+extends it and the sites generated with Visual Studio and FrontPage and those made by countless inept "web designers" in mom's basement and in corporate IT departments such that many sites do not work with any browser other than IE, the open standard is meaningless.

  10. Re:it's almost like... on Pirate Bay Closure Sparked P2P Explosion · · Score: 1, Troll

    What makes a work "cultural", and why does that mean that you do not need the author's permission to copy it?

  11. Re:Makes me glad I run my own mail server on An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment · · Score: 1

    My server is virtual. The admin of the host machine can read my memory and CPU registers, so I cannot lock it completely.

    Of course, your datacenter admin can simply log all of your incoming and outgoing port 25 traffic, thereby reading every email you send to and receive from accounts not hosted on your machine.

    Your datacenter admin could also power off your machine, replace the BIOS with a bugged one, and bring it back up and tell you they had a power supply fault. Would you assume it compromised and replace it with a new computer?

  12. Re:Makes me glad I run my own mail server on An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment · · Score: 1

    I am the admin my mail server. But my mail server is a virtual server in a datacenter. I lease that space, so presumably as far as notification goes, it is just as much mine as an apartment I may rent or a car I may lease.

    Will the judge see it this way?

  13. Re:So? on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 1

    It is going to get interesting when people whose names are on the list claim not to have signed it.

  14. Re:woo on 12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000 · · Score: 1

    Encryption.

  15. Re:Not yet. on Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs · · Score: 1

    Windows Server 2008
    Start->Run...
    cmd
    C:\Users\you> pushd \

    C:>pushd /
    The syntax of the command is incorrect.

    C:>

    kthxbye.

  16. Not yet. on Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs · · Score: 1

    I'll love Windows again when they switch to LF for newline, '/' for file separator, and ':' for path separator.

  17. Re:2% by 2012? on New Jersey Outshines Most Others In Solar Energy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because they do not understand it, and people are scared by things they do not understand.

  18. Re:OS Change on Revisiting the Original Reviews of Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    So... did this answer your question?

    Yes.

  19. Re:OS Change on Revisiting the Original Reviews of Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Please explain how you have to spend money to keep a Mac constantly upgraded, but you can use a PC for seven years without upgrading.

  20. Re:41? on BSA Says 41% of Software On Personal Computers Is Pirated · · Score: 4, Informative

    So it is hurting the industry, but not as much as the industry claims.

  21. Re:This is good news on Windows Server Trusts Samba4 Active Directory · · Score: 1

    Is there an implemented open standard that does what Active Directory does?

  22. Re:Missed opportunity on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Of course the voters had a golden opportunity to elect a president who is not primarily serving the interests of the party leadership and campaign contributors, but they did not. So I guess Obama is just following the voters, so you cannot really blame him for that.

  23. Re:Missed opportunity on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    He also had a golden opportunity to let GM and Chrysler die and dump the money into public transit instead.

    He also had a golden opportunity to close military prisons of dubious legality.

    He also had a golden opportunity to appoint a supreme court justice who would apply the law as it is written.

    He also had a golden opportunity to end a few wars.

    Obama seems not to be one to take advantage of golden opportunities.

  24. Re:proletariat on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Too bad there is Nobel Prize for PR Speeches.

  25. Re:*readies his version of IDA* on Microsoft Readies Ad-Supported Office Starter 2010 · · Score: 2, Funny

    No. They'll just have a picture of some fat guy sitting in his mom's basement in his underpants with a speech bubble that says "All us hackers use OpenOffice.org! It is so 1337!".