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  1. Re:I also reviewed this machine on The Yellow Machine in Review · · Score: 1

    Idiot... I can't find other words. I'm NOT a sk1ll'd dood, but the first thing I wouldn't and DON'T want on a damn PRODUCTION server is a bloody gcc sitting there for the leet kidz to play with. If and when I need to deploy in-house compiled patches I'll do so in the damn LAB, compile it on a twin dummy machine with the providers' compiler toolchain installed (see, you thought you were smart! no, the stuff is provided for platform completeness not for fools to leave stuff lying around on a server), run test suites if necessary or provided, create deployment packages from there... If you think you can "emerge wtf" or make, make install on a PRODUCTION server... you are a complete, clueless fool, no better than a windows hotfix monkey.

  2. Re:I also reviewed this machine on The Yellow Machine in Review · · Score: 1

    The bloody thing comes with _gcc_ installed!!! AAARGH! Who the hell would ever, in their right mind, put a compiler on a networked server?! How kind of them, although I'd have preferred to find ready made RPM spec files for well known rootkits!

  3. Re:This is why... on Zero-Day IE Exploit Takes Control of PCs · · Score: 1

    I especially love the file location of that little script... "C:\warez\" what other software do we have in that folder? Call the feds...

  4. Re:Texan way..... on Texas Sues Sony BMG over Rootkit · · Score: 2

    whatever, fools can sometimes root for a good cause, that doesn't make it a fools' cause. Would you trade a couple dollars worth of taxes for an innocent's life. Even if someone turns out to be so after 40 years in prison (that'd be a torture) you can still hedge your bets against human fallibility and hold a chance of freeing one. A collective hug and a big "sorry" won't make up for a wasted life but it's still better than shutting off someone's life and making those last moments full of loneliness. How would you feel if you were to suffer that? (I'm just trying to make a point, this last comment isn't targeted at the parent...)

  5. Re:Web search for IBM with Google! on Google And IBM Team Up Search Technology · · Score: 1

    Hello, does the ibm java sdk run on osx. I seriously doubt it, but it'd be interesting to check out if the java gui is such a drag because of the windowing system or apple's implementation of it...

  6. Ah, the bootloader on Start of Life Gene Discovered · · Score: -1, Redundant

    LI

  7. Re:Not a big fan of hunting, but... on Deadly Version of Bird Flu Found in Romania · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nah, but hunting birds involves handling bleeding carcasses, taking them home, cleaning the guts in a residential area (perhaps tossing them in the garbage causing further dissemination)... Now, the virus may be destroyed by cooking, but the three steps preceding that clearly put many people in the hunter's proximity at risk of viral contamination.

  8. Re:Don't Panic on Deadly Version of Bird Flu Found in Romania · · Score: 1

    That is why I can't understand the idiocy of not prohibiting hunting starting now. In all EU countries it's just an expensive sport, but it provides a means for the virus to infect humans that get in contact with the wild, possibly infected animals. It's just a caprice the general population can do without in order to minimize risk...

  9. isn't it illegal? on Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Luring someone into engaging in some illegal activity and then suing or reporting it to law enforcement is considered a crime over here in Italy. Is it the same in the US? One thing is a police officer infiltrating a mob, another one is wiretapping a communication device without a judge's supervision by a private individual. On top of that, if the network sniffing is done by joining it and participating in the transmission of data, they are actively participating to the eventual crime.

  10. Re:This is no different... on Google Responds to Authors Guild Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    robots.txt is the commonly agreed, conventional "no trespassing" warning sign for internet search bots. Pretending to grep for copyright notes is insane and treacherous (a là litigious bastard)... you sir are a Flamebait.

  11. Italians do it better... on Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture · · Score: 1

    ... as Kubrick said when overseeing the translation of Full Metal Jacket to Italian. We have the most diverse, obscene, blasphemous curses you could imagine. Having lived for centuries under some form of domination has refined our hate speech to unmatched heights. Hey english speaker, can you ever imagine cursing the divinity itself. Not a cursory "goddam you" which we consider old fashioned eloquence, I mean a real "bestemmia", sometimes blunt, hieratic, icastic, creative, periphrastic... I can think of dozens of them... prêt à porter... unrepeatable... ;-) I mean all you have is *[fuck|fucking]*, we do much more

  12. Re:That was fast on Columba 1.0 "Holy Moly" Released · · Score: 1

    so with me. It seems to have problems with events that trigger popups as the to menu buttons don't work either...

  13. Microsoft photocopiers still running... on Flash, Meet Sparkle · · Score: 1
    Sparkle allows a designer to design the actual application by giving them direct access to the same objects the developers work with. The designer has complete control of the appearance and behavior of the controls without writing a single piece of code.
    as in, uh... Interface Builder and uh... Core Data? Yawn...
  14. Re:"its 'overstaffed' R&D department?" on Novell Under Pressure From Investors · · Score: 1

    Oh, like in the "Merchant of Venice"?

  15. Re:That's fine for us ... on TiVo OS Update Adds Content Protection · · Score: 1

    blogger.com is your friend... :-)

  16. Re:That's fine for us ... on TiVo OS Update Adds Content Protection · · Score: 1

    come on, this is a tech/geek board, we all want specs, devices and pics! This is the 3rd post asking for data, you either share with us or we'll assume you just popped a torrent'd windows media ed in your daddy's 5yo dell pee cee... ;-) Come on boy, speak up...

  17. Re:Learn the nature of science. on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    Amen, Dimensio, Amen... ;-)

  18. Re:An Alternate Technical Solution on Too Many People in Nature's Way · · Score: 1

    Some, I mean it man, some, of the alleged looters (I love how US media uses "allegedly" continuously for fear of libel charges... unless, the guy is obviously unable to afford a lawyer) may, I mean may, have decided to harvest clean & dry clothes, boots... food & drink to, well, survive? I mean, this is your biggest SNAFU in history and all you people can think about is how to lynch the friggin' looters?! BTW, all that merchandise is probably condemned to incineration and already accounted for by insurance so who gives a damn fuck about a pair of nike shoes?! Logistics, supplies, contingency and staged emergency plans? Where were they? I mean gawh, you're supposed to be the "Global Imperial Power", people rant about "Pax Americana" recalling the "Pax Romana" enforced by Rome... and you fall on your knees like this? Jeez... at least it took a volcano to wipe Pompei.

  19. Re:True Story on What's In Your Laptop Bag? · · Score: 1

    homophobic aren't you? We don't know in what forgotten, jock infested, out of the loop, dialupped, shitty town this guy lives in so anyone sharing his own interests naturally tends to become a buddy... maybe even be over enthusiastic about it, especially in late adolescence where any thing, attitude, hobby becomes a personality statement you'd like to see acknowledged rather than sneered at. Ok, not everyone happens to be called "leet" by Angelina Jolie so he got a buddy to restore the "I'm not a neurotic obsessed idiot" self confidence... tough. Still better than caving in to the jock court hoping to scrape some action with the leftovers...

  20. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN on Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region · · Score: 1

    So what do you suggest? Paying for a private insurance plan with some defence contractor like Carlyle that will evac you in case shit happens? Like in the early '900 when bloody fire brigades were private companies and would let your building burn down with everyone inside unless it had the company brass logo on the front door? Guess what, it sucked, people died, it was expensive and more damage was made because no one would lift a finger until insured property was harmed (by then rebid, big ass fires)... go figure...

  21. Re:Huh? on Looking for Portable MPI I/O Implementation? · · Score: 2, Funny

    so it's a place for socially impaired, would be geeks wasting their early adulthood modding cases with cold cathode tubes? Or is it a place for outrageous infomercial placements between the odd "geekly spinned" drivel on some old hashed, long gone by, fad. Or is it a place were, once again, would be IT geeks, dispense their judgements on the latest linux install screenshots... bitterly chastising whoever dares to perturb their self assessed expertise with questions and topics they can't even fathom? Your attitude is what makes up generalist TV, nothing too complicated to challenge the audience as it might be offended by it.

  22. Re:Underlying formula on Crunching the Math On iTunes · · Score: 1

    is this the algorithm MS patented? I wouldn't be surprised...

  23. Re:To IBM on IBM Donates Code to Firefox · · Score: 1

    To me it looks like lifting trade barriers. Donating software components to an Open Source project is like creating a common market rather than persisting in a feudal model. I can't help thinking about the road levy scene in "Non ci resta che piangere" by Benigni & Troisi; that's Microsoft.

  24. Java & Eclipse on Best Language for Beginner Programmers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Really! Running programs from Eclipse is dead easy (no Makefiles) as is debugging the stacks (to see the how the clockwork ticking). Very visual, method completion, infopop javadoc, convention enforcing wizards and all (GUI too). Taking up Java with Eclipse is a breeze and Java itself has a nicely documented library for anything you want to play with and explore the basic practices of OOP.

  25. Re:Offensed easily on Games Should Be Like Female Orgasms · · Score: 1

    it's an example of what normal people usually call: "american puritanism"... Americans can go on for hours on guns, pistols, semiautomatic guns, fighter jets, military strategy, cynical geopolitical diatribes, corporate warfare, cutthroat competition and various dog eat dog arguments like "you suck, bum! get a job!" Then all of a sudden sex is mentioned and everyone starts crapping in his pants crying murder and all that... I say, "get a life, I mean, sexual..."