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  1. No. The reason you see such shifting results are due to epidemiology and not the meta studies. A meta study is simply an aggregation of the results from studies meating a specified inclusion criteria so that you can see trends among several studies instead of only relyibg on single studies (which i e msm does for headlines). The problem lies with the epidemiology studies since they almost always are observational studies. No one is doing ward studies where you i.e feed people eggs for a long period of time to see what happens.

  2. Re: Actually the bigger influence is in the usersp on Will Linux Innovation Be Driven By Microsoft? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No that is not what svchost does, svchost is just a launcher for system daemons written as DLL:s instead of as separate binaries. The main and major problem with it was that is was manna from heaven for malware writers since they could hide among the millions of svchost.exe processes in i.e Task Manager since it was not possible to know what each and every instance did (since it only loaded a DLL where the actual running code is).

    systemd does not provide such a facility at all which makes the comparison completely laughable. Nor does systemd "a single program doing multiple things" which one more time shows that you still confuse systemd the init system with systemd the project.

  3. Which means that if this goes into production then it's good night for the witness protection program and undercover cops.

  4. Re:Without having read the article on Illinois Tests A Blockchain-Based Birth Registry/ID System (illinoisblockchain.tech) · · Score: 1

    No longer having to rely on the state to believe the records that you can verify only due to it's records being signed by the very same state? Looks to me like you gain nothing from this.

  5. Re: Actually the bigger influence is in the usersp on Will Linux Innovation Be Driven By Microsoft? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Which just shows that you either don't know what svchost does on Windows or what systemd does on Linux, there isn't even the slightest of equivalence between the two.

    And while the Windows Event Logger does use a binary on-disk format just like journald does, that is the only similarity (and the on-disk format of the Windows Event Logger is not the problem with that system to begin with).

  6. Re: Actually the bigger influence is in the usersp on Will Linux Innovation Be Driven By Microsoft? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes the Windows System Logger uses a binary on-disk format which journald also does but there ends the single similarity between the two. If you have ever used both and programmed for both you would know this (I have extensively).

  7. Re: Actually the bigger influence is in the usersp on Will Linux Innovation Be Driven By Microsoft? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Except of course that Windows does not have anything that even remotely resembles systemd (or journald).

  8. Re: Banned because Kaspersky patched NSA/CIA backd on Kaspersky Software Banned From US Government Systems Over Concerns About Russia (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Another thing that makes these claims rediculous is that if they really where working with Microsoft they wouldn't need and holes at all.

  9. Re: Admirable goal, but... on Torvalds Wants Attackers To Join Linux Before They Turn To the "Dark Side" (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If so parent AC lost 100% of the battle.

  10. Re: Admirable goal, but... on Torvalds Wants Attackers To Join Linux Before They Turn To the "Dark Side" (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet you post this to every Linux related article.

  11. Re: Batteries that aren't full-cycled last longer on Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Many hw raid cards do the same. Cisco does it for all their routers/switches, and afaik the Raspberry Pi requires a license to unlock some video decoding support in tje gpu.

  12. Exactly this! If every browser will end up looking and behaving like Chrome then there will be no use for anything else than Chrome, there are reasons why people today use Firefox over Chrome so it's frustrating that Mozilla is ignoring that.

  13. Re:support for Linux? on The Google Drive App For PC, Mac Is Being Shut Down In March (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardly garbageware, I'm a happy user of it and it works quite well for me at least. And while this is feeding the troll; paying or not paying is not a Windows vs Linux thing at all.

  14. Re:support for Linux? on The Google Drive App For PC, Mac Is Being Shut Down In March (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There however exist commercial ($4.99) Google Drive clients for Linux: https://www.thefanclub.co.za/o...

  15. Re:No good alternative on Disney Is Pulling Star Wars and Marvel Films From Netflix (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The Marvel films where not going anywhere when Disney made their first statement either and now they are gone so there is nothing sacred about the Marvel series, yes they are currently co-produced by Netflix but if Disney can cancel one agreement they sure as hell can cancel other agreements.

  16. Re: The same as before with one exception on AskSlashdot: How Do You See Your Life After Firefox 52 ESR? (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    You made me worried so I gad to boot up my computer, turns out it still runs Ubuntu so I don't know what you are talking about.

  17. Re: There needs to be an DMCA review with fines pa on Amazon Was Tricked By a Fake Law Firm Into Removing a Popular Product, Costing the Seller $200,000 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah because this could never ever have been commited by snail mail or telephone...

  18. Re: Oh, no, Russians! on Software To Capture Votes in Upcoming National Election is Insecure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially since the result won't go in effect for a few months anyway. So knowing the results in seconds is actually useless.

  19. Re: I work in IT on European Court Rules Companies Must Tell Employees of Email Checks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost, Sweden.

  20. Re: I work in IT on European Court Rules Companies Must Tell Employees of Email Checks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I use the company phone for all my private calls (it's the only phone I have since I don't need another). I also use the company network and computer for oersonal usage (i.e posting here), I have a company computer at home and my Internet connection at home is owned by the company. Works well for me, don't understand why it's seen as so obsene by foremost US citizens.

  21. Re:Allowing their DNS to be poisoned indicates a l on Hacking Group 'OurMine' Temporarily Redirected WikiLeaks DNS Service (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Or forget that, they did poison the wikileaks DNS: "An OurMine spokesperson confirmed to the Guardian that the attack was DNS poisoning, carried out through hacking Wikileaks’ domain provider."

  22. Re:Allowing their DNS to be poisoned indicates a l on Hacking Group 'OurMine' Temporarily Redirected WikiLeaks DNS Service (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn't poison the wikileaks DNS servers, they poisoned some ISP:s DNS servers AFAIK. The link in the screen shot also depicts a https address so I wonder if this really was accepted by any modern browser?!

  23. Depends on the browser I suppose but the link is clearly https://wikileaks.org/ and not http://wikileaks.org/ in the screen shot from the first link.

  24. I'm more interested in the point that the screenshot from the link shows a https link so either the screen shot is fake or they also managed to get hold of a certificate for wikileaks.org

  25. Re: No, they don't. on Employers Want More Open Source Workers, Says Linux Foundation Study (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    And you just ignore that Stallman financed himself and FSF in the early years by selling GPL licensed software? His plan has never been about the price of software.