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  1. Re:Civillian cyber-casualties on S. Korea Says Cyber Attack From North Wiped 48,700 Machines · · Score: 1

    I see this as, they cost 48 million over a large selection of banks (1000/each machine to repair).

    hardly a terrible attack.

  2. Re:astounding that defaults are not tougher on The Search Engine More Dangerous Than Google · · Score: 1

    They could program it (in ROM) that a blank password meant to check against any of the mac addresses.

    this would mean local access setup CDs would be easier to use, and that nobody outside of LAN would know the default password. This would make sure the types that use setup CDs have it even easier, and would not require burning a unique password into Rom for a hard reset to still match.

  3. Re:no problem on Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag · · Score: 1

    I'm aware of that, and a time.will hopefully come when b and i are removed.

  4. Re:no problem on Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps I understand content and display separation.

    b is a grotesque a tag as blink, both belong in CSS. They are about display, not content.

    the tag to use for b is or span with a descriptive class, if you feel strong is not relevant to your context.

    the place where this is more obvious is with the i tag, it can mean emphasis, quite, or a title.

  5. Re:Hilarious misinterpretation of their license on Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo · · Score: 1

    How many can tune in an OTA broadcast?

    I bet it's a majority (assuming we grant them an antenna), but not an over-whelming one.

  6. Re:no problem on Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But It's appropriate for it to be in CSS, It's a style of display that has to syntax. I wish they'd remove bold and italic too.

  7. Re:So, 'free' is bad? on Competitors Complain To EC That Free Android Is a 'Trojan Horse' · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it was closed source.

    we wouldn't of liked it, but we woulda been a whole lot less uppity if we could port to linux and still browse the web.

  8. Re:I was in the same boat on Ask Slashdot: Open Source For Bill and Document Management? · · Score: 1

    I don't think the meta data should be searched off the filesystem, I simply think it should be saved with the file.

    full text search isn't searched with the file, but It's still there. I can't think of any logical reason that a file's tags shouldn't be included as extended attributes. I should be able to backup a folder using rsynch, and trust the integrity of my backup.

    When I copy the file to a new system, the program that indexes should be able to read the extended attributes, and add those to the index too. How much is truly added to these files relative to an inode? I can't imagine it adding much bloat at all, the largest thing indexed I assume is the full text, and that obviously wouldn't need to be indexed, as it obviously already moves with the file.

    things like tags, labels, and icons should move with the file, and hopefully various DEs can arrange to agree on certain things. But even if they didn't, tags would be readable outside of KDE (even if they weren't fast searchable).

    The way I see it, the searching/finding database should be redundant of things already available, just faster, and with extended attributes I don't see why that can't be the case.

  9. Re:ANYONE bother to read the original science pape on Increased Carbon Emissions Creating Giant Crabs · · Score: 1

    It's /., so someone always reads it for me.

  10. Re:Well, that's it. on Increased Carbon Emissions Creating Giant Crabs · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it'd make you go blind.

  11. Re:I was in the same boat on Ask Slashdot: Open Source For Bill and Document Management? · · Score: 1

    I still think it'd make sense if all user generated meta data was stored in extended attributes. Then I could back up a file with a program like back in time, and restore it later, or to a different system, and when it got indexed, all my tags etc would be associated with it still.

    I imagine it'd make display of tags slightly quicker too, to have them orginized in an item -> data system (the words from your link).

  12. Re:cmdline on Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released · · Score: 1

    I think I read about a windows video editor that worked off of text based script files.

    someone complained it didn't exist on linux.

  13. Re:I was in the same boat on Ask Slashdot: Open Source For Bill and Document Management? · · Score: 1

    As you appear to know these things, I've been curious, but not enough to really check.

    does kde use extended attributes to store the meta data, so that plain old backups don't lose any information, or does it use some other method that requires a separate backup of the database?

  14. Re:Key in cloud != Key accessible by Apple on Is the DEA Lying About iMessage Security? · · Score: 1

    Does a password reset lose the key?

  15. Re:I was in the same boat on Ask Slashdot: Open Source For Bill and Document Management? · · Score: 2

    Hasn't kde finally gotten their shot together for functioning tags?

  16. Re:Not the whole picture on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 1

    you're right, I get the screen space of one spam in a safely isolated place. I also get a ton in my spam box, but my false positives on spam are about one a year, and false negatives are about 6 a year.

    considering my junk mail folder gets 30-100/day, It's not really a problem to deal with the one from google.

  17. Re:Archer? on Microsoft Apologizes For Cavalier 'Always-Online' DRM Tweets · · Score: 1

    Presumably if the DRM is written into the console, it will be handled by ms, and there'd be only one always pn scheme to crack.

  18. Re:The King is dead on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 1

    I assume so.

    arguably spotify, but definitely amazon and google music stores.

  19. Re:Not the whole picture on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 2

    Spam has been solved for ages from what I can tell. But I use gmail.

  20. Re:Nothing will change on EA Responds To Its Appearance In the 'Worst Company In America' Poll · · Score: 0

    Steam like valve? Or is there a new publisher I should be following?

  21. Re:The King is dead on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Probably not, their markets have healthy competition.

  22. Re: How can you tell North Korea was hacked? on North Korea's Twitter and Flickr Accounts Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    How is that different to the US which invades any country with decent oil reserves.

    Like Canada?

    while many millions of its own people barely struggle to survive.

    Even in the poorest areas of the US, the trees have leaves, and their are small animals. It really isn't even a vague comparison.

    Anyway, hope you like the troll food, I should know better.

  23. Re:IP is where we really need deregulation on Brown vs. Startup Over a Sandwich · · Score: 1

    That's not true about patents. You need to file in every jurisdiction you want protection in.

  24. Re:Maybe... on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it is.

    My initial point was supposed to be that there is a presumption of Christianity (for the white people in the US at lease), so the recognized atheists are going to be over-represented by loud mouths and skew opinion to the negative.

    While I try to be live and let live with peoples' religious beliefs, I do draw the line at young earth, I really wish the news media would ask politicians within how many digits they believe the earth's age to be.

  25. Re:Maybe... on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    Have I not been clear in this thread that I'm an atheist?

    but yes, the words like dumbfuck in this context are exactly what I mean. I've never been told I'm a dumbfuck by even the most crazy of Christians, simply that they are praying for me.

    My entire point is really that proselytizing atheists are dicks, like proselytizing Christians, and unfortunately, as an atheist we're presumed christian unless we're loud about it.