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  1. Re:Designed Poorly on In France, a Showcase of What Can Go Wrong With Online Voting · · Score: 1

    Is that really how mail votes are handled in your country? In Sweden the mail votes are handled exactly like on election day, the same checks etc so it's not possible to just fake a signature.

  2. Re:Closed how? "Wontfix?" on Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1 · · Score: 2

    Well if there where unlimited resources (developers and available hardware) then all reported bugs would probably be investigated with much greater care, but since that is not the case you have to understand that they have to prioritize.

    That said, I do find some maintainers to be somewhat lazy, I filed a bug report together with a patch that fixed the problem to Gnome once and it took three years for the maintainer there to accept the patch. But then another bug+patch that I filed for Gnome but for another subsystem was accepted within hours so it clearly depends on who is managing it.

  3. Re:Plenty of purile stuff left in the list... on Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1 · · Score: 1

    I don't think that it fails for all cases, I installed a networked Brothers printer just fine on my 12.04LTS laptop at work, and I didn't fiddle around with the command line one bit.

  4. Re:Plenty of purile stuff left in the list... on Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1 · · Score: 1

    I run 13.04 on a machine without 3D acceleration. There is a fall back, it's just unfortunately not automatic. On the login screen you have to click on the Ubuntu logo to the right of the username to change the login type from the default to Classic or what it is now called (the machine is at work and I'm home at the moment so I cannot check right now).

  5. Re:Let me be the second on Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1 · · Score: 1

    PCs yes, but note that the wording is "a machine" which can imply a phone, a tablet etc. The elephant in the room is "without any proprietary software" though, I don't recall that there is any phones or tables that are without that...

  6. Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    The sad part is that going after the producers is a much harder task which requires time and effort, much easier to fill your quota of convictions/arrests by going after the users. And if someone complains then you can always claim that the users is the reason the producers produce so that removing them also removes the producers, which of course is a fallacy since (as far as we know) most of the producers are not doing this for the money but for their own pleasure.

    It's like how criminalizing drug possession made life much more easy for the drug dealers, now only would the police shift from chasing you to chasing your customers (since they are so abundant and much easier to catch), it also means that you can sell your produce over and over since the customer has to replace what the police confiscated.

  7. Re:I imagine it's to set a precedent on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    It doesn't imply anything, other evidence in the case might imply that the disk is his and that he knows the password. But taking a specific legal way does not imply anything. When pleading a defence you choose a strategy to proceed with that you think is the one most likely to be in your favor. So in this case he and his attorney felt that pleading the 5th was a better way to proceed than pleading that the disk wasn't his, and he can still plead that if the 5th doesn't hold of course.

  8. Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be similar to if the police have a search warrant for your house and you refuse to unlock the door? If we image that your house is so strong that the police cannot break into it, can the 5th then be pleeded on not providing the key or could a judge order you to hand over the key? Just curious since we don't have an equivalent of the 5th in my country so I'm curious on how it works in the US.

  9. Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    It's not infallible though, if the secret is big enough some people can take endless amounts of pain. Many people died to protect the radar during WW2 and I somehow don't believe that the Nazis where noobs in torture techniques.

  10. Re: What did Fox News do? on Why DOJ Didn't Need a "Super Search Warrant" To Snoop On Fox News' E-mail · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes but Gouvernments these days asks themselves the important question of "What Would Nixon Do?".

  11. Re:They're going for gameplay. Again. on Can the Wii U Survive Against the PS4 and Xbox One? · · Score: 1

    The blinking means that there are a System News message from Nintendo, could be a firmware upgrade or some other news that Nintendo thought where of importance to tell you.

  12. Re:Really?!?! on Scientists Find Vitamin C Kills Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis · · Score: 1

    Yes but Bofors was not that renowned when he owned it. Anyways I guess that it's easy to get carried away as an inventor and not really seeing the reality and thus needing a wake up call which the French obituary provided. To his credit this actually changed his mind!

  13. Re:MariaDB is more quickly that MySQL: it's true!! on MariaDB vs. MySQL: A Performance Comparison · · Score: 1

    Yes it's as simple as that, you can just open your current database files and configuration files with mariadb instead of mysqld and everything should work, even the old libmysqlclient from MySQL will work to access a MariaDB server.

  14. Re:percona? on MariaDB vs. MySQL: A Performance Comparison · · Score: 1

    Percona is integrated with MariaDB, the InnoDB engine in MariaDB is really Perconas XtraDB.

  15. Re:Never thought I'd see FUD from Open Source on MariaDB vs. MySQL: A Performance Comparison · · Score: 1

    Exactly how would introducting new features break code that depends upon the non-strict mode of MySQL? There where no big problems when Monty or SUN introduced new features so why must it break if Oracle does it?

    And MariaDB introduces some new feateures which apparantly is of no problem to that code either, so I guess that you are a fanboi of some other SQL and thus must hate MySQL because that is q requirement by your cult

  16. Re:Really?!?! on Scientists Find Vitamin C Kills Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis · · Score: 3, Informative

    But he didn't invent it for warfare, he invented it to make mining easier, once he saw that people would use his invention for warfare he was horrified and thus invented the peace price.

  17. Re:All projects need your help. on Open Source Projects For Beginners · · Score: 1

    In what way is Unity single-window and single-task?

  18. Re:a graphing calculator these days... on Wikileaks Releases Docs Before Trial of TPB Founder Warg · · Score: 1

    No this is only semi true. Prisoners who go to school in the Prison has access to computers during class. These computers have sometimes been connected to the Internet but not since the accident that you brought up.

  19. Re:Competitive advantage on Survey On the Future of Open Source, and Lessons From the Past · · Score: 1

    And once upon a time companies could compete on having electricity, that's no longer any advantage, neither is having computers. If you today compete on software than you write it inhouse. There is no way that you compete using commercial closed software, i.e if you use SAP then your competitors can use SAP as well.

    And inhouse, the license doesn't matter at all.

  20. Re:This isn't always good though on Survey On the Future of Open Source, and Lessons From the Past · · Score: 1

    If you see iPhone as a single vendor (which it is) and not as an operating system then you'll see that updates are handled exactly the same. Because Android is not the vendor here, Samsung, HTC & co is. All Samsung Galaxy S4 users will see the same updates just like all iPhone5 users will. That HTC users won't has nothing to do with Android but with HTC.

  21. Re:Consistency on Survey On the Future of Open Source, and Lessons From the Past · · Score: 1

    Who has ever successfully sued a closed source vendor? All closed source licenses that I have ever seen contains the "use at own risk", "no warranty" etc.

  22. Re:Consistency on Survey On the Future of Open Source, and Lessons From the Past · · Score: 2

    Sure, no one in the whole world can get the job done in GIMP, it's like Photoshop has some magick properties that makes it the only software that can alter some imagebits... I'm not saying that The GIMP is better than Photoshop and I do recognise that Photoshop is better, it's just that it's not that much better and OP is right, the major problems most people have with GIMP is that it's GUI isn't a 100% clone of Photoshop.

  23. Re:Whats the purpose of this on Vulnerability Found In Skyrim, Fallout, Other Bethesda Games · · Score: 1

    So you have some new storage technology that don't require resources, whats the price per GiB for that one?

    And what is this constantly running thing? I have Steam installed on my box but:

    fultra@ubuntu:~$ sudo ps ax | grep -i steam
    9003 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto -i steam
    fultra@ubuntu:~$

    Or do you mean that it runs when you ask it to by double clicking it and then quits completely when you click in File->Exit?

  24. Re:Whats the purpose of this on Vulnerability Found In Skyrim, Fallout, Other Bethesda Games · · Score: 1

    In which way does a website not use any resources? Oh wait, you are using the magical resource free web browser!!! Sorry I forgot...

  25. Re:Whats the purpose of this on Vulnerability Found In Skyrim, Fallout, Other Bethesda Games · · Score: 4

    Please give my access to your magical application store application that uses zero resources.