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  1. 3.6 is the last release for PowerPC macs on Firefox 3.6 Support Ends April 2012 · · Score: 1

    3.6.x is the last supported release for PowerPC-based macs. Models from 2005 do have the horsepower to surf today Internet, but they will get unusable because of the lack of software.

  2. Re:Steve Jobs on How the Year Looked On Slashdot · · Score: 0

    The doctors who gave Jobs and David Crosby their livers should be ashamed of themselves.

    They promoted one's merit (read: wealth) ahead of one's needs. Are you really surprised? I far as I understand, this is how USA is.

  3. Re:Fish: Omega 3s good, mercury bad on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    As far as I understand, this is mostly an immaginary threat. Correlation between fish intake and mercury intoxication have been documented for heavy local mercury pollution (I remember the story of a japanese plant rejecting mercury to the bay where people where fishing). For low mercury contamination, omega-3 benefits seems to trump mercury toxicity, as we have no study telling us that eating fish is correlated with diseases. But I may have missed some publication, did you find a paper telling otherwise?

  4. Justifying status quo on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    It is amazing how hard some people here try to refute the idea that fruit and vegetable are good for their health. Anything seems good to justify that nothing should be changed to their habits. This reminds me the arguments about climate change, with a small difference: eating junk food is a personal choice, therefore they are only hurting themselves.

  5. Re:And NetBSD on Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted · · Score: 1

    NetBSD never dies, it just reboots.

  6. And NetBSD on Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted · · Score: 1

    You forgot NetBSD, you insensitive clod

  7. NASA is yanked during transit on Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission? · · Score: 2

    Make it beleivable: During the journey to mars, yet another bank crisis yield US budget to its knees, and the new house decide to cut budget by yanking NASA. Your crew is on its own.

  8. Replace everything on Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess? · · Score: 1

    Replace everything. This is a slow process, and since you lack manpower, you will end up with the same amount of band-aids as you had in the first place. But theses will be your own band-aids, not the one you inherited, so you will have a chance to master the thing.

  9. Re:Best use of money? on Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server · · Score: 1

    Zimbra is greedy because it is written in Java. I still have to find a Java thing that is not an horrible bloatware that sucks server RAM and CPU.

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

    If you don't want to patch all the time, disconnect from network"

    And then you get owned by a USB key. This is how Stuxnet made its way into Iranian nuclear facilities

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  11. Re:WTF? on Google Not Reciprocating On IFrame Usage? · · Score: 1

    This is no magic, this is the result of the X-Frame-Options HTTP header, sent by Google servers, and honoured by browsers. That avoids a bunch of security vulnerabilities and anyone should do it. The weird thing is that Google still promotes the use of frames when displaying search results.

  12. SAML on XML Encryption Broken, Need To Fix W3C Standard · · Score: 1

    SAML, which is widely used for federated identity (to be concise, OpenID+Oauth on steroids), uses it. There is some sense to encrypt parts of the SAML assertion, since different information may be of interest to different parties.

    I am not sure if SAML is affected by the attack. And most of the time it is used over HTTP/SSL, which would probably reduce attacks opportuntities

    Come on, make me "score: 5 Informative", I am worth it :-)

  13. Re:Where does the bacteria come from ? on Seagulls Spreading Resistant Bacteria On Beaches · · Score: 5, Informative

    Cattle is given preemptive antibiotics treatment. This makes its guts bacteria always resistant to the antiobiotics used. Perhaps we could stop selecting drug resistant bacteria there.

  14. Re:And You Could Be The Next Winner! on EU Central Court Could Validate Software Patents · · Score: 1

    As a citizen of the EU, I know that EU has a lot of flaws. The economic policies, the subsidies, etc... However, so far both the legislative branches and the courts have been simply awesome when it comes to not giving in to the lobbying of multinational companies (...) I'm rather optimistic about this.

    This is because you never heard about the Laval and Viking cases, where the European Justice Court interpreted UE directive written by the parliament so wrongly that it reversed what UE parliement meant.

    US is not a democracy. Sometimes it produces good things, sometimes it does not, and we have no control at all on this

  15. Action icons are the culprits on Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F · · Score: 1

    In the ancient time, Apple had some nice documents about building UI. You could read that when interacting with the UI to build a sentence, the subject could be an on-screen object (a paragraph, a file icon), but that verbs (like search or copy) would be difficult to draw as a picture (with exception of well established things like a square for "stop"), and hence would nicely fit as menu items. This had the advantage that the user could discover all verbs in menus, with their associated shortcuts.

    Then someone introduced action icons, with things like icons bar in MS Office. Users do not navigate menus anymore. They do not discover new verbs, neither do they learn shortcuts. The funny thing is that iccon actions carry a tribute the to the statement that verbs cannot be drawn as pictures: when your mouse pointer flies over it, a text appears so that you can have an idea of what it does.

  16. Re:this is a hack? on Installing Linux On a 386 Laptop · · Score: 1

    What about the kernel?

    It still has 386 support.

    It is worth noting that cross-building NetBSD is as easy as running the build.sh shell script that comes at the top of NetBSD source tree. That will work from any POSIX system with an ANSI C compiler, and you can build NetBSD for any supported architecture.

  17. Not hot innovation on Debian Wheezy To Have Multi-Architecture Support · · Score: 1

    This multiarch support is no hot innovation. For years, NetBSD has been able to cross-build the entire system and offer 32 bit binary compatibility on 64 bit architectures.