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  1. Re:You're kidding?! on Modern Warfare 2 Not Recalled In Russia After All · · Score: 1

    This is what all the newspapers do. They post stories without actual fact checking, one-sided stories and stories based on rumors. If the story happens to be wrong, they put a small 2x2cm box with a small font size on page 193 stating the story was inaccurate.

    Russia is a huge country. How hard it could had been for someone to check the facts before writing about it all over the internet?

  2. Re:In Post-Soviet Russia... on Modern Warfare 2 Not Recalled In Russia After All · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because Infinity Ward's nuclear bunker under their development studios didn't finish in time, and it would be pretty stupid to piss off a country with tons of nuclear weapons without one.

    Duh.

  3. Re:Fark.com photoshop contests? on GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You are doing it wrong.

    This looks shopped.
    I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few in my time.

  4. Where does this leave GIMP? on GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Too powerful for normal users, too limited for power users.

    Image editing is still way behind Windows and Mac OSX, where you have Photoshop for power users and also Paint Shop Pro for less power users, but who still like a full image editing suite.

  5. Re:Kurt Greenbaum, you are stupid, puritanical scu on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 1

    He made a funny comment that "the strangest thing you've ever eaten" is pussy. It was funny and we all have sex anyway, and it's not like he made the comment as a school employee. Jeez.

  6. Re:Kurt Greenbaum, you are stupid, puritanical scu on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He didn't know it was an employer but probably thought that maybe some student. Still an asshole and idiotic thing to do tho.

  7. Re:What on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    Unless you're entering the password all the time, that doesn't really work. And if it's something like full system encryption, you're only entering it when you boot. There's a lots of words you usually write a lot more than your boot-time password.

  8. Re:What on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So much for the right to be presumed innocent until PROVED guilty.

    Why do you quote US sentences with other countries? "Innocent until proved guilty" comes from US, and while usually true elsewhere too, you seem to just flame with this shit again.

  9. Re:What on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    If the encryption scheme is designed and done correctly, there isn't. Only way (besides getting the password out of the guy) is to brute-force all possible keys, several times for each encryption scheme and their combinations. Sure, you don't need to decrypt all the possible content right away there but just to see if it works, but you still need to go through every combination.

  10. What on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 4, Insightful

    being used to break encryption

    Each PS3 is capable of 4 million passwords per second

    Something doesn't match up. For first the different encryption schemes take different times to try even one password, and even more if you combine several of them together. Secondly you cannot try 4 million passwords in a second if its encrypted content, it takes a lot more than that.

  11. Re:Not a "right"! on Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband" · · Score: 1

    Flaming again?

    You could say the exact same thing on *every* tax. In your example it also violates your "human rights" that you are required to pay income tax to your country. But that is how society works, and in European countries the taxes usually fund many basic things to people (yes, availability of health care for everyone is a basic thing!). Yes, I hate paying higher taxes. But on the other hand it provides everyone on the society better human rights.

    And I believe in current day Internet access is one of those. You might be stuck with your 0.7 Mbit/sec, but here in europe that and 1 Mbit/sec is considered really low. Standard is 8-100Mbit/s.

    This is even more true because many services in these countries have been added on the internet; you can vote or do most of the goverment-related things via internet, if it doesn't need physical things.

  12. Re:.NET Anyone? on Firefox 3.6 Locks Out Rogue Add-ons · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, as no one reads the article, this doesn't concern .NET update in any way:

    In actuality, Microsoft did not drop its code into Firefox's components directory, Nightingale confirmed. "The .Net Framework and WPF use our existing extension/plug-in mechanisms, that's why we were able to disable them when they were found to be vulnerable," he said in a follow-up e-mail. "They aren't impacted by this change."

  13. Re:I'm not sure I believe those numbers on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 1

    Yep, that's the word :-)

  14. Re:I wonder what happens when you Google Bing on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 1

    What is your point? Both return each other as first result, if it was something along those lines.

  15. Re:Huh? on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 1

    Google actually only has 65-70% marketshare. And for example in Russia yandex.ru is the largest search engine, and Baidu is in China.

  16. Re:I'm not sure I believe those numbers on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 1

    You can't really compare traffic source percents in to how many users actually use what search engines. Your site may and most likely does rank differently in each search engine, and like you said the democracy of your visitors also affects.

  17. Re:Is it trickery? on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would Google publish their marketshare changes? Especially because only way they can go is down, unless they can gain marketshare in China (from Baidu) or Russia (from yandex).

  18. Re:MSN/Live had about the same market share before on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bing is not just a rebrand of Live/MSN Search. When they launched, they added tons of features and introduced new indexing and ranking algorithms that actually bought the results pretty much to same level as Google's, even if not over.

  19. Re:Well on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 0

    You think Bing seriously thinks they will gain 100% marketshare? Also remember that either Bing or Google are not the most used search engine everywhere - Chinese #1 is Baidu, Russian's and russian speaking countries #1 is yandex.ru.

    For that matter, Google has "only" 65-70% marketshare.

    And Bing is quickly adding features that go over Google - like giving Wolfram Alpha's results in the search query. I'm actually considering changing Bing as my default search engine, since it has more features and the results are just as good.

  20. Re:Who would've though? on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bing is really easy name to remember. It's actually a great name from MS.

  21. Re:Legality on Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband" · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you break laws, your rights can be taken away. If you kill someone you will be put to prison, and clearly you lose some of your rights then. For example your EU given right to move, live and work freely within EU area might be a little hard to do from prison.

    So if those three strikes law will ever get passed, this would probably be the same kind of thing. But EU still cannot force those laws in every country, they can only try to push them to be made laws.

  22. Re:Not a "right"! on Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband" · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a right to get at least a 1mbps internet connection at reasonable price. It is still a right.

  23. Re:Before people start complaining that its only 1 on Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe I'm answering to a flamebait, but theres nothing wrong with web applications. Many people want to have their email in webmail instead of using a client. Many people write to forums, news sites and sites like slashdot instead of newsgroups (as you seem to do too). Many people are perfectly fine using twitter and facebook for communicating (facebook even has that IM "client"). And because bandwidth is considerably cheap now a days (well in some countries at least, and it's getting there everywhere too), it becomes easier for people to upload a video file to a web service to convert it to another format than to download all the required codecs and find a software that can do it. Remember that majority of people aren't geeks.

    That doesn't mean there's no desktop application alternatives and that you couldn't use them. I do for email, IM and many more things because it suits me better. But it doesn't mean other people couldn't do otherwise.

    If you do not like those web applications developed by "modern hipster web devs", just don't use them and let people who like them use.

    (and 1mbps is the minimum guaranteed speed in the news)

  24. full disclosure on Hackers Broke Into Brazil Power Grid Operator's Website Last Thursday · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And, two days after the blackout, the systems analyst Maycon Vitali, 23, revealed in the blog "Hack'n'roll" to a login page of the ONS revealed error in the validation data. The flaw could allow a hacker to send command to the database and find sensitive data from ONS.

    The failure was published in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo on Monday (16).

    This is exactly why full disclosure is not good.

  25. Re:Great work! on Fedora 12 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The primary example of this is yum, which is a third rate program by comparision to apt. In fact, my personal opinion is that the success of Ubuntu has been down to properly maintained and comprehensive apt-repositories. When I left Fedora, yum had nothing in the same league as these, and dependency hell was very much still with the platform.

    It's funny you say that, because that was also my problem - but with apt and debian. Also their repositories contain apps that are stupidly build and are missing features (and if you want those features, you have to compile it yourself which defeats the purpose of using a package manager to begin with).