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  1. Re:Stallman is still around? on RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer · · Score: 1

    Uh, you don't need movable type to print cartoons.

  2. Re:Reviews for Macbook air are strangely high on Mossberg Reviews the Lenovo X300 Vs. MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    Then you've never tried carrying one.

    Please name a better product - (please note that nothing that is heavier counts as a better product).

  3. Re:Look for more Microsoft money behind on SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing · · Score: 1

    What makes you think you can't trust "islamic fundamentalists?" They seem pretty up-front guys to me. "Join the caliphate or die". Couldn't be simpler. You certainly know you can't trust the mafia.

  4. Re:Design on The ThinkPad Takes On The MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    Windows? Who the hell uses windows? I run Debian Sid on my Sony.

  5. Re:X40 is better on The ThinkPad Takes On The MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    Uh, the reason to have a DVD drive is maybe to watch DVDs? You know, like on that boring airplane/train trip?

  6. Re:Design on The ThinkPad Takes On The MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    My Sony isn't grey, it's black. It weighs 1.2 Kg in place of the macbooks bloated 1.4 kg, It's made of carbon fiber, not tacky aluminium, and it has a DVD drive. So, it's 3cm thick at it's thickest in place of the macbooks 2cm. Big deal.

    So, tell me how exciting the macbook is again.

  7. Pretty much totaly incorrect summary on Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP · · Score: 5, Informative
    Almost all the improvements they talk about come from optimising TCP buffer usage. The summary of the fixes:

    HPN-13 A la Carte
    • Dynamic Windows and None Cipher
      This is a basis of the HPN-SSH patch set. It provides dynamic window in SSH and the ability to switch to a NONE cipher post authentication. Based on the HPN12 v20 patch.
    • Threaded CTR cipher mode
      This patch adds threading to the CTR block mode for AES and other supported ciphers. This may allow SSH to make use of multiple cores/cpus during transfers and significantly increase throughput. This patch should be considered experimental at this time.
    • Peak Throughput
      This patch modifes the progress bar to display the 1 second throughput average. On completion of the transfer it will display the peak throughput through the life of the connection.
    • Server Logging
      This patch adds additional logging to the SSHD server including encryption used...
    So the main part of the patch set is "It provides dynamic window in SSH and the ability to switch to a NONE cipher post authentication" and the only part that has to do with threading is marked "This patch should be considered experimental at this time".

    By the way, does anybody else think "the ability to switch to a NONE cipher post authentication" is pretty dodgy?
  8. Re:The level of paranoia is growing exponentially on EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors · · Score: 1

    Note to moderators: this post is not a flamebait, nor is it a troll. I mean every word I say and I will respond to anyone who challenges me.
    No, it's just brain dead.
  9. Re:Same result on EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors · · Score: 1

    Don't see why we just don't put up "Blank" and "Nieblank" and have done with it.

  10. Re:Hmm on EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors · · Score: 1

    The police are actively doing what they can to deal with the problems (drug dealing, auto burglaries, gang intimidation, etc.)
    Normal police work, then.

    Oh, you mean those are the problems.
  11. Re:Do you need a Jury? on Live Blogs From the Hans Reiser Trial · · Score: 1

    The prior system would of course be the very old (pre-Norman) Engish system and the systems generally used throughout Europe, even today.
    You seem to think that juries are a wonderful new invention, not yet adopted by those funny foreigners. Some countries that don't have jury trials don't because they got rid of then (Germany, India). Some countries that most people think don't have jury trials actually do (France, Sweden).

    Most countries that do have jury trials restrict them to criminal (felony) cases rather than petty offences.

    (One fun twist was that in France people were often reluctant to have jury trials as it used to be impossible to appeal the result of a jury trial - the people had spoken, that was that.)

  12. Re:Uhm on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    Nah, there are a few slashdot readers who, unlike you and the previous poster have a tiny glimmer of a clue about economics.

  13. Re:Why is it always China? on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    "Diplomatic visas"?

    No, just ordinary nonimmigrant visas, for example an "F-1 student visa" for Hani Hanjoor.

    "Background checks"?

    No background checks needed - just the consular officers doing their jobs, like actually reading the forms.

    "Clinton Administration"?

    Well, in the technical sense that all state department employees are part of the administration, but if you have any proof that the applications got to Washington I'd like to hear it.

    When I think of the blood I've sweated filling out those fucking forms it pisses me off (and been refused once, having to explain to some stupid consular officer that although I did lurve the USA I didn't actually want to live there).

  14. Re:Why is it always China? on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    Dunno. Go ask Wernher von Braun.

  15. Re:Because it makes for a good headline? on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    Besides, I'd be amazed if e.g. India, Pakistan, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, South Africa, and Iran weren't also active (or trying to be active) in this field.
    Better ask Sibel Edmonds about that.
  16. Re:Not the Space Shuttle! on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    I can see the Chinese space guys using the shuttle info as a checklist of things not to bother trying.

  17. Pot, kettle, black. on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    the cases reflect the determination of the Chinese government to penetrate US intelligence and obtain vital national defense secrets.
    Whereas the US couldn't give a damn about Chinese national defense secrets.
  18. Re:Do you need a Jury? on Live Blogs From the Hans Reiser Trial · · Score: 1
    Beware of accusing people of ignorance when you want to spout stuff like:

    Remember that the U.S. justice system with juries was an improvement over the prior justice system that had no juries.
    What is this prior system of which you speak?
  19. Re:Better login into wikipedia host asap on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    One big difference between Islamic terrorism and the rest of the terrorism community - is that I think they are the only group not only willing to commit suicide for their beliefs, but to kill as many infidels as possible.
    Since you've apparently never heard of the LTTE why should anyone bother paying any attention to your witterings about terrorism?

    (But I do like the idea of the "terrorism community", like little after-bomb chats between the IRA, ETA, LTTE, PFLP-GC, Al-Queada...)
  20. Re:Plain Bullshit on Sci-Fi Tech We Could Have Right Now (For a Price) · · Score: 1

    Colin Powell's speech to the UN mentioned camps in the northern part of Iraq
    Ah, the "northern part of Iraq". Which is also known as "Iraqi Kurdistan", or at the time "the northern no-fly zone". What do you think would of happened if Saddam had started military operations in Kurdistan? Who was protecting the terrorists exactly?
  21. Re:Well... on Sci-Fi Tech We Could Have Right Now (For a Price) · · Score: 1

    Because we've made a $2 trillion bonfire , and thrown a few thousand people in it for good measure... just to spice it up.
    By best estimates around a million people actually. Only a few thousand Americans, but even Iraqi's count for something, surely.
  22. Re:Ron Paul a libertarian? on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    where Paul explains that there's many problems with evolution
    How could he explain that? It's not true. He could explain that he has many problems with evolution, i.e. that he's a nut job.

    Who the hell cares about religion. Would you vote for someone who doubts Newton?
  23. Re:The US bizarre fascination for religion in poli on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    However, another part of it is because of all of the far left wing liberals in this country.


    What the fuck is a "far left liberal"?

  24. Re:Wrong Solutions? on Cellphones Leapfrog Poor Infrastructure in Mali · · Score: 1

    That's why whenever I see protectionist liberals, I call them selfish bastards.
    A wonderful example of the corruption of political terminology in the US.

    Liberals are by definition not protectionist.

    By the way, Socialists are not liberals.

    And International socialists are not protectionist.
  25. Re:Wrong Solutions? on Cellphones Leapfrog Poor Infrastructure in Mali · · Score: 1

    No, the real reason is that you* are a bunch of economic illiterates who don't know the difference between Montalban and David.

    (*) Like most everyone else.