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  1. Re:You can make this stuff up. on Thieves Use Vacuum To Siphon Cash From Safes · · Score: 1

    From Le Parisien, 27/12/2009.

    http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/un-gang-de-cambrioleurs-devalise-les-monoprix-27-12-2009-757296.php

    "Le dernier fait en date remonte à la nuit du 23 au 24 novembre, avenue d'Italie dans le XIII e arrondissement de Paris."

    It's my local Monoprix!

    (It's in Paris, not "near Paris").

  2. Re:Immature and Gun Happy on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    And, no, terrorizing people isn't a 'military objective'.

    ... But... but,,, that would mean tha "shock and awe" was...

    I'm going to pretend you didn't say that.

  3. Re:Immature and Gun Happy on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Killing anyone who blinked is how Napoleon did it,

    You might like to research the origin of the word "guerilla".

  4. Re:Pretty common. on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some stupid scottish neds stole a whole bunch of cable a while ago, burned it as usual to strip the insulation and tried to sell it.

    It fibre.

  5. Re:Why? on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also, what kind of hunter can't hit an insulator? Amateurs...

    Not amateurs. Drunks.

    Taken out a TGV line at least once here in France. It's not unique to the States.

  6. Re:Immature and Gun Happy on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, come on.

    Americans can be irritating, but wanting them to go down in a blaze of self inflicted gunshot wounds is mean.

  7. Re:Aptitude on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 1

    Madoff ripped off a lot of people's life savings, and some of them took a real drop in quality of life. Move into the 'can't afford to see a doctor - maybe this symptom will just go away' group, and you lose up to six years from your average life expectancy by some estimates.

    So if Madoff is guilty of murder for this what do feel about the people who campaign against "socialised" health care?

  8. Re:64 bit, nice. On what ISA? on Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux · · Score: 1

    Market?

    I pay for flash viewers?

    Not very often.

  9. Re:System V source code on SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block · · Score: 1

    Having never seen any AT&T Unix code newer than the reprint of Lions' A commentary on the Unix Operating System, (based on V6 - 1975) and the "ancient" Unix source from The Unix Heritage Society.

    Caldera's only good action, ever, was releasing that.

  10. Re:System V source code on SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block · · Score: 1

    Go check out OpenSolaris.

    (Solaris was based on SVR4, UnixWare is SVR4.2 (SVR5 for marketing porpoises) - the major differences should be in the security stuff (SVR4.1ES) and the multiprocessor stuff (SRV4.2MP). The rest should be pretty much the same).

  11. Re: SCO then and now on SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block · · Score: 1

    P.S. I still use SCO servers running as virtual machines to run obsolete proprietary software.

    Last I checked neither Xen nor KVM would run SCO UnixWare 7.1.1 :-(

    http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1391

  12. Re:Let's bid on it on SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block · · Score: 1

    Not worth it.

    The only interesting stuff is the bits [T]SCO[G] don't own - the Veritas filesytstem and volume manager.

    You've already seen the kernel - it's mostly the same as Solaris. (Slightly different multiprocessor code. I'd expect that Solaris's is better by now).

  13. Re:They already did! on SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block · · Score: 2, Informative

    Microsoft no longer owns Xenix, SCO does (no seriously). SCO Unix is Xenix.

    You gotta love slashdot mods: "informative" my ass.

    SCO Unix is not Xenix. SCO Unix is not even Xenix compatible.

    Here's what happened:

    1. Microsoft write their first Operating system, a 16 bit version of Unix for the 8086, called Xenix because at that point you weren't allowed to call it Unix unless you were AT&T.
    2. SCO buy a license to Xenix and make some 286 versions of it.
    3. AT&T and Interactive port Unix SVR3 to the 386
    4. SCO ports Xenix to the 386
    5. AT&T and SCO make Unix SVR3.2, which is Xenix compatible, for the 386. At this point if you boot Unix SVR3.2 you see a Microsoft copyright,
    6. SCO starts selling SCO Unix (SVR3.2), eventually abandoning Xenix, but still paying licensing to Microsoft for the Xenix compatibility code.
    7. AT&T and Sun produce Unix SVR4, merging some Sunos stuff into SysV, still licensing stuff from Microsoft
    8. AT&T and Novell produce UnixWare, SVR4.2, still licensing stuff from Microsoft
    9. AT&T sells Unix to Novell
    10. Novell sells UnixWare (but not Unix) to SCO
    11. SCO produces various versions of UnixWare, still paying licensing to Microsoft. It starts proceedings against Microsoft (In the European court of justice AFAIR) and was finally released from the licensing deal if it removed the Xenix compatibility code from UnixWare, which it did.
    12. SCO was still selling SCO Unix (now SCO OpenServer) the SVR3.4 based system which includes the Xenix compatibility code alongside UnixWare, which now didn't.
    13. SCO sells UnixWare and OpenServer to Caldera (it's more complicated than that, but...)
    14. Caldera (having renamed themselves [T]SCO[G]) replace the SVR3.2 kernel in OpenServer with the "SVR5" (SVR4.2 renamed for marketing reasons) kernel from UnixWare, so OpenServer no longer needs licensing from Microsoft.

    So not only do [T]SCO[G] not own Xenix, they don't sell Xenix, and they aren't even Xenix compatible.

    Maybe I obsess to much about this nonsense? See my pseudo.

  14. Re:Can they do that? on SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block · · Score: 1

    Of course, everything was cool until about 8 years after the original agreement, after the company changed hands about 3 times

    Worse than that - SCO sold UnixWare to Caldera. SCO then renamed themselves Tarentella and Caldera renamed themselves [T]SCO[G]

    1. AT&T sells Unix to Novell.
    2. Novell sells some rights to SCO (but not "Unix" whatever the hell that imaginary property consists of by then).
    3. SCO sell those rights and some other junk to Caldera.
    4. Caldera ([T]SCO[G]) claim they own Unix. They don't.

    Now [T]SCO[G] wants to sell whatever they bought from SCO (Tarantella).

  15. Re:64 bit, nice. On what ISA? on Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux · · Score: 1

    Power?

    Mips?

    Arm64?

    Sparc64?

    Just given up the fight to Intel/AMD? Lie back and enjoy it.

  16. 64 bit, nice. On what ISA? on Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Pity it's only x86-64.

    Guess that's the problem with closed source.

  17. Re:Ambiguous? Ask an English major maybe? on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 1

    Definition of "had sex with"?

  18. Re:Just the kind of headlines we need on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 1

    Dark brown on amber for me - die greenscreen scum!

  19. Re:Aptitude on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Chuck Norris is a pussy.

  20. Ambiguous? Ask an English major maybe? on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    According to their own summary of the interview with political scientist Steffen Hertog, 'nearly half of [individuals involved in political violence] with degrees have been engineers,' a rather ambiguous statement

    What's ambiguous about that?

  21. Clever idea to slashdot the site with the key... on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... so nobody can get hold of it.

  22. Re:Science at work folks on Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half · · Score: 1

    So for you the fact that a "far left source" provides a link to the website of the actual person involved in the incident means that we should ignore his side of the story?

  23. Re:Academics on Stanford's Authoritative Alternative To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Well, I was with you there until you got to this bit:

    If I say Sartre's Being and Nothingness is about smurfs, I am wrong, and deserve all the ridicule I get.

    WTF? You didn't get all the Smurf references? Probably because they're called "Les Schtroumpfs" in the original French. Maybe you've been reading a bad translation.

    Irrelevant Wikipedia reference to like totally prove my point: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Schtroumpfs.

  24. Re:Science at work folks on Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half · · Score: 1

    So, if you're so keen on conspiracy, why not comment on the conspiracy to get Soon and Baliunas, 2003, published in "Climate Research"? You know, the paper that corrupted peer review by being published in a reviewed journal without peer review?

    The fact that the Journal published some shit at the behest of one of its opinionated editors is of less concern. If the choice is between Opinionated Editors and Manipulated Editors, I choose opinionated.

    So what is it? Sacrosanct peer review or "opinionated" editors?

    You claim "I question your motives. Can I presume that you have a strong opinion about the veracity of the AGW theory? Me, not so much either way."

    You lie.

  25. Re:Science at work folks on Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half · · Score: 1

    What are you trying to say?

    That December 2, 2009 is not recent? This is all about events that took place in 2003.

    What's your point?