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  1. Re:Who still pays for antivirus? on Symantec Sued For Running Fake "Scareware" Scans · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But MSE is the best free antivirus software.

  2. Re:AKA "Help the EPA justify its existance" on EPA Crowdsources Massive Photo Project · · Score: 2

    Which is fine, isn't it? Pardon me for sounding like redneck American (I am not even American), but considering that trillions of dollars have been spent on destruction, it would be could if some of that funding could be diverted to useful like monitoring and preventing environmental abuse.

  3. Re:There is a book about secure Java programming on Ask Slashdot: Writing Hardened Web Applications? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it did have a lot of positive reviews.

  4. There is a book about secure Java programming on Ask Slashdot: Writing Hardened Web Applications? · · Score: 0

    There is a book about writing hardened Java code, meant for advanced Java programmers. It was even featured on ./ a couple of months ago, but I don't really remember the book title. :\

    Hopefully someone else will remember it.

    Yea I know, pretty useless post.

  5. Re:So all 5 of you running Safari on Windows on New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quote from Secunia advisory:

    A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via e.g. a specially crafted web page containing an IFRAME with an overly large "height" attribute viewed using the Apple Safari browser. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with kernel-mode privileges

    Safari is apparently the only currently known browser where this attack could be vectored from.

  6. Re:Money? on Moxie Marlinspike Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Yea, but you forget the huge loans that many of us accumulate after getting our degrees in engineering. It's just not easy t forget about it all and go hitchhiking across Europe. That said, once I do finish my loans I am going to do exactly that with a couple of friends.

  7. Re:And.. timing attacks? on MIT Software Allows Queries On Encrypted Databases · · Score: 1

    No. Encrypted queries operating directly on an encrypted database. Sounds really rad! A snooping third party will only see random gibberish.

  8. Re:Thanks for posting this.. on MapReduce For the Masses With Common Crawl Data · · Score: 1

    Warning heeded, but I saw this on a blog post at commoncrawl.org.

    This bucket is marked with Amazon Requester-Pays flag, which means all access to the bucket contents requires an an http request that is signed with your Amazon Customer Id. The bucket contents are accessible to everyone, but the Requester-Pays restriction ensures that if you access the contents of the bucket from outside the EC2 network, you are responsible for the resulting access charges. You don’t pay any access charges if you access the bucket from EC2, for example via a map-reduce job, but you still have to sign your access request. Details of the Requeser-Pays API can be found here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/index.html?RequesterPaysBuckets.html

    If I understood that right, at least getting started with the tutorial will not result in me coughing up $200. Correct me if I am mistaken.

  9. Thanks for posting this.. on MapReduce For the Masses With Common Crawl Data · · Score: 1

    This will be my first (and hopefully not last) headfirst dive into MapReduce.

  10. Re:No please. on Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials · · Score: 1

    Who "buries" cremated remains anyway? And more curious than that, who even reads TFA on /.?

  11. Re:What about... on GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes. The project leader of Linux Mint is also the project manager of MATE desktop. AFAIK, it has a few developers working full time on it to iron out the bugs.

  12. Re:convenience over quality on Netflix CEO Comments On Recent Decisions · · Score: 1

    If you are paying $3.5 for a coffee, you are getting seriously ripped off.

  13. Re:This is news? on Download.com Bundling Adware With Free Software · · Score: 5, Informative

    I like FileHippo more. It has a bigger collection than ninite, and it tracks both stable and beta versions of most free software and freeware on Windows. They also have a useful (and a completely optional download) update utility that checks if there are any updates available for software on your computer. If yes, you can let it update from their website. It's pretty awesome, all in all.

  14. Re:An unfortunate load of crap on Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years · · Score: 1

    So basically, you and your grandparent poster worked with a few idiots, and you now think everyone who is in mid 20s and early 30s is irresponsible? As someone in mid 20s, I not only take offense at that, but I cannot concur with your experience. My friends and I can easily distinguish between someone who is truly experienced and smart versus someone who is talking out of his ass. Age doesn't matter here, be he 18 years old or 50 (or even 60) something.

  15. Re:pointless on Ice Cream Sandwich Ported To X86 · · Score: 1

    Hmm, well. They would have to port the necessary drivers, Native C Libraries and Dalvik. The Linux itself is probably the easy part.

  16. Re:Why Needed? on Giant Chinese Desert Mystery Structure Solved · · Score: 1

    Also, why would need to be something that is "visible" in the first place. A few tens of randomly placed antenna arrays should be enough no?

  17. Re:Bombs.. on Giant Chinese Desert Mystery Structure Solved · · Score: 2

    Assuming their long term plan is autonomous aircraft fighters (as is with other military superpowers), they wouldn't want entire fleets to fail because their calibration site was sabotaged or damaged.

  18. Re:Only 16? on First 16-Core Opteron Chips Arrive From AMD · · Score: 4, Funny
  19. Re:No thanks on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 2

    Did you actually read the summary? It is possible that a lot of energy can be saved by this process. The research costs are probably high, but that can be amortised in the long run.

    Trying to detach meat from the idea an animal died for it is twisted. People shouldn't hind from that fact and be respectful an animal died for the meat.

    In this case, an animal did not die for it. It is about as ethical or unethical as any other synthetically produced food.

  20. Re:Music players on Linux SUCK on Banshee, Mono May Be Dropped From Ubuntu Default · · Score: 3, Informative

    Clementine and Audacious are pretty good. Check them out.

  21. But, the Blogosphere likes creating controversy on Banshee, Mono May Be Dropped From Ubuntu Default · · Score: 1

    .. and spreading it, even when there is none.

    I don't remember the link now, but Microsoft made an irrevocable promise not to sue implementations of .NET, under certain specified conditions.

  22. Re:asian cheat buy doing group work on solo work on Survey Finds Cheating Among Students At All GPA Levels · · Score: 1

    This is true, Asian students tend to gather in small packs with a "leader" who knows more than the others in that subject, unless the Professor specifically states that this will not be tolerated.

    By the by, most of my Professors promoted discussion among students for assignments. And I have seen that people who participate in group discussions, do tend to learn more than someone else with a similar technical background, who prefers to fly as a maverick.

  23. Re:Which means it won't be used for old hardware, on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 1

    Ehh, but the thing is the latest Ubuntu is unlikely to work on the kind of old hardware that only has a CD-ROM device or can't boot from an external harddisk. AFAIK, Lubuntu and Xubuntu do fit everything in a CD.

  24. Re:Insert Disc Number ... on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 1
    Debian still does this, but I am guessing that Ubuntu wants to fit everything into one standardized package with the "one size fits all" mentality. At the same time they keep it as low as possible because not everyone has unlimited broadband internet.

    This is not however strictly true, because Canonical *does* provide a minimal ISO ( here ) which contains the kernel, userland and ethernet related stuff, after which you can do a netinstall of whatever you want.

  25. Re:Great timing! on Open Source Eclipse Celebrates 10th Birthday · · Score: 2
    Ouch, misclicked overrated. Undoing it.

    I wholeheartedly agree with the painfulness of LO loading time. But, Eclipse's loading time is bearable given that I rarely ever close it unless I have to reboot it.I love Eclipse, especially for all its plugins!