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  1. Re:Can someone answer me this? on Reddit Will 'Hide' Vile Content After Policy Change · · Score: 1

    The main factors are: do you log in on average as frequently as the average (probably median) Slashdotter

    My experience doesn't support that point. I've been logged for ages. My karma has been "Excellent" for a longish time.
    My meta-moderation score can't be particularly good, as I'm sharing quite a bunch of unpopular opinions, and also tend to give the occasional troll some credit where deserved. So if what you say is true, I should not be getting much opportunity to moderate. Yet I frequently drown in mod points, 15 at a time.

    , and do you have a good or neutral metamoderation score.

    Oh and there's the catch-22 that you're not going to be meta-moderated before you had a chance to moderate in the first place. But hey, let's ignore the pesky details, right?

  2. Re:Can someone answer me this? on Reddit Will 'Hide' Vile Content After Policy Change · · Score: 1

    [mod points] linked to karma

    completely false

    (intentionally blank)

    Maybe it is like it is because most of the people realize that it is indeed mostly linked to karma. The responders trying to make it look like I had claimed to be completely deterministic are tearing down straw-men.
    If you think the people responding to a given post are representative of the prevailing opinion on /., then I've got a bridge to sell to you.

  3. Re:Can someone answer me this? on Reddit Will 'Hide' Vile Content After Policy Change · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mod points are handed out at random.

    No, it's linked to karma

  4. Re:From the description... on What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong · · Score: 1

    so, it's just like every other part of GNU, then

    FTFY. Unix tools are not a "bunch of pieces that are moving in a bunch of different directions".

  5. Re:Old news on Calculating the Truck-Factor of Popular Open Source Projects · · Score: 1

    we hope that this study will eventually be published in peer-reviewed Linux publications such as Linux Journal and Slashdot. Well, Linux Journal.

    I like how even in 2000 /. apparently was already garbage.

  6. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Ongoing Suspected Identity Theft? · · Score: 1

    I don't really think it is paranoia when these features are known to exist and be enabled by default, which can be easily verified.

    My "solution" above wanted to deal with the "identity theft by a non-governmental adversary" scenario.

    Okay, and I pointed out that you might as well do it right while you're at it

  7. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Ongoing Suspected Identity Theft? · · Score: 1

    The first time you let an Android user authenticate with your AP, your PSK (or the passphrase anyway) is conveniently backed up on Google's servers, unless they have done a depth-first traversal through their settings menu and realized they don't want that setting to be enabled, which it is, by default.

    Come to think of it, the other day, there was a story here on /. about Microsoft taking it one step further. It shouldn't be all too hard to find.

  8. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on OpenSSL Patches Critical Certificate Forgery Bug · · Score: 1

    Okay, so you're an idiot. Thanks for clearing that up beyond doubt.

  9. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Ongoing Suspected Identity Theft? · · Score: 1

    use a 30 alphanumeric chars WPA2-AES PSK

    Way to instantly defeat your password reset. You'd rather want to do something like EAP-TLS instead.

  10. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on OpenSSL Patches Critical Certificate Forgery Bug · · Score: 1

    mr. smartass

    Where did that come from?

    turns out the reviewer is the same guy who reviewed the heardbleed 'patch' too.

    And who introduced the problems (rather than reviewing the fixes)?

  11. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on OpenSSL Patches Critical Certificate Forgery Bug · · Score: 1

    Yes well why don't you start checking then?

  12. Re:Not Exactly.... on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    Yawn.

  13. Re:Not Exactly.... on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    does the same, you pimply-faced fanboy.

    [tl;dr]
    Way to start with an ad-hominem.
    [tl;dr]

    That, my dear confused friend, was an insult, not an ad-hominem. Please inform yourself about the words you're using lest you risk looking like a compl -- oh wait, you already did that. Nevermind.

  14. Re:Not Exactly.... on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    Let's see, slashdot-2 million-user-#-whatever named fisted initiates an acne debate. [some more gibbering giving away that you had serious acne problems in your youth]

    Way to start with an ad-hominem.

    You defend windows

    No, I didn't. Please learn basic logic and practice reading comprehension.

    [completely ridiculous and incoherent gibberish]

    Yes, your age is showing indeed.

    I run Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD.

    Congratulations. I run just BSD, and Linux only when I get paid for it. I wonder what point you're trying to make here. If it was your goal to make yourself look like a complete idiot, I'd say you've reached it.

    Have a nice evening, dear red-faced mouth-breathing AC

  15. Re:Just hope.... on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    Hahahahahahah.

  16. Re:Not Exactly.... on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    Android

    does the same, you pimply-faced fanboy.

    Settings -> "Backup and Reset" -> "Back up my data" (Back up app data, Wi-Fi Passwords, and other settings to Google servers)

    Yes, of course it's enabled by default, why do you ask?

  17. Re:What was the command? on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 1

    Well I don't know your preferred shell, but I suspect updating servers isn't implemented as shell built-ins, so we're good ;)

  18. Re:What was the command? on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 1

    while read i; do ...; done < ips.txt

    How amateurish to spawn an unnecessary subshell.

    xargs ... < ips.txt

    Yes.

  19. Re:What was the command? on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 1

    Real sysadmins

    a) think before executing potentially disastrous commands, and therefore tend to not need the rm -i crutch
    b) automate the repetitive parts of their jobs, in which rm -i obviously does not make sense
    c) don't experiment around on production servers
    d) have arranged their systems so that accidentally removing stuff can be recovered from.

    Thanks for playing, though

  20. Re:Authors have never heard of accelerometers on The Real-Life Dangers of Augmented Reality · · Score: 1

    Well guess what you can obtain from monitoring the acceleration.

  21. Re: Hate to be that guy, but Linux on Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? · · Score: 1

    That sounds absurd, but okay. Can you run it in the background? Can you run two instances at once? Is the user free to use the machine while GUI automation is in progress?

  22. Re: Hate to be that guy, but Linux on Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? · · Score: 1

    Linux !== (KDE || Gnome)

    Your PHP is showing.

  23. Re: Hate to be that guy, but Linux on Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? · · Score: 1

    old tired unix admins that grow weary of typing on the command line all day.

    You'd think old unix admins would have figured out at some point that they can automate things, no?

    (Hint: it's the very point of the CLI and there's no equivalent meschanism in the GUI paradigm.)

  24. Re:DNS Record public encryption key on Two Years After Snowden Leaks, Encryption Tools Are Gaining Users · · Score: 1

    Good point.

  25. Re:CJK is Unicode's big failing on Unicode Consortium Releases Unicode 8.0.0 · · Score: 1

    the Unicode folks decided to consecrate this historical relationship by recycling the character codes between the languages.

    For example? I thought exactly this was /not/ being done by unicode.