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  1. Re:Sign me up... on Microsoft Attacks Linux With Retail-Training Talking Points · · Score: 1

    We have an app-store. It's called the software repository used in pretty much ALL linux distributions... and they are ALL free.

    In Debian, we call it the apt repository.

  2. Re:GCC comparison on OS Performance — Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10 · · Score: 1

    I though OS X was POSIX since 10.5... correct me if I'm wrong.

  3. Re:Machines arn't even remotely comparable on OS Performance — Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10 · · Score: 1

    Most can, you just need to know what your doing. /etc/init.d/*dm stop
    modprobe -r
    dpgk -i updated_driver_version.deb /etc/init.d/*dm start

    Xorg will load the appropriate driver realtime now of days.

  4. Re:Simple... if "Y" chromosome found = male on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    You cannot possibly be serious. Intersexed affects not only the genitals, but mental configurations as well, a condition known as transsexual. But please, continue your bigotry.

  5. Microsoft better be quick. on Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep · · Score: 1

    They make the mistake of using Linux.
    They should be running Windows CE!

    (Yes, this is a joke for those without humor sense. I'm actually somewhat happy to see linux used.)

  6. Re:Not exactly a surprise ... on DoJ Defends $1.92 Million RIAA Verdict · · Score: 1

    How are P2P networks any different than having a Library except that the item is digital?

  7. nough said on 14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    "Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position." -- Hacker Ethic

  8. Re:Nuisance of free software on Digsby IM Client Quietly Installs Badware · · Score: 1

    TBH the cost for game development has sky rocked... The uncanny valley is an expensive one. Developers and Artists need to be paid, and the only real incoming funds are from the publishers, and we have all seen what publishers have done to the game development industry. Ad revenue for a developing game or one that has servers to upkeep makes monetary sense, even though they are moderately annoying.

    Honestly I'd like to see the 2d side scrolling exploration games like Metroid or Castlevania come back, but I don't see it happening. The idiot masses drool for higher and higher graphics each year at the expense of game play.

  9. Re:The US is seeking money within the EU? on The Pirate Bay Is Being Sued Again · · Score: 1
  10. Re:A New Criteria? on Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or a bisolar system, however the radiation levels and orbits may be too chaotic in such system.

    Just to put things in perspective, Jupiter is about 9/1000 the mass of the sun. However I would point to the multitude of our gas giants. Saturn is about 2/1000 the mass of the sun, which is also significant. The other two gas giants are significantly smaller. I'd say the existence of gas giants within the carbon--water habitable zone can provide safe harbors for life as well. But I'd say a stable environment in any case is good for any sort of life form, allowing time for them to adapt without being destroyed by physics mechanics.

  11. Re:PC gaming is dead. on Gaming On Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    UAC is one of the brilliant features to Vista. You should not disable it.... nor should you be running in administrator mode. You, as a linux user, should know better.

  12. Re:Just Takes One on First New Nuclear Reactor In a Decade On Track · · Score: 1

    "A typical coal plant releases more radioactive material into the air in a day due to traces of uranium in the coal than TMI released in its lifetime"

    Not to be an ass, but citation needed and very much desired.

  13. Re:Three Separate Virtual Machines on Security Threats 3 Levels Beyond Kernel Rootkits · · Score: 1

    All of which have kernel modules to allow host systems to run them faster. Virtual hardware has such an overhead, but the day of the Virtual machine virus is going to come sooner or later.

  14. Great... on Firefox 3.5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Great. Iceweasel 3.5 just entered Debian Experimental... I'll likely have to continue to run with jit off for another month.

    [/ half joking ]

  15. Re:No; it's not the collection. on UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User · · Score: 1

    Yes but what about our treaties dealing with International Copyrights? I have yet to see anything in them pertaining to photographs, but I don't have access to the original treaties, or the time to read them.

  16. Re:Woo Hoo!!! on New RTS Based on DotA Offers Native Linux Client · · Score: 1

    I'm saying if you bought a new desktop PC in the last 3 years, you have a 64 processor. Whether you decide to run 64bit on it because of the lack of 64bit support by closed source developers, thats your decision. I was also including ARM and PPC in the set too, although I'm not sure the program would run on many of the Arm devices due to processing requirements.

  17. Re:Woo Hoo!!! on New RTS Based on DotA Offers Native Linux Client · · Score: 0

    The real question is what Architectures they will support. Often when we see close source software in linux, it's still all for 32 bit, even though the majority of systems being run on desktops are 64bit.

  18. Re:Competition is good, baby! on Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010 · · Score: 1

    The article already said it would be open source.

  19. Re:Isolate! HA! on Microsoft Warns of New Video ActiveX Vulnerability · · Score: 2, Funny

    NOT use an OS that allows executables to do anything with the kernel via an untrusted WEB PAGE

    So I guess you don't use any Operating System then?

    No, He prefers to communicate using God's language, machine code.

  20. Re:But...but... on iPhone Vulnerability Yields Root Access Via SMS · · Score: 1

    You are not a PC. You are human being. Stop saying that.

  21. Re:It is the hacker's mentality. on The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software · · Score: 1

    Using initscripts should get the job done on most systems; however this requires root access.

  22. Re:Default installation? on Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation · · Score: 1

    There is a command line parameter called "desktop" you can use, in addition the new ne-tinstall CDs now have a menu option for selecting them. It's documented in the help section of the installer.

  23. Re:Default installation? on Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation · · Score: 1

    Don't Forget XFCE4.

  24. Re:Try the query.... on Extracting Meaning From Millions of Pages · · Score: 1

    The singularity begins.

  25. Re:Missing some info from the summary on Microsoft's Free AV App May Be a Non-Starter · · Score: 1

    I thought thats was Bing is for. It's a "Decision Engine" after all. It lobotomizes you so a machine can do your thinking.