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  1. Re:Addressing malware. on Internet Security Moving Toward 'White List' · · Score: 1

    I guess my sig worked too well. Why wouldn't you have root owned backups? With linux and LVM2 this is trivially easy to do with snapshots done hourly and kept for weeks.

  2. Re:Addressing malware. on Internet Security Moving Toward 'White List' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not? you don't have root owned backups of your home directory taken at least nightly?

  3. Re:Roll your own or wait... on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    I see an onion news article coming soon.

  4. Re:Why is it stupid? on Fork the Linux Kernel? · · Score: 1

    The question is "Does it matter?" you still have the choice. No fork needed.

  5. Re:inconsistency on Fork the Linux Kernel? · · Score: 1

    Not sure where your seeing that. I'm seeing more: ...
    Linux user: Ok, I guess I'll fork the kernel then.
    Linux zealot: Go ahead, but it's pretty stupid and useless for your situation and because everything you want to do can be done without a fork, but perhaps if you do fork the kernel the changes will get merged back anyway so have at it. (you know kinda like the old -ac kernel or the -mm or -aa forks)

  6. Re:Why is it stupid? on Fork the Linux Kernel? · · Score: 1

    Actually it is true. You can select things like large memory support, Scheduler, and other things that change the algorithms used.

  7. Re:service pack on Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista? · · Score: 1

    The OSX interface kinda reminds me of the old Gnome 0.30 days. Every application looks like it was made with a different tool kit. If you don't use an application made specifically by apple it looks out of place. The consistency of menus and buttons are horrid. Click to focus is something that still bugs the crap out of me after being an OSX user exclusively home office, work and family for about a year and a half now I really can't say it is the utopia of operating systems that many try to portray it to be.

  8. Re:And so begins the rush.... on Dell, Lenovo Adding Solar Option for PCs · · Score: 1

    Until we find that intercepting all this power from reaching the earth and converting it to energy in the atmosphere causes "Earth Core Cooling(TM)" and atmosphere warming with sever weather to follow.

  9. Re:You haven't thought much about it, have you? on Paper Trails Don't Ensure Accurate E-Voting Totals · · Score: 1

    A simple way for this to work:

    When you log in there is a screen that says something along the lines of "Your randomly selected voter ID is '37'"

    then you ticket is printed as:

    20 Candidate A
    53 Candidate B
    40 Candidate A
    37 Candidate you voted for
    16 Candidate B

    and it is printed in a random order each time. You can tell any mafia group or vote racketer your number is any one of the ones on the list. It could even have a write in option in case they are trying to get you to do a write in vote. A quistion like "Would you like to input a bogus write in name for your ticket list?" If the information was collected you would be able to tally that hey this person had 100,000 bogus write in requests, they are probably involved in some kind of vote fraud.

  10. Re:It must not lose mass! on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation.

  11. Re:Not any more on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, I got a flash light and a dirt devil. Anyone have a watch? Preferably with a seconds hand. Lets check how accurate this is.

  12. Re:If he wins I'll put my Architecture 2008 up on eBay Seller Sues Autodesk for $10 Million · · Score: 1

    Supposedly, the only way to sell your license in AD's good graces is to sell your entire business

    This may become key in this argument. Can a business count the value of software towards the total value of the company when filing to go public? I'm asking cause I don't actually know. I would guess that they can, but the ruling of this case for AD may change that because that software will become ownerless if the business closes up shop and it is non-transferable.

    Also if a company buys another that would mean that all the systems would have to be wiped and relicensed except possibly for the systems that specify that the software stays with the machine.

  13. Re:Hey, DOS 5 was cool on DOS 5 Upgrade Video · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ha, They didn't have a snappy beat and rhyming video.

  14. Re:Oh boo hoo on The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking · · Score: 1

    1) download adds.
    3) Profit....for somebody else.

  15. Re:Oh! on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know, EMACS stands for 8 megs and constantly swapping. Eight Freaking Megs!!!! No editor should be that large. I mean my god what does it do? Check email?

  16. Re:Class Action, anyone? on 1300 Unopened Fry's Rebate Forms Found In Dumpster · · Score: 1

    and a message can be sent to the rebate companies that that will not be tolerated.

  17. Re:I see on Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music · · Score: 1

    Pointing at something and saying it is bad is easy. Do you know a better system? Perhaps we should just go to the age old guilty until proven innocent. Just round up all suspects and trow them in prison. Or better yet, if you're suspected of murder then throw you in the chair the next day. Why give a murderer a chance right?

    Any system that involves people is going to be less than perfect. The more you strive for perfection the worse it will turn out.

  18. Re:I think Wal-Mart might believe its own propagan on Users Trash Wal-Mart On Its Facebook Site · · Score: 1

    Walmart has some very specific uses for me. I don't by clothes or shoes there because the quality is really bad. I don't by electronics there because even products of the exact same model, as a best buy or circuit city version, have fewer features and lower quality parts.

    Movies are cheap at walmart, food is cheap at Super Walmarts, toys are cheap at Walmarts as well. Otherwise I avoid it for almost everything else.

  19. Re:I've discovered even worse Linux privacy proble on Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile · · Score: 1

    Ohh yea? Get this. When you set up your account on a Linux system your password is stored, encrypted in a file called /etc/shadow. Seems a bit shady to me. What are they doing with it? Encrypting it so you don't know that's what's happening and then storing it.

  20. Re:Do not distribute.But use is free! on FOSS License Proliferation Adding Complexity · · Score: 1

    Did you know that just by being alive, jews turn precious oxygen into carbon-dioxide?

    Yea, I'm not kidding. You know that stuff that causes global warming!!

    Obviously jews are the problem

  21. Re:Admissibility on DHS To Share Spy Satellite Data Over the US · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd be fine with it being used to find the kids that broke my window. Or the person that stole my car or broke into my house or any other real crime. What I'm afraid something like this could be used for is catching the person who buys a bag of weed, or smokes a cigarette in a nonsmoking area with nobody around or any of the other "made up" crimes.

  22. Re:No sharp objects... on Bigelow Aerospace Fast-Tracks Manned Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Not stretchy balloon inflatable, ridged structures with flexibly composite connections folded up for launch and inflated once in orbit. More like collapsible rather than inflatable.

  23. Re:How many years? on Firm Sues Sony Over Cell Processor · · Score: 1

    Yep, they were just about to go to market with their brand new Cell like processor when the PS3 fouled their plans. Damn you Sony!! I shake my fist at you!!!

  24. Re:Benevolent dictatorship is a good thing on Torvalds Explains Scheduler Decision · · Score: 1

    You kids these days and your complaining about ascii codes.......

  25. Re:Linus as the benevolent dictator again on Torvalds Explains Scheduler Decision · · Score: 1

    a phatt paycheck job at IBM or RedHat. If he doesn't already have one.