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  1. Re:doubt it on Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps · · Score: 1

    The standard desktop will be an app you can launch after you boot metro, though there will probably be some registry hack that lets you auto-start it.

  2. Re:swiss-army knife on 17-Year-Old Wins $100K For Creating Cancer Killing Nanoparticle · · Score: 1

    Compared to current treatments that often only target a handful of cancers, being able to target any cancer is a big deal.

  3. Re:zzzz on DoJ Investigates eBook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    What a load of nonsense, self-publishers still divide labor. Nothing stopping a self-publisher from hiring the services of an editor, typesetter and illustrator. Also marketing is the single most beneficial skill that anyone can learn. What self publishing means is don't give up your copyright to a bunch a suits who care nothing for you or or work except the money they can wring from it and how little they can get away with paying the author.

  4. Re:NIMBY's on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    Simple solution, buy an easement or covenant on the land while its cheap so they can't sue. At least then when encroachment is inevitable the owner of the gun range will be able to take a large cut.

  5. Re:Not to be too pedantic on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    Negligence rarely is a criminal thing, unless it rises to gross negligence. Not only must someone violate some duty of care, but the manner that they do so must be entirely unreasonable, or with a reckless disregard of life or property. What separates mere accident from negligence is weather there is a duty of care present. Negligence is primarily a tort, and is only a crime when it is to a degree where willfulness can be inferred.

  6. Re:What? on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 1

    Encrypt it, print the file to paper tape, mail the paper tape.

  7. Re:And half the Arctic countries don't care on Permafrost Loss Greater Threat Than Deforestation · · Score: 1

    It's well within our means to modify atmospheric albedo should the need arise (danger of more than 2 deg C warming), the problem is that nobody really agrees where the global temperature ought to end up at. In the meantime the political classes profit by chasing hobgoblins.

  8. Re:In a alternate Universe on FBI Scolds NASDAQ Over Out of Date Patches · · Score: 1

    The proof is about the code implicitly and proves that it follows a specification. Both are written in precise formal language though the specification less so. If you don't trust it read over it yourself. The proof itself is in a formal language, and the rules for manipulating them clear. There are several formal system, none of which have more than a handful of axioms, and such known systems are mathematically equivalent in what they can describe.

  9. Re:This actually makes sense on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 1

    They are making it so many installation are command line only, though they've set it ups so the standard GUI's can operate remotely.It reduces resources needed for virtual instances of the OS.

  10. Re:This actually makes sense on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 1

    They will probably still stick one on the motherboard, but they can use a bigger (hence cheaper) manufacturing process.

  11. Re:In a alternate Universe on FBI Scolds NASDAQ Over Out of Date Patches · · Score: 1

    Formal proofs, redundant hardware pathways. But ya the proofs grow faster than the size of the code that they prove.

  12. Re:Not just meth on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 1

    And your fucking crazy if you dry out more than a few grams of it at a time.

  13. Re:The BSD community just doesn't accept stupidity on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    Na, that's too much work just for bullshitting on Slashdot. Really I was just trying to prompt more of the details out of someone who could provide some plausible why as to this surprising fact. (Which did work out this time)

  14. Re:"Smart" phones are a dumb buy. on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    You realize that your carrier already has access to all of your calls and texts?

    Ya because they have to bill you, and be able to route calls. However the carrier may not record or analyze calls due to wiretapping laws. Smart phones open up a lot wider domain of data as well that has virtually no legal protection or restrictions.

  15. Re:The BSD community just doesn't accept stupidity on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    interesting

  16. Re:The BSD community just doesn't accept stupidity on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly sure Linux has a generic 802.11 stack, and I have not idea why it would behave in a significantly different manner. Starting drivers in BSD I would guess is to avoid GPL issues

  17. Re:Linus is right on about microkernels on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    Truth be told, if one of your drivers crashes, there's little hope of maintaining a useful system and you'll likely want to reboot anyway.

    Not really, Minix 3 has been demonstrated to recover from over 18,000 faults that were injected into the driver system. Micro-kernels are extremely robust and resilient if properly designed. They have a watchdog system what will reload components that have failed.

  18. Re:There's no debate. The GPL doesn't promote free on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    Once copyright expires there is no difference and copyright takes to long to expire. Should be less than ten years. GPL is only as strong as copyright is, and is designed to turn the paradigm of copyright against itself, hence copyleft.

    Additionally killing babies isn't part of freedom because freedom is a social condition where 100% of people control 100% of their property 100% of the time.

    Anyways the right licence depends on what you want to make and how you want it to be used.

  19. Re:Disagree on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    I've never heard of a 10,000 processor BSD cluster. Yes there are some areas where BSD is superior is some way, but it is largely due to different trade-offs in design philosophy. The list of things that you can't break ever is longer for the BSD devs than the Linux devs. Linux is a more flexible system because of it and BSD is a more stable and long-term system because of it.

  20. Re: One again IBM..... on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 2

    Watch how quick honesty gets hatred Mr AC! I frankly wouldn't call EITHER Linux nor BSD a "success" when you are looking at numbers like these

    Desktops are a not the only sort of computer platform, though they are the most difficult for a newcomer to penetrate. People want every piece or hardware and software from the past ten years to just work. It's really difficult to do unless you have OEM's and dev's in on the process, and that's really hard to do unless people already have a lot of desktops with the OS (chicken and egg problem).Though Linux has surely though slowly been doing this.

    When it comes to embedded systems, supercomputers or servers you only need to be compatible with one or two of the more popular models in each hardware category and run the special purpose software that people buy such machines for. Linux dominates these three platforms, and BSD has a good showing in server sector.

    Anyways 2% of the public at large is a huge number, and I think canonical has a viable model. Piece together free software so it works, and make money by using the OS as a platform where you can buy media and applications.

  21. Re:I wish this was the case in the UK on Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack · · Score: 1

    For criminal cases you can in under no circumstance be required to testify, unless you have already testified and thus opened yourself up to a cross-examination. In a civil case you can be ordered to produce evidence and may be held in contempt if you don't. In addition failure in a civil case to reveal certain data or documents when ordered to do so, it will likely be construed against you without a solid reason as to why the data is not forthcoming.

  22. Re:Yeah, I wonder that too! on 2-Year Study Shows Mac Users Downloading More Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Plus those that aren't often use git or SVN where you can pull in a copy without sending browser information.

  23. Re:I gave gifts like this once. Everyone hated the on Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts? · · Score: 1

    Ouch, what a nice niece. Should have loaded it up with SNES games.

  24. Re:I hate EULAs on EULAs Don't Have To Suck · · Score: 1

    Something like the creative common symbols would be nice. Then you just splash some standard symbols on the screen and everyone knows what is expected.

  25. Re:Click-through GPL. on EULAs Don't Have To Suck · · Score: 1

    Some installers just have the idea every piece of software will have a EULA.