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  1. Re:Before all the little atheists celebrate... on Censored Religious Debate Video Released After Public Outrage · · Score: 0

    What's a little atheist? Is that different from an atheist, or perhaps a great big atheist?

  2. No, that's not a solution on No Windows 8 Plot To Lock Out Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Disabling secure boot is not a solution - it's crippling the security, needlessly. I'd love to hear my Dell rep explain to me on my next round of server purchases that I cannot use a fantastic feature to protect the security of my linux servers because they were too lazy/corrupt to enable me to use my own platform key. I will buy from the vendor who allows my to set the PK, and will not from those who refuse. Period.

  3. Ah, I see wahts going on... on Google Starts Indexing Facebook Comments · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1.) Google indexes Facebook comments 2.) Facebook comments become #1 target for spammers worldwide 3.) Facebook becomes a diluted, email-esque spam haven.... 4.) ...driving all users to Google+, since they - conspicuously - don't index their comments.

  4. Re:Not a viable solution on Which OSS Clustered Filesystem Should I Use? · · Score: 1

    Have you heard of ATA over Ethernet? It's the bees knees. For VM, it's pretty much better than iSCSI in every way I have seen. It's scales out in a peered fashion. It's really damn efficient, and last time I set one up the total configuration process took me around 10 min, given support is already in the kernel. Want to go faster? Grab a 10G switch - no Fibre channel required. Bottlenecks? Only if you design it that way - you could just have a "switch full of HD's" if you like. I may or may not have set up a 2 PB AoE installation for the Marines... just saying... :)

  5. -1 To Slashdot on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it possible to mod the base post down as flamebait?

  6. Re:I stopped reading the responses after... on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    I disagree, and present the same amount of evidence to support my argument.

  7. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 1

    I pledged that every morning in gradeschool. How far we have come since just the 90's. I really dear for the quality of life of my kids and especially my grandkids.

  8. Re:This makes my skin crawl on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Me too. This is pretty far removed from the Land of the Brave I pledged allegiance to in gradeschool. I fear for my children and especially my grandkids. I am honestly worried.

  9. Re:American rights? on PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act · · Score: 1

    I guess they're really going all the way with "Corporations are the people".
    Fixed that for you.

  10. Re:Covering up on Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    No - Freedom Hosting is not libertarian - they are anarchist. All libertarians I know believe in some small oversight (i.e. government).

  11. A real life metaphor... on Microsoft Patenting Celebrity-Shaped Bing'ing · · Score: 1

    ... for grasping at straws. Poor Microsoft, they just can't seem to catch a break.

  12. Re:There is room for both. on Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure hiring an editor for $10k and then self publishing is a far better deal than handing a lion's share of your profit to a publisher over 20,40,80 years.

  13. Does Bethesda have to do this? on Bethesda's 'Scrolls' Lawsuit Going Ahead · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but I think I head somewhere if you don't assert your rights over trademark/copyright, you lose them... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquiescence or maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laches_(equity). Maybe it's par for the course to assert your rights upfront, however small, for fear the other party might take advantage of their "free license" to stomp all over your tm's and c's later? I know our IP system is really complicated and mostly fucked, but it's a thought.

  14. Re:They could always just use this - LEGALLY on Surveillance Case May Reveal FBI Cellphone Tracking Techniques · · Score: 1

    nice

  15. Re:They could always just use this - LEGALLY on Surveillance Case May Reveal FBI Cellphone Tracking Techniques · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, looks like any other 100% legit testimonial style website, with a web clip at the top that doesn't mention their product at all. I like how when you go to the order screen and check the phone model, it simple takes what you type there and says it's compatible.
    For example:
    Easy-Cell-Phone-Spy
    Is Compatible with
    Macron Overlord

  16. Re:I thought VisualBASIC was dead... on Microsoft Previews Compiler-as-a-Service Software · · Score: 1

    I've been following your threads on this topic - an I felt I have to chime in, because I think you have an honest misunderstanding of the technology. I have written rather large projects in both VB .NET and C#. I currently work on a MSIL decompiler. The language syntax is very different, and VB. NET is similiar to vb6 in syntax. I believe your misunderstanding comes from the behavior of the languages, which the people arguing with you are pointing out. You can take _any_ program written in C# or VB .NET, and _directly_ convert them to the other language. The only difference will be syntax. That's it. There are a few corner cases currently where C# makes some pretty squirrely VB code, yes - but they make equivalent programs. You can profile them the same way, they have the same API available to them, etc.

  17. Re:Thanks Obama! on Court Reinstates $675k File Sharing Verdict · · Score: 2

    IANAL - But when I declared bankruptcy in 2003, 2 of the things I remember you could not write off were student loans and court judgements.

  18. Re:It's stupidly easy to compromise a windows mach on Google Highlights Trouble In Detecting Malware · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, I'm ok. I do use the Windows fw, which blocks ICMP.

  19. Re:It's stupidly easy to compromise a windows mach on Google Highlights Trouble In Detecting Malware · · Score: 1

    You are missing the point, and are not the OP.

  20. Re:It's stupidly easy to compromise a windows mach on Google Highlights Trouble In Detecting Malware · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? Stupid easy - ok. Compromise my machine then. Windows 7 64 bit, I've been lazy about patching it, haven't done so for about a month. My IP address is 24.107.113.55, and I've set my pc as the DMZ for all inbound traffic. I'll be at work for about 8 hours, I'll leave it running. Good luck.

  21. Re:Hole 196, people. on WPA/WPA2 Cracking With CPUs, GPUs, and the Cloud · · Score: 1
  22. Side channel attack? on WPA/WPA2 Cracking With CPUs, GPUs, and the Cloud · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not possible remotely. I'd like to know how a side channel attack could be executed against a wireless target? Magic? "Hey, do you mind if I hook up my oscilloscope to you router for a few hours? Why? No reason."

  23. Re:Yeah, he's done this before... crook on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    On top of that, one of the top results on google, http://gas2.org/2011/08/11/thorium-powered-car-could-drive-a-million-miles-before-refueling/#comment-123908, is fishy as hell. The DNS records for gas2.org were last updated early this month, and it just links to some article written, probably by the guy he paid off, here - >http://wardsauto.com/ar/thorium_power_car_110811/.
    Domain Name:GAS2.ORG
    Created On:11-Dec-2007 18:55:56 UTC
    Last Updated On:06-Aug-2011 21:45:53 UTC
    Expiration Date:11-Dec-2011 18:55:56 UTC
    On top of that, it doesn't appear possible to actually post to gas2.org - it might not even be a real forum.

  24. Yeah, he's done this before... crook on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the Charles Stevens http://help-cure-disease-now.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/laserturbinepower A whois on his website shows creation in Dec 2010, and he lists. 1985 at the bottom of his website. This whole thing is ridiculous. How does this stuff make front page Slashdot? Did Slashdot merge with Enquirer or the Onion recently?

  25. Re:You mean THIS Charles Stevens? on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    Crap, I posted AC.